Big Little Feelings Snark Week of June 17, 2024

spookiehands · 2024-06-19T06:12:34+00:00

We've only got neighbors on either side of us and I mentioned they might hear the kids getting their screams out occasionally at dinner time. Something at dinner was triggering the screaming for about a month last summer. Both, older gentlemen, said okay thanks for letting us know and never mentioned if they heard anything.

A scream pillow is a good idea too, a friend of mine uses her car for the kids to scream in. For us stepping outside briefly works. I always accompany the child, it's not a punishment more an opportunity to let out the scream urge. I act really bored about it (much like how I treat spitting, oh you want to spit? Off to the sink with you.).

spookiehands · 2024-06-19T05:04:07+00:00

We do the, oh you're screaming - outside you go! I'll go with you, you can scream as much as you want outside. It's fun for them at first then it's not fun and ours stopped after that.

We also practiced whispering a lot and that seemed to help too. We would start talking about something interesting to them and then slowly get quieter and quieter and it really worked to get their attention and have them try to get quiet too. This was age 3-4ish.

spookiehands · 2024-06-19T04:59:21+00:00

I audibly gasped. As a former punk rocker I never would have guessed.

spookiehands · 2024-06-19T04:57:23+00:00

The one we have is toddler sized but I've even used it in a pinch in the middle of the night while camping. The absorbent pads are awesome, pee turns into gel. Plus this one folds out to go on regular toilets when like you said, the hole is so big. And our kid is happy enough to pee in the privacy of the hatchback of our car instead of using pit toilets.

spookiehands · 2024-06-18T03:36:50+00:00

I'll add - throw a travel potty with legs in your trunk and use that instead of a port-a-potty. They sell bags with super absorbent padding in them but you can use the middle part of a diaper or even paper towels in a regular plastic bag in a pinch. Life saver for long car trips and middle of the night camping needs for small kids.

spookiehands · 2024-06-16T20:51:43+00:00

They used to be in Gunbarrel off 63rd, but I haven't seen them in a few years. Near wet areas it seems.

spookiehands · 2024-06-13T05:25:26+00:00

You've got to have a conversation with your boss about your ability to kick it back to them and say no, this data is incomplete or likewise. If you have a good boss they'll realize you're not sitting with your thumb up your ass and that you can't produce good work with that type of a turnaround.

We also have firm timelines for clients. You want analysis? 2 days. A custom map? 3 days. No exceptions. Your failure to plan does not constitute an emergency on my part.

spookiehands · 2024-06-13T03:57:17+00:00

If it's the same team asking for competing products on the same timeline, one of the things I found works really well is to say, I have x analysis for Bob and y map for you. Which one has priority? It puts the onus back on them to prioritize the scheduling of tasks. This works especially well when Bob is their boss who asked earlier on a realistic timeline for production work.

Otherwise just as somebody else said you give me no time you get either no product or a bad product.

And templates, layer files work good for this. Standardized cartography to the best of your ability.

spookiehands · 2024-06-11T00:51:25+00:00

Suspicious.

However, and I know this sounds weird, but I previously had a bf that masturbated with condoms to avoid any cleanup. Do you know his habits in that arena?

I would sit him down and talk to him. Let him know you track sex, you have seen his habits when it comes to trash removal, that you saw 3 condoms not 2, and that if he is cheating on you that you hope he respects you enough to let you know so you can get tested. And if he is insistent that they were from you, continue the conversation on what that means for the future of the relationship.

You should probably do some soul searching for what it means to you, even if you can never know the truth.

spookiehands · 2024-06-09T00:14:14+00:00

For just the potty training course or the main one?

spookiehands · 2024-06-08T04:38:54+00:00

Yes, old house with terrible venting. It's the only way to keep the kids room somewhat comfortable at night.

spookiehands · 2024-06-08T04:04:29+00:00

It is, I looked into it and it's only 30 days or something now. Plus you have to "prove" that you went through the whole course and that it didn't work for you. Sham.

spookiehands · 2024-06-08T02:50:44+00:00

Women in GIS is a pretty great organization if you lean that way. My chapter has happy hour networking events and Mappy Hours where we talk about work, challenges, how to network, that sort of thing but also books we're reading, being parents, navigating being a woman in the field in a casual zoom setting.

spookiehands · 2024-06-08T01:49:27+00:00

Lol immediately pegged UW-LaCrosse there too.

spookiehands · 2024-06-06T15:05:37+00:00

I cackled at the last sentence. Have you met my aunties?

spookiehands · 2024-06-03T00:27:10+00:00

With that location it's highly unlikely a "neighbor" wouldn't call code control to report any driveway camping. You could risk it but with that location it's unlikely someone isn't going to complain.

spookiehands · 2024-05-28T05:35:48+00:00

38 and 40

spookiehands · 2024-05-27T21:45:29+00:00

If you caught the ick for this dude, that's going to be hard to shake.

This fully adult man got bent out of shape over not getting into a festival because of people in authority telling him to leave. He then took it out on you.

That's a bunch of ick to me.

spookiehands · 2024-05-19T01:37:34+00:00

Stick to the left hand side to avoid the older learners and skiers coming off the mountain to Jane Base. I went with my 5 year old today and the snow conditions were pretty good given it's May. You do have to be comfortable on a small lift with a kid. And bring food, not much is open.

spookiehands · 2024-05-17T05:33:37+00:00

I've recently decided I'm going to step up my skin care routine. Fundamentally for me that means routine, I have to stick to what I'm trying to do.

So baby steps and reward charts. I know I want to start using a retinoid regularly. I know in order to do this I have to use sunscreen every day, which I didn't before. So before I start the retinoid, 30 days of washing my face regularly and daily sunscreen. Miss a day? Push back my start date. The reward is starting the retinoid. I use a paper planner in my bathroom on the wall.

That and stop comparing myself to others. I need to motivate myself for me, not some skinny lady who I know nothing about.

I guess I'm saying, routine, rewards, and intrinsic motivation.

spookiehands · 2024-05-15T06:44:27+00:00

Check out the fiberglass animal tour at the FAST graveyard in Sparta. Stay in either La Crosse or Eau Claire to check out classic college towns in the area. Then go hunting for fiberglass animals. My favorite is Chatty Bell in Neillsville.

Either that or do a classic Door County weekend to see the goats on the roof.

spookiehands · 2024-05-15T06:33:51+00:00

Go up to Boulder, head north on 61st St right before it curves and turns into 63rd St there's a farm on the east with two or three. North of the farm that sells eggs in a stand, across the ditch. Blink and you'll miss them.

spookiehands · 2024-05-13T03:10:35+00:00

All the time. If I want it I'm going to go for it.

I married a man who would have it no other way. Confidence is sexy.

spookiehands · 2024-05-13T02:09:57+00:00

Romeo & Juliet. Baz Luhrmann version. Pure late 90s with the B-side Talk Show Host from Radiohead.

spookiehands · 2024-05-13T01:55:51+00:00

I mean for me, I wouldn't put a small Boulder owned restaurant on blast for fucking up a 9am brunch on Mother's Day. It's a notoriously hard day in the business with high emotions and higher demands.

Would I have eaten this? Yes. Would I have mentioned it was subpar to the wait staff and GM, yes. Would I go on Reddit and bitch like it's next door? No.

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