How are you doing? - Kiwi Farms Wellness Check

[PetiteFeet]

If you ever feel sad because you're single, just remember it could be so much worse. You could be me!

 

[Banquet Meal]

Totally worth the hour+ spent ironing and starching a king set.

i imagine! ironed sheets are wonderful, as are clothes, especially ones sewn from cotton fabric.
but folding does suck. a lot.
its kind of how i LOVE to sew, i spend all sorts of time and money on sewing supplies, fabrics, etc..but i HATE mending with every atom of my being

 

[Spilled Spaghett]

doing laundry is so boring and gay, i would rather slit my wrists than fold laundry, myself. that said, i do like ironing

I hate folding and ironing. My goal is to get all my clothes on hangers so I don't have to fold anything. Right now I have all of my shirts hung, but I need to clear space out of my closet and buy new hangers if I want to hang my pants too.

The dryer has a wrinkle guard setting which steams my clothes so they come out without wrinkles. As long as I take them out on time and into a hanger, no ironing needed.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

i imagine! ironed sheets are wonderful, as are clothes, especially ones sewn from cotton fabric.
but folding does suck. a lot.
its kind of how i LOVE to sew, i spend all sorts of time and money on sewing supplies, fabrics, etc..but i HATE mending with every atom of my being

I can't sew to save my life, despite having a mother immensely talented in that & adjacent areas - she is a hand-quilter (and cross-stitcher...on linen, omg; I have no patience) and a ridiculous perfectionist (I know I have commented that I am perfectionistic, and I am, but I am nothing in comparison & my mother thinks I play very fast and loose with "good enough"). And yes, 100% cotton, the crisper the better!

no ironing needed.

Have you a horrifying sticker, but only as a joke.

 

[Banquet Meal]

cross-stitcher...on linen

i bet her work is beautiful, i LOVE cross stitch! its ridiculously fussy.

 

[Squanto Airi]

If you ever feel sad because you're single, just remember it could be so much worse. You could be me!

Nah, you seem pretty cool.

As my tax, it was nice to go to liturgy today. I just hate feeling drained after coffee hour. I always end up going home and laying in bed, sometimes napping.

 

[Friend of Dorothy Parker]

i bet her work is beautiful, i LOVE cross stitch! its ridiculously fussy.

Thank you - her work really is beautiful, and heirloom-level.

Meanwhile, I cannot re-attach a button without making a hash of the backside - it's all improv with no discipline.

 

[Dizzyuntildeath]

Talked to a cute Lebanese(?) chick today and got her nunumber.

Are Lesbians(?) allowed to talk to men?

 

[Sensitive Young Man]

Are Lesbians(?) allowed to talk to men?

Not a hijabi and no axe tattoo so I think I’m covered on both fronts.

 

[Foxymophandlemama]

Got super sick on my birthday and wasn't able to see anyone except my flatmate because it was contagious. I was actually looking forward to see my friends and family but had to hide in my room for days taking meds and hydrating. My cats were extra cuddly, which was nice, and ended watching a few movies with them on my lap.

I am feeling a little better, though I am still tired as fuck. Coughing up your lungs for days really exhausts you.

 

[Betonhaus]

Had my mom and sister and niece over. It feels nice how I can invite normal people over without having to hide a bunch of weird gay crap. I'm now fully unpacked and basically have things set up comfortably, but I need to get a couple nice area rugs and pictures on the walls, oh and a bigger TV.

It still feels a little weird being single after so long, but it seems a bit better. I can start to focus on my health more as I really wasn't doing great, and I'm no longer beholden to the schedules of others. I do find that some things I was blaming on others (like difficulty sticking to a sleep schedule) was unwarranted as it continues to be a problem. I might look into a gym membership after I'm certain I have all my end of month expenses covered.

I'm no longer as worried about if my ex is going to get their shit together or not. I imagine it'll be interesting because as far as I'm aware he never really lived alone and had to keep track of all these things, when I had a contract where I was away for five weeks it sounded like it was a little rough. I'm not even sure if he'll stay in calgary, but I suppose now's a good time as any for him to look further for work and maybe even a different province.

I do need to start socializing more, or at least learning how to. I don't plan on any form of dating or hookups for a while, that's been burned out of me but I should try to find ways where I'm conversing with normal people, like finding a decent church. There's a lovely cathedral close to my house and it sounds like lent starts on wednesday which is pretty good timing.

 

[The Great One]

Sick, just sick. Throat feels like absolute hell, and feeling heavy (could be due to sleep or due to getting sick in a bucket), and can't drink water it hurts.

Update: feeling slightly better but still sick. Throat isnt sore, still ended up getting sick in a bucket for most of the day, new addition to the sickness is a mind splitting headache on front left part of my brain. Have taken 12 pills of ibuprofen (6 per 12 hours) and 4 advil migraine pills as of now.

 

[long waters]

If you ever feel sad because you're single, just remember it could be so much worse. You could be me!

Aw, you should be kinder to yourself.

hate folding and ironing. My goal is to get all my clothes on hangers so I don't have to fold anything. Right now I have all of my shirts hung, but I need to clear space out of my closet and buy new hangers if I want to hang my pants too.

I have to admit, the new world order zog hivemind is right about one thing, clothes with polyester in them really don't get wrinkled like cotton does

 

[DenseDeerFather]

If you keep working towards goals that fulfil YOU, I don't think anyone worth keeping in your life would think of you as a loser. As long as you aren't a NEET shut-in like me.

If you ever feel sad because you're single, just remember it could be so much worse. You could be me!

Hey, you! Stop that right now! Be nice to yourself. Make fun of the cows in the other threads instead and remember....you are not them.

Besides being self deprecating is my job.

Last night I was pissed because in the two consecutive grocery trips, my mom and husband didn't think that I needed dinner. They had a bullshit excuse that I needed to put my dinner on the list but they remembered dinners for themselves. I spent the evening in my room and mom made it about herself.
Histamines are hitting me hard and I've been having trouble sleeping .
Today husband is taking me out for a mystery date because 22 years ago he asked me out for our first date. Our date turned out to be pretty wild and we started dating the next day.

??????

That's so shitty.

Thread tax: for a while work has been weirdly lonely but my boss has made efforts in talking to me so that eased it somewhat. Overall I'm doing alright. I might be gaining weight although it might be muscle weight with the amount of rushing and stacking and stairs I'm going through.

Also I am fascinated by the foreign customers. Not the Arabs who have no indoor voice and shout an Arabic through the phone. Or the Slavic dudes who tend to mumble shit.

Actually Arabs are really just kinda shitty here. The bus is 99% always late and every time an Arab has been the driver. Then the one time where a white dude drives, the damn thing arrives on time.

???????

But I was greeted by an Indian lady and she had that really strong smell that a lot of Indians has but she was so pleasant as I showed her where we have our dish washing soap.

An Asian lady also came over to me and I did not understand a single word she was saying aside from batteries. So I just shrug and go to our battery section and she's like "You help me. Thank you"

I have no idea what the fuck I did but I assume she was asking where our batteries are so you're welcome lmao!

An old guy asked me for magnifying glasses and I show him and he was so happy and I felt really good afterwards. I don't like customer service but it makes me happy when I do a good

 

[Sergeant Major Buzzkill]

i love/hate drawing at night. the upside is i surprise myself with what comes out when i push myself to try, and the downside is ive been up the whole night.

 

[pot of sneed]

Been good lately. Started going out more often on my days off, which was hard at first because I'm jumping back into staying awake during the day when not working but I've walked a lot since Christmas and it's starting to show with how much further I can go and not even feel it when I get back home. Also bought myself an adorable pair of Giant African Millipedes - set them up in their enclosure and now the two are fast asleep in their little coconute hide house lined with soft sphagnum moss. They are so cute!

 

[Jace on ice]

The IRS sent me 900 dollarydoos so that's fucking cool.

 

[RomanianSchizo]

>be me
>have an interview with a company, interview goes well, interviewer is really transparent about not ghosting people and promises to let me know the next day if I made it to the next round
>true to his word, he lets me know and turns out I made it to the next round
>I interview a week later
>Interview goes well, I'm told I'll hear back early next week, sounds good, I send a thank you note to my interviewers like always
>I wait Monday, nothing
>Tuesday, nothing
>Wednesday, nothing, so I send a follow up email asking politely if there is any updates
>Thursday, nothing
>you're starting to see the pattern, right?
>I move on with my life, now it's 2 weeks later
>I decide to check to see if they ever hired anyone for the role I interview for
>I go on LinkedIn, look at the list of people
>It's a small company, so I recognize the names and faces
>I don't recognize one
>Click on her profile, scroll down to her experience
>SHE GOT THE JOB I INTERVIEWED FOR

Honestly, I assumed by the time I sent that follow up email I didn't get the job. But the fact I wasn't told, and had to check LinkedIn to see if someone got the job is insane, especially since one of the guys I interviewed with was very upfront about not ghosting people. I'm not too bummed out though, because honestly I could see the culture being not my style (and I still got other opportunities I'm waiting to hear back on) but to go through everything I did just to have to snoop around by myself to find out if the job was already taken is annoying. If anyone on here runs a company or is a recruiter, please let people know if they got the job or not.

 

[The Feline Solution 2]

Late to the Valentine's Day shit because GF is pretty much a fundie level Christian so we don't celebrate heathen holidays ("heathen holidays" being her words), i usually get flowers anyways but i totally forgot to do even that this year.

Things are kinda good, back is giving me less shit after being in almost excruciating pain again last week, got my second appointment for physical therapy tomorrow. Had an early day today, girlfriend had a doctor's appointment today and i accompanied her like i always do, there was a Polish geriatric in the waiting room that drove me fucking nuts because she just wouldn't stop talking for the ~30 minutes we were stuck waiting there. I get old people can be lonely and everything but i now know basically that woman's whole life story (She's from Königsberg, she's 30 years in my country etc. etc.) and she wasn't even talking to me. Whatever happened to the only noises in a doctor's waiting room being muted hello's and the sound of magazine pages turning? This was some verbal Chinese Water Torture shit i swear. She had her husband in tow and i pitied the motherfucker after five minutes of having to listen to her.

Close to Rock Bottom my mom collapsed and (possibly) had a seizure today, I was already cycling between decent mood and absolute anger,depresssion,and delusion for like this entire week, lucklily when the noise I trusted my instincts, luckily i called 911 and she's in the hospital, she had brain surgery last month and has a history of mental health issues, called my dad about it and he let my brother and sister know too and he was able to visit her in the hospital, i hope she makes it through,just trying to distract myself atm and hope to God she makes it

I am truly sorry, fella. I seriously can't even imagine how that must feel despite having lots of issues with my own mother.

Talked to a cute Lebanese(?) chick today and got her number.

Lebbo girls are sweet. I was never really into Turk or Arab girls but the few Lebanese girls i've known in my life were all qt 3.14's. Probably wrote this ITT before but Lebanese, male and female, and Tunisians are the only Arabs (i know that Tunisia is in NA but they're culturally Arab) i get along with, famously so.

that said, i do like ironing

FUCK ironing. I used to wear lots of gabardine pants and slacks like these and i regularly lost my temper and patience when i tried to iron them before i went out at night or on a date:

Got so bad that when my kid brother moved in his very first apartment and asked me if i had an iron and ironing board he could use i told him to come over and take that shit with him. I haven't ironed or own an ironing board for at least ten years. Fuck this shit, seriously I still got the black pair of these pants in my wardrobe but luckily they don't fit me for quite some time (despite being the exact same W/L as my jeans, which i almost exclusively wear these days, from the same brand, same model) by now so i don't have to even think of ironing something again. Same reason for why i don't wear dress shirts anymore, if i am invited to a function that needs me to wear a dress shirt i bring it to a laundry the days before.

 

[Betonhaus]

Removed my ex from my Facebook friends list and some friends I only meet through him, found out one of my cousins trooned out which is not surprising but I should get in touch with my uncle to see how he's doing. Found out an old co-worker friend had passed away a month or two ago which is a little depressing, but I had been bad at keeping in touch. I should call my dad.