I’m with you. I’ve been feeling especially shitty the last few months. For me it’s been the expenses. My monthly costs are going up faster than my pay, and earlier this year I consolidated some debts to make it more manageable and hopefully get out from under it, but now I’m racking up the balance on the credit card I was trying to eliminate in the first place.

All day yesterday, my head was full of unhealthy thoughts. For example, they were doing work on the building I work in and I fantasized about them REALLY messing something up and just blowing up the whole damn thing with me in it.

If you need someone to chat deeper with, hit me up, I could probably use the company myself. Best wishes to you!

We homebrewers will be the thousandaires of the end times!

When the world collapses, nobody’s going to care about gold.

Stock up on bottlecaps instead.

Some people care more about money and titles than personal well being. And there’s nothing wrong with that, for THEM.

By demoting yourself, THEY think that you are now less of a person than you were before because you don’t have any extra letters after your name.

But really, a 2% pay difference is nothing, and you’re essentially making the same money to do an easier, less stressful job that results in YOU being healthier than before. They might actually be a little jealous.

Reading this post made me sneeze.

No lie.

Technically not death.

If you have proof, take it to the police, or don’t. Either way, there’s no point in telling us EVERY DAY.

The line is if his heart is still beating.

How would everyone know?

I’m glad we made it into the USC, but for the record, Pennsylvania is PA not PN.

Oh look, there’s a new store. Let’s see what they’re about. Oh damn, I can’t afford to pay that much for that.

Do you think they didn’t know what they were signing up for?

I prefer to support small businesses, but anytime I visit any in my area, they generally offer similar or the exact same products that I can order online for less.

I’m struggling enough right now, and every dollar counts. I’m rooting for the little guys, but I’m not willing to go broke to save them.

I totally understand. It’s hard to lose something that means more than it’s retail value.

I don’t think replacing it would help, even if it’s identical, it’s not really YOUR soup bowl. The search will just waste more time and energy obsessing over the soup bowl. Maybe keep a chunk of the broken bowl and put it away in a keepsake box. Next time you go digging for memories, it’ll still have a positive effect.

I got a little bit further and it turned into, “all the ways I wasted time as a kid are superior to the ways that people waste time today”

And this is coming from someone who did the exact same things around the same time as them. I loved those times, but, they were described with such an air of superiority that they don’t really deserve.

Lots of people listen, and lots of people don’t.

The only thing that ever interferes with my ability to perform is being nervous. If this is a new partner, or we are in a location that isn’t completely secure, that will make it more difficult to stay in the mood.

Definitely never had laundry pop in my head during the deed.

Similar to something I’ve been thinking about for a New Year’s resolution. (Which is something I’ve never really done, so I don’t know why I picked New Year’s)

Reach out to one person from the past every day. Maybe a close friend that moved away, maybe just someone I worked with 15 years ago and got along with. Just check in, say hi, and throw in something that I miss or appreciated about them.

I’ve been feeling really down the last few months, and it would probably feel nice to spread some positivity.

They already have a few of those right now. They don’t seem too keen on letting them go.

I hear yeah. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard “Why don’t you just (obvious solution)?”

I honestly don’t know why I don’t just. But I don’t, and probably won’t start.

And don’t even get us started on Pythagoras!