#chicago moving help

[wormyorchids]

Hey friends!

I’m moving (staying within Chicago) a little earlier than expected due to a breakup.

If you have been waiting for the perfect time to buy my art, it’s now!!! I have soooo many zines, stickers, and postcards to send you 😎

I’m linking my shop, but feel free to just message me with what you’d like, if you don’t want to give money to Big Et-C.

[iangallagherisadeadman]

Don't you guys think it's fucked up when Fiona starts dating and sleeping out of the house, leaving Debbie, Carl and Liam kind of for themselves?

Once she started dating Mike she would sleep at his place sometimes which I think it's okay, she was paying the bills and would leave dinner ready and communicate Debs and she was still looking out for them, they had health care and she took them to the clinic and all that. She needs to take care of her, live a life, sleep at her boyfriend sometimes, that's fine and healthy. But then she marry Gus and is often out of there, get together with Sean and doesn't even know what's going on with them anymore (aka "why there's nothing to eat in the fridge" "cause no one is doing the shopping" dialogue with Debbie, not knowing when it's their first day at school, letting Sammy move in and run things after her trailer got fucked by Frank), and then she gets her apartment and moves out completely and like, okay, Ian was a EMT, Lip is a mechanic already I think, she did said she wasn't going to support Debbie after her pregnancy (fucked me thinks), Carl's at military school, but Liam is still a kid! And Debs and Carl are still underage! And they are her responsibility.

It just doesn't sit right with me that Liam didn't at least moved with her.

Specifically Fiona defenders, I would love to hear more about it.

[cyberdragoninfinity]

always thinking fondly about college AU 'pre-canon timeline' Aster and Sartorius, long time besties hanging around downtown Chicago or in the van Sarotorius and his sister have been living in and out of for the last couple years. Neither of them in school cuz Sartorius dropped out and Aster likes to spite his shithead foster dad by just not going (and he can self teach himself a much more advanced education, duh 🙄). The Kumar kids make a better family for him anyway.

[tatersgonnatate]

Hi friends! Everyone was so helpful in the past when I asked for help about my mom volunteering and I was wondering if anyone else here in the Tumblr soup might be able to help my partner and I in our upcoming move. Our goal is to move not just out of our city (currently we live in Milwaukee *shrug* but quite possibly out of our state). We're actively looking at and have already visited (at various times) the following -

Madison (the capital city of my own state)

Minneapolis

Chicago

Portland (visited a couple years back)

If there's anyone in the soup who could offer me information, positive or negative (!!!), that a local might know that I wouldn't find via a Google search (because lbvs it's all come visit this lovely city here's a list of our top 10 attractions and historic monuments, when you search it) I would be eternally grateful! Any and all reblogs help. I will absofuckinglutely read all the tags 💚💚💚

TLDR: help a queer couple find out some info (good or bad!) about the above-mentioned cities so they can move to a green progressive safe(r) city before shit gets worse please and thanks

[lostinsalem]

Please help my bestfriend, emergency situation.

[stardustedknuckles]

I have been getting fucking bodied by spring this year, no lie, but it's nothing short of a miracle that I just walked outside to 93 degree heat and thought it felt good. I've been heat intolerant my whole life and I'm not sure which change enacted in the past 9 months has taken that down, but I have never once walked out into anything above 80 and thought anything except "Jesus fuck all my energy just flash evaporated like water on a stovetop." I've never walked into heat and felt a little more awake and alive.

[sarah-cam]

woof psycho anon came back in full force 😂

[actualnymph]

I think if I do get into a uk college I’ll have to set up a gofundme which stresses me out 😭 but we’ll see ig

[jakeabel]

when i was telling Adults in my life that my friend and i were going to chicago and dallas alone to see fob and they were all CONVINCED we were going to be murdered and stabbed to death in the street. please just say you’re racist it’s easier for everyone.

[s-cullayy]

So embarrassing to ask my mom for $20 to pay rent because I didn’t time my bills right!!

[kokikwii]

I need to MOVE so BADLY ashland is BAD and I HATE WISCONSIN

[la-cocotte-de-paris]

I dreamt I saw the planet Saturn at night in the sky and it was so close to Earth that if you squinted you could see its rings and it was glowing and so beautiful and colourful and I almost cried ♡

[puppmeo]

And the cycle begins anew . As it does every week

[remholder]

Jesus im going to be so busy the next three months

[iknityounot]

(Long post, sorry y'all)

A little more than two years ago now, my grandmother passed away. She and my grandpa had moved down to my home town a few years before so we could take care of them. I brought them groceries once a week, helped them write checks, fixed tvs, and found lost things. I was really close with my grandma.

In addition to her hilarious personality and dry wit, one of my favorite things about her was that she was a painter and a crafter like me! She used to crochet, and I took her to the craft store a couple of times so she could get more yarn and books on crochet. But her arthritis and the shaking in her hands kept getting worse, so she eventually had to stop.

She kept her most recent project, a granny square blanket, safely packed away in a plastic bin. She told all of us she was going to finish it one day.

Her hands never got better, and when she got sick, and we found out it was cancer, she rapidly deteriorated.

After she passed, I went to work helping my mom clean out my grandparents apartment so we could move my grandpa in with her. In our frantic cleaning, I found that bin again:

DOZENS of granny squares, dozens of half used skeins. I asked my mom what she wanted me to do with it, and she said she didn't care. I set it aside and later took it home.

Maybe a month later, that tumblr post about the Loose Ends Project was going around. It felt like a sign--I was never going to learn to crochet in order to finish my grandmother's blanket. But they might be able to help!

So I filled out the interest form. They got back to me SUPER quick. And maybe 2 weeks later, I was paired with volunteer in my state (only 2 hours away!) and the box of yarn, granny squares, and my grandmother's crochet hook were in the mail. That was at the end of January this year.

Over the next couple of months, my "finisher" emailed me regular updates on her progress, and asked me questions on my preferences for how she constructed the final blanket.

At the end of August, the blanket was done!

I had always intended the blanket to be a gift for my mother. So I cleaned it up, put it in the only bag I had big enough to fit it, and drove to my mom's. I gave the blanket to her and she was gobsmacked. I explained to her all about Loose Ends, and how someone volunteered to finish the piece for us. She was speechless. (I was quite pleased with this, because I am not the best at giving gifts, so this was a pretty exciting reaction!)

She said that it was the most thoughtful gift she had ever been given. She said "your grandma would love this". To which I replied, "yeah, I know she really wanted to finish it a couple of years ago". But that was when my mom dropped the bomb of a century on me--she told me that my grandma had started making those granny squares OVER 30 YEARS AGO. She had started the blanket when my grandpa was staying in the hospital, but that was back when my mom was younger than I am now! My grandma had packed them all away, planning on finishing it, when my grandpa was sent home from the hospital. Then it went from house to house, from condo in Chicago to their apartment in my hometown. All that time and my grandma had wanted to finish it, but couldn't. First because she was busy, then because she forgot how to do it, then because of her arthritis, and then because of the cancer. My mom said she had given up on expecting my grandma to finish it. 

She said I brought a piece of her childhood with her mom out of the past.

And really, all of this is to say, if you have seen or heard about the Loose Ends Project and have an uncompleted project or piece from a loved one who has passed away--these are your people. They were so kind and treated my project with such care. That box probably would have been found by my own grandkids one day if I hadn't heard about Loose Ends.

Five stars, absolutely worth it!

(From what I understand, you can sign up to volunteer too! If you have time to share, it might be worth checking out!)

[we-re-always-alright]

seven years in a row!!!!!!!!