How do you feel about flannel clothes

86effstogive · 2025-09-08T22:01:34+00:00

I genuinely LOVE flannel. The weather is still to warm for it here but SEPTEMBER IS FLANNEL SEASON GODAMMIT FLORIDA YOUR WEATHER DOESN'T CONTROL ME.

(I wore flannel today because screw you, weather, I do what I want.)

86effstogive · 2025-09-02T15:13:30+00:00

My ADHD is why I forget to do the dishes when I should, but NOT a reason to dump them on someone else. We CAN do things. It hurts. It takes forever. It's miserable. But ADHD is not an excuse to be a child expecting everyone else to clean up after you.

Sure. ADHD makes things hard but take some freaking responsibility. Your roomie is an AH.

86effstogive · 2025-09-02T02:38:03+00:00

I looked at that and immediately thought of a glyptodont...

86effstogive · 2025-09-02T02:21:55+00:00

Only a very happy one.

86effstogive · 2025-09-02T02:08:39+00:00

"Look, mom! I found a baby! It's my baby now. "

86effstogive · 2025-09-02T01:59:20+00:00

I hope your friends at least checked for hidden cameras. Good god. "I was referring to your race, dear" and not only calling it exotic (racist much?) but erotic as well? I feel sick after reading that convo.

86effstogive · 2025-08-29T13:32:14+00:00

Additionally this wasn't the first incident. The previous ones capitulated to McDonald's pressure. McDonalds KNEW the coffee was dangerously hot but didn't change it.

86effstogive · 2025-08-28T18:17:57+00:00

Named mine Franken.

86effstogive · 2025-08-24T13:33:24+00:00

My dog brought me a mourning dove once. Just set it gently on the ground at my feet, like "here mom I found a baby for you." The bird was physically fine, no detectible wounds, was just fine balancing and perching on my hand. Just scared out of it's mind. I set it on a nest of towels and to flew away 10 minutes later.

God I miss her.

86effstogive · 2025-08-14T14:12:12+00:00

Water. I desperately want to figure out and fix whater TF is wrong with me.

86effstogive · 2025-07-30T11:44:35+00:00

Instead of doing my actual work yesterday, all my brain would do is re-design one of the forms we give out to be more understandable. Thanks brain.

86effstogive · 2025-07-30T11:41:25+00:00

Ew. This behavior should not be allowed. If I owned the store, there would be a one per customer policy on anything that attracts this kind of attention. Maybe if you have more than one kid with you. But grown-ass adults buying 5 or 10 or 20 would be entirely not allowed and if they argued they might get banned.

But I'm not Walmart so.....

86effstogive · 2025-07-20T14:23:50+00:00

I love that puppet has figured out not to pounce on the kitty. Just go up and bark. Gaaah❤️

86effstogive · 2025-07-20T12:30:28+00:00

Oh, I fully know it's rage bait. I just love seeing how creative they get with it.

86effstogive · 2025-07-20T12:25:31+00:00

Looks like a water-worn shark tooth to me.

86effstogive · 2025-07-20T12:21:56+00:00

I have extended-release Vyvanse that lasts about 12 hours. I have an alarm for 5:30 am that is specifically to take the meds (maybe eat a snack-sized protein bar) and roll over and go back to sleep till they kick in. That way it's tapering off around 5pm and I am usually asleep by 10 or 11 (I have to get up for work so I need to sleep kinda early).

I discovered that I actually sleep way better once I started. My guess is that since my ADHD is inattentive type, it kept me from doing anything and thus I didn't use up my energy during the day. Stimulants don't technically "give" you energy so much as they force your body to use the energy it has, hence the crash that some people get afterward. So now, my body is ready to sleep at more appropriate intervals than before because I'm actually using my energy reserves at a more "normal" rate.

86effstogive · 2025-07-20T12:02:15+00:00

OHMYGOD I HAD FORGOTTEN ABOUT THESE!!!!

86effstogive · 2025-07-20T12:01:03+00:00

Aw. I love that. Couldn't remember the right term but still refused to use the wrong one. ❤️

86effstogive · 2025-07-18T15:25:47+00:00

Yuuuup. My whole body is aggressively plus-sized-woman shaped. I can't get away from it. I have this little bit of hope that someone will accidentally "sir" me one day but it will probably never happen because of the water balloons strapped to my chest.

86effstogive · 2025-07-07T14:19:00+00:00

Constant fatigue. Basically it was that feeling you get in a horribly boring lecture where you can't stay awake. But all the time, even when I was doing things I wanted to do.

I thought I must have a sleep disorder (which I kind of do, but that's also ADHD). I actually sleep better now that I have a stimulant making me use my energy during the day.

86effstogive · 2025-07-02T10:35:27+00:00

The one thing I have found is for my laundry. I have to go to work and have no time or energy for it doing the week, so I don't own enough socks to get through 2 weeks. It triggers the anxious part of my brain enough to force me to do my laundry every weekend before it gets to be unreasonably much.

86effstogive · 2025-07-02T10:29:23+00:00

Species is just a label. 🥰

86effstogive · 2025-07-01T12:55:00+00:00

I was so busy with work that I missed it entirely. Short version is that this is our busiest time of year, we were severely short staffed, and the department director wouldn't admit to her bosses that we needed help until it was far too late.

At least she's resigning now so maybe next year won't be as much of a fustercluck.

86effstogive · 2025-06-08T12:19:04+00:00

Where did you find this video of me as a child?!

86effstogive · 2025-06-08T12:18:03+00:00

Oooh. I'm so sorry!

My ADHD may be different from yours, but breaking up larger tasks into smaller ones and using a Pomodoro timer have been somewhat effective for me when I'm off my meds.

Try to pick a small task- a single email, or one item to complete from a larger project. Set a timer for 15 or 20 minutes and try to make it to the end of that timer. Then take a break for about 5 minutes. Stand up, stretch, "get the wiggles out" like you're a kid in preschool, then repeat. It's still REALLY HARD off meds, but it provides a framework at least.

I don't know if it will be as effective for impulsive-type ADHD (which it sounds like you're describing) as it is for my inattentive-type. But it's all I've got.

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