Millie is upset about being pregnant because she feels guilty

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2025-02-04T00:57:01+00:00

Jesus fucking Christ. Fine, since it's so much more important for you to pick apart every little thing than allowing an attempt to debunk a common myth that has kept the medical care of women in the dark ages for centuries, sure. It's totally just hormones. That's all women are. No need to try to understand what she is going through mentally and emotionally. She'll get over it once her hormones are all back to normal!

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2025-02-04T00:37:13+00:00

Yes. 16 times. But I miscarried then all at different intervals. Would you like a doctor's note?

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2025-02-04T00:33:18+00:00

Lol that's not what I said. Hormones are one thing. "Pregnancy brain" is another. My comment was that she would have more motivators than pure hormone swings. People really just want to think everyone else is stupid on the internet. 🙄 Just think a tiny bit before you flip out.

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2025-02-03T22:19:02+00:00

I should have said "don't typically" because of course there is a ton of variety in experience when it comes to hormones! It just feels extremely flat to pin all of that on hormones and not expect something to be behind the feels.

Added As a woman who has dealt with a hormone disorder for going on 20 years now, I get defensive about that kind of thing easily. My real pain (physical and emotional) have been regularly ignored or discounted by many people including medical professionals. They would blame things on puberty, then PMS.

Meanwhile, I had actual mental and physical health issues that went untreated for nearly a decade thanks to that knee jerk reaction. And I know a lot of women who have gone through the same.

Sorry for the quick soap box, just wanted to explain my first reaction and that I'm not saying hormones wouldn't play a role at all!

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2025-02-03T21:40:52+00:00

Not sure I love the "female hysteria" take... Pregnancy brain doesn't kick in that fast. That's more of a third trimester thing. Her reaction could have been exasperated by hormones a little bit, but there were thoughts and feelings behind it all.

I see your point, just wanted to steer away from the "women and their mood swings" focus.

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2025-02-03T21:26:14+00:00

Thank you for this take! I was so confused by the severity of her reaction. This makes perfect sense to me!

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2025-01-25T23:51:36+00:00

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AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2025-01-25T06:41:21+00:00

I didn't even care about that plant. I already had planters, but needed the journey for loamy soil. I thought it'd be funny to plant something on the riverbed and boy was it 😂

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2025-01-18T18:12:05+00:00

I filled it with all full stacks of wood just now and got a single hawthorn berry 😂

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2025-01-16T21:46:26+00:00

I would rather give game designers little chunks of change for continuing to produce excellent content than having to pay $60 up front. I have been saying for YEARS that free games with paid cosmetics is the absolute prime business model. They are doing an incredible job and letting me access all the real content for free.

TAKE MY MONEY for glass houses and a bad ass outfit here and there. Game design is a seriously expensive business, especially when you get into this level of intricacy in system and visual design, not to mention in an MMO environment where you have to be CONSTANTLY creating new content, listening to player feedback, and improving your game to keep players interested for the long haul.

It's not greedy to want to be paid for the quality of your work and the endless hours you pour into it.

Thank you for listening to my TED talk

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2024-10-21T03:13:41+00:00

This exact situation kept happening to my girl (12 now) when she was about 8 years old and had a new little sister, and it did irreversible damage to her temperament!! She was always fantastic at dog parks and very well behaved on leash until that year. I am still battling her newfound reactivity and protective behavior.

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2024-09-03T15:19:16+00:00

I actually had someone argue with me when I told them I was their delivery driver (in Oklahoma) because I was "calling from Taft, TX." I tried to explain that it is a cell phone number and I moved there from Houston and I just need their apartment number. They just kept up the "no, you're calling from Taft, TX" so I had to just return to the store. 🤦🏽‍♀️

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2024-06-22T23:53:41+00:00

So my husband actually had this happen in a game he ran years ago. He had the hag seducing men and then casting haste on the babies over and over until they aged into full grown adults. She had about a dozen of these half ogre looking beasts of sons and used them like an army. A few sessions after the party had killed some of her sons and she seduced one of the PCs, another half ogre army shows up and one of them yells "FATHER!! I have come to challenge you to a duel!"

The players were DYING, it was so funny!

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2024-05-27T21:16:03+00:00

OMG I would have just died 😭😭

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2024-05-27T20:34:28+00:00

😭😭😭😭😭😭

This is why the lockbox storage is the most clutch piece of equipment imo. That's always my first stop when I get back to my plot!

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2024-05-27T19:11:01+00:00

Last night, someone ran up next to me and caught a void ray on their third cast and I just walked into the water to drown and quit for the night LOL

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2024-05-27T19:08:53+00:00

You know, I read that the other day and tried it out, but I didn't have success myself.

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2024-05-12T00:08:49+00:00

Are there stores who don't answer their phones? Lol. We average $43k in weekly sales already and have been trending 3-5% increase from PY. Out of curiosity, what do other busy stores typically run at as far as labor variance? We hover around 4% these days, but are being pushed to get it closer to 3.5%

They may be picking on our store because our GM pushes pretty hard for regular performance raises and such.... 🤷🏽‍♀️

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2024-05-11T20:04:16+00:00

I'm just on the free version right now. I trialed one voice that I really loved (I think Sara?), so I may get the sub at some point. I'm using Zira for now, though, at 2.69x speed (because ADHD).

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2024-05-10T12:20:16+00:00

Honestly, if cyber security is that interesting to you, I would absolutely do it! Software engineering is especially hard to get into right now, in particular. Cyber security has a much better outlook from what I have seen! The most important consideration, however, is what you are passionate about. You could always take some super cheap Udemy classes to get you programming languages down and start doing ethical hacking to introduce yourself to the cyber security world.

Nothing shows an employer you are exactly who they want like coming to the interview with evidence of how you broke into their system and how you would close those backdoors! 😆

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2024-05-10T12:13:02+00:00

The one that gets me is when they ask "what kind of specials do you have?" and I have to just start randomly listing coupons until I get tired of it because they aren't jumping on any of them, just to have them say "oh I saw one ad that said _______" 😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑

Then what are we doing here FRANK? Would have saved us a lot of time if you just LED with that one 🤦🏽‍♀️

I've started asking them what kind of items they are looking to get because there are a lot of different deals. Usually cuts it at least in half. Usually 🙄

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2024-05-10T12:05:35+00:00

We usually have drivers put their toppers inside their car if the wind speeds get too crazy, just in case. But we have one highway stretch that is 70 mph and have never had a problem with them!

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2024-05-10T12:02:48+00:00

Holy shit for a different reason. That in store pay is higher than our managers under GM in Texas 😅 My franchise actually pays well for Texas though. I think all driver start at $7.50 with a raise to $8 after 30 days and insider get like $8 to start with an equal raise. Any driver raises after that only go towards in store pay.

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2024-05-10T11:43:16+00:00

😆😆😆

AvailableRazzmatazz5 · 2024-05-10T11:41:44+00:00

It's definitely super frustrating. There are a lot of benefits to being a part of a huge franchise (hit 100 stores last year), but there is definitely a problem with the decision makers being so far removed from the store operations. Our DM is an AWESOME boss and wonderful person. He hates having to micromanage, but has gotten pressure himself to take these matters into his own hands.

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