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Did I mention Canva is one of my favorite hyperfixations? And that I got a one month free trial of Zazzle's premium membership, so I have free shipping for the next month? Yeah. I've been having fun. Introducing, the resurrection of my small design business: To begin! I'm starting at three digital products, with three different price points and multiple levels of customization. Product Number One: The "Hello, My Name Is" Name & Pronouns badge: Starting at $5, customize-able u

When I tell people to prepare for the inevitable negative thing on the horizon, I usually get a lot of ostriches promptly and firmly planting their heads in the sand. It is IMPOSSIBLE for them to prepare for a negative thing. It is TOO MUCH. This video came up on my feed immediately after a tarot reader with a message about living wills the other day. It's been a little over two weeks now since I was discharged from the ER with heavily bleeding uterine fibroids and a very str

This is one of those points that I very clearly remember my mother reaching about 15-20 years ago. She flew to San Francisco, and splurged on a full Bare Minerals kit before finally declaring herself makeup-free, mostly because she had too hard of a time finding brands that didn't irritate her eyes and skin, but it was also too hard to find makeup that sat well on maturing skin. I'm learning now that it's not just "fine lines" she was talking about - perimenopausal hormone ch

The first part of the blog post I wrote this morning was a lot of me thinking out loud about how to practically prepare for a drought potentially severe enough to cause water rations. Yes, like I'm sure most everyone else my original thought was how to stockpile water, but that's not practical at all... not only would you need the collection and storage equipment (I don't have the space for a water tower, I measured), but water goes stagnant. The question to ask is, "how do I

This video just made my blood boil: Does she not look like every single one of your grandma's friend's when you were in grade school? I don't care when you were in grade school or where, I'm betting, if you're of anglo-saxon descent or roll with those who are, you've known so many women in their 50's who look just like her. And they're some of the best ladies in your life, you know it. And she's being bullied for being "trans." Or a "lesbian." First of all, I got hit with tha

Have wheels, will travel. The local stock car races started up a couple of weekends ago, and I discovered that Kevin, my hot rod rollator, isn't enough for outings like that anymore. I completely undid the steroid epidural I just got a couple of weeks before going to the race, and I don't get to have another one until July, oof. To Cynthia, the 18" manual wheelchair I go! Thankfully, I do have one, thanks to a friend not needing his anymore. Here's how I'm tricking her out fo

Can you imagine, coming upon this. This depiction of a penis penetrating a vagina. Just in case there was any doubt cast on this depiction, the family's foremother's anus is clearly depicted. And you spend 21:31 minutes on a video about how "It's NOT Human." Also, fun fact, the Millennium Falcon looks like a stylized cunt. Anyway, can you imagine, being a whole adult, seeing this common depiction of a "family tree," and making a whole video about how it can't be anything othe

I live in an area in America that was settled very heavily by immigrants, and is still being settled very heavily because the area is very religious, so we have a prominent refugee resettlement ministry in the area. This is how I can live in a C-tier northern Midwestern city and have access to grocery stores catering to just about any culture. I, myself, was generally raised in the white, blue-collar enclave of all of this, which meant I grew up in the thick of the European A

Original meme by moi, who is old enough to remember when Netflix listed The Babadook in the Pride section in 2017, and the meme became "The B in LGBT is for Babadook," which then led to accusations of bi erasure... and I also remember the "Pride Month Demon" meme of 2021, and seem to have been the only person to have put 2 & 2 together. I had my friend put it on a t-shirt for me, and that is how you will know me at Pride. My birthday is June 4! That's just one month and one d

CW: many specific mental health issues, neurodivergence, chronic illness. Auntie Lore time! You already know I'm late diagnosed AuDHD with all the things that go along with multiple neurodivergence, like rejection sensitive dysphoria, dyscalculia, internal hyperactivity, hyperlexia, hyperverbalism, hyperfixation, dyspraxia, fissure and synesthesia, chronic insomnia, weak digestion, joint hypermobility... What does this mean, practically? Internal hyperactivity + the constant

Last night's stir-fried mung bean sprouts were a huge hit. The original plan was to thaw some chicken to throw in the wok as well, but the mung beans and rice were that perfect blend of filling but not heavy, and the chicken never actually came out of the freezer. That started out as 1/2 cup of dried large mung beans. I bought 2lbs of dried beans for $2.99. So, that's 75 cents of sprouts that fed my family of five as a main dish along with pennies worth of rice and sauce per

This is the new TikTok trend, huh? I want in. It'll never be more than friends, including friends with "benefits." I'm asexual and aromantic to the damn core. Having chronic illnesses means that I'm flaky AF. I have better pain management and mobility aids now than I used to, but if the temperature is too dangerous or my pain is too uncontrollable, I will have to cancel last minute. Yeah, that does mean that there are certain things (mostly ticketed events) I can't do anymore

Not only did we just have a whole night of some severe thunderstorms the other night, today the trees and scrub underbrush all have that green aura before it starts to bud out. And we don't tap our sugar maples, but you can tell the sap is flowing considering the big red buds they're sprouting right now. We likely have one more good snow storm coming off of Lake Michigan before it's really spring, but Persephone is definitely back topside. I saw my allergist the other week,

I've obviously had a lot of time to think about all of the things recently, and one thing that's been on my mind is how to keep my hair protected from the environment while I'm outside, especially for long amounts of time like camping trips. I typically used to put my hair into two cornrows, and just not touch it while I was in the woods if possible, and if not to just brush it out and re-braid it. This was also before I started wearing bonnets to bed, so I wasn't really awar

Things I have learned in the last 72-ish hours: It's a lot easier for me to track my macros and decide on what to make for dinner based on what I still need in my diet that day, and what I have on hand. For instance, today's been heavy on the healthy fats, I had two chicken thighs and some olives for lunch, on top of my usual seed consumption. So, I'm chasing carbs and protein for the rest of the day... smoky pinto beans and cornbread from scratch for dinner it is. Edit: I or

I downloaded a free little macro & nutrient tracking app yesterday. Who am I?? I guess when you remove the toxic control element all of a sudden you can see the utility of the practice. Turns out, you can be eating the healthiest foods the earth can provide, and you can still fall short on some nutrients if you're eating it on vibes. Especially if you're #FIBERMAXXING. This was 2/22/26. Ignore the sodium & calcium, I couldn't figure out how to track my electrolyte drops. I pl

I saw a video clip recently about how one of those Silicon Valley billionaires who thinks they can MAXX themselves into immortality saying that they pay a personal chef $500 per meal to cook them a diet with 30% dietary fiber, 20% more than what the average American gets in the Standard American Diet. Y'all, this rich fool is spending $1500 per day to eat grains, beans, and vegetables. And he thinks it'll make him more immortal than your average Old World grandfather. Whereve

It's 40°F outside right now!! The giant snow overhang outside of my bedroom window is obviously melting. This is pretty common weather behavior in Michigan in February. You'll get a day or three where it can even get up to 60°F, a lot of the existing snow melts off, you start to feel that little budding of spring hope... and then a bomb cyclone hits an Atlantic clipper right over your county, and dumps another three feet of snow on you. And then we rinse and repeat this proce

TW: medical neglect I've read from a few sources that it was believed for a long time that autistic people don't feel pain, or feel it at far lower levels than neurotypical people. As a neurodivergent person with multiple chronic pain issues that have brought me to the Emergency Department on many occasions, I've experienced this personally. But it's not that my Emergency staff knew I was neurodivergent and therefore assumed I wasn't feeling pain, it was that my neurodivergen

I know the trend is "Things I'm Not Buying," but this is a shorter list: Food. Gotta feed myself. Nutritional supplements. I enjoy being the most animated corpse I can be, and that takes nutrients. Hygiene, skincare, and hair care consumables. Which I don't use a lot of, and only buy one bottle of one kind at a time, two if there's a BOGO sale. Marijuana. Infrequent "little treats" in the form of inexpensive jewelry and perfume. Possibly a piece or two of secondhand clothing,