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Some of these eras also had the busk layer. Which was basically inserting a loose wooden busk in the front of your stays. Stopped the front of the stays from bowing out by stopping you from slouching forward.

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The Ambivalent Bicyclist

The Boyfriend was supposed to be off today, but he had a schedule change. Frankly relieved. Now I can sit and read in peace at the DMV while I wait. I won’t have to try and make small talk about WE he feels like bringing up.

Paycheck today: little over $700. By the time I take care of the registration, auto insurance and my driver’s license, I’ll have next to nothing to pay the rent. A consolation, I guess, is The Boyfriend should receive his first check this next Friday, so he can do the power and wireless bills due before the first MF-ing week of May is even over. Yippee skippy.

I’ve given up hope for a second vehicle. Clearly, we’re broke and we will be broke until I graduate and achieve the right to ask for better pay. Additionally, it’s just a matter of time before The Boyfriend fucks up this $12/hour opportunity, and he’s incapable of budgeting like a normal adult. If left up to him, we’ll never see a second vehicle. I suggested I purchase a bicycle to commute to my workplace. I wasn’t that surprised when immediately he was all in. This way, he can be free to take the car indefinitely, and I can cycle the 11-mile round-trip commute. Nice.

He still has the nerve to wonder why I drink.

#PoorPeopleProblems #Bills

The Boyfriend has Actually Said “We” Need to Cut Back on the Booze

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.............wait...

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No, HE can cut back. IDK how TF else I’m expected to cope with his shit, the shitty situation, my shit job, AND my schoolwork without alcohol at the end of my long, miserable day.

I told him I’ll consider cutting back when there aren’t 30 tons of stress on my head.

#PoorPeopleProblems #Alcohol #Stress #WTF does he think this is?

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Hodou terminology and concepts.

“Born with a veil - Child born with a caul or a piece of amniotic sack covering their face, it is believed that a person born ‘with the veil’ would have heightened spiritual power.

Called - one way to legitimately enter Hodou practice. The ritual of being called involves some unusual or supernatural event that signals the G_d-given ordination of a potential conjure doctor. The unusual event can happen at birth or later in life. (born with a veil, clapping of thunder, or lightning striking a tree).

Chew the root - Once well-known “court case ritual” in which the conjurer attends the court hearing of a client and chews galanga root (chewing John), recites personal words of power, and spits in the courtroom.

Conja - (Conja commonly heard by Southerners, Conjure, Northerners) Another term for ‘work’ done within the Hodou tradition or a practitioner of Hodou.

Cross - similar meaning to “to trick,” “to gopher,” “to Hodou,” or “to root”.

Fix - Act of putting roots on a person, to hex, or dress.

Hand - Another name for a mojo bag.

Hodou - The traditional African - American folk healing and spiritual controlling system. This system draws most heavily from African traditional religion but later, as a result of enslavement, integrates elements of Native American traditional religion and beliefs and some (very little) old world European folk beliefs. The term also is used to designate a rootworker, conjurer, two-head, or root doctor, as in that person is a Hodou.

Hot foot - A term most likely devised by snake oil Hodou markeeters ( People who were not connected to Hodou through Ancestry attempting to hype up terms in order to gain profit).

Juju - A generic term referring to any and all types of traditional and alternative African religious practices.

Long head - Another name for a conjurer or root doctor.

Mojo - A traditional African American amulet.

Put the bad mouth on - this phrase refers to the traditional West African and Hodou belief in the power of the spoken word.

Root doctor, rootman, root woman, root worker - A traditional African American community lay Hodou practitioner, folk herbalist, and healer.

Roots, put roots on, to be rooted - To cast a spell, usually negative, on someone in the Hodou tradition is to root them.

Seer - A root worker with the power to predict the future or to see unrevealed phenomena.

Two - Head - An old term for a conjurer, root doctor, root worker, or Hodou practitioner. the term refers to the belief that the root worker can see into two worlds: the corporeal world of everyday existence and the invisible spirit world.”

Edit * - Hazzard-Donald. (n.d.). Mojo Workin’: The Old African American Hoodoo System - Kindle edition by Katrina Hazzard-Donald.

All Day Every Day:

#PoorPeopleProblems #Owlturd

Cars are for the Rich

Pulled over for a tail light last night on the way home. We’ve had to scrape ever since we moved here, and haven’t had the cash to pay auto insurance for months. Technically, back in Nevada our plates are suspended for that lack of insurance. We’ve been here in Tennessee for 30+ days, so we’re in violation for our driver’s licenses as well. The cop was merciful and gave us a fix-it ticket, but now this means the check I’ll be getting tomorrow will have to go for ALL THAT SHIT instead of rent.

The Boyfriend, of course, has no answers. At this new position, he’ll have weekly checks, but because he started right when the old pay period ended, he won’t have a check until next week.

#PoorPeopleProblems

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Meanwhile, Can’t Even Play My Fave Game App

Online guide is still updating.

#LoveNikki #MiracleNikki #GodHatesMe

The Boyfriend Starts at a New Job Tuesday

It’s through a staffing agency.

On the surface, it’s cool. He’ll be making 3.5 more dollars per hour than I make, the shifts are 12 hours, and unlike me he’ll be eligible for benefits at some future point, but I’ve lost faith. It’s a lovely dream. I’m just going to stand back and see how long it will take him to fuck this up in the same manner he’s fucked up his past positions.

Background: we moved to this area in the fall of last year. He started working for a temp agency with a larger network. To be fair, the first worksite was just too far away for sustainability. He asked for something closer and got the second site, which dropped him within the first month for crappy attendance. He says the third site cut him off because he said something offensive. Okay, whatever??? At this point, the temp agency claimed to have no more work for him.

His fourth job--and thus far the longest in duration at a few months--was night stocking at a chain supermarket. He didn’t perform well for his review; he told me his supervisor said he was “too slow.” I’ll never know if management let him go or if he rage-quit and walked out. That doesn’t seem to be open for discussion.

Finally, this last job was with a private local landscaper. From what I understand, his boss was a day drinker who fucked up jobs and equipment and blamed Boyfriend. Again, to be fair, that’s a hostile work environment, and who the fuck wants to be around that noise? On the day he quit, however, he didn’t even ask about the money owed him. There was at least a full day’s worth of payment due that we could’ve really used for groceries and gas this weekend, and he made zero effort to collect it.

Thus, I suppose it’s lovely that this coming Tuesday he’ll be employed again, but:

By the time either of us sees any money this week, the bills will be overdue.

We’re still out groceries and gas this weekend.

It’s just a matter of time before he finds some new innovative way to fuck this new job right up.

#Fuckup #Boyfriend #FML #I'm too broke to put him out of my misery

Things That Would Be Great to Have in the Kitchen

Milk

Shredded cheese - hell, cheese at all

Cream of anything - just the cheap-o canned stuff, as it makes great casserole mix

Bread

Sandwich shit - bologna or whatevs is cheap

#BrokePeopleProblems #ShootMe

Happy Easter, I Guess

Finally have a day off but can’t even visit the library because it’s closed for Easter weekend.

I understand the symbolic importance of this time of year for both pagans and Christians, but seriously fuck this retarded American commercial concept of Easter. Right in the ear. It’s a waste of eggs, chocolate and air time. Easter is also the time of year for lazy, ignorant-assed parents to buy bunnies for their demonic brat progeny to mistreat and then abandon in a fucking park.

#Easter #EasterWeekend

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me, learning about the greek pantheon in elementary: wow, I love athena, so brave and smart

me, after reading about the story of medusa: athena is a spiteful, dumb bitch who can’t direct her anger at the right people! wack ass hoe

indicativeof-sideways-escalation

Me, after learning than Medusas head was used as a sign of safety and female autonomy in women’s spaces because it was seen as a gift from Athena, to allow Medusa never to be harmed that way again: oh dope, Athenas on our side. Kill a man who dares to look upon you with possession in his heart.

Me, after learning that Athena holds herself to the ‘not like other girls’ standard and usuallys sides with whatever the nearest dick-toting diety says: what the fuck what a fake bitch

Me, after learning that most of the media depicting Greek Gods by the ancient Greeks that survives today was commissioned, designed, and made by men, and therefore does not depict female interpretation or telling of the myths, and is probably extremely biased towards a misogynistic portrayal of a strong woman: the canon Athena was in our hearts all along.

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Me, after hearing the myth about Athena cursing Arachne into the first spider because she beat the goddess in a weaving contest: What a bitch ? The Arrogance.

Me, after hearing there are three versions of the myth, and the others have Arachne hang herself in shame so Athena brought her back to life as a spider and the third version having Zeus curse the loser to never touch a spindle wheel and when Arachne lost Athena took pity on her and transformed her so she could weave without breaking her oath: Goddess just wanted this fine artist to weave forever, doing what she loved. she ain’t that bitch