I admire your commitment not to build a giant slingshot and fire that stupid plant into the sun. I guess I'm still a lot angrier at that side of my family.Tree wrote: Fri Aug 29, 2025 8:47 amAh man, that sounds heavy. Glad it's a relief!Maurice wrote: Thu Aug 28, 2025 10:09 pm My sister and I did a final walk-through of the now-empty childhood home, which is set to close tomorrow. (It's a relief, really.)
Little details from yesterday: I swung by the grocery store on the way home and they had mislabeled a bunch of skirt steak at $6.99/lb, half of the correct price; I bought 6 lbs of it, threw most in the freezer, and used about 1.4 lbs to make fajitas.
When I got home I found a houseplant busted on the floor, not sure if it was a dog or the cats that knocked it over and the beautiful planter was in too many small pieces for my supergluing skills, but goddamn am I glad that thing is dead. It was as succulent and I love succulents, but it's one of those String Of Bananas-type plants that is more high maintenance than the water-it-when-you-feel-like-it of aloes or jades. Anyway, it was given to me when my mom moved in with us for a couple months in 2020. She'd gotten a divorce from the ding dong she'd married after my dad died, was moving back to Colorado to be closer to us, and she let us know a couple weeks before showing up in late March 2020. We had four foster kids at the time with a household of eight people (not counting her), six of whom were at home all day due to remote school. She got a job that required her to get up around 2:30am and would get mad at the kids, ranging from ages 9-18, as they did normal 8pm things like wrestle, jump around, make Hot Pockets, and fight. She was not at all cool to the fosters and I recall trying to get up the guts to tell her that this was their house and not hers, that she was a guest here, and that she'd need to be kinder to them if she was to continue staying with us, but she found her own place before I had to do that.
That plant has spent five years as a symbol of her imposition, losing leaves as cats and dogs run through it. Good fucking riddance.
tbone wrote: Sun Dec 10, 2023 11:58 pm I imagine at some point as a practicality we will all start assuming that this is probably the last thing we gotta mail to some asshole.
That sucks, hope you're doing fine by now.rsmurphy wrote: Tue Sep 09, 2025 7:44 pm Yesterday while getting a referral for a podiatrist I got into a conversation with my PCP about vaccinations. She stated they weren't available but should be real soon. Then, while at the pharmacist, they offered it to me. I was a bit confused but figured why not. This morning I woke-up with arm pain and intense back pain. Figured the back pain was from sleeping weird and carried on with the morning. By the time I got to work it felt like my heart and lungs were heavy and in pain. Couldn't bend over, couldn't talk at a normal volume, shallow breathing. It sucked. Excused myself from work and got in touch with the pharmacist who stated it was rare side effects and if it's not gone in a day or two go to the ER.
I've been boosted a lot. Never have I ever been through anything like this. Feels like concrete inside. The only thing I've had to eat was a corner of a slice of pizza. At least I'll lose some weight.
I am; thank you! At the very least I got to shed a couple of pounds. My appetite finally resurfaced yesterday. Trying to take it easy this weekend, be domestic, but The Long Walk is calling my name. Might take in a matinee tomorrow or a late show tonight.
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