KittenBiscuits @ KittenBiscuits @lemm.ee

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I would only do it if the job posting requested references along with your application. If it's not mentioned, wait for them to ask you for references.

Is your business rated on Google or Yelp? You could offer that to prospective employers because it reflects your customer service skills.

I've had to do hiring before, and I would not count a lack of references against you if you were upfront about being self employed. Heck, I'm trying to get my own business off the ground now. Being self employed for a decent length of time speaks volumes about your ability to be responsible.

This is pretty much what I use it for too. Plus it was my ghost writer for sections of my website content and helped me update my bio for my proposal templates. I would never give it client information. But it sure is handy getting me over writer's block. I usually have it reword its answer 3 times and then I edit them together using the bits and pieces that work best.

Looks like a mlem. Mlems are licks. Bleps are a momentary glitch when they forget to stow the tongue.

Sorry, not Italian, but have experienced those 6am airport departures before from various Italian cities. My recommendation is to schedule an uber for an early pickup.

I would spend many summer mornings at Grandma's. Helping her make lemonade. Sitting on the patio listening to the cicadas. So now whenever I hear a cicada, I flashback to her house. ❤️

A person's right to assisted suicide.

A few countries have this already, and I think 1 or 2 states may have it decriminalized. But I wish it were less of a taboo subject.

It's ok and even seen as being responsible when we make these decisions for our pets, yet if you want to make the same decision for yourself, you must not be thinking straight.

I have not had and do not have thoughts of suicide, but I have been caregiver to several family members and been witness to the end of life stage.

We should be able to decide for ourselves at a certain point that it's time to go.

A collection of pretty little pots of herbs.

My Tractor Supply has potted lemon trees for under $20.

I like the fruit basket ideas too.

Interesting. I have a mild (probably healthy) phobia of getting shocked when I'm doing wiring around the house. And I was "acquainted" with electric fences on farms as a kid. I've been imagining house wiring would feel similar.

Sounds like you fell into a Ghibli film! Did you get to ride the catbus home?

Hmm, I guess the most active project is a sweater I started on a knitting loom. My first knitting project. I normally do crochet.

I _{want to} finish my powder room vanity and sink, get some shelves up over the washer/ dryer, and finish my pot rack so I can free up cabinet space.

Yes, someone will always do it anyway.

You must ask yourself how you will feel about providing professional support to this MLM. Can you imagine looking yourself in the mirror? Can you imagine how you will feel once the job has been completed?

I had a dilemma like this back in 2007. I was an auditor at a CPA firm, and my boss tried to assign me to a new client...a PAC... back when PACs were just starting to register in the general public's awareness. This PAC was in support of a politician that stood for the opposite of nearly every social issue I cared about. I did try to keep an open mind. Auditors are supposed to be unbiased, but usually the worry is don't get too friendly with your clients, not the other way around. But I couldn't do it. I imagined what it would be like to go to this place for 2 weeks to do the fieldwork. And I couldn't do it. Just 2 weeks of my life. Nope. The politician was too polarizing.

I told my boss to assign someone else. He gave me a little flack for it, but overall he was a good boss who appreciated me as a professional. He assigned someone else and that's the last I heard of it... until that PAC was getting targeted by tv talking heads waving our audit report in front of the cameras.

I'm soooo glad I declined that assignment. Not only am I proud of myself for standing up for my issues, not actively undermining them by working for the "other side", but I dodged a bullet by not being associated with them on actual television.

I love the Sealife Center in Seward. They do excellent rehab and release to wild if they can, but this little one probably won't be suitable to go back to the wild after being bottle fed.

I think of this phenomenon as the brain has finished defragging and goes "ok, you ready to see some shit?"

"I couldn't help it. It just popped in there ... I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood, something that could never, ever possibly destroy us..." 🐧

My mother and grandmother have come to me in dreams since their passing, and usually my dream self is aware that they are no longer with us, and is extra super fighty to wring as much dream time with them as possible before waking up. Sometimes I wake up upset and mournful, other times, I can still feel their hugs and feel all warm and happy. Brains are pretty weird.

I sleep better on day flights. They raise the cabin temp on red eyes and it makes me restless.

I'd read that too. I hadn't let myself buy an Instapot either because I have a stovetop pressure cooker that I'm comfortable with using. I have crockpots, and a sous vide circulator (which I love dearly, omg, wanna talk about set it and forget it) . I already had accumulated all the things separately that an Instapot can do. But when COVID started, I let myself buy an Instapot, because I expected to be cooking so much more and thought maybe this miracle appliance everyone raved about would save me effort in the kitchen. And what I found is that for my recipes and cooking style, the Instapot may do all those things, air fry, sous vide, slow cook, pressure cook, but it can't do them as well as my existing equipment. It might hold the water temp ok for sous vide, but it's not circulating the water (an important factor in the cooking style). It ran too hot on the low slow cooker mode. It took fricking forever to come up to pressure. I could only air fry one portion at a time. I finally conceded that I'm just not the target user for those things. I never did try making rice in it though. We've since moved and it's packed up somewhere. When I find it again, I might try it one more time, but otherwise it is destined for my MIL's annual yard sale.

This is pretty much my list as well, sans the weed because my sense of smell is too sensitive during a migraine. The ice packs are the thing that pushes me over into recovery territory.

You don't need anything fancy, get 2 gallon baggies, fill one about halfway with ice, add a little water, and then seal it up inside the 2nd baggie. I rest my head on it like a pillow but i have a lot of hair that acts a buffer. If it's too cold, wrap it in a thin kitchen towel.

Then I let time and rest do its thing. If the ice has melted and the migraine isn't gone, I make another bag.

This is pretty much how I went undiagnosed into middle age.