Um, REALLY? Does this one have a name? Techno Octupi Dong, or something? Kinda less interested in P4 now.

You fit all your tools in a 2x4 space? All my shoes (20 pairs?) will fit in one... Actually, we could be great friends because I love tools and big-ass rechargeable battery stuff. I am the Great Fixer in the house and am entranced with newer, lighter, faster. Once I realized I was a big girl and could buy my own…

Now, I CAN do eyeshadow. Wet that little cake of eyeshadow and apply it with a really good eyeshadow brush (think MAC). Doing it wet is way easier to vary intensity of color and it lasts much longer, but it does take a bit of practice. I start with the light stuff on the brow bone and move to the smoky grey for the…

Black bottomed pie, with an oreo crust instead of graham cracker. My mom made a killer version.

As in "What's that on your face?" Yup, been there.

Since I can't bear not to leap into a cleaning discussion, I've used Dip-It cleaner (powder version) for scorched and nasty cookware. It's designed for coffee and tea pots, but is a great overall cleaner.

Oh, sweet jumping Jesus on a pogo stick. That's it. I'm done for the day. I just endured listening to 20 minutes of Texas tea party idiocy from a judge I know and now this. Time to go home and play Animal Crossing New Leaf.

Please somebody figure out what that medallion is! I have not yet had enough ghastly for today and need MOAR.

Cool! I'm on Ravelry as julienne58 but haven't posted my stuff yet. I will do so this weekend to elicit happy words.

Good for you, because I call them fuckwits in my head too. I've crocheted for 40 years and done some fantastically elaborate things, but the family (male) still calls it knitting. Apparently manly men don't like to say the word "cro SHAY", as it makes their wrists limp or something.

Texas, DFW area. Also had a Hancock's fabric clerk tell me that she does not celebrate Halloween as it is pagan. Pagan sounds pretty good to me, actually.

I had to burn up a gift card, so I went last week. Tons of orange pumpkin and harvest crap, scarecrows, more harvest crap, gourds, straw and rag doll shit, etc. No witches, ghosts, skeletons, vampires, glow in the dark stuff, skulls, bats or anything cool.

Speaking as a slut, emboldened after shutting down the entire US government today, I could give a rat's ass about newspapers.

Gonna grab this gif and post it for "Who are all the sluts responsible shutting down the gubmint tomorrow?" Ahem, ME.

I don't care, Mom, this makes me look like a dork.

Yes. Or "that pank wine", as we say in Texas.

Or pumpkin pie. Homemade. I make a double recipe of filling and bake the overage in custard cups. Crap. Now I want to go home in the middle of the day and make some.

Pretty good practice, BTW. I'm sensitive to tree nuts and get mouth blisters/cracks in the corners of my mouth/etc. Hoovered down a lot of M&M peanuts (which are clearly marked that they are produced in a factory with tree nuts) and broke out in blisters. I was surprised, but cross-contamination from nuts to peanuts…

You know, I was going to ask for pics of this, but now I think I'm just better off without.

My mom died unexpectedly 6 years ago, and "WWMD" is part of my life. Sometimes I ask her aloud what I should do, and I can hear her response in my head clear as a bell. I find it a huge comfort. I was lucky in that she died when I was 48, and had the chance to see her grandsons grow up.