Having a Bad Day?: Get 'yer Hugs here!!

[Sunbird she/her]

Thanks @Mestiv. I've been using a sewing pin to pick out grains of sand stuck in the camera's casing and trying periodically to turn the camera on again, and I seem to be making some progress. It's still giving me the error message, but the lens is moving a little more while it tries to start. I think the "lens error" it keeps referring to has to do with sand in the works that's keeping it from extending and retracting properly.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

3 hours ago, Assassin in Burgundy said:

Pretty good, actually. I screwed up a bit on the dynamics (like how loud or soft) but other than that it was good. Thanks for asking. 

That's great!

[Delightful]

21 hours ago, Hemalurgic_Headshot said:

I once was building a sandbox and while laying the last timber (the last possible time I could injure myself!), I dropped it on my right ring finger! I then spent the next minute running around yelping "ow". That was two months ago. My finger still isn't the same. The fingernail is the worst, and most visible. After I dropped the timber on it, it turned a dark purple, and the rest red. Then the next week the purple had turned blue, the red stayed red, and then the rest turned white. After that, the red and blue turned into purple and faded... you get the picture. The problem was, I had a piano recital the next week, so I was really worried about that. However, the pain had subsided mostly by then, so I was fine.

Its still funny colours? You might want to see a dr? 

*hugs for everyone*

[Sunbird she/her]

I got my finger shut in a car door once... Sooooo not fun. It turned purple and green and the fingernail fell off.

[Oversleep]

My sister never grasped the concept of asking people - she never understood how it works; for example, I remember a hellish fight/argument that break out because...

Backstory: my sister had a book she had to return to library. Said library is in the city centre we both would pass when commuting to/from our universities. For her it would be deviating from her route for about 10 min walk. For me, 4 minutes.

So she asked whether I'd be dropping by the library soon (since I do it sometimes and far more often than she does). I said I'm not. She tried to pressurize me into doing it anyway which made me more opposed to the idea. Emotional blackmail did not work either. She got angry at me and started screaming (mind you, she was asking me to do something for her). Fast forward 10 minutes and hell was all around, lava melting the furniture, volcanoes erupting and so on (a visual analogy of what was happening and what it felt like).
That's the kind of person she is.

Anyway, today she tried to make me torrent something for her. She said her computer is too crammed up (faulty argument in all kinds of possible ways). The thing is, I haven't secured any trustworthy torrent site, haven't checked what would be a good torrent program and I don't have an antivirus right now (I know, I know, I will look for one ASAP. It's been only three months without one).
Anyway: I said no.

Outcome: hell (no lava flowing this time, but extremely unpleasant anyway).

Edited February 12, 2017 by Oversleep

[Jondesu he/him]

So I was singing at church today (up front, I'm part of the worship team every few weeks or so), and just about the beginning of the first service, I started feeling extremely nauseous. Almost regurgitated in my mouth a little. Had to get through both services like that, though I managed to run go get a ginger ale to help, and then came home and slept for about 6 hours. Still not feeling quite right.

[A Budgie she/her]

55 minutes ago, Oversleep said:

My sister never grasped the concept of asking people - she never understood how it works; for example, I remember a hellish fight/argument that break out because...

Backstory: my sister had a book she had to return to library. Said library is in the city centre we both would pass when commuting to/from our universities. For her it would be deviating from her route for about 10 min walk. For me, 4 minutes.

So she asked whether I'd be dropping by the library soon (since I do it sometimes and far more often than she does). I said I'm not. She tried to pressurize me into doing it anyway which made me more opposed to the idea. Emotional blackmail did not work either. She got angry at me and started screaming (mind you, she was asking me to do something for her). Fast forward 10 minutes and hell was all around, lava melting the furniture, volcanoes erupting and so on (a visual analogy of what was happening and what it felt like).
That's the kind of person she is.

Anyway, today she tried to make me torrent something for her. She said her computer is too crammed up (faulty argument in all kinds of possible ways). The thing is, I haven't secured any trustworthy torrent site, haven't checked what would be a good torrent program and I don't have an antivirus right now (I know, I know, I will look for one ASAP. It's been only three months without one).
Anyway: I said no.

Outcome: hell (no lava flowing this time, but extremely unpleasant anyway).

This, plus the stories from my real-life friends, is why I'm glad I don't have siblings.

[Oversleep]

36 minutes ago, A Budgie said:

This, plus the stories from my real-life friends, is why I'm glad I don't have siblings.

A lot of my friends have siblings (one has about... five?) and from what I gather it's my case that is the exception, not the rule. Sigh.

[Shqueeves]

59 minutes ago, A Budgie said:

This, plus the stories from my real-life friends, is why I'm glad I don't have siblings.

As someone with 7 siblings, the concept be being an only child sounds strange

[StrikerEZ he/him]

3 hours ago, A Budgie said:

This, plus the stories from my real-life friends, is why I'm glad I don't have siblings.

Siblings aren't that bad. Yes, we complain about them a lot and we get in fights a lot. But in the long run, we love each other. I couldn't imagine my life without my little brother, as annoying as he can be a lot of the time. 

[Briar King]

I was always quite jealous at the bond between my brother and sister from old mans 1st marriage. I wasn't really raised with them much except the occasional weekend. Now that we re grown I have a normal realtionship with my sis. Bro moved to Houston about 10 yrs ago so we only see him and kids twice a yr or so. I was basically raised as an only child.

[A Budgie she/her]

Okay, I'm just going to be annoyed here because I can't find a better place.
So, I'm currently writing out the steps of protein synthesis for homework, and I'm doing it on a word document. Whenever I try to write tRNA (transfer RNA) or mRNA (messenger RNA) it automatically corrects it to Trna and Mrna. Oh, and last year it didn't think ethanol was a word? Or ethanoate. Or acetate.

[+Slowswift]

I am typing this without using the index finger on my dominant hand, as it is currently decorated by not one, not two, but three bandaids. There's also one on my thumb. 

Stupid cat.

[Briar King]

Pretty potent band of rain scooting through atm moving eastward.

[StrikerEZ he/him]

Ugh, I think I might be getting the flu. I've got most of the symptoms, the chills, the aches, headache, you name it. Except, I don't really have a cough or congestion. I took NyQuil, which usually helps. I've got a pretty good immune system, and I haven't got really sick in years. I'll get the symptoms of the flu for a few days and then it'll go away. Too much is going in life for me to get sick now.

[Sunbird she/her]

17 hours ago, A Budgie said:

Okay, I'm just going to be annoyed here because I can't find a better place.
So, I'm currently writing out the steps of protein synthesis for homework, and I'm doing it on a word document. Whenever I try to write tRNA (transfer RNA) or mRNA (messenger RNA) it automatically corrects it to Trna and Mrna. Oh, and last year it didn't think ethanol was a word? Or ethanoate. Or acetate.

This probably comes too late to be helpful, but there's a menu in Word called AutoCorrect Options. You can get to it by misspelling a word and letting Word red-underline it. Then right-click the underlined word, go down to AutoCorrect, and select AutoCorrect Options from the box that opens to the side.

A dialog box will pop up with several tabs. Under the AutoCorrect tab, there's a check-box at the bottom that reads "Automatically use suggestions from the spelling checker." I think un-checking that box might solve your problem. Then you should be able to right-click tRNA or mRNA the next time Word red-underlines it as a misspelling (since it shouldn't be auto-correcting anymore) and hit "Add to dictionary" so it'll stop bugging you entirely.

[A Budgie she/her]

8 minutes ago, Sunbird said:

This probably comes too late to be helpful, but there's a menu in Word called AutoCorrect Options. You can get to it by misspelling a word and letting Word red-underline it. Then right-click the underlined word, go down to AutoCorrect, and select AutoCorrect Options from the box that opens to the side.

A dialog box will pop up with several tabs. Under the AutoCorrect tab, there's a check-box at the bottom that reads "Automatically use suggestions from the spelling checker." I think un-checking that box might solve your problem. Then you should be able to right-click tRNA or mRNA the next time Word red-underlines it as a misspelling (since it shouldn't be auto-correcting anymore) and hit "Add to dictionary" so it'll stop bugging you entirely.

Oh my figgins, thank you!

[Mestiv he/him]

A kitten used scratch on Mestiv's eye! It's super effective!

One of kittens under our care,  Darky or Blacky, not sure how to translate his name, scratched me in the eye last night. And not just the eyelids, which would be more or less every day business. No. He scratched my eyeball. It constantly feels like if I had razors under my eyelid. I'm on my way to the doctor now :/ at least I think I don't have problems with vision from this eye. Oh, and I've cried like a glass of tears already. I'm gonna get dehydrated if this keeps on. 

[Sunbird she/her]

1 hour ago, Mestiv said:

A kitten used scratch on Mestiv's eye! It's super effective!

One of kittens under our care,  Darky or Blacky, not sure how to translate his name, scratched me in the eye last night. And not just the eyelids, which would be more or less every day business. No. He scratched my eyeball. It constantly feels like if I had razors under my eyelid. I'm on my way to the doctor now :/ at least I think I don't have problems with vision from this eye. Oh, and I've cried like a glass of tears already. I'm gonna get dehydrated if this keeps on. 

Owwwww!!

I don't know how true it is, but I've heard that human eyes can perform some remarkable feats of healing after scratching or stabbing injuries. I'll be praying that quick healing applies to you, Mestiv.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

My apartment doesn't allow tenants to drill holes in the walls, so to make my walls look less drab, I've been hanging my pictures with adhesive picture hooks. So far, it's had mixed results, but I thought I'd found a model that worked pretty well, and used it to hang a picture over my bed. I followed all of the instructions—cleaning the wall with alcohol, letting it sit for at least an hour—and then hung the picture. 

In less than five minutes, it fell and hit me right on the back of the head.  

Now I'm resting with some frozen corn on my head, while Bruce is still afraid the wall will attack us. 

[Elenion he/him]

I don't know what I did to bring bad karma down on me, but I definitely did something.

So I'm at school, going from eating lunch in the drama room to my AP English class. I'm walking down the hallway with one of my good friends who happens to be a girl, but we're not romantically involved at all. As we're talking, making our way down the hallway, she has to dodge someone's elbow.  She succeeded in that, but tripped on her own feet and fell onto me.  Now she's almost a foot shorter than me, and wasn't fully off her feet, so I stayed upright and didn't even break stride. So far, this is no big deal. But just then, walking the other way down the hallway, is the girl that I have a crush on. The way the timing worked out, what this second girl saw was my friend leaning up against my shoulder (from falling into it), with her hand on my shoulder blade (from catching herself).  Things were assumed that I need not specify, and because we were going opposite directions in a crowded hallway I couldn't get to her to explain  what had actually happened.

The good news: I caught the observer after school and explained everything.  Upon, hearing the real story, she believed me, or at least told me she did. Crisis: (mostly) averted.

[Erunion he/him]

@Elenion /hug

Two things now: thing one, don't blame yourself for random happenings. Things happen. In this case, they're the things that happen in a high school romantic comedy. I'm so sorry. But not gonna lie, it's kinda funny. 

Second thing: does second girl know you're interested? Cuz that changes things. 

 

 

In my own case, I really need a hug. You might wanna wear a hazmat suit though. Just got home from work, and feeling a LOT sicker than I thought I was

[Elenion he/him]

14 minutes ago, Erunion said:

But not gonna lie, it's kinda funny.

It is, but the kind of funny that you only see in hindsight, after some cake has been sacrificed to stress-eating.

14 minutes ago, Erunion said:

Second thing: does second girl know you're interested? Cuz that changes things. 

I've asked her to prom and dropped a couple of hints, but nothing concrete. My major concern was that she would see what happened and assume one of two things:

1. I wasn't meaning to drop those hints, and I'm actually with girl #1. Problematic considering that I've been assumed to be with girl #1 before by other people, because I have hugged girl #1 in public (as I do with all of my female friends).

2. I'm a player. I am an inadvertent flirt, so that doesn't help with this one.

Working to my advantage is that girl #2 is not the type to pass judgment on you and then lie about it. She's blunt. like me. If I had been socially executed already, I would know about it.

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In my own case, I really need a hug. You might wanna wear a hazmat suit though.

Eh, this bubble of social shame should do just fine.  *hug*

Edited February 16, 2017 by Elenion

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

Elenion's slaying guys!! Bring out the...idk

[StrikerEZ he/him]

So, I've missed two days of school because I'm sick. This sucks.