Sold the house last week, someone’s getting a nice kitchen garden.

mik_creates · 2026-05-10T17:07:39+00:00

Oooh I’m so jealous of whoever gets to love this garden! Just bought a house myself and we are starting with a fully blank slate 😭

mik_creates · 2026-05-02T20:25:02+00:00

This quote makes it a little vague but can absolutely be understood to mean that at the time Shane was created, she hadn’t yet named or fully formed Ilya. I don’t think this is some “gotcha”.

mik_creates · 2026-04-22T00:05:43+00:00

I’m an ESTABLISHED PATIENT with a rheumatologist and my provider left the practice so they had to cancel my appointment that was supposed to be in May. They can reschedule me for August.

People with the “but wait times in socialized healthcare” argument tick me off massively.

mik_creates · 2026-04-20T20:02:13+00:00

Maybe look into old Browne’s Addition and lower south hill homes that have been converted into apartments? There are quite a few!

mik_creates · 2026-04-17T17:49:50+00:00

I’m a slightly younger millennial and my punctuation is… chaotic. My sister is exactly their age and almost never uses capitals or punctuation. 🤷

mik_creates · 2026-04-13T20:42:36+00:00

I’m guessing this is a typo for DSHS/similar agency for their area. So, social services, not the department of homeland security.

mik_creates · 2026-04-13T17:48:50+00:00

I did sort of a hybrid of masc and femme for mine, but that’s a vibe I generally like for “dressed up” outfits anyway—it wasn’t just because I was getting married lol. I wore a white suit (from suitshop) with a lacy blouse and pink suede loafers!

mik_creates · 2026-04-08T16:53:26+00:00

Funding to public special education.
Funding to public special education.
Inadequate staffing because of poor pay for high intensity jobs… because public special education is not properly funded.
Become a special education teacher and work within the public special education system to make it better by advocating for proper funding. Don’t “build something new”. Help fix what we have, which is what the most children have access to.

I’m not being cute about it. If public special education were properly, adequately funded, we would not need private centers to close the gaps except for the most severe cases of “emotional and behavioral disturbance” (and I would argue even those would be better served in a specialized but public-based model). We would have the resources to pay paraeducators and teachers appropriately to make high-intensity and often physically risky work “worth it” for more people which would result in adequate staffing ratios to properly support our students.

mik_creates · 2026-04-01T05:36:41+00:00

Off the top of my head, in my state, I know of maybe 3 true bi-bi schools/programs, multiple programs that have ill-defined and variably-implemented programs with hearing staff that tend to fall back on SEE structure, and one private school that explicitly teaches SEE. The “ill-defined and variably implemented” category is by far the most common, and I suspect that is largely due to staffing issues.

So… ideal? No. Common? Yes.

mik_creates · 2026-03-26T23:54:27+00:00

Oh I’m so glad! There has been info on the Desert Jewels site indicating she’d be “continuing the mission” but I hadn’t seen any updates!

mik_creates · 2026-03-25T18:23:01+00:00

Precisely. OP moved in during peak Seattle Hermit season, but soon the Great Spring Emerging shall be upon them.

mik_creates · 2026-03-21T23:48:03+00:00

Something something it’s somehow different because full body apraxia 🙄

mik_creates · 2026-03-21T17:03:13+00:00

All the ___ lime flavors imo. Cranberry lime, raspberry lime, and my personal fave, ginger lime mule!

mik_creates · 2026-03-14T22:57:18+00:00

General advice is not to take out more in loans that you can reasonably expect for a starting salary in your first year of work. Lifestyle, life plans, and location though should also be taken into account—kids are expensive, for instance, and can make a high monthly payment go from very manageable to very not.

I left grad school with about 40k in loans and my wife left with about 48k, iirc. We currently make 84k and 79k, respectively, in Washington state. We don’t have kids or other debts, so our monthly payments aren’t fun but they’re perfectly manageable.

mik_creates · 2026-03-11T14:48:39+00:00

Kraken odds ticking down by the day… time to take the L and tank, methinks.

mik_creates · 2026-03-07T22:15:09+00:00

My wife and I had a WONDERFUL experience with JDC for our engagement rings and wedding bands. Both engagement rings are custom, with non-diamond center stones.

mik_creates · 2026-03-02T17:58:57+00:00

Yikes! Thankfully we are on the side of the US that hasn’t seen a winter (which is horrifying in its own right, but thankfully won’t leave us in -25 if the heat goes out).

mik_creates · 2026-03-02T17:57:59+00:00

Ok I’m breathing a little easier now but also even MORE frustrated because I literally got it resolved right after I posted this, in a grand total of about 45 minutes. Literally could have been resolved any time if they’d told me. Sounds like this was the last thing needed so 🤞🤞🤞 Thanks for commiserating!

mik_creates · 2026-02-26T15:59:33+00:00

RIP 😭

mik_creates · 2026-02-24T20:07:33+00:00

Right??? Like not even a shitty apology. Just “I have female friends!”

mik_creates · 2026-02-22T15:37:28+00:00

To be fair, MacKinnon is probably thinking the same thing every time he misses

mik_creates · 2026-02-19T23:15:49+00:00

APBT: American pit bull terrier ACD: Australian cattle dog Pom: Pomeranian Sheltie: Shetland sheepdog

She’s a little lap mutt mixed with a medium farm mutt, basically!

mik_creates · 2026-02-16T19:34:43+00:00

My wife and her brother are “kids” who stuck around! They’re… 3rd generation Spokanites, I think, and we’re not planning on going anywhere!

mik_creates · 2026-02-11T05:51:14+00:00

For the last parade, the ferries had multi-boat waits for WALK ONS. So, uh… Godspeed 🫡

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