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Dec. 18th, 2023 09:02 amI like to have icons indicative of what my post is going to be about - i have the default for whatever, the dragon one for dnd talks, aleksis for video games etc. I don't really have one for creative things! I miss the communities and the icon posts from the LJ days... I know communities are a thing here still, but any I look up of my current interests all haven't posted for like 800 weeks. It's just me, google images, and the DW built in image cropper.
Friday my parents came in to visit. They wanted to go downtown with us to this little holiday market they put up every year stocked with overpriced junk & I was gonna go, but then I heard that just the night before multiple people were stabbed there so I kind of felt wary of going. I don't even like going downtown at the best of times. There was also an incident the same night a few blocks away of two people shooting at each other in a restaurant.
So we didn't go & instead they went on their own & came after for dinner. I walked with my dad to pick up our order bc it wasn't freezing cold & the place is ~15ish minutes away. It was a nice walk & chat! The place was busy but not jam packed, maybe they were overwhelmed with takeout orders like ours though, I don't know... But they gave us an order & it only had 2 meals in it... we were picking up for 4. they apologized & said our meal was just being packed up in the kitchen & came out & gave us a new bag after a wait that suggested it was not "just" being packed up...
We walked all the way home & were halfway to the 4th floor when they called him... They gave us the wrong order again & we had to walk all the way back AGAIN to pick up our order for the third time. I don't own and run a restaurant, but this seems kind of....excessively bad. My dad is such a crank these days that it really spoiled his mood while the rest of us just commented on how it was awful and moved on with our lives. I can have some spice to me, but I hope I don't turn into a big major crankpot in 30 years, it's unpleasant to be around.
Anyway, this weekend was the first one I've had to myself since October at least, no homework or anything. It was so bizarre. I was struggling to just do nothing a little bit & had to keep reminding myself I don't always have to be doing and making. There's no need to maximize my hobby productivity in my free time, they're hobbies! for fun!
I did bust out the sewing machine though for the first time since the semester started & put together a couple of squares from the quilt store's summer quilt-along from..... summer 2022. but hey, I'm still making something!
Neither of them are perfectly straight, but that's fine.... probably
OH YEAH and on the top one the instructions were written really unclearly but I was able to piece it together myself in the easiest/most even way which ~a year ago I never would've known how to do, so that's pretty cool!
Just got the first grade for my two finals papers back! 98%! hell yeah
Edit: I just got my second paper grade, 92%! And a 92.5% on my presentation
Friday my parents came in to visit. They wanted to go downtown with us to this little holiday market they put up every year stocked with overpriced junk & I was gonna go, but then I heard that just the night before multiple people were stabbed there so I kind of felt wary of going. I don't even like going downtown at the best of times. There was also an incident the same night a few blocks away of two people shooting at each other in a restaurant.
So we didn't go & instead they went on their own & came after for dinner. I walked with my dad to pick up our order bc it wasn't freezing cold & the place is ~15ish minutes away. It was a nice walk & chat! The place was busy but not jam packed, maybe they were overwhelmed with takeout orders like ours though, I don't know... But they gave us an order & it only had 2 meals in it... we were picking up for 4. they apologized & said our meal was just being packed up in the kitchen & came out & gave us a new bag after a wait that suggested it was not "just" being packed up...
We walked all the way home & were halfway to the 4th floor when they called him... They gave us the wrong order again & we had to walk all the way back AGAIN to pick up our order for the third time. I don't own and run a restaurant, but this seems kind of....excessively bad. My dad is such a crank these days that it really spoiled his mood while the rest of us just commented on how it was awful and moved on with our lives. I can have some spice to me, but I hope I don't turn into a big major crankpot in 30 years, it's unpleasant to be around.
Anyway, this weekend was the first one I've had to myself since October at least, no homework or anything. It was so bizarre. I was struggling to just do nothing a little bit & had to keep reminding myself I don't always have to be doing and making. There's no need to maximize my hobby productivity in my free time, they're hobbies! for fun!
I did bust out the sewing machine though for the first time since the semester started & put together a couple of squares from the quilt store's summer quilt-along from..... summer 2022. but hey, I'm still making something!
Neither of them are perfectly straight, but that's fine.... probably
OH YEAH and on the top one the instructions were written really unclearly but I was able to piece it together myself in the easiest/most even way which ~a year ago I never would've known how to do, so that's pretty cool!
Just got the first grade for my two finals papers back! 98%! hell yeah
Edit: I just got my second paper grade, 92%! And a 92.5% on my presentation
