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No more credit card debt!!
Jan. 25th, 2022 05:04 pmToday we put the final $3600 needed to pay off ALL of our credit card debt.
We went from around $8200 in credit card debt as of like, September or October 2021 to zero at the end of January 2022.
Simply wild. To think we carried thousands in debt for YEARS for no reason other than disorganization and needless overspending (primarily on my part). Never again!
Proud of us!!
Next up: student loans.
Our reality is wild
Jan. 12th, 2022 04:21 pm
I was standing in line for a Rapid test last week, and while looking around at the carefully placed dots 6 feet apart, the National Guardsmen checking people in and administering tests, traffic cones guiding the flow of traffic, the sanitizer stations and double-masks, I was really struck with how normalized this surreal situation is. Remember when we thought we'd be working from home for like, 2 weeks max? Like, people for real said the Covid fear was an overreaction and everything would be fine soon.
#TuesdayThoughts for Your Thoughts with Derry Murbles & August Clementine pic.twitter.com/kzRj0pwNMQ
— Parks and Recreation (@parksandrec) January 31, 2018
It really made me loop back like, I have almost no documentation of what Covid Times are like, because it's just so a part of everyday life now. We have a concert that has been rescheduled 3 times, in Chicago for Final Fantasy VII Remake, and apparently it's still happening in early Feb. Coordinating Rapid tests and navigating requests for isolation periods to not expose Sean right before her Actuary exams, negotiating masking and distancing based on comfort levels. All just so wild.
Knitting boom
Dec. 20th, 2021 10:48 amRecently I went through my projects and was ruthless in deciding which ones I'd emotionally detached from and which ones I truly wanted to finish. After frogging the rejects, I actually had like, at least 10 projects I really wanted to finish. Here's what I've completed since like, end of November (minus this first one being Oct.):
Basic Raglan by Joji Locatelli
In Oct I mentioned in passing that I finished a sweater on the girls trip. When I finished it I thought it might be a little big, but it is SO cozy and I wear it all the time. It needed about a fourth of the bottom and both sleeves:
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All in all, I've done a LOT of knitting since mid-Oct and really since end of November. Which is nice, because I barely knit at all from like June until then.
Ohp, 2 entries (now 3 I guess?) ago I hit my 2000th entry. Woo! That's just here on LJ. We can't forget the Great GreatestJournal Debacle where I lost at least 3 years of journal entries when the servers went offline.
I wish I had more time to wax poetic about journaling; alas.
Suffice to say: the last 18 years have been a wild ride. Thanks for coming along with me ^_^
My face and my knit
Sep. 22nd, 2021 02:02 pmI started this tank top in 2019 and finished it in 2020. My weight fluctuated enough that it was too small by the time I finished it. I set it aside, and I even slated it to try to give away more than once.
I’m glad I kept it, because now it fits so well! The armholes are a little unforgiving but it’s totally manageable. Which is good news because the color is so good and I love the pattern ^_^
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Movie marathon? Who are we??
May. 10th, 2021 02:18 pmYesterday Steve and I walked to Walgreens for a few things, and then up to Caribou for coffees. The weather was FINE, but it's still way too cool for my liking. Warm up, dammit!
On the way home we got to talking about TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), and he told me he'd never seen Secret of the Ooze. I was like "BUDDY! How have we made it 12 years into this relationship and you have not seen it EVER?!"
We own it on Amazon (I made some of my students watch it, haha), and on Blu-Ray (we own very few movies but Steve found it at a garage sale). I started it right when we got home. We had SUCH a good time marveling at how late 80's/early 90's it was — in dress, in music, in camera shots, in sound mixing. Every moment of that movie is amazing.
The soundtrack is a BANGER. Oh my god. And it's just a really funny, wholesome movie. David/Sancho said that the first TMNT got a ton of backlash from Mom groups for its violence, so the second movie doesn't even have the turtles directly use their weapons (instead there's a bunch of entertaining martial arts that is more distraction than violence). I love how the movie takes its time with scenes and absolutely doesn't take itself too seriously.
After it ended Steve was like "OMG I LOVED that. Wow. So good."
We realized we had momentum, so we decided to just make an evening of movies. We are NOT movie people, generally. It's so much effort to get going! But we did it!
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I got my 2nd dose of Pfizer on Saturday morning. It was itchy at first, like the first one, and then just like the first one, for a half-hour or so I was a bit "off" — not quite dizzy but definitely a bit woobly.
I didn't start getting any noticeable symptoms until I went to bed — I started feeling like I do when I drink and then don't drink enough water before going to bed. Waking up constantly, a little confused and disoriented, hot and headachy. In the morning on Sunday I took Tylenol because my head was an actual helmet of pain, but that worked quickly and I was able to go about my normal activities.
Monday late morning I started feeling achey — but not in my muscles — in my bones and teeth, like when I was severely vitamin deficient. The hangover feeling returned, so I took more Tylenol. I was good the rest of the day. I kind of expected I'd have really mild symptoms, but you never know!
Steve has his 2nd dose on Friday, so we'll see how it affects him this weekend!
I am experiencing some relief at the Chauvin verdict (I am legitimately surprised they convicted of all charges), but mostly just raw emotions of this last year.
I don't believe in the prison industrial complex — I think keeping humans in cages is fucking barbaric — but I also understand the limits of our current society. Police need to realize there are consequences for hurting and killing people — and prosecutors also need to actually HAND OUT those consequences by charging people when this shit happens.
And we obviously need to reimagine community policing altogether* so it's not even a discussion. I am not hopeful that these changes will happen during my lifetime, but I am optimistic for us continuing to lay the groundwork. To move from a society focused on social control, to a society focused on social investment.
If you see the original police report, it was written as if Floyd had a drug-induced heart attack and died at the hospital after benevolent cops called for help. It only got this far because that brave teenager filmed the whole thing and the community did not stay quiet.
Now all these national guard and extra police need to get the fuck out.
*I know that abolition is not a new concept — I'm using "reimagine" here to refer to the general public and our current government and systems.
Steve left to get his first Pfizer dose
Apr. 16th, 2021 02:25 pm
Daunte Wright
Apr. 12th, 2021 02:34 pmYet another name. In Minnesota. During Derek Chauvin's trial. A young man lost so unnecessarily.
How the fuck can you confuse your taser with your gun. A traffic stop should never result in a death. The police response last night was abhorrent, violent, aggressive, dangerous, and the police chief promised the same response tonight. We'll be there tonight.
Experiment/Survey!
Apr. 12th, 2021 02:10 pmIf you have like 10 minutes and are not colorblind, consider helping out my friend Esther for her Master's research!
You need a computer keyboard because it relies on pressing keys.
One year later
Mar. 29th, 2021 02:51 pmJust wanted to document for posterity that in the last two weeks I have had TWO dreams involving wearing masks.
One of the dreams the masks were just there because we were outside, and the other one there was a kerfuffle about people NOT wearing/forgetting their masks.
Fascinating.
Here's what I've been eating lately:
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"Granted, it was a LOT of apples"
Mar. 25th, 2021 11:59 amBen and Sean cleaned out their nightmare fridge a few weeks ago, and when I was aghast that they simply put basically everything back, they assured me they freed up a lot of space by taking out all the apples. XD
Last Saturday I met Hannah at Tangletown Gardens and she helped me pick out some plants!
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Saturday April 10th, Saturday April 17th (both at 6pm Central, 7pm EST, 4pm Pacific) and Sunday April 25th at 4pm Central (5pm EST, 2pm PST)
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