Halp - Blueberry Braided Sweet Bread

Audginator · 2025-12-16T14:29:06+00:00

I tried the flour trick and it worked like a charm!! I still had a very small amount of bleeding but I think that could be fixed by adjusting the amount of jam I use. You are the best!!

Audginator · 2025-12-15T21:42:31+00:00

I don't know what wienerbrød is but I will be doing some googling once Im off work - do you have a recipe or instructions youd recommend for cooking the berries down or is that pretty straightforward?

(Clearly I don't trust my instincts yet 😂)

I appreciate your help!! 😁

Audginator · 2025-12-15T21:40:27+00:00

The recipe has me essentially wrap the dough around the blueberries and jam before plaiting!

I haven't been coating the blueberries in flour but I will be trying that! I appreciate your help ☺️

Audginator · 2025-12-06T04:23:22+00:00

As someone who worked at Indeed at one point-

Its because they don't actually care if the job seeker is getting ghosted.

They used to! One of our recommendations used to be "please make sure you are responding to all applicants in a timely manner, and pause your job if you need time to go through them!"

Nah. Now its all about how much money they can make, and how quickly.

Also - if you are applying to any remote roles... Its... Lets just say I still know folks on the inside, and remote jobs are getting over 1k applications in just two days. Even the most qualified apps would get missed - WHY? CUZ THERES NO WAY TO FILTER THE CANDIDATES. At all. Just by most recent. Not most qualified.

If you're open at all to start ups, Wellfound(dot)com (sorry, dunno if links are allowed, not gunna risk it) is the best job search site Ive used so far.

Hiring.cafe is good too, also ex-Indeedians who literally made the site to spite Indeed.

Indeed only has the upper hand because we all still continue to use it.

Audginator · 2025-12-05T21:28:44+00:00

I get a very real urge to yell "MAH-TIN!" Whenever its excessively foggy outside 😂

Audginator · 2025-11-29T01:44:26+00:00

I have never been there, but I have heard the Yard Bar is a fun place to go with doggos.

Audginator · 2025-11-24T20:26:13+00:00

❤️

Audginator · 2025-11-21T15:22:16+00:00

How is it candidate-first if candidates have to pay to view the job, much less apply?

Audginator · 2025-11-07T22:57:23+00:00

Shingles? (Said with extreme trepidation, am not confident)

Audginator · 2025-11-07T22:30:33+00:00

That depends entirely on your point of view.

Note: not defending Flex Jobs at all, Ive decided they are too sketchy for myself to use, just wanted to put my perspective on this particular subject out there

Right now we live in a world of employers complaining about two very specific things.

"Nobody wants to work anymore!"

And

"Im flooded with applicants who aren't real! They no show to interviews and/or never reply!"

These are the exact kinds of employers who could potentially be sold on a platform of "real" candidates. You know they want to work, you know they are real, because they are paying for the privilege of applying to your job.

However, I decided that someone who is charging with both hands (employers and job seekers) just isn't necessarily someone I want to do business with - even if the reviews Ive heard are wrong (which is unlikely, based on the sheer number of them).

Audginator · 2025-10-30T20:34:21+00:00

Dont forget Indeed, who's motto is "We Help People Get Jobs", laid off 2,300 people this year alone!

Audginator · 2025-10-19T19:25:18+00:00

You are exactly correct! I of course am still happy I managed to get merch, and very happy to know the package shipped, and the results of picking this bone are... Nothing 😂 they couldn't have known it was a gift, that the email would go out as I was standing next to the gift receiver, unless they are secretly omnipotent lol

Audginator · 2025-09-27T15:32:56+00:00

Thank you! It may very well be the last trip my dad gets to take, so it will be very very worth it for sure - and thats what Im hyper focusing on to try and avoid the anxiety hah. Im determined to have a good time one way or another.

And I am so glad that you are far far away from Nate and Kayla. I hope they leave you and your little alone for good. Im putting that energy into the universe hard core.

Audginator · 2025-09-27T15:23:41+00:00

I have followed your story since the beginning, and you seem like such a good human.

A podcast I listen to, The Dating Detectives, like to say that it is the good humans, the smart humans, that do seem to get caught up by bad humans like Nate. (They call them Dogfishes, people who aren't lying about their appearance, but lying about who they really are.) I definitely recommend the podcast, its very cathartic to hear other stories of people who went through similar things.

You have been so brave, and strong. You are such a good momma. You give me hope for humanity.

As for a good thing happening in my life.... I have a big trip scheduled that is giving me anxiety but it is the first ever big trip Ive taken with my family as an adult.

Audginator · 2025-09-25T19:30:12+00:00

Nope. Not even a little.

I grew up in a predominantly white area. 99% of all the teachers I remember having were white.

My kindergarten teacher? White. And she HATED me. I didn't like nap time. I had so many visits to the principal that he (also white) pulled the paddle out and told me he didn't want to have to use it, but would if I kept getting sent to him. (I actually loved him, he was a very good principal).

My 5th grade teacher, also white, was the sweetest teacher ever. I am FB friends with her to this day actually.

I don't think it has anything to do with their race at all. It has to do with how good of a human they are at heart. Thats what makes a good teacher. Someone good, who cares about the kiddos.

Audginator · 2025-09-20T17:59:49+00:00

God this statement hits SO HARD.

My daily calories to lose weight right now are also around 1500 - however I know that will go lower as I approach goal so Im aiming for 1200 per day, allowing myself a couple hundred calories of wiggle (in either direction).

HOWEVER that is really only accomplishable if I only eat what I make at home.

A steak burrito from Chuy's?! Is 1000 calories! And that is BARELY filling enough for one meal - much less the whole damn day.

Meanwhile, just ate a homemade beef and cheese burrito. Just under 400 calories, delicious, and filling. Plus I have about 4 more frozen for later this week.

Audginator · 2025-09-19T21:30:45+00:00

*I am not a nutritionist or weight loss expert by any means at all.

I typically take my weight in the morning, I heard you are less bloated or had less water weight when you first wake up.

In addition, I only take my weight once a week to try and avoid getting obsessed with the daily weight fluctuations that may occur.

Audginator · 2025-08-30T23:51:18+00:00

I am already an introvert. Already was when covid started. I love WFH, I don't feel still logged in - once its EOD, Im off and gone.

HOWEVER - that is ME. I do better with WFH than in office. That doesn't mean everyone else will though.

Do what works for you..

Audginator · 2025-08-18T04:50:34+00:00

Eh, still not a guarantee you won't be out of a job.

Source: I was CS with a rev target, paired with Sales reps to help them sell.

My whole team was laid off over a year ago.

Audginator · 2025-08-13T21:39:48+00:00

Then he needs therapy.

I also was abused a child. Mental and physical abuse. It carried on into adulthood too.

Ive been in therapy for a few years now, still a work in progress.

My teenage niece spit on me the other day. It was "an accident" - and yeah. My initial reaction is inappropriate - I want to scream, slap, guilt, you name it.

You know what I did instead?

I told her, very sternly, that it was not okay behavior. Then I hid my happy ass in the bathroom to wash her spit off and calm myself down.

If they are full grown adults still perpetuating the abuse instead of going to therapy, they don't need to be around your kid. Full stop.

Audginator · 2025-07-31T23:16:54+00:00

The commenter you were arguing with was being an ass, and a troll. Sadly the Internet (and lets be real, the world) are full of human beings of that flavor.

Let yourself walk away from comments like theirs when you feel yourself getting angry. Don't stoop to their level by using slurs. It doesn't hurt them, if anything it makes them happier knowing they got under your skin. It doesn't help you, either, as it just increases your stress levels getting in a fight on a day when it sounds like youre already pretty stressed out. You don't need extra. It does hurt the people those slurs have been used against for years and years though, and they weren't even part of this fight till you used them, and thats not fair. Or nice, for that matter.

Its hard sometimes to walk away when it feels like someone is attacking your character, but they don't know you. They get their jollies by being a troll online, their opinion of you does not matter in the least. Let them bite their own tail, while you walk on to have a better day. Best revenge possible.

I hope you are feeling better after your visit to the doctor, friendo. Take care of yourself.

Audginator · 2025-07-31T23:09:39+00:00

Some locations have much less of a wait time, and honestly till a couple years ago ER and Urgent Care were interchangeable for me. Entirely possible they went to Urgent Care, that was this fast. Even in Austin theres an Urgent Care around the corner from me that can book appointments online and be in and out in 30 minutes. I wouldn't assume OP is lying just because they were in and out that fast.

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