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Scrubbing the sink?
...no, wait, that's me.
non-complaint: I now have a clean sink.
This is not the bag of Marshmallows I ordered. It came in with my Walmart order. Cucumber was not on my order history, but I'm missing a bag of marshmallows.
A cucumber is not a good substitute for a bag of marshmallows in baking.
I think I'm going to go to bed.
I don't think it would work well in S'Mores, either!
Okay that mental image gave me the giggles.
Saddest s'more ever.
Though I've swapped the chocolate bar out for Nutella and that works really well. And a friend had a warm, gooey chocolate chip cookie on hand and put a piece of that in there instead and I was all... "WHERE HAS THIS BEEN MY WHOLE LIFE???"
non-complaint: Wicked 2 might not be out on DVD yet, but the soundtrack is available. Wow, those extra songs. I'm really hoping awards get won for those.
complaint: It's -26F out with the windchill. I don't care if it's only mid-December and we Minnesotans are supposed to be a tough, winter-resistant breed. Can it be spring yet?
With "Wicked 2" out now, the original "Wicked" is available free-ish to me via streaming. Curiosity got the better of me. I was over it in the first 10 minutes. Nope, just nope.
Complaint: Snow just keeps piling up, porch needs shoveling again, at least a foot on roofs now. Cold, cold, cold. Was 11F here at 10:00AM. Although admittedly, -26F is more complaint worthy.
Non-complaint: Still have food, house still warm, electricity still on, Internet & TV still working, pipes still unfrozen, no need to go anywhere, and not sick. Life is still good.
Complaint: Denver is working on a new record for number of days at 60F in December. We have had 1 minor dandruff snow and a decent snowfall 2 - 7 inches and then shot up to 60s. It looks like Christmas will be in the 50s. Bleh. Great for my electricity bill and arthritis but lousy for the spirit.
So Mother Nature can get over herself and share the love with the rest of the country and spare the MidWest/East Coast for awhile.
I would gladly send you whatever all else is headed our way... there's like 8-ish inches stacked up on my balcony railing (rough estimate, eyeballing it out the sliding doors) and I don't feel the need for more. We're currently having the coldest, snowiest start to December in 20 years. I think there's some payback for the last two super mild winters where I could still take the kids walking on the trails into January and the lake wasn't strong enough for ice fishing. (People tried it anyway. Because it's January! In Minnesota!! ...idiots.)
I do like the aesthetics of the snow. And it doesn't feel right when it's brown. And the light just isn't right without it. But oof the cabin fever.
Sympathies.
One of my boys would sit in front of the tree and sing to it a while before climbing it. (He also sang to bugs before catching/eating them.) He was also definitely too big to be doing that, but he did it anyway. We stopped having trees after a while (various reasons) and when the kids and I moved back in, I finally got to put one up again. The other cat (the one who made it to 17.5 years) was like "oh hey! I remember these!!" -- and then was very confused that it didn't work particularly well because it was an artificial one. So he settled on knocking the low-hanging ornaments off instead, and then yowling at Teen Kiddo to come put them back so he could do it again. It was a very strange game of fetch.
wait? what am I doing?
My landlady has banned me from using the oven. I think I'm being blamed for the oven being "dirty". I'm at my church bake off. I entered 4 items and I think the all were messed up. Everything was either burnt or bad execution. I feel like I should have stayed home and didn't attempt to bake anything for the bake off.
i don't want to leave before they announce the winners as I'm afraid it would make me look like a sore looser. I feel like going home and crying myself to sleep. I am doubtful I can do that because I was conditioned as a kid that crying is a weakness.
I feel like everyone is happy around me while I'm not.
..there is no standard multiplier for human to computer years like for dogs Most estimates are conjecture or opinion (and in some cases, eales ploys) The one I took the age form takes into account wear and tear as well as advances in technology. the estimate is reasonable as there are people in their 80s who are still fairly active albeit not as they were in their prime.
My old system still works fine and it does the job I designed it for (working with 2 & 3D graphics) albeit it's not quite as fast as today's state of the art tech. The caveat is it hit a "ceiling" in that I have not been able to update past Daz version 4.21.05 if I want to keep rendering on a GPU,, as that is the last release which includes an Nvidia driver which supports Win 7.
Humans are superior to dogs. They play fetch by the human throwing and object and the dog bringing it back. Therefore when a cat plays fetch with a human...
...there is an actual term for that: "shrinkflation" though usually the price stays the same but you get less of product. Getting less and paying more, that is deceptive,
A classic example of shrinkflation: the Safeway down the street from me sold packages of 20 fresh baked cookies from their bakery for 5 USD, however while the price remained the same, there are now only 18 cookies which are also a bit smaller than they used to be,.The interesting part is, on their site and weekly advert circular, it still lists the quantty as being 20.
I got a disturbing text from my landlady. It was harsh in tone.
I imagined that text impaling my torso. It is like blood is dripping out of my mouth and onto my hand. I look at the blood and think what now? What went wrong?
I'm physically okay but emotionally and mentally broken.
Another great example: "Fun size" candy bars. What the actual heck. You need three of them -- at least -- to have any sort of fun whatsoever.
But at least I can say kids aren't suffering for it. When I was a kid, you'd get one of the Halloween-sized candies in your bucket per house. (Two if it was a really generous house.) Seems like "small handful" is the standard measure of dispensing candy these days, except for the houses that give out full-size bars or little snack cakes or bags of chips (or cans of soda!!). So at least all the adults seem to realize it's hogwash as well and are fighting the good fight.
Oh yes. And he'd had that child trained from toddlerhood to do his bidding. ("Mama! He asked for catnip, so I gave him some!" -- half a large jar, to be precise. Cat could see through time.)
While I often imagine myself getting impaled, it is usually some deviant form of recreation for me. When a woman would hurt me, I always used to imagine I was that woman, and I would get abruptly destroyed. I think it was some form of killing the person in effigy. It usually made me feel better. I don’t do that so much anymore because it requires thinking of the other person as a bad person. And I find it increasingly difficult to think of people as just bad people. Lately most people seem more like victims of society than bad people. Like, they hurt me but not because they're bad. Because society convinced them that's how people are supposed to be. I've been told I'm naive too.
Now when a man would hurt me, I couldn’t just become him and get killed in effigy. I can’t much imagine myself as a man. So they just hurt me and that’s the end, I guess. I think that caused me to be more likely to react violently to a man than a woman.
Anyway, I know none of this helped. But I wanted to respond so you know you’re not being ignored. Because it’s easy to feel ignored in this forum.
When we first got our cats, we were trying to add life to our home. Mainly we were planning on getting kittens, but I had a secondary goal of adding plants. I did research to determine what plants are good around cats, and ruled out any plant that was toxic to cats. That was a good idea because every plant I brought home was promptly attacked and, to some extent, eaten by the kittens. I tried everything short of screwing a hook into the ceiling and hanging the plants there. But there was no place these cats couldn’t reach. I eventually came to realize the only “plant” we could have with the cats was our artificial “Charlie Brown” style Christmas tree. It’s been a few years now. Our kittens have become full grown cats and our tree stands proudly at about the height of my waistline.
Non-Compliant: I think I'll make this tomorrow. Old Fashioned Salisbury Steak Recipe - The Forked Spoon
complaint: Now I'm hungry for steak + mushrooms and have neither. =P
Seriously, though, enjoy! That stuff's amazing.
I can't eat more than 2Oz/50g of meat at a hit - I inherited Y chromosome defect from my dad that gives me a tendancy to gout, and steak seems particularly bad at provoking it. I have almost had to give up on steak, even though I love it. Lucky thing being able to eat that steak recipe.
Regards,
Richard
I don't know why, but I am pretty hard on myself. Sometimes my mind goes down the trail of I'm the worse person who never hurt anyone physically. I am more of a pacifist but it could be due to being 5 feet tall.
edit I quoted the wrong post.
Complaint: Still snowing. Slowly, but persistently. Too cold still to melt. Roads brown with slush, or white with snow, rarely black for the last three days.
Non-complaint: Forcast is for cold but no snow tomorrow. Planning a grocery run tomorrow morning. Gathering special stuff for Christmas day meal & possibly supplies to bake chocolate chip cookies. Mmmm...
Also, still trying to get to the decrepit mini-mall with the breakfast beanery for a Biscuit & Gravy breakfast and a Subway sub sandwich. Maybe tomorrow will work out. And best of all, my SS deposit is this week. Wheee... rich-ish again for a few hours.
Complaining for neighbors: Neighbor's wife in the other half of this house got their car stuck backing down the driveway this morning. Husband eventually dug it out. I just watched from kitchen window. Can't help, too old, fragile.
Non-complaint: BFF from high school (60+ years ago) will be in town from NYC again during the season. Yay, old friends & possibly a lunch out at a half decent restaurant. And a ride to WalMart and J.C. Penney at the Mall for some proper shopping at usually difficult(i.e. $$) places to get to.
Complaint: Arghhh... tried to make a call to bus dispatcher for a pickup tomorrow morning. Forgot that I can't make outgoing calls with my landline phone (*Sigh*)
At least I have a cellphone.
Complaint: Checked with phone company website trouble ticket page, and my appointment is now Dec. 22nd instead of the 19th. Grrr...
Complaint: I still haven't fixed my printer. I have a new one, still in the box, but it is way at the back of the closet under the stairs, lots of stuff to move.
It has to be fixed (or replaced) soon, because I need to print out my Christmas letter, and have a lot of receipts that need to be printed & filed. And what to do with the dead printer???
Do you have a Staples store near you? You may be able to bring it for their recycling program. I've brought non-computer electronics there and wasn't rejected.
I asked Copilot ai to do this image. An arowanna in a fish bowl. That is the biggest freshwater pet that I can think of. There might be some that are bigger, but I can't remember what they are.
Our plecostomus got pretty big.
Also potentially Best Buy. IIRC I brought a printer there once and they took it... years ago, though, so maybe check ahead.
Likewise... I think mine was about 10 years old when he passed, and he was longer than my hand.