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I really wish that fingernails and toenails weren't a thing. Thankyou for coming to my TED talk
What else would I clip on the tram?
Ear hair.
Fingernails - I like. I have realised over the years that mine are a great health indicator. If I'm doing well they are strong as, grow neatly and are nice and pink. If the randomly start to catch and break/split I am getting sick.
Toenails - I don't think about until the little bastard grows and pokes into the toe next door and then I clip them
Thank you for listening to my rebuttal.
(That one weird face hair that isn't there and then grows an inch overnight. It can get in the bin)
I guess it was only a matter of time before false spring was going to end and I'd be putting the heater back on.
I bought 200g of olives to make with pasta.
I got home and realised they were not pitted (they had been slit on the side - but seed still intact).
30 minutes of drudgery later I know I will not make that mistake again.
ok, I need the collective wise mind of the dt to help explain this weird behaviour
my MIL insists on visiting her sick son in hospital every single day, sick son, my BIL, has had terrible cardiac disease which required many months in hospital
So MIL would visit every day. She's not a caring person, If someone is sick she says, "I don't like that you/they are sick. " She doesn't do any actual tending. She is narcissistic , diagnosed.
Her visits became a burden on the son and the doctors told her to stop coming as son needed undisturbed rest. She still went to visit.
I just can't figure what she got out of it. Why did she do it?
She impeded his recuperation. Her visiting usually meant no one else could visit as visiting was restricted. She complained about going.
If the goal was to make people think she was nice and caring it didn't work.
maybe she need reassurance from her son ( yes, that is fucked up )
I am at a loss as to why she did it.
I can tell from the answers who has suffered a narcissist in their life. It’s hard to get your head around, because their behaviour is so confounding to a normal person. The thing that finally clicked for me, is for every behaviour, you have to think how is this about the narcissist. It’s about no one else. They seek adoration, admiration, power, control, status, attention. Constantly. It’s never about you, it’s ALWAYS about them. They feel bitter inside if they don’t get these things. They seek to manipulate situations so they can satisfy their needs. ‘Woe is me’, ‘look how devoted I am’, ‘I’m the most important’ etc could all be motivators. And probably others, that I can’t get my brain to think of, because to a regular person it’s baffling that a person might do something detrimental to a seriously ill person, for their own glory and control. Has nothing to do with the BIL. He’s just a convenient tool. I am so sorry this person is in your life. It’s hard.
I have suffered terribly at the hands of narcissists and I still have so much trouble understanding what is going on. Still naive.
You wrote "Constantly." I think that is what I need to really remember, it's 24 hours a day and every situation for them because it's who they are, in a way they can't help it.
Every word, every action. They believe in nothing except themselves.
Alright. Experiment: running to the gym at lunchtime. Will I end up feeling good, or fucked beyond recognition?
I brought a towel so I can have a shower afterwards.
Let's see how it plays out.
It's 9 hours later, hoping you ended up feeling good and not fucked beyond recognition!
General and cat rambles
Ah Melbcat has licked a hotspot. It’s fair enough. Things have been intense with meds around the clock, wiping her clean, and interrupting/delaying cuddles to do a dose or chores. (She still gets cuddles every night.) I’ll keep an eye on it and see if I need to shield the area. She’s probably finishing her antibiotics soon.
Pakige.
I shouldn’t have spent money on something frivolous, especially overpriced fast fashion microplastic fabric. And when I could theoretically have sewn one myself. But I’ve been feeling absolutely terrible lately and wanted a squishmallow so I bought one. I don’t have the energy for patterns and sewing these days.
I also got some sneakers. They’re not amazing for padding, kind of hard, but that’s because cheap. The pseudo slip-on deal is weird but works for me. Miraculously they kind of fit - a little loose but long enough. The wonky shoe proportions worked in my favour for once. They’re white so that’s risky but for now they look clean and presentable.
The 2 pack of wireless bras is probably going to the op shop with tags still on. The band is way too tight and even with a band expander just digs in uncomfortably. It’s very hard to find something that isn’t awful even when buying brand names and there’s no time to go to the factory outlet, so I’ve given up and have just been playing clearance roulette.
squishmallows are awesome . I have one as a pillow, so soft. Mr Seagoon teases me because it's so silly
with bras I try to find a brand that has good cuts and I stick with them . warner is good
I need new clothes but I'm not buying until i lose weight
I had a favourite brand/model but the cut got changed for the worse and now I no longer buy it. Never found a replacement that’s worked well. It’s a shame.
I also really need new clothes after not shopping for so long but am restricting it to occasional cheap junk pieces just to fill a gap. Waiting til I become more able to sort out something proper, and also waiting for when I’m not stressing as much about needing to save the money for large unexpected bills.
hugs
I've finally installed a Lemmy app on the iPhone. Without an app I kept not coming here unless I was on a computer. I don't know which one is the best so I picked mlem which looks pretty decent so far.
Ding ding coming to you live from the 11 tram!
Voyager is my Lemmy app of choice on iOS, it mimics Apollo's layout which was my go to Reddit app. Hasn't failed me yet!
I use Jerboa because of it's lack of advertising.
I haven't seen any ads on this one yet. Maybe they're coming...
Mlem dev here - we do not and will never run ads, sell data or lock functionality behind a paywall :)
Hello Mlem dev! Great work! The more I use your app the more I like it
It is a bit cliche, but I just bought myself a typewriter. I am ridiculously excited to get it.
All work and no play make Homer something something...
Go crazy?
I've always been interested in whether they make a difference. It has to feel like a middle ground between writing by hand and using the computer
I don't think it would be fast enough for writing a story (for me). But I hope to use it for smaller things. Give it a personal touch. Like thank you letters to schools.
And award winning speeches...lol
It would be a cool flex to respond to something with a letter written on a typewriter.
A typewriter might be good for all the extra writing you need to do around a story, like using it as a brain dump for history, character profiles, and settings. I feel like a typewriter being distraction free and forcing you to commit to what you're writing would help you just get things down instead of faffing about with editing
I definitely can't jump on social media on a typewriter too.
Oh this is almost too good to be true: scary shit
If Nasa called you and said "We want to send you up, BUT we can only do it on a Boeing spacecraft" you'd say "No thanks!"
It's like the beginning of an Arthur C Clarke novel playing out in real life...
apparently its stopped doing it. But man i woulda sealed the hatch and used the arm to yeet that thing outta orbit faster than you can say 737 max 8.
I’m afraid you can’t do that
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