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I had the most complex, long, involved dream about being friends with Paris Hilton. There was shopping, there was a health food store, there was a party. It’s all I can think about this morning.

OMG! I tried to blaze my post about my friend’s raven and instead blazed a random text post! SHAME! SHAME FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS!

This is my friend and her raven, Lily. Unfortunately, Lily suffered an injury as a young bird that has been causing her foot issues her whole life and she now needs definitive surgery in order to live a pain free life. My friend has started a gofundme to try to cover the expense of the ER vet visit, the surgery and boarding for aftercare. I’m hoping to tap into the Tumblr love for corvids. If you can’t donate, please feel free to share. My friend lives for her pets and I would love to help her meet her goal.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/lily-the-raven-needs-lifesaving-surgery?qid=b35f9a53e93a5a05f9f2a8919b99b96a

Yesterday, I almost wrote on here about how I was starting to feel like maybe my job wouldn’t kill me. Like, there was finally a slender thread of hope for the future.

Silly me.

Silly, silly me.

I just had a 50 minute argument about something that wasn’t even what I was asking about. By the time I convinced the person that I had done my due diligence (several times) on that issue, I was like, “fuck asking about the actual question I had, just get me off this phone call!”. I have now fully engaged Gen X mode, aka “Whatever”.

WHATEVER

It’s wild how having a sneeze attack can age you. I sneezed, like, 20 times in a row and I’m pretty sure that took at least a day off my life.

I applied to take part in a motion sickness study. I probably won’t get picked because I can keep from getting motion sick (mostly) in cars and buses but, I don’t know, seemed intriguing. Between my migraines and my motion sickness issues, there’s a surprising amount of activities I can’t do. Like watch a first person movie or throw on a pottery wheel.

I have completed my bullshit. Will I ever wear it? Unlikely.

I just want to let everyone know that the the cordless glue pen I was so excited about fucking sucks. The battery life is absolute crap. The glue heating/reserve system is horrid. When you have to put a new stick in, which is incredibly hard to tell, you have to pump the trigger multiple time to feed the new stick down so you go from nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing to all the glue, which defeats the point of a tiny tip. Plus you are racing the shit battery death knell. Time for a hot glue skillet, I think.

And, after 2 days of glue pen irritation, I proceeded to catch the edge of my left index fingertip in my sewing machine. Straight in-and-out. It’s more like a really bad cardboard cut but like, really?!

The only possible bright side to this is maybe that I’ll take a craft hiatus and cleaning the house instead.

I’m back on some kind of bullshit. It’s not the bullshit I should be on or even the bullshit I want to be on. I guess this is the best that I can ask for at this point in this year 2022.

She is here! I am intimidated.

I think my first test rug is going to be a wooly bear caterpillar. I’m excited.

On top of the life-changing tufting gun, I have also had a break through *fingers crossed* on my “build my own clothes project”. I did a moderately questionable draft sew and I think it will work. I might need to use that magnet trick to make sure I don’t cut my fabric too short but progress! I’m hoping to make something to wear for thanksgiving but, you know, 12 hour workdays might come into play. And I have to decide if I want to breakdown one of my previous attempts or start from scratch. Things to think about…

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Those moments when you feel like buying a tufting gun would solve all your problems because you could sell cool, artsy rugs and not have to work 14 hour days.

But then you remember you only know like 15 people and you’d probably just give them a rug as gift anyway.

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I’m getting a tufting gun for Xmas, thanks to my husband. My dream of a Victorian crazy quilt of rugs is that much closer to be realized. I shall keep you all informed on precisely how life changing this gift is.

Those moments when you feel like buying a tufting gun would solve all your problems because you could sell cool, artsy rugs and not have to work 14 hour days.

But then you remember you only know like 15 people and you’d probably just give them a rug as gift anyway.

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