#aug 23

[ofpine]

[locaboa99]

Happy Birthday to my favorite little mad scientist lol hitting his 30s and having mid life crisis 🥳

[chronicfatalist]

happy birthday to me

ive aged, sadly

still a minor tho...

søren FARB 🖤 (farb is my nickname)

[akasanata]

Renfield didn't escape in the manga

Batcula

[debosedaily]

arianadebose Yesterday I met a woman whose work we’ve all gotten to see and be blown away by for the last two seasons, but @lizacolonzayas_lcz is a longtime actor who’s been fighting the good fight her entire career. I was so proud to be able to watch her stand up in front of our community and speak to so many of our experiences and feelings. #MeetYourHeroes #YesJeff

[bluedesignwall]

The fifth star point is stitched in place and the third diamond is next to be attached. It’s been a rough few days but things are getting back to normal. Having some stitching to distract me has been perfect.

[fotographee]

golden hue

buffalo waterfront — buffalo, ny

august 4, 2023 // 6:54 \ 8:12 PM

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[kai-pak]

When: 5th August 2023 Where: Wailing Waters Who: @dantehart

How many weekends had Kai lost to house inspections? He felt like he'd looked at every available place on the island. From a two bed near his parents, to the three bedroom with a garden in Carynthia, to the studio right in he centre of the city. He'd worked hard the last six months, going from one job to the next, saving his money. He knew getting a place would be hard, especially a place worthy of his daughter, and he'd wanted to make sure he had enough money to offer up front.

But even that didn't seem to work. Whether he went to the inspection alone, or took Minji along with him, they got rejected. For the apartment, the house, the studio. No one seemed to want to have a ex-con and his kid living in their home, even if that ex-con had worked seventy hour weeks to save up months and months of rent to pay up front.

Which is what led him to today. Walking up to a house on the outskirts of Wailing Waters (more of a cottage than anything, tucked beside the end of the beach that was more locals than tourists), with Dante by his side and Minji on the other clutching his hand. Did he have a plan? No. But maybe if they saw he was friends with someone with a good reputation like Dante? A respectable member of the community? Someone who hadn’t spent the last few years locked up.

"Just -- don't be fucking weird. Alright?" He glanced sideways at his friend for an agreement. Unspoken was how much he appreciated Dante agreeing to come along at all, but given how much Kai hated to ask for help in the first place, he was sure he knew.

[msbarrows]

Yeah Anno 1800 is still controlling my brain and eating most of my free time (and some time I should be using for other things, like sleeping). Which means I've once again been skipping out on doing my daily posts, so grrrr at myself since I find having them personally useful (such as for double-checking when I last served something so I don't produce chili out of the freezer twice in one week sort of thing; I'd be fine with that but the brother prefers more variety).

And now I've once again gone a full week since I last posted, and apart from "played Anno 1800, crocheted a little" most days are a blank. At least it's the same save I was working on a week ago so I'm well past any danger of needing to restart from scratch? I'm in a weird mode with it where my income is almost always in the red, but I'm regularly selling excess stuff (some of it pretty valuable) to the NPC traders, and since those are blink-and-you-miss-it spikes of positive income, my actual money on hand has been climbing steadily despite being 'in the red'. I'm now up to almost 30 million in game, and seem to finally be turning the corner to actually earning positive revenue occasionally.

Let's see how much of the last week I can reconstruct:

Aug 20 - Chili and tortilla chips. There may have been a side salad.

Aug 21 - Pretty sure I did potato salad, corn on the cob, and hamburgers. Unless this and yesterday were reversed.

Aug 22 - Divided up a little under 10 lbs of mixed ground beef & pork my brother had bought, into 1 and 1.5 pound amounts in (flattened) freezer bags to freeze. Since there was still leftover tortilla chips, I made a taco salad for supper as a way to also use up the less-than-a-pound of ground meat left.

Aug 23 - Dug out some of the leftover lamb and lamb stock from the freezer and made a barley pottage with it, with carrots and peas mixed in for a veg. Barley and lamb is an awesome combination.

Aug 24 - Pizza for supper.

Aug 25 - Partially cleaned the upstairs bathroom. Did pasta and meat sauce and a Greek style salad for supper.

Aug 25 - Ran and put away three loads of laundry. Baked a loaf of oatmeal bread, except substituting Bob's Red Mill 5-Grain Hot Cereal for the oatmeal; it's also rolled grain, and I wanted to see how it would come out (delicious - had some a bit ago with my evening pills).

Supper was beef curry, barberry rice, and some mixed veggies sauteed in toasted sesame and olive oils.

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Oh, and some time during the week I hit the 1/3 point with the green acrylic scarf, took a look at how much yarn remained in the ball, and decided it was unlikely to result in a long enough scarf for its excessive width. Frogged it and started over, doing the same pattern but based on sets of three stitches instead of four. It's working out as a much more scarf-suitable width now.

[warmglowofsurvival]

“Visiting Anne Frank's house with @joshuadun...”

[ofpine]

hehe

[debosedaily]

arianadebose Proud friend alert 🚨 It’s so special to witness the journey of a project. I think what @michaelarden & the entire cast, crew & creative team were able to achieve with @paradebway is extraordinary. The conversations that were started as a result of this show being on Broadway right now are something to behold 💛

[lil-gingerbread-sims]

☀️ Sweet Summer | Lookbook ☀️

Posters | Photocards

CAS Poses by @ratboysims

Mio Takei’s outfits

Fresh Lemonade: hair | eyeliner | lipstick | earrings | glasses | jumpsuit | shoes

Bathing Flower: hair + acc | eyeliner + eyeshadow | lipstick | glasses | earrings | choker | top | shoes

Sweet Sailor: hair | dress | shoes

Hoshi Takei’s outfits

Hearing aid by @bellassims

Fresh Lemonade: hair | eyeliner | lipstick | top | bottom | shoes

Bathing Flower: hat | hair | eyeliner | lipstick | choker | top | shoes

Sweet Sailor: hair | jumpsuit

[ofpine]

literally me

bitches love me for my autistic hand posture and the way i always look vaguely out of place like someones lost toddler

[fotographee]

red sun, pink sky

august 2, 2023 // 7:26 PM \ august 6, 2023 \\ 8:26 PM

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[msbarrows]

GDI, once again I thought I was just a day or two behind and yeah, NO. Try almost a week. I blame BG3, CP77 and NMS for bludgeoning my brain and dragging it off into a locked room full of shiny content.

Reconstructing what I can remember since the last post on the 21st, didn't do much apart from cooking meals:

Aug 22 - Made fettuccine noodles from scratch (go me!) and froze half for a future meal. Served it for supper topped with a ground pork based meat sauce and chopped green onions.

Aug 23 - Baked a big pan of zucchini bread. Made a salad, oven fries, and fish burgers for supper.

Aug 24 - Cooked a couple of hot Italian sausages and served them with buttered boiled potatoes, yellow beans, and fried zucchini slices.

Aug 25 - Cooked a couple of hamburger patties and had them with french fries and corn on the cob.

Aug 26 - Went for a walk. Ran a load of laundry. Grabbed the last of the premade pizzas out of the freezer for supper.