And the mailing thing? It's Newfoundland - take any expected delivery timeframe, add a week if it has to cross a national border, and tack on another week if it's being sent here - they gotta let it sit in a 'storage facility' in Montreal first. :P Ooh, Montreal. Fancy. Any time I've sent a package...

Graham and Empath: Agreed, it's definitely a manufacturing problem. Once in a blue moon you can find a manufacturer's size chart listing up to 4XL in women's sizes...but I can't seem to find anywhere that will actually sell them in those sizes. It's like the extra sizes are on the chart for show, th...

Fangamer and Extra Credits - another two places I would like to buy shirts that don't actually carry women's shirts in sizes I can wear. I'm pretty much done with buying men's shirts, the pile of shirts I don't wear that will "someday" be modified is already far too big. I want to buy clot...

Sugar is toxic. Carbohydrate is rare in nature and our biology is designed to store it when we come across it. Insulin (triggered by carbohydrate) suppresses important hormones like Ghrelin and Leptin, that control hunger and satiation. Carbohydrate causes an imbalance of good and bad cholesterol a...

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Chemistring? Nah, you wouldn't wanna be around here today...

...Actually, I'll take 30°C that feels like 30°C, thanks. And stay later at work to enjoy the benefits of A/C. Stay cool, man. Stay cool.

Weather forecasts are lying liars that lie. The current forecast is for a daily high of 26°C. It's now 10:30 am, and the temperature in my area of town is already above 30°C. Full hibernation mode is now in effect, and guilt cannons have been fired. Empath, I'll take your 12 - 15°C weather - that's ...

Oh, summer guilt. It's a beautiful day outside, sunny and hot, blue sky with a few fluffy white clouds...and I'm sitting inside with all the curtains closed trying to pretend that 26.4 C is "cool". I'm built for Canadian winters! I *like* cooler weather! When it's this hot outside (current...

You do, however, have a bit of time to find appropriately literary friends before the relevant birthday.

I have never heard of Cruffs and had to look it up. ...Why have I never heard of this before?! Totally have to go there, I love cream puffs!

Hooray for getting old(er)!

I don't usually make a big deal out of my birthday so it's been pretty quiet, but this was a lovely surprise. Thanks for the birthday wishes!

Late off the mark, but proposal submitted. Too many things I could do, still not quite sure which it will end up being...so here's a pretty picture instead (it's bigger on the inside!):

Or, anyone who is participating in a run (walk, bike, etc.) for 'below the belt' cancers should buy them as team shirts!

Maybe one of the Desert Bus contests should be to come up with a crafty way to use a bunch of the shirts? I'm betting you could patchwork the image together to create an entirely new scene on a quilt, for example.

Hmmmm....

Avistew, the best advice I can give other than good cleaning care is to sleep on the other side of your head until it heals up and well after. I have a helix piercing as well and like Aubergine's, mine took around a year or slightly more until it was healed enough for me to be comfortable sleeping o...

Well, it was funny in the wake of the Wii video...Five years later and we've all pretty much accepted the Wii for what it is, while explaining why you're wearing a shirt depicting a prostate exam remains awkward and uncomfortable.

Even more so when the wearer is female.

Why doesn't someone knit a giant - like, afgan-sized - version of Bump In The Night? That would be tricky considering the detail in the original art, but might be possible if it could be charted on on a grid 200-ish squares across and however many rows high. The colour palette would have to be fair...

I'm working on a Tardis shawlette that I might submit ( pattern here ), but am otherwise stuck in crafty limbo at the moment. There are so many things I want to make and keep bouncing between thinking my ideas are great and horrible. Does anyone here have something in particular they would like to s...

Ha! Thanks for posting the picture, Tally, it was great to hang out and chat with you. My brain slug looks confused about all the fuss. So great to see the line up for the LRR panel, hope CCEE takes that as a sign that we all want more LRR next year. To the LRR crew and friends, thanks for another g...

Do you have access to a sewing machine? If so, start practicing on old bedsheets or shirts from the thrift store. I saw some comments via google that Imperial officer jackets look like slightly modified chef's tunics. If you can find one that's a bit large in a thrift store or somewhere cheap, you c...

Featherweight, is this your Crimson Binome? 'Cause it's pretty damn awesome!

Tally, do it! I'd wear the Kraken for more tentacly goodness, but he's a bit tall to be head gear. Brain slug it is, then.

Let's call this a preemptive rant. I have a sneaking suspicion that the half-day seminar I am supposed to be giving at work tomorrow may not go as planned...or at all. We're mid-renovations at work, and that means that between renos and training courses booking a meeting room (especially bigger clas...

Trying to decide if I should wear my shiny new brain slug to the Expo, and curious if there will be any other brain slugs around.

On the plus side, I would be easy to spot...

So excited! I've got my Bump and am ready to go, looking forward to meeting everyone.

I haven't been where you are, but my best friend has dealt with depression for a long time. Some days are darker than others...but some of them are a lot brighter, too. And for the most part, the bright ones outnumber the dark. I'll be sending bright thoughts your way, and until they arrive, here's ...