okay am i insane because i read this tweet and i read it as ~find your strengths and play to them~ not ~pay for love~ and all the guys read the word “gift” and evidently it broke their brain? gift is literally the last suggestion after other things? am i tripping
Healthcare is the only industry that drops your cancer scan results into an app at 11 PM on a Friday, then closes for the weekend.
No call. No context. Just a PDF full of words like "suspicious" and "cannot be excluded" and a little banner that says "Sleep well!"
Meanwhile billing found me in 4 hours 😐
went back to look for what date the pain started after the surgery and found this screenshot. it was the day before the pain started and i had taken it as a good omen; that the surgery had worked and i was about to rebuild my life. i was so hopeful.
i have to wear a mask in public because my immune system is shit and someone at home depot passed me and said “masks don’t work” and i need to know if i should’ve just started coughing on them? or can i yell i’m in chemo? or like? what do i say to that?
@theErdTirdMans@teradonnn i know. i’m definitely much more fitting into the libertarian party than gop but i grew up my whole life being gop so it’s disappointing to see it like this
@teradonnn yeah. it’s the only thing keeping me sane that established politicans have been like, uh, no. no that’s too far. no we want decency back. no we aren’t going to die on this hill. even if they don’t actually care it just feels like okay maybe we’ve stepped back from the ledge a bit
listen i’ve stayed in those hotels and i still strip my bed and pile my bathroom linens together at the end of the stay to make it easier on the cleaning staff. i also leave a tip. but i don’t expect to be hit with like a $200 cleaning fee on top of that in addition to the price of staying there. i think a lot of people have been complaining about the cleaning and cleaning fee tbh
so a therapist shouldn’t be giving you like, answers to life. i think there’s been a misunderstanding in what a lot of people expect from therapy (and a lot of therapists who are simply bad) but therapy is supposed to be a tool to help you build skills so you can find the answers yourself. i think a lot of people expect therapy to be like an outsourcing tool like ai
honestly the best thing for them is to encourage them to get offline as much as possible and build irl communities. engage in identity-building and agency work and coping skills to help regulate themselves. because whether things get better or worse these are skills that will help them no matter what.
I texted my children that we got the puppy they’ve been begging me for and sent them a link with pictures. 🐶When they clicked on the link, it took them to a webpage that said YOU’RE GROUNDED. They’ll be spending the weekend retaking our family’s cybersecurity training course.
Worst part of the Halloween season by far is putting the fentanyl and razor blades in the Snickers. It's so much work and I feel like the kids never even notice anyway. Not sure I'll even bother this year.