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foldingfittedsheets · 6 months ago

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So I just got my brakes done for my car, Hades. My wife’s car needs new brakes and had a sputtering moment the other day. They also have to commute way farther for work than I do, and remembered they were low on gas.

My commute is like. Seven minutes. So I said to take my car and I’d give their car very gentle use for the day.

Which is why it was distressing to get a call from them in the midst of picking blackberries for their birthday cheesecake informing me that my cars tire light popped on. They checked it and found one tire basically flat. It turned out there was a screw in it. Their boss helped them put on my spare and took it to his guy to see if it could be patched- alas, no, it’s too close to the rim.

So now they had all that to deal with. Instead of a drama free car day it was Car Stress Galore.

#ramblies #stressful shit #so tomorrow we’re dropping their car off to get worked on and I need to buy a new tire #instead of just enjoying our day off together #-.- also the friends we were gonna get dinner with tomorrow had a covid exposure and we have to wait a week for that

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lemongogo · 4 months ago

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college … wasted on the youth (me)

#didnt help that 2/4 yrs was covid telezoom but man.. MANNN #forgetting how impossible it is to pursue rhe degree plan u actually want (advising hell) i feel like . theres just #so many diff things i want to learn now Knowing that im more solidified in my interests and who i am and what i would be interested in doing #and like.😭RGAAAAAQH TEARING MYHAIR OUTTT every other week i have a night where im sititng there like damn i couldve been sm1 completely dif #dgmw i still rly enjoy some of the upper div classes i Did take but what if i took x and liked it more or minored in y and it led me to z #bc i do feel rly set in where i am rn which . i DO ! like it but im never gna be in that environment where u have the flexibility to explore #ykwim . i wish i had taken physics and calc srsly . i always thought i hated that shit but i like it. i like it quite a lot actually😟#or more geology .. urrghh.. sprinkle in sme extra art history . no bc thats what actu pissed me off ab school #i rmbr wanting to dual major and they straight up told me no i cant . but then i was like maybe an arts major bio minor when i wanted to do #science illustration but sry we dont offer bio minor . ok bio major arh or studio art minor . no sry not enough open spots we rly only #reserve it for when we have extra openings post admission❤️#and then even late into sophomore year u would still be last in registration so all the cool classes would be closed #and then bc of covid half that shit was cancelled bc they couldnt transfer labs online (rip comparative vertebrate anatomy)#and then by senior yr an additional collection of classes were unavailable bc u dont have the prereqs bc the prereqs were cancelled during #covid and u dont have enough semesters left to actually take it . like it was gen such an awful experience so ik why i couldnt ever do what #i wanted but .😭 AND LIKE the classes i DID enjoy like genomics or molecular genetics were closed by registration and i had to email and beg #for access . thts crazy .literally crazy .#anyways . i think i want 2 start reading textbooks bc i think thats the closest ill get LMAOO #i remember seeing my coworker read a textbook for fun one time and idk why i just didnt understand why bc it seemed so dry but i Get it now #like yeah .. u knew what was up ..#sad too that like . i could theoretically audit a course but i Work..during the day .. so sad . so sad #guys wht if i just said yes to grad school (<the devil talking.dont agree)

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californiaquail · 1 month ago

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anyone else feeling fundamentally incapable of adjusting to society. also just discovered there's a 30 tag limit which i can't believe i've never hit before

#like it was one thing when i was in high school and college like wasn't socialized as a child due to not receiving schooling and growing up #sda blah blah whatever but like i'm almost 27 and i am barely functioning lol like i feel like i'm struggling to have a normal conversation #even more than i used to and i think my speech cadence is noticably off which i don't think it always has been #some of it is definitely from chronic exhaustion from having to get up too early and the stress of having a frequently panic inducing boss #but like. come on now. i can't even drive despite finally having a license because i'm too scared/distractible/poor reaction time #over a dozen antidepressants have not worked. adderall is not working great either #i'm SO much dumber than i used to be and it's driving me quite literally insane #i don't even think it's from getting covid in july because i was noticing it before although it definitely became way more noticeable after #i got this job. i've never been this bad at a job in my life and it's something anyone who knows me would assume i'd be good at #it's embarrassing. i cannot fucking remember anything i struggle to do the most basic of arithmetic to fill prescriptions i make the same #silly mistakes multiple times i am constantly asking stupid questions and still somehow fucking up all the time #it's not as bad as it was a couple months ago and frankly i'm shocked i haven't gotten fired i keep thinking that's going to happen #of course i wanted to quit this job four months ago but now i'm at like a sunk cost fallacy point unfortunately #this is obviously not like any kind of career position for many reasons but i don't know what else to do unless i move across the country #again. i'm not even qualified for anything besides animal related things and summer camp which are fine obviously but not great if you want #things like benefits or paid leave or not to get burned out as hell lmao #i don't even feel like i could do any customer service jobs because i literally struggle to put a coherent sentence together on the spot #everything is so slow. soooo slow i'm literally losing my mind which is catastrophic because my mind is all i've ever had going for me #and i'm having kind of a horrible existence lately which is exacerbating all my problems except the problems make it mostly impossible to d #anything to fix it. ok going out and doing some fun stuff for a day makes me feel better that's great. except then i need a day after that #to recover from doing things the previous day. so the only feasible day for doing things would be saturday. except on saturdays i'm #recovering from working. i literally only work 4 days and barely over 30 hours it's Not that crazy. i mean the boss is crazy and the job ca #also be crazy obviously but 30 hours a week is minimal compared to other work schedules i've maintained before #anyway but the most i can do after work is go to the store if i need to but i almost never have energy for anything fun #and the fucking bus doesn't run on sundays and walking miles to get literally anywhere takes a lot of energy i don't have #i'm about to move next weekend and i'm dreading it because it's going to be so much work and i'm so fucking tired #and i don't have any friends to help me with cleaning i might be able to get help moving my stuff but i'm not even confident about that #i might have to rent a uhaul but i would honestly rather pay somebody to help because i'm that scared of driving even for one 30 min trip #whatever....sorry i had to feel bad for myself in the tumblr dot edu tags again i'm not in therapy rn #(<- guy who should be in therapy)

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kumakuma-circus · 5 months ago

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compilation of dumb shit from my various incomplete p4 fanfics that i will probably maybe actually finish and post on ao3 at somepoint-

#rambearling #persona 4 #p4 #that last one's my favorite tbh-#also for those curious the first one's from a slightly dumb souyo fanfic that i'll probably try to finish and post for valentine's day #(yu and yosuke get together first and end up wingmanning for the rest of the investigation team it's gonna be beary stupid-)#the second's from a sickfic with teddie cuz i'm slightly suffering lately (period last week + covid shot this week)#and the last two are from a chatfic that's the investigation team using skype. that last one's my favorite tbh #also i haven't written it but i have an amazing scene planned for that fanfic cuz i wanna include some video calls #(not sure how to format them yet tbh. prose wasn't really working but neither was a more script-like format-)#yosuke and teddie have to use the same laptop for it and there's not enough space for both of them #so in true little brother fashion teddie pushes yosuke off the bed #and then the rest of the investigation team acts like yoosk's dead and they hold a faux funeral for him fdskljfdssdfkjskjd-#i have it written down more or less i just don't know how to format it-#it's very silly though i might add it in a reblog or smth idk #yea i think i will it counts tbh-

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cator99 · 4 months ago

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I always get detained at da border because PROFUNC never ended but basically I'm like if a targeted individual didn't even care

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curiosity-killed · 5 months ago

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i love my sister and for the most part, we are very close and genuinely like each other a lot but the one place where i'd just really, really, really like to see inside her brain is the part where she is still incredibly comfortable and cheerful—and even thinks it's really funny—talking about how much she didn't like me as a child while I'm like. yes. I am and was aware. and it sucked so so so much

#we had a really wild moment over dinner last week where she actually acknowledged #EXPLICITLY with her OWN WORDS #that things like our brother dying right when i was going into my senior yr of high school #and covid lockdown starting right when i'd graduated college + moved to a new city where i knew no one except her + was applying/auditionin #for jobs #were harder on me than one her in some unique ways #and i was literally like . is. is this a test? am i supposed to deny it?#bc like when our brother died she told me i was a selfish brat (for not grieving the way she did)#and during covid she told me (right after i got laid off) that she had ''way more reasons to be depressed'' than i did #personal #anyway she was laughing so much as she said this (abt not liking me) and i was just staring at her nodding slightly like #yeah. i know. i know you didn't like me #do YOU know how much it sucks to know that your older sister--whom you idolize--who you *desperately* want to like you--#not only doesn't like you at all #but even up into high school/college #would talk about how she couldn't wait till our LITTLE (five year old) cousins were old enough to hang because they'd be so much fun #and know that she had absolutely never thought or said that about you #do you perhaps! think that might still have ramifications on our relationship to this day #if your little sister spent 20+ years knowing that your love was conditional on them being the person you wanted her to be #like. do u???#(the answer is no of course but #i remain boggled by the fact that this eludes her considering she is! in fact! a really smart person!)#it's also like when i was first offered my current job #and our now bosses asked both of us like ''are you worried at all about working with your sister?''#and she laughed like lol no of course not?#while i was like ''honestly yes.'' adskjfglkjasds #very different perspectives sometimes

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felis-insomnis · 4 months ago

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I very much enjoy booping, but tumblr is running like ass today and I'm already low on spoons so I'm not returning boops as well as I'd like :(

#I'm not sure if it's because I didn't sleep well last night or something else #last night was my first night in like 3 months I've been off of my sleep meds #my doctor's trying something that's safer for long-term use but my insurance is taking #its sweet time approving the new stuff and I can't get a refill on my old stuff unless the new stuff doesn't work XD;;;;#I'm impressed I actually made it out of bed before noon today tbh #I'm not sure if I just got really lucky of if I actually fixed my sleep schedule this time #I tried once before 2yrs ago and it kind of worked but then I got covid and everything went to hell so I didn't try again #then a few months ago I got sucked into relying on my meds because I have addictive tendencies and it's REALLY nice being able to sleep #regularly after a lifetime of bad sleep #I really hope last night wasn't a fluke because I'd love to not be reliant on meds to sleep #like I slept terribly compared to on the meds but normally the rebound insomnia from coming off is like 10x's worse than last night #like I normally just don't sleep for a day after going off the meds #but I got like 4-5hrs during the night and actually woke up in the morning. That's HUGE for me unmedicated #I'm very tired #emmy ramblings

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tj-crochets · 5 months ago

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Crafting/vaccine side effects update: I am still not up for crafting but oh my gosh I feel so much better than I expected to! I did have a POTS flareup but my blood pressure never got below 100/60, so like it barely counts. I mean, the tachycardia was worse, but even that was nowhere near what it's been previous times I got the booster shots, and it's mostly resolved itself within like 24 hours of getting the shot instead of like three days. I'm still operating at a deficit of water and salt but I'm working on it bit by bit, and I was skeptical when my doc said I wouldn't need an extra dose of my salt-go-up pills* but he was right! Anyway point is no crafting updates today but there might actually be crafting updates tomorrow, which I did not expect to be saying *fludrocortisone! It helps me retain salt in a way almost approaching the normal human way of processing salt

#the person behind the yarn #the chills sucked and I barely got any sleep because I kept waking up every 20-30 minutes #but I took today off work and have had some long naps and am feeling a lot better #like. on an average day this would count as feeling pretty crummy #but for a day post-vaccine this is EXCELLENT oh my gosh #I did have to scoot and/or crawl around on the floor instead of walk this morning #but that was because when I stood up my heart rate got high enough to make me a little nauseous #not because my blood pressure was low enough to be a fall risk (like it has been every previous vaccine)#and that resolved itself by like midmorning at the latest. I was able to go downstairs and climb back upstairs at almost normal speed!#and like...between tachycardia nausea and low bp nausea low bp nausea is so much worse. so this was not bad #I know it sounds bad but like prior to today the least worst covid booster I got was the one last year #and last year my bp was so low and my heart rate so high that I had to be pushed in a wheelchair between the couch and the bathroom #because I could not walk without falling. and today I can!! I was able to eat normal food today instead of just plain rice and saltines!#HUGE improvement. I'm going to have to make more coasters for my doctor's office

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borealing · 7 months ago

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i took the day off work (slept awfully cause of a fever and my lungs feel just awful) is anyone proud of me

#took me like 30 minutes to actually send the email. literally i am so broken mentally lol #anxiety is the great mind rotter no one is angry at me for taking a day off work when i have covid...#untagged for warnings

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palms-upturned · 9 months ago

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#meg talks #feeling really down and frustrated #ever since i caught covid over the new year ive just been doing so badly #it’s now halfway through may and not only am i having all sorts of weird new pain problems #to the point where i dragged myself to the er yesterday bc my usual meds didn’t do shit for me and i spent seven hours writhing in pain #but also mentally im just. constantly tapped out #before covid i was able to keep up w news and work on research projects and write multiple image descriptions every day and read books #and keep up w friends all while working full time #like even if i was in bed p much whenever i wasn’t at work i could still read and write and carry conversations #now it’s like i can only handle all of these things in small doses before my brain just shuts off #im still keeping up w news and describing what i can and working on my research projects and trying to make connections #but i feel so slow abt everything i do #it’s driving me up the wall #ive been trying for days to get through this one academic paper that’s rlly not even that long #and i just can’t do it. not for long anyway i have to read in small bursts #and then having to take muscle relaxants for these fucking spasms that make me really drowsy and sleep the whole day away…#idk. it might not even be abt covid i might be reading too much into it but it’s just pissing me off. thinking abt how nobody masks anymore #and how every time there’s a covid outbreak i won’t be able to properly protect myself or my brothers from it #bc of this fuckass job #idk im just tired and upset

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grub-s · 3 months ago

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nameless anxiety. misplaced anxiety. reasonable anxiety about real potential issues in the future. I'm experiencing all of them right now and i think i have to vacuum my bedroom about it

#it's a big and necessary task bc it's moth hatching season under the carpet so i gotta keep on top of them #it's also a physically demanding task bc i have to move a lot of objects and storage onto my bed and then back #but i dont really wanna #i'm trying to avoid exertion due to post covid fears #but if i dont do it now i will have to do it later anyway and it's my last day off before work again tomorrow #i have to miss a mandatory staff meeting bc of my brother's birthday present (tix for the LP tribute band) and i dont wanna have that convo #i mean management wont be able to do anything but i am conflict avoidant #havent been able to confirm the room either so im anxious about that

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adelaidedrubman · 1 year ago

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also i think i am having a bad allergic reaction to the mold in my office. there’s mold in my office btw

#their solution was to clean the carpets and talking about hiring pros to come in and clean the walls #then sending out an email about how taking everything off the walls would too hard.#but there’s lysol wipes in the hall if you’d like to clean them yourself #anyways i started getting a really bad cough and a little congestion last week.#also had a covid exposure at the office so i was freaking + testing like crazy bc i was getting respiratory symptoms + mildly elevated temp #all negative‚ requested an extra remote day just to be safe. cough went away and i felt much better after a few days. figured it was a cold.#worked my first full day in the office again today and the cough is mysteriously back and worse.#now i’m no doctor house but —#ig my next move is getting tested for mold allergy?#and if i have to submit an ada request to have Working In A Place With No Mold be granted as a reasonable accommodation.#that will legitimately be the funniest thing ive ever done.#there is everyone’s too much personal detail liz update of the day We Live in A Society

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felidthing · 6 months ago

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i was trying to use that age post to try an gauge how old an alter is but due to not being a literal child in the meat world shes kinda contradictory. the youngest on that post is 4 anyway where they can understand language but she cant. so idk. she has very limited speech but i dont think its linked to her age i think thats just a limitation she has but she also cant understand language most of the time either. so idk. anyways thats my late night tjoughts

#posts #i dont talk about her much bc it feel like. weird kind of. shes just a little kid so i dont wanna talk abt basically her personal life #esp since its not really possible for her to have input due to communication issues and bc she is Not going to be using social media. lol #but for now i will talk abt her bc i feel like it idk. she split off when we went back to the mental hospital after Escaping. she has the-#-same birthday as me actuallt #at first she could write and undertsand feelings directed at her i guess? and could ostensibly speak but maybe not idk. bottom line is she-#-could do language for the first few days and then we got covid #and ever since then the only thing she can say or write is ''you have covid.'' which is what was said to us when our test thing came back #<- duh #so thats her name as well. but we call her co for short #shes contradictory in that she kind of Appears older than 4 like i might put her at 6 idk im not the best at visualizing age #but she has those massive restrictions on speech but at the same time can copy letters okay like her hand is more steady than expected #<- ive always assumed thats muscle memory at work but idrk #and also she likes specifically ada rook and stomach book's music. just in addition to everything else that was randomly aded to her existe #she also likes those like. aesthetic organization/snack cart restocking tiktoks. and civil court shows. and bluey #and baby yoda and frank sinatra nmovies

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raeathnos · 1 year ago

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#apparently I’m not done being mad about this I’m sorry guys I gotta vent #my dad is like an ox and never sick and like not very understanding with health issues/general illness #which you’d think he would have been after having me the super sickly child with a ton of health issues but no #we have a positive Covid case in the house and I have the same fucking symptoms I just started later #I have taken two tests- one yesterday and one today #and he yelled at me saying I’m wasting tests and also that I’m apparently fine which like #even if I somehow don’t catch covid I’m still sick but okay dad 🫠#if it helps put things into a better perspective… did yall know that back in November after I had my 3rd fucking endometriosis surgery #he asked why I was off work for two weeks and why I didn’t go back the day after surgery?#like I had had this surgery twice before and at home recovery was also two weeks both those times #but moreover like sir I have 3 incisions in my abdomen and my job requires me to left 50lbs???#at which point he still insisted I was fine and was just being ‘dramatic’ 🙃#I wanna fucking scream #I’m lissed the fuck off #did yall know he nearly got me killed once because I had neurovirus and he refused to take me to the er?#I eventually lost consciousness from severe dehydration- he thought I was sleeping and continued to argue with my mom that I was fine 🫠#they eventually took me but I was unconscious for several hours and it took five bags of iv fluid for me to regain consciousness #and the doctor estimated I was about two hours away from death so like #yeah #if that gives yall a better idea of the shit I’m putting up with #I have like zero tolerance for dealing with his bullshit when I’m sick #it’s the trauma from not fucking being believed for years of my life about any of my illnesses #and like also the fucking almost dying part #fun times 🫠#I’m sorry I’m ranting so much today I’m just really fucking done and have no other outlet 🙃

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seilon · 9 months ago

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genuinely it is so depressing to spend money drinking just to end up doing nothing interesting and just sitting around

#i need friends who like. doing things.#i need more friends in general but i mean yeah.#would love to have an actual college experience one day. I’ve been in college 4 years or so and I’ve never been to a party and I’ve never #made lasting/close friendships. since pre-covid I haven’t really made friends at all #all my friends (all four of them) are from high school #it’s really fucking pathetic actually how incapable I am of making friends or having a life #and it just feels like a huge fucking waste of time and a waste of a college environment #part of me wishes I would rent at a place full of mostly other students and get a roommate I don’t know (as much as that’s a bad idea if #it’s anything like last time) just so I can be around people and be forced to meet people #also so I can avoid getting lowkey fucked over because my friends I’m supposed to be renting with eventually don’t want to pay a #significant amount of rent and I’d end up paying way more than them just because they supposedly can’t afford it (we all have about the same #income.)#gehsdhdhdhshhd #they also want to rent a place with four of us total and I just. really don’t want to live with that many people. like I think it would #drive me fucking insane. I need control over my surroundings and that leaves me with no control and I don’t like it #and a million other reasons I don’t like the idea #it was originally just supposed to be me and one friend. so. this was not the plan #hahsgshhshh anyway kill me #I’m in that post-drinking state where all pleasant affects of the alcohol have long since worn off and I’m just sort of left a hollow shell #depressed and disappointed.#and I have to go to work this afternoon woohoo awesome so cool #kibumblabs

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lovsome · 1 year ago

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this is an illustration from my illustrated book project !! ive been working on this whole thing for months now and its finally starting to take form and this is a v significative double page

#i painted two double pages in the past two weeks and i have to paint at least 4 or 5 before the project is complete and ive been working my #ass off betweeen doing this and going to the hospital for all kinds of exams and tests and now i have to work on a friends graduation party #as well and im just . exhausted #also i had covid for the past two weeks and its all just so much #im just trying to go on one day at a time #those 45 minutes of therapy every week have been the highlights of this past month

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