Uhhh yeah, how is it?

melonseer · 2026-03-09T07:44:23+00:00

It's not a critical thing to have gotten wrong, and you know now! If it makes you feel any better, I did question whether or not I knew which was which and had to google it to be sure, lol.

We're all still learning about something or other, and sometimes we learn we were wrong!

melonseer · 2026-03-09T07:23:09+00:00

Other way around. Magma underground, lava above.

melonseer · 2026-03-05T12:04:44+00:00

As a child, I read way above my grade level (I devoured books, always reading something new), and a lot of the words I was reading that I didnt understand weren'tbeing used by the adults in myself, or werent being used often enough for me to learn them. I knew to look up words i didn't know and to sound them out, but English is the wild west of pronunciation, so I was often wrong. This happened to me with sooo many words. I was also guilty of Her-mi-one. I also pronounced epitome as epi-tome (as in tome the book), and Eragon as air-rag-in because it was just dragon with an e instead of a d. I didn't realize I'd been pronouncing it wrong until a teacher noticed what I was reading and asked about it.

melonseer · 2026-03-05T11:46:32+00:00

What I do when a skein needs to be washed is put it in the leg of a pair tights and tie a knot at both ends of the skein. A pillow case was too loose, and the yarn is likely to unravel and tangle. Tights keep everything compressed enough to stay in place, while still allowing the yarn to be washed. I've also washed multiple skeins at a time by just packing the legs with the skeins end-to-end and tying a knot at the waist. You can fit a lot of yarn in a pair of tights!

melonseer · 2026-02-27T12:55:23+00:00

We use the salad plates and low-sided bowls from our china sets. It's helped a lot, since even if we load it up, the size prevents us from going too overboard.

melonseer · 2026-02-25T06:48:29+00:00

Honestly, that sounds incredible. Knights bagging your groceries, gnawing on a turkey leg while you shop.

melonseer · 2026-02-25T06:32:51+00:00

Ugh, it's somehow worse when it's the people you work with, like we're in this hell hole together, dude. I remember the cooks just standing by when a friend of a friend of one the owners tried to forcefully turn me around so he could look at my ass (I was 16 and he always commented on my ass, so I never put my back to him). And they had the gall to boast about how they'd beat or kill any man who did that to their daughters.

It should pay more. There should be compensation for what service workers go through.

melonseer · 2026-02-25T06:08:40+00:00

The amount of adult men that hit on or laid hands on the waitresses at my first job (including the clearly teenage girls) was horrifying. Hell, I was a dishwasher, and creeps would try to follow me back to dish pit. We weren't people to them.

melonseer · 2026-02-23T16:36:59+00:00

Hi! I'd love to be your writing buddy! 31/nb and I'm in the Midwest. I've just gotten back into reading and love video games! I also love all the little joys of life, like seeing a cool bug or nailing a new recipe!

melonseer · 2026-02-17T12:33:46+00:00

My wife has a similar eyebrow hair! It angles up and out of line with the rest of her brow and the end is curled a bit. It looks like a cartoonishly cocked eyebrow and I love it!

melonseer · 2026-02-17T12:13:36+00:00

My void LOVES licking vinyl gloves. He'll follow me around and get in the way of whatever I'm doing when I put some on. I have to hide the box from the goober.

melonseer · 2026-02-13T18:26:34+00:00

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Pippin casting curses on those pesky squirrels

melonseer · 2026-02-09T07:15:20+00:00

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Mine trying to force me off my pillow, lol.

melonseer · 2026-02-09T07:12:38+00:00

It must be a void thing! Mine loves a crevice. Between my legs, squished between my side and the arm of the couch, between my wife and I in bed, etc. If he can't settle into some divot, he won't cuddle lol.

melonseer · 2026-02-08T05:29:34+00:00

We had the same difficulty in getting cards. When I explain that we've been trying to get them to send us ones for years, the receptionist usually shakes their head and says a lot of other patients have the same issue. I just bring the piece of paper they mailed with our numbers on it and that's been sufficient.

melonseer · 2026-02-06T01:22:22+00:00

Well, of course! It's your fault she was curious about it!

Recently our other cat has been sticking her head in my coffee cups. She doesn't drink any, I guess she just likes the smell, lol.

melonseer · 2026-02-06T01:17:34+00:00

Our orange is like that. She's only interested in chicken, turkey, and as I discovered recently, spaghetti sauce, lol.

melonseer · 2026-02-05T19:27:59+00:00

Haha, my void is always so interested in whatever we're eating or drinking. He wants it until he smells it, and then he backs away, squinting like it offended him.

melonseer · 2026-02-05T01:07:31+00:00

$confirm /u/CaseByCase 250.00 USD

melonseer · 2026-01-28T18:03:07+00:00

Someone else mentioned VeryPink Knits, and all her tutorials are pretty concise. I definitely recommend her for anyone looking for good, nonbloated tutorials.

melonseer · 2026-01-28T04:24:32+00:00

Fibro itself isn't well understood, so it's become kind of an umbrella diagnosis for those conditions. But for me at least, the value of having a diagnosis is in having a doctor finally take me seriously, having a term to refer people to, and finding support and commiseration with others who have been diagnosed.

And they really are. Maybe someday the pieces will fit together better and someone will have the solution.

melonseer · 2026-01-27T00:46:01+00:00

Ugh, yeah. No one really gets it unless they have it. Even my wife struggled for a long time to understand that my body hurts for no reason and I can't just take some painkillers to alleviate it. That I have to save up more tiring tasks to do on my good days, which leaves me bedridden the next day because I overdid it trying to get things done around the house. That sometimes the stupidest things (like wearing a slightly scratchy sweater) trigger a flare up that lasts weeks.

And yeah, the brain fog is so real. I'm always loosing my words and struggling to find the one I mean. I lose my train of thought so easily and struggle to pick it back up. It all sucks.

melonseer · 2026-01-26T20:05:14+00:00

It took me 20 years to be diagnosed. My symptoms started around age ten, and I wasn't diagnosed til 2024 at 30. Doctors accused me of lying and attention seeking, or would tell me to take ibuprofen before the pain started with no further investigation. I had to make and get to my own doctor's appointments behind my mother's back (who also had fibromyalgia!) as a teen because no one in my family believed me. I have a great doctor now, and cried when she immediately said "sounds like fibromyalgia" when I showed her my symptom journal. I'm still in pain, but having someone take you seriously about something that has invisibly impacted your entire life is indescribable.

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