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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • After my mom died, my dad sold her China to her friend for a nickel. Which is great, because I would have just taken it to the VV Boutique and donated it.

    I kind of miss some of the things my mom had around the house my whole life, but also I’d I kept it all, there wouldn’t be room for my stuff. And I’m not putting Trypticon in a box so I can display some Franklin Mint goose plate.














  • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.catoMemes@lemmy.mlIdk if y'all knew this
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    2 months ago

    This reminds me when my mom told my dad Netflix didn’t serve their area because she didn’t want another bill.

    He told me that and I was like “Well…” and my mom just yelled from the other room “I JUST CALLED THEY’RE TRYING FOR NEXT YEAR.” so I shut up.


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    2 months ago

    I thought it was just my uni. Sometimes class feels like a dialogue between the professor and myself with 20 random strangers in the room.

    I get being a little shy, but I’m in second year now and people still aren’t offering anything in class, it’s weird.


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    2 months ago

    Many moons ago I ran the production floor in a factory. Seasonally we’d hire day laborers to help us clean and do the gross stuff, shoveling waste from behind the machinery, cleaning out sumps etc.

    I remember this one guy who was having like, a crisis while cleaning dead seagulls from our ventilation system. He was just like “I have a degree, I went to school!”. When I asked what his degree was he said Medieval Art History and I laughed. I felt bad laughing but like, what did he think he was going to be?

    The worst part was 6 months later we had the agency send us more people and he came back.

    I’m in university now, and I was very very careful about my choice of degree.


  • I did this.
    Is it stupid? Yes. Did it work? Also yes. For the amount of time that we’d have power out, it was just way to easy to throw a breaker and connect it like this just to keep a small heater and a light running. If I had the money at the time I would have loved battery backup/ bypass but this cost $2 and an old cord.