So while I’m working I play music because the background noise, believe it or not, helps me focus. It’s like when I was a kid and I would do homework, I would have the TV on much to my mother’s chagrin. She would scream at me to turn the TV off but I had to tell her that the background noise helped me focus. She gave up.
This is the playlist I usually play…pardon the eclectic mix – I’m weird like that.
So, I live on the east coast. We just got dumped with a foot of snow and now it’s all gray and frozen. I almost ate shit walking out of my house.
When I was a kid, I used to love snow days. That meant no school. Now, as a grown up, I hate it. And because I work from home, I don’t get paid for snow days. I actually have to work. Now that I’ve lived here for almost 30 years now, I’m over this climate. It gets so hot during the summer and the humidity is offensive. And the winters are so cold that when the wind blows, it slaps you in the face. I don’t want to live in a place where the wind slaps me in the face…I refuse.
Continue reading “West Coast Bound”I added my portfolio on my site so I didn’t have to link it to an external site. I need to design more but I’m trying to juggle my free time between reading and taking up cross stitching again.
I was trying to get started on this yesterday but my eyes are really bad. Threading a needle was a struggle. So I have to make an eye appointment and get a new prescription for glasses.
Continue reading “Site Changes”I asked for an octopus wet specimen for Christmas and my sister delivered. The weirdo in me was like, “Cool…this would be interesting to look at on my desk every day while I work.” However, I didn’t sign up for caring for a dead pet.
Continue reading “My “Pet” Octopus”I have become obsessed with the beauty of death. I never should’ve discovered ETSY because people sell actual taxidermies of mounted insects and arachnids to wet specimens.
Continue reading “I’m A Morbid Motherfucker & That’s Okay”
