ECF Refugee Thread All welcome

[AndriaD]

rhi, if you don't inhale. it's not fun, but your lungs thank you.
i'm kinda getting used to it.

my new theory is one needs to up nic very high, to stop some vaping.
getting nic sick will slow chain vaping n maybe allow some nice deep drags.

Nausea/vomiting is A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH, and too much nicotine NEVER EVER stopped me from wanting a cigarette! That's why I vape instead of use those damned useless patches!

If you need more satisfacton with vaping that you get from nicotine, then MORE nicotine is not going to help; try WTA.

Andria

 

[Rhianne]

Nausea/vomiting is A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH, and too much nicotine NEVER EVER stopped me from wanting a cigarette! That's why I vape instead of use those damned useless patches!

If you need more satisfacton with vaping that you get from nicotine, then MORE nicotine is not going to help; try WTA.

Andria

But, good luck trying to get some from Aroma. You’d have to go to ECF to their vendors forum and basically be a pita. I only got mine from Aroma after writing about four posts about how I paid and hasdn’t heard anything!

I’m kinda bummed thinking about WTA disappearing like that. I don’t think Om has any left and I don’t think anywhere else has any.

 

[susieqz]

i tend to chain vape.
but now the shortness of breath comes even when i'm lying down.
since this feels like death, nausea isn't worrying.
rhi, i've only tried nic river 100mg.
i have 4 liters of that, so i hate to buy more.
i might buy salts tho, it it slows vaping.

 

[Rhianne]

I agree, about the sliminess, and also the smell -- the chicken lunchmeat from Kroger smells like chicken... the turkey lunchmeat smells like garbage! ICK! Thankfully, he's decided that chicken salad is easier on his slightly decrepit teeth, so he's been on that for about 6 months rather than lunchmeat.

I figured it was a good idea to go ahead and get the turkey now, since this payday we'll need to get a bunch of other unusual items for the t'giving feast -- some good spuds from Public (theirs are just better, not so many dark spots, but they're about 20 cents a lb more), some of that Pepperidge Farms stuffing mix, Heinz turkey gravy, those awesome King's Hawaiian rolls, and of course some pumpkin and pie shells and LOTS of whipped cream. I love t'giving, it's the best food of the year!

Since the stuffing is usually a lot more than we need for that feast, I'll do the chicken-stuffing-spuds-gravy meal a time or two, because I agree with you about the numminess of roast chicken, with the usual trimmings -- stuffing, though we call it "dressing" down here, mashed spuds and gravy. Sometimes I'll even give them a treat and make it FRIED chicken -- huge pain in the ass and one hell of a greasy mess, but I finally figured out how to keep the breading on, so it's definitely tasty!

Andria

I really prefer chicken to turkey. After years of buying turkey because it’s expected for the holiday, I figured fuck it, I’ll just get chicken. My hubs loves chicken anyway, and it’s easier to make imho. Plus I can get farm raised chicken here for a good price. Turkey is overpriced!

My old man would love that fried chicken, but I’ll be roasting ours. Cruel, right? Chicken is great, which possibly is why everything tastes like chicken. Or as they said in the Matrix, maybe the computers got it wrong!

 

[Rhianne]

i tend to chain vape.
but now the shortness of breath comes even when i'm lying down.
since this feels like death, nausea isn't worrying.
rhi, i've only tried nic river 100mg.
i have 4 liters of that, so i hate to buy more.
i might buy salts tho, it it slows vaping.

Did you get a chest X-ray? It sounds like COPD like Crom said. Don’t lay down flat! Just prop yourself up. Laying flat is the worst thing. Shit, you may need to go to the doctor and get an inhaler or maybe antibiotics if it’s a lung infection.

If you have insurance, or can afford it, please go get your lungs checked out. I don’t want you disappearing from VU suddenly because of not being able to breathe!

 

[AndriaD]

But, good luck trying to get some from Aroma. You’d have to go to ECF to their vendors forum and basically be a pita. I only got mine from Aroma after writing about four posts about how I paid and hasdn’t heard anything!

I’m kinda bummed thinking about WTA disappearing like that. I don’t think Om has any left and I don’t think anywhere else has any.

I never dealt much with them, but I think they were always kinda slow. I know the one I always used, wholecig, was ungodly slow; the order might sit there for 2 wks or more before he'd even get it out the door. I know he finally sold wholecig to someone, not sure what happened after that, but the product was excellent.

This sort of thing is exactly why I weaned myself voluntarily though; I had a feeling vapocalypse might one day arrive, and far better to wean off at my own pace, than forcibly because I had no choice. I counseled the same to our pal Atcha, wherever she's gotten off to, and I think she finally got off of it.

Andria

 

[JuicyLucy]

This sort of thing is exactly why I weaned myself voluntarily though; I had a feeling vapocalypse might one day arrive, and far better to wean off at my own pace, than forcibly because I had no choice.

I did exactly the same

 

[AndriaD]

I really prefer chicken to turkey. After years of buying turkey because it’s expected for the holiday, I figured fuck it, I’ll just get chicken. My hubs loves chicken anyway, and it’s easier to make imho. Plus I can get farm raised chicken here for a good price. Turkey is overpriced!

My old man would love that fried chicken, but I’ll be roasting ours. Cruel, right? Chicken is great, which possibly is why everything tastes like chicken. Or as they said in the Matrix, maybe the computers got it wrong!

I LOVE roast turkey, but will definitely pass on the deli variety. I look forward to t'giving and then xmas all year, just for the turkey.

When I make fried chicken, I do a weird thing to it, which I learned from a "chicken helper" that came and went (and really pissed me off, that it didn't stay longer!). I add some parmesan cheese, the powdered kind, to the flour, and some ranch dressing to the egg. It approximates the taste of that "parmesan crusted" chicken helper that was so damn tasty. Then, when I make the mashed potatoes, along with all the usual margarine (LOTS!) and sour cream (a little), i also add a bit of ranch dressing. Eaten together, that chicken and potatoes are FANDAMNTASTIC! But I have to be seriously motivated to make fried chicken, it's such a huge ungodly greasy mess. Oh, the way I finally learned to keep the breading on the chicken? USE A BIG ENOUGH SKILLET!

Andria

 

[hellcatrydr]

personality disorder?
that's me.
a shrink would want me in treatment fast.
but maybe i just don't like people.

the guy i hired to bring my groceries will be here tomorrow.
after that, i'll see no people for 4 weeks.
snow would be fine, once i'm stocked up.

Isn't that the plot of The Shining?
.

 

[MyMagicMist]

I’ve never seen vodka freeze in the freezer

Vodka does well for mixing into Jello for Jello shots. Me and someone were at home one evening. We had been using some of tat stuff not discussed. An idea over took us. We needed Jello shots. So we mixed them, a rather large batch. We let them set in the kitchen to set up while we had gone back to mindlessly playing Killer Instinct Gold 4 in the living room. Mom comes in and she had obviously been down to the rescue squad station. Her first stop is the kitchen.

Ten minutes later we hear her. "You boys sure did a good job on that Jello. you'll have to make us some more, I've went through about 3/4 th of it." So she goes to go back out.

"Mom, come over and sit down a bit. We need to tell you something." One of us started with "You just ate all those Jellos, ..." The other one finished with "You'll be totally plastered in five, four, ..."

She picks up the phone and called the squad, begged off her duty for the rest of the night claiming she had got a 24 hour bug. Then she had us arrange some of the stuff not discussed and joined us. Surprisingly, she was damn good at fighting us on our video game. No, I'm not at all proud of my mom, no, not me.

Hey Crom, Guess Wut? We got that white powder out here. You want some more, we'll toss it over the hill to you.

 

[Rhianne]

Isn't that the plot of The Shining?
.

She’d have to have a bartender and some 30’s ballroom music, though.

 

[The Cromwell]

Got about an inch of snow last night and low 20's right now.
Fed the cats and will again this evening and that is all the planned outdoor excursions.
Lots of cat tracks around the no freeze water bowl.

 

[Rhianne]

Got about an inch of snow last night and low 20's right now.
Fed the cats and will again this evening and that is all the planned outdoor excursions.
Lots of cat tracks around the no freeze water bowl.

Yikes, it went down to the 30’s here today. With gale winds still. :wth:

I’m glad the kitties are hitting the water bowl.

Stay warm, Cromwell.

 

[MyMagicMist]

Yikes, it went down to the 30’s here today.

Got about an inch of snow last night and low 20's right now.

Here we are currently. Don't figure we saw over 30 here during the day. About 10 AM I cleaned off the car, just in case. Looked like 1 to 1.5 inches, rounding it to 1.25. Did not get out to dance naked in it as it came down, nor after.

Learned Monday the neighbor's wife where we used to live, and the ones what caused us trouble over our dogs, got attacked and raped as she ran her mail route. Neither me or wife feel too horribly bad about it. Granted no one wishes that kind of travesty on anyone. Still we considered the possibility karma might have played a role, and didn't get broken hearted over learning it happened.

Yes, we're going back there to live. Being the polite and considerate person I am, doubt I'll dance in the fresh snows or rains of a season. They have a window that looks directly out into the bottom. I would hate to be the cause of "triggering" her, or seeming to "harass" her.

I would know that was not my intention, my wife would as well, my FIL would too, probably the neighbor up the way with the sheep would as well. Despite all these people knowing I would not be intent on such maliciousness, I'm sure these neighbors would twist everything to present the perception I was being blatantly sadistic and malicious. After all they patently lied about my dogs as well as other things.

So no, won't give them that satisfaction despite my passion to enjoy Nature's gifts for just a little. Hell it is in the county, in a rural area with the nearest town six miles away. I would be dancing on private property and so granted permission to do so, or if not permission no caring that I did it. Anyhow, I won't go there. No point to rock a boat.

I also won't wave, smile, say hey to them. Sorry, they burnt the bridge of being neighborly for me. If they speak to me, I'll ignore them because frankly I'm not going to have anything they need to say to me. My FIL can talk to me in their "behalf". He can then convey any message I might reply with, using his best diplomacy in order to keep the peace.

Wife is looking to get a storage building rented by week's end. Will begin then in earnest to be packing up, arranging trips with her FIL using the pickup. Nearly everything here in our apartment will need stored. The hope is it won't need to be too long. *sigh* Though, I'm not feeling totally optimistic. We'll see.

 

[AndriaD]

Yikes, it went down to the 30’s here today. With gale winds still. :wth:

I’m glad the kitties are hitting the water bowl.

Stay warm, Cromwell.

It felt like that tonight, here in GA! We went out to Hobby Lobby so I could buy a real bodkin and stop having to thread elastic with a damn safety pin... and some "Thread Magic" beeswax to fight static in thread, and some more black thread.... Came back out of Hobby Lobby into what felt like a fucking freezing tornado or something! But no snow, thank goodness; I can really do without a lot of southerners going completely insane about white precip. They even pre-empt TV down here, when there's ANY white precip. Fuckin lunatics!

Andria
who loves snow but not lunatics spazzing out about it

 

[Rhianne]

It felt like that tonight, here in GA! We went out to Hobby Lobby so I could buy a real bodkin and stop having to thread elastic with a damn safety pin... and some "Thread Magic" beeswax to fight static in thread, and some more black thread.... Came back out of Hobby Lobby into what felt like a fucking freezing tornado or something! But no snow, thank goodness; I can really do without a lot of southerners going completely insane about white precip. They even pre-empt TV down here, when there's ANY white precip. Fuckin lunatics!

Andria
who loves snow but not lunatics spazzing out about it

I remember like ten years ago someone from down south that I knew for a bit on YT weirding out about snow. I was thinking, yep it’s snow. Lol But it was the first snow or something he’d seen in AL. Oh well. (Your loss, dude. ) I love snow, winter, cold. Not crazy cold, but cold.

I was miserable this summer and our AC decided to pack it in. Holy crap, that was truly dreadful. So the cold is great. Sweaters, yes please. Scarves, love them. You can add clothes in the winter. You get to a point in the summer, though! Lol

Edit: I love that you use a bodkin! It’s so medieval.

 

[AndriaD]

I remember like ten years ago someone from down south that I knew for a bit on YT weirding out about snow. I was thinking, yep it’s snow. Lol But it was the first snow or something he’d seen in AL. Oh well. (Your loss, dude. ) I love snow, winter, cold. Not crazy cold, but cold.

I was miserable this summer and our AC decided to pack it in. Holy crap, that was truly dreadful. So the cold is great. Sweaters, yes please. Scarves, love them. You can add clothes in the winter. You get to a point in the summer, though! Lol

Edit: I love that you use a bodkin! It’s so medieval.

Well, I always used a safety pin... but if that damn pin comes unfastened inside the channel for the elastic, it's a disaster, usually requiring that channel to be cut in whatever odd place the damn safety pin opened. So, I got a real bodkin. I'm addicted to Simply Vera denim-look leggings, because they can bought in LONG! And a "Medium Long" fits me perfectly, so they obviously run large, but still... to be back in a size medium just thrills me! Anyway, I always run elastic thru their waistband, because I'm so slim-hipped, only a tight waistband keeps them up! And I just got a new pair, in Midnight Blue -- like brand-new denim -- so I have to do the waistband elastic.

I've nearly gotten all my pants altered to be long enough and more snug in the hips -- my weight loss is now about 9½ lbs -- and I'm even getting better at sewing a straight seam -- which is a damn sight harder than it sounds! So I might soon try my hand at actually making some sort of garment. Or maybe a small wall-quilt art thing.

As for snow... I was in Denver for a while, at the end of winter; my husband and I lived in Pontiac, MI, and a small town just north of it called Lake Orion, for a couple or three years, even visited Milwaukee during xmas when I was married to my ex (and if you blunder off the shoveled path there into the walls of snow, they may not find you till May or June!)... so I'm familiar with snow, learned to drive in it quite well, and even to drive on ice... but in those places I've lived, they had fucking SNOWPLOWS AND SALT TRUCKS! The only vehicles of that sort down here are SOLELY for keeping the interstates clear -- I-20, I-75, and I-85 all run thru Atlanta, so they have plenty to keep them busy. The best thing that actual RESIDENTS can do is stay their ass at home and wait for it to melt, rather than becoming part of the parking lot problem on all the surface roads.

Andria

 

[MyMagicMist]

They even pre-empt TV down here, when there's ANY white precip. Fuckin lunatics!

They do it here as well. Then, we got the "OMG! bread and milk" rush. Stores get packed with idiots "stocking up" to ride out the snow.

As for snow... I was in Denver for a while, at the end of winter; my husband and I lived in Pontiac, MI, and a small town just north of it called Lake Orion, for a couple or three years, even visited Milwaukee during xmas when I was married to my ex (and if you blunder off the shoveled path there into the walls of snow, they may not find you till May or June!)

Lake snow is so wonderful. Loved it up near North Chicago for boot camp. Lovely heat waves of -60 F. *chuckles*

 

[Rhianne]

They do it here as well. Then, we got the "OMG! bread and milk" rush. Stores get packed with idiots "stocking up" to ride out the snow.



Lake snow is so wonderful. Loved it up near North Chicago for boot camp. Lovely heat waves of -60 F. *chuckles*

Where were you, Great Lakes? For basic, I mean.

 

[MyMagicMist]

Where were you, Great Lakes? For basic, I mean.

Yes'm. Great Lakes Naval Training Camp, a.k.a boot camp, more affectionately called by "Rickies" Grinder Haus. As a "lucky" result we did not need "extreme cold weather" survival training as we got there during Winter, about mid February. That training was kind of "built in" with our "boot camp".

Ingress orders were to go out West on CONUS to work in ordnance. That was to be my cover orders. Even though I had turned away an offer to become a "spooky", I was still tapped to go be a certain kind of specialist. Still not sure I'm at liberty to say much more than that. So yeah, I would have reloaded, repaired torpedoes, bombs, ammo. That is all.

*grins and chuckles* I would be one of the guys making stuff go boom.

 

[Rhianne]

Yes'm. Great Lakes Naval Training Camp, a.k.a boot camp, more affectionately called by "Rickies" Grinder Haus. As a "lucky" result we did not need "extreme cold weather" survival training as we got there during Winter, about mid February. That training was kind of "built in" with our "boot camp".

I was there for someone’s graduation in the summer. It’s really a huge place.

So, what’s cookin’, good lookin’ ? It’s so damn cold today here. All of you talking about snow, and we’ve got gales and cold now! It’s feeling like the teens here, grumble.

 

[MyMagicMist]

So, what’s cookin’, good lookin’ ?

*looks around* "Nah, ya ain't talkin' to me. Ebrybody know I is fugely and scary as Hell to see."

Not too much really. I was looking in on some current affairs of the political sort. That was until I passed out a bit. Housework is fairly caught up, or at least enough so for us being in getting ready to move limbo. My apartment still isn't dirty in the least.

'bout half setting here playing 2048, meditating, reflecting & pondering life in general.

 

[Rhianne]

*looks around* "Nah, ya ain't talkin' to me. Ebrybody know I is fugely and scary as Hell to see."

Not too much really. I was looking in on some current affairs of the political sort. That was until I passed out a bit. Housework is fairly caught up, or at least enough so for us being in getting ready to move limbo. My apartment still isn't dirty in the least.

'bout half setting here playing 2048, meditating, reflecting & pondering life in general.

Sounds like my day, just minus the video game. I’m watching old Brit telly on YT. Really good cop show from the 70’s. A very young Gabriel Byrne is in this episode.

Hey, if you’re my wonder twin, y’all can’t be that bad! Just don’t ask what I look like today. My hair got tangled, how I don’t know, and it’s sticking up in places. As it’s straight, I’m not sure what’s up! I think my gangsta hoodie did it! Lol

Let me know when you move house.

 

[MyMagicMist]

Hey, if you’re my wonder twin, y’all can’t be that bad! Just don’t ask what I look like today. My hair got tangled, how I don’t know, and it’s sticking up in places. As it’s straight, I’m not sure what’s up! I think my gangsta hoodie did it! Lol

*chuckles*
Die Antwoord - Ushini Wam

Yolandi: "Seriously Ninja, fook everyone! Let's do this my blood. Let's do this!"


Die Antwoord - I Fink You Freeky

 

[Rhianne]

*chuckles*
Die Antwoord - Ushini Wam

"Seriously Ninja, fook everyone! Let's do this my blood. Let's do this!"

Omg, I had pj’s like that last winter. The onesie thing. Where do you find this stuff? Lmao.

Wow, that cracked me up. I’m still cold cuz our landlord gives you just enough heat so you don’t die. :bastard:

 

[MyMagicMist]

Omg, I had pj’s like that last winter. The onesie thing. Where do you find this stuff? Lmao.

Wow, that cracked me up. I’m still cold cuz our landlord gives you just enough heat so you don’t die. :bastard:

Die Antwoord has been around a little while. Yolandi can get to cracking rhymes so quick Ninja can't keep up. They're in the movie Chappi about a robot soldier that goes off the reservation to live.

I fuss if my wife cranks the heat up. Then, I'm all covered in fur too so stay warm. Had to bump us up to 74 though with the cold coming on. We keep it from 72 to 75. I ought to build a heat tunnel to send you heat. I'm wearing a pair of sweat pants, barefooted and bare chested.

We'll likely freeze back at the other place. It's just a cracking apart cinder block basement without any real insulation really. Oh, it's nuzzled in against a hill but even that is no help as there's a gap from the hill to the back wall, has to be due to trying to keep it standing. Wind gets in through that gap, gets tunneled and cools us down in the Winter or settles and blasts us in the Spring/Summer.

I asked her granddad his thoughts on how to fix it up. He told he didn't have his dozer anymore.

There's a wood stove but for lack of insulation it may as well not even be there. Then, they've a little wall gas heater that helps some but again lacking the insulation it still doesn't come close to helping enough. The main reason to keep propane/gas is for the cook stove that lacks an oven. *chuckles*

While we live there we'll need to take our laundry down to Spencer to wash at the laundromat. $20 a pop figuring 24 runs comes out around $500 or so a year. That's tough considering we got a washer and dryer here that work perfectly, we'll have to store them though. No place there to hook them up & not going to even try getting help to hook them up at her FIL's.

That requires going over the side of a hill. So nope, not going to do it considering her BIL and the fact there'd be no offer help her finish paying off the dryer as a courtesy for access to using them. And it's not us being mean, or unhelpful. We just don't see a need to help when we know none would come back.

We've been helpful enough in the past, and her dad knows he asks me, I'll do anything but only for him and her mom. Not being a jerk when you get jerk no matter how much you bend and try being easy going, getting along. I'm just not going to let us play "that game" any more. Bad enough we need to go back for a little while until stuff lines up.

I could possibly get them over the hill on my own but it's one of those "no, I better have some help" deals. Neither washer or dryer are heavy, but awkward to wrap arms around to heft and lug along.

Yay! Leftovers for supper tonight. Got some hamburger helper. she was saying Ramen noodles, I had those for brunch. Think I got some kind of macaroni salad in the fridge too. Shame it has mayo init, otherwise I'd hack together some beef minestrone.

 

[MyMagicMist]

Omg, I had pj’s like that last winter.

Now, ask yourself "how would he have known that?" *grin*

Well my wife has one of those fuzzy "teddy bear" style onsies, lacking the feet though. Why would that mean anything? Don't reckon it would, other than us being old school goth and me picking that up from you. *chuckles* That and well I'm ya brudder, I gonna know shit like that. Even ifn' you is the only girl chile, I still ya brudder.

Well think i should scoot a while. Go see how the circus went before the witch gets in and tells me no funny papers.

 

[AndriaD]

I was there for someone’s graduation in the summer. It’s really a huge place.

So, what’s cookin’, good lookin’ ? It’s so damn cold today here. All of you talking about snow, and we’ve got gales and cold now! It’s feeling like the teens here, grumble.

it's farkin cold as hell here; got the humidifiers running, at least I have MINE running, to keep my nose/sinuses moist with the furnace going. I told my husband he needs to clean his, since it's been sitting all summer with water in it, got to have some mold growth. He gives me this "can you do it for me?" bullshit... I said, I don't even like cleaning MINE, so you're on your own! So he hasn't bothered yet. Just waiting to hear how his nose is all dried out... yeah, that's why you have the humidifier... which you haven't cleaned yet. Dumbass.

Andria

 

[Rhianne]

Now, ask yourself "how would he have known that?" *grin*

Well my wife has one of those fuzzy "teddy bear" style onsies, lacking the feet though. Why would that mean anything? Don't reckon it would, other than us being old school goth and me picking that up from you. *chuckles* That and well I'm ya brudder, I gonna know shit like that. Even ifn' you is the only girl chile, I still ya brudder.

Well think i should scoot a while. Go see how the circus went before the witch gets in and tells me no funny papers.

My onesies don’t have the feet either. And I’m always losing one sock! The sock stealing elves like to hang out here.

You best layer up then. About ten years ago, our landlord went through a “I’m not giving you any heat” phase and we had layers on like crazy and I put a down jacket on top. My dad called and I told him, and he scoffed. He’s so nice sometimes.

Hugs galore your way!

 

[Rhianne]

it's farkin cold as hell here; got the humidifiers running, at least I have MINE running, to keep my nose/sinuses moist with the furnace going. I told my husband he needs to clean his, since it's been sitting all summer with water in it, got to have some mold growth. He gives me this "can you do it for me?" bullshit... I said, I don't even like cleaning MINE, so you're on your own! So he hasn't bothered yet. Just waiting to hear how his nose is all dried out... yeah, that's why you have the humidifier... which you haven't cleaned yet. Dumbass.

Andria

I hate cleaning those, so I’m running an air purifier with an ionizer. Works okay actually.

I know, it’s been fucking cold. I’m bundled up here. This place is drafty and until we move, there’s not much to do about it!

How’s the sewing coming? My mil is a great sewer and used to make a lot of her own clothes. Now she just alters most things she buys.

Stay warm!

 

[MyMagicMist]

Dumbass.

Universal name of husband's that get past ten years alive.

 

[Rhianne]

Universal name of husband's that get past ten years alive.

I call mine “love”, though. Can you stand it?

 

[MyMagicMist]

I call mine “love”, though. Can you stand it?

At least it's not "daddy". *coughs* Relax, just me watching. Police were out this afternoon about four doors down. Neighbors out chewing fat, not sure what was up but mention of a possibility of someone harboring a fugitive. Last I was out for potty with Shrek took notice of an odd shadow. Probably nothing, then again, you know how that goes.

About a month after we had moved in, someone next door got killed. Don't think that was ever really cleared up. We had a couple, man & woman come visit us about a week later and asking questions. I "smelled" Fed, or at least thought I did. The pretense of their visit was he was the victim's brother. All we knew was my wife heard a loud thud, lady screamed "somebody call 9-1-1", wife called it in. I was upstairs dead to the world.

My wife commented once about a movie with rather loud firefight scenes, I had slept right through them. At the same time she knows better than to ask me questions while I'm asleep, I answer correctly, or ramble about my current work. I even copy her gestures, facial expressions back to her but remain asleep. For the first while I told her to shake my toes to wake me. She says now she has to beat me to wake me. I've gotten used to sharing her bed.

 

[Rhianne]

At least it's not "daddy". *coughs* Relax, just me watching. Police were out this afternoon about four doors down. Neighbors out chewing fat, not sure what was up but mention of a possibility of someone harboring a fugitive. Last I was out for potty with Shrek took notice of an odd shadow. Probably nothing, then again, you know how that goes.

About a month after we had moved in, someone next door got killed. Don't think that was ever really cleared up. We had a couple, man & woman come visit us about a week later and asking questions. I "smelled" Fed, or at least thought I did. The pretense of their visit was he was the victim's brother. All we knew was my wife heard a loud thud, lady screamed "somebody call 9-1-1", wife called it in. I was upstairs dead to the world.

My wife commented once about a movie with rather loud firefight scenes, I had slept right through them. At the same time she knows better than to ask me questions while I'm asleep, I answer correctly, or ramble about my current work. I even copy her gestures, facial expressions back to her but remain asleep. For the first while I told her to shake my toes to wake me. She says now she has to beat me to wake me. I've gotten used to sharing her bed.

I’m glad you’re hanging out being again! I’ve missed you. Glad you’re okay, too. Stay warm. Get your own onesie. They’re comfy, stylish (heehee), and warm.

 

[MyMagicMist]

Get your own onesie. They’re comfy, stylish (heehee), and warm.

Reckon I would need to get a Bigfoot one. It would need to be XXXL tall size. Yep, t'would.

Need to go below shortly, and make a cup of her herbal sniffles tea. Ugh. Racked at little after 00:00 locally, back up at 4:00, was being water boarded by my CPAP. Thing is I don't got the humidifier running nor any water in the tank. I'm blaming the evil aliens, ones extremely different from Crom.

She brought in the key for a storage unit saying, "let the packing begin." I'm going to take a couple plastic patio chairs down to the dumpster later, break them up to put into it. Needing to get her to get us some newspaper. I'll start wrapping and packing knickknacks, dishes. Already told her not to be surprised if we sit on the floor a bit.

I'd like to have everything for storage, in storage as soon as I can. Thinking we can take our two little gray plastic drawers for clothes storage. Got no closets, only the two drawer units and the six smaller drawers on the bed stand. Yay, back to living in a 10 x 12 room with no windows, no kitchen and having to wait on a bathroom. Ah yeah, not to forget everyone else eating up what we bring in for us, and not bothering to keep tidy.

I'll probably need to use six jugs of CLR to clean the toilet. Nope, not joking or exaggerating. That is unless I just say fuck it and don't give a fuck. I mean why ought I need to clean something I've not used for two years? Sure, I know a good reason why. Damn funny they don't and I can guarantee they've not cleaned it in two years. So it yeah, it sends the red pennant up the yard arm. *sigh*

Bah, fuck all.

Fri Nov 15 17:00:19 EST 2019 Updating as if it is of importance.

Felt good destroying those plastic chairs this morning. Likely no need to destroy them existed. Have seen others put a lot worse in the dumpster. Someone put an assembled love seat into it. Thought I would at least be considerate of others needing dumpster space.

Not felt good all day, physically, or mentally. Not sure a hot shower would help, nor any of the self care check list we're given to try helping. Chalk it up to live and bear it. Yay.

 

[AndriaD]

I hate cleaning those, so I’m running an air purifier with an ionizer. Works okay actually.

I know, it’s been fucking cold. I’m bundled up here. This place is drafty and until we move, there’s not much to do about it!

How’s the sewing coming? My mil is a great sewer and used to make a lot of her own clothes. Now she just alters most things she buys.

Stay warm!

That's all I've attempted so far, altering a good bit of my existing wardrobe. But I'm getting pretty good at that, and even at sewing a straight seam, which turned out to be a LOT harder than I ever would have anticipated. I may keep the walking foot on it forever, that thing is miraculous, handles everything I put under it, feeds it beautifully. Which definitely give me a nudge in the "quilting" direction. Nice things for walls can cost a lot, but if i could make "art" quilts for hanging, that would be great. Got a nice space here above my desk that needs something about 3ft wide and 2 ft tall.

But yeah I'm starting to think of some garments I might try, easy stuff like relaxed-fit pants maybe; huge benefit of sewing for my damned long legs that are much too long for ANYTHING from a store unless it says "long" or "tall", and those COST -- leggings I could get for $10-$15 at walmart, cost $30 for Vera Wang "longs" from Kohls.

Andria

 

[Rhianne]

That's all I've attempted so far, altering a good bit of my existing wardrobe. But I'm getting pretty good at that, and even at sewing a straight seam, which turned out to be a LOT harder than I ever would have anticipated. I may keep the walking foot on it forever, that things is miraculious, handles everything I put under it, feeds it beautifully. Which definitely give me a nudge in the "quilting" direction. Nice things for walls can cost a lot, but if i could make "art" quilts for hanging, that would be great. Got a nice space here above my desk that needs something about 3ft wide and 2 ft tall.

But yeah I'm starting to think of some garments I might try, easy stuff like relaxed-fit pants maybe; huge benefit of sewing for my damned long legs that are much too long for ANYTHING from a store unless it says "long" or "tall", and those COST -- leggings I could get for $10-$15 at walmart, cost $30 for Vera Wang "longs" from Kohls.

Andria

And the Lula Roe leggings in Tall are the Big and Tall. I bought one pair on sale in a pattern I wanted, and they were almost baggy. Not great!

Ooh, quilting is really cool. I always wanted to, but that much hand sewing is a bit much. Unless you’re Amish in a sewing circle! :giggle.:

 

[AndriaD]

And the Lula Roe leggings in Tall are the Big and Tall. I bought one pair on sale in a pattern I wanted, and they were almost baggy. Not great!

Ooh, quilting is really cool. I always wanted to, but that much hand sewing is a bit much. Unless you’re Amish in a sewing circle! :giggle.:

Nah, it's all machine sewing now. I'm learning about this "quilt as you go" thing, which would be awesome since I don't have a lot of room for a huge quilt. Just quilt one square at a time, then make strips of them, then finally sew all the strips together. I might try a few small ones as practice, because the kind of quilt I REALLY want to make will be expensive to buy the material for... satin and velvet. For stuff that pricey, I want to get a lot better at sewing!

As for the leggings... I've always gotten "XL" so they'd be the longest possible, but then I'd have to run elastic thru the waist. PITA! Now I can also take them up in the hips so they really fit! Because I'm really a "L" or even a "M" since I've lost a bit of weight.

Andria

 

[JuicyLucy]

GFY for Christmas

 

[Rhianne]

GFY for Christmas

I wish they’d done that when I was doing time at ECF. Hope you had an awesome Christmas, Lucy.

 

[MyMagicMist]

GFY for Christmas

No! You GFY! Loves ya dahlin'. Hope y'all doing good off the big grid. Hope you have a goo 'un too hon.

 

[susieqz]

rhi, i sure wish you could teach me.
i envy people that can sew.
making a quilt would be the bet thing ever.

 

[JuicyLucy]

No! You GFY! Loves ya dahlin'. Hope y'all doing good off the big grid. Hope you have a goo 'un too hon.

You too Ben - we even have solar Christmas lights, lol

 

[The Cromwell]

rhi, i sure wish you could teach me.
i envy people that can sew.
making a quilt would be the bet thing ever.

Takes LOTS of time and patience.
LOTS

 

[susieqz]

apparently, gfy doesn't mean what i think it means

 

[The Cromwell]

apparently, gfy doesn't mean what i think it means

think it might but is is presented here in an affectionate way.

 

[susieqz]

affectionate?
unleash the dogs of war.

 

[JuicyLucy]

affectionate?
unleash the dogs of war.

GFY is positively an old school Fugee term of endearment

So I will spell it out: Go fuck yourself @susieqz and Merry Christmas

 

[MyMagicMist]

Because the rest of the world might be telling you that you're fucked, or it's fucking you over in a bad way. At least someone cares enough to make sure you know you're loved. It might be mostly self love, as the one caring tells you to fuck yourself. But at least they cared enough to tell you to love yourself, someone gives a shit about you. The whole world isn't against you, someone else is in the same boat with you. Them telling you to fuck yourself proves that, they know how you feel "oh man it's all so terribly wrong, I've no friends, no one cares".

Surprise! Somebody thinks you're worth a fuck even if you have to fuck yourself. The most derogatory would be to tell you to unfuck yourself, because they're saying you're not worth even a self fuck. So, hearing Go Fuck Yourself is a positive thing indeed. Someone cares to remind you that at least you have got yourself, and possibly someone else that reminded you of that. A lot of us been in the same damn spot, feeling it was all there to put a boot in our face. Yeah? Well, Go Fuck Yourself! We love you too, hate us all you want, we don't care. If you do hate us though know we understand that as at least you're giving a shit. Our value is then self evident.

As well the idea is it's a bit of tough love. The call to go fuck yourself is meant to express you don't need to wallow in self pity. Get back up! You don't fail unless your surrender. Keep moving on to move on. We've all had this or similar fight as you're having. Do you see us wallowing? Sure we vent, then, we go on. Someone tells us to fuck ourselves otherwise, because they know where you are in life ... they got the T-shirt reading "Been there, done that." So, if someone else can make it through it, guess you got no room to complain, bend into it and bear on.

All in all, it is an expression of love ultimately. Everyone could easily totally ignore anything that anyone posted about something negative in life. We could all stay on topic strictly. Well, we're all human beings and being such means we're social, we desire helping naturally. We know love is the most powerful force in the 'verses. And so this summarizes GFY.

 

[Rhianne]

But did anyone get to tell the secret police mods at ECF to get stuffed or whatever? I didn’t engage with Classy, I just left. There seemed to be no point.