I’d like to just say that this thing is awesome and YOU are awesome!

Thank you!

Going to the doctor does this to me too, kitty.

Yes, hi, we do exist. And we were trying to get CEO to implement a hybrid policy for years before covid. He hated the thought. And he was the type of person that would not hesitate to fire an entire department if they felt bold enough to complain about it. When I started there, I didn’t immediately report to him. Anyone there who had a layer of management between themselves and him had a pretty ok work experience there. Direct reports to CEO basically had to manage a toddler who was also the emporor with new clothes. I took the promotion to be his whipping post because I wanted to leverage it to move on. Instead now I have PTSD from an abusive boss and am not able to work full time.

tl;dr – the C suite does discuss things amongst themselves with and without the CEO. But CEO already knows what they want to do, usually can’t be swayed, can only be warned what the consequences of their decisions will bring.

My mom’s exasperated “shit a fiddle!” when fed up with something / something broke. When I was younger, she didn’t really say curse words around me except for this.

I’ve never heard any one else ever say this. Not in Appalachia, or anywhere. She probably made it up herself. But in the 80s she also dated a Korean War fighter pilot/POW (crashed, survived, & captured, unsure of release details). And he could have had a creative catalog of swears that she borrowed from.

I love this! What is the language? Danish, Swedish, or am I totally off base?

I’m now inspired to make a cross stitch of this accordingly.

That’s pretty common in my area. Tell your wife she needs to get out more!

You can mix it up by saying “six of one, baker’s dozen of the other” and see if she catches on.

I just spent a few days sitting with my FIL in hospital. We binged Gunsmoke. I am a reluctant fan of Festus now.

• do they have you scheduled for any sight-seeing like CT or MRI scans?
• can you order UberEats to your room? I watched them come and go frequently and wondered if it was for employees, inmates, or both
• do you ask all the nurses for crunchy ice?
• have you asked that one nurse for a bed bath?
• are most of the nurses pregnant like they were at my hospital? Wtf is in the water?!

Fall risk?

** CAUTION: may incur relocation to a different wing

If I can’t leave work because important meetings I can’t get out of, I’ll go sit in the car and breathe, or excuse myself to the bathroom if I have to (including going to another floor sometimes) and try a quick grounding exercise like rainbow grounding or the one where you visualize a warm light filling you from first your toes, then calves, then knees, so on and so on. I can usually hold myself together afterward until the end of the day, but I know I will be falling apart that evening. I will prep the honey to pick up pizza or order DoorDash and plan on playing Playstation.

And here I am without a pocketknife.

I am a huge 🍭 for kitties.

The ceiling fan was going. Her every need is anticipated.

Generic extended release methylphenidate was what my primary care doc first tried me on. I noticed it a little and thought ok, it’s still really hard to function. What do people mean that getting on medication was a game changer for them?

After about a year of this, trudging through my day still, I got in to see a psych about a month ago who switched me to Vyvanse, and holy cow. I’m functioning again! Wtf?!

I will say that my sleep has suffered some, but that’s a little bit on me for not taking my meds early enough in the day.

Diet cokehead here!

I drink water too. And if a restaurant tries to sneak me a diet pepsi, I ask them to bring me iced tea.

The surrounding language is very macabre humor. I don’t think they are serious. At the very least, they are more not-serious than they really mean it.

“Ugh, allergies are the pits!”

Though this is very situation-specific.

Cuddle puddle!

Excellent point. I missed the totally obvious extra 0 there. OTOH a 50 foot giant running at 2x20 foot strides per second would be absolutely terrifying. Not that a 50 foot giant isn’t terrifying in its own right. But a sprinter giant? That’s like how I felt after 28 Days Later introduced sprinter zombies. Hell to the no thank you.