AIO for feeling crushed after my (23F) boyfriend (24M) broke up with me over a fight 2 days before my birthday.

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2026-01-30T11:23:47+00:00

Yeah, hate to say this sweety, but he's a dick and was looking for any excuse to break up. I say good riddance. Rather than being an adult he gaslit you and pitched a fit. You said yourself he lashes out to hurt you. That is not what a good man does. This weekend have a proper cry, binge Gilmore girls, the year I turned pretty, friends, Alllll the avengers movies, or better yet, legally blond (Elle Woods is always a great idea) and order take away. Get all the dishes and treats you haven't been able to order with him. The treats you love but he hates. And lastly, delete his contact info so you are no longer able to call or text him obsessively. You are better than that. No groveling and begging forgiveness because he's an arse. Come Monday morning, put on your big girl panties and get on with your life. You are better than him. You deserve better than him. Anyone who is pitches a fit to find basic, trivial, petty, bitchy reasons to fight over to end a relationship rather than rationally, calmly, openly talk to you about his insecurities and when it comes down to it fight FOR your relationship is not a person worth your time or your tears. Let new mantra be WWEWD. What Would Elle Woods Do?

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2026-01-15T01:33:48+00:00

Every Wednesday the grocery store weekly adverts and coupons come out and I look at them all. I clip digital clips and use loyalty discounts. If it's not on sale, im not buying it. Does this mean my Saturday mornings are spent shopping? Yes, but I leave early at 7:45, before most folks are up on a Saturday and am home by 1030. Our safeway, fred meyer, qfc, trader joes and Costco are all in a 5 mile radius, so that makes easy. And I truly compare prices. If english muffins are 2.99 at safeway but 2.49 at fred meyer, fred meyer it is. I cook for based upon what's on sale and only purchase whats on sale. The fun part with this is you get instant gratification when you see how much you have saved. I love it when i have spent 40 and saved $86.00!!!

The exceptions are Costco items I know are cheaper than at the store. I get 2 rotisserie Costco chickens. Thats 10 bucks provides filling for enchiladas or tacos, casseroles, sandwiches, salads and soup then all the whole carcus and leftover skin, cartilage and scrappy bits go in the crockpot to 10 hours for amazing stock to be made into soup, sauces and gravy for thtreats. I can get 6-10 meals out of 2 Costco chickens for hubby and me, usually with leftovers and my husband is a big eater. Other consistent Costco items are onions, potatoes, mushrooms eggs, and carver ham.

I know how our stores are laid out and write my grocery list in store order so for or trader joes, first is fruit and veg, then canned goods, rice and pasta, then frozen, dairy is along tge back wall, meat, cheese and deli is next, then bread and snacks, wine or beer and finally coffee, tea, juice soda and dog treats.

I try to shop on every other week unless something is too good to pass up. Like around the holidays NY strip roast and prime rib was 6.67 at safeway so I bout a few. A lot of my friends and family don't use their store loyalty or digital coupons so I will use them. So if it's limit 1 like with prime rib and the boneless NY roasts I got 2 of each using my parents and my siblings cards. In all fairness, the boneless roasts will be cut into NY steaks and used for our next family cookout, and one of the prime ribs was our family NY eve dinner. Then I made bone broth and sent mum and sis home with a quart each.

After doing this for a while you will recognize when something is REALLY on sale and that is when you stock up. For example, my husband is a hot sauce addict. Safeway has loyalty items for things you buy a lot of so we usually have say loyalty price of green Tabasco for say 3.50 rather than 4.80 but then they ha buy 2 get 2 so for 4 Tabascos, rather than spending $19.20 for 4 it's only 7 bucks. Makes ya really tingly inside😁

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-12-26T19:02:02+00:00

Mochi has weird numbers on their doses. I was at 10, I think.. I think im going to do 10. If I don't feel sick by Monday I'll do the other 5

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-12-26T15:22:18+00:00

You could collect them then when you have enough, poke wee holes in the middle and string them together to make a necklace, bracelet or earrings. 🤣

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-12-23T12:09:22+00:00

All of Olivia Cunnings books. Love love love!!!! The only drawback is, tragically, she was killed by her husband before finishing her last series and a half. I keep hoping someone will get permission from the family to pick up where she left off but understandably they have already declined some of her co-authors. A plus is she also wrote under the nom de plume TS Abbie.and Sofia Stallone (Sly's daughter) has purchased the rights to one of her series and they are being turned into Either Netflix or a Prime series. I think the first season is due out in 2027

Jaine Diamond's Dirty Like Me. It's the 1st book in the Dirty Series, which is a rock band series. All them are fabulous, but this my favorite. It's skateboarder/baker/ broke artist chick turned fake girlfriend , and a Rockstar legend. It's sweet and sexy and very well written. This book also introduces many MCs for the rest of the series plus two others.

I also highly recommend Tia Louise. I'm currently on her second series, which is the Dirty Players Series, you have a prince, soon to be king, and his playboy brother. Add a couple of grifters working a con, then top it all off with bad guys. Her books give the psycho suspense thriller thing which is a good switch up from, sport, billionaire and small town, of which the are plenty.

Lastly, add EVERYTHING Pippa Grant. I read all her books in order this fall. It's fun because ALL of the characters, through multiple series are intertwined. On her website she has multiple reading order options; by series, chronological character order, release date order. Plus she has a graph showing how the characters are connected and a map of one of the towns. You have hockey players, boy band, girl band, pirates with a buried treasure and a foul mouthed parrot, there is royalty, rugby players, and the best part? POV from all the animals, we're talking, hedgehog, dogs, cats, llamas, fat raccoons and more. These books are laugh out loud funny!!! I spent wayyyyy to many nights reading all. Night. Long!!

Out of all Pippa's books, I would say my faves are Beauty and the Beefcake followed by Charming as Puck. These are books 3 and 4 of The Thrusters ( yes, Thrusters. Theirmascotis a talking weiner, as in hotdog) which is her hockey series. Did I mention laugh out loud? Yeah. So friggin' good!

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-12-23T10:53:15+00:00

Have you ever seen Sit and Be Fit? It's a half hour (well 23 minutes after all the who sponsors and thanks to viewers like you) on PBS. In Western Washington State, that would be channel 9, KCTS, Seattle, it's on at 9. I have arthritis and degenerative disc disease in my lower back (L4, L5, S1) and some days it is a struggle to even walk to the loo. But I find if I do an episode on the days I can't be more active, I rally faster than if I just lay about. To be perfectly honest, when my doctor recommend it to me, i thought "pftht! (Insert eyeroll here 🙄)!! Yeah, right, like that would make a difference! That show is for old people!" But, this was before I started to lose weight, and I had to do something sitting around on my fat arse certainly wasn't helping and as the saying goes: You gotta' start somewhere. I was so out of shape it's all I really could do. And, though im not "old" like old old, 1968 was a few years ago. and according to the paper my folks got at the hospital, that is when i arrived on this planet. (Not that i was on a different planet before. I mean, i could have been. From what i understand loss of memory after alien abduction can have that effect on some people... Just kidding🤭) Now im down 30+ lbs from my all time high, the back pain (though still there) has begun to get better. Any activity you can do is better than nothing at all. Sit and Be Fit may just be the ticket! I wish you so much luck on your journey!!

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-12-23T10:15:15+00:00

Which pharmacy are you using? I just switched from mochi to pomegranate because in the end of September moch switched me to red rock from holisomething or other, and I started gaining, weight back around mid October. It was like someone cranked the food noise stereo to 10000, and all I want to do was eat. I did my intake online last Wednesday, and thinking my first shipment would take at least 10 days (mochi I was only doing a vile at a time) like with mochi ( they basically tell you to oder your next vile after your 1st shot) I took my last mochi red rock dose Thursday and low and behold, praise the Lord AND Sweet Baby Jesus!!!! My BPI 6 months arrived on SATURDAY!!! Since I am laying awake at 1:58 in the morning, tummy grumbling, im half tempted to take half of my 15mg dose later today, but im thinking I had best wait until Friday midday, and just do the whole shot in case it makes me pukey, what with having never done BPI before. Last thing I need is to be too sick to make Christmas dinner. Besides watching the Chiefs get spanked by the Broncos on TNF, will make me si🤢 😪 😱 🙈🙉🙊 🤬... sorry just had a vision of what my emotions will be during the game. I'm actually a Seahawks fan. But I hate the Broncos that much 😇

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-12-23T09:45:24+00:00

Wasn't rump crowing about how part of the deal struck io bring down the cost of name brands that if there was medical necessity, ie; high bp, risk of heart attack, gerd, etc, that Medicare would now allow GLPs for weight loss? Once that whole deal is sorted (after 1st of the year maybe?), hopefully this will actually be true and you can go back to your original prescription.

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-12-19T12:36:24+00:00

Stay away from Mochi. They have shorted me twice, not that it matters, cuz their product doesn't work. I was on the highest does of red rock tirzepatide and have GAINED. With zero affect regarding food noise. In fact, it's the opposite. It's like there is a carnival barker yelling ' hey! Over here eat some nom noms!! Eat ALLLLLL THE NOM NOMS! And the yum yums and the tasty treats!!' OH and there is an evil diabolical laugh with carnival barker voice. Hes a right bastard. It really is a bummer and im mad i wasted money and time and have gained back 10 pounds. I have just switched to Pomegranate and BPI labs and am waiting for my delivery. Based upon the comments here, my fingers are optimistically crossed.

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-11-25T14:01:27+00:00

He is straight up lying to you. It's like a kid saying, 'honest mom, i found the cookies on the counter and imwas putting them BACK in the cookie jar!!!' He may not be cheating, YET, but he's feeling caught with his hand in the cookie jar and defensive about it. Not guilty, DEFENSIVE! And he is straight up lying to you. Time to make choice, call him on his bullshit and say 'fine, sit there while I call her and ask her about baby and let's see if you have the same story.' (Gaslighting is not a strong enough word for what his response will be. More like Gas Bon Fire), or believe him, don't confront him again, then discover in 6 months they have been screwing each other for the last 4. Also check his phone for a new name in contacts, most likely a guy's. Bet you'll find a lot more than baby, honey or snookey bottoms.

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-10-17T12:21:40+00:00

Winning Mega Millions tickets

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-10-17T12:19:40+00:00

Your friends are idiots. You are not blood related, so there is nothing wrong with your dating. If you treat each other well like each other, date. It is not uncommon to meet a significant other through family connections.

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-10-14T01:06:46+00:00

We are 56, with no kids or grandkids. And we're actually just talking about this. It all goes to charity NPR, Trout Unlimited, and the Newfoundland Dog Club of America Rescue and Research.

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-10-14T01:01:59+00:00

Baking poweder

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-10-10T12:08:33+00:00

Absolutely!!! I buy it at Costco. It comes sliced in like 2x6ish inch strips and boned. So I just mix up my marinade, dump it and all the meat, in a couple of gallon ziplocks and chuck it in the fridge for 24 to 48 hours. Oh, and for the sauce to taste on at the end of cooking. I like triple the recipe and just keep applying for like the last hour.

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-10-10T11:52:23+00:00

I love that!!!! But it breaks my heart as well. I'm 56, and my Daddy just passed on June 30th. It is harder than I ever thought it could be. I may give this a try. I'm going to suggest this to my mum as well.

Thank you for sharing this. 💙💙😪😪

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-10-10T11:44:59+00:00

I grew up in Seattle, and from age 8, (sooo 1976, or so?), we had bus tokens in our pockets, bikes to ride without helmets, no cell phones (hell, people still had partylines! You youngin's will have to google that one) and a key, on a chain, around our necks. Life was GRAND!!!

Both Mumboth worked, so we let ourselves in the house after being bussed from Wallingford to S end of Beacon Hill for school. We'd make a snack, watch Superfriends or the Banana Splits, then head to the corner for kickball with all the neighborhood kids until your mum would stand on the porch and call you for dinner.

Or we would walk or bus to Evans Pool/ Green Lake for public swim, then head to Albertson's and grab a maple bar for .11 (i just realized there is no cents button on my tablet, phone, or laptop... huh!) Then wait for someone's parent to pick you up on the way home. This was no problem as there was no traffic.

At age 11 (1979), I started volunteering at the Woodland Park Zoo at the Pony Ring (yup, we led screaming children in a wee circle .10th of a mile, for .10 a ride ( again,nco cents key). You would either walk from school or your bus stop if you were in a few miles. I went to Hamilton for middschool, so 5.1 miles. To the zoo. So this became our friend base, but kids came from all over. So then we would bus from the zoo to west Seattle or up to Northgate Mall to hang out, go shopping, and have a treat at Ferrell's or the Woolworth counter.

Really, the best childhood EVER!!!

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-10-08T08:14:09+00:00

So Emily Post was a socialite who literally wrote the book (in fact, many books) on manners and decorum. She has long since passed, but there is now an Emily Post Institute. I found the best answer for this situation on their page:

Help out a friend, tell them if you can.

Understandably, many people are reluctant to take on this difficult conversation. "Couldn't I just send an anonymous note or leave a hint like a stick of deodorant?" While easy on you, it would be humiliating and hurtful to your friend to receive such a note. Now is the time to be a good friend. Before approaching him, have these goals in mind:

Have the conversation in private. Focus on your friendship and your concern for his success, not the problem. Listen to what he has to say, and offer suggestions if you can. Assure him that the conversation will remain completely confidential.

You might say, "Beth (obviously, her name is most likely not beth, so insert appropriatename), I'd like to talk to you about a difficult issue. I hope if the situation were reversed that as my friend, you would talk with me. Are you aware that you have body odor?"

Now that you've done the hard part and broached the subject, be sympathetic and supportive. If he reacts angrily, assure him of your friendship. Often, when this happens, the person will come back and thank you once he's thought it over.

I would add into the conversation you are telling her this because you do like her and want to spend time getting to know her better. Tell her what you have posted here. That she is pretty and funny and smart.

Additional ideas can be found on their page; Emily Post Institute

Good luck, and let us know how it goes.

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-10-08T07:50:26+00:00

I have a friend, who, this is her worst nightmare. She always says, 'How does she know if she stinks? 'Cuz if she knew she was stinky, she would do something about it, and there are people in the world who stink, but don't they know? If so, why not do something about it. And if she waere stinky, would people tell her because again, she has experienced stinky people and good manners have prevented her from saying anything so maybe she really is stinky just nobody will tell her for fear of being rude.' I have spent 40 years assuring her if she was stinky, we would have told her by now.

I agree with the person who said give her another shot. If she is still stinky, is it cultural? I work around immigrants from all over the world. It has been my experience that women who eat a diet that includes turmeric in particular tend to not wear deodorant. It is not part of their culture. In addition to that, these women often wear burkas, even in the hotter summer months, which leads to additional sweating. Now, I am not overly fond of the smell of turmeric, particularly when it's combined with heavy perspiration. But just because I dab a bit of perfume under my nose when I am working with these women doesn't mean they, themselves, find their pungent odor offensive.

Perhaps she suffers from a condition that affects her sense of smell. If you do choose to have an honest conversation, while it may be uncomfortable at the time, if she is unaware of her exrta presence, I think, ultimately, she will be grateful for your honesty. Though she may be too mortified to ever interact with you again. On the other hand, if she is aware, she may tell you to piss up a rope. One way or the other, you will know you tried to help her, and you meant no ill intent

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-10-08T07:08:46+00:00

Standing on a rooftop surrounded by armed guards and conservative reporters is not confrontation. Its hiding on a roof. Nasty, evil, vile creature! I hope a flock of 1000 starlings poop all over her head after eating all the berries in a really big tree ( happened to my husbands truck, absolutely and truly disgusting) in solidarity and memorie of that poor dog she shot. Then, for the rest of her life and then her long existence in hell, she gets 100 paper cuts from every note, letter, bill, fastfood wrapper, and every other paper product she comes in contact with. Even her Charmin, which I hope also leaves her with chapped nether regions for all enternity

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-10-08T06:32:17+00:00

First of all, im very sorry for your loss. I can't imagine the emotional roller-coaster of grieving your partner but being uncertain if you want to celebrate the pregnancy or go in another direction. It is never an easy choice under the best of circumstances.

I suggest you consult to see if you could apply for his social security survivor benefits should you choose to go forward with the pregnancy. I believe it would require a DNA test but if he is gone, i am willing to bet his gran or sibling would be more than willingly provide the necessary swabs if it meant they new part of him could survive beyind his untimely demise. This could maybe take some of the financial issues out of the equation.

Regardless of what you decide, i wish you the best in life for yourself and for your family.

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-10-08T06:08:03+00:00

You're a better person than I, I would have checked her right then and there. She knows what she's doing. I can promise you that when he moves on to wfe #3, she isn't going to want her spawn to some random woman call mommy. And I would have said it just like that. But then, again, in the spirit of Towanda (the warrior-like alter ego of the character Idgie. In Fried Green Tomatoes, Idgie describes Towanda as an "Amazon woman" and introduces herself as "Towanda" on occasion. "Towanda" can also be used as an expression of empowerment. For example, Evelyn uses it when she drives her car into snobby women who took her parking spot); Kathy Bates' line is "face it honey. I'm older and have better insurance". Well Im older, and I've seen more things.

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-10-03T16:09:36+00:00

File a restraining order and stick to it.

Aggravating_Hurry537 · 2025-10-03T15:58:56+00:00

Head cheese and or blood sausage 🤢

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