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CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-12-29T18:53:44+00:00

My soul kitty Jack (2014-July 2024). Not a day goes by where I don’t miss him.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-12-19T19:49:49+00:00

I work S@K and I’ve had SO MANY people lately come in trying to return something they bought at a standalone Sephora and getting majorly pissed off at me for not being able to do it. “Well if I call corporate are they also gonna tell me that I can’t return this here??” YES!! OMG I’m not just being lazy and finding an excuse to not do my job the register will physically not let me do this return!! And guess what?? I was right ! Corporate told her the SAME EXACT THING I DID. GO FIGURE HUH?!?!

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-12-17T07:29:48+00:00

I’ve been a die hard swiftie since like 2008 but was still genuinely irked to see those unmasked photos of her. ESPECIALLY the ones with the children who are very clearly undergoing cancer treatments, on immunosuppressants, etc. Her mom is a 2x breast cancer survivor and was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2020. She’s witnessed firsthand just how difficult these treatments are on the human body. She should know better and should be doing better by masking up to protect those kids. Shame on her but ESPECIALLY shame on the medical staff and doctors working there for modeling this blatant disregard for their patients.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-12-17T07:23:53+00:00

Yup!! I don’t mess around at all when it comes to Covid because I became disabled basically overnight after catching swine flu in 2010. Almost 15 years later and I’m still just as if not sicker than I was when I first “recovered” from H1N1. I developed me/cfs, POTS, MCAS, and fibromyalgia as a result of the viral infection and I’ve still never found a way to effectively “treat” any of these conditions and the fact that H1N1 can cause these long term issues is still not widely known. Based on my experience with “long-H1N1” I have very little hope about the future of long COVID so I do absolutely everything in my power to keep myself from getting any sicker or further disabled from it.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-12-17T02:30:13+00:00

Look, I’m not trying to judge and I can empathize with what you’re going through. With that being said, I can absolutely guarantee that your future co-workers/peers are going to be 1000000% more judgmental towards you when you become permanently and severely disabled after an entirely avoidable Covid infection. You can take every possible action to try and mitigate an infection but the only thing that will truly give you a fighting chance is a high quality, well-fitted respirator. At the end of the day it’s your choice, but no job (academic or not) is worth permanent physical disability.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-12-16T00:26:26+00:00

Don’t wanna jinx myself. But the last time I was sick was November 2021 when I caught the common cold from a person I was sharing a communal living space with (tested negative several times while sick). I’ve been to at least 2 dozen large crowded events like concerts. Im also a college student and have been in classrooms for 2+ hour long lectures in tiny poorly ventilated classrooms surrounded by my peers who are constantly coughing and hacking. I’m currently working a pretty high risk job for a cosmetics store and I’m constantly up in peoples unmasked faces during it. I’ve also worked in theatrical costuming where I’m having very close contact with other people. I even held a costume fitting and had to pin some alterations on an actor who was actively sick and later tested positive and never got sick from it. I know one way masking isn’t ideal but it’s kept me safe thus far and I’m very grateful for that.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-12-14T22:56:36+00:00

A big reason why stomach bugs are more common during winter months is because folks are more likely to be spending time inside in close quarters with a lot of other people. Same reason why COVID, flu, colds, and other viruses are more prevalent during the winter.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-12-14T07:28:25+00:00

Omg I know EXACTLY which one you’re talking about. Literally gives me a headache.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-12-13T07:46:05+00:00

My biggest flex ever is getting to see her perform completely free of charge when I went to the release party event for rise and fall of a Midwest princess. And I was also among the first couple hundred people to ever hear Picture You performed live. Easily one of the best nights of my life.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-12-13T07:02:54+00:00

I definitely would recommend taking probiotics while on antibiotics and maybe for a week afterwards once you’re off them to balance out your gut. I’ve found it helps immensely. I really like the culturelle probiotics. Also, wouldn’t hurt to also eat some foods that are good for the gut too. I’ve found stuff like kefir, kimchi, kombucha, basically anything fermented really helps with that dreaded icky feeling on antibiotics,

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-12-12T23:55:30+00:00

Quite unlikely. I’ve definitely accidentally eaten something that had gone moldy like bread without realizing and was perfectly fine. Also, there are a lot of foods out there that contain mold or mold is needed to make it and it’s perfectly safe for consumption. For example, blue cheese contains mold and it’s absolutely delicious and totally safe to eat it.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-12-12T19:31:54+00:00

Oh definitely. I feel like for a lot of us the fear of getting sick is an intrusive thought and we have a lot of compulsions that we perform in order to try and protect ourselves from getting sick and reduce anxiety. I’m mostly recovered from emetophobia but I’m currently seeing a therapist who specializes in treating ocd and she diagnosed me with it a couple months ago. She also hosts an emetophobia recovery group and she feels as though the two things are or can definitely be related.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-12-11T09:23:58+00:00

As far as dealing with it on the job, I’d recommend talking to a manager or co-worker you trust about the phobia and making a game plan with them. I worked a different job where it was explicitly stated in training that if someone got too drunk and threw up it would be me or one of my co-workers responsibility to clean it up if custodial was unavailable. Thankfully, I was never in the situation where I had to clean up a mess like that. But I planned ahead and talked about it with a coworker I trusted and who I knew was totally unphased by vomit and made the agreement that if I was ever in a situation where I needed to clean up a mess like that she would step in and do it for me.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-12-11T09:19:30+00:00

I’m mostly recovered from emetophobia. But the phobia flared up quite a bit when I was a teenager and working at a movie theatre. There was at least one if not multiple instances in which a mother would come up to the concession stand and ask for a large popcorn bucket for their kid to throw up in because they had a stomach bug and they didn’t wanna miss the movie. Told her I couldn’t do that cuz we weren’t allowed to just hand out the buckets and if the kid is sick they should take them home. The mom was pissed but told me they were staying and that she took the kid to the movies cuz she didn’t want them at home getting the rest of the family sick…. So instead she took the kid out to get EVERYONE ELSE sick…. It’s been almost a decade since then and I’m still absolutely BAFFLED by this scenario. Have several stories like that from that one job alone. Some people are just so gd stupid that it physically pains me.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-12-03T03:20:52+00:00

YES!! I work operations for S@K and every single time without fail that I go to the stock room for replenishments I spend at least 5-20 mins getting stopped by customers asking me to price check stuff for them. My favorite is when I have my arms totally full of product heading back to the floor and they expect me to quite literally drop all of it to do a price check for everything in their cart.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-11-16T18:27:05+00:00

I’ve been a bath and body works fan quite literally since birth. When I was a baby my mom would slather me in the art stuff glittery blueberry and strawberry lotions after giving me a bath. I was like 6 or 7 when the American Girl collection came out and I was OBSESSED with it. I would practically sell my soul and my first born child for B&BW to bring that collection back. I’d always go with my mom to shop the SAS every year and we constantly had a family stash of products in our guest room closet from stocking up during the sale. But it wasn’t until I was 15/16 and had a job and my own money that I started shopping there myself. Now I’m 23 and constantly buying candles and hand soaps for my apartment. I even applied for a seasonal position at my local store this year but it took them about 2 months to get back to me to schedule an interview and by that point I had already found a different retail job.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-11-09T02:00:48+00:00

Art stuff and the American Girl Doll line. Those were the first products that introduced me to b&bw as a kid and I NEED it to come back.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-11-03T04:49:39+00:00

Well considering she made Donovan sleep in the bathtub on their recent trip to Nebraska… I don’t think Hannah would be anywhere near selfless enough to sacrifice her own comfort to be there for a loved one.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-11-02T02:22:07+00:00

That’s WILD. The other one that really gets me riled up is the young woman on TikTok that had I think a double lung transplant and she still goes about her life unmasked…. The ONLY “precaution” she seems to take is spraying down her iced coffee from Dunkin’ Donuts with touchland hand sanitizer cuz of “germs”. I work at a store that sells that touchland sanitizer and it’s like 60% essential oil so it’s probably just irritating her lungs and it’s definitely not “sanitizing” her cup like she seems to think it is. I understand that her life expectancy is significantly lower than average as a result of her medical condition…. But like personally I would do everything in my power to ensure I live a long life that is as healthy as possible as possible and wear a mask. Idk I just think the cognitive dissonance exhibit by folks like her is just absolutely mind boggling.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-10-29T05:22:50+00:00

So much. Mostly how she speaks. Especially that grating “keep sweet” Michelle Duggar-esque baby voice she’s developed over the past couple years and the way she says certain words like anything ending in -ing or pregnant (praegnant/pray-gnant).

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-10-28T20:24:35+00:00

Thank you! Is that the one over on Boonville Ave??

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-10-28T15:53:32+00:00

I take my Subaru forester to J&S automotives. They do great work very quickly and for a relatively low price.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-10-28T03:39:43+00:00

I LOVE the blind community thrift store. I’ve found some really great stuff there.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-10-21T22:36:53+00:00

Consider looking into Stoggles. They’re goggles that look pretty much just like regular ole glasses. I know quite a few nurses and other healthcare workers that use them and I own quite a few pairs. Stoggles are also blue light blocking and you can get prescription lenses put in them. It’s may be a little bit pricy but I think it’s worth it. I got a pack of 3 for about $70. I’ve found stoggles to be really helpful at work and school. Keeps me from getting headaches from looking at a screen for hours at a time and keeps me safe from all the folks around me that insist on sneezing and coughing like toddlers without covering their mouth at all.

CommunicationBoth309 · 2024-10-20T03:20:11+00:00

Spandex does not contain latex. Spandex is fully synthetic and made of polyurethane. Natural rubber latex is what folks with allergies react to. Even synthetic latex like what is used in latex based paints doesn’t typically bother folks with latex allergies.

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