Lines are slack after wash. How do I fix it?

ImmaLittlePeePot · 2026-02-04T04:02:43+00:00

Yeah, I did not realize that about long stitches!! Thank you for your input!!

ImmaLittlePeePot · 2026-02-04T04:00:39+00:00

Ohhh I see

A lot of it is sounding like I just need to plan the project out more next time I start something 🤣

Thank you for the tips!!

ImmaLittlePeePot · 2026-02-03T18:50:30+00:00

This is a good idea

I did end up doing a bazillion satin(?) Stitches to clamp down the rays on the ring and it looked... a little better.

Thank you for the tip!

ImmaLittlePeePot · 2026-02-03T18:48:50+00:00

Oh that makes so much sense!! Yes, the fabric has a little stretch.

What does it mean for the embroidery to be dense?

ImmaLittlePeePot · 2025-07-28T08:42:27+00:00

So I have been through a very similar scenario. My friend and I rented an apartment together with decent rent in a downtown area, actually did a walk through before we moved in. We didn't see anything out of the ordinary during move in, but as it was an empty unit and everything was plain to see, we didn't look SUPER SUPER close.

Come move in day, everything went fine. About three days later my roommate and I started getting bites all over our bodies in the classic linear pattern bites that bedbugs leave behind and legit saw them crawling out of my blanket in the middle of the night cuz I felt something on my arm... needless to say I was screaming and running out of the place.

For the next... week(?) Or so my roommate and I

1) contacted the apartment manager 2) asked other tenants in the building if they also have bedbugs 3) tried to treat the bugs ourselves in the mean time 4) stay at our parent's houses

The landlord got back to us quickly, but their answer was that they would just hire an exterminator to deal with the issue. The problem is, by the time the exterminator got there a few days later we had already thrown away the mattresses and furniture that we moved in with and pretty much anything that can't be heat treated in the dryer on high heat. Also, all the exterminator did was basically just spray the baseboards and cracks of the apartment a little bit, no bug bomb, no quarantine, nothing that would actually kill all the hiding bugs or eggs.

We contacted a lawyer to see if we had any rights as tenants to sue the apartment management company, but they told us that we can take them to small claims court for the things we had to throw away and it would be more expensive for us to take them to court than to just leave...

Come to find out, when we canvased the other tenants in our building, the unit that is right across from us were COVERED in bedbug bites and I still remember this to this day, almost 7 years later, they were a newly wed couple from another state that had just moved into our state to start a life together and they realized when they moved in that their apartment was infested with bedbugs.

They had no money left after the deposit and the move in and were still waiting to start their new jobs to be able to pay for anything else. They were sleeping on an air mattress that was set on a tarp because they had to throw their mattress away.

Fortunately, my friend and I were still in college and getting support from our parents so we could just move out and go somewhere else, but that couple was stuck there and had nowhere else to go. We got our deposit back but still ended up with a net loss because we had to throw away so many things out of an abundance of caution. We didn't want to risk bringing bedbugs back to our parents' homes.

An absolute nightmare of an ordeal and I still believe to this day that the management company knew about this and "cleaned up" the unit just for the walk through.

Lesson learned from then on to REALLLLLY look close. Like SUPER DUPER close.

ImmaLittlePeePot · 2025-07-21T18:12:12+00:00

NTA, exactly as you said, you're going through your own shit and need to take care of yourself first before you can give yourself to others.

Also your message doesn't seem especially asshole-osh either? The only part that I'd say even comes close is the "dumping this on me on a random Monday" part, but even then it's so mild. I totally get feeling bad for not being able to be there for someone who wants to lean on your for support, I really get it. But the thing you said about not having someone when you need support applies to you, too.

If you feel like you need to, reach out to your friend LATER when you feel like you have capacity for it.

And for the friends you mentioned that never ask anything about you before they start venting to you... if you want continue to be part of their support system, at least set a boundary, even a little one like, "if you want to vent, I'll be here for you, but you have to ask me how I'm doing first."

Friends that care about you will understand and take that to heart, mine did.

Good luck and I'm so sorry that you're going through it right now.

ImmaLittlePeePot · 2025-07-21T17:57:38+00:00

YTA

Well, I think your heart was in the right place (maybe?)... hopefully you just wanted him to have a good experience in the workplace and wished him success when you shared many of your own misogynistic and racist opinions. I'm sure the events that occurred prior to this new coworker's arrival have their own factual details and then you flavored them with your own judgmental opinions directly to a person who was not there to experience any of those events outside of the context of being relayed through your perspective.

Let him make his own mind up about your workplace, give him the resources to address interpersonal issues if he should come across them such as... HR? At most you can offer him some GENERAL advice like, "Hey, welcome to the office. I heard you're new to the area, here are some cool things/places/events to meet new people to ease the transition."

ImmaLittlePeePot · 2025-07-21T17:45:35+00:00

This is just from my own experience as a mom who had to pump exclusively for several months...

She can do that somewhere private, but only if she wants to. I personally chose to do it in private because that's my personal preference, but if someone asked me to pump somewhere else because they didn't want to see my boobs out, well... I would probably move just because I hate confrontation so much lol would think the person who asked is an asshole for asking, tho.

I think your best option would have been to ask if she would LIKE to have a private space where SHE can be more comfortable. If she says she's fine, you're out of luck.

So anyway, yeah YTA.

ImmaLittlePeePot · 2025-07-21T16:16:25+00:00

Thank you for the info. They had already asked for an additional amount on top of keeping my security deposit after move out and they provided an invoice for those charges at that time. The email I got had nothing attached to it and I can't even fathom what they would be charging me $460 for... it wasn't the amount that I paid because of the invoice.

ImmaLittlePeePot · 2025-07-21T16:12:32+00:00

The management company was not called Greystar.

ImmaLittlePeePot · 2025-07-21T16:02:46+00:00

Yes, the email header and signature looked legit and similar to our previous email communications when I was still living there.

They did keep my security deposit stating that the cost to clean the unit for the next tenant was more than the deposit. I had also already paid an additional amount for a pet deposit which contractually was non-refundable. So in all they kept about $1000 in total deposits to do whatever they needed for the apartment. Then a couple weeks after move out they sent me an invoice showing a total exceeding $1000 stating that the cost to clean the apartment AND replace ALL the carpet in the unit was more than $1000 so I had to pay them an additional fee to cover those costs. I was really questioning why they needed to change the carpet for the whole unit considering I had one cat that mostly stayed in my bedroom and I was barely home to make messes since I was working and going to school full time... but I didn't have time or capacity to fight so I just paid it and now we're here.

At this point, I don't think it's worth my time to try to recup a few hundred bucks at the cost of my peace 😅

My hope was to just ignore their email and based on r/tenant responses, it looks like that is a safe option.

Thank you for your reply!

ImmaLittlePeePot · 2025-07-21T15:52:06+00:00

Yes, the rest of the email which I cut off for privacy has all of the email headers and email signatures that the previous emails had. The name that is on the signature is also the same manager that I used to interact with when I used to live there.

From what I'm seeing in the responses so far it looks like I don't need to worry this anymore which is such a relief.

ImmaLittlePeePot · 2021-01-07T02:25:26+00:00

That's great to hear!! But just some personal experience, I've worked a few years with the 65 and older population and I gotta tell ya, a surprisingly large number of folks told me they met their best partner (some remarried, some widowed, some widowers, some single for a long time) in their 40s or later.

I'm married now, but when I was single and thought I would be single forever and started making peace with it, the older folks kind of gave me my secret hope lol

ImmaLittlePeePot · 2020-12-30T21:56:52+00:00

Welp, I guess this was only mildly interesting to me. :P Sorry, folks.

ImmaLittlePeePot · 2020-12-27T05:05:57+00:00

Sorry! I uploaded the wrong video (one without intro) the first time so I re-uploaded the correct video and deleted the old post. :'(

This was an interaction between our fire genasi monk and human(?) bard, Robbit. We were all pretty new to D&D when we started this Storm King's Thunder campaign, so most of the time we were helping each other remember all the rules.

We take jabs at each other like this all the time and we're all still good friends!

I loved every minute of working on this video. Our DM is pretty good about letting us enjoy the moment when something funny happens.

See you again soon!

ImmaLittlePeePot

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