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Buttons and new light box for my Etsy shop

I have been hard at work to create nice looking listings for my Etsy shop, which means I needed to buy a new bigger lightbox, and a backdrop, and I needed to make new packaging. All of my button listings are sold in sets, not single buttons. Some sets have 12, 15, 18, 20, 24 or 30 buttons. I also have them in 2 sizes. 1 inch or 1.25 inches. I do have a couple listings with single buttons, but…

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#button #crafts #etsy #flair #homemade #pins

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I'm getting better at reading

Okay, I know that’s a strange title, but it’s true for me. So here’s the deal. When I was a kid, I had trouble reading. I had, and still have a learning disability, dyslexia, and ADHD. That makes it very difficult to read a novel. When I was about 9 years old, my sister had all of these books that I would have loved to have read. I believe they were The Hardy Boys and or Nancy Drew. I can’t…

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#books #reading

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My HP Officejet printer ink issues fixed

My life partner bought me this HP Officejet 6968 printer many years ago. I don’t quite remember exactly what year, but it’s been perhaps 5 years or so. I’ve had some frustrating issues with it that I have finally figured out how to solve. So my first one gave me issues with installing new ink cartridges after I believe 2 years, and it was still under warranty. HP sent me a new printer, but they…

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#HP instant ink #HP Officejet 6968 #HP Printer #ink

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Charging Station for PlayStation 5

Ok so I couldn’t help it lol. I bought a charging station for my new PlayStation 5 that’s going to be here soon. My motivation for buying this was because of my experience with my PlayStation 4 overheating. This will suck the hot air away from the PlayStation from the bottom and push the hot air out through the back of the charging station. It will also allow me to charge my controller in the…

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#charging station #gaming gaymer #PlayStation 5 #PS5

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Playstation 5!!!

Well, I finally got my hands on a new PlayStation 5. I’ve waited for years to buy one when none were available, and now they are in stock on Amazon, so I bought one. I don’t exactly have $500 to spend, so I am going to pay for it over the next 12 months interest free with my Amazon Prime Rewards Visa credit card. I also bought the 2 year warranty, so the final total per month is actually going…

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#gamer #Gaymer #PlayStation 4 #PlayStation 5 #PS4 #PS5 #video games

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I'm finally in Onederland

Well, it happened. I finally weigh under 200lbs. This was actually on Sunday, October 8, 2023. I was actually 198.8lbs, and my life partner told me to take a picture of the scale. I was going to do that, but I thought I’d do that on weigh in day, and he reminded me that I may not be 198.8 again on weigh in day, which was a good possibility, so I took a picture and by then I had gone up to…

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#diet #exercise #Ozempic #planet fitness #weight #weight watchers smart ones

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V: The Original Miniseries and The Second Generation

V: The Second Generation by Kenneth Johnson. And yes, that’s a teddy bear 🧸 bookmark. Did you ever watch “V The Original Miniseries” from the ’80s? I believe it was in 1982. I actually didn’t even see it until 1984 when they reaired it and then they came out with the TV series. My whole family sat down and watched the original miniseries, but they weren’t as excited about watching aliens as I…

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#aliens #books #Kenneth Johnson #nook #science fiction #V The Original Miniseries #V The Second Generation

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My time so far on Ozempic

Left 265lbs – Right 210lbs Ozempic. Where has this been for the last 25 years that I’ve been heavy? So I started taking Ozempic on May 8, 2023. My doctor prescribed it in late April, but she prescribed Mounjaro, which the insurance wouldn’t cover, so finally she changed it to Ozempic in May and I started taking it the same day I got it. So far I’ve lost 55lbs. I think this is such a small…

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#muscle loss #Ozempic #side effects #weight #weight loss

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i-Loom App Gone, But I Saved Patterns

If you bought one of these brilliant friendship bracelet gadgets, then you are disappointed that they have removed access to your entire library of patterns in their app. How much money did you spend on these patterns just to have them all disappear? Or how many Loomies did you earn from making bracelets to buy new patterns just to lose them when they removed access to the app? I got a…

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#friendship bracelet #i-Loom

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Let's try this weight loss again

I quit smoking in 1996 because I was trying to be healthy, and I was just getting tired of smoking. I discovered food tasted so much better and I traded one bad habit for another and literally gained 50lbs in the first 2 months, which is the reason so many people won’t quit smoking. Gradually over time the weight went up, and now I am more than 100lbs overweight. I have tried losing weight in…

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#diet #doctor #fat #health #Ozempic #weight #weight loss #weight watchers

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Xanapus on EverQuest

I started playing a game called EverQuest way back in January 2002 because my cousin was addicted to playing it, and I guess he just really wanted me to play it too because at the time we were reconnecting, and I think he just wanted to get me into something he was into. So, for Christmas 2001, he bought me the base game at Fry’s Electronics in Burbank. I came home from my visit, and I didn’t…

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#everquest #games #mmorpg #necromancer #wizard #xanapus

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Making puzzles with my Cricut

So I did a thing. Well, I tried to do a thing and was somewhat successful, and I’ll tell you my mistakes and how I’m trying to fix them. So I am a member of Design Bundles and they have these $1 deals, and one of the deals was puzzle templates. So I went to Cricut Design Space and uploaded the SVG file for one of the templates and a screenshot from The Elder Scrolls Online. The screenshot above…

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#crafting #Cricut #design bundles #puzzle

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Backdrop for my YouTube videos

I bought something from Amazon that I thought would help me with my YouTube videos. I make box cards for my Etsy shop, and last year I made a few videos showing what the box cards looked like and someone suggested instead of showing the box cards, show how I make them. So I started making box card assembly videos for YouTube. This year I made a couple assembly videos that showed me making the…

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#art #box cards #Craft #etsy #video #YouTube

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Duolingo's Dramatic Update

Duolingo’s Dramatic Update

I have been using Duolingo for almost 4 years. My current streak is 1416. I’ve been doing this for a while. I don’t remember if it was last year or if it was the year before, but they did an update and they completely changed my entire lesson plan. They added things that I’d never done before and gave me the gold and the purple icons as if I had finished the lessons and mastered them when in…

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#Duolingo #Language #Learning

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Buttons for Etsy Part 2

In my previous post Buttons for Etsy I talked about how I’m taking a huge gamble with buying a button machine that I can use to make buttons for my Etsy site. The first thing that I made were some LGBT+ buttons. I just figured that a gay Etsy shop would start out with an LGBT+ theme. A few people saw the listing, but nobody really cared lol. I went to a website called designbundles.net and they…

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#.crafting #button #etsy

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Buttons for Etsy

I have taken a huge gamble on my Etsy shop recently but purchasing a button maker that makes 1-inch, 1.25 inch and 2.25 inch buttons. I bought a pack of 300 1-inch buttons because I thought those were the typical little buttons that you would see in a shop. I have a pair of suspenders with some buttons on it that I tore my whole closet apart yesterday looking for only to find out that the…

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#badge #button #flair

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My niece found and then lost me

I have waited a long time to share this story because I didn’t want to write it with the emotions I was feeling at the time. I wanted to be at peace before taking about it so my emotions won’t dictate how I write it. So on May 21st 2022 my niece, my older sister’s daughter, contacted me on Facebook. She told me that she had been searching for me for 2 years and she was starting to think I was…

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#abuse #family