I took my smoking garbage disposal out with a butter knife, repaired it with a crochet hook AND reinstalled it successfully. It runs again. I am a wizard. Also really, really filthy.

Also, really, really don't accidentally drop gravel down the drain.

Right when I saw the craigslist ad and thought  "Holy crap! I could get three juvenile emus for fifty dollars!"I realized I needed to
1. Stop drinking
2. get the fuck off craigslist
3. go to fucking bed

Baby emus, btw: mind blowing cute. Fuzzy! Stripes! Dinosaur feet!

I woke up the other day in the middle of a dream about selling a chameleon. My subconscious had manufactured a customer and we were having a reasonable conversation about chameleon husbandry. I may have bored myself awake. Maybe that's why I'm so over my job- it's not something I do just eight hours a day, but during my sleep ( Read more... )

Making lists makes me feel calmer.

Phone interview in twenty, super super tweaking. I guess i finally moped hard enough about my career for my resumes, sent into the abyss, to be replied to. Jeff says it's because I'm qualified. Self-destructive inner voice says it's a fluke. Unlike the last phne interview, this time I'm PREPARED. They called this ( Read more... )

A quote from Emily Nagoski, on how to introduce a significant other: This is the other half of my "us"

Pretty, gender neutral and says something very nice about the relationship.

It seems like nice things keep happening ( Read more... )

I feel boring.

1. I cannot sew things together late at night, in poor lighting, after a beer. This leads to knit toys that look as if they have a nonstandard number of chromosomes ( Read more... )

This pattern will make a sweater for an average size adult rat. It’s pretty stretchy, so unless your rat is really, really big, it will probably stretch to fit. The sweater is worked from the chest to the neck, so feel free to add length or shorten it for a chic cropped sweater look! The original recipient was a hairless rat, so he needed the extra ( Read more... )

How to become motivated to clean your house in 18 easy steps ( Read more... )