RL Peeves

Mourne

@sao There was a time I remembered everything, didn’t even need notes, or logs, I just… remembered.

Now it’s like…

swiss cheese

mietze

While I don’t love that it happens to other people, to be honest I’m kinda glad that folks as a whole are getting old enough/are distracted enough by family and stuff now that I don’t even think my cognitive issues are super noticeable anymore. It used to be a real issue as far as posing speed and the like. But I know it’s stressful to have to feel around for words and feel like you have to work extra hard to keep up with stuff or recall that used to be lightning fast and detailed. On the upside, if you want to have alt privacy, chances are even if you tell me once, unless we play regularly and talk oocly about it, I’ll forget who your alts are pretty much immediately. And unless it made a HUGE impression I won’t stay mad at anything you do for long.

Herja

@mietze said in RL Peeves:

On the upside, if you want to have alt privacy, chances are even if you tell me once, unless we play regularly and talk oocly about it, I’ll forget who your alts are pretty much immediately. And unless it made a HUGE impression I won’t stay mad at anything you do for long.

girl same

Mourne

So I just discovered that I either need bifocals, or, I need to tilt my glasses down my nose a bit to read stuff in small text or real close to my face…

Now what am I going to do when I have my contacts in?

Ugh.

Old, why you hate me so?

mietze

@Mourne i got bifocals last year and oh my dog i wish I had gotten them earlier and not resisted it!!! I love them sooooo much. It only took me 24 hours to adjust.

Mourne

@mietze I actually don’t mind that I will need bifocals, I just mind that it negates my ability to wear contacts and read stuff close to my face.

TNP

I tried progressive lenses once. Hated them. So YMMV.

Rathenhope

I’d been wondering for a few days why I’d been feeling a little light-headed, like my vision was off just slightly.

Turns out that one of the ear rests had been bent very slightly and my glasses were no longer sitting on my face properly - both my eyes have astigmatisms so rotation of lenses is very important.

Bent them back and suddenly everything is fine again. Sigh.

Solstice

Medical appointments that completely waste your time.

I spent about half of my day on PTO to go to some doctor and dental appointments. The dentist just sort of patted me on the head and told me to wait longer about the pain I’m in because they can’t find any reason why I’d be having it.

The doctor set up a sleep study for me and sent me home with it to use today and have it be returned tomorrow. The machine didn’t turn on last night, despite placing a haggard call to tech support who mostly just asked if I’d tried the power button.

Now I have to return said dud device today, which is another hour of my life I won’t get back, and I need to reschedule a new appointment in order to get another one. First available is several months away.

Winner: The insurance company.

TNP

@Solstice 1) Find a new dentist. 2) Find a new doctor.

Nynrose

@Mourne said in RL Peeves:

So I just discovered that I either need bifocals, or, I need to tilt my glasses down my nose a bit to read stuff in small text or real close to my face…

Now what am I going to do when I have my contacts in?

Ugh.

Old, why you hate me so?

Bifocal contacts are a thing now; but I’ve been too scared to try them. For the moment, I’m using readers. However, I have found this is not yet an every day occurrence for me, and that makes it even worse. Today I’m having a great eye day and don’t need to use anything additional. Tomorrow I might be consigned to using readers all day long. It sucks, getting older.

Solstice

@TNP

Thanks. Already initiated 1. People dismissing my pain is an instant drop for me.

Testament

So I don’t want anyone to think this is a legit peeve. It is not, it is a highly self-aware peeve, that I know is stupid, but I’m going to talk about it anyways.

My fiance, I feel like, has shown everyone and their dog her wedding dress. And for good reason, she’s thrilled with it. She also was thrilled of the fact that it’s a black wedding dress because she hates white. She also, has gone on a long explanation to me that the only reason white was chosen was some in the aristocracy some couple hundred of years ago wore white and everyone else, who generally would just wear whatever thought this was the best thing ever and followed suit. Note: I do not know how accurate that statement is, but that’s what she found from her own research to justify a black dress(also, I said it’s your wedding, you don’t have to justify anything to anyone, wear a fluorescent lime green dress if you really wanted to).

The point is is that everyone has seen the dress.

Except me. And I’m exceptionally salty about it.

That is all.

Snackness

@Testament It was Queen Victoria~

Solstice

@Testament said in RL Peeves:

The point is is that everyone has seen the dress.

Except me. And I’m exceptionally salty about it.

I think it looks great, I’m sure you’ll love it when you can see it.

Testament

@Solstice

i see what you did there

TNP

@Testament It would be amusing if you wore a white tux.

Testament

@TNP said in RL Peeves:

@Testament It would be amusing if you wore a white tux.

Oh shit. If I hadn’t already bought my suit, that would be a hilarious temptation.

junipersky

@Testament

What I hear is “send money for new tux”

Kestrel

I thought about posting this in ‘Good Things in Mushing’, because it is. But I feel like that thread’s there for positive vibes, and although I feel entirely positive about this situation, it’s on the sassy side and I don’t wanna pollute people’s good cheer with sassy bitch energy.

Rolling my sleeves up:

God bless this hobby, for all its ups and downs and occasional bouts of immense drama, for having taught me the absolutely vital life skills of keeping receipts and handling verbal disputes.

I’m having trouble right now with an unkind individual in my RL sphere who made an entirely unreasonable request of me two years ago, to which I said, ‘No’. I’d initially been open to compromise, but they immediately jumped to threats and attempted blackmail. So, I did everything right: I immediately cut them off and ensured that any further communications I had with them were exclusively in writing, so there’d be a paper-trail if I needed to handle the situation again down the line. (And my gut told me I might.) They let off some steam into the void and then I never heard from them again, which is a result I was fully satisfied with.

It’s taken them this long to come back, this time with backup (vague threats to sue etc.), but other than that they have … less than nothing. Frankly, I’m pleased with myself. For the many times in this hobby where I’ve handled situations like this the wrong way, I’m grateful to have taken my lessons in protecting myself IRL where it counts.

It’s an RL happy! And a MU* happy. But like, low-key toxic, so I’m shoehorning it here.

EDIT: Should this have been in RL Vent? Idk, if mods want to move it that would be fine!