the knit sweater looks amazing

OBSESSED with the sweater

*"raises my hackles" has been added to vocabulary*

Thank you! I am so proud I'm showing everyone haha

i choose to share cones

And we thank you for doing that

Um Halloween sweaters are year round sweaters, I see no problem here.

23th lol :D as a chronic internet oversharer, i just type and then wish later that i hadn't said anything at all.

once again incredibly real posts lol, i love the strawberry fields=transcience of life thing so much

i have tried to start a "journal" type page on my website several times and struggled so much just on deciding what to share and not share that i ended up removing the page entirely.. ultimately i'm satisfied just having pages dedicated to things i like rather than anything else personal. i also find that writing about my life for an audience makes me way more self critical and i don't like it

despite that i still like to read personal blogs from other people tho haha

i struggle with what to share all the time. when i'm writing blogs i think, why would anyone care about this? but then i go back and re-read and i'm glad i wrote it just for my own sort of documentation of my life. but i still struggle with how others are perceiving it.

In the vein of "23th", my local Little Caesars for years had "TRY OUR 4-8PM" on their readerboard. I regret not photographing it.

I think my main worry is that someone from work will somehow find this and finally they will see beyond the mask I Gorilla Glue in place every time I have to be perceived by them. But now that I think of it, I'm not sure it really matters all that much given that I am not interested in sharing rated R or super emotional personal information anyway.

I really wish I could reply directly to people’s comments. But @projectc190 and @bigbrat, I find that writing about my life in bullet point helps me share things about my life that others might find amusing or interesting (which I guess is my goal in writing for an audience).

Like, you don’t need to write some big essay with an “important” theme. You can just mention something random that happened and leave it at that. Personally I find that type of mundane, silly observation to be very interesting as a blog reader. Just saying, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel to blog. You can just write something you’d like to read.

(And if you do that, people probably will find it interesting. But even if no one is reading, the process of writing can still be fun for you. Hence why I generally only write when I'm in a good mood. If I'm going to cry about something in public, I at least want it to be entertaining for people. Lmfao.)

yes, i totally get you!! blogging can be whatever we want. i feel like we've all been substack-pilled lol. blogging can just be fun, no need for a thesis! also i def understand the worry of someone you know IRL finding your blog in the wild, hence keeping it semi-anonymous and why probably a lot of folks make neocities pages in the first place!

Finally watched Halloweentown, did not disappoint. Also saw Watcher in the Woods, an older Disney halloween flick, and was mostly impressed though English accents annoy me

glad you liked it. :) I haven't heard of Watcher in the Woods - adding it to my list!

Actually I don't remember ever watching Halloweentown - might have to add it to my list

It's ridiculous but good fun

Ernest Scared Stupid is my all-time fav

It's the best of the Ernest movies! I watch it every year. :)

Same!! I wish I was watching it right now lol

hahaha i love that he bought you the barbie

lmfao is that what the hank green vs knitters thing is? like the most average casual mysogyny possible? (¬､¬)

I was wondering what was the thing with Hank Green, I do agree with you! And so sweet of your brother, I mean it's about time ! But still :)

I do get why people are upset, but I also think it's sort of overblown. #NotAllKnitters, but I think a lot of people in the fiber arts community really just love finding new things to feel persecuted about. Justified? Maybe, maybe not. I wanna reiterate again that ultimately I don't care, lmfao.

Maybe one day we'll stop shitting on one another for the ways we make life worth living.

I saw the Hank Green vid and feel similar to you, but I confess that I took umbrage when I saw his image of stockinette was reverse stockinette (or vice versa? it messed with my head)

Fair! I have to admit I’m a dumdum when it comes to identifying different stitch patterns. I never would have noticed if others hadn’t pointed it out!

If you had two working Barbie flashlights they could be earrings

finally made some of the ribbons that have been requested :)