#claireified

[itsbeenclaireified]

Life has been full on. My family went to the wedding in Texas and it was beautiful and wonderful to see my extended family.

But then my entire family and at least a couple cousins came down with food poisoning from the food. So the day I had to fly to Chicago I was sucking down pepto bismol and liquid iv hoping that I wouldn’t poop my pants on the flight. Luckily I did not.

So then I get to Chicago and this study is stressful AF because we have to watch our users USE the device and sometimes they don’t remember how to use it so you just have to watch the car crash in slow motion. And then we’ve had problems making sure all the participants show up and there’s just absolutely no wiggle room for any to drop out. So like last night I didnt get to relax before dinner because a nurse called me to see if they could get scheduled.

But one fun thing is my hotel is very interesting because it used to be a McDonald’s headquarters? And the grounds are really nice.

But the last thing is that last night my sister came back to my house and the oven said it was off but it was still running at 425 F according to the oven thermometer. And my sister sent a series of Snapchats to me explaining, but she was stressed and not doing a good job of explaining. And then she also kept turning the power off and she’d loose internet and then I’d get an alert my house lost power and I’d try to call her and she wouldn’t answer so then I thought the house exploded.

So there I am screaming crying throwing up trying to tell her to get one of my parents over. And she did have my dad over but he left his phone at his house so it looked like he hadn’t come over. And they weren’t answering my calls so I was sure they had died and my house was on fire.

It obviously wasn’t and got the oven turned off and according to the internet it’s probably the motherboard going bad. So when I’m back I can probably have someone come look at that.

So yeah I’m ready for the weekend, even though I do have to work tomorrow morning. But then I might get a pedicure and try to relax.

[txttletale]

i rly like your opinions and your style of explaining and elaborating on them. good & accessible rhetorical style

thank you!!

[caspia-hibiscus]

i must claireify

she is trans

[charyou-tree]

I’m not “transitioning” I’m Claireifying.

I wasn’t “struggling with my gender” for the last 3 years, I was collecting more data until I could reject the null hypotheCis at a 5-sigma confidence level.

[fruitbag]

my brain worms are unionizing. au ?

spoilers for hxh under the cut

anyway i say that but the REAL analogues are jake-killua and dirk-gon. this is my thesis for an audience of one.

[redpandarascal]

Grimes. this is exactly what has happened. you do not get to control the PR around all the dumb shit you do so that people word it as though it’s cool. that sentence is exactly what has happened and is entirely accurate (unless Grimes claireifies that she is doing a weird project and not actually pregnant)

[mbabol]

@claireifier re: discoposting I KNOWWWW THE HALOOOOOOS BUT I WAS WONDERING IF THERE WERE LIKE….ANY IN GAME ASSOCIATIONS W THE COLOR WHITE LIKE THE OTHER COLORS AND BEHOLD

I FOUND ONE

[frankhardymba]

Someone asked this question a while back and it turns out to be the wife of a Her Interactive artist (weird that they called her Mrs. Hayashi but being uncredited may have been her choice)

https://letmeclaireify.tumblr.com/post/164546087177/i-had-been-meaning-to-ask-them-because-i-thought

Maya from FIN--her voice sounds so familiar to me and idk why but I thought I'd look her up but lo and behold, she is not listed in the credits????????

[notatruefan]

I got a couple requests yesterday and while I briefly entertained the idea that I could write them after my instructor training, I grossly underestimated how tired I would be rolling home at 10 pm. And since I'm an old lady now with morning time responsibilities I basically just passed out. But tonight! I do not have training so you can expect me crank that like Solija Boy and have them posted sometime in the later evening. So Peace, Love, and One Direction everyone!! I can't wait to see what you all think of me crashing back into the writing scene. I wore a One Direction shirt to work for luck. The things I do for these boys...

[itsbeenclaireified]

This week has been strange for obvious (election based) reasons, so I’m not going to elaborate on that more.

It’s been bitterly cold in Minnesota, and I’ve been running around between my various jobs trying to get things done before I leave for a trip.

And that high school girl I mentioned in my previous post who is maybe not motivated to received coaching, well at the race last night I was trying to give her some more tips but she was just completely not paying attention. And after the race her mom asked me point blank if I thought was engaged in the conversation, and after trying very hard to give a political answer I finally just said no. So we’ll see how that impacts practice tonight.

In more frivolous concerns I was making a layout of my living to see if I like a paint color I’ve been considering for while. And I do think I like the paint color (Benjamin Moore: Opal), but it made me ponder that maybe a color is missing from my palette.

lol I included trixie because I wanted to get a snippet of the floor, but also she is a design consideration ( cough cough cat hair).

Anyway I think maybe im missing like a red?

Which like I do have a little red cube storage thing I have in my living room which was validating. But just something I’m toying with. I also will need different curtains once I paint, and maybe that’s an opportunity to find something to add into the mix.

I’m hoping to stumble upon something wonderful at a big vintage market in March.

Anyway, hope everyone is making it thru this week, month, year

[itsbeenclaireified]

This week started off with one of those conversations with your manager where you have to remind yourself that as an adult you cannot get in trouble.

What happened was that my manager had the wrong information on how one of our components would be evaluated, so he thought it was done already but it isn’t. So he called an immediate meeting where he was like “how did this get dropped???” And it’s like, it got dropped because people are human and also no one was the person responsible for ensuring it got done.

So you just have to sit and state the facts and be like “apologies I should have said something sooner, but I only remembered it was a problem yesterday because I’ve had other things on my to-do list”.

So it’s getting worked out but it’s been a lot of conversations this week.

And on top of that I briefly was like “am I getting sick??” So Thursday I had one of those days where I just couldn’t make my brain go and mostly just felt guilty the whole day that I couldn’t be more productive, but also like I’m ahead on a lot of parts of this evaluation for this component?? So like a day or two slip won’t really mess anything up.

I say a day or two because while I’m better today it is also a Friday now and I can’t say I do my best work on Friday’s, and there’s residual like almost sickness in me.

I also had a call with one of my high school students I coach for skiing, and it was very productive I think but also lol it was about how her daughter needs to more individual coaching but the whole coaching staff has been having trouble getting her to engage and thus TAKE the provided coaching.

I will of course totally continue to work on it and see if other tactics will work for this girl, but hearing from a parent like a snippet of what you’ve been working on with their child and also hearing that as you suspected the child just wasn’t listening is….interesting.

The girl is a freshman in high school and for the whole season I’ve been trying to get her into a more dynamic athletic stance (rather than just standing up super straight) and to hear her mom say that when we’ve told her to “bend more” and she’s been confused on WHAT bend, I had to just silently sit on the phone and be like I know I told her explicitly to bend at her hip/knee/ankle because I was prodding her to show me that she even COULD bend her knee. I honestly thought maybe she had an injury she hadn’t told us about because she moved zero.

Anyway, it’s been a week.

But trixie’s been cute, and I’ve been going back and forth between hoping TikTok is saved and also trying to save all the recipes I’ve saved either to Pinterest/screenshots/handwritten notes.

[itsbeenclaireified]

Last weekend I was on a business trip to San Antonio and while it was 90% humidity the whole weekend, I can also say I highly recommend.

The Riverwalk neighborhood was super fun to mosey around on and the vibes were just excellent.

I had really amazing food at a place called Tokyo Cowboy and a bakery called Panadería. Under recommendation from the waiter I ordered a burger and it’s easily top 5 burgers I’ve ever had. Maybe even top place but it was just so good I forget all the other burgers I’ve had in my life lol.

And I’m already forgetting the pizza place I went to: Dough. And yeah their dough lived up to the hype.

My cousin is getting married near San Antonio this fall and I’m already like…excited to go back??? Like what a plot twist.

[itsbeenclaireified]

We did it Joe!

I finished my closet install, and even did it the “right” way. Meaning I even painted the interior.

When I was in the throws of my Covid vaccine and desperately trying to recapture my weekend productivity I thought “I’ll just hang it without paint”.

And like yeah that would have been fine, but I’m glad I painted and also waited until my brain wasn’t melted because getting everything drilled in properly took longer than I thought and I would have melted into a puddle if I did it while ill.

Technically this happened last weekend but I’ve been so busy getting everything ready for my big study at the end of the month. But my craft room closet is done! And my craft room has never been so empty in the room itself? Because now there’s actually room to store things in the closet!

[itsbeenclaireified]

Listen I was DELIGHTED with how well my Thanksgiving table scape turned out. Especially considering I didn’t know what sort of plates and glassware I’d be working with at my family’s farmhouse.

I had such a home-y time listening to Ina Garten’s memoir, and it inspired me to take my hunt for a tablecloth to a vintage store and it was delightful little process.

Please enjoy the impression the MRI machine made on me after my yearly SCREENING for breast cancer, and yes I’m in the clear. All is well. And also luckily the marks were gone by the time I had a speed dating event that night.

Speed dating was actually fun for me. We were in a bar and it was “moderated” over the phone where we were texted what they looked like and then we found them around the room. it was nice to only talk to someone for 10 minutes and then move on to the next person, because i sometimes have a tendency to let myself talk to someone for like an hour, so networking is never my best skill.

And here’s a picture of trixie to round out my update. Lol

[itsbeenclaireified]

I had a lovely little staycation in Chicago this weekend. Staycation because I’m here on business and had some time off over the weekend.

I took so many many photos of the Frank Lloyd Wright house and studio because I just love the architecture and the colors and just like all the nooks and crannies.

I just love looking at houses and then being able to walk around the neighborhood and see some of his other houses and contrast them to the Victorians next to them in the beautiful fall weather was just so peaceful and nice. Felt so content.

[itsbeenclaireified]

Last night my friend asked me if wanted to go see Taylor Swift in Scotland in June, and I was like “I’m interested” and then she called me and was like we should do it!! And then I was like well what are flights etc? And spoiler it was very expensive (read $3k for 30 hours in Scotland), but last night I was like YOLO.

And her/her husband were like looking up a bunch of flights and options and stuff, but they never presented me any options and stuff? And they are two hours behind me so I said I’m going to bed, let me know what you find in the morning.

Well in the cold light of morning I was like actually…I’m having second thoughts. So I texted her and apparently they booked a nonrefundable hotel and like our plane or train tickets from London to Edinburgh? Which I did not agree to, and was like we’re still in the 24 hour window for any tickets just cancel those.

So now I feel like an absolute asshole asking for things to be canceled because I didn’t realize she was doing things. I’m just not really in a financial place to just drop $3k??? Like I could figure it out if I really really wanted to and that is a privilege but also ughhhhh I’m not in a place where that is a small amount of money.

And I keep looking at my texts and now I’m interpreting them differently and being like…did I lead her on??? But I was expecting them to like give me options on like what flight and what hotel and stuff??? And I didn’t expect her to book a nonrefundable hotel without asking me.

Anyway, she spent $1.4k on the nonrefundable hotel and maybe I will have to help split that cost with her unless I can talk to her into just going alone or having her husband go or the hotel decides to be merciful.