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currently designing an embroidery for the formal sitting room here that says, as elaborately and bejeweledly as possible, “Sorry For Party Rockin’”, because that is the household motto. 

(I was drinking Jameson with a huge ice cube, and then Dr. Friend, who really loves to give tours of his liquor cabinet and has been like this since I met him in the late 90s and neither of us were of legal drinking age according to the laws of this realm, came and gave me a small glass with too much of the best rum in the house in it, so now I am, tired, on a weeknight, at 8pm, double-fisting undiluted hard liquors like some sort of twentysomething which I am Not)

also at the moment there are, in the informal sitting room, three adults, five glasses of hard liquor, and three tarot card decks, and we’re comparing the genitals in the various tarot card decks (the Marseille deck is winning in every possible category)

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astroloquacious replied to your post “new project”

Honestly I’m jealous because 3 adults, 5 glasses of hard liquor, and 3 Tarot decks all vying for Best Genitals sounds like my kind of quarantine. If you tell me y'all’re also talking shit about Classic Literature I will be forced to cry in earnest.

We sometimes talk about classic literature– I majored in English, and MathMom backed up her engineering degree with a literature minor, and Dr. Friend took a few literature classes during his bio undergrad, but instead I think we were talking about science fiction television and the concept of the SCA. 

At one point we were joking about something, and Dr. Friend typed “how much drugs cost” into Google, and Google really helpfully popped up a serious-looking stock photo of a lady and offered to help him with his drug addiction, which was actively hilarious.

We do have a lovely time, but the problem is that we needed to sleep and didn’t, so. It’s a mixed bag.

msilverstar replied to your post “it’s really not a garden of kinders”

A) Homeschooling their animals is adorable B) I don’t think you’re “giving away too much”. When the patterns make sense, she’ll learn them.

That’s my hope– I’m just trying not to train her to bat her eyelashes at me to get answers instead of figuring them out, when she’s capable of figuring them out. But I also feel like there is literally zero point in pushing her to the point of tears to answer questions I know she can answer, because she probably has valid reasons for not feeling like she can answer them even if she’s got the requisite knowledge? All of her issues, like when she decides to be upset about something– it’s incredibly annoying when she pitches a fit for the sake of pitching a fit, but obviously she’s feeling some need to do this, and getting mad at her for doing it is not going to address her need to do it and is only probably going to make the problem worse. So who knows. It might be more important for her to determine that I’ll give her answers when I think she needs them rather than for her to drastically improve her reading skills. 

shrikeseams replied to your post “new project”

Ik, but now you need to name specific decks please.

IDK the names. Mine, at the top, is the Albano-Waite deck, which is an acid-addled 70s recolor of the classic Rider-Waite. The middle one is the Marselleise or however the fuck you spell that. And the bottom is some modern mini deck whose name I don’t know but I know it came from Amazon. 

[image description: the major arcana of three different decks arranged in numerical order because we were trying to figure out the Old French titles on the middle deck.]

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Girl is feeling needy, so her mother is holding her on her lap while she sits at the computer helping the boy with a worksheet.

“This child has melted,” MathMom observed, as Girl’s joints all loosened and she flopped farther down into her lap. “She’s mostly liquid.”

“I think you have to hold her until she remolds,” I said. “Sort of try to bake her?”

“Hmm, you think I shouldn’t whip her until she forms stiff peaks?”

“I think that’s a bit more old-fashioned than this household’s really going for,” I said.

millicentthecat replied to your post “underpants

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millicentthecat replied to your post “underpants pizza”

underpants pizza?

oh yeah i didn’t explain that

there was a word scramble thing that Boy had to do and his teacher didn’t include the instructions at all, assuming since he’d done worksheets like that he’d know how to do them, but he couldn’t remember and the solution was not in any way obvious to us. 

So his mother took a photo of it and posted it to her Facebook, asking if anyone knew what the actual instructions for the worksheet were supposed to be. 

The worksheet she took a photo of happened to include an image of a pizza and an image of a pair of underpants, and so half the respondents were able to correctly figure out how the word search rules were supposed to work (you’d use the initial letters of the four objects depicted, and unscramble them to reveal one of the words on the bank of solutions listed at the top, but none of them were labeled as such, so it wasn’t apparent), and the other half of the respondents all just said “Underpants Pizza obviously” because those were two of the images. So the theme of the day was Underpants Pizza, but the other theme of the day was just not explaining anything because who needs explanations.

I am completely fucking useless today, I’ve got menstrual cramps that while mostly not actually painful, are just utterly debilitating, I can’t move most of my muscles and particularly my legs are like noodles, it’s really upsetting because MathMom is overtired and needs help and I literally can’t stand up and it’s driving me crazy. Oh and then sometimes it hurts, and naproxen sodium is not doing shit.

of course both kids are in perfect health and are bouncing off the walls and I am helpless to attempt to keep up with them, so. 

Never explain anything, we’re just not capable of figuring it out and we’re not gonna. can’t make us. 

missbuster replied to your photo “I AM JUST

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missbuster replied to your photo “I AM JUST GOING TO SIT HERE CONSUMED WITH LUST”

You totally could remake that denim jacket. I’m also sizing this jacket up because it’s so teeny that as a theatre costume no one would be able to use it so I’m adding 3” to each side under the arms and putting godets in the sleeves. I may also make an empire dress to go with it since I appear to have the time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

oh yes, i have a denim jacket given to me just for the fabric, but it’s not as useful as just a pair of jeans in that respect, and there are some details on it, well– it’s a zipper closure, and like a size 10, so i need to add panels to the front, sides, and back, i think, and just if i’m remaking it into something entirely other, i think i can go ahead and do that. (the sleeves are probably the only thing that remotely fit.) so i’d been trying to think of a way to remake it, and something this drastically different would be really fun. it’s a medium wash denim so i could probably use gold brocade and detailing for all the other things, though i’m also tempted to give it a rinse in some deeper blue dye to try to make it dark wash first, as then there’d be more contrast… that also could help me make the expansion panels match.

i did not bring it with me here though so it’s not a project i can currently work on, so i’ll just leave all this as a record that i did have some ideas for it. i may not have the sewing skill to do it anyway, but i love the idea.