Please... Make the sneezing stop...
A small rodent-like creature currently infesting a house in Australia. Spends its days writing, farming and engaging in esoteric fibre arts. Cohabitates with 21 chickens, 3 bunnies and a mate.
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Please... Make the sneezing stop...
Taking a break from the USA quilt to make a nice Mid-Autumn jelly roll racer.
Reminds me when my sister graduated from medical school and they were all milling about greeting each other with "Hello, doctor!" Super cute! I think I'll get one for her.
... And that is how I didn't buy a table runner. The end.
Central star is done. Now with Liberian flags!
That's so cute.
She's not wrong...
I want a pet capybara...
Also, I'm getting all my shots so I don't get down with any sickness, thanks.
Tapirs make the cutest sounds.
I... I need to know the context. Also, I feel it is unfair that the local pharmacy doesn't sell ducks.
I don't want to get up, get on up. I'm very jetlagged and don't have any desire to get on any scene, thanks. Just let me sleep!
I think it was "or getting caught in the rain". Although that being said, I have no idea what the two have to do with each other.
Just give me a kiss!
It is growing. Though I suspect I will soon run out of beige material....
I wonder what's on the underside... Nope. Nope nope nope no.
Err... What?! Why are these sheep wearing flags?!
A story about finding things in heritage markets...
This is very pleasing news. I am happy about this news. :)
@kbspangler.com I need an update on these rabbits stat. Here is a photo of my pet rabbit sleeping in a sun spot as tribute to your greatness.
With how insane things are going over there, this headline almost got me.
Planning an American quilt which probably isn't very American.
I am home! I have been for the last 24 hours or so but the lag is extremely jet.
Landed in Dallas. Fingers crossed for a safe trip home.
Oh yeah. It has been a trip. I'm headed back to Australia now so... Fingers crossed we have a boring trip back.
We get a car. It is the fanciest BMW in the world. It is so fancy that @lordbinary.wombotuff.au has no idea how to drive it. But it is an upside and we are now finally finally finally in Orlando. Glory be.
Get to Budget car rentals. They do not have our car. They do not have any cars. I freak out. Budget lady freaks out. She goes to all the other car rental places to beg for a car. ANY CAR.
Turns out they put the bags on the wrong carousel. Find both bags and meet up with family. Feel much less upset.
We finally fly to Orlando. It is now almost midnight. Get to the baggage claim to get our bags. Informed that one made it to Orlando but the other is still in Dallas. Freak out immensely.
The man sitting next to me decides to call his wife/lover/"baby girl" to inform her that "Daddy is gonna be late but when I get home..." A lengthy and extremely detailed description of what daddy is gonna do to baby girl when he gets home follows. My ears are burning.
We are not allowed off the plane. Pilot says they're checking to see if we can get to Orlando or if we need to deplane and try again tomorrow. In the meantime, plane is being refueled so we can make it to Orlando, flooding the cabin with the nauseating smell of gasoline. Hooray.
Get on the flight to Orlando. It is packed but otherwise all right. There is a storm over Orlando. End up in Sarasota. This is... Less than ideal.
Sometimes, I forget just how patriotic US folks can be. There are flags, stars or eagles on everything!
The insulation has been moved but the bunnies are back. I don’t know what to do about this. All the possible entry holes are sealed and I don’t know how they’re getting in.
In my mind, George Hemmings makes it to freedom. He goes to the north and life is hard, but he marries, has children and lives to a good old age.
There is some weirdness involved in keeping your own children as slaves and only freeing a few of them upon your death. One wonders how Jefferson compartmentalised.
Found this at the Quilt Museum of Virginia. Of course, I HAD to buy it! I'm now considering what I'm gonna make with all this Americana.
Hidden Mickeys in the land ride.
A toddler is endearing. The ai art is not.
We also got photobombed by another waitress.
Waitress Mary at the 50s Primetime Cafe. An excellent waitress and fellow crafter!
Was it? Well I liked it anyway.
I liked the original game in the GBA.
The star wars toilet.
I've always wanted to be buried in a volcano.
A true Floridian experience.
Birder not border but you can't make me do that either!
I'm not becoming a border! You can't make me!
Sounds about right for excel.
It always goes the same way. @lordbinary.wombotuff.au and I walk into a shop. @lordbinary.wombotuff.au tries to ask the shopkeeper for something. Shopkeeper immediately turns to me and starts rapid fire Spanish. I say, "No hablas Espanol." Then they look confused and blast me with more Spanish.
Everyone here seems to think I speak Spanish. I don't. It's one of the languages I only vaguely understand if you speak it to me very slowly.
Staff have removed the couple, which is just as well because they were starting to really get very extra.
I wouldn't mind so much except I am the last person in the line and I am feeling a lot like a third wheel in this clearly very romantic relationship.
Am in the single riders line. A young couple here is kabedonning. They are also making out. It is...disconcerting.
In the Ministry of Magic, awaiting transportation to the trial of Dolores Umbridge.
No, but I've sent @lordbinary.wombotuff.au down the Jeffries tube to see if we can fix it there.
We.... We don't know how to turn it on...
What in the star trek is this?!?!?!
He rebooks the ticket, "Good thing you're on Qantas. We can book that for you no problem. If you were on Qatar Airways, I'd tell you to get your happy butt back to Qatar because they don't ever do us any favours." We get the ticket. We're on the 4 PM flight to Orlando. (To be cont'd)
The guy behind the counter is like, "Where you goin'?" "Orlando", we chorus, "The plane was delayed." "Oh, that's no problem. There are like 100 flights to Orlando. I'll get you there."
@lordbinary.wombotuff.au's CPap machine is inspected and given the all clear. We run to gate 24's AA counter.
Meanwhile, back at TSA. A French tour guide pulls over one of the agents and asks what the holdup is since the line is not moving. He checks and notices that none of the agents are at their stations. Colour drains from his face. He gets someone from the back and the line starts moving again.
"That flight is goooooooone." he says. "Hooray." I say "Don't worry babygirl, I gotchu." he says. He pulls out a phone and starts keying in esoteric stuff. "Go on over to Gate 24, babygirl. They gonna give you a new ticket. Don't you cry." "Thank you so much!" I say.
We wait. @lordbinary.wombotuff.au tells me to go on ahead in case I can catch the flight. This is a lost cause. When I scan my ticket at the booth, the airport information guy whistles.
The lady doing the check in is cutting open each and every sealed Duty Free Bag belonging to the guy in front of us, taking every item out, scanning it, writing notes, then repackaging and reasealing them. This takes forever. When she's done she goes on break and informs nobody.
We join the line. It is 2 PM. There are 6 X-ray machines, but only one is open. It takes about 1 hour to get to the front. @lordbinary.wombotuff.au's bag is pulled aside for further checking.
We run over to the TSA line. The TSA line is several blocks long. I am not kidding here. The line goes all the way from the TSA, slithers in the usual zig-zag coils and wraps back around all the way to the escalator up from the baggage collection area.
Despite the delays, it takes approximately 25 million subjective years (1 actual hour) for our bags to get on the carousel. Finally, we get our bags. We run over to the domestic transfer check in to check them in.
Fifteen minutes later, another gate agent arrives and asks us why we're queuing at a closed gate. We inform him that the agent said he'd be right back. The other gate agent takes pity on us, opens a different gate and we go through.
We land in Dallas around the same time as our flight to Orlando is boarding. Getting to the passport checks is not a problem, but the guy in front of us is taken to a back room. The gate agent says he'll be right back. He never returns.
(Don't worry, I sprayed her with my pressurised water bottle by accident, which I am considering fair revenge.)
I'm sandwiched between @lordbinary.wombotuff.au (who is trying his best to be as small as possible but failing because he's not small)... And a girl who has decided that the entire universe is hers and has immediately gone to sleep sprawled out in her seat (and some of mine).
First, our plane was delayed on the Sydney end by about an hour because of technical problems. Then, we get on the plane and it is cramped and I mean CRAMPED. Like, we're gonna get DVT for SURE cramped.
Getting to the US has been an adventure (negative).
I'm free, bitcheeeesssss!!! (Last day of work before vacation.) Thanks to @hellhound007.bsky.social for this quotation living in my head rent free ever since my wedding.
@trdsf.bsky.social, my mission is now complete
@merrystarchild.bsky.social I have been instructed to give you a hug. So please accept a hug.
What would you like me to do?
New egg colours!
I am so glad I opted for sedation.
I liked option 3.
Option 3?
Finally got that root canal done!
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But this prince in Nigeria really needs my help!
Will try the second one though. It sounds like some top quality nonsense.
I have heard good things about Beware of Chicken, but does not have an audiobook I don't think.
Indeed I have and watched the tv show too. That being said, Murderbot is clearly quality art and not a wish fulfilment trash, and I am looking for top quality raccoon bait.
Out of audiobook error. Looking for new audiobooks to listen to. Please recommend your best top of the heap brainless wish fulfilment trash. I am not currently having the brain power to handle anything sensible.
This is lovely and I need to get my nails done sometime.
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With my steady hands and good brain, everyone in my family thinks I would make an extremely excellent surgeon. Except for the whole puking thing.
Made a giant hole in the dress I was making. Am patching it with a giant cake.
