selfies from the demon dimension

i've been dead for 40 years

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i went to ulta on my lunch break to play with makeup and no less than 3 people thought i was an employee

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katseye is collabing w monster high for me specifically

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was covering front office while she was on lunch and used the opportunity to switch the overhead music to the 80s alternative pandora station which is how i found out that one of my coworkers has seen the cure over 10 times because he was goth in high school in the late 80s... i knew he was legit when he was like "well we called it being a death rocker back then" lmao

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over the past couple decades i've occasionally had the thought that if i dug into the prodigy's discography i would probably be really into it but just never actually did until the past month and i was completely correct

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just bought a single ticket to my chemical romance in tampa and didn't realize that evanescence was opening... i am gonna have to go to iconic tampa goth club the castle after and just really lean into the florida mallgoth experience

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so i started my new job working back office at a jewelry store a month ago and it's mostly good- the job itself is mostly a very structured mix of physical and computer tasks to perform in the same order every day, which i love bc it requires essentially 5% of my brain and i can listen to all the gay romance audiobooks my little heart desires on headphones. plus i am getting way more steps in which has been great for my pikmin bloom game

the salepeople are all very welcoming and nice but oh my god are people selling diamond jewelry on commission dramatic and intense sometimes lmao. my fav is an ex-detective from kyrgyzstan who unabashedly started shittalking her colleagues to me literally my first day

the back office manager and the front office girl i work with (who is almost exactly my age! she's a week older than me) are much more levelheaded and chill so they create enough of a buffer that i can sort of enjoy the chaos from afar lol. tho i did get comfortable enough w the front office girl while smoking a joint in her car after work that i was accidentally honest and told her i do not like florida very much and people are mean here, but she wasn't unsympathetic lol

anyway still fully planning on moving to france asap but unfortunately i do have to have money to achieve this so in the meantime i guess i'll retag engagement rings

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tag yourself i'm the nasty and unbearable juice

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a series of selfies taken in south florida thrift store mirrors

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aw thanks

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representative of their personalities

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i got a really excellent haircut and i'm almost embarrassed by how hard i'm feeling myself as a result...

my god how does she do it??

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lots of convo on tiktok about high-end leather goods and how they're mostly manufactured in china then sent to france or italy so that they can slap a logo and "made in france" on the label. one of the biggest names in this convo is hermes, i think because they are so vocal and intense about their bags being 100% manufactured in and materials sourced from france, on top of their bags being so unbelievably expensive even compared to other luxury brands the theoretical hypocrisy is too delicious

however, as someone looking for ways to make a living as an artisan in france- hermes has about a dozen manufacturing centers across france and a very well-established vocational training program for leatherworkers lol they train you for 6 months, then you apprentice for a year to receive a certification from the federation of french leatherworkers before they bring you on full-time

anyway i applied to 3 diff locations lol wish me luck

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sewing update...

the other day i got a great deal on a 70s singer sewing machine from fb marketplace

she's fully functional. she's made entirely of metal and weighs approximately a ton so i'm not sure realistically if i can bring her w me to france but i figure i can find another home for her if i need to

the lady it belonged to was a bridal dressmaker and her granddaughter let me raid her sewing supplies so i ended up with a ton of shit. a selection:

that's a gallon bag full of vintage lace & ribbon and not pictured is another gallon bag full of zippers, mostly metal. there's another small box full of thread too

also a ton of patterns!!

costumes & bridal

fashion doll clothes (stoked)

and then today i went to joann's and raided the patterns, so these are new but relevant thematically. i got a ton more since patterns were 80% off... i didn't even look at any other brand besides mccall before i had to stop bc i was embarrassed at how big my pile was lmao

i'm going to start dress A in this rust red cotton gauze my next sewing class!

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this is the only picture of a 173k 600sqft apartment in toulouse

the description implies the inside is a mess but honestly who gives a shit

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i was going to cash out my 401k this january but my parents convinced me not to... lol