Real life happy
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We shouldn’t take pleasure in the misfortune of others, blah blah blah, but…
Today I found out that a very-deserved bad something that was a long time in coming happened to a terrible person who did horrible things, treated people poorly, and enabled other people to be even worse.
I’m pretty fucking happy about it and don’t feel guilty about that at all.
And before you think I’m just being petty, we’re talking about an executive in the pharmaceutical industry, who worked for a company that absolutely got included in a bunch of the opioid lawsuits. So…
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My husband and I are officially certified as foster parents!!
Our certification worker wants to see us one more time before we get a placement.
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@junipersky Forgive my ignorance. For human kids or for the furry kid variety?
I don't know what I'm doing. Poke at Seven Nations sevennations.aresmush.com port 2021
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Human kids! We may still take on the occasional furry baby still, but human is the big accomplishment!
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@Testament Around here we like to call them “skin cats”
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I’ve been on benzos for my panic attacks for the last 20 years. They’ve been sedating and miserable but have been the only thing that have done the job. Worse, any temporary lapse in them meant I’d be a quivering pile of sobbing withdrawal.
With the help of a psychiatrist, we found something else that worked, finally. An anti-seizure med, of all things. Sure, why not. Not questioning it. It works.
And after a grueling stepdown process over the course of the last year, rife with mini-withdrawals, I’m finally fucking free of benzos.
And that feels just enormously great to say.
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@Solstice I am forever fascinated by the weird overlaps and crossovers in brain drugs. I’ve been on everything in the world for chronic migraines. Somehow it doesn’t entirely surprise me that it would be anti-seizure meds that finally do the trick for you, and yet it fucking fascinates me. Brains are such weird, dysfunctional lumps of electrified biology. I’m glad you found someone who could work with you to find a better solution.
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Post foot surgery after a few weeks ago. No more vacuum seal on a years long ulcer on the sole of my foot. The bones are healing good, no daggy bits to make the ulcer not heal. And expected to ditch crutrches in another two weeks!
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Im out of work until Jan 2nd which isn’t ideal, but have been approved to go back which means I don’t need to frantically look for a new job. Yay!
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One of my college kids whose school is very near the Canadian border crossed over with a friend this weekend for a tournament, and snagged some ketchup chips! So now I am getting a care package! He couldn’t wait to tell me, and it’s adorable.
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3 acquittals in a ROW WHAAAAAT.
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@sao Gratz!
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I’ve been holding on to a lot of old RP stuff, even though it only made me sad to think about how some of it ended.
After my google being like “Yo, you’re RUNNING OUT OF MEMORY” (because I’ve had this email address for almost 20 years now), I finally purged it all.
Then I went and did a massive housecleaning on my gmail account since I never delete anything.
Went from 11.5gb, to 5.47gb.
None of it is “real”, but I still feel more free.
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I’m 38 years old and am two days into a Bachelor of Information Technology.
That in and of itself isn’t super amazing really I guess. Not in the context of me being me at least, I’ve flunked out of multiple universities multiple times.
But, at the risk of counting my chickens before they’ve hatched, this time feels different. I’m actually managing my time properly and not procrastinating.
I even noticed today that I was so invested in reading the stuff I was meant to be reading that I didn’t even notice the time going by. It felt good.
So, knock on wood, maybe I’ve got this!
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Our first foster child is arriving any minute.
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13 hours in. No one has died and/or cried yet. So this is good. She is safe at school and all is fine.
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I submitted my first short story to Amazon. It’s cheesy erotica, but… I already have my second ready to edit, I have my community pages built out, and the hard work of just doing the first one is done.
I’m really fucking excited for this.
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@junipersky That’s awesome! I hope it goes well. We just passed the 5 year anniversary of adopting our kiddo from foster care, and that was after 3 1/2 years of dealing with the system. The best advice I ever got was to scan and save every single document you have to turn in anywhere, because 1) they will lose it so you’ll have to resend it, and 2) you’ll have to fill out the same form again in 6 months.
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I had an injury last year and was sidelined by debilitating back pain for almost 10 months. I think I’m a tough customer, but back pain humbles everyone. After a lot of time spent depressed and listless because I couldn’t walk, sit, stand, or lay comfortably for longer than half an hour and a lot of physical therapy, I’m pain free now.
