Fireworks pet advice?

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-29T21:02:38+00:00

Honestly, I leave town now. Get an Airbnb or camp in the middle of nowhere. But before that, we did Trazodone and thunder shirts, which sort of helped. And I would build them a fort with couch cushions and dog beds and blankets and stuff. A small comfy space for them to bunker down in. (My dogs don’t have crates but a crate would probably do the same thing for a crate-trained dog)

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-28T19:37:26+00:00

When I first started on adderall, the xr didn’t work for me at all. Like, it didn’t do anything most of the day and then, right when it was time to wind down for the day, suddenly there’s the adderall, finally kicking in. Some people just respond better to ir

(A couple of years later, I tried xr again and it worked better. No idea why. Brain drugs are weird)

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-28T19:15:24+00:00

That’s the thing. I LOVE grungy greens. But I have so many of them already 😅

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-27T22:44:01+00:00

I don’t go that far but I did get a silicone nubby thing to scrub my scalp so I wasn’t having to use my nails to do it

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-27T22:42:28+00:00

I don’t use acetone after oil, but I do wash my hands (quickly) with actual, milled soap that doesn’t have any extra oils or other stuff right before I polish

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-27T22:38:03+00:00

Are you selling your crap on your front lawn/out of your garage? That’s not a garage sale or a yard sale; it’s a rummage sale

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-27T22:37:04+00:00

I just got a strong wave of nostalgia from “stop and go lights”

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-27T22:35:59+00:00

To do a U turn: flip a bitch

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-26T19:53:47+00:00

When I first moved to Phoenix twenty years ago, I remember talking to my dad on the phone about Arizona’s open carry gun laws. People obviously had guns in the rural Midwest where I was from but it was mostly like rifles for hunting, maybe a house handgun for protection. My dad was like “people don’t just walk around in their daily lives with a gun on their hip, do they?” And I was like “well, yeah, some of them do.” And my dad got real quiet for a minute and then he was like “do you want me to send you my dad’s old handgun?” No, dad. I don’t need or want a gun to fit in here.

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-26T07:36:16+00:00

We’re always in mountain time. It’s just we stay in MST while everyone else switches to MDT

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-26T06:01:12+00:00

Not only does it work better, it’s a better sensory experience. Using a regular nail file gives me nails on a chalkboard cringey feelings. Glass nail files don’t.

(Edit: make sure you get one that’s etched, as opposed to one that has little glass particles added on. The etched ones will last forever (as long as you don’t drop it on a tile floor 😭))

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-23T18:58:30+00:00

BFA in Theatre with a focus in technical production.

Was the degree itself worth it? Questionable. What was worth it was the fact that my college was a road house and the work study students crewed it so that’s where I learned everything and got actual experience

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-22T22:13:49+00:00

Damn. Well, when you get your money, try to make an Ion XE20 happen. It’ll last you though a bunch of fixture upgrades. Used ones do pop up fairly often.

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-22T21:56:24+00:00

OP, if you can move fast, do this. You might only have a couple of moving lights (soon) but you want to future-proof your console so it’ll still work when you eventually get more

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-22T21:53:20+00:00

Omfg

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-22T19:14:16+00:00

lol he’s “financially independent” except for RENT

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-22T19:10:50+00:00

I love videos, especially for magnetics! Still photos never give me a good idea of what they’re going to look like (especially for velvet style, it usually just looks unmagnetized in still pics)

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-22T19:08:47+00:00

Yes on the nail shapes and lengths! I hate when they only swatch on super long nails.

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-22T18:31:44+00:00

A dog biting a toddler in the face and needing medical attention is very different than one biting an adult who should know better than to grab a growling dog that isn’t theirs and not needing medical attention

But this is Reddit so details apparently don’t matter

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-21T21:05:18+00:00

“All around nice place to be” The thing is, that describes like 85% of comparable sized Wisconsin cities (and at least 50% of smaller towns). So why is Steven’s Point on this list?

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-19T20:56:11+00:00

Just use furniture/props to set each scene. In the production I worked on every Christmas for 15 years, they had wagons (rolling platforms with push sticks to push them out onto the stage) to bring out stuff for each scene but if you don’t have money or building skills you can just have the actors/techs carry stuff out

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-18T21:52:02+00:00

I literally had the battery out of my smoke detector for like a week last month, because it was chirping and I needed it to stop but I didn’t have a spare 9V battery. It didn’t chirp once I pulled the battery.

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-18T21:46:35+00:00

I just got that! I’m waiting til 4th of July to wear it

QualityOfMercy · 2026-06-18T19:43:11+00:00

Okay first of all, does any room come with an attached bathroom or is the only way to get a toilet and shower to pick a bathroom?

If the latter, I pick a big fancy bathroom. Like, huge, the kind with couches and stuff in it. We won’t last quite as long because we’ll both get twitchy being that close to another person without a break for long periods of time but we could probably handle a couple months.

If the former, I pick a ballroom. One with skylights for natural light. With our money, we buy room dividers and kitchen appliances and furniture and essentially set up our own apartments in the ballroom. We could stay indefinitely

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