#I'd rather not drink it at all

[mercurialmalcontent]

It's a hell of a thing to be told I have dangerously high cholesterol and that I have to change my diet, and the advice for that is "stop eating peanut butter, and switch from light milk to skim milk." ¬_¬

[pollen]

letting myself unmask has been so nice at times because i'm seeing my boyfriend express joy much more readily too. who knew me being expressive and all that would do so much good!!!

[fitzrove]

Ngl I feel kinda cool 😌😂💀

[anne-bsd-bibliophile]

Just thinking about the time when I was 17 and the boy I was dating told me that had received revelation that he would be a prophet in the future and that I would be the wife to get him there. He also had our whole future planned out where I would sell my car, he'd buy a truck, and we would move to another city and open a flower shop for him to run. I broke up with him that night. And now I realize I probably started dating him because he reminded me of my narcissistic father, so I thought emotional manipulation and abuse was normal. This was also the moment I started to see that emotional abuse is not only considered normal in the Mormon religion and culture in which I grew up, but highly encouraged in males. Many, many boys I went on dates with had similar traits. They flat out told me the reasons why they were not into me, which include: I am too highly educated, I read too much, I like to travel, I do not want at least eight children, and I make my own decisions. Apparently those are unattractive traits for a single Mormon girl to have.

Now as an adult I am happy, single, and not Mormon.

[medicinemane]

You know, looking at a diet soda can it occurs to me that it might not be so wretched to me if the cans weren't so unpleasant

Like we know that things like color play a role in how our brain perceives things, and I realized looking at the can that they're always this bland but at the same time nasty looking silver and it just... it looks foul and I think that compounds with the fact that I also just plain don't like diet soda

My point here isn't to say anyone else shouldn't like diet soda, just how I never realized how much of an impact the can has on me not liking it... there's just something offputting about it to me

[salsflore]

[sysig]

I sure do fill my cup of coffee like I don’t need to descend a flight of stairs without a lid on it

[tardis--dreams]

Some of those doctors make hating oat milk their entire personality. I hate them. Cannot pretend to find them funny or like i give a shit. Fucking pretentious assholes

[beananium]

my family don't be annoying about my weight challenge (impossible)

[autisticlaezel]

Also I stocked up on coffee yesterday so I'm going to act like myself again finally

[morsmoon]

having a crush on someone is literally the worst thing that's ever happened to me. make it stop

[confused-stars]

in a very interesting move, the English department at my university has decided to let students use chat gpt for certain works, as long as it’s clearly stated and they don’t just try to pass it off as their own work

the thought behind it is “well, anything you get out of chat gpt would be basically unusable without being rewritten like four times with extra research, so the students are still learning and doing work”

and i just think it’s very bold to assume that people won’t just hand in whatever that thing spits out without even bothering to fact check

[sirsparklepants]

When I was a teenager, I was always so embarrassed to be from the south. I ruthlessly suppressed my accent, laughed with all the jokes about the region because of course they weren't about ME (even though I lived in a small town in the south, they couldn't be about me, they were too mean-spirited), always picked Chinese or Mexican or Indian as my favorite foods and never admitted how much I loved barbecue and peach cobbler. Country music was something I only listened to with my grandparents. I pretended that southern culture didn't exist, that I had to get away from here as fast as I could.

Now I'm thirty and I'm sad for that person. Indian food is still one of my favorites, I love authentic Mexican, and egg drop soup is my comfort food, but I love to fry green tomatoes and debate people over the exact right way to make potato salad (it's the way my grandpa always made it, of course). I make fun of our conservative politicians and talk about the gerrymandering, lack of educational opportunities, and intentionally divisive politics that help contribute to the south's reputation. I love living somewhere where I stop to talk with my neighbors when walking my dog and wave to every car that passes me. If someone doesn't like my accent, that's on them. And I say "bless your heart" and don't feel uncomfortable because I'm afraid people will interpret it as "fuck you" (it's not, by the way. It only means "fuck you" if you're being passive aggressive, and being passive aggressive can make any phrase mean "fuck you"). There's a lot wrong about the south, but there's a lot here that's good, too, and I'm not going to throw the baby out with the bathwater, I'm not going to leave, and I'm not going to be ashamed of where I'm from, either.

[heavenknowsffs]

Getting real tired of my friend :))))

[fj-is-a-dumbass]

oh excellent, and no plastic-tainted flavour either!

they should invent water for men

[tardis--dreams]

We've officially reached the 'too demotivated and drained to bother to go to class' part of the semester. Awesome