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Synecdochic [userpic] gone fishin'
4/10/37 02:38 amadd memory


I have now entirely moved to synecdochic@dreamwidth.org. All new entries here will be crossposted from Dreamwidth with comments disabled and redirected to Dreamwidth. Over the next few weeks, I will be replacing older posts with links to their Dreamwidth version and disabling comments on those as well.


Mondays, every week, let's celebrate ourselves, to start the week right. Tell me what you're proud of. Tell me what you accomplished last week, something -- at least one thing -- that you can turn around and point at and say: I did this. Me. It was tough, but I did it, and I did it well, and I am proud of it, and it makes me feel good to see what I accomplished. Could be anything -- something you made, something you did, something you got through. Just take a minute and celebrate yourself. Either here, or in your journal, but somewhere.

(And if you feel uncomfortable doing this in public, I've set this entry to screen any anonymous comments, so if you want privacy, comment anonymously and I won't unscreen it unless you tell me it's okay. Also: yes, by all means, cheer each other on when you see something you want to give props to!)


(Meanwhile, spoke too soon on the having internet thing again. 80% packet loss WHEEEEE.)

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Synecdochic [userpic] survived christmas. successfully used power tools. life is good.
12/28/10 08:13 amadd memory


Mondays, every week, let's celebrate ourselves, to start the week right. Tell me what you're proud of. Tell me what you accomplished last week, something -- at least one thing -- that you can turn around and point at and say: I did this. Me. It was tough, but I did it, and I did it well, and I am proud of it, and it makes me feel good to see what I accomplished. Could be anything -- something you made, something you did, something you got through. Just take a minute and celebrate yourself. Either here, or in your journal, but somewhere.

(And if you feel uncomfortable doing this in public, I've set this entry to screen any anonymous comments, so if you want privacy, comment anonymously and I won't unscreen it unless you tell me it's okay. Also: yes, by all means, cheer each other on when you see something you want to give props to!)


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Synecdochic [userpic] Pride thread
12/20/10 09:13 pmadd memory


Ou know the deal.

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Copying and pasting is a pain on the iPad, so here's your pride thread for the week! You know the deal by now, I hope.

Me? I survived the move and the first weekend of living in the place, including the fun of all the stuff that breaks when you start using it. Including the hot water heater. (Jason the awesome plumber kicked and swore it into working again, but oh my we are going to have to budget to replace.)

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Moved, fed, bed made, cats let out of basement (severely traumatized so much that they were cuddling for moral support), sheets nailed up as very very temp curtains so we can sleep and not have ppl from the main street looking in on us, going to bed now, will update when not on iPad. Love to all and thanks for the good wishes!

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The movers are here! And good God, are they fast. They've already gotten like a third of the stuff down into the truck.

They are also Deaf! (One is, in fact, wearing a Gallaudet sweatshirt.) This makes me super glad we took the ASL course. At least we can fingerspell enough to get our point across if we can't do it with gestures :) (Sarah had been planning to make me interact with the humans, but she's the much better signer of the two of us.)

Gabe is in the cat carrier, in the bathroom. I don't know if anyone remembers the voice post I made back when I moved from NJ->MD, the one that had him yowling constantly from the backseat, but oh my goodness, epic howling is epic and unhappy cat is unhappy.

I got two and a half hours of sleep. When all this is over, we are sleeping until Sunday.

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Synecdochic [userpic] Tip for chronic-pain issues
12/6/10 02:13 amadd memory


Okay, this is going to sound absolutely crazy, but please, hear me out:

If you have chronic pain of the muscle/stiffness sort, or suffer from muscle cramps in the middle of the night that wake you, start sleeping with an unwrapped bar of soap in bed with you.

...I can see that this is going to take some explanation.

See, Monday night I was griping to [personal profile] miella that I was going to be in agony when I woke up, since I had been pushing myself really hard that day, and she told me the soap thing. Her mom learned it in school, and apparently everyone scoffed until they tried it and then came back in spluttering and demanding to know why it worked. "Why does it work?" I asked. She had no idea. The only thing they've discovered over the years is that it can't be one of the 'D' soaps: no Dove, no Dial. Everything else should work. (Personally I would suspect that none of the glycerine soaps would work, but that's just from my own suspicion about what the soap is doing.)

I figured at best it had to be a placebo, but hey, the placebo effect is still improvement. So I tried it Monday night ... and woke up feeling better than I had in a while. Placebo, I decided. But then, the soap fell out of the bed at some point Wednesday night, and even before I noticed that it had, I woke up Thursday morning in agony.

So, yeah. Soap. I have no idea why it works. (I'm actually suspecting that something in the soap interacts with the pain messages to the brain, absorbed through the skin. But hey, I could be totally wrong. Especially since Googling the trick reveals that some people put the soap under their fitted sheet to keep it in the bed with them.)

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Synecdochic [userpic] i'm proud i went a whole weekend without getting paint on my clothes
12/6/10 12:47 amadd memory


Mondays, every week, let's celebrate ourselves, to start the week right. Tell me what you're proud of. Tell me what you accomplished last week, something -- at least one thing -- that you can turn around and point at and say: I did this. Me. It was tough, but I did it, and I did it well, and I am proud of it, and it makes me feel good to see what I accomplished. Could be anything -- something you made, something you did, something you got through. Just take a minute and celebrate yourself. Either here, or in your journal, but somewhere.

(And if you feel uncomfortable doing this in public, I've set this entry to screen any anonymous comments, so if you want privacy, comment anonymously and I won't unscreen it unless you tell me it's okay. Also: yes, by all means, cheer each other on when you see something you want to give props to!)


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Synecdochic [userpic] oops! i knew i was forgetting something
12/1/10 02:05 amadd memory


Mondays, every week, let's celebrate ourselves, to start the week right. Tell me what you're proud of. Tell me what you accomplished last week, something -- at least one thing -- that you can turn around and point at and say: I did this. Me. It was tough, but I did it, and I did it well, and I am proud of it, and it makes me feel good to see what I accomplished. Could be anything -- something you made, something you did, something you got through. Just take a minute and celebrate yourself. Either here, or in your journal, but somewhere.

(And if you feel uncomfortable doing this in public, I've set this entry to screen any anonymous comments, so if you want privacy, comment anonymously and I won't unscreen it unless you tell me it's okay. Also: yes, by all means, cheer each other on when you see something you want to give props to!)


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Synecdochic [userpic] Work party
11/27/10 10:43 pmadd memory


Okay, so!

We are having a weekend work party: both Saturday and Sunday, doing painting, floor planing, wallpaper peeling, gutter cleaning, scrubbing down the whole house, yadda. The move is scheduled for 12/10 (the Friday after this Friday), so we want to get the bulk of this stuff done before the move.

We will likely start around noonish, and work until 8-9PM or so. We're certainly not asking people to spend the whole time -- dropping in and out is totally fine! Even if you can donate an hour of your time it will be a tremendous help.

For logistical/planning purposes, I present a poll.

The key for the list of jobs that need to be done:
AB: needs someone able-bodied/someone who won't be bothered by physical exertion
E: needs someone at least semi-experienced in that particular skill
-: no special skills/physical condition required

The plus and minus after each key is an intensifier: AB- means 'at least slightly able-bodied', usually 'capable of standing for a while' or 'capable of bending/twisting/being on hands and knees working for a while'; AB+ means 'in pretty good physical condition'; E- means 'has a rough idea of what you're doing'; E+ means 'has a really good idea of what you're doing'.



(Consider this this month's stitch and bitch! And thanks for even considering it -- we'll provide the pizza and the drinks, you bring the hands and the energy. Y'all are awesome. <3)

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Does anyone need a refrigerator/freezer? It's in perfect working condition (installed 1992), it's just grungy and in need of a good deal of elbow grease. Top-and-bottom configuration (not side-by-side). Free to good home, you haul it away, we have a hand truck to get it into your car.

(We were going to provide the elbow grease, but today when we were in Second Chance looking for cabinet knobs we found a like-new replacement that was a side-by-side, which both of us prefer, for $240. Sold! And let me tell you, those warehouses are fucking awesome omg. We also found a china cabinet for $230, all 30 of our cabinet knobs -- not matching, but very similar -- for $30, and some other awesome finds. If you're in the area and need anything home-supplyish, check them out.)

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Disturbing thing realized yesterday while testing paint colors and prying open painted-shut windows:

When whomever installed the hardwood flooring throughout the whole house did the install, they didn't sand the floors before they finished them.

This means that not only are the boards themselves rough to the touch, but there are globs and droplets of glue poking up between the boards -- just a little touch of it in some places, all the way up to whole pearl-like globes protruding from the floorboards. Didn't notice it until I was walking through the living room barefooted, but it's pretty much everywhere.

Visual of what I mean:Collapse )

And of course the varnish has gone on over the glue globs, making them impossible to remove with a wet rag, so we've pretty much got two choices: a) hand-plane the entire floor with a putty knife on hands and knees throughout the whole house to get rid of the glue and live with the roughness of the boards, or b) re-sand and re-finish the whole house. It's going to annoy me enough that we may take option two, even though it's a ton of extra trouble (not to mention the cost of renting the equipment and then re-finishing the floor).

If we decide against it, though, we may have a "work party" next weekend (the 4th-5th), issue everyone who wants to come over a putty knife at the door and assign everyone a room to work in, and try to get the whole thing as smooth as we can. It isn't hard work, it's just tedious. If you're local and interested in possibly coming over to help out, leave a comment; we'll provide the instruction, the putty knives, and the pizza and soda/beer.

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Synecdochic [userpic] in less than 12 hours we will be homeowners. where's my paper bag?
11/22/10 05:12 amadd memory


Mondays, every week, let's celebrate ourselves, to start the week right. Tell me what you're proud of. Tell me what you accomplished last week, something -- at least one thing -- that you can turn around and point at and say: I did this. Me. It was tough, but I did it, and I did it well, and I am proud of it, and it makes me feel good to see what I accomplished. Could be anything -- something you made, something you did, something you got through. Just take a minute and celebrate yourself. Either here, or in your journal, but somewhere.

(And if you feel uncomfortable doing this in public, I've set this entry to screen any anonymous comments, so if you want privacy, comment anonymously and I won't unscreen it unless you tell me it's okay. Also: yes, by all means, cheer each other on when you see something you want to give props to!)


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Synecdochic [userpic] oh god it sure is monday
11/15/10 04:03 pmadd memory


Mondays, every week, let's celebrate ourselves, to start the week right. Tell me what you're proud of. Tell me what you accomplished last week, something -- at least one thing -- that you can turn around and point at and say: I did this. Me. It was tough, but I did it, and I did it well, and I am proud of it, and it makes me feel good to see what I accomplished. Could be anything -- something you made, something you did, something you got through. Just take a minute and celebrate yourself. Either here, or in your journal, but somewhere.

(And if you feel uncomfortable doing this in public, I've set this entry to screen any anonymous comments, so if you want privacy, comment anonymously and I won't unscreen it unless you tell me it's okay. Also: yes, by all means, cheer each other on when you see something you want to give props to!)


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Synecdochic [userpic] Faultless Pajama Foundry update, part 2 of 2
11/15/10 12:29 amadd memory


If it hadn't been for several large sales this evening, we totally would've had over 200 items in the shop for your perusal tonight. I told you it's been a busy few weeks.

Tonight's updates are in:

Earrings
Necklaces/Pendants (the 'pendants' half of the category)
Bracelets (forgot a few!)

Also, you know your packing has been too effective when you go to print shipping labels and discover the ink cartridges in the printer have already been packed. (In my defense, they weren't actually in the printer at the time, so I thought they were the spares. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.)

Sale continues through end of week: buy a necklace, get 20% off earrings, in the form of a PayPal refund.

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Synecdochic [userpic] why i love my wife, reason #19083
11/14/10 07:03 pmadd memory


[personal profile] sarah, just now, packing things: "Just so you know, I'm putting teddy bears in the holes in the book boxes, you know, where there isn't enough room for more books. So you don't open up a box and be all, oh, teddy bear!" *pause* "You have no idea how strong the urge is right now to put another one in there so he won't be alone. On the other hand, at least he'll have plenty to read."

(Also, I managed to do something to my shoulder while packing. Not while lifting a box, or hauling a pile of books or anything, oh no. I managed to do something to my shoulder while reaching for a book. I hadn't even picked it up yet. *sigh*)

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Synecdochic [userpic] the moving process
11/14/10 06:47 pmadd memory


While bemoaning our packing efforts in #dreamwidth (seriously, I spent like two hours on my office/nook/corner and generated like seven huge boxes of books and office crap and it looks like I did not touch it at all), I sparked a conversation on packing style. Some people are the type to declutter (winnow, purge, etc) in one giant swoop before they start packing; some people declutter as they pack (like, every time they pick up an item to put it in a box, they make the judgement call on keep/toss), and some people, like Yrs Trly, just pack everything, because I find decluttering while packing incredibly stressful: everything becomes a decision, and then I wind up with tons of stuff in the "I'll throw this out, after I read it again/watch it again/photocopy this one piece of it/take off the dongle/etc" category and waste hours in rewatching/rereading/photocopying/craftwork/repair/etc.

I throw out stuff I know I will literally never touch again and stuff that's so damaged/worn/broken as to be useless, and I donate/give away/etc stuff that other people can get more use out of (our Goodwill bin is actually three 30-gallon Rubbermaid bins right now), but on the whole I pack everything rather than trying to declutter as I go.

I was a minority in #dreamwidth! In fact, only one person agreed with me. So I figured it was time for a poll:



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Synecdochic [userpic] Faultless Pajama Foundry update: part 1 of 2
11/14/10 01:33 amadd memory


We're splitting the weekend's FPF update into two parts, since there are a lot of things in it. Tonight's includes updates to:

Necklaces
Bracelets

and the new category:

Fannish Items (Sarah has been obsessed with making the perfect stargate items. IMO, the pyrite ones come damn close.)

Plus, we're doing a holiday-preparation sale: This week (from now until 11/21), if you buy a necklace, we'll give you a 20% discount on a pair of earrings. Discount will be given as a PayPal refund after purchase. (This doesn't include earrings that are part of a necklace/earrings set, since they're already discounted as part of the set price.)

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Synecdochic [userpic] the state of the me
11/12/10 05:20 amadd memory


Cut for massive wall-o-textCollapse )

Like the previous update, I will end this one by saying that I am desperately behind on any correspondance that isn't DW-related (and some that is). This is ... not likely to change any time in the next few weeks, considering what we have in front of us. I'm sorry to anyone who's waiting to hear back from me!

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