What is grilled cheese if not just a vessel for my tomato soup

This post has soup in it!! Very good.

Honestly… these are both foods I would not ordinarily eat unless they were accompanied by the other. I don’t like tomatoes that much. And I don’t like grilled cheese that much either. But together… they fix each other

Footsteps In The Dark... 2020

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WIBTA for taking advantage of my boss’ possible manic episode?

I know this already sounds bad but hear me out.

So I (30M) am the sole employee of this guy (62M) who’s honestly just a miserable boss and an even more miserable person. It sucks so bad working for him—the pay is horrendous, he’s verbally abusive, and the working conditions are awful (in the winter I literally have to stay bundled up the whole work day because he refuses to put the heat on in the office). He wouldn’t even give me holidays off if it wasn’t for the fact that there’s basically nothing to do those days because everywhere else is closed. I’m almost positive he unironically thinks poor people should die if they can’t work. His nephew (aka his only living relative and just the nicest guy) came by yesterday to invite him to Christmas dinner and he told him he’d see him in hell.

I cannot stress this enough—it’s BAD. I’d quit, but it’s been hard finding a better job and I’ve got four kids at home, including one with special needs.

Anyway, so here’s where I’m wondering if I’d be the asshole. Today was Christmas Day and he showed up at my house out of nowhere (huge red flag, I know). At first I thought he’d forgotten I had the day off and he was here to chew me out, which was worrying enough, but then his whole demeanor changed and he was super happy and excited and talking about how he was going to raise my salary. He even mentioned possibly making me a partner in the firm.

Now if that was it, I’d feel a little weird about the suddenness of it but it’d be fine. I’m not going to complain about having more money to feed my family. But then he started talking about how he wanted to pay our mortgage off. He talked about wanting to pay for our son to get the very expensive medical care that’s probably going to save his life. He mentioned at one point that he was going to be donating a huge amount of money to charity too—I knew he was rich but it staggered me. All this from a guy who doesn’t (didn’t?) even want to turn on the heat or the lights because it costs too much money.

It was such a sudden and drastic change that happened very literally overnight and now I’m kind of concerned he’s having a manic episode or something. I really, really want to accept his sudden generosity (I probably will; my wife is all for it and thinks he owes it to us), and I would love to believe that he’s truly had a sudden change of heart (an actual Christmas miracle lol) but I’m just worried about the possible consequences of accepting huge financial gifts like this from someone who I believe might be experiencing some kind of break from reality. Even if there’s nothing legally wrong with it, I’m worried about the ethics of it.

TLDR, my asshole boss might be in the middle of a mental breakdown. WIBTA if I accepted his offer to pay off my mortgage and my son’s medical expenses?

Update: I got the courage up to ask him about his sudden change of heart while my special needs child was napping in his lap (what), and he told me he was visited by three ghosts. So. Definitely not well. Still not sure I won't take the money.

Art by 土豆LCZ

SHAPE HELL 2

Heider and Simmel (1944) coded

hey folks,,,,,... glad 2 b here on tubblr . here's a little self-portrait of me,, a human male

on my way to work at the job factory :) lets get this bread !, and by bre,d i mean human money dollars haha. dont even like bred

feeding the ducks

(disclaimer: i do Not live in thi,s pond. i live in a home House.)

ah . allow me to introduce my two lovely childen . Child and Baby . :) they are both just regular Men just like their old man(me)

shiny milotic🫧✨

This guy's psyduck keeps trying to drive the bulldozer

Me too, psyduck. Me too. I too want to operate an industrial vehicle regardless of my qualifications to do so.

Cain and Abel

The Cain Instinct

This gave me flashbacks to a back-to-school nightmare I had in middle school

I was thinking through what else I’m looking forward to this holiday season and I realized I haven’t mentioned it on here, just on discord, but— MY MOMS BEEN MAKING ME A REALLY COOL ART THING??

I think I’ve talked about it before, but my mom has been a quilter for most of my life and in the last few years started doing these really cool fabric collages, and it was my turn to request one so I asked for a phoenix cause I’m obsessed with this one art piece I did in art therapy ages ago

Anyway, my mom has been working on it and THIS was the last update I got???

I’m so excited for it?? Can’t wait to see where it’s at by the time I get there this weekend

dude holy fucking shit???? this is. beyond insane. i also quilt, though i've never tried paper piecing - though this doesnt even look like that. this has surpassed any and every sort of traditional quilt work. i can't even imagine how this is put together. im just staring at it in absolute wonder. youve short circuited my brain with how beautiful that is, and 'beautiful' isnt a strong enough word for what this is

So, as far as I can tell, this is a technique involving cutting tiny pieces of fabric with the colors/patterns you want and pinning and using fabric glue, and then sometimes sewing over top depending on the size of the pieces (this is what I’ve gathered from listening to my mom talk about it, but I know she learned the technique from a specific artist I can’t remember the name of who sells books and classes). My mom also frequently uses tulle over areas with lots of small piecing, usually as a way to adjust color but also I think cause it’s easier to sew the tulle piece than try and quilt aaaaalll of the little bits and pieces.

Here’s some pics from the workroom when I visited in November, and some pics from in-progress pieces before they were finished, if that gives you a better idea of how it works ^^

And here’s some finished pieces!

Despite or perhaps because of her best efforts (trying to eat my weaving notebook) I got the warp maths wrong by an order of magnitude in at least two places, but it's fine, it's fine it's fine

An evening and a day spent warping. First time warping from front to back, many learning experiences were had, unclear whether I have learned from them.

(It might look like stripes right now but it's not gonna be stripes)

Aaaaand we're off! I told you it wasn't going to be stripes.

The thing to understand is, this is two separate fabrics. The green warp only ever weaves with green weft, the yellow warp with yellow weft, and ne'er the twain shall meet. This is a piece of loosely woven yellow cloth which intersects a piece of loosely woven green cloth in very specific ways, forever moving over and under each other but never on the same plane, always locked in a dance. You can stick your finger between the layers at the edges.

It's my first time using wool (previous projects were linen or cotton) and it is a pain learning experience.

Nearing the end of this warp, I forgot that I had broken a warp thread at the beginning of winding on. The weight keeps it under tension even though it isn't wound around the warp beam with its friends.

And here is the cloth underway -- I've mostly done random patterns (often computer-generated-randomness). I don't know how much it will shrink, it might be neither an awkwardly wide scarf nor an awkwardly narrow shawl.

It's off the loom! I am getting so much braver about the sewing machine!

Very late finished photos! After hemming he went through a gentle cycle in the washing machine, which made him softer and denser and rounded out the shapes a lot. He is very cosy and a wonderful big scarf.

Home in Suffolk, UK

That’s. That set of stairs is trying to be a ladder.

This scratches an itch in my brain but it would be so fucking unsafe.

You ever been in a state where you physically have no energy, but you're bored and socially understimulated so you kind of wish you could just invite people to come over like this: