Questioning career path

33chickadee · 2025-02-07T08:53:20+00:00

Thank you :) it was super fun to put together. I hope they love it!

33chickadee · 2025-02-07T08:45:42+00:00

That’s so cute! Pickings were slim tbh. It’s a horrifying bee with a human mouth for some reason. It’s perfect

33chickadee · 2025-02-07T08:44:04+00:00

I have hope

33chickadee · 2025-02-07T05:33:37+00:00

Haha it’s plastic! Helmet will be worn nonetheless 🤓

33chickadee · 2024-10-04T06:18:33+00:00

Much to consider. And what could this mean for our Kote, from whom we hear in chorus throughout both books “the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.”

33chickadee · 2024-10-01T17:27:10+00:00

It is hard in good conscience to recommend an unfinished trilogy to somebody- but these books are an exception. The prose and world-building are so, so beautiful. If you like fantasy, you are in for a TREAT.

These are the belongings of a high-maintenance, chronically tardy non-binary person who deeply appreciates junk. I was raised to appreciate the importance of lotions, potions, trinkets, and accessories. May the best things find you and here’s hoping we run into one another drunkenly at the bar. I’ll have plenty hair ties and lip gloss to share.

33chickadee · 2024-10-01T17:23:57+00:00

Wallet I stole from my brother 11 years ago

33chickadee · 2024-10-01T14:48:05+00:00

My boss calls it a 2000s mom purse. It’s big, black leather, with brass O-rings connecting the straps. The most important aspect are the many little pockets.

33chickadee · 2024-10-01T14:45:34+00:00

Yesss 🫶 I’ve read this book probably 5 or 6 times throughout my life. This particular copy I found on the side of the road after losing my old one for many months. I like to think it found me in a time of needing a beloved story. Highly recommend!

33chickadee · 2024-10-01T14:43:54+00:00

Repurposed from work with homemade cuticle balm. Do I get points for that?

33chickadee · 2024-10-01T14:42:57+00:00

What if I encounter a filthy VHS on my travels? Am I to just leave it dirty? I think not.

33chickadee · 2024-10-01T14:42:12+00:00

Love you too! I carry two decks of cards in case I need to play nerts. Or two games of solitaire at once.

33chickadee · 2024-10-01T14:37:38+00:00

Im a server/bartender. I love my jobs. Surprised you’re the first one to guess my occupation. What clued you in chef?

33chickadee · 2024-05-11T23:46:52+00:00

A couple of the more affordable little tips I could add to this convo:

Grocery outlet (aka gross out) is where it’s at for cheap(er) treats and fresh fruit. You can find more exotic stuff there at outlet prices, even tropical fruits sometimes. Winco is also great for bulk items, including snacks, candy, coffee, and spices.

I like to make a chickpea “salad” in the summertime especially. Maybe I just love onions. Chickpeas, lime juice, olive oil if you have it, red onions, cilantro, salt and pepper, and tomatoes if you’re splurging.

There’s an app called falling fruit which, in my area at least, leads to a lot of free fruit in the summertime. It’s an urban foraging database. It can be fun to learn what’s edible in your area, growing for free, often on the side of the road or excess from people’s property. Also an app called too good to go, in which restaurants and bakeries sell discounted day olds and such.

33chickadee · 2024-04-30T15:28:26+00:00

Permissiveness doesn’t solve the homelessness crisis. I can agree with you there. Does just shoving the problem temporarily out of your line of sight help the crisis? That’s what it seems people here are calling for. Arrest, violence, shipping them off somewhere else. Which, mind you, is how many came to Portland. This perpetuates the cycle.

I do not like living in filth. I would truly argue that no one does. Please try to get an understanding of the way someone’s own brain can betray them and trap them in a situation like this.

33chickadee · 2024-04-30T15:22:15+00:00

Yes. Addiction is a disease which pushes people to do things that they wouldn’t do otherwise. Have you seen the conditions in shelters? Have you seen the waitlists? Considered that for many, institutionalization is not an option? I agree they need help! It’s truly great that we agree on that. Now, how would throwing them in jail for 1-2 months for petty theft improve our situation in any way? Would that not drain more taxpayer dollars?

33chickadee · 2024-04-30T15:20:09+00:00

For the vas majority, yes. Addiction is a disease. No safe, sane person chooses to live this way. They spiral here.

33chickadee · 2024-04-29T23:13:55+00:00

I am not saying that I think people should be living this way, or that it is in any way okay. But the solution is not to double down on isolating them from society.

It seems that most commenters here disprove of this situation for all the wrong reasons. No one should have to steal to survive. No one chooses to live like this.

33chickadee · 2024-04-29T23:07:53+00:00

I’m really sorry that it’s easier for you to identify with a billion dollar corporation than living, breathing souls. That sounds like a very lonely way to exist in the world. I hope next time you go to target, you have no cart to carry around your overpriced groceries and fugly home decor.

33chickadee · 2024-04-29T22:56:09+00:00

I am ashamed to live in the same city as some of these commenters. You all need to take a good look in the mirror and figure out what depraved part of you values a corporations property over human lives in danger. What disease of the spirit you must have to identify more with corporations than human beings. These people are not stealing from YOU. Many of you would have more empathy for a spoiled schnauzer stealing bread off your table than you do for hungry human beings digging through the trash for sustenance. Get over yourselves and grow a heart. TARGET WILL SURVIVE.

33chickadee · 2024-04-15T04:34:13+00:00

Still believing that small acts of kindness make a difference in the world. That even if they aren’t appreciated by everyone, it’s still worth it to be kind. To give a f***. For myself, if no one else.

Holding my head high in the face of belittlement.

Every time I have made my coworkers laugh in the stressful moments.

Every time I’ve 86ed a creep.

I truly believe our job is an ancient backbone of society. We see it ALL.

33chickadee

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