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cupcake_goth) wrote2025-09-23 11:20 amPrime directive: exterminate the whole human race
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As some of you may have noticed from my shrieking on social media yesterday, My Chemical Romance announced tour dates for 2026. The closest they're coming to me is San Diego or L.A., and yes, discussions are being had about which show I should try to purchase tickets for. EXCEPT that I'll have to purchase those tickets later, because they go on sale on Friday, right when I'll be in the office for an all-day meeting.
:: wails ::
The Stroppy One pointed out that more tickets always become available closer to the concert dates, and while I know he's right, that doesn't sooth the wailing fangirl part of my brain. Stupid work calibration meetings.
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Yesterday I discovered the clothing company Market of Stars, and specifically this duster. I flailed a lot about in on Bluesky and Tumblr, because my god that is pretty and I already thought of two different outfits I could use it with. To my complete shock, someone who's followed me for years and years sent me the money for it, saying they wanted to spread some kindness. I am shocked but grateful.
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IG has started showing me a lot of witchy content. Not just the aesthetic IG witches, but people who's approaches are similar to mine. I don't know why the algorithm started doing that, but I prefer it to the hordes of "alt" makeup tutorials done by baby faced, dripping with collagen youngsters. (I found all of them adorable, but found myself muttering "Okay, now show me how to do that with permanent eye bags" a lot.)
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As many of you know, my company hosts the all-hands Company Kick-Off event at the beginning of every year in Phoenix AZ, and there's always a costume theme for the first day. The 2026 theme is ... teams. Any way someone wants to interpret that, but of course all the examples were sports-related. But! I came up with a brilliant idea and presented it to my team: we all carry notepads and oversized pencils, and ta-da! We're the writing team. My peeps liked it, so that's what we're doing.
lintninja) wrote2025-09-21 04:55 pmI fucked up today.
the_siobhan) wrote2025-09-21 06:56 pm8 bits are enough for me
The house stuff continues to be a labourious swim upstream against a river of bullshit. Final
Turns out Original Contractor did not get the city to look at the foundations before closing up the walls. Which is a MANDATORY step. There also apparently needed to be an inspection of the drain that leads to the sump pump. I do remember the contractor talking about getting the engineer to look at the work, so I reached out to him to see if he could provide a report.
Engineer: You have to talk to [Contractor]
Me: [Contractor] hasn't returned any of messages for months. Did you do the inspection or not?
Engineer: I'll reach out to him.
So will I be able to close the work permits? Nobody knows! I'm hoping that the worst-case scenario is they have to knock a hole in the wall and feed a camera down. I have no fucking idea what I'll do if they have to rip up concrete.
Cry, probably.
Meanwhile, got the bathroom painted and managed to rescue most of the fixtures. Figured out that the wall lights are borked and tried to buy replacements without any luck - they have to be really short because of the tiny space they are squeezed into, but apparently wall lights are now something that you can only order online because none of the hardware stores I visited had anything on site. I was really hoping I could take a tape measure to them before handing over any money.
AND I tried to put wall-plates on all the outlets and switches and failed because out of 12 electrical boxes only 4 are set properly in the wall. So I have to pull the rest apart and re-mount them and fill in the gaps on the ones where they just cut a fuckoff big hole that the plate won't cover. How how HOW do you screw up such a basic fucking job?
I am taking next weekend off and I am going to visit friends. And there is a part of me that thinks I should stay here and deal with the electricals bullshit but - I have dedicated every single weekend to this fucking project for longer than I can calculate. I lost my entire summer to dealing with this. I deserve to take ONE weekend off, right?
cupcake_goth) wrote2025-09-18 01:18 pmI wrote a goodbye note in lipstick on your arm
- I had a dream last night where I was in some sort of high-end, very posh mall, and spent ages looking at a mysterious cosmetics counter that had lipsticks that were exact matches for the OG Chanel Vamp and MAC Verushka. They had tubes of those discontinued lipsticks to swatch and match. I woke up as my dream self was about to spend $160 for two lipsticks. I'll admit I'd be tempted to do that in real life if the company did indeed have the OG tubes to swatch against.
- The US leg of the MCR tour ended last weeked. HOWever, as of yesterday, new ads related to MCR have been seen in New York, Detroit, Minneapolis, and San Diego. Some are just spray painted logos in parking lots outside of stadiums, but some have been bulletin boards and signs of either one or more of the band in the Black Parade uniform, or the Keposhka MCR logo. The fandom, no surprise, are losing our MINDS. Does this mean there's going to be another US leg of the tour? If there is, does it mean more weird storyline/lore that the band is potentially in some sort of stasis or time loop? (I won't give you the whole breakdown, but over the course of the tour Gerard has become more and more corpse-like; paler, wounds on his face, etc., and he's stabbed to death at the end of each Black Parade segment of the concert. There's more. There's a lot more.) Does this mean there's going to be a DVD or something? Should I start saving money for tickets and travel just in case? Who knows? Not the fandom, that's for sure.
- I've been tired ALL THE TIME lately. I'm sure some of it is the ambient stress level we're all dealing with plus the ongoing varying stress levels of work, but the rest may be my chronic health issues flaring up? My body trying to stage a coup and force me to rest? I don't like any of these answers.
- I'm finally getting back into a rhythm of witchy things. I'm pulling a tarot card most days, and I did some ritual work this week. It felt good. I need to do more, because it helps me approach things with more clarity and giving myself grace. And whooooo-boy, do I need both of those things.
So! How are you folks doing?
lil_m_moses) wrote2025-09-14 01:18 pmSmall Victories
With those stakes, I discovered I have about 8' less side yard. If I had to guess, our lot's about 200' deep, so on the plus side, that maybe 1600 sq ft was a significant chunk that I didn't have to mow today. It also helps explain why I've always had so much trouble with weeds (besides the fact that that edge is beside a weed field) and lack of sprinkler coverage along that edge.
cupcake_goth) wrote2025-09-10 05:09 pmYou're right, Brain, we DO need a little treat
This afternoon, feeling incredibly groggy, I decided I needed a cup of my fancy cocoa (with half a scoop of protein powder), and instead of using sugar or honey, I would use a few of the marshmallows for sweetness.
YES. This was a good idea. This helped stave off a mild panic attack because of my stupid brain deciding it wants to freak out over everything ever said to it. Cocoa and marshmallows made my brain be quiet. I need to remember this. Not the cocoa with protein powder, I've been doing that for a bit, but that 1) adding marshmallows is GOOOOOOD, and 2) maybe have this treat a bit more often because maybe it helps with the fucking anxiety.
So yeah. That's where I'm at right now.