A new era and a new cameo amidst other people's drama

 Well, I guess it's poetic if I went to tumblr after LJ shat itself, and now that tumblr's shitting itself I'm heading to the newer (and hopefully better) LJ-copycat, retaining the same username the entire way (I thought about changing it. I thought about making it a true fresh start, but.. I am a creature of habit). 

Well, to be entirely honest, I'm not sure yet where exactly I'll end up. I don't think mastodon is right for me. Too twitter-y. I can't get a pillowfort code yet because my paypal is having Issues of unknown origin and size. I liked tumblr better than LJ but I've seen enough by now to know that when shit goes down like tumblr, shit like tumblr goes down. At least eventually. Or it just... continues existing, but in a much crappier incarnation that's too boring to bother with, once all the fun people have gone elsewhere. 

Fun times, fun times. Did I mention how much I hate change? Well, I really heckin' hate it. Learning new interfaces and reconstructing a friends-list is an enormous pain in the female-presenting nipple. If nothing else, at least this interface is... familiar. Distantly so, at this point, but nonetheless, I do remember the old LJ days. I might have to brush up on my html again but I can manage this. 

In more personal news, my running theme of being the living Stan Lee Cameo continues. This time it's of the "delivery for Tony Stank" variety -- I find myself in possession of information that is Someone Else's Business about Other People's Drama, and the only person who can possibly give it to them. Awkward and uncomfortable though this position may be. And since it's somewhat personal shit, I can't just throw the knowledge to the wind and hope it finds its proper home. 

The life of an extra is interesting, at least. If sometimes in the Chinese-curse sorta way. At least I'm not bored?

 

[NOTE: posts showing as earlier than this one are reposts from tumblr; backdated to keep things tidy]

Stuff & Things

Bought some new jewelry on black friday sales when that was going on, because why go out and stress about shopping for other people when I could instead stay home and online shop for myself with my birthday money? Hah. Joke's on the rest of y'all, I get my Yule shopping well underway long before Samhain even arrives. TBH it's just sort of a rolling thing with me. Spot something perfect to gift to a friend, buy it if it's a decent deal, keep an eye out & wait for it to go on sale otherwise, stash these things away with notes attached about who they're for if it's not actually immediately obvious just by looking at what it is, dig something out of the stash next time I need a gift for that person... 

Anyway. Bought new jewelry. Got one of my two orders the other day, and it was missing one thing. Probably my second favorite out of the whole order... well, customer service was very good about it when I brought up the problem, but they were out of stock and so couldn't send a new one. Refunded me, but dang it! I really liked that barbell. Cute little stormcloud... *sigh* Well, here's hoping it'll end up back in stock and I can go buy one again with my refund money. Not gonna bitch too hard, because I've ordered from the same site a lot and this is the first time I've ever had any problem whatsoever, and I get it, black friday shipping is probably hectic AF, particularly for a smaller business. Plus they were really great about getting back to me quickly and working out a solution. But it's making me a bit sad, I was really looking forward to wearing that one.

At least I DID get the one that's pretty much a tiny Starfleet crest except with Galaxy Color in the circle bit. That's the Top Fave. And the rest is good too, some new daith rings so I'll finally have options other than "silver horseshoe barbell" and "black with inset sparklies", since I've realized I just don't much like wearing bent barbells in there after all. They're neither as aesthetically nice as rings nor as comfortable... too bad I made the mistake of buying several sets before I figured that out. 

Well anyway. It's probably time to go to bed. Gotta work again tomorrow, this fun fun week of full time and doing weird stuff with my shifts to avoid actually going overtime... because while More Money wouldn't suck, full-time hours make me crazy real fast already and also overtime pay ain't all that great when you mostly work for tips, and my boss also very much prefers to not deal with overtime so we're in agreement on "how about not". Normally I'm part-time but a coworker had to go to the hospital a few days ago and while she's gonna be fine, she's not allowed to come back to work until next Monday by doctor's orders, so shifts had to get covered on pretty short notice. And since I'm the only one without kids or a second job... guess who gets most of 'em!  Yep. It's me.