I'm trying to learn how to braid my own hair. I never learned how, and now that I'm purposefully growing my hair out for the first time in ages, I figured I'd try. Oh my god, why can't I do this. My hands can't seem to move properly, and every tutorial I've looked at is done by these people with perfect flowing hair, not hair that acts like it's simultaneously attempting to escape from itself and stick together as much as possible like mine. How does this even work. I'm just getting nowhere and looking at my hair and hands like,
I'm trying to learn how to braid my own hair. I never learned how, and now that I'm purposefully growing my hair out for the first time in ages, I figured I'd try. Oh my god, why can't I do this. My hands can't seem to move properly, and every tutorial I've looked at is done by these people with perfect flowing hair, not hair that acts like it's simultaneously attempting to escape from itself and stick together as much as possible like mine. How does this even work. I'm just getting nowhere and looking at my hair and hands like,
So I learned this trick at the age of eight, because I was at a boarding school at the time - the old-fashioned kind where little girls had to be neat and tidy at all times, and if you had long hair you had to have it braided, and regularly re-braided throughout the day just to make absolutely certain it never got messy. And I could either wait for the matrons to get around to helping me, or figure it out myself. For this reason, I am a whizz at braiding my own hair, even though it's curly enough to be a tangly riot most of the time.
... assuming we mean only a basic braid, that is. In more recent years I thought it would be super and wonderful to have those nice French braids over my ears, right? One on each side of my head. Attempting this is like discovering I have three times as many fingers as I'm supposed to and about twelve times as much hair as I thought. The one thing I can tell you is: DO NOT look in the mirror while you try any of this. Ever. It can only lead to a total meltdown of the brain.
Cyndarinused Flamethrower! It was super effective.
edited December 2015
I've been off work for a week and came back today. My budget went from surplus to overspent by $1800. I have 853 unread emails. My boss went on maternity leave a month early. All my clients are mad about something.
They give us 4 weeks of PTO plus 2 weeks of paid vacation days. BUT WE CAN'T USE IT BECAUSE IT ALL GOES TO SHIT WHEN WE LEAVE.
edit: Plus side, they say you know you're good at your job when things fall to pieces when you are gone.
I thought Comcast was bad until I got Verizon fios. The I realized all American ISPs are bad
I think most people would agree with you, but my mileage has varied a good bit.
I had comcast for about 10 years, pay was like 50 bucks for 50Mbps down|up (only got 25-35, which is a crime as far as I'm concerned, but seems to be a standard across certain ISPs). Service almost never went down or caused issues for me until the last 2 weeks before I moved out of the city. Because of a glitch when I swapped apartments within the same complex but kept the same router/modem, they forgot to bill me for 6 months until I went to close out the account (it felt really good to get that much for free because they're incompetent, because fuck comcast in general).
Now we're on verizon fios paying $40 bucks a month for 50 down|up, and we're actually getting 60. Fios has been solid so far! (unlike my experience with V wireless)
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Cyndarinused Flamethrower! It was super effective.
The only issue I have with Fios is that it seems to drop connection a lot around peak usage hours. I can't play Lusternia around 7 pm, basically.
They also say the best way to trap yourself into a job is to make yourself so invaluable they won't promote you.
+1. As dumb as it might sound at first consideration, this is very much a real thing.
Seconding this.
Also, it's clear you have to work with a certain number of morons @Celina which is always irritating and more importantly limits your productivity/capability. Sitting back and playing nursemaid to children is for elementary school teachers. You need a team/challenge that is more appropriate of your skill set (with the appropriate increase in income).
Today was supposed to be busy, and net me oodles of money. Instead our competitor failed to produce a file that we needed to give us all the patients that were transferring service to us instead of them. Ergo, we had to find busywork until we could no longer justify being there, and we STILL have essentially half of our pharmacy's volume for the new year that we need to get entered into our systems before Wednesday, which we can't start on until they cough up the list.
I have every confidence we'll get it done, but it'd be nice if we could get at least some of it done before we have patients calling in on top of the files to transfer...
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Cyndarinused Flamethrower! It was super effective.
I have real bad health issues, which have only gotten worse since I was in a nasty accident a couple years back.
Barring a huge miracle, doc says I have months, at best. I haven't been looking forward to the new year, a way to measure how that clock keeps ticking down.
Mayor Steingrim, the Grand Schema says to you, "Well, as I recall you kinda leave a mark whereever you go."
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Cyndarinused Flamethrower! It was super effective.
edited January 2016
Aww. Damn. I don't know what to say.
Always, always get a second opinion. Or a third and a fourth and a fifth. I don't know the specifics, obviously, but it's not over until it's over!
edit: I know it's not remotely comparable, and probably stupid/insulting to even draw a comparison, but I lost my right eardrum to a horrible infection when I was a kid. My doctor told me I would be deaf in that ear for the rest of my life, these things do not self repair. I would never be able to swim without air tight earplugs or else I'd have severe pain. I had surgery for it that ultimately failed. 2 years later, it repaired itself, and my doctor had no explanation and I can hear in both ears.
My father got mouth cancer where they removed half his jaw and the lower right portion of his face. They told him that even with surgery, the likelihood of total remission was slim to none. Chemo didn't work and made him very sick. He's now in a text book due to an experimental treatment, retired, and enjoying his spare time selling farm land and cattle, and best of all he's been cancer free for years.
I have real bad health issues, which have only gotten worse since I was in a nasty accident a couple years back.
Barring a huge miracle, doc says I have months, at best. I haven't been looking forward to the new year, a way to measure how that clock keeps ticking down.
Nothing stupid or insulting about that, @Celina. (Although you definitely have been both, in the past, if I may say so) But those are the kinds of thoughts that even keep me going right now.
Miracles do happen.
Mayor Steingrim, the Grand Schema says to you, "Well, as I recall you kinda leave a mark whereever you go."
I really hate staying in my parent's house, especially around the holidays. It's bad. Everything is so much better when I can engage with my family at range. Last night. I was going to go out dancing tonight, but my mother is flipping the fuck out about it, even though I'm a dramatically better driver than her (according to the official report by our insurance agency). It's drizzling ever so slightly.
@Talan I had a whole drawerful of socks dissapear, even though i swear i did not wear or touch them. :S damn those borrowers!
is dead like the dodo
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Cyndarinused Flamethrower! It was super effective.
edited January 2016
For those not in America, we currently have an armed "militia" occupying the offices of a Bird Sanctuary in remote Oregon to protest government tyranny.
For those not in America, we currently have an armed "militia" occupying the offices of a Bird Sanctuary in remote Oregon to protest government tyranny.
#america #forthebirds
The stupidity that political extremists display never ceases to amaze me.
EveriineWise Old Swordsbird / BrontaurIndianapolis, IN, USA
People need to stop calling me on the phone while I'm trying to RP! *grump*
Everiine is a man, and is very manly. This MAN before you is so manly you might as well just gender bend right now, cause he's the manliest man that you ever did see. His manly shape has spurned many women and girlyer men to boughs of fainting. He stands before you in a manly manerific typical man-like outfit which is covered in his manly motto: "I am a man!"
Daraius said: You gotta risk it for the biscuit.
Pony power all the way, yo. The more Brontaurs the better.
People need to stop calling me on the phone while I'm trying to RP! *grump*
I know that feel. Girlfriend likes to call right as I'm starting a game of DotA.
So far it's been my mother, a scammer, and a telemarketer. I'M TRYING TO LEARN IMPORTANT THINGS HERE.
Everiine is a man, and is very manly. This MAN before you is so manly you might as well just gender bend right now, cause he's the manliest man that you ever did see. His manly shape has spurned many women and girlyer men to boughs of fainting. He stands before you in a manly manerific typical man-like outfit which is covered in his manly motto: "I am a man!"
Daraius said: You gotta risk it for the biscuit.
Pony power all the way, yo. The more Brontaurs the better.
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I had comcast for about 10 years, pay was like 50 bucks for 50Mbps down|up (only got 25-35, which is a crime as far as I'm concerned, but seems to be a standard across certain ISPs). Service almost never went down or caused issues for me until the last 2 weeks before I moved out of the city. Because of a glitch when I swapped apartments within the same complex but kept the same router/modem, they forgot to bill me for 6 months until I went to close out the account (it felt really good to get that much for free because they're incompetent, because fuck comcast in general).
Now we're on verizon fios paying $40 bucks a month for 50 down|up, and we're actually getting 60. Fios has been solid so far! (unlike my experience with V wireless)
Seconding this. Also, it's clear you have to work with a certain number of morons @Celina which is always irritating and more importantly limits your productivity/capability. Sitting back and playing nursemaid to children is for elementary school teachers. You need a team/challenge that is more appropriate of your skill set (with the appropriate increase in income).
I have every confidence we'll get it done, but it'd be nice if we could get at least some of it done before we have patients calling in on top of the files to transfer...
Vive l'apostrophe!
The stupidity that political extremists display never ceases to amaze me.
Estarra the Eternal says, "Give Shevat the floor please."
i.e she did better than me! 'black magic' or i fucked up! and did strange things - oh noes! confundus charm black magic spell
or
my socks things have dissappeared! someone cast a black magic spell.
FFS peeps!
no! it's just psychology, biology and environment! then maybe you need to be a bit more observant? hello?
(someone oughta wingardium leviosaur a club to drop your collective heads >.>)