From Mom: “You don’t deserve any praise for your good grades. You already speak the languages in those classes so it’s expected you do well.”

From Dad: “Why did you only get 99%?”

Context: I grew up in a household where we spoke many languages. In highschool I had an easy time getting good grades in all the foreign language lessons but struggled with Maths or Science classes. The parents couldn’t fathom I could have a failing grade because I didn’t need to study for some classes (which should have given me more time to study for other classes, amarit?).

https://youtu.be/zqtT_Tws_3g

My Introduction into the Bossa Nova Musical genre.

One week.

Was asked to be the community manager of an online casino. I couldn’t deal with the morality of trying to encourage people to keep gambling away money they didn’t have.

Boardgames tonight at my sister’s house. Mom’s visiting my house tomorrow evening to see our newly finished kitchen. We’re having Indian food. Excellent stuff happening.

Pumpkin soup and fresh sourdough bread.

Climbing around on the roof of our 2 floor house.

I’m still having dreams of being late to a school day so I don’t think past experiences ever really leave our unconscious mind. Props to you for quitting!

Sitting down in the shower and enjoying the hot water for too long…

I wonder if AI will ever be able to write proper crochet patterns …

Dungeons & Dragons with some friends at home. We’ve ordered donuts and will have loaded potato wedges with ribbs I’m the evening after they defeat the dragon I’ve got in store for them.

The Repair Shop show from the Uk. <3

Boardgame night at my sister’s house. She’s raising a family, I chose to live child-free. Those nights together allow her to just be an adult, not a parent, and allow me to hang out with my sister. It’s lovely.

It looks panicked…

Now you can bake her the best bread ever. Thanks mom!

I haven’t found any mexican restaurants in Belgium. Just none. There is a taqueria where I live but it does not scream authentic at all.

As a kid I lived in Thailand and there was an excellent restaurant there with super yummy food - think not sure it was authentic.

Making Mexican food yourself is also tricky as the ingredients (dried chillis) are not easy to find.

Missed opportunity to have the dancers have alternating skin colour and add some interesting patterns to the dance.

Tell me more about those retirement benefits.

The Power Puff Girls

Not hard, just fiddly for the fluffy bits. But it is explained with a video by the creator of the pattern. All the other stitches are classic single crochet and slip stitch.

That being said I wasn’t too happy with how the pattern was written overall. Nothing insurmountable, just not what I am used to. Instead of “(2 SC, INC)x6” it would be “sc in next 2, 2 sc in sc, repeat the whole round” for example. I’m just not used to that writing style and I had to really concentrate to avoid making mistakes.