Oh and CO people, I know we have quite a few here, what do you think of this? Like 6+ people have shared it on FB today and I don't feel so good about it. Yeah Broncos, boo to this meme!
Oakland pulled off a parade with 500000 people along the route with no injuries or riots. So nah.
I just watched an internet interview with one of my college fuckbuddies who is now a super rich startup dude. It's HILARIOUS hearing him have this whole conversation in his grown-up career man voice. Every once in a while he'll slip into his normal tone, but he's totally got his professional voice on and it's just...funny. Like listening to somebody at a party take a call from their boss.
Also I miss him. We transitioned pretty naturally and smoothly from friends, to friends who sleep together, back to just friends with basically NO drama, but we totally lost touch after he graduated. He was always somebody I loved to talk to, he always had interesting things to say and interesting ideas. And then unshockingly has been wildly successful. I wish we'd stayed in touch.
I realize we are striving not to post the dumb shit that people around us say but I just had to call out my co worker for being upset that there was no box for Caucasian, White, or non-Hispanic on a form. There was an Other and a N/A. I told her to pick one of those at which point she was upset that she was relegated to the 'other.' I told her welcome to the world of most minorities who often don't have a box to pick that fits them. She was truly upset. Meanwhile I was happy the form had more than two choices for gender!
Have I mentioned that my dad let my mom get on the phone so that she could call me a bitch? Ironic. And they wonder why I don't want to visit
What?! I don't get that at all. Parenting FAIL for both your mom and dad.
Yep. This was in a discussion about my concerns going to visit for my grandpa's 90th birthday, and that I was worried how my mom would treat me. Funny, she confirmed what I was saying while my dad was saying she'd not act like a child. I hadn't heard her voice in 2 years because she previously took my dad's phone to curse me out.
But I'm the bitch. I'm the one who's supposed to move on. Shitty parents are the worst
Woah, intensely wierd moment. Channel flipping, and I see my friend and his daughter on TV.
I'd known he was interviewed for a documentary. It made international news (the original story and the movie) but was not expecting that when looking for daytime tv while bored.
I want even really looking. I just was thinking, wow, that guy sounds like friend, and he calls his daughter the same nickname...wait, look up, there they are.
Ugh. So I've been trying to get a stroller for a while now, and it's basically been discontinued so I was checking eBay. I found one, yay! I was the winning bid and got a good price for it, double yay! Now they're trying to charge me FREIGHT shipping (wtf? It's a stroller, not a couch) and claiming it weighs 90 lbs (it weighs 40, at most, with everything included). $160 to ship a freaking stroller. Hell no, I will report them to eBay if they try to rip me off like that.
And just a vent/massive understatement: Managing mental health is hard.
I've struggled all my life with some combination of depression/anxiety/adhd, but never really accepted those struggles as a true chemical imbalance. I'm not even sure I know what "normal" feels like. (Does anyone?). But it's frustrating as it takes time and costs a shit ton of money. And then, on top, my pharmacy plan is trying to insert itself and adding fees for me not filling prescriptions like they want me too.
Big hugs. Sadly, I totally understand what you're going through. I don't really know "Normal" either - I just know fear. Constant fear.
I spent all day Wednesday with a friend who was taking her ex to court for threatening to kill her and for being drunk while with their son (putting him in danger). It was a really tough day for her and exhausting for me. I was so proud that she finally stood up to him and put her & their child's welfare ahead of protecting her asshole ex (who has been protected his entire life from repercussions by his family and other ex's). At the end, she cried, and then realised that she felt so much better. I hope this allows her to truly move on.