no more certain than I think I might have been before: uncertainty, con't.

[mixed cats]

I HAVE. (Seriously, the new furniture arrangement in my studio would fit a Schacht Baby Wolf pretty well, 'cause the Wolf series fold up. I'd rather have a Standard, though.)

[Ashley]

I want my friend to move out of her parent's house and into an apartment with me.  She's going to school for weaving and is all "but I need a room for my loom!"

I want to see it.

[mixed cats]

Pretty much. It depends on the loom type and width, but they can take up a lot of space on their own. Then you usually have a bench (which can thankfully store your shuttles, bobbins, and hooks), a few differently-dented reeds, and a warping board and ball winders and umbrella swifts and oh god where do you keep all your yarn cones?

[G.C.R]

First tutorial in 2 minutes arrrgh! What if none of them say nothing? What if they realise I'm a total fraud?

[Anne the Man]

Every day feels like PMS, where I have no thoughts and can say nothing. I had a bit of a breakdown last year and felt like I'd emotionally and socially regressed about 5 years. Still not back to the present, and it's hard. Blah blah, whine. I need to improve my fake-it-til-I-make-it skills.

[Babar]

I only know PMS through the Dolly Parton song but I hope you will feel better  : )

[peacocks]

you have th opposite pms that I do, but they both still totally suck. Is there such a thing as POST menstrual syndrome? I hope you get to feeling better too

[elpollodiablo]

The guy who checks on our cats when we're out of town can't find his key. The boys have been alone since Wednesday evening and while I left them plenty of extra food and water, I'm like nearly sick with worry. won't get back until tomorrow afternoon either. Poor guys

[elpollodiablo]

Also while I'm still having fun on this trip, three days solo in a strange city is starting to get a bit lonely.

[edison]

I'm sure your cats will be fine, pollo! Four days is nothing to worry about too much, especially if you left them extra food and water, at least from my experience

[clare]

Yeah, they'll've eaten all the food in the first few hours and spent the next 48 sleeping it off. As long as they have water they'll be cool, if a bit hungry and cranky when you get home...

[elpollodiablo]

Thanks guys. I know it ain't gonna hurt em. But it makes my heart hurt to think of them mewing plaintively for food when there's no hope of succor.

[YojimboMonkey]

They'll be cool. They have each other for company/entertainment/food if it gets *too* rough.

[Em]

Lip ring fell out for the second time in a week (maybe it's all the nicotine gum?), this time in my sleep. Uncertain: where the pieces went (yikes--at least they're tiny?). Further uncertainty: my regular, super high-end piercing shop, and all other nice places I can think of to go to are closed for the holiday and I am currently wearing a very uncomfortable retainer to keep the piercing open and need some real jewelry. To go to the sketchy-seeming, but by all accounts at least clean, piercing shop in the neighborhood that also sells adult toys and smoking accessories just to get some metal?

Edit: Definitely belongs in "first world problems."

Double edit: Oh my god, that was hilarious. The shop reeked of smoke, there was a pit bull in there (no offense pit bulls, but you're dogs and don't really belong in tattoo/piercing studios so much), and the piercer wasn't there but the tattoo guy was "positive he could help me." So I basically showed him how to pick out the right kind of jewelry (Him: "This one looks good." Me: "That's a 14 gauge. I need a 16." And so forth until we found literally the only piece of metal amongst their meager selection that would fit). The results are significantly more, uh, aggressive than the stud and may be temporary, but actually, I'm kinda feelin' it:

[jebreject]

Giirrrlll

[peacocks]

Yeah that ring ain't too bad, and dang Em your skin is heavenly.

[Chet]

I'm drinking my second bottle of generic white wine from chile, and watching annie hall, and thinking is this my life?

[peacocks]

Second bottle doesn't sound good, but the rest I'd be pretty pleased with if it were me Hope you're ok dewd

[Em]

Keep your chin up (and maybe put the wine away for now?) Chet!

[Em]

Yeah that ring ain't too bad, and dang Em your skin is heavenly.

Thanks peacocks! (And Jeb ... I think ....) Spending my $$ at Lush=not having to wear foundation or concealer. Can't speak highly enough of their skincare. Sorry for the plug, I just can't help myself I love the stuff so much.

[jess]

Which moisturizer do you use? I used to swear by Afterlife, but when they discontinued it, didn't have luck finding a replacement there (didn't try everything, but tried several and got fed up), so I switched to Korres (I use their Wild Rose, which works almost as well, and much better than anything else I've tried). Was just thinking the other day though that if they brought Afterlife back on the retro part of their site, I would consider switching back. Still use Lush haircare though.

[Chet]

Second bottle doesn't sound good, but the rest I'd be pretty pleased with if it were me Hope you're ok dewd

it's all relative, i guess.

i mean, shall we check out what position i was in this time last year?

[peacocks]

nah, I remember well enough. Just thinking of you and I know how life can suck sometimes.

I tried lush but it was so harsh on my skin, which I have learned is very sensitive. I use prescription stuff now with neutrogena spf moisturizer and it works but my skin is still blotchy without makeup even on really good days. All my makeup is neutrogena healthy skin with spf and just switching to that made a huge difference.

[Em]

Which moisturizer do you use? I used to swear by Afterlife, but when they discontinued it, didn't have luck finding a replacement there (didn't try everything, but tried several and got fed up), so I switched to Korres (I use their Wild Rose, which works almost as well, and much better than anything else I've tried). Was just thinking the other day though that if they brought Afterlife back on the retro part of their site, I would consider switching back. Still use Lush haircare though.

My skin is kind of combination-y, so in the winter/early spring when it's drier I use Celestial and in the summer I use Vanishing Cream. Right now, since it's in between, I use Vanishing Cream in the morning and Celestial to get more moisture at night. Afterlife was really good though.

Also, I've been using their Therapy massage bar on some scars (it has a lot of neroli oil in it) and it's working wonders.

[jebreject]

That was meant as a compliment, sorry if it didn't exactly come across that way or if I was being gross or something

I meant to just say this: