WrenArcher

WrenArcher, 8 hours ago to trans

So today, I will have a teeny, tiny needle jabbed into my face a couple hundred times. With each stab it will have an electric current turned on to kill a hair follicle.

Yes... A single hair follicle. One hair follicle at a time, for an hour.

I am not looking forward to this at all. Not all trans women/transfemme people get electrolysis on their face but I am.

<sarcasm font>Let me tell ya folks... being #trans isn't all rainbows and unicorns 24/7 like you might think. </sarcasm font>

Waitnwallflower, 1 day ago to random

I learned I missed @Alice 's bday.

Happy belated bday @Alice
🎂

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Waitnwallflower, 1 day ago to random

New guy at work pings me periodically today. Indicates that I seem to know a lot about everything (I assure him I know what I need to know and a little about enough other things to fake my way through most things).
Anyway, I join this call where most ppl yell at each other, when I am asked to speak, I get ppl laughing; I remark to him in message, that "I haven't yelled at anyone here...yet..."
Then, I was used as a pawn in the meeting. This went badly for most. This is when I took full control of the call, outlined what I needed, what is an outage, what next steps need to happen (to another company's CEO lol).
When I was done, I typed to him "for the record, I've still not yelled. I'm just a mom, that's how I sound."

#MomVibes

WrenArcher, 1 day ago to random

I’m having a rough go of it lately. Feeling stressed and sort of adrift... like I’m unmoored and don’t know how to get back to a starting point.

The bathroom project is stressing me pretty bad. My mother in-law has lifelong untreated mental health issues that manifesting more and more. As it result she is causing stress for all of us in the house. We have my wife’s youngest staying with us for a couple of weeks while off from college which adds to the dynamic and not really in a good way.

We had a heavy rainstorm that happened about a month ago that flooded our street in the middle of the night. We didn’t know until we realized one of our cars started smelling like mold a couple days later. Just found out insurance totaled it and we are screwed because of that.

I’m still dealing with pretty serious physical health problems, work sucks, my biz partner is horrid immature man-child, pretty sure i fucked up my tax filing and actually owe a lot of money, i don’t have a therapist anymore (haven’t for two months) and I stubbed my little toe this morning.

Besides that I’m doing fucking great.

WrenArcher, 2 days ago to random

Hey everyone... I'm sorry if I'm bursting your bubble but if you see a photo of me on the red carpet at the Met Gala...

totally wasn't me.

I'm telling ya that Ai generated photo stuff is everywhere.

DivineKestrel, 3 days ago to random

Rumor has it it's @Alice's birthday! Happy Birthday to the walking 90s version of American Doll! 💖💖

WrenArcher, 3 days ago to random

Woke up this morning still kinda tired. I thought, “ugh. I would love another… i don’t know, three?… four morn hours of sleep.”

It’s a quarter after two in the morning.

Nite nite!

WrenArcher, 5 days ago to random

I just saw this from @Skepticat about the young folks doing what they can to make something happen.

This YouTube vid only has a couple hundred views so please share far and wide to get more eyes on it.

This is very cool.
Even if you live in a deep red state where it’s a certainty that the presidential race will go GOP, get out and vote!

Local and state elections can be flipped blue and those politicians have a direct impact on your lives.
#VoteBlue

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Skepticat/112372834554464017

WrenArcher, 5 days ago to diy

Since last updating, I have made some huge progress on the #DIY bathroom project that is a significant milestone.

Functioning vanity, toilet and overhead light fixture installed. I also fabricated the window sill and trimmed it out.

So many little steps involved to get each one of those things completed. It’s crazy how much is involved with each one. Getting closer.

Pro tip: don’t step on the wax ring when installing your toilet.

Next… tiling the bathtub surround.

Marble vanity top. Still needs backsplash attached.
Vanity, light and toilet which were completed yesterday.
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Alice, 6 days ago to random

There's this thing called Williams syndrome where people who have it tend to be very happy and outgoing and friendly, but it comes at a detriment because they can be TOO friendly and trusting and potentially end up in dangerous situations as a result.

I share a lot of the emotional and psychological traits, but I know I don’t have it because there are associated physical traits and I don’t have any of those.

Either way, there is definitely something going on with me where I am completely oblivious to any sort of threat or danger and, whenever my husband is concerned about a situation, he calls me "William" and I snap out of it.

He's not making fun of me or people with Williams syndrome and it's just kind of a code to alert me to potentially scary situations and I’m so grateful to have him around because I'd probably be dead or trapped in someone's basement if it weren't for him.

Williams syndrome for anyone interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_syndrome

WrenArcher, 7 days ago to random

HUGE storm rolling through the #HTX area. Power going in and out and it’s kinda freaking me out a little. Bringing back memories from Hurricane Harvey.

😬

WrenArcher, 8 days ago to random

It's sad that having an excess amount of paperclips in my clip holder/cup is what is bring me joy right now.
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I really need to get out more.

Cara, 9 days ago to Bloomscrolling

Nature was BRINGING it this morning on my walk. #Bloomscrolling #Mosstodon

Moss growing along the side of a gravel trail in a forest
Me, smiling with my hair, pulled back, wearing a black jacket standing in front of a wooded area

WrenArcher, 9 days ago to random

I’ve been listening to Taylor Swift’s latest album TTPD the past few days. When it released I was rather astonished it has 31 songs. After listening, I was equally surprised that more than half are actually really good and not just filler. The opening and title tracks are really good.

One that really stands out is “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” which sounds like a subtoot about some dude that broke Taylor’s heart. It wouldn’t be a Taylor Swift album if it didn’t have a one or two of those.

But what I like about it is it’s in 14/8… or 7/4 if you can count it that way. In the verses it almost has a polyrhythmic feeling as well. Music theory is weird. The music is really cool though. I love odd time sigs.

Another stand out for me is “Down Bad” which is kind of about being depressed after a break up… or like, being shown a new way and then losing it.

I also really like “Guilty as Sin”… a song about an affair of the heart. A friend sent a tiktok vid of “Guilty as Sin” but it’s a #wlw version.
🎶 What if she's written 'mine'
on my upper thigh
Only in my mind?🎶

The young woman also has a wlw version of “Down Bad” and it hits even harder. Ugh. I hadn’t heard the phrase Down Bad before but yeah…
I’ve been down bad.
I feel ya Taylor.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRwfAaGc/

Alice, 1 year ago to random

The worst thing about having a birthday the day after Cinco de Mayo is that everybody is always like "Here's a present for both Cinco de Mayo AND your birthday."