Checking In

[twistedchick]

This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time on Thursday to midnight (8pm Friday Eastern Time).

Poll #23702 Daily poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 87

How are you doing?

I am OK
76 (88.4%)

I am not OK but I don't need help right now
9 (10.5%)

I could use some help
1 (1.2%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
40 (46.0%)

One other person
25 (28.7%)

More than one other person
22 (25.3%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

Comments

[feng_shui_house]

Wow, I'm tired from sewing and I just read that you set up a regular cat for your whole team.

And I was thinking that's nice, but for a whole team, I'd have thought an extra large cat would be better....

I think I need a cup of tea.

[wenchpixie]

a regular cat would be a DELIGHT :D

[feng_shui_house]

Or a very irregular icon I made merging me with my brother's cat. Actually, I think I turned out better than the Cats movie. ;^)

[wenchpixie]

OMG! That is hilarious! (and definitely better than the Cats movie...) :D

[mecurtin]

♥
How did you make the icon?

[feng_shui_house]

It's so long ago, let me think..mmm.. I have photoshop elements, nothing fancy, but it lets you have layers. I put a photo of me on one layer and a photo of the cat on the top layer, and reduced the opacity of the cat layer to like a 'ghost' so I could see myself under it, then I cut apart the cat features, moving and resizing them until they fit closely to my features- sometimes I had to distort them a little to mesh. Then I increased the opacity of the cat features, some of them more, some of them less (that meant putting some on different layers), and when it was looking fairly close I used the eraser tool set fuzzy and at low percentage, to smooth out the edges of the cat features. And finally flattened the whole thing. :^)

There are programs that will let you set match points for features to morph in between, but I did this old school. ;^)