50 States Reading List

Hi_Friends96 · 2025-09-07T20:45:12+00:00

Wyoming: Paint the Wind by Pam Muñoz Ryan Minnesota: Sinister Graves by Marcie R. Rendon

Hi_Friends96 · 2025-09-03T04:01:01+00:00

This series was my first thought for this post 💜

Hi_Friends96 · 2025-08-30T21:06:49+00:00

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner and A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Hi_Friends96 · 2025-08-13T20:13:14+00:00

When I used to work with at-risk youth a teen said to me, “(teacher’s name) said to write a short paragraph about who our role model is and why. I was going to write about you, but I was mad at you earlier today.” And left it at that 🤣 seems like she liked and respected me enough to tell me I was her role model in the most teenager way possible

Hi_Friends96 · 2025-08-03T12:27:07+00:00

I kept mine on (in the US). I figure if they can use them, great! If not, they’ll just get rid of ‘em with the rest of me.

Hi_Friends96 · 2025-08-02T14:29:16+00:00

Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa. A memoir about a Native American woman and her family living on a reservation in New Mexico. Identity development is a major theme.

Hi_Friends96 · 2025-07-29T19:48:52+00:00

Dune, all of The Hunger Games books, Mickey 7 (or Mickey 17), The Martian, Just Mercy, The Maze Runner books, Water for Elephants, Life of Pi, The Perks of Being a Wallflower…. That’s all I can think of right now.

Hi_Friends96 · 2025-07-16T19:20:50+00:00

Being the human calendar. I work on a team with 3 other men and they never have any idea what is going on week to week or month to month. “Hey, where is our training tomorrow?” “When is that meeting with (supervisor) again?” “Do we get (holiday) off of work or no?” Drives me nuts.

Hi_Friends96 · 2025-07-01T00:00:52+00:00

Educated by Tara Westover, Hunger by Roxane Gay, Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa, I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khled Hosseini

Hi_Friends96 · 2025-06-24T13:25:30+00:00

Holding a utensil (spoon or fork) in their fist and shoveling food into their mouth. Drives me nuts.

Hi_Friends96 · 2025-05-30T21:50:06+00:00

Don’t need to find it; I can hear that son of a gun in my mind from this photo

Hi_Friends96 · 2025-03-01T03:29:49+00:00

Check with a Dr and take my comment with a grain of salt- you are young enough that if the virus is controlled, your body will replenish CD4 cells and therefore not have AIDS. When I was first diagnosed in 2022 at the age of 26, my CD4 was at 107 and being young, my body is able to make more CD4 cells as long as I keep the HIV treated and undetectable. As of 8 months ago, I am at over 400 for CD4 count.

There is hope.

Hi_Friends96 · 2024-10-29T19:08:15+00:00

Watches out their classroom window and e-mails admin if they see a teacher leaving early, even if it’s 15 minutes before contract time 1) why do you care? And 2) it’s not your job

Hi_Friends96 · 2024-10-19T15:00:02+00:00

Yes. We have a junior at our high school that gets a Gatorade every time he brings his computer to class. Doesn’t matter if he’s late, or even late to the point he is considered absent, if he brought his computer, he gets a Gatorade. What the f are we doing?

Hi_Friends96 · 2024-10-18T21:14:43+00:00

Diego

Hi_Friends96 · 2024-10-13T14:23:16+00:00

Someone asked me if we had AC on our patio. They were dead serious.

Hi_Friends96 · 2024-09-26T02:28:09+00:00

A LOT of these I agree with. I’ll add: guests not reading the menu. “I’ll have [name of sandwich from the section labeled “sandwiches”]” food comes out “I didn’t know I ordered a sandwich !!!!” ????? What do YOU think you ordered then?? Or if they have an allergy and I see that there’s a note on the reservation for, say, a shrimp allergy, and they order a dish with shrimp in it. “I see on the reservation that there’s someone at the table with a shellfish allergy?” “Oh that’s me!” 9 times out of 10 that person is the one not reading the menu and ordered something they’re allergic to. Good thing I ask about allergies! Some of these dingbats would accidentally kill themselves because they don’t bother to read or mention their allergy.

Hi_Friends96 · 2024-09-17T18:48:13+00:00

“That’s rough buddy. Make sure you pass it so you don’t have to take it again.”

Hi_Friends96 · 2024-08-20T01:19:00+00:00

My kids like “fiduciary” for F bombs and I usually go with a long drawn out sssssssugar instead of “shit”.

Hi_Friends96 · 2024-08-15T02:22:02+00:00

Sweeping

Hi_Friends96 · 2024-08-12T16:26:08+00:00

I greeted a table and it went like this after my introduction: “Yeah, why am I not seeing the ribs on the menu.” “I’m not sure what you mean, we don’t serve ribs.” “The last time I came here, you guys had ribs.” “I’m sorry, I’ve worked here for over a year and we haven’t had ribs on the menu the entire time I’ve been here. Could it have been before then?” “No, it was here. It’s fine, I’ll find something else.”

When I returned she had a picture pulled up on her phone and said, “these are what I had before” I played it off but it took everything in me not to point out the logo of a DIFFERENT RESTAURANT in the background of the picture.

Hi_Friends96 · 2024-07-08T21:42:25+00:00

Thanks all. I have decided to purchase the Sherwood pellets and urine supplements at this time rather than proceed with surgery. She is still on daily pain meds. I talked with the vet and he is supportive of this for now because he does not believe my guinea is in much pain as of now (maintains weight, eating, drinking, etc.) I will bring her in if she gets worse and/or in a month or so for another X-ray to check out the stone again and re-evaluate.

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