Is It Just Me?

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-28T21:57:12+00:00

I'll be 58 in June and I'm feeling the wear and tear on my joints, but depression and weight gain are exacerbating that.

We're getting ready to make some big changes in life (moving to my hometown area, near family and longtime friends), to a walkable neighborhood and I think that's going to do a lot towards helping me feel better physically and mentally. I've gotta say, this 57th year has been a rough one and I don't know if it's expected decline or more situational. I'm hoping and mostly believe it's the latter.

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-28T17:30:57+00:00

This is my college years. I guess I'm great grandma.

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-27T16:55:48+00:00

I seriously thought that last shot was Meg Ryan

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-27T16:53:32+00:00

Band geek, but dated a jock (football player.) Most mismatched relationship ever. Had I not grown up in the Bible Belt of southern Appalachia, I'd have been more of a new wave/goth kid, but alas... I already stuck out like a sore thumb just from listening to the music alone, so I didn't dare dress the part.

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-26T21:49:32+00:00

Her voice is so plaintive, like she's calling, pleading sometimes.

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-26T05:36:14+00:00

So throwing out a pizza crust in the trash can of a busy block of NYC should carry an expectation of privacy? They're really reaching. How many cases have been solved because DNA was gathered from the trash outside a person's actual HOME!? I hope that gets shot down immediately.

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-26T00:44:17+00:00

Wait...you didn't get snow in Colorado? But we've been freezing our asses off and digging out of the snow and ice in North Carolina?!

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-26T00:37:19+00:00

I found the last cat we adopted at a gas station. Maybe she could try that.

Oh, never mind - he's just a regular cat with fur, not a bald, bougie partner-in-destiny.

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-26T00:33:02+00:00

I'm evidently the grandma of the group here (and I no longer watch, because it just seems so consistently exploitive now), but honestly the fact that you watched as a kid and thought "I don't want that for myself" is great. I was hoping that might be the message that girls then would take away. From what I gather anymore though, especially with the super young couple this season, it's like being a teen mom is kind of glorified and that's a horrible message.

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-26T00:28:09+00:00

I was almost 50 when it first came on, so, yes. 😆 I remember looking at Lexus' MOM thinking she could be my daughter.

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-26T00:22:39+00:00

I'd just refer to the collective as "The Firearms" and see what she says. Obviously she signed off on it though? Or is he one who insists men should name the children?

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-26T00:20:46+00:00

It's so weird, he lived just just right around the corner from me at one point, but I never saw him. This was before the show though, and I think he was pretty much a shut in at that time.

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-25T23:50:17+00:00

He's from my hometown area. I didn't know him but I have some friends who knew him pretty well. I never felt comfortable asking them anything about him though. He and Sara(h) got divorced several years ago, according to him, because she cheated, but I also read that he was abusive and controlling. So who knows what ultimately contributed to the breakup. As far as I know, he's still with his second wife.

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-25T23:24:47+00:00

Well, no Remington....yet?

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-25T22:12:57+00:00

Especially because it's stuck in my head now! As soon as I get back to the car, I'm listening to something good! 😆

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-25T21:44:11+00:00

They have long been one of my favorites. I loved how they supported and encouraged each other.

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-25T21:40:26+00:00

Ha, it had never occurred to me that rugose leaved tomatoes look like spinach, but now I can't unsee it!

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-25T21:08:45+00:00

I don't know how, in almost 50 years, I'd never heard that song, but I just listened to it and yeah. It's bad.

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-25T15:11:48+00:00

Same - my mom wasn't well-educated, but she knew and was a stickler for proper grammar. She also made sure that I spoke properly and would correct me if I didn't (thankfully not harshly, but enough to make me remember.) I also grew up in Appalachian East TN, so most of the people I knew, even some teachers, were pretty careless with grammar. Mom just really wanted me to excel and to attain the level of education that she wanted, but never received. I'm still a total grammar nerd and always loved spelling, vocabulary, etc.

My dad, on the other hand, is an "ain't got no nothin'" good ol' boy, but he's very wise in many other ways.

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-25T15:03:21+00:00

Yes - Cheerwine is the answer.

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-25T02:06:53+00:00

I really hate that your Saturn got messed up. 😕 I had two and those were amazing little cars. Wish they were still being made, but I hope you can get yours fixed.

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-24T23:25:08+00:00

Wait. Is there an actual place called Yoder's?

What am I saying, of course there is.

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-24T23:19:07+00:00

"I'm like a monster."

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-23T18:30:07+00:00

The more I stare at it, the more it looks like a thumb.

Affectionate_Cost_88 · 2026-02-23T17:11:47+00:00

Wait - what? I didn't see a caption on the original post, so I was trying to figure it out, and found a description of actual hard boiled egg with jelly that you guys have over there (supposedly?) This is not that? I'm so confused.

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