#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]

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!

[ask-kyran-and-lucita-darkheart]

Kyran: I see...well reapers have a different purpose and corruption is not only a word they are also a being and a corrupted angel of death is a very murderus creature, I’m glad to know I’m wrong so thank you for claireifying

*A portal would open to wherever this place may be, and out form it would emerge a completely robed and hooded figure. What kind of being is this is unknown, the only thing that is clear is that this being has dark red wings, and from the shadow of their hood all that can be seen is a dark red snout* (@red-reaper-of-the-end)

{ kyran and lucita where picking berries when they both heard a loud sound near by, Kyran warned his sister to stay here as he went to investigate.

{ kyran then hid behind a tree for cover as he took a peak at the creature, the beginning look similar to a cloaked demon. he summoned shadow eye sentry to move through the shadows undetected to get a better angle at the creature’s face }

[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.

[itsbeenclaireified]

The first part of my many days in Chicago was last weekend. Overall it went well? But also we needed 15 participants to show up to our study and only 14 did. Flash forward to this week of a lot of wheeling and dealing and scraping together a rationale that might blow up in my face when we submit to the FDA, but we’re back up to 15 again.

I think my rationale is sound, and at the very least is worth gambling the $150k+ it would take to schedule an additional test day. But damn, I had to take a hot shower and remind myself that this is literally just a job and it doesn’t mean anything. There are things that are more important to me: friends, family, my cozy house, etc

Anyway here are some photos from my room, I picked a hotel a little further out and it was so beautiful and restful. Which is what you need on a business trip, where you spend 12+ hours running around, and then I could just rest and read for a bit before the sun went down.

Also I witnessed a wedding from my room and that was sort of hilarious to just like peeping out my room and realize what I was seeing hahaha

The next leg of the trip is a long one and I’m not looking forward to being away from Trixie. But my sister is watching her and staying at my house and it’ll be fine. And when the testing is done I will be free again.

[itsbeenclaireified]

The Vikings were playing in London at 8:30 am local time, so I convinced my parents we should have an “English” breakfast (eggs, kielbasa, mushrooms, beans on toast, and fresh blueberry scones I made). And it was very tasty and fun.

Was it authentic? I mean no, but we are literally in Minnesota so we did what we wanted.

The scone recipe was also very good, which was great because when scones are like hard and dry it’s really a terrible pastry.

Also it’s a small thing, but I hung up pictures in my basement and it feels so much cozier. I also vacuumed and that always makes things cozier, but also lol if you want to feel better about yourself clean your hair off the beater bar on the vacuum. Like damn didn’t realize I was growing steel out of my head lol