Don’t forget we moved!
https://brandmu.day/
Real life happy
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@Aria That’s fucking amazing! I know I’m just a person on the internet but I’m proud of you. That really rocks.
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@Aria AMAZING! Great job!
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After a year of being on the grind my business is doing well. We broke even the first year (lost a little but paid our salaries) and project around 300k in profit this year. I gave up my hobbies (been absent for a bit over a year on gaming) and adjusted my lifestyle to put in the work.
We are really making the difference. After the Super Bowl the NFL contacted me to tell me they were getting calls from people with disabilities (5 families total) asking if we were at the NFL Draft in Kansas City because they felt comfortable coming if we were.
The NFL never had that happen before and we had three people we recognized from the SB. One from ACL. We were recognized by the NFL for our service and locked in the next couple of years with events with them. Also, lots of music festivals, etc. Got the college football playoffs now, too. People love what we do and every event the ADA love we get is so amazing.
I went from loathing corporate life to loving owning my own business and being control of my fate to some degree. And we are truly helping people feel better about living their lives. I’ve never went to bed and slept so easy.
It’s so amazing. When I was shot in Denver with my son I thought I would never live a productive life again. The PTSD and night terrors went on for six months of me not being able to protect my son and him being murdered every time I close my eyes. I got help, took FMLA, and didn’t shovel it down. I had to sleep in other places because I would wake up attacking my wife thinking I was protecting my son from death. Rather than folding though we tackled our dreams, quit our corporate hack lives, refinanced our house for the downpayment and took a million dollar loan.
I never thought I would be thankful in anyway for what happened. Never even considered it a possibility but there it is.
Getting shot at with my son in Denver saved my life.
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I’ve got health issues, yo. I won’t get into the nitty gritty but I’ve been fighting for years to get my pain levels down. I’m at the point now where I feel like more of a human being.
And god do I like myself better on my lexapro. Shit that used to make me red hot angry doesn’t bother me as much anymore. Between getting the meds right for the pain and the anxiety getting taken care of I’m in a way better place.
Now I just need to figure out how to get out of bed with my alarm instead of oversleeping all the time due to this damned autoimmune condition.
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I’ve been struggling financially for a long time now to the point where I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to pay all of my bills plus gas to get to and from work or buy groceries this week. This is all due to vet bills and car troubles that have piled up over the last year or two. I was informed today that I’m getting a 10% raise and it goes into the next pay check, which is hugely helpful.
My Jeep has been in and out of the shop at least 8 times this year for cylinders misfiring. It’s been to 2 different shops that can’t figure out the issue. It’s gone at a 3rd shop and that shop owner knows my dad, so has just expressed he’s willing to help me out to get the Jeep fixed both in parts and labor and also getting it paid. This is a huge relief.
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Got that new job! Getting paid a livable wage and getting to go to Sandles resort with my company next year! Life is good!
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Happy or weird, I’ve got one of my college kids home now, and their D&D friends are coming over this afternoon to continue their campaign that’s been mostly over discord/online voice chat (a couple of the kids are still at school so will be dialing in). And they’re going to be having BEERS (some of them) along with the cheetos!!! I’ve known these kids since they were all 11 and 12 so this is just…wow. But. I like that our house is still hangout house!
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@mietze I love it. Either not weird at all or the best kind of weird.
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Husband and I have a year long bet going.
Goal: I read 100 new-to-me books this year.
Reward if I win: I choose where we take our next vacation and husband has to plan 100% of it. No mental load for me.
Reward if I lose: Husband chooses and I help plan.We have added some tweaks for my sanity sake:
- Two books previously read count as 1 (so I can still use them as anxiety control but not hold back the challenge)
- Audio books over 8 hours count as 1, under 8 doesn’t count.
- Books all have to be 100+ pages long.
My happy: we are halfway through the year, and I just hit 50!!!
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Watching Twitter implode has been hilarious. It’s not ‘bot scraping’ as Elon had implied. Their cloud storage contract with Google expired, and this is the result.
Rumor is that Meta had been working real hard in the background to make a Twitter like program that will also carry over your IG contacts.
Gonna be real interesting to see what happens. But also? Fuck Elon, I’m not paying for Twitter Blue from that overgrown manchild.
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@Testament NGL I thought that said Twitch and I was like ‘woah what?’ but then I realized it was Twitter and was like ‘Oh I care less about this’ xD
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I randomly decided not to take a certain freeway home today from an event downtown, which meant I was only two blocks from Dogg in tha Box.
Which is how I wound up with a Snoopalicious shake today.
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@Raeras Well, if we’re being honest, Twitch is burning itself down in plenty of other ways. They’re potentially not long for this world either if so many big name streamers are taking contracts with Kick.
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Things have been stressful lately with work and househunting on top of my usual spate of health issues, but one thing that I do every year is go to a local anime convention, because it sparks joy.
This year, the hotel that made it easy to attend because it’s incredibly close by and I can dash back to it if I start feeling overwhelmed or under the weather (which I do nearly half the times I’ve gone), was entirely booked up within minutes of going live. Much disappointment. Thought I wasn’t going to get to go at all, because the idea of having to slog a mile through the summer heat and humidity doesn’t have quite the same comfort associated with it.
I noticed when I was searching something entirely random that the con has a subreddit. And the very first post was someone wanting to hand off their room at that hotel rather than cancelling it. Immediately DMed. Wasn’t a scam. ‘Geeky’ communities have their own problems, but I continue to be blown away by the generosity that exists within them - I’ve seen it here several times over, in fact!
Anyhow. Can now attend, and have something to look forward to during this stressy time. Really is the simple rituals in life, sometimes.
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Ever since I broke the 300 pound barrier in deadlifting, I’ve felt like I hit a plateau with strength training and fitness. I had been stuck on 305 for deadlift for some time now.
I finally broke through and lifted to 315. Which isn’t the biggest jump in the world, but I’m really proud of that.
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I wear a glittery enamel pin-badge that says ‘MAKE IT GAY YOU COWARDS’ on my hat.
Today a stranger started some sort of right-wing rant at me, assuming I’d agree, but then spotted this delightful bit of flair, shut her mouth, turned around and walked briskly away from me.
What joy!
'You ride the mechanical bull, you do not fight it.'
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@Gashlycrumb said in Real life happy:
I wear a glittery enamel pin-badge that says ‘MAKE IT GAY YOU COWARDS’ on my hat.
Today a stranger started some sort of right-wing rant at me, assuming I’d agree, but then spotted this delightful bit of flair, shut her mouth, turned around and walked briskly away from me.
What joy!
Exactly the reason I’d often answer the door to jehova’s witnesses or evangelists in one of many heavy metal t-shirts.
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I changed my volunteer hours at the shelter to avoid some of the frustrations I had over the summer. It has been great.
One of the best is that since everyone knew we were understaffed today for a full clean, the volunteers who were able to come all showed up an hour early. There was no coordination at all. The cats needed their area clean so gdi, they were going to get it done.
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Ya’ll. After a year of grief-fueled burnout I have a job that pays milkbones, but is a gentle balm on my soul: bathing dogs.
they | them
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@moth Hurray! If you ever wanna talk shop or have questions about the industry, feel free to hit me up.
I’ve been a dog groomer for 20ish years. 
