Had a Come to Jesus moment. Woke up one morning, and realized I wasn’t happy. Decided I was gonna change it. Got a job a week later, lost 20 pounds, and feel good working as an emergency dispatcher and alarm monitor full time on a good shift. I wake up at 5, I go to work, I’m home by 3:30 and I have a reliable income for the first time in six years.
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Life has knocked me out. I cant roll any more.
Check please!
Life: “Here’s your chec- psych! punches you in the gut”
You will keep rolling whether you like it or not.
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I hope to see you tell us about the next one. 
My mom is just under your age, and she has found a place that she really enjoys living at. She’s always been the smart one with money, and all of the folks in her apartment complex hit her up for money saving tips and advice. She’s quite happy, and that makes me happy as well.
Friday I machined an outer skin for a military helicopter. It was a part that I had made once at my old job, about the size of a coffee table, and it passed inspection on the first try. The work followed me here somehow, and apparently they’ve had nothing but problems since I last saw it 8 years ago. I’m pretty proud about that. 
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I was expecting a $1300 mechanics bill, but he tried an alternative fix and it ended up completely solving my issue for $130 
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Threads like this remind me that I have to be kinder to myself.
I got out of bed today. Allergies, heat, and depressive thoughts have kept me from enjoying things as much as I would like to. Four cats and two dogs is a reminder that I’m not as useless as I think I am. Small victories, you know.
I’ve been watching lots of Japanese TV lately - mostly tokusatsu (Ultraman, Metal Heroes, Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, that stuff). I want to learn the language, but the apps and things aren’t doing much for me. I hear a phrase, see the translation, look it up, and commit it to memory. It helps that the shows are fun.
Eventually I’d like to be able to read the language in the proper text, and not Romanized, but the Romanized version helps a lot.
I’ve been trying to eat better myself. I used to have the palette for cucumbers, tomatoes, and other various vegetables. I absolutely can’t stand asparagus, brussel sprouts. Beans and carrots are good.
I gotta get away from a lot of the junkfood I’ve been eating. I joke that I have the flavor palette of a child: If it isn’t chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese, I don’t want it, lol.
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Sometimes what you cannot stand to eat is genetically determined. Broccoli for one has had extensive research. Asparagus is another climbing the rails. Brussel sprouts I’m not sure about. I do know that if you don’t prep them right or pick them at the correct time they are way more bitter than they need to be. Crop breeding has kicked some of the bitterness out the window. I love roasted brussel sprouts. Could eat them all day. So you can pass your extras over to my plate. I will trade you good foods you do like.
I make jewelry and I’m getting ready to do my first craft show since the pandemic. I’m excited!
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Finally got my rotbreath, silvershell snapper, and blushing spiderling battle pets that i have been hunting for a year or more.
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Savoring the idea that karma can also be a very rewarding thing.
I’ve lived in this area for more than 25 years and recently retired after 50 years in the workforce. In that time I’ve been positive, written positive feedback where I shop, treated employees, neighbors and coworkers well and it is wonderful to go shopping and people know me by name and are happy to see me. I worked hard to ensure retirement would go smoothly and it has. The house is paid off, my wife and I are in good health and even the cat purrs when sleeping on my lap.
In all of that there wasn’t any heroic deeds or larger than life actions; just day after day and year after year of all the little choices, words and actions that accumulate and bear fruit. Life has its challenges but they keep me young and appreciating the results of good solutions.
Not bad for a guy who started off life with polio, third degree burns and a raging alcoholic father. I would not trade them away because they made me who I am – no one special but here and happy.
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personal best on 3x3x3 cube is down to under a minute but i usually average 90 seconds. takes me around 8 hours to solve (slowly, taking breaks) all 15 cubes in this pic
in-game? i’m happy when i can get the biweekly Gorged Shadehound kill
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OMG! So adorable!!! 
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I have recently landed my dream job (zookeeper) and start on Tuesday. Super excited!
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OMG super awesome. I thought about that as a profession as I have some animal behavior in my background. It just wasn’t for me in some of the politics in my local zoo to let animal exhibits be open to the public for “special events” after dusk which would stress some species out.
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I love this so much. My little dude is almost 5 and I worry about the future like crazy. Your story makes me hope. 
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Pretty girls smiled at me today.
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Yes - Jesus Christ is on the throne and He is coming soon! He died for you and me so that we can live forever in paradise solely by trusting in him and the finished work of the cross. Believe it!
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Nothing, my existence is nothing but a string of horrific events that are an affront to the spirit of humanity
i started a classic character!
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Growing lots of veggies, fruit, and herbs. (started with 1 potted tomato plant and now have a 2x4 ft table growing strawberries, snap peas, green peppers… and squash on the way in another plot. its small, but next year we will try to increase the variety and yields.
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