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@Auspice

Trokendi

Do you find yourself moody? I think that's the stuff that made my sister cry at EVERYTHING.

Kissing is ... good.

However, I love those 'getting to know someone' all nighters. The ones where you stay up all night and you just talk and never run out of things to say. You just want to share and they want to learn and vice versa. I miss those in a new relationship (friendships count too).

It sounds like it's insults -- if I wanted that I would re-activate my online dating sites.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait... back up...

sarahah.com ?!

I.. what?

So I click to see what this website is and it's like register so your friends can be honest. I .. what? Part of me just wants to know if my 'friends' have this. I don't want to register, so tell me more about this please while I pop some popcorn.

It is 12:12 here -- why the fuck is the 4 year old currently in my household still awake and singing loudly to herself?!

@Thenomain - Well obviously we have to text each other now

I just want to say that sometimes people aren't bragging when it sounds like it. Sometimes they are socially awkward or they are trying to create a human connection (or both). Sometimes they just don't know how to do it or realize how it comes across.

Someone: I like cats
Me: I once trained dogs in Brazil.

They are like OMG really? What does that have to with cats, but in my head - I was like cats --> animals --> dogs --> I once trained them --> Maybe they will like this and think it's neat and I can make a friend.

Bad example, but the idea behind it hopefully comes across.

A lot is text and we come with our own prejudices about how things 'come across' that the other person in no way intended. We just make assumptions based on our moods and other things when the other person is legit just trying to form a connection. Connections are hard. Finding your tribe is harder.

I got called to go into work early 'if I wanted' -- I did not want, I did not do. I'm part-time and normally pick up hours to help out or come in or whatever. I never complain about my schedule being in constant flux. I just am thankful to have one.

So I come in and my manger greets me and says I can clock in a bit early if I want. So I do and she's walking with me to clock in and says, "Oh.. and in two weeks by the way.. we've decided to give you the full time position. So we'll get together to figure out your set schedule."

Woohoo.. I beat out a lot of part-time peeps (it's retail, they like to have peeps at part-time) and got the full-time position. They didn't interview me or make me jump through hoops. I just had to put down I was willing to work it. So in two weeks a SET work schedule, full time (aka benefits), and I start school.

So while this move came with some HORRIBLE low points before it; it's pretty awesome since I got here. Thus, I'm just having a good RL day today and want to share.

Signed up to take some basic college classes starting in a few weeks. Nothing OMG awesome, but still something I've been meaning to do and put off for YEARS.

@Tinuviel - Oh and NOW he doesn't even want to give ME the money?

That's it, @Meg - Let us write him off and run off together or something.

@Meg - Obviously we must now text each other.

Huh...
My phone has not received a text from @Coin
Does that mean I am not liked girl?!

@Arkandel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Back when I was starting out with weightlifting I had gotten cocky; surely if I could push and pull these iron plates my own bodyweight would feel light as a feather, right...? so I went to a Pilates class thinking I'd find it easy.

Hah. Hah hah. Ahahahah. Hah. No.

I took a friend who's in great shape to a pilates class. He is a runner, he lifts like WHOA, he drinks those vile green smoothie things with kale (I had a bad kale experience, don't drink it now), and all that. He was DYING in it. It's a lot of work. Ballet/barre classes are too.

Everyone knows the:
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get to the other side

However, my sister was like yeah it's a suicide joke. I'm like no. Nuh-uh. It's a bad dad joke. Then I said it again. Realized death was 'the other side' and was like OMG... my... my brain is broken.

That joke isn't dumb, it's dark.

@Sparks
Anger is part of the process. It's okay to not fully understand where it stems. Let me know if I can do anything.
@Auspice
Post it here or somewhere. We tend to jump on these things even if it's a few bucks, it's a few more than you had.

To be fair, I normally can too. I might make small snarks (Don't bring up the Hitchhiker's Guide to me) but for the most part, I tend to just pretend it's their artistic take. I may actually like GoT to be honest, but I LOVED those books as they were some of the first I cut my teeth on in that genre. It is because of that, I won't watch the show. I had such great mental images and stuff that I don't want that ruined.

It's like when you really love going to a place to eat. You love it. You move away. It goes under new management and you eagerly go back. However, while it's the same it isn't YOUR same and you are sort of meh. It colors the other memories a bit. It's kinda like that.

And also.. this is my quirk. Don't be a quirk hater.

@Thenomain

I liked the books too much and have not watched the Game of Thrones. I'm worried it will ruin my brain movies of them. I know that probably doesn't make sense.

Sportsball - I don't watch it. I don't mind it. I'll watch hockey and now soccer because I realized what soccer players look like and apparently I'm okay in my superficialness.

@Meg This is only one of them

Meggypoo - Can I be in the derail fraction? I mean, only because you are telling others no. So now I sort of want it.

I'll let you into the cat faction. I'll teach you the secret paw shake.

I'm horrible when it comes to food. It's because I don't actually like food. I know, it's shocking. So to me unless I have a craving for something; it's all the same. So I really cannot decide.

I am, however, fully up front about this.

Me: So I have to tell you. I will be decisive about everything but food.
Friend: What?
Me: Never make me decide what to eat.
Friend: Haha, because you are a girl?
Me: No. Because I just don't like food

<Blank stare>

However, people learn not to ask me. On the flip side, I agree with whatever they suggest and rarely veto.