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Aurora_Sunset
11-30-2020, 09:40 AM
Does Covid fuck with your menstrual cycle? Because I've always been "irregular," but no more than 3 - 4 1/2 weeks between periods for a long time now. Now, it's been almost 8 weeks. It's weird.
lurkingtitties
11-30-2020, 09:43 AM
Does Covid fuck with your menstrual cycle? Because I've always been "irregular," but no more than 3 - 4 1/2 weeks between periods for a long time now. Now, it's been almost 8 weeks. It's weird.
I've seen women reporting this in the covid support fb group i joined. Personally I didn't have a change in my cycle. I did have a huge heinous cold sore pop up during my period while I was recovering from covid though!
neverendingkneebruises
11-30-2020, 11:38 AM
Highly recommend a heating pad! I have like six of these around the house. I love being cozy!!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00JA9D914?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
Adding to this, I also recommend a heated blanket. I have this one and I love it, and I like that it turns off automatically after some time!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BCP2MXV/
I've seen more affordable ones at Walmart as well.
Does Covid fuck with your menstrual cycle? Because I've always been "irregular," but no more than 3 - 4 1/2 weeks between periods for a long time now. Now, it's been almost 8 weeks. It's weird.
When this stuff first started back in Feb/March I was so stressed out that my period was 2 weeks later and I had horrible cramps, worse than usual. I haven't caught CoVid, but stress could be a factor.
SnuffleUffleGrass
11-30-2020, 02:32 PM
I'm pondering this & opinions are welcome.
I have to send out X Mas cards and I thought about writing a bit to my aunt, I keep her at a distance but I have been thinking about how she and her late husband would "save the day" and do nice things for us for Christmas because my mom was a broke ass loser. As a grown up now I appreciate how much effort it took for her and her hard working husband to think of us when she didn't get along with her sister and it would have been easier to write us off.
For lots of reasons the timing is right to go ahead and express appreciation for her. Debating whether I should write her a letter or not. I mean I'm not forgetting her icky traits but she did help me out as a kid.
Genoveve
11-30-2020, 04:36 PM
I'm pondering this & opinions are welcome.
I have to send out X Mas cards and I thought about writing a bit to my aunt, I keep her at a distance but I have been thinking about how she and her late husband would "save the day" and do nice things for us for Christmas because my mom was a broke ass loser. As a grown up now I appreciate how much effort it took for her and her hard working husband to think of us when she didn't get along with her sister and it would have been easier to write us off.
For lots of reasons the timing is right to go ahead and express appreciation for her. Debating whether I should write her a letter or not. I mean I'm not forgetting her icky traits but she did help me out as a kid.
I think you should do it. I remember watching a documentary on Errol Flynn(I think) and Olivia De Havilland was in it and she talked about how some years back she randomly caught one of their old films together on TV and watching it gave her so much nostalgia to where she wrote him a letter reminiscing about all the times they worked together and all the fond memories she had, but when she finished it she thought it was too cheesy so she never sent it and not long after that he died. She said she regretted not sending the letter so bad. So if you get a pure impulse like that, I think you should act on it.
AChildOfBoredom
12-01-2020, 01:01 AM
I'm pondering this & opinions are welcome.
I have to send out X Mas cards and I thought about writing a bit to my aunt, I keep her at a distance but I have been thinking about how she and her late husband would "save the day" and do nice things for us for Christmas because my mom was a broke ass loser. As a grown up now I appreciate how much effort it took for her and her hard working husband to think of us when she didn't get along with her sister and it would have been easier to write us off.
For lots of reasons the timing is right to go ahead and express appreciation for her. Debating whether I should write her a letter or not. I mean I'm not forgetting her icky traits but she did help me out as a kid.
I don’t know. I guess it would depend on what caused the rift and whether or not any closure was found or if you were able to write it in the water and let it go.
My friend from the community got to meet the ex-roommate who dropped 3.5k to help her get what she needed. It was pretty funny initially, because she has a very bubbly and kinda ditzy personality and that’s kind of his antithesis, so he was just looking at me with this bewildered, “what the hell do I do?” look. He must’ve become placated at some point though because they spent a long time talking to each other on the porch after the Christmas lights were hung up.
Also, late evening naps are a bad idea. Hence, I’m awake right now.
Amd I still think Hallmark movies are a bunch of shit.
lurkingtitties
12-01-2020, 05:28 AM
I’ve been extremely horny lately! I need to set up some kind of FWB arrangement. Not sure how to best go about that since I don’t know anyone where I am currently.
WendiStarr
12-01-2020, 07:02 AM
Does Covid fuck with your menstrual cycle? Because I've always been "irregular," but no more than 3 - 4 1/2 weeks between periods for a long time now. Now, it's been almost 8 weeks. It's weird.
It might mess with your period. One of my friends caught Covid and was freaking out, thinking she was pregnant because it was late. She said it showed up 2 months late.
Random thought, it's that annoying horny-and-lonely-ex-boyfriends or ex-fuck buddies-looking-for-a-booty call time of the year. I wish I could set up a pay to text or pay to call on my personal phone line, for those idiots like we can on NF or OF.
carmen_b
12-01-2020, 08:34 AM
^ I often wonder what they are thinking.
They disappointed me so why would I even answer ?
lurkingtitties
12-01-2020, 11:01 AM
Random thought, it's that annoying horny-and-lonely-ex-boyfriends or ex-fuck buddies-looking-for-a-booty call time of the year. I wish I could set up a pay to text or pay to call on my personal phone line, for those idiots like we can on NF or OF.
Haha I feel called out by this! I’m the horny-and-lonely-ex-girlfriend looking for a booty call!
carmen_b
12-01-2020, 11:11 AM
^ Can I recommend starting fresh ?
Find an older / fit and horny “ Daddy “ to enjoy lol.
I’m probably inserting my own bias / desires here. Haha
lurkingtitties
12-01-2020, 11:35 AM
Haha yeah none of my exes even live near me anyway, it was more just self deprecating humor!
AChildOfBoredom
12-01-2020, 11:38 AM
Shit’s getting thick on this forum lately.
WendiStarr
12-02-2020, 07:57 AM
I went to this outdoor Christmas market. I saw one of my male former vanilla job supervisors there. He was working as Santa Claus. I caught him before he put his fake white beard on. He lost his cushy management job due to Covid. Kind of interesting to see how people survive job-wise nowadays.
lynn2009
12-02-2020, 12:22 PM
I made a vegan, oven baked mac & cheese last night & it is delicious.
lilylilylily
12-02-2020, 01:09 PM
Oh, that sounds so good
indiegirl
12-02-2020, 02:36 PM
Totally random but how and why do people get into the ice cream truck business and how much do they make? I'm down to do a snow cone truck and blast the top 100 pop music.
lurkingtitties
12-02-2020, 04:43 PM
I would imagine it’s probably like driving a cab where you have to pay a house fee of sorts to borrow it from a dispatch center for the day and then hustle to make a profit.
But maybe someone who knows will enlighten us? I’m curious too now!
I bet it could be fun to do like a DIY ice cream truck, get some big speakers in your trunk playing old school hip hop and drive around the hood or semi gentrified areas.
carmen_b
12-02-2020, 06:09 PM
Buy your own truck ! That would be so bad ass ! :)
chanzep
12-02-2020, 08:12 PM
I am enjoying Rockefeller Christmas concert. While doing job apps.
chanzep
12-02-2020, 08:13 PM
I have joined lipstick alley now. Looking at beauty forums.
AChildOfBoredom
12-02-2020, 09:01 PM
Totally random but how and why do people get into the ice cream truck business and how much do they make? I'm down to do a snow cone truck and blast the top 100 pop music.
I know one person who has one, but she’s expanded it to more of a cross between an ice cream truck and a food truck… she has food warmers and she’ll make burritos, menudo, whatever she feels like making on any given day. She’s first generation American, and she focused on job sites, because she targeted construction site workers - particularly, Hispanic workers. That’s how I met her, because I was working for Rea at the time.
The only people I know who have a dedicated ice cream truck actually have their own creamery, and they use the truck to set up at events and such, rather than running a route and seeking customers. Their ice cream is good, but I preferred the stuff from the first truck imported from Mexico… to me, it’s not excessively sweet.
Now that I think about it, I seem to have gotten to know an incredibly diverse group of people. They’re watching the NBC Christmas special… one f the women I met at the pole studio used to be one of the Radio City Rockettes. But, don’t bring it up in conversation, because she’ll never shut up once you pull that cord.
On another note, we did fried rice and vegetables with bits of turkey in it tonight… Beagle has some weird complex about the sound of anything being fried, and she’ll have these spurts where she just howls incessantly for a couple minutes, quiets down, then rinse and repeat.
carmen_b
12-03-2020, 10:30 AM
^ Sexy girls doing coffee and soups in winter and then in summer shift to ice creams and snow cones ?
Maximize year round profit.
hahaha
I remember in Hawaii there was a bikini girls coffee truck . I meant to go visit them before I left.
carmen_b
12-03-2020, 10:31 AM
^ If you are serious about starting a food business see if your city has a mentorship program. My last city had an incubator where new chefs could use a community kitchen and get assistance doing their business start up.
AChildOfBoredom
12-03-2020, 03:27 PM
I’m learning to let go of the reins a little bit. We got our Christmas tree today. Rather, “my lesbians” did. When they were back in a half hour, I was a little freaked out… I always tended to be so much of a perfectionist that picking out a tree was never a quick process. I would look over them meticulously. I think they chose well. Maybe sometimes I need to just let go. Not just with Christmas trees.
53665
carmen_b
12-03-2020, 03:37 PM
^ beautiful tree !
I hate decorating.
Someone else ( anyone but me ) could bring a half dead pine stick in with a star and I’d be happy.
AChildOfBoredom
12-03-2020, 04:43 PM
We get into decorating quite a bit. Not as all out as some (with exception for Halloween), but the immodestly of our Christmas decor owes largely to S. That’s mostly because of S… she’s the “Christmas girl”. So we have about 5x as many lights than what I would’ve gotten on my own, but I also got rid of my incandescent lights and went to LEDs. But it’s drawing substantially less amperage than the incandescent lights were.
kamiliam
12-03-2020, 04:44 PM
I’m learning to let go of the reins a little bit. We got our Christmas tree today. Rather, “my lesbians” did. When they were back in a half hour, I was a little freaked out… I always tended to be so much of a perfectionist that picking out a tree was never a quick process. I would look over them meticulously. I think they chose well. Maybe sometimes I need to just let go. Not just with Christmas trees.
53665
they did a great job! Is that a Douglas fir?
SnuffleUffleGrass
12-03-2020, 06:06 PM
I'm posting this here b/c it's ample warning that Alaska is a Wild West type state- several weeks ago one of my boyfriend's former co-workers got murdered by gunshot there, and then days ago another former co-worker got killed by a drunk driver. What are the odds. Thanks to the Internet we found out about this (I won't post links but suffice to say, both scenarios were really wild and shocking.)
I still hear people romanticize AK as somewhere they'd like to relocate to, I'm trying to tell you, it's not great right now.
lynn2009
12-03-2020, 09:49 PM
One of my old co-workers contacted me today about an opening at her new company which is all well and good but I said it would have to be remote because of the house obviously and she started going on about how buying a house tethers me to an area so I can't move for work easily and she hopes I have considered that. I mean she knows where I am moving to & that it's a great area for our field, much better than my current location and way better than hers. She did also say that in person work is important for promotion and she thought I wanted to be executive level one day. I definitely don't but I told her I was flattered she thought I could be.
AChildOfBoredom
12-04-2020, 08:26 AM
they did a great job! Is that a Douglas fir?
Fraser fir. Don’t really know what the difference is, but now it’ll be in the back of my min until I look it up.
moneybags
12-04-2020, 02:11 PM
They are trying to decriminalize weed! Yay!
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/04/942949288/house-approves-decriminalizing-marijuana-bill-to-stall-in-senate (https://www.npr.org/2020/12/04/942949288/house-approves-decriminalizing-marijuana-bill-to-stall-in-senate)
carmen_b
12-04-2020, 02:19 PM
^ It’s about time.
Drug dealers making money from a damn plant. Wtf .
lynn2009
12-04-2020, 02:22 PM
^ It’s about time.
Drug dealers making money from a damn plant. Wtf .
I honestly hate weed & if I was still renting and had to smell that 24/7 through the shared vents I would be super pissed.
carmen_b
12-04-2020, 02:34 PM
Plus I’m a botanical expert.
I should be allowed to grow my own damn plants !
carmen_b
12-04-2020, 02:35 PM
Actually very true ! :)
I kind of consider the smell low brow and only smoke outside.
You are right though. Everyone would not be courteous .
moneybags
12-04-2020, 02:53 PM
I honestly hate weed & if I was still renting and had to smell that 24/7 through the shared vents I would be super pissed.
Me too, but I hate black men being thrown in jail for non violent offenses more.
It’s rude behavior to smoke inside-marijuana or cigarettes. Im live and let live person, so I tolerate a lot annoying behavior from my neighbors than I should. You’re right they really should smoke outside. I think if it was legal they would smoke outside cause they wouldn’t be worried about being judged or arrested.
I can’t wait for sex work to be decriminalized. Even if I’m like 60 when that happens I’ll celebrate. It’s just as insane to arrest two consenting adults for sex. #rightsnotrescue
lurkingtitties
12-04-2020, 02:59 PM
I totally get ppl disliking the smell. (Not me...I'm such a pothead I even kinda like the smell of skunks! Haha but I get it.)
But it's still absurd for it to be illegal. It was only criminalized back in the day for racial reasons. It has the potential to help so many people!
Also, I truly believe that industrial hemp could be the key to solving our environmental crisis, if Babylon would allow it.
lurkingtitties
12-04-2020, 03:06 PM
You’re right they really should smoke outside. I think if it was legal they would smoke outside cause they wouldn’t be worried about being judged or arrested.
I think so too. I've spent a good amount of time in Denver and it's common there for people to smoke cannabis on their patios.
whirlerz
12-04-2020, 03:15 PM
I’m learning to let go of the reins a little bit. We got our Christmas tree today. Rather, “my lesbians” did. When they were back in a half hour, I was a little freaked out… I always tended to be so much of a perfectionist that picking out a tree was never a quick process. I would look over them meticulously. I think they chose well. Maybe sometimes I need to just let go. Not just with Christmas trees.
53665
Ooh, so pretty, & aren't those the most fragrant ones?
Im going to get a small to medium size one, maybe put it on my porch.. maybe a table top one for my room.
charlie61
12-04-2020, 04:53 PM
I love that weed is legal here because as a result, no one ever even talks about it. It's a non-issue. I've never smoked anything, but to me, it's nice how people are so much more responsible and adult about weed where it's legalized, because it's no longer taboo.
indiegirl
12-04-2020, 05:28 PM
I love that weed is legal here because as a result, no one ever even talks about it. It's a non-issue. I've never smoked anything, but to me, it's nice how people are so much more responsible and adult about weed where it's legalized, because it's no longer taboo.
I like how things are labelled with the strength and if it's hybrid, sativa, or indica with the edibles so you know what your getting yourself into. My first time it was just a plain wrapped brownie and I was an idiot and ate the whole brownie. Tripping out in the gym parking lot and calling 911 on myself was so embarrassing. They were laughing as they rolled me in the paramedics bahaha felt like I was dying. *Cringe*
911: Why didn't you get out of your car?
Me: I literally couldn't move!
lynn2009
12-04-2020, 08:47 PM
I found another stray dog this afternoon and I really miss her. I hope she's still available for adoption when I move.
BambiCutie
12-04-2020, 10:08 PM
How November must have felt for clients..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgDYC3rBqqw
moneybags
12-04-2020, 10:47 PM
https://youtu.be/KABSYzPqTTg
You might have already seen this, but I laughed so hard. Figured it deserved a post.
WendiStarr
12-05-2020, 07:39 AM
I need a new house with a bigger kitchen. My kitchen is too small. I thought this when I was baking multiple batches of chocolate chip and walnut cookies and ran out of counter space. I don't even have enough room for one of those kitchen islands.
More randomness.. I received a vague text to my phone saying that it was my door dash driver and that my order was delivered. I didn't order any food. The first thing I was thinking is that maybe I forgot to sign out of doordash and my 11 year old felt like playing around and making an order since I forgot to sign out(she has been known to do such a thing, the little stinker). She said she didn't and she's a terrible liar so I know if she had, she would've been laughing about it. My next thought was maybe a relative or friend decided to surprise send food to us. It turned out to just be a delivery for a Walmart order. Apparently doordash delivers packages now.
AChildOfBoredom
12-05-2020, 10:14 PM
I think I’m too much of a worry wart. My old roommate began driving back today in a Penske truck and I badgered him about updating me on his trip. He stopped for the night in Missouri. It was interesting to see the different perspectives everyone had about him. S was thrilled to be able to know for certain the complete stranger who sent everyone gifts had a corporeal form. The Irish woman said to me, “After meeting your housemate, I’m beginning to better understand your lunacy”. My friend from the community thinks he’s wonderful, but he also realized he needed to be more tactful dealing with her. But I think I allowed them too much time to talk to each other, because he called me by a nickname I had in the community yesterday, and today she called me by his nickname for me. So that was an oversight on my part.
AChildOfBoredom
12-05-2020, 10:37 PM
Ooh, so pretty, & aren't those the most fragrant ones?
Im going to get a small to medium size one, maybe put it on my porch.. maybe a table top one for my room.
I’m not sure how they rate the on the scale, but it is quite fragrant. I kinda feel bad. They were apprehensive about it, because they know I’m very particular. They did a fantastic job, even had the bottom trimmed just right. Started decorating it today, which is double duty… we put removable gates up to that room and put the cat’s food in there because Beagle will have a field day with it otherwise. So of course we took one down as we went in and out of the room, and Beagle naturally thought she was Secret Agent Beagle and kept trying to sneak in to get to the cat food.
carmen_b
12-07-2020, 01:46 PM
^ I'm a awe of anyone who decorates.
Since I'm an asshole about it I was very grateful that the timing worked to just have J and his daughter do their own.
Like ... y'all know now you've got to make the time to take that shit down too right ? !
Lol
carmen_b
12-07-2020, 02:00 PM
Lets talk about what may be fair or not without naming names .
Lets say that a person has traveled 30 minutes or so EACH time to their partners home in the past to spend time together but now has a luxury home at their disposal the next 2 days and would like their partner to travel to them for once. Would this person be reasonable in expecting their partner ( the one who usually doesn't have to travel ) to be the one who travels THIS time ? We are talking evenings ( no one would have work hours compromised ).
Edit to add : I ignored texts today ! ;/
I'm not trying to be difficult I just want him to come to me for once.
Now is 5:07 and I worry I lost this battle. I was expecting him to offer by now.