It’s not just you. She’s repeating patterns of poor choices. I think she needs some counselling, but until she realises that for herself, there’s not much anyone can do except help her to get up when she falls.

Good for you for being proactive! Maybe it is the change of season that has you in a funk? I always feel weird this time of year as everyone is getting excited for the upcoming spring/summer but it is the busy season for my business so not a lot of enthusiasm here. Hope you start feeling better soon!

Mental health thread:

I’m 36 and I bought this dress.

I’m so excited to finally not miss SNS! I’ve been collaborating with a local yarn dyer to turn some of my tattoo designs into embroidery kits, and I am super excited about it! This will be the first one. The design just needs some simplifying to fit into a 5" hoop.

I spent the whole day at our local natural history museum. Tonight there was a fundraiser for a Democratic congressional candidate in a district where a dem hasn’t held the seat in 150 and a serious candidate hadn’t been on the ballot in a long time. He’s a really good strong candidate. I’m not exactly hopeful but I’m…

TGIS!

Craft Thread!

Congratulations! Sorry about your traumatic birth, are you and baby okay* now?

Well I had a baby ten minutes before Monday was over. The placenta decided to rip itself away from my uterus in some sort of attempt to kill us both. That was the least fun I’ve ever had, but fortunately my intuition brought me to the hospital an hour earlier.

I think New York magazine has this one covered (literally):

Open bar and “access”, I think.

I kept reading it like that every time, and I keep waiting to see if Hogg or any of his friends is a Pratchett fan.

Did somebody say Hogswatch?

Imagine being a teenager who has a site named after you where adults-ostensibly with actual day jobs!-devote their time and effort to smearing you and all your friends.

lack of access to; education, healthcare, economic opportunity.....wait, what.....

He looks like Earl Hacker.... master of disguise...

I’ve found that the loudest self-titled Christians know the least about the Bible.

Well, now 100 red blooded, true Tennesseans can get back their jobs making $7.85 an hour processing meat. Yay! Oh, wait, they don’t want that job? It’s beneath them? Guess that plant is going under. I’m happy to be a vegetarian (I’m not, but I CAN afford meat that’s 30% higher than it was going to be). MAGA!!!

Dammit, don’t ruin Hogswatch with some nutjob Republican child abuse. That name already belongs to a nice winter holiday about a pig-god delivering presents to children.