Samantha Stillman

Thanks, I'll look at them. I do look at a lot of stuff, just haven't gotten to buying it yet. I just haven't gotten to it yet. I'm currently focused on learning embroidery.

I've wanted to learn tablet weaving and I have watched video tutorials on it, but haven't gotten anywhere otherwise. The person I watch does use an Inkle when she tablet weaves though.

Yeah... I know myself to know I couldn't live in Florida, I've been out of the South since I was 1 1/2 years old (I was born in Biloxi)... I've lived in the PNW pretty much my whole life... Just visiting Universal in October nearly killed me.

So pretty... This is a skill I've wanted to learn, but haven't yet.

What Movie Did you watch over and over as a kid

I get the feeling people may not get it, but it's Secret of the Sword.

I have never spent so much time researching medical practices as I have in recent times... Writing a m mystery with forensics and medical elements is so research intensive.

It's March, and there's been no snow this whole time and I Woke up to snow... I don't like snow.

Totally and nice chatting with you too.

Totally understand that. It's just a thing with life, of course. People want to assign you a role based on societal normals and when you don't finish that, it confuses them. Of course, I have the added excuse of PCOS hormone issues to help that.

Well, I also have this controversial view that confuses people. I know that if I had wanted kids, and honeslty I would only want to adopt, I would be dad. In my mind, it's a role, not really tied to gender. I have a lot of people with that view. For me I am more the dad role than the mom role.

Yeah, that was partly why I broke up with my fiance. He was managing to smother me from across the country, but he wanted kids, I do not want them, the very idea of ever being pregnant made me ill (I'm also sex-repulsed, so there was that too)... He was convinced I would change my mind.

I'm turning 40 on the 24th, but I've tried dating and I was engaged. I just... I learned that I'm content by myself. I have no interest in the things that people look for. For me a relationship would be. someone who understands it's more platonic than anything and that they may get ignored for days.

For me it was a nice thing to do because I don't care about valentines day. It's a day focused too much on romance and while I am aromantic, I'm also pushed more towards romance-repulsed. If you want to make me physically sick, try to be romantic towards me.

Who knows. I just knew I wanted to do a phoenix and had these colors lying around and said, okay, why not. The way to do the breast feathers is using fair isle crochet v stitch, which then made them look like hearts. So a nice little touch.

Yeah, doesn't, but it was fun to use yarn that I had lying around and making one themed after a holiday I don't care about, but it still came out cute.

Another out of curiosity… Of these two phoenixes, traditional coloring or valentines coloring?

Some days I feel like I'm just trying to protect my sanity... Which then makes me laugh and go "what sanity?"

I only get certain brands of them to get that 'same' taste, but the whole keto-friendly ones... Yuck. They were gritty and weird tasting. I'm not sure I can describe the taste right.

Yeah, that's the thing with me, I've never been a fan of regular shortbread, but Danish butter cookies, love those. Well... As long as it's not the ones my dad bought. Dad bought sugar free, keto-friendly, danish butter cookies.

Never been a big fan of shortbread, bu they do look good. Well, the half without pecans. I'm not a pecan fan.

All I'm thinking is, what's this? Which is then making me think of the song from The Nightmare Before Christmas... I really need to be less stream of consciousness.

If you’re like me in that regard, yes.

Probably did. And yeah, I know that feeling, my last batch took me 2 weeks to actually bother making after my mom asked for them.

a cartoon girl wearing heart shaped sunglasses with her mouth open . ALT: a cartoon girl wearing heart shaped sunglasses with her mouth open .

Looking so good! I love foxes!

Just followed the recipe on the container of Hersey’s cocoa powder to make it.

I had a bad experience when I was 14 with a physical I needed as a part of my scuba diving certification… Been avoiding them since.

Well… Never want to do that again. I so hate physicals.

I keep telling myself that I feel ready to look at cats more frequently and then say, never mind. I just want Jessie back.

I did that with my cats.

Anyone here ever heard of a graph database before? I get to do that this week. Seriously, multiple database classes in my undergrad degree because of my software engineering concentration, but graph databases, nope. Completely new.