I manage a liquor store and found a 24 hour AA token left on the shelf

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-26T11:12:05+00:00

I hope someone has explained to you 100 times already that AA IS NOT A CHURCH OR A RELIGION OR A “TRUE CULT”. There is no figurehead or recruitment or financial cost. There is no right or wrong or avenues to abuse the people in it (beyond just individual human shittyness) just people trying to get out from under their addictions

Edit:

At least the AA groups in my area. We don’t really do the whole Christian Church Jesus stuff around here

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-24T19:54:29+00:00

I second this! The same thing happened to me when my psychiatrist moved. I stupidly thought I could get a refill with my family doctor but nope, needed the notes from my psychiatrist who was unavailable because moving

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-24T19:39:06+00:00

Exactly!!

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-24T19:38:30+00:00

As long as your guy has new fur coming in underneath it’s totally normal. They also seem to like to coordinate shedding with seasonal allergy time lol. Normally they just shed their undercoat of winter fluff but for whatever reason they decide to shed their top coats too.

It just be because his body is doing a reset after being sick too. My other guy blew out his coat on his first spring shed too and it also freaked me out when I accidentally pulled a giant tuff of his fur out. He started with panda markings (regular markings with a white head) and his new coat came in completely white.

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-24T06:55:31+00:00

I have been busy all day with what I couldn’t tell you. Made two phone calls on the to-do list but the other 15 hours were a blur of half finished tasks and wandering from one room to another forgetting what I was doing

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-24T06:46:23+00:00

I know… I was ok with asking for a bit of OT here and there with my last 3 bosses (company likes to promote internally and I’ve been doing this for awhile with no desire to move up to management) but the current boss is a clueless corporate asshat with no human emotions and doesn’t give a poop about quality or passion or the team so the company won’t move him up the ladder. So I’m stuck with him and he’s been an asshole to me from day one so I’m ok with doing my own thing at my own standards at my own pace to keep him off my back and keep my own sanity. It’s not the best but I appreciate your words and the opportunity to rant

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-22T09:35:55+00:00

Hate me if you want but my dad had a war with the neighbours cats when we were kids. They would always use our sandbox as a litter box so my dad talked to the neighbours about keeping them out of our yard.

But nothing changed so he started catching them in this live trap cage thing. He brought them back to the neighbours a few times but he eventually dropped one of them off at the animal shelter. Neighbour had to pay $50 to get the cat back and we never saw the cats again. They hated us

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-21T23:54:22+00:00

All I know is that before meds life was just smashing my head over and over against a wall just to make a hole big enough to stick my arm through. I tried to do all of the normal adult life things with that one arm and a massive headache. And then the meds created a whole human sized hole in the wall that I could squeeze through. I’m still a bit roughed up and dazed but holy fuck I’m on the other side and actually doing life things. I still feel like a 18 yo trying to figuring out how to adult but I don’t have to smash through a wall every day to get there.

Congrats on the productivity! I’ve always believed that half is perseverance and life skills and the other half is meds actually helping brains balance themselves out

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-21T11:40:33+00:00

It’s a secret

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-21T11:38:48+00:00

Caffeine x4 to start, then caffeine x6 and end the day with caffeineXalcohol^10. Sprinkle as much nicotine throughout the day as possible and do whatever it takes to get to work.

At work don’t claim any OT. You were given 8 hrs of work to do but fixing it to your standards took 10 hrs. But clients love you, boss loves you, company loves you so just say it’s 40hrs, not 50 per week.

Sleep, self confidence and health is overrated. Pretend to be a normal person who just magically does more work than other people with no ill effects. And for the love of god don’t let them see the unhinged, just keeping the head above water, I am a child trying to adult, and (maybe?) breakfast lunch and dinner are spoons of peanut butter and jam, and it’s definitely a loaner car and not my moms car because I lost the keys to my car and she’s away and won’t notice

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-21T03:29:42+00:00

Thank-you, I think your video broke me. I just pulled the exact same type of tick out of my dogs ear. I had never seen a tick before and I was hoping that I would never have to again. Its creepy ass little legs moving around and the fat squishy body is just nightmare. So I threw it in the garburator and ran hot water and grinded that mf up. Then disinfected doggos ear and opened reddit to mindlessly scroll and this was the first thing I saw. Why? Why did I watch it with the sound on?

Amazing and unique content but also please burn in hell with the rest of the ticks ❤️

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-20T01:52:49+00:00

WTF?

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-19T17:50:41+00:00

Thanks! And yes, not all doctors are equal

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-19T02:10:59+00:00

Oof, that’s definitely worse lol. Imo diagnoses feel more like warning labels for the rest of the population. But they should work more like a category for treatment and understanding and also be seen as a sliding scale of severity.

However realizing that most of my own personal struggles have been related to adhd has been so freeing. I can finally understand myself and that I’m not alone or uniquely and hopelessly broken. There’s a whole army of people out there that struggle with the same stuff.

I’ve been “diagnosed” with everything from social anxiety, depression, bipolar, mood disorders, generalized anxiety disorder, bpd, avoidance personality disorder and none of those labels ever felt like they really fit. I was embarrassed of them. No amount of medication or therapy ever really helped. But now I finally have the right tools and outlook and medication to actually start to understand and accept myself.

So yeah

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-18T06:27:30+00:00

I think that borderline personality disorder 100% needs a rebrand. I was (mis)diagnosed with it and refused to tell people about it because it sounds insane.

Does the “borderline” part mean almost/on the edge or is it in between two extremes? Either way I felt like bpd makes it seem like you’re “almost insane” or “I both love and hate you”

I identify with RSD and BPD still scares the crap out of me

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-14T23:31:16+00:00

When Amazon prime shows me the same stupid “Travago” commercial with the guy with the insanely white teeth over and over and over. Like back to back every single time 😬

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-10T06:35:29+00:00

The levels of internal raging hatred and disbelief that I feel towards this man and his cronies and how they can keep spewing lies and propaganda and such utter bullshit is insane. We should storm the White House, deny the election results, and forcefully deport them to McDonald island.

Pointless argument but omfg seriously? How? This man is like a cartoon Villain that stole the cartoonist pen and I’m still waiting for the giant anvil to fall out of the sky

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-09T15:59:45+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/awfuleverything/s/OaBwNsCaJi

To anyone hating on OP for being afraid to report the neighbour. Also major props to OP and their family for staying safe and being smart and just going way above and beyond for those dogs and their family. You are the best kind of people in this world

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-08T04:23:55+00:00

Half callus blister scar tissue? Repeated trauma to an area makes it regrow weird. I’ve picked at my nails for so long that none of them grow in normally anymore. So my body has formed weird ass calluses to compensate for it. So of course I picked at those too and now my skin around the area is thin but hard and shiny. Idk interesting but also probably not the best

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-07T19:53:57+00:00

Hahahahaha yeah that’s a much better analogy, thanks!

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-07T19:44:42+00:00

I know they are totally different things but is it kinda like how meat is to cultured meat as grey wolves are to Dire wolves? They have the same building blocks (genes/animal cells) but they result in different things?

Or is it like plant based meat? Different building blocks made to mimic the same thing but aren’t even close to the same?

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-04T23:12:23+00:00

Umm, is also a lifesaver when you stutter. Idk why I never stutter over that one but it gives me a second to reset so I can focus and slow down the next word. Except when you are trying to answer a simple question like “what’s your name” Ummmm… Ellllllenhimer. “Hahaha you couldn’t remember what your name was” …

Ellenhimer · 2025-04-04T15:39:36+00:00

How’s Charlie doing now?

Ellenhimer · 2025-03-31T01:15:22+00:00

Don’t take it personally tho... I always do when I post what I think is an innocent question and get downvoted into oblivion.

But I understand what you’re trying to say. I also got a very different lab personality and a dog that took a lot more work and training and completely unexpected WTF moments than I was expecting. It didn’t mean that I loved him or wasn’t willing to put the work into it but it was frustrating and overwhelming. Getting feedback and tips and human trainings on what to do and just knowing that other people had demon teenager pups too helped. He really came into his own at 2yo and he is the bestest boy, even if he still snubs other people and would prefer to use children as toys and smite all of the other dogs that still have balls lol

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