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Chapter 1: The Worst Birthday
March 1 started so normally that it seems insane to me how it ended. I remember brushing my teeth, cringing at how many alerts my phone would have to share with me throughout the day: Happy Birthdays from folks I haven't seen or spoken to in a decade. Notifications that I appreciated but knew I woudn't have the energy to respond to. I was going ( Read more... ) -
Let's celebrate! My blog is 22 years old
Maybe with the demise of Reddit and the bird app, LJ will make its glorious comeback?
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On the subject of masks
From my journal:
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I’d say 80% of my last journal was COVID nonsense, so I’d really like this one to not be a repeat. That said, the pandemic is ongoing with so many folks behaving like it’s over, and then some like me still masking. I work 40+ hours a week with the public and haven’t caught it, and I’d like to keep it that way … but my ( Read more... ) -
Obligatory ‘gotta post once a year’ post
That’s it. That’s the update.
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I have no idea how to use the LiveJournal app
Does anybody else feel like they’re just waiting for things to get worse? I used to wonder what my life would be like twenty years in the future, and I was super optimistic. Now I just dread it. I can’t see what else there is to gain, only that there’s grief ahead. The future terrifies me. Right now I have my cats and my mother and my job and I’m ( Read more... ) -
Blocking Behaviours
My parents just liked a tweet of mine from four different accounts and I am SCREAMING. I’ve blocked two of them in the hopes that their interaction with my tweets will go down 50% plz wish me luck.
I don’t hate my parents, not at all, but this is driving me up the wall.
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Reality Bites
I’m really tired, because sometimes I wanna post online without family interference, except they now all follow me on my other social media. It’s a mood. Like my stepdad just followed my near-dead Animal Crossing twitter and idk how to tell them I’d like them to buzz off. Online life used to be just for me. Obvs family is gonna be on things like ( Read more... ) -
ON THE SUBJECT OF ME 2013-NOW
If I'm going to write here for a bit, I may as well give an update on the cast of characters I.E., yours truly.
I turned 31 on March 1st. This is what I look like these days:
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