#i got them on sale for 34% off AND had a gift card so they cost me less than 40€ and i love them to death | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sunny-day-sky · 5 years ago

Text

Tagged by @elinaline 💜 thank you for this! I like these things!

1. What is the colour of your hairbrush?

Pink

2. name of a food you never eat?

Bananas 🍌 generally, I’m not too picky, but I can’t stand banana at all!

3. are you typically too warm or too cold?

Too warm! I am a Furnace 🔥

4. what were you doing 45 minutes ago?

Looking at memes and replying to a few messages!

5. what’s your favourite candy bar?

I don’t like candy that much, so probably just a plain dark chocolate bar that isn’t too big or sweet

6. have you ever been to a professional sports event?

Like semi-professional, I guess? My mom got free tickets through work, and I hated every minute of it

7. what is the last thing you said out loud?

“Tomorrow, they will take my blood.” (I have to get a blood test done for one of my medications LOL)

8. what is your favourite ice cream?

Strawberry or coffee, but if it’s frozen yogurt, then cookies-and-cream!

9. what is the last thing you had to drink?

A Monster energy drink (the pink one). But actually, I should probably have some water. What a good reminder!

10. do you like your wallet?

Yes! It’s a little red designer wallet that one of our family friends gave me as a graduation gift after my senior recital in high school, and it makes me look like I have more money than I do unless you open it! :D

11. what was the last thing you ate?

Leftovers from dinner, but it was breakfast food, because Emily and I are ADULTS and ANARCHISTS 😤

12. did you buy any new clothes last week?

okay yes but it only cost a few pounds, and I hardly ever do, like this is the first time in a long time, so please don’t judge me :(

13. last sporting event you watched?

I actually don’t know! I don’t tend to watch sports! I think the last one I was even near was the televised horse race with robot horses, but I was cooking at the time, so I didn’t absorb much!

14. what’s your favourite flavour of popcorn?

I have to say, nothing really beats classic salt and butter, but tajin is a good addition 😋

15. who was the last person you sent a message to?

Chanel!

16. ever go camping?

Not willingly.

17. do you take vitamins?

I take vitamin D when I’m reminded to 😅

18. do you go to church every Sunday?

Not unless I’m performing or with family

19. do you have a tan?

Nope! I did once, when I did outdoor PE in summer to get it out of the way before my sophomore year of high school, but it r e a l l y didn’t suit me LOL

20. do you prefer Chinese food or pizza?

Chinese food all the way! Especially “real” Chinese food (like, the kind I would cook for my relatives, you know), but commercial food is delicious too!

21. do you drink soda with a straw?

No, I drink it with alcohol 🧐

22. what colour socks do you wear?

Black, because then I don’t have to sort them, and Emily and I can just grab! I have some cute socks from Daiso, but I left them in California by mistake

23. do you ever drive above the speed limit?

Only like 20 miles above if someone is riding with me, but when I’m by myself, all bets are off 🚗🌬

24. what terrifies you?

It’s a good question! I feel like I’m afraid of really random stuff. I also don’t want to make this post too depressing or Deep, so I’ll just name one! I’m afraid of dark windows at night, especially when I’m looking out through them.

25. look to your left what do you see?

My water bottle, neglected all day 😭

26. what chore do you hate?

Washing dishes. It’s the worst! Even cleaning the bathroom is better!

27. what do you think of when you hear an Australian accent?

To be honest, when I hear any accent that isn’t mine, I sort of linguistically analyze it and think to myself how cool and awesome it is. I like to hear linguistic variation, and it makes my ears so happy to hear other people talk!

28. what’s your favourite soda?

Probably ginger ale, but I don’t really drink soda unless it’s a mixer

29. do you go into fast food places or drive thru?

It depends on what I’m ordering, if I have a coupon, or if I’m in a hurry (or wearing an ugly outfit LOL) but I usually like to go in!

30. who was the last person you talked to?

Emily in person; Natalie over text!

31. favourite cut of beef?

It’s hard to say! I think it really depends on how I’m cooking it, and for whom. Brisket is great for slow-cooking, but if I’m making a steak, I’d rather use a more tender cut. Probably the best is strip steak, because it’s cheap 😅

32. last song you listened to?

Anywhere by Rita Ora

33. last book you read?

I’ve been doing really bad with reading lately, unfortunately, so probably Proust?

34. can you say the alphabet backwards?

If I tried, I probably could! But when you really think about it, why is the alphabet in that order? Does backwards really mean anything? 🤔

35. how do you like your coffee?

Cream, no sugar

36. favourite pair of shoes?

That’s a tough one! I love shoes! Maybe my black heels that I got just before the lockdown (they were on sale), or else my pink pumps

37. the time you normally go to bed?

When I’m on a healthy (for me) schedule, around 11 or midnight, but lately, my sleep cycle is all kinds of messed up, and it’s been closer to 4AM :/

38. the time you normally wake up?

I prefer to wake up at around 6:30 or 7, but recently, it’s been... not that.

39. what do you prefer, sunrise or sunsets?

I think it depends on my mood. I love both, but for different reasons. Sunrise feels fresh and beautiful, while sunset feels exciting and cool. But right now, I think I would like to see a sunset!

40. how many blankets are on your bed?

Just the one

41. describe your kitchen plates?

We all sort of use each whatever is to hand, so there’s no cohesive theme. I do want to buy a matching set for me and Emily when we move out, though!

42. do you have a favourite alcoholic beverage?

Whiskey all the way!

43. do you play cards?

Not well, but my siblings and I do like to play together when we hang out, especially on holidays. There are four of us, so it’s convenient for dealing!

44. what colour is your car?

Black! But I had to leave her in California-- unfortunately, it’s frowned upon to bring cars on international plane journeys :(

45. can you change a tire?

I know how to in theory, but I’ve never done it

46. your favourite province?

I’m going to interpret this as “state” because I am but a simple American :/ California is the best, of course!

47. favourite job you’ve had?

Violin teaching 🎻 unless you count working at the psycholinguistics lab in college, but I didn’t get paid for that LOL

48. how did you get your biggest scar?

Most of my scars are not fun, but I do have a cool crescent-shaped one from my one and only car crash!

49. what did you do today that made someone happy?

I told Cesar where to read the Hunter X Hunter manga, and I feel like that should count for something 😛

I’m not explicitly tagging anyone, because this is very long! But if you see it and want to do it, just go right ahead and say that I tagged you :D You can even list me as “an anonymous source who tasked you to do their bidding” if you want :D

#tag games #y #about me #food //#alcohol //#long post #thank you elina!!!#medications tw #meds tw

8 notes · View notes

babylon-corgis · 5 years ago

Text

I was tagged by the wonderful @sunflowerofficials like two weeks ago and I finally finished it lol

Song titles

Rules: only using song titles from one artist/band, cleverly answer the questions and tag 10 people

Artist: 5 Seconds of Summer

What’s your gender? Good Girls

How are you feeling? Gotta Get Out

If you could go anywhere? San Francisco

Favourite mode of transportation? Airplanes (I hate flying but it fits the best)

Your best friend? She Looks So Perfect

Favourite time of day? Daylight

If your life was a tv show? Unpredictable

Relationship status? Lonely Heart

50 questions you’ve never been asked

1. What is the colour of your hairbrush? Pink

2. A food you never eat? EGGS and meatloaf

3. Are you typically too warm or too cold? Too cold

4. What were you doing 45 minutes ago? Scrolling mindlessly through Pinterest...

5. What is your favourite candy bar? REESE’S STICKS, Kit Kats, anything Milka, English Cadbury, peppermint Ritter Sport

6. Have you ever been to a professional sports event? A Celtics game when I was in high school but that’s it

7. What is the last thing you said out loud? I’ve been singing along to old 5SOS songs after answering the song title questions

8. What is your favourite ice cream? Chocolate peanut butter cookie dough from a local ice cream stand, other than that pretty much anything chocolate

9. What was the last thing you had to drink? Lemonade

10. Do you like your wallet? My wallet has pigs on it and almost every cashier has commented on it

11. What was the last thing you ate? Salt and vinegar chips (I could live off of salt and vinegar chips)

12. Did you buy any new clothes last weekend? Nope

13. The last sporting event you watched? I went to all of the track meets that my middle schoolers were in last spring

14. What is your favourite flavour of popcorn? I like it with lots of salt, not too much butter (I’m lactose intolerant) and I usually share it with my cat lol. I also LOVE the chocolate drizzle corn from Popcorn Indiana, I could eat the entire bag in 10 minutes (and I like to put it on top of ice cream which disgusts everyone but oh well)

15. Who is the last person you sent a text message to? My work best friend about one of our students who’s missing some schoolwork and he was making a spreadsheet to track everything, he loves spreadsheets...(but he taught me how to use Excel finally which somehow I never learned how to use?)

16. Ever go camping? I’ve been quite a few times but most of the time it was camping out in a cow barn at county fairs

17. Do you take vitamins? I take a hair and skin vitamin gummy thing (I don’t know if it’s working but I love the taste of it)

18. Do you go to church every sunday? I’ve actually never been to a church service...

19. Do you have a tan? HAHAHAHAHA I’M SO PALE

20. Do you prefer chinese food or pizza? Okay this was probably the hardest question but I have to go with pizza (fun fact: the first word I ever read was pizza)

21. Do you drink your soda with a straw? No

22. What colour socks do you usually wear? I buy whatever socks are on sale at Target so I have a lot of plain black ones, some colorful patterned ones, and a lot with dogs on them

23. Do you ever drive above the speed limit? Nope

24. What terrifies you? The snake that came into my kitchen (curse old houses with field stone foundations), spiders, never making anything of my life, being stuck in my small town forever, never seeing the world, my family and friends dying, robots, drive thrus...

25. Look to your left, what do you see? My messy dresser that I use as a nightstand that I have to clean but still haven’t oops

26. What chore do you hate? Cleaning the cow’s water tank, you have to use a bucket to bail out the water and it’s big and there’s a tree that drops its nasty leaves in it and they get all slimy and I hate it, also cleaning the chicken coops because they’re so dusty. Just fun farm things!

27. What do you think of when you hear an australian accent? I immediately think of Steve Irwin because The Crocodile Hunter was my childhood but then 5SOS, The Wiggles, Amy Shark, and wombats because they are adorable

28. What’s your favourite soda? Ginger ale

29. Do you go in a fast food place or just hit the drive-thru? If you refer back to #24 you would learn that drive thrus TERRIFY me for some unknown reason so unless I’m looking to have at least two full blown panic attacks I go in :)

30. Who’s the last person you talked to? My mom

31. Favourite cut of beef? My dude I raise beef cattle and grew up showing them and competing in skill-a-thons where I would have to judge cuts of beef, but chicken fried steak is one of my favorite meals and you use cubed steak for that (plus we always sell all of the fancy cuts so we get left with a lot of the leftovers and odd cuts)

32. Last song you listened to? Voodoo Doll - 5 Seconds of Summer

33. Last book you read? It’s a tie between Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone that I’ve been reading out loud to my pigs and To Kill a Mockingbird that my 8th graders are reading in English

34. Favourite day of the week? With all that’s going on now I can barely tell which day is which but I’m currently obsessed with a VERY cheesy show called The Baker and the Beauty and it’s on Monday nights so I like that

35. Can you say the alphabet backwards? I can say it and sign it in ASL but I have to think about it

36. How do you like your coffee? I don’t do caffeine, it’s very bad when I have it

37. Favourite pair of shoes? My flip flops and my vans

38. At what time do you normally go to bed? Anywhere between 10:30 pm-1:30 am lol

39. At what time do you normally get up? Usually by 7 but before quarantine it was 5:30 am

40. What do you prefer, sunrise or sunsets? Sunsets

41. How many blankets are on your bed? Three

42. Describe your kitchen plates? Most of them are white with a blue rim, some are clear glass, and then we have a shit ton of apple plates that my parents got as a wedding gift

43. Do you have a favourite alcoholic beverage? I don’t drink

44. Do you play cards? I only know how to play Go Fish and I played Uno with my students but they always crush me

45. What colour is your car? It’s this weird purple/gray color that no one can figure out and it looks different at different times of the day and depending on the light

46. Can you change a tire? I theoretically know how to do it but I would call my parents or sister lol

47. What is your favourite state/province? I love Maine and Oklahoma but I will always have a special place in my heart for Massachusetts (even though I don’t want to stay here forever)

48. Favourite job you’ve ever had? My current job as a learning assistant in middle school special ed

49. How did you get your biggest scar? I have a lot of farm related ones and then a bad one on my chin from when my sister climbed on my back and my head slammed into the kitchen floor when I was in kindergarten (giant knee bandaids on your chin is totally a look)

50. What did you do today that made someone else happy? I helped my mom with some cleaning and tracked down some missing assignments for a teacher

That was fun! I’m tagging @5-secondsofcolor, @thelawiswiththerose, @bicherwuerm, @calumsmermaid, @pxrxmoore, and anyone else who wants to do it (but don’t feel pressured and sorry if you’ve already been tagged, I’m so late to this)

#about me #tagged

6 notes · View notes

jisoomes · 5 years ago

Text

I was tagged by @ellanainthetardis :)

1. What is the color of your hairbrush?

Black!

2. A food you never eat?

There’s a LOT. But I suppose a lot of fruits, I like juice but not the fruit. Also donuts, I’ve never had one and I don’t think I ever will the texture lowkey scares me haha.

3. Are you typically too warm or too cold?

Too cold.

4. What were you doing 45 minutes ago?

Writing a Hayffie au based on crash landing on you. Haymitch’s sarcastic comments could not stay in my head.

5. What is your favorite candy bar?

I don’t like sweets haha.

6. Have you ever been to a professional sporting event?

As far as I recall, no.

7. What was the last thing you said out loud?

“Are you ready to go to bed?” My dog likes to take a toy up to sleep with him so I have to ask him every night. He is very good at learning words. It’s like having a toddler lmao.

8. What is your favorite ice cream?

Chocolate!

9. What was the last thing you had to drink?

Tea!

10. Do you like your wallet?

I actually don’t have one. I was supposed to buy one two years ago but nothing I’ve seen has fit what I want so I’ve been making do with a pouch in my bag (yes it is as annoying as you would imagine it is but I refuse to spend my money on anything that isn’t exactly what I want xD).

11. What was the last thing you ate?

Buttermilk chicken strips and vegetables. I promise I’m not a five year old I’ve just had an intense craving for vegetables and it’s all I had in my house haha.

12. Did you buy any new clothes last weekend?

Yes I did! I saved a few dresses and a few went on sale so I treated myself to them as a birthday gift :)

13. The last sporting event you watched?

Probably rugby? I don’t care for sports but I do like rugby players lmao.

14. What is your favorite flavor of popcorn?

I don’t like popcorn :)

15. Who was the last person you sent a text message to?

My best friend!

16. Ever go camping?

Once in year 7 (when I was 11). And it was awful. A weekend school trip and I ended up sick so I spent the whole time in a tent with slugs and being miserable haha. I will never go again, I do not like insects a t all.

17. Do you take vitamins?

No.

18. Do you go to church every Sunday?

I’ve never been to church! I’ve always wanted to go or perhaps become religious but the older I get the more uncomfortable I feel about going on my own so... I’m not sure I will ever go.

19. Do you have a tan?

Never. Everybody else right now is tanning but you will never catch me burning, I am very diligent about SPF. I am not aging any quicker than I already am, I wear it even in winter xD.

20. Do you prefer Chinese food or pizza?

I’ve never had Chinese food but I’m not a big fan of pizza either... So I guess neither.

21. Do you drink your soda with a straw?

Yes, but only because I order soda at restaurants :)

22. What color socks do you usually wear?

White!

23. Ever drive above the speed limit?

Only on the countryside roads. It’s fun going around all the bends and they’re usually quiet.

24. What terrifies you?

Being still. Not moving forward constantly. And sickness! I am very emetophobic.

25. Look to your left what do you see?

A glass of water and a pack of mints because I can’t sleep unless I have drank a pint of water haha (and I have a little bit of an unhealthy mint habit)

26. What chore do you hate?

Hoovering! One of my dogs sheds a lot so I have to hoover every day but it always hurts my back. And I always have to get every single hair so it takes forever.

27. What do you think of when you hear an Australian accent?

“What have we got here, eh? A couple of showgirls?” In a Courtney Act voice haha.

28. What is your favorite soda?

Orangina!

29. Do you go into a fast food place or just hit the drive through?

Drive through! I feel very bad about it because I really have no reason other than the fact that I am a very anxious person and going in stresses me out xD.

30. Who was the last person you talked to?

Does my dog count? If not perhaps my neighbour.

31. Favorite cut of beef?

The normal part? I suppose? I’m not a big fan of beef to be honest.

32. Last song you listened to?

Chapstick by Todrick Hall and Trixie Mattel

33. Last book you read?

The ballad of songbirds and snakes. I really do not read enough physical books anymore. I need to find some more but I always end up not making time :(

34. Favorite day of the week?

Wednesday!

35. Can you say the alphabet backwards?

Nope.

36. How do you like your coffee?

I have never had coffee and I have no intention to try. The smell puts me off. I’ll stick with tea.

37. Favorite pair of shoes?

Probably just my trainers? I am not really a shoe person.

38. At what time do you usually go to bed?

We are definitely not talking about how lockdown has turned me from a 11pm latest person back to my insomniac 2am days. We are not. I don’t know how I’m going to adjust back to normal sleep schedules again xD.

39. At what time do you normally get up?

Any time between 7-9. It really depends on the day.

40. What do you prefer - sunrises or sunsets?

Sunsets. I always walk my dog during sunset! I don’t like sunrises, they remind me of school lmao.

41. How many blankets are on your bed?

Just one but it is entirely too hot for blankets :(

42. Describe your kitchen plates?

All white. Occasionally there’s a purple flower on them. There are two green plates I picked up on a whim and very much hate but other than that it’s all white.

43. Do you have a favorite alcoholic beverage?

White wine.

44. Do you play cards?

Not at all.

45. What color is your car?

White.

46. Can you change a tire?

No and every time I think about it I just hope someone will take pity on me because I have no idea what I would do in that situation.

47. What is your favorite province?

I guess north? I live in the middle but I do love north wales. So north for wales and wales only haha.

48. Favorite job you ever had?

I don’t think there’s really a favourite to be honest.

49. How did you get your biggest scar?

I don’t think I have any scars? I think maybe some scratch marks on my thigh from when I was younger, I used to have psoriasis and it was so itchy I would cut my skin itching it :(

50. What did you do today that made someone happy?

I don’t know about people but I walked my dog and he was very happy about it. Since lockdown I give him an extra walk to play ball and he loves it so much he cries after I eat dinner because he’s impatient.

I never have anybody to tag so I will leave it open. These took way longer than I thought lmao.

#stuff nobody but tammy cares about #thank you for tagging me!#tag game

2 notes · View notes

nomorelonelydays · 6 years ago

Text

kick your pretty feet up on my dash

Part 1

Sidney retires a little earlier than he thought he would, at age 34.

He retreats into a small town in Oregon. It’s not a hockey town. No one knows who Sidney Crosby is, and it’s an unexpected blessing.

He hadn’t meant to land in Cardwell Point. It’s a little vacation-ville that boasts an annual fair every summer; it has an artificial lake, a small, quiet cabin that Sidney now calls home, a garden where he can grow tomatoes (that refuses to grow), and friendly enough neighbors who are all, for the most part, below the age of 18 or over 60 and have been in the town for about three centuries. It’s far enough away from Pittsburgh, he supposes, so that’s a plus.

He knows the organization had expect him to stay, working with the team as a coach or at least for the sake of the Little Penguins program. He remembers the looks they’d given him when he’d broken the news to the front office. But it hurts more than it should, being so close to Geno hockey and not able to do anything about it.

Maybe his heart has gotten softer with age.

Maybe that’s why he packed so quickly, because when Geno asked him so mournfully, “Where you gonna be?” on his last day, he’d nearly changed his mind.

“I’ll let you know,” Sidney promises. A little white lie.

“You tell me soon, or I find you,” Geno says fiercely.

Geno had hugged him like he didn’t want to let go, and perhaps he lingered a bit. But Sidney had simply chalked it up to him projecting. As usual.

He’s spent the majority of his time in the NHL hoping for a man to love him back. He’d wanted the handholding, the late night, date night kisses on an empty street, and he’d been willing to wait years for it—did wait years for it. He had been ecstatic when they gave the C to Geno, finally. His heart had lurched forward, almost painfully, when Geno beamed at him, shy and determined under the weight of the letter, and Sidney tells himself that he’s happy. He is happy. He will be happy.

“So what’s next?” Flower asks, voice choppy (always) through the phone.

He figured he’d get a dog or something, maybe spend his hours fishing and not thinking about hockey or Geno or what anyone must think about him practically vanishing.

He did not imagine that he’d be dragging himself up at 4 in the morning, post-retirement, to a bakery that must’ve been in this town when Christ himself was born, to be up to his elbows with flour and butter. The owner, Deidre, is 68 years old, had laughed in his face when she first met him, squeezed in the corner of her café and brooding over his coffee, when he’d told her that he’s retired.

“What the hell do you mean, retired? You’re about 18, right?”

Sidney knows he looks nowhere near 18, but Deidre also doesn’t look she’s got the best eyesight around, so.

It takes about four more coffee runs, three “on the house” chess pies that Deidre insists on feeding him, and two times of Sidney helping her transporting bags of flour from the truck to the kitchen when she’d been short-staffed, that he realizes he’s accidentally stumbled into a some sort of volunteer-job hybrid.

But he likes it.

He has the time, and Deidre needs the help even if she won’t admit it. He likes listening to Deidre talk about the town and her husband (who hasn’t been alive since 2013, Sidney realizes way too late, when he makes the blunder of asking where he is—to which Deidre responds, ‘Who the hell knows. Fucking around up there, probably’) and her dry humor. He likes bringing out the trays of brioche rolls and learning the names of the regulars, from the adults stumbling in at 6:30 AM for their morning coffee, to the kids who come into the store for their afterschool cookies. (He endures the moms who—not subtly—tries to flirt with him while taking half the day to buy a dozen muffins.) He likes kneading the dough for the tarts, because it helps him forget about all those warnings the doctors said about how if he kept going, hockey’s going to knock out his knee once and for all and he’d be lucky to be able to walk at all.

Deidre asked him how he ended up at Cardwell Point, just once.

“You running away from home?” she asks, very seriously. Her glasses are sliding off her nose. “Don’t you lie to me. I’ll know.”

“Not really?” He’d kind of googled ‘small town’ and ‘West Coast’ and ‘house for sale,’ because ‘where to go after retiring at age 34’ hadn’t given him a lot of useful results (or any).

“This is a very small town, and I know this because I never left this place,” Deidre says. “No one comes here unless they were trying to get away from somewhere. A girlfriend, maybe?”

Before Sidney can say anything, she quickly adds, “Boyfriend?”

His hands stop for a briefly moment, but he catches himself and gets back into the rhythm of piping the cupcake. “Um.”

“Anyways,” Deidre says, already moving on and washing her hands, “I’ve been thinking of naming the desserts. Like a person name. I think it’d give them character, help them sell better. I’d want to name a cheesecake after my mother—that was her favorite thing to make when I was little, but I never really got the hang of messing around with cream cheese. What do you think?”

Sidney nods because it doesn’t matter to him either way. He’s suddenly struck with the fact that he hasn’t called Geno in weeks, even though he told Geno he would right after he’s settled in. And Geno hasn’t texted either, which aches like a dull, forgotten thing at the pit of his stomach.

He doesn’t have the heart to be the one to break their silence streak, because there’s a tiny part of him that’s still that afraid if he hears Geno’s voice, sounding so far away, he’d want to fly right back where he started, to break his heart all over again.

One afternoon, he’s making tags for the mini cakes and cookies with Deidre when, out of the blue, he blurts out, “I, uh, I really wasn’t lying. I had to leave my job because of medical reasons. My knee, it’s not—I can’t strain it too much. And um—he wasn’t a boyfriend. It wasn’t…it wasn’t ever going to happen.”

He kind of wants Deidre to spit out some sage, grandmotherly advice, not unlike a fortune cookie. He could use a fortune cookie. She has four kids, after all, all scattered in cities across the East Coast or the Bay Area, working in tech or finance or whatever the hell she had said. But she merely pats his arm and nods.

“Well, you have Cardwell Point now, if you want it,” she says, finishing up the lettering on her sign with a loopy ‘y’ for Lily. “There. My mother’s name. This one will be for the mini-cheesecakes. When I figure out how to make them right.”

He doesn’t know if that’s what he’s waiting for. But he’s spent so long chasing after things he can’t have that Deidre unofficially gifting him Cardwell Point makes his chest bubble up with something wonderful. He ducks his head low and finishes up cursive ‘a’ on his own card.

Day 65 into retirement, and Sidney doesn’t write a tell-all, post-retirement article about his life and regrets like what Deadspin is probably salivating for. (To be fair, Sidney doesn’t even know who to go to first to start publishing something like that.)

It’s way worse.

He opens an Instagram account.

@DeesBakeryCafe

Come in to see us and these lemon-curd filled, poppy seed muffins (The Trina) tomorrow! Happy Friday, everyone.

The muffins are artfully placed next to the window seat, where the sunlight gleams off the drizzled glaze. It gets 56 likes, which Sidney honestly believes might be just about the general portion of the town who have working smartphones and knows how to use it.

To Sidney’s surprise, they sell out the next day. Seeing Deidre’s display case empty at least an hour before they close and listening to Deidre chatter excitedly over their next seasonal item feels almost as exhilarating as winning a game. Maybe even just as good.

He only wishes he’d stop wondering what Geno would say if he knows what Sidney is up to. If he’d even want to know.

#retirement fic #oh man im gonna keep this probably at around 3 parts #i hope i dont lose steam like last time #i feel like this fic is gonna turn out like the saving nickels fic #whatever whO cares #this is like the compromise for not doing an autobiography fic #can you tell that i love unrealistic bakery AUs and the old bakery lady trope #because i do

242 notes · View notes

theareya · 7 years ago

Note

do the even numbers for the vg ask binch

BINCH

Video Game Asks!

2. A game that has influenced you creatively? Writing, drawing, etc.answered!

4. Who do you play with now?Who? Like my friends? Mostly the same people I played with when I was a kid, but now they’ve grown up into ripe gaming fruits. And some new friends who I met through love of video games *stares directly into camera*

6. Ever buy strategy guides?No. I’d rather spend money on the game itself. I see the pretty art books often and wonder though…

8. Rarest/Most expensive game in your collection?uH. What? Rarest? I don’t have any of those classic games that are worth a fortune now. Most expensive was probably the Dishonored 2 bundle that I bought because I wanted Corvo’s mask super bad

10. Ever go to a midnight game release or stand in line for hours?

I have not! I usually pre-order using the internet and try to distract myself until I can feel the game with my fingers

12. Ever get picked on for liking games?Wheeeen I was younger, yes. I stopped playing for a little while, even though I was not any good at the time anyway. I didn’t pick it back up again until the middle of high school when I stopped caring.

14. Favorite game music?I… really like the Journey and Undertale Soundtrack. However, Kingdom Hearts and Nier: a tomato have been my… main music go-tos .In fact, I’m listening to the Nier ost right now.

16. Favorite game to play with your friends IRL?Answered!

18. Would you date someone that hates gaming?No. Bitch. Worst-case scenario they “tolerate” it. Just kidding, NO that’s impossible. Worst case is they’re indifferent. And in that case, they’d have to be pretty darn spectacular. Like they own Disneyland spectacular. Trust me.

20. Game that you know like the back of your hand?BIOSHOCK. I can tell you where every audio diary is. And every ridiculous jump scare. I also could say the same about Nier, but that’s a little too recent, so the obsession is still fresh.

22. Do you wear game related clothing/accessories?I have a Fallout t-shirt, Kingdom Hearts Sweater, some lovely Nier pins, and a 2B phone charm accessory. I love game merch, I just am a bit picky on which ones I wear.

24. First Pokemon game?It was actually Yellow. I never got Red and/or Blue.

26. Ever form any gaming rivalries?I don’t like those, but literally Pokemon Go sets them up by making you pick teams and publicly fight the other teams down.

28. Ever play in a tournament?nOpe I’m not that good. I watch a lot of tournaments though.

30. How many consoles do you own?Uhh, since forever? I would say 8. However, the only active ones right now are my ps4 and Switch. Everything else is stored away in the closet or was given away.

32. Did you ever play a game based on your favorite show/cartoon/movie/comic?Not. Really. No. I don’t really love those. One time I got Narnia as a gift and cried at how bad it was. And then there was Shrek Party?? Which was a depressing version of Mario party, but with Shrek characters. I liked it… actually. If it were done well, maybe?

34. Do either of your parents play video games?My mother plays pokemon go and is level 40, which is higher than me. And it’s kind of made her more open to the idea of playing video games. But my mom knows the basics of certain video games enough to not get mad at me when I tell her I can’t pause.

36. Have you ever shed actual blood, sweat or tears over a game?I have cried over a few video games. Not full on crying, but my eyes will water and that’s pretty wild. Sweat is all over my controllers. I clutch them so hard. I was also very emotionally compromised over The Last of Us, but it was mostly internal.

oHH! One time I was playing Battleborn and got a nosebleed, but I’m pretty sure that was on account of the weather and not the game.

38. A game you’re ashamed to admit that you like?I have no shame at all whatsoever in any game that I like. I guess Fable, 2 and 3 were absolutely awful according to everyone, but I thought they were alright, mostly because it made me think of the first game.

40. What to you think of virtual reality headsets or motion controls?I think they’re fun! But am sad that they probably won’t be able to reach their full potential in my house.

42. Maybe it wasn’t your first game, but what was the game that started you on your path to nerdiness?…Bioshock tbh. That was the first game I legitimately played after stopping gaming for an awfully long time. The one that started it all. Kingdom Hearts and Bioshock. Two completely different games.

44. Arcade machine that has consumed the most of your quarters?I never really played arcade games? Soul Calibur? DDR??

46. Do you like relaxing games like Animal Crossing or Harvest Moon?YES THOSE ARE LIKE MY FAVORITE TYPES OF GAMES!!??!? I can seduce Harvest Moon characters all the ding dang day. And I can fish for hours. Fishing mechanics are vital in every game.

48. How long does it take your to customize your player character?84 years. In all honestly, it can take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour depending on the options that are available. Dragon Age took so… so long. Basically any game with the objective of making your character look cooler is… dEATH

50. If you were a game designer, what masterpiece would you create?Answered!

52. A game that you begged your parents for as a kid?Pokemon Y

54. Do you give in to Steam sales?I use my friend’s steam and he has like 2000 dollars worth of games, so I’d say he definitely does.

56. Did you ever play Roller Coaster Tycoon and kill off your guests?I never played that game, but I remember quality video compilations of that.

58. If you can only play 3 games for the rest of your life, which ones do you pick?Answered!

60. Do you know the Konami Code?It’s like a bunch of directional buttons, but idk which ones.

62. Ever buy a console specifically to play one game?I bought a gosh darn PS3 like 10 years ago because I thought KH3 was going to come out for that. Now here with are the PS4 pro and KH3 will be out in a year.

64. Ever make a TV or monitor purchase based on what would be best for gaming?I have! Or I mean it was a family TV anyways, but I sneakily snuck in a question or two about gaming quality and the guy hooked me up.

66. Did you ever have have an old Nokia with Snake on it?No. I didn’t have a legit cellphone until after high school.

68. Ever save up a ton of tickets in an arcade to get something cool?LOL no I’m so bad at those, I spend all my tickets immediately on the dumbest thing I can find like those finger traps.

70. Very first game you ever beat? I want to say Fable. As a kid I didn’t know what a memory card was and sort of assumed you had to start over every single time.

#augustussinclair #asks #video game ask

2 notes · View notes

gordonwilliamsweb · 4 years ago

Text

Companies Pan for Marketing Gold in Vaccines

This story also ran on NBC News. It can be republished for free.

For a decade, Jennifer Crow has taken care of her elderly parents, who have multiple sclerosis. After her father had a stroke in December, the family got serious in its conversations with a retirement community — and learned that one service it offered was covid-19 vaccination.

“They mentioned it like it was an amenity, like ‘We have a swimming pool and a vaccination program,’” said Crow, a librarian in southern Maryland. “It was definitely appealing to me.” Vaccines, she felt, would help ease her concerns about whether a congregate living situation would be safe for her parents, and for her to visit them; she has lupus, an autoimmune condition.

As the coronavirus death toll soars and demand for the covid vaccines dwarfs supply, an army of hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and long-term care facilities has been tasked with getting shots into arms. Some are also using that role to attract new business — the latest reminder that health care, even amid a global pandemic, is a commercial endeavor where some see opportunities to be seized.

“Most private sector companies distributing vaccines are motivated by the public health imperative. At some point, their DNA also kicks in,” said Roberta Clarke, associate professor emeritus of marketing at Boston University.

Among senior living facilities — which saw their largest drop in occupancy on record last year — some companies are marketing vaccinations to recruit residents. Sarah Ordover, owner of Assisted Living Locators Los Angeles, a referral agency, said many in her area are offering vaccines “as a sweetener” to prospective residents, sometimes if they agree to move in before a scheduled vaccination clinic.

Oakmont Senior Living, a high-end retirement community chain with 34 locations, primarily in California, has advertised “exclusive access” to the vaccines via social media and email. A call to action on social media reads: “Reserve your apartment home now to schedule your Vaccine Clinic appointment!”

Although the vaccine offer was a selling point for Crow, it wasn’t for her parents, who have not been concerned about contracting covid and didn’t want to forgo their independence, she said. Ultimately, they moved in with her sister, who could arrange home care services.

This marketing approach might sway others. Oakmont Senior Living, based in Irvine, reported 92 move-ins across its communities last month, a 13% increase from January 2020, noting the vaccine is “just one factor among many” in deciding to become a resident.

But some object to facilities using vaccines as a marketing tool. “I think it’s unethical,” said Dr. Michael Carome, director of health research at consumer advocacy group Public Citizen. While he believes that facilities should provide vaccines to residents, he fears attaching strings to a vaccine could coerce seniors, who are particularly vulnerable and desperate for vaccines, into signing a lease.

Tony Chicotel, staff attorney at California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, worries that seniors and their families could make less informed decisions when incentivized to sign by a certain date. “You’re thinking, ‘I’ve got to get moved in in the next week or otherwise I don’t get this shot. I don’t have time to read everything in this 38-page contract,’” he said.

Oakmont Senior Living responded by email: “Potential residents and their families are always provided with the information they need to be confident in a decision to choose Oakmont.”

Some people say facilities are simply meeting their demand for covid vaccines. “Who is going to put an elderly person in a place without a vaccine? Congregate living has been a hotbed of the virus,” said retired philanthropy consultant Patti Patrizi. She and her son recently chose a retirement community in Los Angeles for her ex-husband for myriad reasons unrelated to the vaccines. However, they accelerated the move by two weeks to coincide with a vaccination clinic.

“It was definitely not a marketing tool to me,” said Patrizi. “It was my insistence that he needs it before he can live there.”

The concept of using vaccines to market a business isn’t new. The 2009 H1N1 pandemic ushered in drugstore flu shots, and pharmacies have since credited flu vaccines with boosting storefront sales and prescriptions. Many offer prospective vaccine recipients coupons, gift cards or rewards points.

A few pharmacies have continued these marketing activities while rolling out covid shots. On its covid vaccine information site, CVS Pharmacy encouraged visitors to sign up for its rewards program to earn credits for vaccinations. Supermarket and pharmacy chain Albertsons and its subsidiaries have a button on their covid vaccine information sites saying, “Transfer your prescription.”

But the pandemic isn’t business as usual, said Alison Taylor, a business ethics professor at New York University. “This is a public health emergency,” she said. Companies distributing covid vaccines should ask themselves “How can we get society to herd immunity faster?” rather than “How many customers can I sign up?” she said.

In an email response, CVS said it had removed the reference to its rewards program from its covid vaccination page. Patients will not earn rewards for receiving a covid shot at its pharmacies, the company said, and its focus remains on administering the vaccines.

Albertsons said via email that its covid vaccine information pages are intended to be a one-stop resource, and information about additional services is at the very bottom of these pages.

Boston University’s Clarke doesn’t see any harm in these marketing activities. “As long as the patient is free to say ‘no, thank you,’ and doesn’t think they’ll be penalized by not getting a vaccine, it’s not a problem,” she said.

At least one health care provider is offering complimentary services to people eligible for covid vaccines. Membership-based primary care provider One Medical — now inoculating people in several states, including California — offers a free 90-day membership to groups, such as people 75 and older, that a local health department has tasked the company with vaccinating, according to an email from a company spokesperson who noted that vaccine supply and eligibility requirements vary by county.

The company said it offers the membership — which entails online vaccine appointment booking, second dose reminders and on-demand telehealth visits for acute questions — because it believes it can and should do so, especially when many are struggling to access care.

While these may very well be the company’s motives, a free trial is also a marketing tactic, said Silicon Valley health technology investor Dr. Bob Kocher. Whether it’s Costco or One Medical, any company offering a free sample hopes recipients buy the product, he said.

Offering free trial memberships could pay off for providers like One Medical, he said; local health departments can refer many patients, and converting a portion of vaccine recipients into members could offer a cheaper way for providers to get new patients than finding them on their own.

“Normally, there’s no free stuff at a provider, and you have to be sick to try health care. This is a pretty unique circumstance,” said Kocher, who doesn’t see boosting public health and taking advantage of an uncommon marketing opportunity as mutually exclusive here. “Vaccination is a super valuable way to help people,” he said. “A free trial is also a great way to market your service.”

One Medical insisted the membership trial is not a marketing ploy, noting that the company is not collecting credit card information during registration or auto-enrolling trial participants into paid memberships. But patients will receive an email notifying them before their trial ends, with an invitation to sign up for membership, said the company.

Health equity advocates say more attention needs to be paid to the people who slip under the radar of marketers — yet are at the highest risk of getting and dying from covid, and the least likely to be vaccinated.

Kathryn Stebner, an elder-abuse attorney in San Francisco, noted that the high cost of many assisted living facilities is often prohibitive for the working class and people of color. “African Americans are dying [from covid] at a rate three times as much as white people,” she said. “Are they getting these vaccine offers?”

This story was produced by KHN, which publishes California Healthline, an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation.

Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

USE OUR CONTENT

This story can be republished for free (details).

Companies Pan for Marketing Gold in Vaccines published first on https://nootropicspowdersupplier.tumblr.com/

1 note · View note

stephenmccull · 4 years ago

Text

Companies Pan for Marketing Gold in Vaccines

This story also ran on NBC News. It can be republished for free.

Oakmont Senior Living responded by email: “Potential residents and their families are always provided with the information they need to be confident in a decision to choose Oakmont.”

“It was definitely not a marketing tool to me,” said Patrizi. “It was my insistence that he needs it before he can live there.”

Albertsons said via email that its covid vaccine information pages are intended to be a one-stop resource, and information about additional services is at the very bottom of these pages.

This story was produced by KHN, which publishes California Healthline, an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation.

Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

USE OUR CONTENT

This story can be republished for free (details).

Companies Pan for Marketing Gold in Vaccines published first on https://smartdrinkingweb.weebly.com/

1 note · View note

thisislizheather · 5 years ago

Text

December Dalliances 2019

It’s over, the holidays are over. Usually that makes me unhappy but this year they felt like the perfect amount of time. I’m crazy ready to start a new year. I remember being a kid and thinking, “In 2020, I’ll be 35… oh no” And now that it’s here, I’m pretty excited about it. I think it’s because there are so many things to look forward to this year (going to a wedding in the Catskills with Nathan & Baby Dog, going to London to see my friend Sarah, going to Barcelona with Gary, seeing where him and his family live in Glasgow, seeing a Euro Cup semi-final game in Amsterdam with my brothers, spending the day in Lisbon, spending quite a bit of time on the coast in Portugal, going on an anniversary trip in August). So. Excited. For. Everything.

But enough about the future, let’s delve into the recent past for a minute. Here’s what happened in December that was notable:

I made these Chickpea Pitas that were very good, I used wholewheat tortillas instead of pita and it still tasted great.

I have so many creams and lotions, please no one ever buy me another one. I just started using this Vichy Collagen cream (that I got two Christmases ago!) as a morning face cream and it’s wonderful. Very soft. Not sticky or greasy. Fully recommend. Especially for winter mornings.

I have no idea how I got them, but I had a stack of Dr. Dennis Gross (terrible name to put on a product) Alpha Beta Extra Strength Daily Peel packets that have been hanging around my beauty box (which is a storage box full of beauty samples and gifts and things I intend to one day use but haven’t yet) - so I just started using them once a week and whoa. They be tingly. Is that a good thing? I guess? I know nothing about skincare. In any case, they feel like they’re doing something magical when I use them but that’s about it. Are they worth $88 American dollars for a pack? God, no. But if you get a chance to use them as a sample or something, go for it. What do these wipes DO exactly? I’m told they’re “anti-aging.” Sidenote: I hate products that only promote that. How could you ever prove something is anti-aging?! You can’t! Unless you use it for 5-10 years and have before & after shots. And no one is going to do that. It’s bullshit. I’d respect the product more if it just said, “We don’t know what it does, but it feels fun on your face. Give a try!”

No one can stop me from loving old-school animation. The giant eyes and heads on today’s animation is horrifying to me and makes me miss the days of the 1992 version of Aladdin and the way kid’s movies used to look. I came across this old made-for-TV-movie Annabelle’s Wish and though it was nothing spectacular, I love the way it looked.

I tried the Japanese cheesecake that I’ve heard so much about: Uncle Tetsu in Square One. Verdict? It’s not cheesecake. But that’s not a bad thing. It really just tasted like a light, cheesy bread - but with none of the fulfillment of being too cheesy.

Looking forward to a new season of Curb on the 17th.

youtube

One thing that’s pissed me off this month: PINK (the Victoria’s Secret brand) no longer carries underwear in size XL. They just stopped making them. It happened at some point last year. And I mean, I was already not a fan of regular Victoria’s Secret, but now? This is insane. For a brand that already has existing problems with inclusion, are you fucking kidding me? I’ll never go back into any of their stores. I hate that I’ve supported them for as long as I have.

I watched a couple of the newest SNLs over the Christmas break and the absolute best part of all of them? These performances.

youtube

Lizzo, her dancers, her musicians, everything: perfection. Not only are they great performances, but seeing women who have regular fucking bodies? I need it. I need it bad. I’m a 34 year old woman and I still need to see this. I needed this when I was a teenager, I needed this when I was a kid. I could go on and on about why this is needed, but hopefully you just get it.

I rewatched Mean Streets because I genuinely couldn’t remember if I like Scorsese movies or not and… some are good? Best part of this movie:

I tried some wasabi Kit-Kats from Japan and yowza. They good.

This sounds like a broken record but I watched the newest season of Fuller House and I still don’t know why I watch this show when I know it isn’t good. I have a problem. Although it did bring me to this song that I now love.

I just bought this incredible throw blanket for the couch from Indigo (that is wildly on sale right now), I suggest you get one.

End of the year posts can get a little cheesy or heavy or preachy, but I absolutely loved this one from Ijeoma Oluo.

After using one Tarte eyeshadow palette for literally all of 2019, I branched out and got two new palettes. This Huda Beauty one (love it, great for going out) and this Colorpop one that is stunning but absolutely does not last throughout the night.

No idea how Sephora had this as a reward, but I got a mini version of a Pat McGrath mascara and I love it. Also, SO IN LOVE with these balms.

While in Mississauga, I went to The Dr. Seuss Experience and oh man, it’s wildly overpriced for what it is. I mean, it’s in an old Sport Chek for christsake. Should’ve cost $5/person, MAX.

Excited to see this movie (below), love a winter horror movie.

youtube

I saw Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and it’s very okay. Definitely not among the best movies I saw in 2019. Also, I think I really don’t like Quentin Tarantino. Gotta remember that next time. Overrated hack.

I love to read about food and I love this “Best Meals Eaten This Decade” list.

There’s this postal store in the East Village that I’m quickly falling in love with. They act like a post office, but they also sell various independent lines of greeting cards and small gifts. Love this place.

I tried a sample of Glossier’s Cloud Paint and I think I might splurge and get one. I’m still not sold on the idea of using my fingers to rub product on my cheeks (I’m totally fine using my fingers on my eyelids though for some reason), but we’ll see. I’m going to go to the flagship store to try on some colours. Will report back.

Absolutely love this piece entitled The Age of The Instagram Face.

Some new recipes that I tried for Christmas: I made this heavenly white wine gravy (must remember to make again), this spinach Christmas tree with marinara sauce on the side for dipping that was a huge hit and these pumpkin cheesecake cups.

I must have mentioned them before, but the roast beef sandwiches at San Remo’s in Etobicoke = heaven on earth.

Keep this in mind.

I went to Lilia for the second time and yes, it’s a very good restaurant. Their bread special is fucking unreal and the agnolotti is stellar, I just wish it weren’t in Brooklyn. I know for sure now that L’Artusi is my favourite place for pasta, but this one is definitely top five.

Here are two great things to do when a new year has begun.

I recapped what happened in autumn and it’s only slightly pathetic.

I made a list of things I’d like to do this winter.

Here are some of my favourite photos from the past year.

I made a little Christmas video (below) of my holidays that I’ve already watched too many times.

vimeo

Some things that I’m looking forward to this month: I’m on the hunt for a new coat (specifically a somewhat-fancy coat, perhaps faux-fur) because I hate not having anything dressy to wear outdoors, I’m really excited to share my resolutions for the year (post coming soon), I’m so interested in getting a lash lift but they’re too expensive so I’ll continue to debate it in my mind, excited about Restaurant Week starting, I finally got Jenny Slate’s new book so I’m looking forward to reading that, and honestly the main thing I want is snow. That’s it. The quietness that comes with it. The bitter air it brings. I want it all and I want it now.

If you’ve got any interest in reading last month’s roundup, you can see what went down in November over here!

#this is liz heather #Liz Heather #December 2019 #monthly post

0 notes

purlgrrrl-blog1 · 8 years ago

Text

@octothorpeisareason tagged me in a questions thing related to knitting/crocheting! It’s a super long post (But there’s links to patterns I like in there if that’s any incentive to scroll through!) so it’s going under a read more. :)

General

1. How did you first learn your craft? My mom taught me. I was a terrible student.

2. How old were you when you first learned to craft? Twelve. Like I said, such a jerk to my mom.

3. What was the first project you completed? A scarf that had so many dropped stitches that it came apart eventually! lol

4. What would you like to make next? I have googly eyes for The Lilli Pill shawl by Ambah O’Brien. Once I’m done with my commissions, I can purchase the yarn for it. ;) Pattern is here: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/lilli-pilli

5. Do you use stitch markers? All the time. I like to put my work down and stretch frequently so having stitch markers helps me remember where I am.

6. Do you watch or listen to anything while you craft? I love to watch crime procedurals! Currently watching Rizzoli & Isles. :)

7. What aspect of your craft is the most challenging to you? Trying to stay engaged during longer projects. I want to make my blanket soon but I’m worried I’ll make half of it and then stop caring. haha.

8. Which of your past projects are you the most proud of? My very first shawl. I was going through a horrific breakup and making it really really got me through it. Pattern is here: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baja-sunrise-shawl

9. How long have you been crafting? I learned 13 years ago, but I only got serious about my knitting in college. So let’s say 7 years.

10. Where do you usually buy your yarn? My local yarn shops. Or if I find indie dyers that I love on etsy, I will order. But I like being able to touch the yarn before I buy.

11. Are you a yarn snob? YES. I AM SO TERRIBLE. I do, however, have a few clients with wool sensitivities so I use acrylics/acrylic blends for them.

12. What was the last yarn you purchased? Hedgehog Fibers “Fool’s Gold” in DK weight. I didn’t purchase it for any reason. I just thought it was gorgeous and decided to find a use for it later. haha.

13. What is the last crafting related purchase you made? I just ordered a book on knitting socks two at a time! https://www.amazon.com/2-at-Time-Socks-Revealed-Knitting/dp/1580176917/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492118611&sr=8-1&keywords=2+at+a+time+socks

14. How often do you keep a project you’ve made? I try not to if I can help it! Most everything I make is for sale.

15. What is your workspace like? Currently, it’s my dining room table. My desk in the office I share with my fiance is cluttered and terrible. I need to organize it something fierce. My whole half of the room is a MESS.

16. Where do you do most of your crafting? Again, dining room table with my laptop playing some silly crime show.

17. How would you describe your crafting style? I kind of fly by the seat of my pants. If I make a mistake, I try to turn it into a design choice (if it’s not a structural problem). My grandma always says that you shouldn’t make anything perfect because “it will make God angry.” Not sure if I believe in God, but that’s a whole nother thing. I appreciate the notion though.

18. What aspect of your craft would you most like to improve? Lace work and chart reading!!!

19. What tool or accessory would you like to acquire next? I want some really pretty stitch markers. Like maybe with lil gems or extra pretty beads or something.

20. How big is your yarn stash? Ridiculously huge. I need to take inventory.

21. How often do you knit/crochet? Every day.

22. Do you always have a project in mind when you buy yarn? Almost never. oops. But when I do, I feel very triumphant!

23. Do you find any crafting tools to be overrated? I don’t think so. But I do think brand comparison shopping is really important for needles. Some cheaper ones are just as good as the expensive ones. You just have to figure out what’s important to you when it comes to your materials.

24. When you want to learn a new stitch, how do you go about it? Find a pattern that uses the new stitch then youtube the stitch.

25. Do you have a devoted yarn bag? I have probably 4 or 5 now. But the one I’m currently using for my commissions is my fave.

26. Does anyone else in your family crochet/knit? My mom and my sister.

27. How do you store your yarn stash? One huge wicker basket, one laundry basket, and one garbage bag of yarn I bought before I knew what fibers I liked working with (mostly acrylics in there).

WIPs:

28. What are your current WIPs? Two big fluffy cowls for a client. One Clementine Cowl by Spincycle Fibers for funsies: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/clementine-11

29. Do you have any projects currently in time out? They’ve been in time out so long that I don’t actually know what they are. When I come across ones like that, I tend to rip them and start over with something new.

30. Which WIP have you been working on the longest? The Clementine Cowl. Mostly because I’ve been working on client stuff.

31. Where do you store your WIPs? In my favorite yarn bag.

32. What was the last project you had to frog? Why? It was a hat that I froggged because I got bored of it.

33. What is the most frustrating experience you’ve had with a project? It wasn’t even my project, but helping my mom start her “Find Your Fade” shawl was a nightmare. I’ve passed her in skill level and so she now thinks I know everything and can fix any mistake she makes. Also going to the yarn store with her has become a huge pet peeve. I can’t go look at anything because she just keeps going “FEEFO LOOK AT THIS!” and if I’m not close to her, she will yell my childhood nickname across the store until I come over to her.

Have you ever…?

34. Sold your work? One of my jobs!

35. Finished a full sized blanket? Never.

36. Had an interesting interaction with a stranger for crafting in public? Not really.

37. Had a household member complain about the size of your yarn stash? My dad! But he tries really hard to understands and buy my stuff for his girlfriend.

38. Been to a crocheting/knitting club or circle? I used to host one!

39. Written a pattern to share with others? In the works.

40. Purchased yarn only to decide you hated it? I think “hate” might be a strong word. But definitely bought something I loved in store and then became lukewarm about later.

41. Bought craft supplies in bulk? nope.

42. Participated in a crochet/knit along? Not yet!

43. Completed a year-long project? (Mood blanket, temperature blanket, etc) I don’t know if anything can hold my attention for a whole year. That’s crazy!

This or that?

44. Knitting, crocheting, or both? Knitting.

45. Patterns or improvise? Patterns until I feel comfortable enough with a concept to improvise.

46. Stick to one project or keep multiple going at once? Multiple. Mostly due to different lighting situations. My two client cowls are really dark so I work those during the day and then my lighter projects at night.

47. Wind new yarn or leave it as is? Leave as is right now. My ball winder broke! And hand winding is not my favorite.

48. Buy supplies online or in person? In person.

49. Make gauge swatches or hope for the best? Hope for the best unless fit is really important (re: sweaters)

Favorites:

50. Hook/needle size? I’ve been working a lot of things on 9s and 13s lately. I don’t really have a preference but I tend to do larger gauge fluffier projects in fall/winter and then small gauge light lacy projects in spring/summer.

51. Yarn you’ve worked with? That’s a tough question!! Really into everything Malabrigo right now. I love the squish and also the price point. It blocks nicely. Drapes well. I do love indie dyer Republic of Wool very much though! And Hedgehog Fibers. But like I said, price is important to me right now and I can’t price my stuff high enough to justify $26 per skein. So those are for personal projects only.

52. Stitch? Good ol’ knit stitch will always be my fave. I like playing with cabling and color before I fux with crazy stitches.

53. Yarn weight to work with? Have lots of love for DK currently.

54. Craft-related gift you’ve received? Gift cards!!

55. Type of project to crochet/knit? Shawls probably.

56. Crafting accessory? I have an enamel pin of a wool moth that says “Fuck off” from Spincycle Yarns. It’s on my small project bag. Find it here: https://spincycleyarns.com/collections/bling-miscellany/products/f-ck-off-wool-moth

57. Online supply store? Etsy! Support independent makers!!!

58. In-Person supply store? Portland has so many amazing yarn shops. Twisted, Close Knit, & Knitting Bee are my go-tos. The first two by my mom’s house and then Knitting Bee is the best one closest to my house. I interviewed to work at Starlight Knitting Society but they picked someone else and broke my heart so I’m temporarily avoiding them even though they have a lot of good stuff.

59. Yarn brand? See above.

60. Place for patterns? Ravelry

61. Hook/needle brand? HiyaHiya

Social media:

62. Do you have any social media accounts just for your craft? https://www.facebook.com/purlgrrrl/ , This tumblr, and working on Insta after FB gets fully launched.

63. Do you post WIPs on social media or just the finished products? I do lots of WIPs on my personal insta. I love seeing other people’s WIPs. They inspire me most.

64. If someone asked you to recommend other crafting blogs, which would you recommend? ahhhhh this could be a whole nother post by itself!! Not tagging those people here, but will do another post after this with my faves.

Post a photo of…?

65. Your yarn stash - It’s all covered up right now. Not super fun.

66. One of your WIPs

The Clementine Cowl and Marceline the puppy. :)

67. A finished project

(This piece is for sale)

68. Your craft space - I’m too lazy. don’t judge me.

69. Your collection of hooks/needles - Still too lazy.

70. Your first project (or earliest you have a photo of) - I don’t have any early photos on this computer!

71. Yourself!

Me, the puppers, and the fiance!

2 notes · View notes

thecoroutfitters · 8 years ago

Link

Written by Guest Contributor on The Prepper Journal.

Editor’s Note: This post is another entry in the Prepper Writing Contest from JD. If you have information for Preppers that you would like to share and possibly win a $300 Amazon Gift Card to purchase your own prepping supplies, enter today.

There is nothing that sparks heated debate on the internet like the topic of which weapons are the best for (………..) purposes. However, when buying small arms for the purposes of a survival situation, there are some models that have advantages over others. Two of those models are the Glock 17 and the AR-15. This isn’t an article about which guns to buy, it is merely my personal thoughts on why these two weapons have advantages over others.

The AR-15, America’s rifle. There is more aftermarket support for this rifle than perhaps any other on the market. That means you can outfit the weapon to your personal situation. Different optics from short to intermediate range red dots to long range scopes. Lasers both visible and infrared. Night vision capabilities. It’s endless. And I haven’t even gotten into changing uppers. You simply push out 2 pins pull the upper assembly off and drop on a .50 bmg upper! Or numerous other calibers. There was at one point a crossbow upper made by PSE available. I think this model has been discontinued, but I’m sure can still be found for sale with a little research.

But the main point of why the AR makes such a good choice is because of its capacity. The standard 30 round mags offer serious firepower. They are plentiful and very inexpensive. I am a fan of the Magpul products. Mind you, I am not affiliated with Magpul in any way. I have never had a Magpul mag fail me in the thousands upon thousands of rounds I’ve shot using them. And if one did, for around 9 bucks I’ll just get another one.

The Magpul 60 round drum

The Magpul 60 round drum is a very nice piece of gear. Well made, very rugged, and well designed. Having 60 rounds of ammo on tap is quite a force multiplier. My opinion of it is, it’s not so you can shoot more, it’s so you have to reload less. Think about it, if you fired 2 rounds per second, which is a pretty slow cadence, that’s 30 seconds of very well aimed fire. Not the spray and pray you see in the movies. That is the capability to keep offenders pinned down while your buddies maneuver and flank the offenders. 30 seconds doesn’t sound like a long time, but how far can you run in 30 seconds? The average person in decent shape can cover a lot of ground in 30 seconds. These drums also are a great option for defensive positions. Having 3 men strategically positioned with a few of these drums each, can lay down some serious accurate fire. The drums also have the advantage of being a storage device. In other words you can load them and leave them loaded until you need them. They are a bit of a challenge to load for some people. But after you’ve done it a few times, it gets easier. They are also not fast to load, so these are something you want to have loaded ahead of time. For those who money isn’t an issue, there are belt fed uppers available, combined with a bump fire type stock like the slide fire, and you have what’s called simulated full auto. All 100% legal without the NFA paperwork. Yes, most of us would love to own a Dillion aero mini gun, but being next to impossible to own, the belt fed offers some nice capabilities.

The Glock 17 is probably the most issued sidearm in the world. There is a reason why. It’s because they work. There are only 34 parts to a Glock. They just don’t have much to go wrong with them. The 9mm has also come a long way in its effectiveness. Modern 9mm hollow points don’t give up much to its bigger brothers the .40 and .45. Like the AR, the aftermarket support is huge. More so than any other high cap polymer framed pistol. They are also inexpensive. For what a high end 1911 costs you could buy 2 Glocks with holsters, mags, and ammo. Now, I’m not crapping on the 1911. They are still nice guns and I enjoy shooting one from time to time. But for a purpose built fighting weapon, it does not beat the Glock. Why? Aside from the weapon working in all kinds of dirty conditions, again it’s capacity. The Glock 17 holds in a flush fit mag, 17 rounds. With the gun topped off 18. That is more than double the capacity of the 1911. For those of you who subscribe to the mentality that, if you can’t get it done with 8 rounds then you have seriously screwed up, we are not talking about dealing with the meth head mugger in the alley. Potential situations I’m referring to are something like an active shooter, a mall shooting dealing with other shooters who may be skilled, a SHTF situation where you may be dealing with a mob of thugs wanting to steal your stash of food and have their way with your women. I could go on. The weapon is also easy to shoot. There are no decockers or safeties to deal with. Aim and shoot.

Getting back to the capacity advantage, there are other companies out there now making Glock mags. Magpul makes not only the 17 round mags but also a 21 and a 27 round magazine. Glock factory makes the 33 round mag. Elite tactical systems makes a 31 round mag, a 27, 22, and a 17 round mag. Yes I know you won’t carry concealed a 27 or 33 round mag, on your person. In a bag however, it gives you that advantage of being able to put lots of bullets down range. The 21 round mags offer a great compromise in capacity and concealment. If you decide to buy the more compact versions of the gun, i.e. The 19, or 26, you can still use the model 17s mags. Yes they stick out of the bottom of the grip but gives you the piece of mind you’ve got enough ammo to handle most any situation.

The fantasy of getting into 100 round gunfights is just that, a fantasy. Or is it? Remember the westgate mall shooting in Kenya? A group of gunmen stormed the mall and killed over 60 people. The concert shooting in France in 2015, nearly 100 killed. We are living in different times. I personally think a more realistic SHTF situation would be possibly getting caught in one of these attacks. I mean let’s face it, a pole shift or climate change is the least of our worries. These bad people are out there, and they hate us and our way of life. Capacity is king. Well, second only to shot placement. Arm yourself with weapons that give you an advantage. You don’t have to carry Glocks or AR-15s, whatever you do decide to pack, have the skill to be effective with them. Think about this, if you were caught in one of these type situations, which would you rather have, a weapon that packs 8 shots or one that packs 18?

I know which one I’d want.

The post The Capacity Advantage appeared first on The Prepper Journal.

from The Prepper Journal Don't forget to visit the store and pick up some gear at The COR Outfitters. How prepared are you for emergencies? #SurvivalFirestarter #SurvivalBugOutBackpack #PrepperSurvivalPack #SHTFGear #SHTFBag

#SHTF #TEOTWAWKI #MARTIALLAW #BUGOUT #PREPPERBAG #USAF #USSOCOM #ARMY #NAVY #SurvivalFirestarter #Sur

1 note · View note

brajeshupadhyay · 5 years ago

Text

Coronavirus reopening: small stores struggle with the process

For small-business owners, the steps toward opening their doors again after coronavirus lockdowns are welcome — but far from easy.

Two small Los Angeles merchants who could rattle off the names of celebrity clients from the days before COVID-19 are finding that walk-in shoppers have mostly become walk-by shoppers. Although some areas of the state are loosening coronavirus restrictions, Los Angeles County’s in-store shopping is still largely limited to food and other essential businesses.

Kitson on Robertson Boulevard was the quirky clothing and gift seller that wouldn’t die. Little Trendz sold its hip children’s clothing in competition with mega-chains that had lobbies bigger than the retailer’s single Sherman Oaks store.

Now, tourism dollars are gone. Online traffic isn’t strong enough to make up for the loss of in-store sales. Some employees are afraid to return to work.

All of it leaves Kitson with, at best, 15% of its former revenue stream. Little Trendz has had only a handful of customers in the last week.

“It’s like trying to start a business from scratch, when you don’t know what you’re going to sell, or to who,” said Fraser Ross, owner of Kitson, who reopened his store to curbside service on May 8.

Little Trendz owner Sara Petikyan, left, and store manager Arpine, her sister, are masked and gloved in their Sherman Oaks store. They want to demonstrate to passersby that they are taking every precaution.

(Ronald D. White / Los Angeles Times)

Sara Petikyan, owner of Little Trendz, is happy to be back in her store again but knows that the road ahead will be difficult.

“Nobody’s interested in buying a T-shirt for their kids when they’re worried about feeding their family or finding a job,” she said. “So I understand why we have very little income. This is a struggle.”

Lars Perner, an assistant professor of clinical marketing at USC Marshall School of Business, said businesses have never faced such a mixture of negative and contradictory forces.

“It’s a very different situation businesses are facing, very surreal,” said Perner, whose specialties include consumer behavior and how shoppers react to price changes.

“The people who still have jobs have sometimes taken pay cuts or are very worried about how much longer they will have them. And there is still so much fear around the virus that there can be a kind of social disapproval of the risk of going out to shop somewhere for things you really don’t need,” he said.

Kitson opened on designer-studded Robertson Boulevard in 2000, becoming a go-to spot for paparazzi to grab shots of young celebrities. The brand survived two recessions and an expansion — some said overexpansion — to 17 locations. In late 2015, new management began liquidating Kitson’s brick-and-mortar stores and e-commerce operation.

Ross had left Kitson before the unexpected closure, which brought a flurry of lawsuits by all parties. In 2016, Ross launched a comeback, opening another pop-culture-flavored store, which he dubbed Kitross, at the original Robertson location. Eventually, the operation became Kitson again.

Kitson’s business model capitalizes on the impulse buy, with an eclectic array of items ranging from original artwork that can sell for a few thousand dollars and cashmere sweaters for $600 to greeting cards that sell for $5.95.

The pandemic has been a blow, Ross said, combining the dangers of the virus with the stay-at-home shutdown that closed his physical stores as nonessential businesses, even as big chains such as Target and Walmart were able to continue selling gifts and other items along with the necessities consumers couldn’t do without.

“They shouldn’t have been allowed to do that when we couldn’t,” Ross said. “We can practice social distancing in retail as well as anyone else.”

On a recent weekday, Kitson and the nearby Kitson Kids store were the only establishments on the block open for curbside business, leaving Robertson Boulevard looking mostly deserted, except for some light vehicular traffic that would have been inconceivably sparse before the virus. Kitson’s outlet store and a Beverly Hills pop-up store haven’t reopened.

“It’s not great, but every little bit helps in sales, from curbside to internet,” said Ross, who added that he was averaging nearly 30 curbside customers a day. “But I don’t know what the outcome will be at the end of this. It’s just like, it’s a new world, and we’re just adapting as we … go along, and with what we’re allowed to do and what we’re not allowed to do.”

Unsold inventory has been an additional problem, Ross said.

“We would normally sell out of Mother’s Day cards every year, and I just packed up 500 of them. Easter? I packed those things up,” Ross said, now wondering whether he will have to do the same next month for Father’s Day.

“Pool floats, actually, I’ve been doing well with those, because people are stuck in their homes, and so we’re going to have some hot hit items. But other than that, I don’t know what will sell and what won’t,” Ross said. Puzzles for adults and items to keep youngsters occupied have also been popular.

Some Kitson workers are thrilled to be back. One was salesman Tom Ernst, who walked back and forth in front of the store, properly masked, making sure the merchandise set outside to attract customers was set just so. It didn’t seem to matter that business was extremely slow.

“It’s been so great to be back to work,” Ernst said. “To be able to have a place to go, where you feel like someone needs you.”

Ross said some employees are leery about face-to-face work with customers. He said he has seven employees back at work, and three more will return June 1, now that Kitson has received federally sponsored Paycheck Protection Program funding.

“We have 23 employees between our four stores, with stock people, managers,” Ross said. “So, we’ve got two working on internet, one person working outside for customers, one stock person and then tomorrow we’ll bring back the Instagram people and more web people.”

Some families are unwilling to see loved ones return to retail jobs so soon, as is the case for 17-year-old Julie Kartashyan, who would normally be working at the Little Trendz children’s boutique.

“My mom doesn’t want me to go back to work just yet,” Kartashyan said. “That’s because she’s read articles or heard news about how the virus might still be around in August.”

As April rolled into May, Kartashyan’s mother said she might consider letting her return around May 15, but that date has come and gone without approval.

“And that’s even though she knows my store is small and kept very clean,” Kartashyan said. “My mom is not as worried as she would be if I was going back to work at a big store; she definitely would not even consider it then.”

Bosses find themselves in a delicate position as well. Petikyan, the 33-year-old owner of Little Trendz, said she would hold Kartashyan’s job for her for as long as it takes to get her back.

“That’s all we can do for now, which is to make sure she knows she still has a job,” said Petikyan, who normally employs five workers. She applied for government-backed emergency PPP funding but said she never heard back from the lender.

“One thing I want to make sure of is that my employees feel comfortable prior to returning,” Petikyan said. “I want them wanting to go back to work. We want our employees and our customers to feel safe. We provide masks and gloves. We provide sanitizers, and no one is allowed to enter the store without a mask.”

Petikyan opened Little Trendz in late 2016 in a 750-square-foot space on Ventura Boulevard. The store did well from the start, she said, as the only retail establishment within several blocks that focused on trendy, European and street-style clothing for young children.

“We had the older-age women that came in looking for things for their grandchildren. A lot of people came in just because the window attracted them. We were just something different,” Petikyan said. “We had moms with strollers walking by. They saw the store, came in, referred their friends. So it did pretty well.”

Petikyan brought her sister Arpine, who is 34, into the business to provide some expertise she gained in retail management positions over several years, including at Michael Kors.

“It was something, a dream of both of ours that came together,” Arpine Petikyan said.

Little Trendz stocks jackets that sell for about $100 and T-shirts with cheeky sayings such as “I’m so Prada” and “#swag” that cost $24.99 to $32.99. There’s a new line of COVID clothing, including a shirt proclaiming: “Please stay 6 feet away.”

By 2019, larger chains had picked up on the popularity of urban street wear for children and, in some cases, even offered the same brands at competitive prices, the sisters said. But that was nothing compared to being told in March that Little Trendz could sell only online — a disaster for a store that had relied on foot traffic for 80% of its business.

“In this neighborhood, having a lot of people buying things for Passover and Easter makes March our second-biggest month for sales, behind December,” Sara Petikyan said. “So we were suddenly looking at big numbers, big sales losses.”

E-commerce has kept the store going, and the sisters believe that if they can get just two walk-up customers a day to add to their online sales, they will be able to ride out the virus’ effects on business. The store has a sign encouraging shoppers to call or text if they see merchandise that interests them through the shop’s large picture windows or on its social media accounts.

“Foot traffic outside has begun to pick up,” but no one has approached them to make a purchase, she said. “It’s very tough.”

window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({

appId : '119932621434123',

xfbml : true, version : 'v2.9' }); };

(function(d, s, id){ var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "https://ift.tt/1sGOfhN"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));

The post Coronavirus reopening: small stores struggle with the process appeared first on Sansaar Times.

via Blogger https://ift.tt/2WYa9BU

#Blogger #Coronavirus reopening: small stores struggle with the process Businessfollowme instagood

0 notes

ossyuche · 5 years ago

Text

100 Reasons I Love You

I’m a writer.

I can’t say whether I’m any good. All I can say is that I’m prolific.

I wrote the comedy column in my college newspaper.

I wrote a dozen screenplays and 15 sitcoms when I moved to LA in my twenties.

I have written over 1000 blog posts, 400 newsletters, 100 podcasts and 4 books since then.

But the most meaningful thing I’ve ever written is something no one has ever read before.

It’s a series of lists called “100 Reasons I Love You” that I wrote for the extraordinary woman I call my wife.

The first one was dated July 25, 2007. That was six months into our relationship when I first told her I loved her.

The second one was dated November 25, 2007. That was for her 38th birthday.

The third one was dated April 24, 2008. That was when I proposed to her.

Since then, we’ve gotten married, bought a house in the suburbs, and had two children, now 6 and 7, who fill up our world with delight.

As a husband, father, son, brother, friend, and small business owner, I’m as harried as you are, trying to spread my time and attention around to make everyone I love happy.

But, as you know, things fall through the cracks. That’s life.

We all have to pick and choose what’s important.

As a dating coach, I have a daily window into this, and one of the things I see regularly is how well-meaning couples fall into a rut and start to take each other for granted.

To be fair, we all have a great excuse: life is, indeed, busy!

And really, who has the time and energy to treat your spouse like you did when you first began dating?

Yet that lack of time and energy are exactly why relationships falter.

It’s why people grow apart.

All the little things stop and you fall into your roles.

You work. You parent. You sleep.

All the time you put into being a couple has disappeared and been absorbed into life’s other endeavors. Next thing you know, you’re wondering: “What happened to us?”

THAT’s why I insist that relationships don’t take “work,” but they do take EFFORT.

So while I’d like to think I’m a good husband – I wake up the kids and make them breakfast, I’m out of the office every day at 5:30 to help out my family, and I’m fluent in all 5 Love Languages – there’s always something that can be done better.

I’m doing it today.

This week marks my 10th Anniversary.

It’s not only been ten years since my wife and I tied the knot, for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health, ‘til death do us part – but it’s been ten years since I wrote a list for my wife of 100 reasons I love her.

It’s something I’ve been meaning to do, but haven’t gotten around to, what with soccer practice, cleaning out the garage, and putting together that earthquake preparedness kit.

My 100 Reasons list is not a work of literary genius. It’s mostly a series of inside jokes for an audience of two. But I’m sharing it with you today for three reasons:

1. I’m proud of it. I’m proud of my wife. I’m proud of my marriage. I’m proud that I’m given this opportunity to let you peek in on my relationship and show you what healthy, lasting love looks like from the inside.

2. My wife is cool with it. Sure, this is written for private purposes, but my wife has made peace with the fact that I’m an open book. So while I respect her privacy and cherish our marriage, I also see our partnership as an education on love that I can offer directly to you. All the good, all the bad; I only have one mode: honest.

3. True love can be yours. While I wouldn’t hold my breath on your future husband writing you 4 lists of 100 reasons he loves you, that’s because he’ll have a real job besides “dating coach.” What he lacks as a romantic and fast typist, I promise he’ll make up for with other traits: character, consistency, kindness, and commitment.

This much I know is true.

Great husbands come in many forms to the millions of women who look for them.

They don’t, however, come to women who have given up on men.

They don’t come to women who think the worst of men.

They don’t come to women who think dating is a waste of time and that relationships only lead to heartbreak and disappointment.

That’s why, starting officially on Thursday, November 1st, I’m having a special sale on my Believe in Love program where you’ll get $50 off just for being on my mailing list.

Consider that my 10th-anniversary gift to YOU.

You deserve to be happy and in love.

If you don’t have it now, then something has to change – preferably sooner, rather than later.

In the meantime, enjoy your day, hug someone special, and check your inbox on Thursday morning to take advantage of this opportunity to get your groove back and save big money.

Warmest wishes and much love,

Your friend,

Evan

P.S. You didn’t think I’d close this email without sharing my list, did you?

So, without further ado, 100 Reasons I Love My Wife, Volume 4:

1. You always have floss with you.

2. You let me read bedtime stories to the kids every night.

3. You know how to turn on the pool heater and filter since I don’t.

4. You make a generous effort to visit my family whenever we can.

5. You have separate washes for blacks, colors and lights.

6. You say yes to all social plans — and often consider whether I want to be part of them.

7. You encourage me to see my guy friends.

8. You are the pioneer of the Mad Libs Dance Challenge.

9. You are really fun, considering you’re the not-fun parent.

10. You will always go out of your way to help a friend.

11. You validate me when I say I need more quality time with you.

12. You appreciate how much I want to provide for the family.

13. You offer me fair criticism in ways that I can always handle.

14. You drive six hours in a day for a weekend without the kids.

15. You make a mean gazpacho.

16. You rock those holiday wall calendars.

17. You care about the details of every barbecue, dinner party, and birthday party.

18. You continue to surprise me with random military facts that I don’t know.

19. You can spend three nights packing for a three-day weekend.

20. You need to have 10 different kinds of vinegar to eat one large heirloom tomato.

21. You listen to me relentlessly vent about the technology part of my business.

22. You are proud of your age and you’re proud that I’m proud of your age.

23. You know how to laugh at yourself.

24. You make sure the kids can laugh at themselves, too.

25. You are the model for all the Catholic wives at synagogue.

26. You sort through endless amounts of kids’ homework on the kitchen table.

27. You always prove that when I can’t find something, I just did a “man-look.”

28. You are willing to go to the beach with me, even though you don’t like sand.

29. You made sure our 16-day East Coast road trip was an experience to remember.

30. You’re willing to listen to my ideas about how to be happier and more efficient.

31. You like to keep the pool at 88 degrees.

32. You get 97 texts from your PFA friends in one day.

33. You dominate at board game night, especially Taboo.

34. You are wonderfully shameless when it comes to karaoke night.

35. You never go to bed mad.

36. You can somehow sleep until 11am on weekends.

37. You write cards that make me cry.

38. You only cry when your computer is causing you trouble.

39. You will always want to go to a movie on a night when the kids are in San Diego.

40. You put salt on salted popcorn.

41. You actually owned a tank of helium for balloons.

42. You like math.

43. You are the designated poop-picker-upper when there’s an accident.

44. You never say no to a Mommy’s Night Out.

45. You curse more than I do.

46. You are more into reading, theater and politics than when we first met.

47. You insist on themed Halloween costumes for all four of our family members.

48. You have a whole section of the attic reserved for different holiday decorations.

49. You need two attics to house all the things you’ve never thrown out.

50. You like 90% of what I buy you for Christmas.

51. You trust me when it comes to choosing a restaurant.

52. You always order the least healthy (and most tasty) thing on the menu.

53. You are cool with canceling Christmas. Or our 10th-anniversary vacation, if need be.

54. You are slowly coming around on the dog thing. Maybe a dwarf hamster first…

55. You finally got into book club — but you have a better idea if this one collapses.

56. You are always agreeable when I invite old friends over to dinner.

57. You treat my family like your own family.

58. You care about how you look — and you invariably look beautiful.

59. You make incredible meals in the crockpot.

60. You have a pantry with about 50 kinds of carbs, crackers, chips and cereals.

61. You don’t tell me how you vote — but I’m pretty sure you vote the way I would.

62. You are an excellent disciplinarian with the kids.

63. You invariably agree with me when we do our post-party rundown in the car.

64. You are the unofficial mayor of our town.

65. You embrace why my Israel trip meant so much to me.

66. You are the best kind of stable — I know exactly what I’ll get for the rest of my life.

67. You are almost willing to go camping, as long as there’s a shower in the woods.

68. You are an easy audience.

69. You don’t count calories.

70. You make bangs look good.

71. You take pride in being the best school treasurer ever.

72. You’re sometimes willing to have sex TWO times in a week.

73. You use 12 pillows when you go to sleep at night in your pillow fort.

74. You knew every word at the Depeche Mode show and braved three days at Desert Trip.

75. You allow me to play dinnertime DJ and introduce the kids to our music.

76. You don’t want anything more in life than a weekend alone.

77. You still read wedding magazines and consider them your version of porn.

78. You laugh at my mishaps at Thai massage places.

79. You drive much faster than I do.

80. You read much slower.

81. You say “I love you” at least 25% of the times I say it to you.

82. You are a hero to women you’ve never met.

83. You save random Saturday Night Live sketches for me to watch after you’ve seen them.

84. You handle customer service issues when I’m about to blow a gasket.

85. You make sure the kids are prepared for any fluctuation in temperature.

86. You never pass up a glass (or two) of wine.

87. You have middle-class taste at home and five-star taste in hotels.

88. You look great naked.

89. You make me feel like I do, too.

90. You donate to every charity that any of your family members request.

91. You can take a 2-hour break from telling a story and begin right where you left off.

92. You can operate on three hours of sleep.

93. You are more than willing to leave a party…an hour after I first asked if we could go.

94. You never make me feel bad when I’m falling short.

95. You don’t let your past relationships negatively affect your present ones.

96. You understand my need to talk about my past — my father, my exes, my career.

97. You have the highest emotional intelligence of anyone I’ve ever met.

99. You know all my embarrassing anecdotes — and you’re still here!

100. You are my muse, my north star, my raison d’etre, my favorite person in the world.

Happy 10th anniversary, honey!

Love,

Evan

The post 100 Reasons I Love You appeared first on Dating Coach – Evan Marc Katz | Understand Men. Find Love..

Are My Kids Keeping Me From Finding Love?

Do You Know Which Website Is the BEST Website for Your Needs?

Why Married Women Get a Raw Deal

Original source: https://www.evanmarckatz.com/blog/uncategorized/100-reasons-i-love-you

from WordPress https://hotandsizzlingonline.com/100-reasons-i-love-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=100-reasons-i-love-you via IFTTT

#IFTTT #WordPress

0 notes

bharatiyamedia-blog · 5 years ago

Text

Reviewing Pink Sox at All-Star break whereas taking a glimpse into their future

http://tinyurl.com/yxsv9jx2 Reviewing Red Sox at All-Star break whereas taking a glimpse into their future initially appeared on nbcsportsboston.com CLEVELAND — When viewing the wild card standings, the quantity that issues is not video games again, however groups again. Proper now the Boston Pink Sox solely path by two video games, however with three groups forward of them: the A’s (50-41), Indians (50-38), and Rays (52-39). They seem to be a recreation forward of the Rangers. Because the second half wears on, it turns into troublesome to move a number of golf equipment, even when they’re solely separated by a handful of video games. Anyone is successful each evening, and the alternatives to achieve floor on the gang are minimal. The excellent news is there’s ABSOLUTELY NO REASON the Pink Sox cannot declare the wild card. Tampa is simply 11-15 since taking three of 4 from the Pink Sox in early June and is sagging below the burden of Tyler Glasnow‘s absence and Blake Snell‘s ineffectiveness (4.70 ERA). All-Star Charlie Morton is on tempo for the primary 175-inning season of his profession at age 35, which does not appear sustainable. Tampa is susceptible. The Indians are with out ace Corey Kluber and simply introduced that gifted right-hander Carlos Carrasco is present process remedy for leukemia. They personal one of many worst offenses within the recreation, particularly with former MVP candidate Jose Ramirez hitting simply .217, however have gained six straight and are 24-12 since taking two of three from the Pink Sox in Might. The A’s misplaced ace Frankie Montas to an 80-game PED suspension, and are nonetheless with out left-hander Sean Maneaea, who’s hoping to return in August from labrum surgical procedure on his left shoulder. They’re doing it with duct tape and gum, and sooner or later that is going to offer. The Pink Sox, in the meantime, are getting All-Star-caliber performances from shortstop Xander Bogaerts and dynamic third baseman Rafael Devers, in addition to slugging catcher Christian Vazquez (!?!), DH J.D. Martinez, and sure, even defending MVP Mookie Betts, who very quietly hit .435 on the ultimate street journey of the half. Their bullpen stays a multitude, and so they’re not getting a lot from their beginning rotation, however should you’re telling me the hopes of the postseason relaxation on the shoulders of Chris Sale, David Price, and Rick Porcello, I would really really feel fairly good about that, though Sale and Porcello have underperformed significantly. “We’re lots higher than this,” supervisor Alex Cora informed reporters in Detroit following Sunday’s 6-Three victory. “We’re. We have to get higher. We have to get higher. There’s a number of issues right here that, though we completed sturdy and all that, they comprehend it. They comprehend it as a gaggle. We’ve got to be prepared for Friday, after which we play 34 in 34 days after that, and we begin with the Dodgers straight away. It ought to be enjoyable over the weekend. However I believe we could be a lot higher than this.” . . . Talking of Vazquez, holy cow. He smashed his 14th dwelling run on Sunday and hits the break batting .299 with an .852 OPS. That is somebody who entered the season with 10 lifetime homers and a lifetime batting common of .266 within the minor leagues. However the undersized catcher has exhibited energy to all fields, with prodigious pictures to heart and proper. For all of the talk of Devers’ All-Star snub, Vazquez had a compelling case to make, too. “I need to win,” Vazquez informed reporters in Detroit. “I am attempting to assist the staff win. We’re taking part in higher, that is the aim, irrespective of the end result, I like wins.” . . . We should always have a good suggestion of the place the Pink Sox stand by mid-August. They open the second half with a brutal schedule that features the 34 video games in 34 days that Cora talked about. There’s one off day, however it’s counterbalanced by a doubleheader in New York. These 34 video games will not be straightforward. Ten video games come in opposition to the Blue Jays, Orioles, and Royals. Three might be in opposition to MVP favourite Mike Trout and the Angels, who’re hanging across the periphery of the wild card chase. The opposite 21 might be in opposition to the iron — the Dodgers, Yankees, Rays, and Indians. Survive that gauntlet, and we are able to discuss. JBJ congratulates David Price on 150th career win>>> Click here to obtain the brand new MyTeams App by NBC Sports activities! Obtain complete protection of your groups and stream the Celtics simply in your gadget. Source link

0 notes

additionallysad · 6 years ago

Photo

Black Friday Home Decor Deals (& What We’re Buying) https://ift.tt/2S6aMEw

As is the tradition, I’ve scoured the Black Friday sales (is it me, or do they start earlier every year?) and rounded up my favorite home decor & furniture deals. And John already grabbed some tech items (he’s been waiting for this sale for a while). Our kitchen stools are under $96, our daughter’s bedroom rug is $350 off, and these velvet pillow covers are just $10! Our TV is also 42% off ($250 off!!), the smart plugs John loves are 58% off and his FBAT (favorite backpack of all time) is 65% 0ff. And so much more.

Stuff We Already Own (& Love!):

These are all things that we have bought with our own money, lived with, and love. And thanks to these crazy sale prices, you’re gonna get a better deal than we did. Let’s start with items you’ve probably seen around our Richmond house:

1 / Our Master Bed: Marked down to $599 from $900 (33% off)

2 / Emily Jeffords Art: Price depends on size, but Minted’s doing 20% off any art order over $150

3 / Our Foyer Pendant Light: Marked down to $239 from $298 (20% off)

4 / Our Faux Magnolia Garland: Marked down to $60 from $80 (25% off)

5 / Our Bedroom Chandelier: Marked down to $339 from $399 (15% off)

6 / John’s Office Desk (we’ve had this for 10+ years!): Marked down to $339 from $399 (15% off)

7 / Decorative Ceramic Houses: Marked down to $12 from $15 (20% off)

8 / Our Foyer Console Table: Marked down to $322 from $380 (15% off + free shipping)

9 / Our Kitchen Island Stools: Marked down to $96 from $160 (40% off)

10 / Our Daughter’s Bedroom Rug (in gray): Marked down to $539 from $899 (40% off)

11 / Our Favorite Oversized Vases: Start at $25 – enter FREESHIP65

12 / Our Faux Gingko Branches: Marked down to $6.50 from $13 (50% off!)

13 / Our Dining Room Chandelier: Marked down to $339 from $399 (15% off)

14 / Our Living Room Chairs: Marked down to $145 from $170 (15% off)

15 / Our Daughter’s Inlay Mirror: Marked down to $320 from $770 (58% off)

16 / Our Office Chairs (in gray): Marked down to $300 from $400 (25% off)

17 / Our Favorite Gold Frames: Buy 1 Get 1 50% off

18 / Our Faux Eucalyptus Branches: $14.50 down from $24.50 (40% off)

There are also lots of deals on stuff that we’ve got in our beach house and have started filling the duplex with (like some lights I’m crazy for). And there are some BOSS deals in here too.

Tools & Technology We Own/Love:

Thanks to John’s deep obsession with watching all things tech for deals throughout the year, he already jumped on a bunch of them for himself this morning since they’ve never been lower. So here are the items we’ve already purchased and used (many for years & years) and still LOVE.

1 / John’s Laptop Bag: Marked down to $69 from $200 (65% off)

2 / Our Go-To Cordless Drill + Battery: Marked down to $79 from $99 (20% off)

3 / Our Favorite Stick Vacuum: (re-bought this for the beach house!) Marked down to $90 from $130 (31% off)

4 / Our Bedroom Phone Chargers: $40 (it’s not marked down but they’re super durable & look great)

5 / Nest Thermostat E: Marked down to $139 from $169 (18% off) – bought ’em for the duplex!

6 / Vintage Style LEDs in Soft White: $29 for a 4 pack

7 / Our Favorite Cordless Nailer: Marked down to $109 from $180 (39% off)

8 / Our 55″ Smart Roku TV: Marked down to $350 from $600 (42% off)

9 / Our New Miter Saw + Collapsible Stand: Marked down to $400 from $600 (33% off)

10 / Apple Watch Series 3 with GPS & Cellular: (John got one as a belated b-day gift) $329 down from $409 (20% off)

11 / Our Roku 4 Streaming TV Box: Marked down to $100 from $130 (24% off)

12 / Our Favorite Smart Light Bulbs: $55 down from $70 (21% off)

13 / Echo Dot 2nd Gen: $20 down from $40 (50% off)

14 / Our Favorite Smart Plug: Marked down to $17 from $40 (58% off)

15 / Our Handy Pressure Washer: $90 down from $130 (31% off)

16 / Our Favorite Sound Machine: Marked down to $15 from $30 (50% off)

17 / Our Cordless Leaf Blower: Marked down to $150 from $170 (12% off)

18 / Our Cordless Trimmer: $85 (click “tool only” if you already have a battery)

19 / Our Go-To Drill & Driver Set: Marked down to $8 from $10 (20% off)

House Stuff We’re Buying / Eyeing:

I’m mainly checking out rugs, accessories, and a few pieces of furniture – and these are the things I’m loving most with the best prices right now. A glass doored cabinet for $67?! Big rugs like this and this that are 40% off?! A gorgeous armchair for $185?! Yes please.

1 / Rattan Headboard: marked down to $466 for a queen & $304 for a twin

2 / Color Block Hand Towels: $14 each, get free shipping with code SAVEMORE

3 / Tassel Sham Set: $36 down from $39 + 20% off if you join Urban Outfitters Rewards (free)

4 / 8.5″ Mercury Glass Tree: $10 (this isn’t marked down but I got one and it’s AMAZING! They light up!)

5 / 20″ Mercury Glass Tree: $20 (also not marked down but these are so beautiful)

6 / Linear Ombre Rug: 9 x 12″ was $899, now $539 (40% off!)

7 / Chunky Knit Throw: Marked down to $21 from $30 (30% off)

8 / Velvet Pillow: Marked down to $24 from $27 (10% off)

9 / Woven Cat Basket: Marked down to $63 from $79 (20% off)

10 / Faux Fur Beanbag: Marked down to $165 from $228 (about 30% off)

11 / Glass Accent Cabinet: Marked down to $67 from $130 (40% off + another 15% off w/ code TURKEY!)

12 / Handcarved Coffee Table: This is still pricey but so gorgeous & 40% off ($700 from $1099)

13 / Oak Tripod Floor Lamp: Marked down to $76 from $80 (5% off)

14 / Rattan Arm Chair: Marked down to $127 from $150 (15% off with code TURKEY)

15 / Tassel Hand Towel:$23 down from $30 (25% off)

16 / Water Hyacinth Basket: $19 (not on sale but great price)

17 / Cat Ring Dish: Marked down to $5 from $20 (75% off!) – such a cute gift!

18 / Set of 2 Decorative Mugs: $8 down from $16 (50% off) – also a cute gift idea w/ hot cocoa or tea

19 / Mini Waffle Maker: $20 (comes in mint, pink, & white – so tempting for the duplex)

20 / Brass Bird Bookcase: This is still pricey ($999 from $$1600) but it’s 40% off & stunning

21 / Geometric Carved Coffee Table: Marked down to $110 from $130 (15% off) + 15% more off of that w/ code TURKEY

22 / Diamond Indoor / Outdoor Rug: 9 x 12″ marked down to $539 from $899 (40% off)

Not everything we’re keeping an eye on falls into a soft blush color scheme (it was fun to organize things that way, though – ha!) so here are the other home deals I’m loving:

1 / Plaid Welcome Mat: $13 (great price for this cool design)

2 / Navy Campaign Nightstand: $299 with free shipping

3 / Chevron Rug: 5 x 7′ is marked down to $110 from $130 (5% off + 15% off with code TURKEY)

4 / Indigo Indoor / Outdoor Rug: 9 x 12′ marked down to $539 from $899 (40% off)

5 / Black Round Mirror: Marked down to $45 from $50 (10% off)

6 / Decorative Basket: $20 (not marked down but great price)

7 / Black Pendant Light: $41 down from $69 (40% off)

8 / Mini Footed Planter: $12 (20% off by joining Urban Outfitters Rewards or buy 1 get 1 50% off anything)

9 / Plaid Pillow Cover: Marked down to $26 from $35 (25% off with code THANKFUL)

10 / Wood Arm Chair: $185 down from $230 (5% off plus 15% more with code TURKEY)

11 / Set of 2 Upholstered Dining Chairs: $276 down from $460 (40% off) – $138 each!

12 / Rattan Accent Cabinet: Marked down to $180 from $200 (10% off)

13 / Overdyed Rug: 4 x 6′ marked down to $40 from $50 (5% off + another 15% off with code TURKEY)

14 / Faux Fiddle Leaf Fig: $179 with free shipping (use FREESHIP65)

15 / Striped Beach Towel: Marked down to $15 from $18 (these are so cute even at full price!)

16 / Brass Pivoting Wall Sconce: Marked down $48 from $60 (20% off)

17 / Velvet Pillows Covers: Marked down to $10 from $29 (66% off)

18 / Printed Pillow Cover: Marked down to $40 from $88 (55% off)

19 / Flannel Sheet Set: Marked down to $14 from $20 (30% off)

Can’t Forget Small Business Saturday!

Here are some of our favorite Etsy shops with lovely (and personalized!) hand-made wares. Not everything’s marked down, but it FEELS SO GOOD to have original art and handmade stuff in your house. Really puts a personalized spin on any space. And can you resist that sweet personalized birch candle holder?! Also: support small businesses year-round!

1 / Handmade Pillow Cover: $69.99

2 / Leather Wall Strap: Marked down to $11 from $13 (15% off)

3 / White & Wood Modern Light: Marked down to $231 from $257 (10% off!)

4 / Colorful Art Prints: Starting at about $21! We LOVE her stuff and own 2 original paintings!

5 / Cheeky Key Dish: $17 down from $22 (20% off)

6 / Camping Mug Candle: $22 down from $28 (20% off) – 4 scents & designs!

7 / Faux Leather Pillow Cover: $29 down from $32 (10% off)

8 / Handmade Graphic Pillow Cover: $34

9 / Pretty Face Vase: $14

10 / Turkish Towel Throw Blanket: Marked down to $25 from $31 (20% off!)

11 / Vintage Kilim Rug (5×10′): Marked down to $299 from $500 (40% off!!)

12 / Brass Elephant Bookends: $35

13 / Illustrated Family Portrait: Starts at $65, depending on number of people

14 / Vintage Indigo Pillow Cover: $44 down from $52 (15% off)

15 / Personalized Birch Candle Holder: $20

16 / Gray Wood Decorative Beads: $14

17 / Modern White Vases: $14 (these are so delicate and lovely)

18 / Leather Key Holder: Marked down to $16 from $20 (20% off) – free personalization!

19 / Colorful Letterboard: $30.99 (we have this one in pink at the beach house & love the other colors too)

Coupon Codes & Sales That Are On Now:

Ok, I’m off to eat my weight in turkey and grab at least a handful of things on this list (John already bought our Nest thermostats for the duplex and his belated birthday Apple Watch – such a deal! he saved $80!). But before I go, here’s a rundown of the sales & codes I’ve found so far:

Crate & Barrel –Up to 40% off furniture + 20% off sale prices

Target – Lots of markdowns with an additional 15% off all online furniture with the code TURKEY

Pottery Barn – 25% off sitewide + free shipping with code THANKFUL

Serena & Lily – 20% off everything with code GATHER

Anthropologie – 30% off everything on their site (starts Friday)

CB2 – 15% off full priced items + free shipping with code SAVE15

Minted – 20% off holiday cards, gifts, art, and home decor over $150 or 15% off everything with the code: BF2018

World Market – 40% off furniture with code FURNDEAL

Rejuvenation – Up to 25% off, depending how much you spend

Wayfair – Up to 80% off

Overstock – Up to 70% off + free shipping

McGee & Co – 20% off everything with code THANKYOU

West Elm – Up to 30% off + free shipping with code SAVEMORE

Annie Selke – 25% off everything with the code CYBER18

Urban Outfitters – Buy one, get one 50% off

Old Navy – 50% off your entire purchase

Banana Republic – 50% off regularly priced items

J. Crew – 40% off your purchase using the code “TOGETHER”

Gap –50% off everything with code BLKFRIDAY + an extra 10% off online with TREAT

Hope you guys are all soaking up lots of family time (and all the delicious fooooood) this holiday weekend. And feel free to tell me on Instagram or Facebook if there are any major deals I’m missing. You know I love to submerge myself in them hot-tub style and pretend to splash around in them a la Scrooge McDuck.

Psst – For all the exact paint colors & links to all of the furniture & accessories that we have in our house, this page has you covered – and if you’re looking for items we have already bought and lived with and love, this page has all of those things corralled for ya.

*This post contains affiliate links*

The post Black Friday Home Decor Deals (& What We’re Buying) appeared first on Young House Love.

#additionally sad home renovations

0 notes

lukerhill · 6 years ago

Text

Black Friday Home Decor Deals (& What We’re Buying)