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Note: As of this event, Clio stopped using the name Clio in social settings, and started introducing herself exclusively using her legal name of Claire. This event was a chance to meet a LOT of new people with the new name, so that was fun.
This art project was pretty cool. It's not really a mobile, but it's mobile-esque.
Claire.
standing.
art installation, mobile.
mobileesque.
Marvin's Mountaintop, Cascade, West Virginia.
July 19, 2018.
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BACKSTORY: We went to Transformus for the first time, since it moved closer to us. Mostly we wandered and met people. There was ice cream on the burn night!! How crazy is that!?
Claire's Transition Progress at this point: 11.6mos on estrogen HRT (since 8/2017) [injectable since 1/2018: 40 injections in 6.5mos], progesterone since 3/25/2018 (3.5mos). DHEA (10mg/2d) to raise testosterone (since 4/2018--3.5mos). 10X Biotin for fingernails (since 1/17--5mos). Full-time female since 9/15/2017 (10mos). Publicly out as trans since 10/11/2017 (9mos). Legally female since 12/21 (7.5mos). !!!!!!!!! Facial Feminization Surgery booked and paid for at 2Pass Clinic (Belgium, with a quick visit to Paris before & after, 9/4/2018, 6.5hrs, $26.8K--Less than 2 months to go!) !!!!!!!!!!!!! Currently nearing completion of 2nd semester (14 sessions so far) of group transgender speech therapy classes at GWU's Speech & Hearing Center (5.5mos of voice training, since 2/2017). Weight down to 149lbs (48 down from 197, but 14 up from 135, uh oh!). Same-weight waist measurement has dropped from 32" (12/17) to 31" (6/18) [now 35-31-35]. Boobs (Tanner IV) filling a 34A bra, but unsure of real cup size. Hair removal: 51 electrolysis sessions [since 4/2017] totaling 34.9 hours; 38 laser hair removal sessions (since 9/2016: 55 area treatments: 17/16/14/13 mouth/goatee/face/neck, 9 armpits, 7 legs/chest/ears/Brazilian); and bi-weekly at-home IPL on arms since 6/17 (over a year). Have seen endo/primary therapist 7X [bloodwork 6X], and 4 other therapists 13X--On anticonvulsant mood stabilizer Lamictal (3mos since 4/13, 200mg/day). Latisse for eyelash lengthening since 4/17 (1.25yrs). 2 dental implants, Zoom teeth whitening, pierced ears, star cold-brand on ass (7/14/2018), hair dyed blue (no haircuts since 1/2015--3.5yrs), Sephora makeup class attended. Body contouring procedures purchased on groupon (8 laser lipo + 4 ultrasonic liposculpture + 3 non-invasive buttlift sessions + permanent lip coloring), but waiting until after FFS surgery to book. Wardrobe replacement up to 1,129 items. Total transition expenditures at this point are now over $51,800.
We had a beautiful day at the Point San Luis Light for our meeting. Then we all walked a little way on the Pecho Coast trail.
A team member uses this non-fiction book to take notes on her topic. These notes will be "written in her own words" on the educational web site.
I am just getting back into cross stitch and embroidery after a 10 year break. The new work out there is so interesting and inspiring that I have decided to create my own series of cross stitch pictures based on things that I say to my son. Every time I utter one I realise that I am turning in to my mother!
Note one is "Don't say what say pardon" , charted at www.stitchpoint.com.
So yesterday when it was time to go to school, Jessie was busy doing something and I told her to stop or we would be late. In a nutshell, I upset her.
This morning while having breakfast, she handed me this note and said she was sorry. She then proceeded to bury her face in her hands, ran to her room and cried her eyes out. From what I gather from reading her note, she went to school yesterday and thought to herself that I was stupid (that's the s word) and that she hated me. I guess the guilt overwhelmed her. Jane said she came home from school last night and told her about it while she cried her eyes out to her. She really has a guilty conscience.
So I went up stairs and spent the next 10 minutes trying to calm her down. I asked why she was crying. She said because she didn't want me to be sad. I told her I wasn't sad, but I just wanted to understand why she felt this way about me. She said she didn't want to tell me. I'm pretty sure it had to do with me not letting her do whatever it was she was doing before we left for school.
Man, I'm in serious trouble. I dunno how I am going to handle the teenage years. :D lmao.
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We started taking notes at how bad everything was because it was so much, it was hard to remember everything.
BACKSTORY: We had a gift card for Macaroni Grill (we usually have one every year, and have gone for over a decade). This year was the most god-awful experience of our lives! No wonder Macaroni Grill is going out of business. But we have to wonder if it was transgender & LGBT discrimination, because not only were we never treated like that at that same Macaroni Grill, but we saw the waiter treat others better.
I'm not that picky. I get a taco or two at Taco Bell almost every day I go out, and am very pleased with that experience. When I go out, I often go to buffets, because I don't mind what food I eat, as long as it's not completely messed up.
But taking my wife to Macaroni Grill on Valentine's Day was the absolute worst "romantic" restaurant trip of my entire life. I am frankly surprised at how much text I need to write just to explain everything that happened.
Note that the restaurant was NOT packed. We go there almost every Valentine's Day, for 10+ years. Last year it was a 45 minute wait and totally packed. This year it was a 5 minute wait, and there were empty tables in the restaurant. It was literally the least packed we've ever seen it on Valentine's Day. There are no "busy" excuses for this treatment
1) We didn't notice at the time, but going back: The first way we were treated differently was that the waiter didn't write his name on our placemat. Did he intend to give us bad service because we are visibly LGBT? Because he wrote it for the people next to us, on both sides. Just not for us. It seemed like he was so unwilling to even get near us, that he wouldn't approach us, write his name on the placemat, or visit our table -- ***even when visiting the one next to us repeatedly***, or give us good service.
2) Immediately he puts the olive oil and pepper on the saucer for the bread. This is a fun Macaroni Grill theatric that makes the customer feel good... Unless the saucer full of olive oil is merely pointing out how you have no bread for 20 minutes. Again, never in our life. Other people have bread. We don't.
Later, I explicitly ask for bread, because it's absolutely clear that it's NOT going to come, because this guy will serve the tables on both sides of us, but not us. It still doesn't come. Bread only finally arrives with our appetizer. Again: Never in our lives.
3) And then, guess what? The bread was too salty to eat! First time in 40 years that I have ever disliked restaurant bread. Later, when the waiter stopped coming to our table, we managed to ask *the cook* for more bread. It, too, was too salty to not eat. No amount of dipping it or mixing it with other ingredients made it edible. The bread I get from the dollar store is better. Why is Macaroni Grill so awful to us today?
4) The second thing the waiter actually does is ask us for a drink. Immediately. We don't know our drink order yet, but later, when we order everything at once, we do order ONE drink. But it doesn't come with the bread. It doesn't come with the appetizers. It doesn't even come with the entree! Later, while we are eating, the drink finally shows up. We had forgotten about it by that time. Who the hell serves drinks, appetizers, and an entree at the same time?
5) But at least we had water, right? Well, sort of. We asked for water with lemon. It took awhile -- an annoying amount of time if you have dysphagia -- but the finally water came. Most restaurants give you water without asking, or allow you access to a tap. We were left thirsty. So thirst. And when it finally came, NO LEMONS!
We asked for lemons. It took awhile, but finally he came back and said, "We're out of lemons, so I had to give you limes". I am unsure what to do, so I squeeze some of the lime juice in my water to try it out. It's awful. I can't drink it.
Meanwhile, I see lemons come out with water orders just 2 tables away. My drink (a mule) that comes later has a lemon in it--because the drink comes like that automatically. It is clearly our server who won't ask for stuff for us -- even while giving the same stuff to adjoining tables! My salmon that came with lemon on it! Why is this bigoted server telling us the restaurant doesn't have lemons? Macaroni Grill is most definitely NOT out of lemons. Why would he lie to us? There's a bar. Bars have lemon wedges for drinks. The restaurant is NOT out of lemon wedges.
But for the majority of the time I was there, I couldn't even sip my water, because it turns out lime water is awful. Who drinks that? Not me. I didn't know. I tried, and that was a mistake. And since our alcohol drink never came until the entree, I literally had nothing to drink that didn't taste awful. And getting water refill was nigh impossible. And of course no bread. Nothing enjoyable whatsoever - but the people 2 tables away got their water with lemon. EVERYONE who wasn't LGBT did.
6) Eventually, when the waiter disappeared, we actually had to go and ask THE COOK for lemons, and he brought them out and apologized. This was after the entree came. It's like the waiter was unwilling to do his job. Why is the cook bringing us our food and serving us? Where is our server? We were ALSO out of water at that point, and needed any kind of liquid to drink. I am prone to choking because I have dysphagia. Last time I had a choking episode, I had to grab the drink of a stranger off their table in an emergency. This is the kind of thing that happens when human beings are denied water, and have no way to get it.
7) We ordered the calamari appetizer. The menu says it comes with 2 sauces. A pepper sauce and a citrus aoli. We got the pepper sauce, but the other stuff? It was a red, thick mixture that was very obviously mostly spicy Sri Racha sauce. My girlfriend doesn't like spicy stuff as much as me. That's why we didn't order something spicy. That's why we use the menu to decide what to order. But what good is the menu, if the items on it aren't what it says they are? We needed at least one non-spicy dipping sauce.
8) By this point, the waiter had disappeared. He did not come around. Most restaurants check up on you to see if you are okay. They often do it TOO much. This guy? Despite the fact that we very obviously were not getting what we wanted, and had to ask for very basic things like bread and water -- he still wouldn't show up. Twice in a row, after minutes of being gone, he came and SERVED THE TABLE NEXT TO US, BUT KEPT HIS BACK TO US, THEN DISAPPEARED to the back again without even giving us an opportunity for service. Every time this happened, we needed something, and couldn't get it.
9) The salmon finally came. It was not even brought by our server (named Labrim), it was brought by the cook! (Who we had to ask for water, lemons, and more bread. Most of the food brought to our table WAS NOT BROUGHT by our actual server!)
It was the absolute worst salmon I've ever eaten in my life. It was so burned that each and every bite was a chore to get down. I woke up at 4AM nauseated, which is an unusual thing for me. We even tried cutting up the salmon and putting it inside our shrimp alfredo noodles, to mask the burning taste. It was impossible to mask. We have now messed up: water, bread, lemons, calamari dipping sauce, and salmon. Incredible.
10) At this point, we're done with our food, and we just want the dessert cake & ice cream, and a check. But he's nowhere to be found. For a good 5 minutes, we're just sitting there, unhappy with the experience, wanting to at least have a good piece of cake and ice cream, and leave. But the pause here is one of the longest service pauses during this entire visit.
During this time, 2 tables down, another couple was extremely angry at Labrim's service, and got up to leave. So atleast it wasn't JUST us having a bad time, even if they actually got lemons & drinks. Someone, either Labrim or a manager, intervened and convinced them to sit back down and have their meal.
The couple 1 table down? They ALSO were extremely unhappy with Labrim, and were complaining about the service a lot of the time. For example, they got the merchant receipt for their credit card, so there was no place for them to sign it, and they had to ask for the correct receipt. That's never happened in my life, but again, now at least THREE tables were having a bad time, so at least there was some incompetence mixed in with the malevolence. We just seemed to be getting the worst of it, and it felt like discrimination to be treated so differently the first year we were visibly LGBT.
11) It's finally time for dessert. Does he bring it? No! He brings us to go containers, and says, "You wanted the cheesecake, right?"
Literally, when we ordered the food, we gave him the complete order. I wrote it down on my placemat. I pointed at the words as I ordered them to him. He acted as if he was writing down the words I was saying and pointing at. His job is to take the order. He couldn't even do that! I never said cheesecake! WTF?! Not only was our dessert not here, but he didn't even know what we ordered! Just what was Labrim doing?!?!?!
12) So we tell him we wanted the chocolate cake & ice cream. It seems to take awhile, but it finally comes. HE THEN TAKES ALL OUR SILVERWARE! We manage to snag one fork, but how are we supposed to share this item between the two of us? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, LABRIM?
He comes back in a couple minutes to help the table next to us, but in typical fashion, keeps his back to us and doesn't offer any help. As he walks away, we have to raise our voice and ask for another fork. I don't think it ever came.
13) And the "cake" and "ice cream"? It's not a cake, it's some Costco store bought chocolate muffin, with a cup of chocolate drizzle next to it. And the "ice cream"? Literally one fork full of ice cream. Granted, it tasted good - but this is your "$45 Valentine's Day Special For Couples", so you are literally advertising and serving a valentine's day ice cream dessert to couples with ONE FORK that has ONE FORKFUL of ice cream. So yes. You found a way to make ice cream and cake disappointing, Macaroni Grill.
14) Labrim then asked us if the food was good, and we said, "No, it wasn't", and told him we didn't like the bread, water, salmon, or cake. He said he would get the manager to do something about it. Minutes later, a check came. No manager. No manager ever came. Just another lie.
15) Finally, it came time to pay. We don't trust him to ring up our money right, so we decide to use our $50 gift card, and pay the $5.14 balance in cash. I went off to change my $10 into two $5s, and my wife went off to change her $5 into five $1s. I approached the bartender, waited for eye contact, and asked, "Can I get two 5s for a 10?" He said, "Wait a minute", then "How are you?" {I'm sorry, do I need to have a conversation to ask for change? It seemed like he was chiding me for being short with him and not having a conversation. I'm not here to talk with you, guy. I'm here to pay you for your bad food}. The bartender then turned his back to me. He messed around with the register for an unacceptably long time, completely ignoring me. Obviously he decided NOT to make the change I needed made -- or even to tell me. This, too, is a treatment I've never experienced in my life. As I slowly moved away -- because I'm not going to sit there like an idiot holding a $10 bill out for minutes at a time -- I went to the hostess. She checks HER OWN POCKETS and somehow has two $5 bills, and makes change for me.
My wife fared no better. She asked someone for five $1s for her $5. Multiple people told herthey couldn't do it. She was finally told "only the bartender" can do this. She goes to the bar. Nobody is there. She looks around. Nobody to be found. This restaurant is full of aholes who won't do their job.
Finally, someone goes into the bar and starts doing stuff. She asks them if they can make change. "I'm not the bartender", the person tending the bar said, refusing to make her change. WHAT IS THIS PLACE?
We almost left the restaurant with a $5 shortchanging -- but then Carolyn ran into a random employee, who, also, had to get the money out of his personal money from his own pocket.
IN SUMMARY: You messed up in about 15 different ways, messing up: water, lemon, salmon, dipping sauce, cake, ice cream, properly keeping our order, making change... even the unhappiness of the people around us was a bring-down. This restaurant is not being managed properly, and Labrim is the 2nd worst server I've had in my entire lifetime.
I wish I'd had change, because the 85 cent tip Labrim got was an *incredible* overtip. It should have been a single penny. Frankly, I should be filing a credit card dispute for the cost of this meal... but we paid with a pre-paid gift card bought 2 years ago, so we take solace in knowing that no 2018 income went to Macaroni Grill for this awful 2018 visit.
Our annual almost-20-year tradition [based on our parents giving us gift cards every Christmas] is now over. We will not be returning to Macaroni Grill. Not on Valentine's Day. Not ever. The gift cards are apparently valid at several other restaurants... so we'll be going to one of those, from now on.
And I can't help but think some of this is because I am visibly transgender, because of the way he would repeatedly approach the table next to us (a straight couple), but not us. I was not visibly transgender a year ago, and was not treated like this during previous visits to Macaroni Grill. It just seems like that was a component, because we definitely got it the worst of everyone there.
notes, placemat.
Macaroni Grill, restaurant, Springfield, Virginia.
February 14, 2018.
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1. That’s the Way It’s Got to Be – The Poets
2. Entry of the Gladiators – Nero & the Gladiators
3. Pretty Ballerina – The Left Banke
4. Song for Jeffrey – Jethro Tull
5. Christine’s Tune (aka Devil in Disguise) – The Flying Burrito Brothers
6. Rhyme the Rhyme Well – Beastie Boys
7. Outdoor Miner – Wire
8. Sunny Sunny Cold Cold Day – Herman Dune
9. Warning Sign – Talking Heads
10. Insight – Joy Division
11. (Intro/Tokyo) City Girl – Kevin Shields
12. Cruiser’s Creek – The Fall
13. Record Collection – Comet Gain
14. Come Back Jonee – Devo
15. King of the Rodeo – Kings of Leon
16. Mod Lang – Big Star
17. Road to Nowhere – Hearts and Flowers
18. Angel – Rod Stewart
19. Tell Me Why – Neil Young
20. Girls Like That – Weird War
21. Silly Girl – Television Personalities
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"Key Note" sculpture by Michael Christian at the 2015 Maker Faire in San Mateo, California. You can buy the materials but the inspiration, vision and hard work are #ThingsMoneyCannotBuy.
The sculpture stands 4-meters/12-feet tall and is dragging a large key by a chain made up entirely of hundreds of keys.
There's a blog hop today for the new SSS, Encouraging Words release! Come hop along for a chance to win prizes! bdengler4.blogspot.com/2017/08/sss-encouraging-words-blog...
For the new pool of Crocodile art. From my old first grade songbook. The crocodile family have all dislocated their jaws by yawning. Dr Pillman saves the day by breaking out the cod liver oil to grease the hinges.
For Kim Klassen’s Texture Tuesday “gratitude” challenge using “stained linen” texture.
This picture was taken about a week after Steve Jobs’ death at the Palo Alto, CA(his home) Apple store . The storefront was covered with post-it-notes written to him, thanking him for his contributions. Some of them were surprisingly poignant. As a big time Apple fan, I found it interesting and sadly, sweet. (see another shot below)
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The Sewing Time Machine: A blouse named 'Secretary001'
The Sewing Time MachineWednesday, January 27, 2010A blouse named 'Secretary001'Here is my next project, or the inspiration for my next project. I'm no expert on the matter but this reminds me of a 40's pencil pushing office blouse, which is why I named it Secretary001.It looks to me like all the control has been shifted into side darts which were then gathered into the side seams. The sleeve looks like a very short kimono or dolman. Anyways, I got to work on the PatternMaster and this is my first muslin.
I'm not happy because I look like a bag lady!
So I learned that when zero waist darts are selected, the slack is not picked up anywhere else - not in the side seam and not in other darts. I'll have to manually shift all the control into the side dart. And that will be my second muslin....Posted by Marie-Anne at 6:28 PMLabels: blouse, fitting, PatternMaster Boutique0 comments:Post a CommentNewer Post Older Post HomeSubscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)PagesHomeAbout MeMarie-AnneWhen I'm not cleaning, cooking, or working, I'm going back in time....with my sewing machine!View my complete profileThis WeekChris' jacket is lined and it looks great. He has a motorcycle ride this coming weekend and he is so excited to show it off.
The surprise will be revealed next week. We'll see....I'm super busy with work. But not for long....
Now I've got to finish fitting my jeans so I can make sexy pants!Labelsantiques (1) Barrence Whitfield (1) blouse (4) Canada (1) Candace Sutherland (1) cooking (2) Crazy Joe (1) crotch length (6) curlers (1) Deke Dickerson (1) diet (1) dress (3) exercise (1) fitting (18) fundraiser (1) garage sale (1) giveaway (6) hair (2) half moon manicure (1) homemaking (2) Hourcast (1) Howlin' Hound Dogs (1) jacket lining (1) jeans (5) Jordan Officer (1) Kingston (1) lapped zipper (1) lining (1) Little Rachel (1) meal planning (2) motorcycle jacket (1) organization (1) outfit (1) pants (3) pants fitting (5) Pattern Master Boutique (1) PatternMaster Boutique (15) Red Hot and Blue Rockabilly Weekend (1) shirring (1) shoulder pad (1) Singer 217 (1) Singer Spartan (1) skirt (3) Sound Academy (1) straight skirt (4) Tennessee Voodoo Coupe (1) The Broken Toys (1) The Damned Things (1) The Royal Crowns (1) tutorial (1) Valentine (3) vintage (7) vintage knitting (1) vintage patterns (1) Volbeat (1) wet set (1) wing bust bodice (2)Search This Blogpowered byShare itTunesMusic Playlist at MixPod.comBlog Archive► 2011 (17)▼ 2010 (47)► December (2)► November (7)► October (3)► September (11)► July (2)► June (5)► May (3)► April (2)► March (5)► February (3)▼ January (4)Shrinky Inky's Fine Adventures GiveawaySecretary001, the second muslin...A blouse named 'Secretary001'The finished skirt!► 2009 (5)Listen to sewingtimemachines Playlist Simple template. Template images by Ollustrator. Powered by Blogger.
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Cfr. notes over the above image.
NOTES
1. L’art pour l’art: cfr. V. Cousin 1818; F.W. Nietzsche 1888: GD10,24.
2. Cfr. F.W. Nietzsche 1888: Frammenti postumi 1888-1889 (v. 8.3).
3. J. Baskerville 1754: Baskerville (SG) SB Roman OSF typeface.
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It is time for a new pack of Filofax Sticky Notes! I used up the yellow sticky notes months ago; however, I thought I would not use all the sticky tabs up at least until next year. Enter my Mid Term paper, which had depleted those within an hour! I had to find some sticky notes to finish! Tabbing my books and notes proved to be their demise!
I am working on lecture notes about Australian censorship and classification legislation and its impact in libraries .
The bit I am writing will only turn into about 3 paragraphs, but researching and summarising this involves consulting about 10 documents at once - reports, opinions, blog posts, legislation, guidelines, official brochures , statements from libraries...
I love having monitor space to stretch it all out and a tool like Zotero that allows me to organise and instantly pull up all the material I need on the topic.
Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.
~Marilyn vos Savant
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this shot was taken quite some times ago, just finally got the time to PP it. The weather was wonderful that evening and I'm expecting a good sunset. So I decided to go up to this new spot just trying to see the view here. So guys, this is the view, doesn't have that Kuala Lumpur icon which is the KLCC or KL tower. Well we could say that this is another rare view of Kuala Lumpur not the common one definitely.
This photo is a vertorama+DRI, compose from 3 exposure. 2 for the vertorama part and another one for the overexpose area. Ok guys enjoy the view ^_^
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