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My fave evil executive is Proton for the name alone.
Mars gets 2nd place bcs she's attractive + that Purugly doesn't mess around. |
Only 4 days to go for those who celebrate it!!!
I'm pretty disappointed right now. I've had to cancel seeing my family this Christmas for medical reasons, and also the pandemic. We were supposed to go to my mother in law's house for dinner. Other family including our nieces and nephews always end up there too. We've only seen her once since before the pandemic, some of the others not at all, and I was really looking forward to it. It is what it is I guess. I haven't seen what's left of my side of the family at all since well before the pandemic either. It's my grandmother's birthday today and I was planning to see her for that and for Christmas too, but that won't be happening either. She's in her 90s and I have this terrible feeling I'm never going to see her again ;( Is Christmas still going ahead for all of you with the pandemic biting hard once again? |
I don't celebrate Christmas but I sure hope any emergency restrictions allow me to visit my dad on New Year. I have the train tickets and all, and... it's only 12 more days to go. But the environment doesn't look good. At least I'm working from home these weeks so my risk of getting infected is smaller- that would certainly put an end to my holidays and I don't want to risk that.
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We need to have restrictions, and keep them to even control it.
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i've barely seen any of my extended family in the past... half decade? even longer than that? so by now way used to it.
heck i rarely even see my own father these days. i think i've last seen him the beginning of this year lol. i don't expect christmas to change that. |
Maintained the plan for the time being. Will probably not be cancelled/postponed except for a surprise illness or bad weather. (Does not rely on public transportation.) Falls between a day with rain and one with a wintry mix.
Offers condolences to those with ruined holiday plans. Hopes for some way to connect with your loved ones, even if only a video call, telephone call, or letter. |
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SEE I COULDNT BE THE ONLY ONE
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WHAT THE HELL
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Aliens would surely make this important announcement after coming to earth...
BROCCOLI WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE EATEN!!!... |
I love broccoli.
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I also love brocoli!
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broccoli is amazing
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I swear this is rigged beyond belief
I defended Palpatine today while playing Destiny 2 ANGIE HOW MANY PEOPLE DID YOU BRIBE?!?! |
i am innocent of whatever i'm being accused of!
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I do not believe you in the slightest after your accusations
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*hugs but not close enough to be shanked* |
TY is innocent I tell ya!
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The abdomen is one of the worst places to be injured because if your stomach or intestines rupture, it fills your body with poison.
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I may have regrets tomorrow, this pizza my brother ordered had hotdog pieces on it.
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Happy new year everyone!
May your 2022 be filled with much love and happiness. I wish you all nothing but the very best <3 |
Aw, happy new year everyone! Depending on what your timezone is ♥
And thank you for the good wishes~ |
Hopefully 2022 won't be as much of a disasterpiece as 2021 was, I do not have a whole lot of hope for myself at least
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honestly even a small improvement is still an improvement and that's about where i'm setting my expectations for 2022
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I try not to make expectations, because if I don't meet them, I'll feel bad.
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I failed my one resolution for 2021, so ill make it for this year too and still fail it
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I just have one, but I'm confident I can do it.
I believe in you! |
Wow, I have two days off. o_o; Then a meeting on Thursday. Honestly, the new staff I have is...*insert a really bad word here* I hope this meeting kicks off a good 2022. Who knows.
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Sounds stressful though, but I hope your 2022 is good. A poor workplace can really negatively impact your life.
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I hope your 2022 is everything you are hoping for RB! :)
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Our car is living on borrowed time until we can the dealer to fix it. Thing is they charge a shitload.
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When you wish you could just push it off a cliff and get a new one. My friends car was horrible and you prayed to God you didn't get stuck in any traffic because it would overheat and then he'd be screwed.
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I'm pretty happy about not owning a car. We're probably saving a lot of money :V don't think we'd use one much if we had it anyways.
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i wish my city's public transit was good enough so i wouldn't have to own a car, but alas
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I'd love that too! But not now, living in the countryside is definitely not easy without a car and even more so meeting friends, should the covid situation ease up...
If it helps, I still don't quite dare to drive right to the center of big cities... I'd rather drive to a place that has good public transport into the city because otherwise parking and going through traffic is really stressful ;; |
So the meeting didn't go as I thought it would. It only made things worse. I wrote a letter hoping to get some compromises out of it. I present the letter tomorrow. Wish me luck.
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Good luck. Hopes for a better result.
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Best of luck, you deserve a positive work environment.
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Yeah, thanks. About that positive work environment....
I have to prove to be professional until next Thursday to get something that I want from my "work". Therefore, I will be professional. It may or may not happen though regardless, cause you know....covid. So, let's see what happens. I hate to say wish me luck again, but until next Thursday...ya know. |
COVID has ruined things for a lot of us. I honestly don't have much hope of it going anywhere.
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I know it's getting much worse where I live.
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In a province of 1mil, we had near 600 cases a day for a few days.
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Stupid question: What do I do about my friend CONSTANTLY giving me gifts? I mean, yeah she came back today after a long break and made my environment better, but she was giving me gifts for the last half a year. o_O; She called today saying she was making me a batch of brownies tomorrow. Today, she gave me a bunch of crafts and snacks. She gave me a shelf once not too long ago. I tried saying to not give me gifts, but she keeps doing it. It's awkward. I really like her as a friend, but I don't want to be like i'm using her or anything. She's fine just the way she is without the gifts. Am I over-analyzing?
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Perhaps ask why she keeps giving gifts? Mention that you appreciate the gifts (preferably with specific mentions, such as how useful or delicious something was). Bring up your own worries of using her or maybe overly inconveniencing her by preparing all these gifts. Suggests providing specific examples of why she is a good friend (the time where X, the way you Y) outside of the gifts. Needs to do nothing more to stay your friend.
Might simply be her way of showing her (platonic) love for you. Could have amped up the gifts for fear of losing you as a friend. May be something else entirely. Will never know until you ask. |
I saw her today. Can we just ignore my question? I know Devalue said to ask her, but I had no energy to nor will I ever. Maybe one day i'll casually bring it up, but she's too much energy, and I was so tired so I just couldn't.
So to update with my "work" environment, I have an understanding that I will be meeting with a couple of "important" people on Friday, so hopefully, we can get this issue finalized. I also have to text someone on Tuesday (I would do it Monday, but Monday is a national holiday here), about a similar, yet not so similar issue. *shrug* |
We're getting a storm tomorrow, which is horrible. We've had 3 blizzards in like two weeks.
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An ice storm is expected in my area tonight, and the local weather report predicts power outages this weekend. I stocked up on a bunch of groceries, including shelf-stable non-perishable goods, and have candles +matches, flashlight, portable led lantern , batteries, backup solar chargers, first aid kit and household essentials, and lots of useful things in case of emergency.
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We're getting a wind storm tomorrow evening.
Like it's never ending. |
Anyone want to come take the snow away from my house? I’ll pay you.
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I had enough snow last year, I'm good for another decade.
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Same, I'm going insane.
It rained though! |
The snows are here, but the inches we got fortunately weren't enough to snap tree limbs, or damage power lines, in spite of the grim predictions. I have stayed connected this week. People are having trouble driving though, more because they just aren't used to this kind of weather. You can hear the sound of the wheels struggling to get traction, and getting stuck.
I didn't have to go in to work today, and have stayed safe inside--for the most part. I did play in the snow a little, right in my backyard. A city park is also within walking distance from my house, and a pretty sight to see. |
I know here in Michigan we literally missed that last snow storm by a hair.
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We have had very little snow this year... so far anyway!
A few days and that was it. February and March tend to get pretty snowy here though... I hate to be the person to bring up... covid... but our Prime Minister has basically declared the pandemic over today in an effort to save his skin after a corruption scandal and is lifting all restrictions from next week. They're even going to be scrapping the requirement to isolate after a positive test soon apparently. We had nearly a hundred thousand cases yesterday and 438 deaths. I just don't know what to say 😔 |
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As for that walking hay bale, well... I don't know what to say either - news about partying and scandals have reached my country some time ago already, but ending the emergency just like this? :O I guess this is the direction everyone will end up following eventually, but now is not the time! |
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Exactly this! I told my oh that omicron could be a way out of the pandemic before it even left SA, and I still hope that is the case very, very soon, but this is being done at the wrong time, for absolutely the wrong reasons. 🤬 |
There won't be an end to COVID, lifting every restriction is just irresponsible. Are you in the UK? Because I know Johnson has a scandal...
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I'm sorry if I sound pessimist here but... before Covid was a thing and we all lived happily without masks, hugging each other, and whatever... flu was killing a bunch of people every year, each time with a different strain that required a different vaccine against it. Scientists were kind of worried about a possible H5N1 pandemic originating once again from, guess what, a virus that would jump from a different animal, in this case chickens, to humans. We also got stuff like Ebola, Zika, some other flu strains (Hong Kong flu possibly? In the 60s?)
Yet we all lived without masks, we hugged each other, we didn't even think about the possible dangers of doing so. I guess the most important reason is just that most of the diseases we'd have going around were "known" and we had good ways to deal with them, but we're not infallible on that front anyways! There probably are way more complicated sociological reasons behind the reason why, even after something like the Spanish Flu, we collectively decided "oh ok we're no longer in danger" or "we can accept having these diseases spread"... I would have no idea what those are, but I guess it just happened at some point, and the same could happen with Covid as well sooner or later. One thing I hear people say around here is to focus just on the health system: if it can handle itself alright, then we're good to go, otherwise, that's not good. I suppose everyone can agree on the fact that having to choose, as a doctor, who you'll try to save and who you have to leave behind is the hardest decision ever and something you should never be put through - so that's surely something we'd have to avoid. Can we avoid it if we let Covid, as it is now, spread without control? Definitely not! But will it always be like that? Well, the answer seems to be "no" once again :) We're not perfect or infallible, we just try to survive some way or another, and that's fine <3 <3 <3 Sending hugs and positivity (not to Covid obviously) to everyone who sees this, you absolutely deserve it after reading what I wrote up there... |
It's because COVID is way more deadly and contagious. Hospitals weren't filled to the brim with flu patients.
No one's saying you can't hug your loved ones, but we need these precautions. |
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It seems that the reason behind that is still the usual... this virus has just jumped from a different species to us, and our immune system has never "seen" something like this, so it's pretty unprepared! That's definitely not the case with other cold / flu virus strains, which explains the smaller number of people with serious symptoms... from what I understood~ |
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It doesn't look like he'll be PM for much longer, even his own party is angry with him.
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Tbh the alternatives aren't a whole lot better either 😔
How is everyone? |
Tired ;_;
I'll be in bed early. |
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Well, I'm cold and tired, but otherwise doing fine. Might take a nap myself soon, as I do need to run to the grocery store later and hope they're not sold out of everything.
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I'm ok ty! Just desperately trying to catch up with some stuff I've left till the last second as usual! 😅 |
I have to go out and shovel. I don't think the snow is that thick though.
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At the procrastination station hey? Make room for twooo cause I have paperwork I should be doing today but instead I'm about to go buy a new phone and some manga! |
The good news is that most of the snow we got hammered with last week has melted off, so I can actually be productive today.
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Ours doesn't vanish that quick, but it gets hard and wet.
I finished it though. |
Update: My life situation just sucks. I've just become numb to this s***. I have two specific meetings in February so here's hoping things go better eventually.
Also, my area is supposed to get 3 to 5 inches of snow Saturday morning. Oh well. It'll be a snuggle in pjs and a warm blanket kind of day. |
We're getting a storm Saturday.
We've had like 5 this month, it's so hard ;; |
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Lots of snow but not much else, thankfully it wasn't bad.
But my birthday is coming up :> |
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Oh! Exciting plans or mostly chill? |
Well, I'm turning 32 so absolutely nothing.
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It's not really by choice, I do wish I could have a birthday cake or something. |
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Also I saw your other post, and I will physically come over and bake u a cake so help me >:| |
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It's the 13th. |
Well the first meeting I had this month sent me into a spiraling depression. I feel a little better today after two days of napping, but idk....everything seems pointless now, including the second meeting on the 17th. I'm just doing day to day motions at this point with no reasons behind it. The only thing that brings me happiness these days are my Switch Lite and 2DS. Those are my treasures.
Happy early birthday to Maera by the way. Hope it's a good one. |
I really hope things start looking up!
Power went out as I was writing my resume, I hope google docs saved it. |
I've been insanely self loathing recently, more than ever before... idk if i hate myself that much or if its just the time of the day i dont like valentines day lmao
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I appreciate the Valentine's Day event on here. As someone who views everything in a platonic sense, it's fun being able to write appreciation in many different ways. I like how it doesn't pressure us to write something romantic.
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A few people on Twitter expressed that they want to talk to me or befriend me and I can't think of a nice way to say "actually I'm terrified of this".
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I just called my dad. He was admitted to the hospital today, and is expected to have a prostate-related surgery tomorrow. He's in good spirits, and I think he should come through this operation easy enough. His brother is with him, and going to call me tomorrow for updates and let me that things are going okay. Since there are still covid restrictions that limit the number of visitors, I can't be there now because he has already had somebody to see him. My dad recommends that I not come to the hospital right now anyway, he says that there is so much chaos to navigate due the shortages. I hear tales of 14 hour to overnight wait times to get the emergency room and even be looked at by staff. My dad says they found him a bed in the cancer ward. He doesn't have cancer, but it was one of the few places where they had room to put him.
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You'll be in my thoughts! Mine has to have surgery to fix an intestinal hernia but he has to be a certain weight? They do Bariatric surgery on people way heavier, I'm proud of his weight loss thus far though! I'm trying too.
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I had a date with a girl today :3 she was really nice, and paid for my tacos (even though I got my purse out to pay for my own tacos) and I'm seeing her again on Thursday and we're going skating! :D:D:D:D
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I'm in a very romantic mood 🥰 Have a special date tonight since me and my boyfriend are celebrating three years in our long-distance relationship! Well, technically that's tomorrow on V-day, but since he works Mondays we're celebrating tonight. :') |
I'll most likely be all alone as per usual, tomorrow is a work day either way so probably gonna sit behind my desk and toss some cards around lmao
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I'm going to sleep because I hardly did last night. ;_;
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Have a good sleep!
Meanwhile I'll just depress through the day as per usual. Today is not a good day for people who are too romantic for their own good. <_< |
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It's really stormy here, but this day is my step father and mother's anniversary more than anything. |
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