I’m at a loss to see how this is even accomplished. My hat’s off to you for getting any result besides “huge globs of crap at the ends of my fingers!”
I’ve had it done professionally enough times that I have a pretty good idea of how it should go. The rest of it is a whole lot of time, patience, and a whole lot of touching up. I have a battery operated thingie that does the shaping and buffing so between that and the buffing spongie thing and the really coarse file, I got them pretty smooth and even. I did have a couple fingers that had acrylic way over the nail boundaries but the file works pretty well for getting that off.
The biggest issue is that I like them fairly short - way to short to really bother with acrylic normally but still longer than I’m capable of growing them. I accidentally trimmed a couple too small at the start so after the shaping and shit, they ended up so short that they don’t actually look any different than they did when I started. :smack:
hack koff snrfl
If Nature hadn’t called, I might still be in bed, but I decided some chicken soup was in order, so here I am.
hack koff snrfl
My dad is a bell ringer. He has an award for it and everything.
This is the sentence that convinced me to put Jonathan Rhys Davies on my Deathpool for next year. I just finished catching up on next year’s thread and there’s talk of his alcoholism. I figure mention in two separate threads equals “put him on the list.”
I guess I should head off to the grocery store soon. That would require putting on pants, though.
<Stands outside of room and sprays Lysol all around before enterin’>
Howdy Y’all! Irk is survived. No more crazy happened.
BBBobbio even though I encourage, nay outright demand that everyone keep a proper supply of tp on hand, I do not encourage the stealin’ of said tp. Besides, they ain’t real smart are they? 
Dindin is grilled chikin sallit. The chikin is grilled. The sallit is not grilled.
Opal then my guess would be they didn’t want to make your sammich, the slackers!
Blurf is right Sticky… I remembered what I have to go do. My knee, which was just fine relatively speaking, the last couple of days, is locked up again.
That helped my memory to barf up the fact I need to go pay rent. I do wish I didn’t have to drive it over and my crystal ball would tell me when I should just mail it instead.
Our DD is gone, replaced by cell phones, then an optometrist. The old Dairy Queen is now the doughnut/sandwich/bus stop. The fish place was many things before it turned to check cashing and then burned mostly. It’s still open in a van in the parking lot.
Methinks that isn’t a good block for businesses. The cigar guys should have known not to even try, though. It’s a pizza place now, after being a mexican restaurant that advertised women’s torsos on platters.
Enough procrastination! Off to pay rent, hopefully without losing control of the clutch.
Back from not-bad-Chinese. I got scallops and broccoli, and I swear, they used an entire head of broccoli on my plate alone! Now to settle in for an evening of knitting and chilling. We’ll be leaving around 9:30 tomorrow for Baltimore - gotta get the pre-op stuff done at the hospital.
So if you don’t see me early tomorrow, don’t panic. I probably won’t be abducted by aliens overnight…
Looks like I will have a busy weekend in the not-so-fun context. The mortgage company called today, and deed-in-lieu (N. O. Lieu) is approved in principle. The bad part is that I have to go back to the Mark 1 VunderLair and dispose of everything that isn’t nailed down. What we deliberately left behind isn’t much, but this includes the garage attic that I’ve never set foot in, the woodshed where I had my fahrwood, and the lean-to full of antique lumber.
No shit, I’m trying to find a dumpster by Firday.
I’m sending a complaint letter today to both the head manager and the head pharmacist at my local CVS because they lost a prescription of mine (the handwritten piece of paper). I don’t know what they’ll do about it, but I felt that my wussy complaining to whoever happened to answer the phone wasn’t enough of a statement. The prescription was for a controlled substance, and so it’s easy to imagine a less than scrupulous pharmacy worker filling it on the sly and then using it/selling it. I had to go to my doctor and get a new script to hold me until our next scheduled appointment, which makes me look bad to my doctor (though he made sure that I understood he believed me.)
I have no idea what CVS can possibly actually DO about it, but I think they need to know (at the higher up levels) that it happened, in case it becomes a trend and they find out that they have a bad employee.
Oh my! :o I blush.
Offerings of chocolate are duly made. To make up for delinquency, I can even up the ante and offer these alcohol-filled mini chocolate bottles I got over Thanksgiving. It’s quite a big box, so even the chocoholic slush in me is happy to share. Also up for grabs: chicken soup for anyrose, ham and Swiss sandwiches for Opal, and a heating pad for Ashes.
Another Monday has been survived!
But I’m a vegetarian and can’t eat ham!
:smack: Excuse me, it’s Monday, and therefore still 4am in Petrichord World.
I’ll have Mr. Chord (unofficial Sandwich King of the Northeast) remake it with egg and Swiss.
Now that I’ve actually read the rest of the thread,
beaded ornament covers are a real thing. I got one from a Doper ornament exchange many eons ago and I still use it every year. Love it! Supposedly we’re putting the tree up tomorrow so if no pictures are forthcoming from conurepete, I’ll post a pic of mine.
Welcome Opal!! I noticed you posted but didn’t realize this was your first MMP. I’d offer you chocolate but, alas, I finished the ice cream. Amazingly enough, my stomach hasn’t revolted yet.
My psychotic homework binge isn’t going so well. I fell asleep. :smack: Doggie school in an hour and then later I have to get Sweetie from work.
Opal - it’s funny you should mention your DD trip. Just yesterday? Saturday? yes, Saturday, Sweetie and I were driving to his work and we started counting the DD’s that we could have gone to. He wanted a sammich and I kept driving past them and he was getting annoyed because he kept thinking it was the last one (he was tired). We ended up with either 7 or 9 that we drive right past, with no idea of how many are just off the main road. Of course, his commute does last 45 minutes and involve 2 states. Sweetie had their chicken salad sandwich on a bagel. He said it was decent but no better than anything he could have made at home.
For those of you who like DD egg and cheese sammiches but don’t wanna pay for them, I offer you the official DD egg and cheese making procedure (from back when they actually used real eggs and not pre-formed patties). My sister taught me this.
You will need:
1 egg (well whisked) or 1 serving of egg beaters
cooking spray
a bowl (regular cereal bowl of normal size and shape)
cheese
spatula
bread of some sort
a microwave
Spray the bowl from top to bottom (inside only) with cooking spray
place well whisked egg or well shaken egg beaters in the bowl
microwave on high for 45 seconds
flip the egg with the spatula
put the cheese on the egg
microwave on high for 30 seconds
Put on bread of some sort
nosh
yum
It seems so easy but it wasn’t obvious to me and the times can be iffy if you use a huge egg or more than a serving of egg beaters. If the bottom of the bowl is too wide, you’ll end up with a hole in your egg - which is nice if you’re eating it on a bagel but is totally unnecessary.
They did this only for a short time while they decided if breakfast sandwiches were a good idea. They also served soup at the same location. When they decided sammiches were a good idea, they went preformed and the quality went down by half, if not more.
It’s fast, easy, and way cheaper than going to DD every day and if you use egg beaters, your arteries and your doctor will be happy. We also occasionally slap a slice of deli meat of some sort on the egg at the same time as the cheese. Sweetie loves the ham. I like the turkey. Tuna is also nice but should go on after the cooking is done because warm tuna that isn’t in a casserole is gross.
Yes, Opal, here is your assignment for tomorrow: Stop at a different DD on the way to work and see if they’ll do what you wanted or if they give you the same answer. 
:sigh: I miss driving a vehicle with a clutch. I also miss the gas mileage that I got with it.
Ok, then, this has been a really crappy day. Tomorrow will be better, right?
Right?
I tried the egg/cheese sandwich on a bagel once from DD. NEVER AGAIN. I don’t have the teeth for it. It was like tearing through rhinoceros skin to get each bite. I think it was because as a sandwich you have to bite through both the top and the bottom of the bagel at once. And I’m not convinced they toasted it, which makes it crispier and easier to bite through. I still like (TOASTED!) bagels with cream cheese, but a breakfast sandwich, never again.
:: peeps in ::
Just as chaotic as ever, I see.
Yesterday was interesting…we discovered an abandoned car in the driveway. The police came and they were really happy that the person who abandoned the car had mowed down a couple of solar lights because they could then charge the guy with criminal mischief too. Seems that they’d chased him for reckless driving and lost him the night before, and were still looking for him and figured he’d have to surface once the car was in their hands. They towed the car away, so we can now use get out of the driveway again, yay.
Hmmmm…she looks familiar…but where do we know her from? 
Welcome, Opal and Petrichord.
That sounds like no fun at all, Bobbio.
Hope things have gotten better in the meantime, Sticky.
I made a brief, but very successful shopping trip that included stops to get gift cards so that I would be able to fill my tank at $1 off/gallon (yes, I’m cheap, and yes, the gift cards will be gone shortly), two pairs of Clark’s shoes for the price of one (they are super-comfy), my favorite Ritter chocolate at $1.66/bar (I love Tar-zhey), and something else I’m forgetting.
Now I’m figuring out what else I need to do tonight.
Thanks for getting us started out, FCM.
Hugs.
GT
It was Monday for sure and I’m glad the workday is over. Dinner is in the oven and is courtesy of Stouffer’s because I am too tired and lazy to deal with anything complicated tonight.
It’s cold and will continue to be cold throughout the week. The good news is it’s dry. This didn’t prevent black ice from forming though. There were a few wrecks this morning due to the black ice.
I didn’t notice the ice on my morning commute, but it was definitely present on my evening commute. I didn’t have any problems with it, but it’ll definitely suck in the morning.
That’s about all I’ve got. My brain is cluttered and tired.
Hugs and smooches to all.
koff