Dyane
@dyanearden.bsky.social
fiber artist, liberal, geek, gender queer, mom, MCTD, chronically ill
I’ve been sober for 29 years so I’m not up on current alcohol terminology. I just learned what IBU means for beer. Learn something new every day.
August 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I’ve been sober for 29 years so I’m not up on current alcohol terminology. I just learned what IBU means for beer. Learn something new every day.
It’s time to stop when you stab yourself in a nerve with your sewing needle. The buttons can wait. Ow.
July 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
It’s time to stop when you stab yourself in a nerve with your sewing needle. The buttons can wait. Ow.
Why is Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy stuck in my head?!?
July 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Why is Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy stuck in my head?!?
I'm still alive. Enjoying life on ADHD medication. It is so fucking amazing I wish I had been diagnosed decades ago but I'm happy that the rest of my life won't be as difficult.
July 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I'm still alive. Enjoying life on ADHD medication. It is so fucking amazing I wish I had been diagnosed decades ago but I'm happy that the rest of my life won't be as difficult.
We’re taking turns in the back vestibule at work watching the downspout fire. Yes, police and firefighters are on scene.
January 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
We’re taking turns in the back vestibule at work watching the downspout fire. Yes, police and firefighters are on scene.
Need to get back on my pill game. I haven’t been taking magnesium or a multivitamin for weeks and my body is pissed.
January 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Need to get back on my pill game. I haven’t been taking magnesium or a multivitamin for weeks and my body is pissed.
Starting the process of getting meds for my combined type ADHD. It would be nice to not have to fight my brain all the time.
January 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Starting the process of getting meds for my combined type ADHD. It would be nice to not have to fight my brain all the time.
Thought the dizziness was two vaccines yesterday. 3/4 to work, "Why can't I see half the car ahead of me?" Migraine aura. Fuck.
January 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Thought the dizziness was two vaccines yesterday. 3/4 to work, "Why can't I see half the car ahead of me?" Migraine aura. Fuck.
I was so tired after the party that it took me two days to remember my lost car keys had an air tag. Found them!!
January 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I was so tired after the party that it took me two days to remember my lost car keys had an air tag. Found them!!
I had to go to work this morning, the Spouse never has to go to work ever again. Totally jealous.
January 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I had to go to work this morning, the Spouse never has to go to work ever again. Totally jealous.
Didn’t realize how many amazing cooks and chefs my Spouse knew until we invited them all over for a potluck.
January 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Didn’t realize how many amazing cooks and chefs my Spouse knew until we invited them all over for a potluck.
Spouse was up @ 3 am making chili for his retirement party today. None of us have any chill.
January 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Spouse was up @ 3 am making chili for his retirement party today. None of us have any chill.
Husband's last day of work before retirement, D&D game here tonight, retirement party tomorrow. Of course I have a stress migraine today. Urgh.
January 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Husband's last day of work before retirement, D&D game here tonight, retirement party tomorrow. Of course I have a stress migraine today. Urgh.
Criminalizing non-payment of fees, jailing poor people who can't pay fees, systemic racism keeping people of color poor, unequal enforcement causing more black people to be jailed, stripping prisoners of rights, using them for cheap labor way below minimum wages. www.npr.org/2025/01/10/n...
Inmates are fighting California wildfires in long-running and controversial practice
California has turned to incarcerated firefighters since 1915. To those opposed to the use of inmates as firefighters, the system is seen as exploitative.
www.npr.org
January 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Criminalizing non-payment of fees, jailing poor people who can't pay fees, systemic racism keeping people of color poor, unequal enforcement causing more black people to be jailed, stripping prisoners of rights, using them for cheap labor way below minimum wages. www.npr.org/2025/01/10/n...
Playing BG3 for over a year, just ran into the fucking HAG from Act I in Act III and I accidentally did a murder for her. This is apparently a "WTF just happened" run.
January 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Playing BG3 for over a year, just ran into the fucking HAG from Act I in Act III and I accidentally did a murder for her. This is apparently a "WTF just happened" run.
After having been on holiday since Dec 25, I am back in the office on campus today and I do believe the cat has been desperately searching for me since 7:30 am and driving everyone left in the house absolutely crazy.
January 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
After having been on holiday since Dec 25, I am back in the office on campus today and I do believe the cat has been desperately searching for me since 7:30 am and driving everyone left in the house absolutely crazy.
Brain is still not happy about the “squirrels” across the street no matter how many times I tell myself it’s roofers.
December 28, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Brain is still not happy about the “squirrels” across the street no matter how many times I tell myself it’s roofers.
Why does the oven smell like burning plastic?!?
December 28, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Why does the oven smell like burning plastic?!?
Self, don’t freak out… it’s not squirrels in the wall, it’s roofers across the street in the snow in December.
December 27, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Self, don’t freak out… it’s not squirrels in the wall, it’s roofers across the street in the snow in December.
I have no sympathy today for anyone else: it’s 1 degree F outside and I’m the only one of FOUR adults in the house who has to go to work today.
December 23, 2024 at 12:06 PM
I have no sympathy today for anyone else: it’s 1 degree F outside and I’m the only one of FOUR adults in the house who has to go to work today.
The Spouse has 5 working days left before he retires in January.
December 16, 2024 at 4:18 PM
The Spouse has 5 working days left before he retires in January.
It took me at least a week to notice that one of our trees that leaned across the creek was replaced by a pile of wood neatly stacked along the creek wall. It was in the "is it ours, theirs, or the city's" space so I'm just happy we didn't get a bill. My spouse is happy for the firewood.
December 12, 2024 at 3:26 PM
It took me at least a week to notice that one of our trees that leaned across the creek was replaced by a pile of wood neatly stacked along the creek wall. It was in the "is it ours, theirs, or the city's" space so I'm just happy we didn't get a bill. My spouse is happy for the firewood.
I have three sea shanties vying for attention in my head thanks to the Grand Duchess. “Fee fi fo Santiana a right whale bore. “
December 11, 2024 at 11:58 AM
I have three sea shanties vying for attention in my head thanks to the Grand Duchess. “Fee fi fo Santiana a right whale bore. “
I'm fighting off a migraine and my coworkers are debating whether a mango or an orange would roll farther down the hallway. Help.
December 4, 2024 at 4:05 PM
I'm fighting off a migraine and my coworkers are debating whether a mango or an orange would roll farther down the hallway. Help.
I am forced to wear socks today. I hate winter.
December 4, 2024 at 3:48 PM
I am forced to wear socks today. I hate winter.