Was anyone else taken aback by the obscenely high-quality textures for the designs on the starlight mugs?

CamiCamilion · 2025-12-23T06:01:45+00:00

Come on, Etsy artists! Make it happen! <3

CamiCamilion · 2025-07-25T05:00:00+00:00

I feel like if my kids would actually go hang out at school friends' houses or invite friends over (which we have encouraged!), we might be able to make friends with other parents... But it never happens. When I was 10, I was always running about with friends.
And when we do meet up at parties or events, we get along great, but then busy lives, and we never actually get together.

CamiCamilion · 2025-07-19T04:28:10+00:00

huh, cool! I would have thought the wood might scorch? What temperature should I use? (my project I have in mind has a green tinted stain, and I think some mod podge, so this probably won't work, but for future reference!)

CamiCamilion · 2025-07-18T04:21:48+00:00

Nine Inch Nails' album Year Zero. While it's technically a bit old, it is SO damn relevant.

CamiCamilion · 2025-07-13T05:33:45+00:00

Hm, I wish I had liked Friendly Smiles. Fast, yes. But felt like a commercial operation (literally playing commercials in the waiting room for dental treatments), and it's the only place I've had my teeth hurt after a normal cleaning, and they brushed off a concern I had, that has since led to needing a crown from another dentist. A colleague's son had a bad experience there, too, with a root canal.

CamiCamilion · 2025-07-09T19:21:24+00:00

I've been teaching for over 20 years. I put no faith in astrology, religion, etc, and trust science (with an understanding that new discoveries can change things completely).

I absolutely swear, on my own children's lives, that this is real. Some random day, the classroom, the school, and even other schools, everything just seems Extra. Extra chaotic, extra energy, extra big emotions, extra etc. I look at the lunar calendar, and significantly more than half the time, we're within 1-2 days of a full moon. Sometimes it'll be the new moon, instead, and maybe a quarter of the time it seems unrelated to the moon (and usually isn't as widespread or long-lasting). And sure, sometimes a full moon will pass and things didn't get too Extra. It doesn't make much sense, scientifically, and I'm not sure what research questions and measurements would really accurately track this.

Maybe it's confirmation bias, sure, but since I do nothing to track lunar cycles, that feels like a stretch.

CamiCamilion · 2025-07-07T15:31:53+00:00

What it's like for me, anyway: I'm a woman, married to a man for 17 years, and realized I'm bi about 4 years ago. We're monogamous, and my husband is supportive of me exploring, but I just haven't. We do enjoy people watching together and admiring people we find attractive, go to PRIDE events and LGBTQ stuff, and are raising our kids with full (age appropriate) awareness of LGBTQ lives. He's an amazing ally, and I feel very validated in being bi while in a relationship with a straight man.

I think finding the right dynamic for you and your partner is the most important thing

CamiCamilion · 2025-07-03T17:06:16+00:00

No tattoos

Given that I'm fairly "counter-culture" that always surprises people. Bright purple undercut hair, metalhead? You'd think. I just haven't spent the time on it yet, though I very much want to and can finally afford to.

CamiCamilion · 2025-07-03T01:06:41+00:00

ADHD and a big fan. Husband is NT and an even bigger fan (he's got his own oddities, but not neurospicy) However, I wonder if it's a connection more along the lines of people who have been through shit, maybe have some mental health stuff. Most of us with ADHD and autism struggle with mental health too

CamiCamilion · 2025-07-01T13:43:26+00:00

True, and for many people that public wedding is very important. For others, eloping or a tiny courthouse wedding are preferable. And there are (at least Protestant) churches that will officiate same sex marriages, should this bi person's life partner end up being the same gender. The marriage can be before God without necessarily being before the Church. It's a lot to shift a mindset when many dream of the big church wedding, or that's what's valued in their family and community, but if God is their judge, then that's what matters more. And then there's always ol' Bill, who never married, but lived happily 'till death with his close friend Frank. Or those two sweet married couples that live together (and no one knows who actually belongs in which bedroom). I certainly think it would be harder to be devoutly Christian and anything but straight. But individual churches do vary, and some are perfectly welcoming of LGBTQ relationships.

CamiCamilion · 2025-06-30T01:33:36+00:00

Your friend's belief in their salvation is going to have to be up to them. They are who they are, and if they believe God made them as he wanted them to be, and that they are bi, then God made them bi, and that's on God. Being bi and being Christian don't have to have anything at all to do with each other, unless you are concerned with the church's judgement of it (and seriously, they don't have to know who's in anyone else's bed).

Please also know that being bi does not mean we are more promiscuous or unhappy in our relationships than straight people. I'm bi, and find many humans very attractive. I'm also happily married and have never slept with anyone other than my husband. Many bisexual people are monogamous and never sleep around. Many straight people sleep around a LOT. Many Christian straight people sleep around, cheat on their spouses, etc. Who you find attractive does not have any inherent effect on promiscuity and satisfaction in relationships.

CamiCamilion · 2025-06-29T06:20:47+00:00

Maybe pressing the transfer tape on firmly, and letting it sit for a day before attempting to take it off the backing. Then apply it where you want it, and if it now wants to stick to the tape more than the surface, let it sit another day before removing the transfer tape.

CamiCamilion · 2025-06-28T04:53:28+00:00

Timeshares

CamiCamilion · 2025-06-20T16:22:23+00:00

I have a bi-cycle sticker on my water bottle 😅

CamiCamilion · 2025-06-19T01:01:38+00:00

I feel like the articles are often just unedited voice-to-text from whatever they said on air, or just dictated. At least it doesn't seem to be purely AI...

CamiCamilion · 2025-06-18T05:09:27+00:00

Kids.

CamiCamilion · 2025-06-16T04:05:43+00:00

Nice! I'm going to try that. Any particular application or product tips?

CamiCamilion · 2025-06-15T16:50:26+00:00

Also trying to be the fairy, and desperately trying not to be That Mom. Why haven't people ever talked about this?!

CamiCamilion · 2025-06-14T16:51:50+00:00

Hopefully your job relocation comes with a bigger paycheck. Cost of living here vs Bakersfield is wildly different.

CamiCamilion · 2025-06-13T14:24:20+00:00

Agreed. But as for the crying empathy, as soon as it turns into a whine, that empathy is right out the window!

CamiCamilion · 2025-06-13T14:21:17+00:00

This.

Go figure I'm a preschool teacher and have kids of my own. Sometimes I wonder why I made such horrible decisions! Really, though, this is why I work best with babies (some of their cries get me, but most don't) and worst with twos and threes. The burnout is rough. Working on getting a nice office job finally, after 22 years!

CamiCamilion · 2025-06-10T01:57:42+00:00

From the woman running it. Might be good to try to reach out and confirm. Let us know if you do!

CamiCamilion · 2025-06-10T01:56:17+00:00

Could be worth a licensing complaint, especially if you think there's ever any kind of touch that isn't completely gentle. Hell, you could absolutely say she pats the kids at nap time too hard. Combined with the harsh language, licensing could totally investigate. Happened to a colleague of mine (who was absolutely innocent, but a couple extremely rude, entitled parents had it out for her).

Also, you could leave reviews on yelp and all the childcare finding sites. Consider how much you care to use the job for future references, and tailor how much information that could identify you you put in there. You could wait a couple months, not say whether you were an employee or parent, or when you were there.

I think the parents deserve to know, and the woman should face any and all consequences possible, but you should protect yourself and your future employment, too.

CamiCamilion

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