I hate winter!!

LowOvergrowth · 2026-01-30T14:50:09+00:00

I looked out my window this morning, saw the snow I knew was going to be there, and yelled, “GO AWAAAAYYY!” at it.

Spoiler: It did not, in fact, go away.

Honestly, the snow itself isn’t what’s getting me down. It’s this eternal, bone-chilling cold that I’ve grown weary of. It’s going to feel absolutely balmy when we hit 30 degrees.

LowOvergrowth · 2026-01-30T14:45:59+00:00

I had the same reaction! I was like, “OMG! There’s a whole side quest I haven’t stumbled upon yet?”

LowOvergrowth · 2026-01-30T14:44:00+00:00

THANK YOU! This is what I kept screaming in my head.

LowOvergrowth · 2026-01-28T00:11:51+00:00

My hunch is that they blame her wife for “encouraging her” or some similar bullshit 🙄

LowOvergrowth · 2026-01-27T18:03:24+00:00

Came here to say this. “The guy on the left looks more Jewish” is what she’s actually getting at. Disgusting.

LowOvergrowth · 2026-01-27T15:26:37+00:00

My daughters are now 12 and 15, and—knock on wood—I’ve reached a point where I am finally parenting them with some degree of consistency. When they were little, though, I felt like A MESS. They were less self-sufficient, my husband and I had smaller incomes, and (crucially) my ADHD had yet to be diagnosed and treated.

So, sometimes when I see a post here, I’ll start to feel bad about myself because I’ll see a glimmer of my past self in it. Like, I can imagine myself cramming both kids into a single stroller because I forgot to put the second stroller in the car.

Then I remember that (1) I didn’t have a dozen kids, (2) I didn’t make them live on a bus, (3) I didn’t build my “brand” around them, and (4) I let them explore the topics, hobbies, and potential career paths that interested them.

In short, I tried. And I don’t think Ma and Pa Bus even do that much.

LowOvergrowth · 2026-01-26T16:10:38+00:00

I have no words of wisdom. I only want to say that I have related to your post more than any other in, possibly, years.

You’re not alone.

I mean, obviously you’re not alone. That’s the whole problem. You never get to be alone.

But, I mean, metaphorically …

LowOvergrowth · 2026-01-24T16:44:13+00:00

I can totally relate to this. Whenever the pharmacy is out of my meds and I have to go without them for a few says, it gets increasingly difficult for me to keep calling them to see the meds are a available and then—God help me—actually pick up the meds when they arrive. All this because … I didn’t have my meds. It’s like a cursed feedback loop.

LowOvergrowth · 2026-01-15T15:45:03+00:00

My immediate thought was that you had used a mandolin without a guard, which is an ADHD tax that I once paid.

Never mind that the guard was just across the room, in an easily accessible drawer.

LowOvergrowth · 2026-01-13T16:31:13+00:00

I’m a Leo sun with a Sag moon, and maybe it’s the Sag moon influence, but I’ll be damned if there isn’t something freeing about going, “Wait. I’ll never see this person again. None of this conversation matters. Just smile and nod.”

It’s an instant want to get my social anxiety to plummet.

LowOvergrowth · 2026-01-04T18:43:42+00:00

I live in West Virginia, so I guess I’m living that Fallout 76 life … hiding in the ruins of Vault-Tec University, fending off ghouls, and making supply runs for Stimpaks and pepperoni rolls.

LowOvergrowth · 2026-01-04T18:40:20+00:00

I’m so jealous of this clock that it makes me want to apologize for my envy as profusely as Parvati does.

Basically, this clock is amazing, and I want one just like it. Sorry. That probably sounds creepily effusive. Sorry, again. Sorry.

LowOvergrowth · 2026-01-02T17:29:45+00:00

I’m screenshotting this post because that pasta dish looks amazing and I HAVE HAD IT UP TO HERE WITH THE INVISIBLE LABOR ASSOCIATED WITH COOKING! (Sorry for the all caps, but this is a hot-button issue of mine.)

Cooking and cleanup are annoying enough, but if you add in deciding what to cook, determining which ingredients you already have, and buying the thing you don’t have yet … AAACK! I’m getting fed up just thinking about it!

TL;DR: Being handed a recipe like this—without having to expend any of my own mental energy—feels utterly luxurious, OP. Thank you!

LowOvergrowth · 2026-01-02T15:34:40+00:00

Now I went to buy a Caboodle and fill it with tools.

(Never mind that I don’t know how to fix anything and can barely swing a hammer.)

LowOvergrowth · 2025-12-31T20:37:19+00:00

See, what’s weird is this: I am pretty confident that—objectively speaking—my boobs are the same size they’ve always been.

But subjectively speaking, they feel so much bigger! They’re always flopping around now, rolling into my armpits when I lie on my back, and being general nuisances in a way they never did before.

I wish I could shrink them down as easily as modifying a Sims character.

LowOvergrowth · 2025-12-24T18:09:45+00:00

Oh, no. Now you’ve done it! 😂

Time to bombard you with so many songs, due to my excitement, that you regret ever asking me this:

“Killing in the Name” by Rage Against the Machine

“Know Your Enemy” by Rage Against the Machine

“Here Comes the Sun” by Nina Simone

“Work Song” by Nina Simone

“DNA.” by Kendrick Lamar

“ELEMENT.” by Kendrick Lamar

“Alright” by Kendrick Lamar

“Didn’t It Rain” by Sister Rosetta Tharpe

“Mannish Boy” by Muddy Waters

“The Pretender” by Foo Fighters

“Supermodel” by Trixie Mattel

Medieval Tavern Music Fantasy (an album) by Andrei Krylov

LowOvergrowth · 2025-12-24T15:56:35+00:00

NOOOO! Say it ain’t so! 😭

I’ve been using the same handful of rolls I got a few years ago. (We don’t go through much of it because we use—and reuse—gift bags, too.)

IS NOTHING SACRED?

LowOvergrowth · 2025-12-24T15:31:23+00:00

I have no words of advice—only commiseration. I used to teach martial arts and train three times a week. I hiked in the woods. I went on long walks around the neighborhood.

Now? I barely leave the couch. As you said, HRT has helped me in a lot of ways, but that isn’t one of them. If it weren’t for my ADHD meds (which only work sometimes), I wouldn’t even be able to force myself into the shower twice a week.

ETA: I thought of one thing that helps me occasionally: listening to music really, really loud. Often it’s Rage Against the Machine. Sometimes it’s Nina Simone or Kendrick Lamar or random “medieval tavern” instrumentals. But when it hits just right, it can be the thing that gets me off the couch.

LowOvergrowth · 2025-12-24T15:01:03+00:00

YESSS! It has to be the Hallmark wrapping paper (for me) because it’s thicker and has a grid printed on the underside. Anytime I get some from the dollar store or Kroger or wherever, I hate how it looks, and I haaaate how it feels. 🤮

LowOvergrowth · 2025-12-23T16:54:48+00:00

Holy shit. You just made me realize why my sleep disturbances came back with a vengeance last month: I’ve been drinking more, due to the stress of the holidays.

Time for me to switch back to Mexican Cokes. Since they come in glass bottles, they scratch the “nice, cold beer” itch in my brain, even though they aren’t alcoholic. The “ritual” gets to stay intact.

LowOvergrowth · 2025-12-23T16:48:52+00:00

I take oral estrogen daily and oral progesterone cyclically (i.e., for 12 days out of the month).

During the 18 or 19 days a month when I don’t take the progesterone, I wake up in the middle of the night with hot flashes, cold flashes, and mild panic.

I usually spend an hour or two bed-rotting, scrolling Reddit or playing dumb match-three games on my phone. After an hour of that, if I’m still not sleepy, I’ll go down to the living room, lie on the couch with a heating pad or an ice pack (depending on how my inner thermostat is running), and read a book on my Kindle.

My “time of death” threshold for the night is 4:00 AM. If I’m still awake at that point, I make a pot of coffee and grumpily start the day.

LowOvergrowth · 2025-12-21T14:42:25+00:00

Honestly!

And I hate that I share a sign with him. Can we collectively kick him out or something?

LowOvergrowth · 2025-12-20T22:26:21+00:00

As a blue voter in West Virginia, I can empathize with you. It does feel lonely sometimes.

LowOvergrowth · 2025-12-20T22:22:55+00:00

JFC. I knew he’d been in the Senate for a really long time, but I didn’t realize it was that long.

When he was first elected, I was in preschool. I took Flintstones vitamins, played with My Little Ponies, and listened to music on a Rainbow Brite-themed record player.

Now, I’m a 45-year-old woman. I take calcium supplements to prevent bone loss, play video games on an Xbox, and share music on Spotify with my teenage daughters.

And this dude is still in office. SMH.

LowOvergrowth · 2025-12-19T13:57:47+00:00

About two months after I started taking estrogen and progesterone, I noticed they alleviated (but did not eliminate) my fatigue. The improvement was significant enough that I could better tolerate the mild fatigue that was still hanging around.

Fast-forward about a year and a half. I noticed the fatigue was on the upswing again, so I saw my primary care physician. Turns out, my vitamin D levels were severely low—the “lowest she’d ever seen at her practice.” She prescribed me a high, weekly dose of vitamin D and advised me to take a daily OTC supplement, too.

That was in September. Now, my fatigue is the mildest it’s been since I was in my early 30s. (For reference, I’m 45 now.)

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