Laura @Virelai@octodon.social

So, following @julia, here are my #MastoVoice #introductions, and be assured it was super awkward filming this. Phew. But here, go and enjoy my double chin.

I'm late to the #introductions, but here it goes. I'm 30, she/her, from #Germany. I work as a environmental scientist at a university, pursuing a PhD degree. I need some #python #programming skills to do that.
I'm fairly into #crafts, especially #fiberarts like #knitting and #sewing.
I enjoy #boardgames a lot, I also started playing #shadowrun about a year ago.
#games like #citiesskylines or #civilization5 have quite a few hours on my steam account.
Plus: Trying to improve my #french ;)

Quite mesmerizing to watch - The most populous cities in the world (1500 - 2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2uoqJmJaGo

Friend tells us that her 3yo sometimes names his play animals after me, my Boy T and a mutual friend A
Us to 3yo: "ohhh, really? What are we?"
3yo: "Well... A is an Antelope."
Us: "Oh wow, that's a great fit! And T?"
3yo: "..... he's a cow!"
Us: *giggling* "And Laura?"
3yo: "...She's a flower!

Me:

We did it! The corners were a pain but we did it! Yay! Our balcony is so much prettier now! #homeimprovement

Morning lovely people!

Project for today. The balcony floor was the thing I didn't like about our flat, I thought we could maybe do something about it back when we moved in but we got discouraged because the balcony has a weird shape and there would be a lot of small edges but now we're doing this anyway! The straight pieces were really quick to do, now it's getting to the difficult part.

Confession: I've read up on the US school/college/university system 100 times at least but it never 100% sticks and most probably I'll be forever confused when trying to compare it to the German System...

So much pressure in my eeears, waah :( That most probably means that the cold is almost behind me but meeeeh.

Awww, look at that, tiny humming bird snores <3 https://youtu.be/_uEfmQt34Nc

Asking my dad for advice on a home improvement diy and he comes flying with sketching paper and a pencil, preparing a little illustration on what do do and where I can find the necessary tools in his garage. <3
His technical drawing skills back from University still serving the entire family, yay!

(They don't work for big needles, I can't test 8mm right now but 10mm is definitely too large)

By the way, some sell these bulb safety pins adverdised as "stitch markers" and they charge good surplusses for it. For the same price I got my 100 bulb safety pins for, you can get 10 stitch markers from HiyaHiya. #knitting
They are my favorite stitch markers though, they are flexible, you can always add and remove them whenever you like & they don't add bulk and nothing is dangling down.
Now that I found them again, I can finally put some in this tiny box I got for this purpose.

I was trying to find something yesterday and looked all over but couldn't find it. However, I found another thing I was desperately looking for and was about to rebuy. The thing I found was my tiny bag of bulb safety pins I use as stich markers for my #knitting... and it was right there, where I looked for it a million times before... whyyy? how?!
Sigh. Next time I'm looking for something, hopefully I'll find the missing project bag....

It's hard to knit and cry at the same time!! help!!! #knitting #queereye

Thinking: I'm not going to continue #knitting this project today, I have to rip back to fix an error and I don't want to do that tonight.
Me: Goes out, finds an old project, tries to figure out how to continue with it, knits for an hour, then: wait, that doesn't look right... did I pack away that project because it had an error in it? BECAUSE IT SURE DOES.
Why do I always do that to myself. I should add a note, but I always think I get back to it soon and I'm sure I'll remember.