ericatty

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yes.... Maybe the extra 58 saved is drinking coffee on the toilet trying to get things moving again?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

My parents lived next door to my grandma. Mom would say "wanna go to Grandma's" to her cat and he'd jump up on a speaker beside the door to be picked up and carried. Grandma would make him a scrambled egg or give him some tuna.

After Mom passed away, I was visiting Dad and thought I'd try "Wanna go to Grandma's?" He jumped up and let me carry him to Grandma's and back. (After his scrambled egg, of course) He lived to be 21 so I carried to him see Grandma everytime I visited.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 days ago (9 children)

My Dad did construction for 40 years. Even before the companies started hiring a lot of immigrants, it's hard to find roofers.

It's a hard to find people with the knowledge or ability to learn - that are also not afraid of heights and have the coordination to not fall off and the attention to detail to not make the conditions for other people to fall.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe you don't remember your hallucinations, since you didn't write them down? I'm thinking like how a lot people's memories of dreams fade.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

What's kinda funny, this is exactly why I like Mastodon. I'm only seeing what I want.

But I spent a bit of time everyday checking out people that the people I followed had reposted and various recommdation lists. Then discovered hashtags, now I collect those. #bloomscrolling and #caturday amongst the first to freshen up the feed.

It took a few minutes a day and it was kind of fun finding communities and people.

I'd rather Bluesky properly federate so I could have Mark Hamill and a few others in my Mastodon feed without having to check Bluesky too.

Mastodon is like going to the local pub, I see my people. Bluesky is like going to Summerfest or your insert favorite huge music fest with tons of famous bands and tiny side stages and super crowded and it's easy to lose your friends.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I had a cat I did that to. He waited for me to yawn, days later and stuck his paw in my mouth.

I don't fuck with my cats like that anymore.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Gray tabby with white bib and socks, tucked under a red comforter.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago

This looks like when he was saying Zelensky should say thank you, to his face. And has been doctored to look like the beginning stages of Violet's transformation after chewing the experimental gum in the movie version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, after the blooms fall off, that might be when the birds emerge.

Definitely give it a little more time.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

I on the team of this woman when it comes to quite a few people

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Women are also fed lies that men don't need emotional support. Also, women are told constantly that men don't want to be friends with them and only want sex.

So there's a good chance his friends that are women think he's not having a hard time and/or he wants to sleep with them instead of talk.

I'm sorry OP that you are going through this. The advice to join an in person hobby or interest group is probably best. (To supplement your therapy)

Also, it's also entirely possible, since it's been 5 months, that everyone is overwhelmed with life and the world. I know I've not reached out as often to my friends the last 6 months (I'm stressed by country and the grief of losing my dad a few months ago.)

Also you say it seems like everyone is supporting your ex. Are they really? Or is she holding them hostage with her drama and steamrolling into their lives?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

He might ignore it and keep yelling out numbers. But doesn't this mean the people actually collecting the tariffs have to stop? And especially entities in blue states would use it as an excuse to stop collecting.

 

This is not a complaint, but a commentary on how I've been trying to get it to be more commonplace to talk about. Like the weather or a new hobby, lol

I've had a more social month. Was having lunch with my boomer uncle and he asked how menopause was going. He meant it in a very sincere way, and he shared some of what he remembered from when my aunt was going through it. He was glad the progesterone is helping my night terrors.

I was telling my husband about Naomi Watt's book, and he was getting angry on our behalf at some of the stories. He's planning to listen to the audiobook too. I'm likeing her book, it's kind of a cliff note version of all the books, along with a lot of personal stories from lot's of women.

My sons (step) and dad (before he passed) have been part of the conversation as well.

Which I'm realizing it sounds like I'm just around men, but I've talked to my sister-in-law and female friends and relatives too. I'm just around the men in my life quite often. My "found aunties" are also starting to check in about it too. They are 3 sisters in their 70s and 2 went through forced menopause because of breast cancer and are still hesitant about HRT after those studies. And they were brought up to not talk about it.

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