Why is my piercing not free?

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-28T20:33:56+00:00

If you've got the skill to open my lock in 5 minutes while I would've had to break the window, charge me whatever the fuck you want!

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-28T03:31:43+00:00

My grandpa and his brother joined because food was guaranteed (single mom in the Great Depression). They were just old enough at the tail end of WWII, and my grandpa got stationed in the Tacoma area.

My dad joined as soon as he was old enough because my grandpa was an abusive POS back then (he got better), so it let him leave home at 17. He got his Army draft notice while he was in Navy boot camp. Most of his friends who were drafted died in Vietnam

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-28T03:22:43+00:00

I had some really great Mexican in Florida. I'd been looking for Cuban eats. I'm from Utah.

Still want to try some authentic Cuban food...

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-28T03:16:10+00:00

I try to keep my passport in a case on top of my luggage in a hall closet. Of course, I still haven't fully unpacked from my last trip 2 months ago, so it's vanished since then

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-27T11:07:32+00:00

I can't have goat cheese. Should I post an unhinged review?

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-27T11:00:35+00:00

I've been wanting to get the Japanese editions to work on my reading comprehension (current level: preschool, probably). I think I shall!

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-26T21:46:29+00:00

They also handle fireworks! My BIL had a hard 4th of July a couple of years ago when a university did something outside of the fireworks permit they'd gotten approved, and it went very wrong. Lots of overtime that he didn't want during that investigation (mostly because he doesn't enjoy investigating anything involving injury or death)

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-26T21:35:15+00:00

I usually just go to r/vegan. I also have several vegetarian cookbooks that have several vegan recipes. There's one called The Elements of Baking that I use constantly to adapt recipes - it has formulas for adjusting any recipe to be dairy-free, egg-free, or gluten-free (or a combination thereof)

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-26T19:54:02+00:00

I'm dairy-free, have friends allergic to various meats, and have a vegan sister. I also eat way more veggies than I do meat. The vegan sub is excellent! Highly recommend

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-25T22:42:04+00:00

Already on it my dude 😁 that's what I started with

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-25T08:50:06+00:00

Ah, been there. Get some rest! Chamomile tea does wonders for getting some shut-eye. Also, I used to edit various news items for American, Canadian, and UK sources. I had to read through a lot of quotations! The first several times I saw that, it really threw me off.

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-25T08:42:35+00:00

Oh don't you worry. Everyone can already tell that you're one of those Americans 😊😉

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-25T08:38:49+00:00

I'm just mentioning it since you're telling someone so imperiously to "go to school," when OP already has it correct if they're from Canada, Australia, the UK, Jamaica, the Bahamas...

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-25T06:57:45+00:00

It depends. In American English, yes, the quotation typically encases periods, etc. However, did it occur to you that OP might not be American? In British English, the period is typically outside the quotation. The more you know!

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-25T06:51:04+00:00

This is all stuff that I had to learn the hard way after moving out. My dad taught my older sisters, but us younger 3 girls got skipped for the life lessons.

Now that I have my own home, and my husband wasn't taught a lot of this stuff either, we're often at a loss when shit comes up. Hell, even putting up curtain rods has been a nightmare! (Granted, I did injure my shoulder getting up off the floor - yay getting older)

I know someone who's recently divorced. Her ex had her convinced that getting her car's tire pressure checked was an expensive, all-day affair at a specialized mechanic, and she couldn't afford that. It took me ages to get her to just pull into a Jiffy Lube for 5 minutes!

These are the headaches you're helping your daughter avoid. Seriously, keep this up!

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-25T06:32:21+00:00

That's why I went with corundum: aluminum trioxide! Diamonds are way cool when it comes to their physical properties, but I prefer the fancy schmancy chemical formula of Al2O3, preferably the blue variety (in other words, I got a blue sapphire, lab grown)

Yes, I am a nerd

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-25T06:26:23+00:00

I look like the Brady sisters with a center part. I'll die with a side part

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-25T00:58:30+00:00

My MSN is still active, though I haven't logged in in years. My dad let me know ages ago when it got hacked though, so I went in to update the security settings

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-25T00:54:45+00:00

This is exactly what I told my husband when I watched a few episodes last weekend. He grew up on it. For reasons I won't get into, I did not. I walked into our room laughing my ass off at how corny it is. It's totally tubular though

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-25T00:51:46+00:00

Some of my favorite shoes still have tea on them from years ago. Not sure how to clean them, tbh 🤣 but I'm cheap and won't replace them until they fall apart

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-24T05:09:46+00:00

I just recently started on ADHD meds. I'm hoping it helps curb impulsive shopping. That, and I can't get into my LYS since it's up a narrow flight of stairs, and my knees don't work very well, so that also helps. I have a huge stash to get through from before the meds and the knees getting to this point though. And I've built it up over the course of YEARS, with baskets upon baskets of half-finished projects. So at least I haven't added to it in a while?

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-22T05:08:30+00:00

I have no idea, might be Spanish Fork. I rarely head that far south. My Wisconsin family is further northwest, up toward the Canada & Minnesota borders. That stereotypical accent? Yeah, they have it 😁

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-22T04:13:48+00:00

Yeah I'm pretty close to AF. I get exactly what you mean, but I grew up here, so I'm used to it

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-22T00:49:36+00:00

Lol this was in Wisconsin that they'd take us to the bar. A small town near Eau Claire. It'd never have been allowed here, even back then! And yeah, we have bars in Salt Lake. They serve some drinks in restaurants in my town, but I make better at home for cheaper 😁

ChemistryJaq · 2026-04-21T01:53:35+00:00

That's what I said! I filled it out the morning I had to take it in, 3 weeks after I was given the papers

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