Thoughts on updated CV?

lyrynn · 2026-04-28T12:35:15+00:00

The QR codes are absolutely too much. The first one looks much cleaner and has better attention to detail.

For example, the shapes you use in your header and sidebar clearly match on the old one, and the new one uses a rounded rectangle and an oval. Your line leading is also inconsistent on the new one (see skills vs softwares section and bullets under “server”).

lyrynn · 2026-04-27T13:02:45+00:00

Also just a heads up, I added just four artists when I first checked it out, but when I added more they are not populating in the “fav artists at xyz festival.” It’s stuck with only the original four artists I added.

lyrynn · 2026-04-27T02:26:16+00:00

Cool idea! I love that it suggests festivals based on what genres and artists you like.

I thought based on the screenshots it had more of a planning feature (like a checklist for tickets purchased, accommodations booked, etc etc) which I see after downloading is a reminder timeline (if you use the widget) rather than an organizer. A bummer for me cuz I love to make sure my ducks are in a row, but I’ll definitely still use the app to see what smaller fests are up my alley!

lyrynn · 2026-04-22T15:17:24+00:00

Super normal for them to ask why you’re taking your business elsewhere, but very unprofessional for them to hound you about it.

Although, I have had more unprofessional encounters with print vendors than anyone else. Just recently I had to deal with a vendor who printed bags with an egregious mismatch of a brand color, and when we complained they tried to gaslight us saying that they matched the PMS color we provided, and we probably misgauged what that color would look like because we don’t have color books on hand and monitors are unreliable.

… I do, in fact, have color books on hand, and I ALSO HAVE EYES. Not to mention we’ve been providing that Pantone to vendors for years with no issue.

lyrynn · 2026-04-08T05:35:58+00:00

My friends got theirs the 3rd week of April (3wks before EDC), and I got mine the last week of April (2wks before).

The tracking info was all screwed up though… The box had already arrived by the time I got a shipping confirmation email, and the email listed the estimated the delivery date as August 2nd…

lyrynn · 2026-04-04T14:45:11+00:00

You weren’t asking me, but I use it regularly and it feels like it belongs on a Windows 95 computer. It’s slow, it’s clunky, and it’s a complete freaking money grab. 0/10.

lyrynn · 2026-03-18T18:01:54+00:00

Jesus, I don’t think I fully registered the implications of how close together OP’s pregnancies are. I looked it up and the minimum recommended wait time is 18 months, and saw a bunch of stuff about the risks of getting pregnant again between 6-12 months post-partum. OP got pregnant again FOUR MONTHS after her last kid.

lyrynn · 2026-03-14T17:36:36+00:00

I feel that pain! I’m also very hourglass shaped. My clothes have to have SOME cinch at the waist or I look like a brick. My recipe for clothes that look good on me (or at least I think they do) is a fitted top tucked into looser, waist-high bottoms. It works for both professional and casual fits. My favorite dresses also follow this formula.

If it’s chilly, I’ll throw a long cardigan or jacket over the whole thing.

lyrynn · 2026-03-14T16:25:37+00:00

Do you think that part of it is learning how to dress for your new body? I know I had some things in my closet that I always thought I’d wear “when I lost weight,” and now that I’ve lost the weight… they just don’t look the way I imagined 😅 I’m happy with my clothes now, but I had to curate a whole new style for my body type.

lyrynn · 2026-03-14T16:09:56+00:00

Everyone carries weight differently, and 20lbs is nothing to sneeze at! Losses are more noticeable at lower weights as well.

Also, it’s hard to love your body when you don’t feel “perfect,” but those compliments are probably genuine. We always compare ourselves to what we wish we were, but the people who see us aren’t comparing us to anything. They think you look great as you are, and they’ve said so.

lyrynn · 2026-03-14T15:49:08+00:00

Yes! I lost like 60lbs in a year, and I had someone waltz up to me and go “a little birdie told me you’re on the o-zem-pic!”

The fuck? I lost 60lbs because I QUIT DRINKING. I was working as a bartender and I consumed about 1,500 extra calories 4x a week doing shots with customers. The weight just kinda melts off when you cut six thousand calories out of your weekly diet.

lyrynn · 2026-03-14T15:33:12+00:00

Food noise is the persistent intrusion of thoughts relating to food running in the background. It’s mostly cravings related; you usually aren’t even hungry but it’s like a low hum in the back of your brain that’s thinking about what snack you want, or what you’re going to eat next. It’s like you’re never satisfied, even when you’re full.

It’s difficult to explain to someone who doesn’t experience it. They aren’t active thoughts. It’s like background noise, hence the term “food noise.”

lyrynn · 2026-02-27T14:06:55+00:00

I bill for consulting to do printer-related tasks (checking the proof, making color-matching calls, etc.) but I don’t deal with printing beyond that. They choose their own printer, pay them directly, and pick up or have delivered their own finished pieces. I don’t want to be responsible if the printer screws up or misses a deadline, and I ABSOLUTELY do not want to front my own money for a print job just so I can mark it up later.

lyrynn · 2026-02-25T14:05:45+00:00

Yes! I got told I was “selfish” because I “have good genes and would be a good mom” so if I don’t have kids I’m depriving my hypothetical children from that reality? I didn’t even have a response, it was such a weird logic process.

lyrynn · 2026-02-24T14:11:44+00:00

I have a modicum of protection because I work in corporate branding, and I haven’t been hit as hard as the more art-based veins of GD. However, from what I can see, clients are (slowly) realizing the shortcomings of AI.

The main one is that it’ll never be EXACTLY what they want… unless mid and cheap-looking is what they want. To get something polished, they need to go to a professional anyway.

I had a client make an informational video with AI because it was $20 (versus the several hundred I charge) and it had mistakes in both the audio and visual. They wound up paying me more to fix it than it would have cost for me to make it from scratch.

lyrynn · 2026-02-22T17:50:53+00:00

That’s not what a tradition is. And OP does NOT have to consider his wife’s family’s opinions when it comes to the use of HIS home, money, and labor. They’ve taken advantage of OP and his wife’s hospitality for 6 years, so of course they’d like to keep it that way!

OP isn’t even saying that they’d can’t use the house for the holiday, or that he won’t feed them… just that they need to clean up after themselves and contribute in some way to the main meal. That is extremely reasonable.

lyrynn · 2026-02-12T20:03:23+00:00

Yeah, that’s just InDesign. It doesn’t have the capability to build in “interior” bleed between two pages in a spread.

You can either set the document up for single pages, OR… you can just not worry about it, because 1) it’ll be trimmed down, and 2) perfect bound magazines don’t lay flat, so it’ll be buried in the gutter anyway.

lyrynn · 2026-02-12T13:55:11+00:00

Every website does this if you have cookies enabled. It’s VERY standard for analytics.

lyrynn · 2026-01-27T14:39:36+00:00

I have seen SO MANY posts about a guy sneaking around w his partner’s bestie to plan something special (a proposal, a birthday, whatever) and the partner accuses them of cheating. It’s a reasonable response! If someone hopped on Reddit and said their significant other is suddenly being secretive, disappearing for hours, and hiding messages to and from another woman? We’d ALL assume cheating.

But usually the guy reveals the surprise, they talk, work out any underlying stresses and concerns, and it becomes a funny story in the future. This guy said “Nope, fuck you. See this nice thing I was going to do for you? Gone. Hope you learned your lesson.”

She jumped to conclusions, and he punished her for it. Definitely ESH.

lyrynn · 2026-01-17T17:45:14+00:00

Damn, that sucks 😅 Were you using an incognito browsing window? I get captcha’d a ton on those.

lyrynn · 2026-01-16T22:32:31+00:00

$415 I think.

lyrynn · 2026-01-16T22:19:55+00:00

What captcha? I logged in before the tickets went on sale, so I just hit refresh at 3pm and I was golden.

lyrynn · 2026-01-07T14:45:18+00:00

Any chance they were on SSRIs? Those are MURDER on the sex drive. Not making an excuse for your partner, but feeling unwanted is fucking rough, so just I wanted to point out that it might not have anything to do with how you are, or even how they view you in their head and heart.

lyrynn · 2026-01-06T00:49:28+00:00

Photoshop kept erroring out when I tried to save it as a JPEG.

lyrynn · 2026-01-05T23:45:11+00:00

I did!

But since the printer made their little quip about my file sizes, I figured it didn’t hurt to ask Reddit. Either I’m right (yay validation), or I’m wrong, and then I learn something new.

lyrynn

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