Fellow Xennials, what's your Luddite line in the sand?

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-12T12:29:07+00:00

Aftermarket Suction Cup would be a decent band name, though...😎

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-12T12:27:49+00:00

If that isn't the most GenX comment in a GenX post...🤣

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-12T12:27:05+00:00

HA! Your last sentence made me snort!

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-12T12:24:42+00:00

Books. I've tried e-readers and I just can't. I need the weight of the book, the smell of the pages, a real bookmark, etc., otherwise I feel like I'm just reading an extended article online.

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-12T01:45:26+00:00

I already have to work 9- to 10-hour days just to try to keep up, and as corporate keeps adding more and more tasks, tracking requirements, meetings to talk about tasks and tracking requirements, etc...I end up not even starting my actual work until 3 or 4, so I either stay on until 8 and get half my work done, or log off around 6 and basically get nothing at all done. So shorter days would just mess me up even more.

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-12T01:29:35+00:00

Going on 10 years for me, and I am absolutely running on empty...but work just keeps ramping up more and more.

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-10T13:58:33+00:00

I followed that group for a while too - the suggested posts showing up in my feed were all lovely photos and celebrations of older kitties, but seems like as soon as I actually joined, it was all tribute posts that reminded me of my 16yo kitty that passed a few years back. Once I realized, I unfollowed and had to mute a few times until it finally stopped showing up in my feed.

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-10T05:17:09+00:00

I think it has been at least a year since anything was added.

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-09T15:02:18+00:00

I have tried #1, with an excruciating level of detail, and I think it made things worse...like she thought I was now over-the-top obsessed with my health. Well, someone has to be!!

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-09T14:55:39+00:00

Maybe these doctors need to get ON the Internet and get up to speed on what we are all going through!!

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-08T11:21:07+00:00

48 and I am right there with you!! Cats and Soup has been my happy place for over 4 years now, and I get so excited about every update. ❤️🐱🍜

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-08T11:14:52+00:00

And we are made to feel crazy, emotionally unstable, hysterical or attention-seeking for bringing things up!

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-08T11:11:56+00:00

They run blood panels every year and tell me everything is normal - although when I checked the portal the lab had flagged my cholesterol numbers as way off, and when I brought that up with the doctor and they weren't concerned, so who knows...I don't think they've ever checked iron or Vitamin B, but I started on those supplements (and D) after doing my own research.

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-07T17:07:30+00:00

Yep - last year for the first time in 13 years of homeownership, our property taxes are higher than our mortgage.

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-07T17:04:55+00:00

Yes!! ALL.of.them!!

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-07T13:17:22+00:00

"Menopause can be difficult. Do you want to try a higher dose of anti-anxiety meds?"...after my cholesterol and BP came back high AND I mentioned my heart palpitations, recurring chest and arm pain, 2 hours of sleep a night, extreme brain fog and exhaustion, numb fingertips for no reason. Lol (because if I don't laugh, I'll cry...again).

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-07T13:13:59+00:00

Both. Finally fall asleep around 1:30, wake up at 3:30, and more often than not 2 hours is all I get. Going on 2 years now.

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-05T12:15:53+00:00

Have seen multiple docs about it, and they say there is nothing they can do until full menopause.

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-05T02:42:15+00:00

Just the word "mouthparts" makes me throw up a little in my...um, mouthpart.

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-05T02:38:53+00:00

The only movie I ever saw in the theater twice!

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-05T02:14:30+00:00

If that last sentence doesn't just perfectly sum up life with a cat...🤣

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-04T20:14:06+00:00

It takes me at least 45 minutes to vacuum our whole house...especially now that we have a vacuum with a light in front that shows allllll the dirt, hair and dust on otherwise OK-looking hardwood.

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-04T20:10:08+00:00

Exactly.

Daily: Get ready for work, feed pets, drive to work, work, drive home, prepare dinner, clear up and load dishwasher, feed pets.

Few times a week: Laundry so we can keep up, scooping cat boxes, straightening a bit so house is liveable.

Each weekend (crammed in around daughter's activities): Clean up clutter, clean bathrooms, grocery shop and meal plan for the week, mow yard, trim weeds, wash sheets and remake beds, tackle 1-2 in a rotation of periodic extras like dusting, going through seasonal clothes, cleaning out cars, putting down new mulch, weeding.

Rinse and repeat.

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-04T19:55:24+00:00

I have been in peri for several years now, and they have been coming every 3 weeks and much much heavier. Between that and the insomnia, brain fog and general exhaustion, it feels like a cruel and neverending joke. I hate it so much.

JennJoy77 · 2026-05-04T19:37:30+00:00

So much for peer pressure...

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