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First night of insomnia of the new year yay Probably didn't fall asleep until 2:00. Woke up at 6:30. 9-year-old woke up at 2:00 and decided to read and draw for three hours so she's going to hit a wall at some point and be grumpy the rest of the day.
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fartknocker posted:gently caress the Cowboys 2024 off to a good start
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Jan 1, 2024 15:33
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Bird in a Blender posted:gently caress, if you had yours late, I'm ancient. I have a 4 year old and I'm 42. Figuring it out as you go is parenting 101 I think. We're having some real struggles with our kid right now. He gets frustrated super easily, and when that happens he starts yelling and screaming immediately. The hardest part is keeping calm when you have a tiny human screaming at you. I'm trying to be better at talking in a calm voice in response, but that doesn't always happen. The other hard thing is that he's an only child, so he always wants to play with us, and sometimes I just don't have the energy for play time. We really got to get him some more friends to hang out with. Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:^ 42 with 8 and 4 year olds. I'm... So tired. Hi fellow old parents. 43 and dad to a neurodivergent 9-year old. I have no idea how some of you also hold down jobs while doing this. I'm tired and frequently low-key stressed. That being said, I have no idea what I'd do with myself if I even felt like I could go back to work because my various bones and organs aren't likely to be able to do the physical sort of jobs I was doing before. Our insurance is also not going to pay for kiddo's therapy any more starting in March because she's showing improvement. I think stopping a treatment because a treatment is working is kind of dumb as poo poo but I am not a healthcare industry vulture so  quote:posting I used to just post random dumb stuff because my brain goes on weird tangents, so why not? I've been trying to sincere post more regularly, though honestly I still get anxiety interacting with humans, even if it is less than it used to be. GDT's are great for just dropping off the first stupid thought that comes into your head though so I like posting in them. Like I feel like most of my posts are either shitposts or long-winded effort posts because I have to get the thoughts out quick OR have to analyze them in excruciating detail. Also No Butt Stuff posted:I had my kids early and late. Y'know, a little Butt Stuff could have prevented this.
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Jan 2, 2024 15:36
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Pron on VHS posted:38 with a 2 yr old. Wish I had my kid in my 20s but I am in excellent shape for an almost 40 yd old so parenting isn’t tough. Have a cool patient mind that drifts off happy places anytime I am stressed. My wife and I most importantly are a very good team with great communication That's huge right there. You both need to be on the same page as much as possible. Parenthood has been tough for us but we always check in with and support one another. bobjr posted:With anyone I knew under 20 who had a kid, the make or break point was how much help their parents/grandparents gave them. My sister-in-law (she's in her late 30s and BIL in his mid-40s) was telling my wife the other day that they have no idea how we're managing. They moved to be closer to my wife's parents and get a lot of help babysitting and drat it seems nice. I'm not sure it would entirely matter for us though as our daughter has some mental/emotional issues that make her hard to handle at times and I don't know that her aging parents would be capable of it. We don't even feel comfortable hiring babysitters because while it's not a sure thing that there would be problems, if there are, I don't think the average person is going to know how to handle it. Leperflesh posted:It helps a bit that my older sister had two kids. I love my niece and nephew, but they're both special needs autism kids and I have no illusions that they're going to be capable of taking care of their aunt and uncle when we're old - hell, we may well still be helping to take care of them, the one that is 20 is showing zero signs of adapting to such adult challenges as "get your first job" or "do anything besides video games" and my sister's not got the will to push him harder. The younger one wants to be a programmer lately, but she's 17 and when I tried to answer a question about what tablet she should get that will let her do art directly on the tablet she was frustrated and confused by the concept of there being different operating systems, so the self-study aspect of learning tech doesn't seem to be strong there either. And she's trans, so that's another life challenge to deal with. E: yeah I was just gonna say, I don't even know for sure if my daughter is going to be able to take care of herself as an adult, let alone us.  "
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Jan 2, 2024 18:06
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Blue Eye Samurai was really good. That is all.
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Jan 4, 2024 04:51
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We were forecast for 4-6 inches of snow and there's just nothing out there. I am sad.  Still get the game interrupted for updates from stupid local ABC channel though!
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Jan 7, 2024 04:01
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Qwijib0 posted:fontchat That looks like some AI generated bullshit.
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Jan 8, 2024 23:18
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Happy Birthday SB! You don't look a day over [your current age+5]!
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Jan 9, 2024 19:01
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Silly Burrito posted:you shouldn't have Speaking of birthday presents, did you ever get that pelican I sent you?
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Jan 10, 2024 02:24
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Thaddius the Large posted:Can’t remember if I’ve crowdsourced this in here, but my kid had a class project a while back where everyone is randomly assigned on of the states to do a report on, and she got South Dakota, which has now instilled an interest in her to visit this summer, but not with any more idea of what to actually visit there. Off the top of my head there’s Mt Rushmore, the Crazy Horse monument, the Corn Palace, and gently caress all else to do. Anybody got some great South Dakota vacation thoughts? The Badlands is absolutely beautiful. You can also stop at Wall Drug so you can finally say "so this is Wall Drug, what's the big drat deal?"
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Jan 12, 2024 02:27
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Silly Burrito posted:It's getting cold around here but I've heard other places have had two feet of snow. I want you to know I appreciate this.
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Jan 14, 2024 17:15
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Joey Freshwater posted:I came down to Florida with the gf to visit her college friends. They’re all married so I’m hanging out with their husbands while the girls go off and do stuff. We played golf today and I swear to god they haven’t stopped complaining about their wives. Idk if it’s like bro culture or whatever but it’s annoying as hell. They tried roping me in like “does your girl annoy you too?” And I’m like…no, she’s awesome and I love hanging out with her wtf, and even if she did I wouldn’t talk poo poo about her to you losers. Any man I've ever met whose said "happy wife, happy life" has seemed like 30 seconds from blowing their brains out. My wife is amazing and I'm drat lucky she settled for my weird scrungly rear end.
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Jan 15, 2024 03:18
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Amy Pole Her posted:Oh they also have these little carrots - they’re full shape but smaller, and in three colors (yellow, purple, etc) and they’re absolutely delicious with basic steaming and salting Carrots are bad
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Jan 15, 2024 05:05
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Qwijib0 posted:Record scratch For some reason they give me dry heaves. Been this way since I was a kid and I have no idea why, but as a result I cannot stand them. Like in tiny shreds in cole slaw it's fine but anything bigger than that and 
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Jan 15, 2024 05:12
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Grittybeard posted:My brother in law has this and I'm like, dude you can't eat soup? Like a basic mirepoix can apparently mess him up. Thats weird. I didn't realize it was a thing with other people until my father brought up that he had it too a few years ago, and I figured it was just some genetic thing. Kiddo has said she doesn't like them either because they make her throat feel weird.
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Jan 15, 2024 14:55
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We complaining in here? My daughter woke me up at 2:30 because she wet the bed so I had to help change her sheets and didn't fall asleep again until probably 4:00. I spent from 9:00 until now at the dealership getting various car poo poo fixed. The sheets are at least a huge rarity at this point. We're at the point where there's only an accident maybe once a month and she still wears pull-ups to bed and that's usually enough. I'm tired.
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Jan 17, 2024 19:21
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Bird in a Blender posted:I heard from a friend that their 6 year old wets the bed literally every night. He doesn't get up though, he just pees and sleeps through it. It means they strip the bed every night and replace his sheets though. If there's one thing I'm grateful for with my kid is that he usually sleeps through the night, and the only bed wetting issues we've had are when he's sick. I remember those days. Glad we don't have to put bed pads down anymore. I'll take stripping the bed once every once in a great while to having to spend money on them every week. Hoping we can get away from the pull-ups soon too and that's been looking better despite the occasional accident.
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Jan 17, 2024 20:15
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I thought Ahsoka was bad but my wife liked it. Then again, she's way more into Star Wars than I am and has seen all the cartoons and everything, and I gather there's a lot of backstory in those. Rosario Dawson felt really flat in it. Just a real in it for the check performance.
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Jan 18, 2024 16:25
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I make zero dollars. Except for when I sell random stuff in SA Mart or on Ebay. Actually I lied, I think I made $90 last year.
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Jan 18, 2024 23:30
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No Butt Stuff posted:I like RG3s assumption that we will all also die in our 50s-60s as most dumpster fuckers do Well, I have a lot of health problems from my father's side. Then again he's also managed to live to 73 despite them so trilljester posted:Went to Costco. Spent $250. Is it impossible to get out of there for under $100? I sure as hell can't but then I only go once every month or two. Ether Frenzy posted:I already have pretty much everything I wanted Pretty much the same but I'd love to start writing fiction again and this time I don't care if I wouldn't make any money off of it. I'm just almost never in the right headspace for it and I hate submitting work.
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Jan 20, 2024 00:59
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Finally an excuse to post this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWkwdp7Easc
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Jan 20, 2024 15:26
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Goodbye Texans, you were a good story for a while. Hmm, not the gdt Anyway, gently caress the Cowboys
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Nervous posted:TFF, guess what? Whatsamatter Nervous? Chicken?
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The first Michael Bay Transformers movie was acceptable. Not even good, just okay. The rest have sucked tremendously.
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Jan 21, 2024 20:45
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Android Apocalypse posted:
I've been there. Minus the guac. Guac is barf.
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Jan 25, 2024 22:07
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Leperflesh posted:I've had guac that was like, separating, with watery stuff coming out of it, yuck I'll admit to being weirdly picky about things but I've always given food I dislike multiple shots. My sister-in-law hated me for years because her, my now-wife and I all went to a Mexican place fairly early on in the relationship, and SIL would not stop pestering me to try the guac. Like not even asking or suggesting, just full on telling me to. Politely declining I think four or five times in a row did not work. By that point I'd tried guacamole and avocado a bunch of times in my life and just didn't care for it, so I reached into the bowl with my finger and took a swipe. I recognize it was childish but I'd absolutely had it by then. We both came away with bad first impressions of each other and didn't talk much for a few years. Which was awkward because wife and I got serious pretty quickly. I've tricked myself into scallops and bacon a bunch of times because, hey, it's got bacon on it so it must be good, right? Nope. Can't stand them. Onions are impossible to avoid so I've had them plenty of times, raw and cooked, and can say I dislike them in any variety. Carrots literally make me gag but I can tolerate them in tiny amounts and I'll even put a little bit in soups or salads I make just for variety.
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Dango Bango posted:Quiet Feet - did you actually tell your SIL you didn't like guac/avocado after multiple tries in the past? Yes and she just would not drop it. We get along nowadays but it was just such a weird point of contention between us for a while.
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3 DONG HORSE posted:the only hill i'll truly die on is Spam is Good. Nah, it's GREAT. I will eat it at all hours of the day.  I think the aversion is just that it's canned meat. I like to make tamago kake gohan (literally just eggs over rice) some weekends and a few slices of spam goes really well with it because it has the same saltiness that you'd get from soy sauce. kiimo posted:Sorry to change the subject but the trailer I (my team and I) have been working on just dropped and I'm proud of this one. The trailer and movie rule. I posted this just now in the trailer thread but want to share it here too. Hell yeah I'll watch that.
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Jan 26, 2024 19:39
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It's kinda sad that day one of Bidens presidency the Dems didn't make it job #1 finding someone among them who wasn't in obvious mental decline to run this year. They had four years for this poo poo and didn't do it. I suppose the even more grim thought is that they couldn't find anyone expected to poll better than gramp gramp.
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Jan 26, 2024 20:14
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We've had to send in our joy-cons repeatedly now for stick drift and it's not even like we do a ton for gaming or play really action intensive things. I guess unless you count TotK. About all I played last year was that and Dragon Quest 11.
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Jan 28, 2024 19:15
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Nervous posted:TFF, meet Shadow. He's tiny and amazing and the bestest boy ever Dog tiny. Me like tiny dog.
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Tulalip Tulips posted:Oh my god, stop texting me Nikki Haley's presidential campaign. This but literally every goddamn Democrat. I volunteered for Bernie. I do not give a poo poo about the rest of you, gently caress off.
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Jan 29, 2024 23:59
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Fat Jesus posted:Also as someone who's worked in agriculture his entire life I cannot see the point of his 'cybertruck'. Horny nerds loved the original Romb Raider. Now Imagine: what if PS1 Lara Croft were a truck?
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Jan 31, 2024 00:33
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Android Apocalypse posted:Woke up, made coffee, turned on HBO to see what's playing so I got something mindless to watch while drinking said coffee… and Fever Pitch is on. This was the movie they played for the jury pool last time I was in for jury duty. I read Neil Gaiman's book of Norse mythology instead.
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Jan 31, 2024 16:07
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trevorreznik posted:Here, use this list instead (replace Winter Soldier with Edge of Tomorrow, but otherwise you can pretty much go top down) The Night Comes For Us is my favorite on the list. That fight in the butcher shop...  
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Jan 31, 2024 19:56
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Also, just finished watching justice League and it deserves the hate it gets. They tried to cram way too much into two hours and it feels rushed, and the CG is bad, especially for Cyborg.
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Jan 31, 2024 19:58
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Timby posted:I watched Josstice League once and only once. I've been trying to get myself back into using the treadmill and have a kong list of stuff I had only a passing interest in and it was that one's turn. Glad I didn't pay actual money to see it in theaters.
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Jan 31, 2024 20:05
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Android Apocalypse posted:Did you watch the Snyder Cut? That (and the director's cut of Superman V. Batman: Dawn of Justice) has more stuff to fill in plot holes. Definitely not the Snyder cut. This one was only 2 hours long. Looked that up and jesus, I don't know if I wanna watch a 4-hour version of what I just saw.
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My wife has tomorrow off so we're gonna do the marital sex in the morning and then go to lunch somewhere. You don't have to wait until night to have a date night!
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swickles posted:Scheduled sex, how exciting. Yeah we totally had both of our secretaries mark this down months ago and had to fill out forms in triplicate.  Ornery and Hornery posted:Brother, if your scheduled sex ain’t exciting, that’s on you
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