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survey #176

Do you think you could handle a job in the medical field? Why or why not? No. I could never handle a patient dying, and there's also a lot of gross stuff I don't want to see.

What is one electronic device you own that you have not used in a long time? A Nintendo DS Lite.

Do you prefer to play chess or checkers? I only know how to play checkers.

If you had to go an entire week without using any technology, what do you think you would spend most of your time doing instead? Reading, drawing, writing, probably exercising extra. I'm sure I'd be way, way more productive...

Would you rather travel to Asia or France? Asia, I think.

Do you prefer dark, brown or white chocolate? My preference is milk chocolate, but I also do enjoy dark. There are very few cases where I've liked white chocolate, it's too sweet.

Would you rather visit Australia, Germany, Croatia, or Jamaica? I fully intend to visit Germany at least once.

Would you prefer a pet rat, mouse, snake, lizard or spider? If I could only pick one to have period, snake. At this moment though, like what I most want to add to my family now, is a tarantula, either a Brazilian black or skeleton leg.

Have you ever fallen into a hole or crevice whilst hiking? I've never even been hiking.

A romantic meal, a trip to a theme park, or go to a concert? In general I'd prefer to go to a concert as a date, however Girt actually doesn't enjoy concerts so I wouldn't drag him to one. With him, I'll take the theme park, when my legs are a-okay.

How often do you wear necklaces? Basically never because all the ones I have start to bother my skin really quick/turn it greenish. I want a necklace I can keep on so bad, I really love how they look. If I'm putting any of my necklaces on now, it's for going out somewhere.

Would you rather wear a bracelet or a necklace? Necklaces, I actually don't like bracelets for the same reason I don't like long-sleeved shirts that thin out/get stretchy at the ends (I know that is so specific and you probably have no idea what I'm talking about), I don't at all like feeling something tight-ish around my wrists. I'm the same about pants that only reach my ankles.

When was the last time you had a donut? Maybe like, a month ago. Or more.

What’s your favorite song by Miley Cyrus? I genuinely do love "The Climb."

Who do you absolutely adore? My boyfriend and his immediate family, my own mom, nieces and nephew, Mazzy, and Tez. I care about more people, but as far as "adore" goes, it's them.

Have you ever had a crush on a kinda-country boy? lol no, I don't think I've ever been romantically attracted to a notably "country" guy.

Do you care about any of your exes at all? I care most about Jason, but no longer in a romantic sort of way. Of course I still feel some amount of softness towards Sara, but I can't truthfully say I "care" about her anymore. I just have nostalgia with her.

Who last slapped your butt? Probably my friend Chelsea, we used to be really close when I was still friends with her sister, and we were sexually playful with each other in a completely "just joking" kind of way, neither of us actually felt anything romantic. She's married with a kid now.

Where have you lived throughout your life? The same general area of eastern North Carolina, near the coastal plain/Piedmont divide.

What kind of cake did you have for your last birthday? I actually didn't want a cake, we got donuts instead.

Have you ever had a panic attack? Many. I'm more prone to anxiety attacks, but panic attacks have definitely happened.

Anyone’s birthday coming up soon? Yes, my mom's at the start of next month and my nephew's in the middle of August.

When at a restaurant, do you put your napkin on your lap? I probably would if it was messy food.

Do you prefer electric or manual pencil sharpeners? Electric.

Are your biceps at all noticeable? lol no

When are you moving next? I don't know. It's looking to be very possible that our landlord will be selling this house and getting us into another somehow, things are very uncertain right now, and if that doesn't happen it will probably be whenever Girt and I hopefully move in together.

Have you ever had a bad concert experience? No.

Have you ever carried a concealed weapon? No.

Do you call your boyfriend “Monkey”? I've seen this question appear in so many surveys over all the years and I have never understood why, I know literally nobody who does this.

Would you rather go to Greece or France? Greece.

How would you spend a day at the beach? At this moment I wouldn't go to the beach, not until my legs are stronger; the last time I visited the beach, my muscle atrophy was kinda early on, and I struggled VERY BADLY walking in the sand. While great progress has been made, I just don't think I'm ready to where I'd be able to enjoy the experience. But anyway, to answer the question in general, I tend to stay in the water; I hate the feeling of sand but love being in the ocean. I'm sure we'd bring a tent thing for shade, so I'd probably sit under that with the people I'm with, maybe have some snacks or read. I'd definitely bring my camera to try to get some nice pictures. Hopefully one day soon I CAN go on a vacation like this and not be in torment lol.

Have you ever experienced altitude sickness? No. Like everyone though I've definitely experienced the ear popping in planes and even when driving through mountains.

Was the last show you watched a re-run? Not for me, no; Ma and I were watching Deadliest Catch, some of the first season. She's seen it at some point.

What’s your biggest priority right now? Improving my physical health, I think. I've gotten too far to let it start slipping again.

What does it feel like to fall asleep in someone’s arms? If I'm not hot, I absolutely love it. In the spooning sense anyway lol, if we're PROPERLY lying down so we're actually comfortable, I am such a cuddlebug. If I'm sitting up in some way, then I'm uncomfortable/am gonna wake up feeling like death lol.

Do you recall the first time that you learned the truth about sex? 5th grade, sex ed/"family life" classes. I feel like a rare exception where my parents actually never taught me about this stuff, so my education on it was very aggressively abstinence-based and made HIV/AIDS sound like a total death sentence that you'd contract from your very first pre-marital intercourse. I am very unhappy with how I was taught about my own body parts and men's, like there is still probably so much stuff I don't know and it's honestly pretty embarrassing.

Do you need the opinion of others to make yourself feel worthwhile? uh... admittedly, right now, yes. I am very, very bad about needing external validation, because otherwise I'm convinced I'm an awful person who shouldn't treasure herself. This is a very major problem with me that I'm still trying to fix.

Have you ever rubbed anyone’s feet? ugh ew no, I hate feet

What is one thing you fantasize or daydream about doing? Being able to support myself with nature photography, going all over the world seeing amazing things...

What would you rather: lethal injection, electric chair, or hanging? Lethal injection sounds by far the least painful... I'd think. I guess I don't know exactly what the body experiences during these.

Have you taken someone's virginity? No.

What would you say if the person you love/like kissed another girl/boy? I'd be pretty fucking pissed off, especially when one of his relationship dealbreakers is cheating, so wouldn't that be ironic. I'd break up with him immediately and probably stop talking to him. Wow I don't like this question, even when I have full trust in him to never do this.

Does the person you have feelings for right now, know you do? lmfao yes he's very aware

Why did you kiss the last person you kissed? He was leaving to go home.

Did you hug/kiss one of your parents today? No.

Who would you like to see in concert? Rammstein is fucking obviously #1 lol, even before I was super super into them I woulda gone because their concerts are very highly praised. I'd also really like to go with my mom to a Metallica concert (she would fucking die), as well as In This Moment, who she also likes a whole lot. I would include Ozzy here, but he seems to be done touring and probably should be with his health state. There are plenty of other bands I'd go see, I really like concerts, but those are the immediate, strong answers for me.

Who was the first person to ever ask you out? I think one of the boys that harassed me in pre-k, but honestly I don't even know if we knew what "asking out" was yet, there were just two boys who would chase and try to kiss me during recess.

What's one thing your partner must be able to accept about you? Sometimes I need time to myself, and also that I'm a mentally ill person that is not always going to be in happy shape.

Are there any videos of yourself on YouTube? No, not to my memory. Certainly not on my current account.

What’s one thing that’s annoying you about the book you’re reading now? It doesn't majorly annoy me, but Sutherland has a very strong habit of overusing separating paragraphs for emphasis, in my opinion. She's slightly more dramatic than I prefer in reading.

Do you have trouble letting friends go when you need to? YUP SURE FUCKIN DO

If you had a daughter, would you allow sleepovers? I'm going to guess you're implying her sleeping over with a boy, because obviously I'd allow her female friends to????? I probably would allow sleepovers with a boy she's actually dating only once she hits 16; I know what I did at 16 with my boyfriend, and I was abstinent then, I'm not inviting my teenage daughter to get pregnant if we can avoid it. I also include the fact they'd better be actually, officially dating because I'd likely wring a fucker's neck if he tried to lead my daughter on by never committing.

Which do you like better, your first name or your middle name? My first, I'm thankful I actually like my first name lol. My middle name is pretty imo, but it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO common.

Where is your brother? He lives in Tennessee, but I actually don't think he's there right now; he's been traveling the country doing track races in I think he's aiming for every state.

Do you like using terms of endearment? Yes, I am extremely verbally affectionate.

Do you have any plans for tomorrow? Yeah, Girt's gonna be coming over.

What's the longest movie you've ever seen? I THINK Troy, but I'm unsure. I don't generally like super long movies, by like around two hours I'm done.

What was the last thing you wrote down in the notes app on your phone? I have one list of drawing ideas, and I added something to that.

Would you ever want to visit South Korea? Nah, I'm not particularly interested.

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frogsandfries · 4 years

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I dicked up. I don't think these shrank properly, but I think I sprayed them too heavily with sealant, and the sealant would only shrink so far. I decided to dome them and seal them anyway. Then I put them in my little cigarette box-sized cookie tin. I couldn't really think of what else to do with them, since somewhere between getting home last night and getting my first refill this morning, my water bottle bracelet went missing. I don't believe it fell off between leaving work and rearranging my backpack on the bus.

I'm disappointed at how orange the yellow on the candy corn is, how blue the chocolate is, and how dull the red M&M is. I'm genuinely not sure what caused this, but I can't really afford to buy fresh ink, if the ink is the issue. I don't think it is, because I just printed my ice cream cones and the pinks came out just fine. Well, till I shrink them..... I'll probably try to at least get them cut out first thing after I get some cleaning done on the porch. The ice cream cones printed huge, so they'll be very, very big even when shrunk. I'd like to put all three sheets together and shrink them all in one go.

It's incredibly gratifying to get so much of a potential product built up with so little real effort on my part. The prospect of producing a store's worth of these designs is exciting. In fact, now I want to print the ice cream cones as earrings. How cool would that be?? And if I can get the candies to come out just right, they'd make awesome earrings.

I even, already, have two sheets of popsicles coming up, and some time after that, I'll be getting around to those jelly beans.

I guess my last three points are:

Going full time at work. Apparently, all I have to do is ask to change my availability. But as it is, this job makes me want to die. I'm not sure if it's that it makes me entirely off my natural rhythm, or that I don't have and/or make the time to eat well, or if it's the banality of the job, but if I had to spend more hours there, I'd definitely get a worse attitude about it. However, I sure could use the money, and it wouldn't have to be that long. I could just try it for a month or two. I only have February and March, maybe April left there.

The friend I'm currently living with wants to be out by April, so I have until then. With my dad undergoing surgery this next year or so, they're looking at potentially renting an apartment, so I might be able to stay with them briefly while I wait to attend my sister's graduation. There's a specific paid holiday my dad wants to use to make the trip. I was distracted by a man I didn't recognize out of context going into the house while my dad spoke. It was my friend's friend's partner.

My dad wants to give me regular driving lessons. If that's going to be a thing AND I'm going to ask to work full time, my time for working on merch is going to be significantly stunted. Honestly, I don't know what exactly I'm making all these charms and keychains, etc etc, for, except to package them, find an event and sell them to people. But I'm not even going to look at flea markets and craft fairs until I have a body of work worth taking and sharing. If I have a bunch of themes and color palettes going on, I think I'll stand a better chance. Admittedly, I think it's going to take several packs of shrink paper to get that kind of body of work going, but honestly, for the number of pieces I can get out of one sheet, just as keychains and bigger pins/buttons, let alone how many pairs of stud earrings I could get out of a sheet, plus, I think I could modestly sell a pair of studs for seven to ten dollars. It'd be worth it to have a decent quantity of merchandise to bring with me.

It'd be cool to get to Oregon and find an event like that. Especially where I'm going to be, I'd be proud to be associated with that area. It's a lovely area. And furthermore, according to my friend who's lived there his whole life, an artist could thrive there. He's shown my work to a good number of people and they appreciate it. Or they like him and humor him. It'd be powerful to get on the ground with my work and be immediately financially incentivized to keep doing it. Once I build up a good selection, it'd be really easy to keep going when another project takes my interest or priority. And maybe every once in a while, I could make the time to produce a new collection of work.

And arguing with this rather obnoxious guy via a dating app. He thinks I condone intimate partner violence because in one breath, I told him I think he's privileged that he can think, my partner hit me, I'm going to involve thre police, and in the next breath, I reassured him that it's fucked up the cop basically laughed at him. But nooooo, I'm never going to live down, against him, the fact that I wouldn't get the cops involved if I had a male person of color partner and he hit me, because I know damn well the cops wouldn't give either of us the justice we would deserve. I'd probably get the ring around for dating outside my skin color, and he'd be punished worse than a white guy would. I'd just tell myself that I deserved to be hit for getting with someone who thought that was okay, and I'd bounce. I'm good at packing and going, apparently.

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frogsandfries · 6 years

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I might just have to skip the part about finishing first

The original decision was to finish the van first. But that may take a long time. Although, my dad really wants the blower out of my van--I don't need it, since I'm installing two like attic or shed ventilators in the roof, plus it's such a small space, between my heater and my fan, the space is taken care of for heating. For cooling, eh, well, y'know. So he wants to bring the van onto the property after he junks his truck, to use power from the building. And while he does the one, he might as well do the other. That will finally free up the floor space, so I can finally, finally, finish the floor. I can also try to customize that step. In concept, I still like the idea of using that pebbled tile, I think the mortar will make it heavy, but ultimately take care of grime and moisture. Or I could go entirely practical and leave.... no, I can't leave that part of the floor in tact. It'll look weird to have those layers of flooring visible. I really need something slip resistant and maybe hydrophobic.

I'm still not really sure what to do, but starting fresh with that space seems the best idea. I know I'm not really ever going to own that second door, even with the tower removed. I really think that space would make good shoe storage. Maybe with a foldout table? Like, the shoe storage could be a couple rows of pockets, and a couple bars or shelves for larger shoes, like boots. I should get an entry rug. There we go, problem solved. Something like one of those rag rugs. Then it doesn't matter what my transition looks like.

Anyway, whatever I do with the floor, I'm getting anxious to have a real, actual product line that I can actually sell and be proud of and make actual money from, because this whole job thing is turning into a joke. As of next month, I will have been temping for an actual year. Meaning I'll have bounced around and scrounged and struggled to make ends meet for a year. I have gone without stability in my finances and my work history for a year. And yet, I have over a hundred charms that I could cast in colored resin and sell for a portion of the cost that I would need to sell a polyclay charm to see any kind of profit. I could sell my hand-poured, hand-crafted resin charms (especially the more detailed) for a cost equal to most polyclay charms out there. And I strongly believe once I get going and have a sustainable stock, and begin promoting myself and ordering nicer promotional materials, I can sustain myself. At least.

The hand-embroidered patch thing is probably going to remain just for me, but another product I'm very interested in is enamel pins. I think, with some creativity and schmoozing, I could come up with a brand, a personality, that people will find interest in.

Plus the charms are so versatile. They can be for bracelets, necklaces, belts, zippers, phones, journals, planners, earrings. They could probably even be drilled for beads. I could offer chains for bracelets and necklaces, and a discount on multiple charms. In my shop, I already offer the option for wire or stud earrings, or cellphone lanyards (disclaimer my shop is closed because I have no way of producing anything). I suppose I could experiment with filling my own die-casts? Or make my own resin pins? The hard part about enamel pins is the heat/energy required to melt or form metal, as well as set the enamel. I could make my own dies, albeit for resin, and order my own pin backs. I could even use the two-, three-, or four-hole pins with resin. Actually, I could run loads of products in resin. If I had the environment.

That's the problem though. I simply don't.

I can't even run shortcuts on the van. I can't say, oh it's fine that I don't have a kitchen, I'll just do a weeks worth of casting before I start that. Oh it's fine that I don't have any sort of bathroom or shower. But by the same stroke, I can only hit this problem so hard before I'll need a break. I definitely can't order the resin when I still can't temperature control the van, and there's no point in having the resin if I don't have light to work by, a desk to work at, or an orderly way to store everything.

Plus, guys, a van presents unique storage problems all its own, with the braking and accelerating pushing and pulling at all things not carefully arranged and stored. That's part of why I couldn't just make a standard closet shoe rack and call it a day. Or, I couldn't just have an open-faced kitchen and call it a day. I would have to prevent my mugs from clattering into each other, and falling off their hooks. I would have to make sure my pots and pans can't shift too far, that my water tanks won't slide away, that projects on my desk aren't going to tumble or spill. Everything has to be locked and latched in place.

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