Beth

“When we got together you were skinny and your hair was long.” After a long conversation about my looks changing over time. It should not be shocking that he, too, aged. Anyway yeah he left me for someone ten years younger…

One of my job requirements is that I spend several hours a year learning and my job pays me to do so (industry standard).

My window unit on hot days. Also some tv show I’ve seen before.

Love: teaching life skills

Hate: fucking insurance

Everyone seems scared to talk about what they’re scared of even though we all know. Even around the like-minded. It’s like saying it out loud makes it real and worse.

Thanks friend!

Multiple stores. Stopped buying certain things. Only buying stuff on sale in bulk. No full price. Soon, I’ll probably be making bread at home.

I have noticed differences from store to store on certain grocery items (like 3-4 bucks at most). Probably in a similar area as you. And then massive sales on the overpriced things weeks later.

Epsom salts! …j/k :p

Sometimes being lonely hits like a truck. But it passes like grief that’s a few years old. Everything else is okayish. Have overcome the major life hurdles. Can’t complain.

1. Wheel of time for the powers and multiple bonded bodyguards

2. Lotr cause wizards and hobbits etc

3. Stardew valley because I just wanna be all powerful and become a farmer anyway

They are out in force on sundays, driving ten under, causing traffic snakes, blocking both lanes, swerving into the bike and opposing lanes. Merging onto highways so slowly that oncoming traffic has to break unexpectedly. So much fun.

And that was back when people were not nutters and would accept a vaccine.

Not hugely. I worry about things like bird flu. Watched a lot of people lose loved ones to OG Covid before the vaccine. I also worry about being able to get proper vaccinations for flu in the coming years.

Not sure how many people can afford fuel over $5. I know I’m already cutting out most of my extra curriculars to offset it on my budget.

Once you get there…I reckon this is just personal experience… but I will say the negativity is a lot less intense. Change what you can. When you achieve your dreams that becomes so much easier because you have the energy. There is a lot of peace in that.

On off days, and evenings I like to spend time mostly at home. Reading, catching up on tv, video games. I do like the library.

Personally I don’t force myself. When I go to the library I walk out with a stack of books. I don’t always get through all of them, because if the content doesn’t draw me in (characters, writing, whatever) I put it down and try a different one.

Become a paid online troll I guess. I have a background in manipulation. And if they get so far as my field, we are truly in the bad place.

I have a work email, an email with my name for only personal/professional contacts outside work, a sign-up email, and my email from 2005 for some reason that I use for dominos.