Monthly Archives: April 2025

It’s Easter next weekend, so we sat down as a group to plan what we’re going to do. Which is to say, making sure the kids understood that if we’re going to do like we normally do (go to MiL’s house and snack) that they have to be prepared to do most of the legwork for laying out and putting… Read more »

And lo, the A/C is on and doing its thing. I’m amusedly the least hot person for once, and more so now that I’m right under the cold air. I commented to R that my glasses are fogging up, which honestly, is amusing me more than its worth. Which is to say, yes, friends a-visiting. In the finest of introvert… Read more »

And la, another week in the bag. Even though I didn’t have anything taking me out of the house, it’s been a really exhausting one for like, zero reason. And it’s not the having kids in my bubble, as they’ve both been off doing things this week with friends. Littlest was making and opening blind bags with a friend and… Read more »

Today, I give you gratuitous cats. They were all in the bathroom chasing the teeniest fly, which. Cats, innit. Better than yesterday, when Halo broke a mug by jumping on the counter chasing a ginormous hornet. Which was confusing, because we’d not spotted the hornet at first, and he doesn’t jump on counters. (he was fine. no damage from either… Read more »

Whew, so. I’m finally mainly caught up on shop-related tasks. Photos happened, editing happened, and I just finished the listing in my shop. I should probably circle back to the pride ring listings and include the little ‘don’t see your flag, contact me’ note. I forgot to do that. It’s fine for the minute though… not like anyone is going… Read more »

I’m apparently still in doing-shop-things mode. I got all those patterns up last night, and then had to go and do a small addendum to all of them earlier. But at least that’s done. Now I just have to find the spoons to take a million photographs of rings. My back is a bit cranky, so maybe I’ll take something… Read more »

With things like chronic pain and chronic fatigue, it’s amazing what you can get used to. Like, today — severe headache, and I’m like… should I take something? Do something? In the end, I put some Vaporub on my temples, and will probably call it done unless it finds some new novel way to be stabby and severe. I finished… Read more »

In that whole bodies get older and shadier thing, I’ve had this situation where there’s a pinched nerve in my back. It’s not pinched all the time, but when it goes, it goes. It went earlier, and while the pain level of it was a smidge less than normal, the intensity was a bit worse. Thankfully, a pair of co-codamol… Read more »

I surprised myself today — I messaged my Member of Parliament. I consider him by and large useless since the *first* time he was our MP, so yeah. Someone had asked in one of my Discords how tariffs were going to affect a band on tour, and my brain was like… actually, our MP used to be a Treasury Secretary,… Read more »

So, the current law in regards to selling to the US means that anything under $800 doesn’t require paying tariffs on; this is called the ‘de minimis’. While the White House hasn’t out and out said that this, the de minimis, will be going away with all the new global tariffs, but the small print seems to suggest that it… Read more »