Janie Larson

@jackbrewster@hachyderm.io @Drwave@mastodon.social I was thinking about buying another JUKI machine in their more consumer level line for $600, but the tech at my shop was able to fix my machine while I waited. I like JUKI as it’s a Japanese company that makes the machines they use in mass production shops and they have to last through a lot. I don’t know how serious your wife would be about sewing regularly so my first thought is a Brother machine. But wanted to mention what I use.

@jackbrewster@hachyderm.io @Drwave@mastodon.social I bought a JUKI Haruka TL-18QVP a few years ago after I killed my consumer level Brother sewing machine. When I bought it, it was $1200 but it’s now up to $1900. Consumer sewing machines are under $1000 but professional ones can go over ten grand. I bought my JUKI because it has no computerized components and it will last fifty years if I clean and oil it regularly. The Brother machine is fine for occasional use.

I phrased something poorly on Reddit yesterday and woke up to a bunch of notifications roasting me for being toxic because I was resentful about being forced into doing uncompensated emotional labor. 😅

I finally finished assembling this block of the month quilt. It has 196 blocks in it. I had to display it outside because it was so huge. This was the best picture I could get because I was afraid Lady Edith would pee on it because she’s mad at me for ignoring her all day for it.

One of the more disappointing things about becoming an adult is finding out someone who has been famous for decades is a Nazi who eats babies and your mother responds with “Well, I don’t really care about all that, I still think he’s funny.” 😫

I don’t have it in me to watch all three dogs while my husband is away so the pugs are getting dropped off for a sleepover tomorrow morning. Lady Edith is pretty calm when it’s just her. Hopefully that’s the case for a couple of days.

I was afraid Edith Anne would freak out about The Husband being gone a week because she seems attached to him. She’s really taking it in stride. She interests me.

One thing that sucks about having been ill for a long time is that I don’t feel like cooking anything because I don’t have a lot of appetite. I have my cookbook wall and I just don’t feel like doing anything with it. 😭

The state Reddit had a post talking about how awful the ticks are at the campsites in the state park system. I haven’t been camping in like five years and for some reason it never occurred to me about how bad the ticks would be. I literally pick ticks off the pugs after walking them around the house for a few minutes, why wouldn’t there be so many more in the woods when you’re outside 24 hours? So there’s one more thing that got ruined by Everything. 😭

It’s a little weird to me how easily Edith slotted into the family. She just kind of belongs here. The other two took over a year to feel like more than little furry roommates.

After having to reschedule twice, I finally got my kidney stone stent removed this afternoon. This has been the worse surgery I have had by far. I hope it’s all over finally.

Edith Anne is fitting in pretty well with the family. She is teething and is not quite house broken yet, but she figured out how to mesh with the preexisting dogs and sleeps with us on the bed. This could have been worse.

@octothorpe@mastodon.online Also, the pugs are dumb as rocks. It’s nice to have one smart dog. 😅

@octothorpe@mastodon.online I promised Olive when she was dying of cancer four years ago that we would find another little scruffy terrier mix at a shelter that needed a good home and we would give her a good life in memory of Olive. We are keeping a promise.

I want to present the newest member of the Larson family: Edith Anne!

@heathborders@hachyderm.io I had kind of an opposite journey. I was deeply atheist and I married a militant atheist who was getting second hand Dawkins from Penn and Teller. He was so incredibly annoying about believing in “science” he didn’t understand and didn’t bother to learn that it drove me towards being more spiritual. I am not Christian Nationalist but I believe that there are things in the Universe we don’t understand that could be construed as religious. 🤷‍♀️

@eniko@peoplemaking.games That reminds me of the poker scene from One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. https://youtu.be/2jO458tE8lw?si=m_SggwQ7ERoaCZ7u