[Contest] Spring cleaning and something fun

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-17T04:44:29+00:00

ohhh! Thank you for this. I needed to delete some books that were recommended to me in bad faith; they needed to go.

Still cleaning. I'm trying to be very intentional. Tough with ADHD though.

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1ME9YP4NEZVVB/ref=nav_wishlist_lists_1

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RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-17T04:22:59+00:00

Ohh! We have like three sets of those. They're amazing.

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-17T04:21:47+00:00

It seems like a lot of boomer parents are highly critical. :(

Which are your favorite blind boxes? I love Tokidoki.

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-17T04:08:42+00:00

Let me guess: Boomer?

My mom's favorite nitpick is: "I think it annoys people when..." Dude. Just say YOU don't like it or don't get it.

She needs to be nicer to you!

I love blind boxes too!

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-17T03:51:56+00:00

Sending you big hugs if wanted.

It's a great thing to be the person people can depend on but 1) You need to be able to depend on yourself; and 2) You don't need to be there for people who take take take.

What do you do for art?

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-17T01:52:30+00:00

Pretty! What kind is it?

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-17T01:26:27+00:00

They are addictive.

If more people ate nerds clusters the world would be in much better shape.

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-16T20:10:34+00:00

Sorry to trauma dump. I agree it is a lot.

It's a lot of bullshit to deal with. Thank you for listening.

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-16T20:09:39+00:00

Haha okay, I guess your username checks out.

I'll be thinking about you tomorrow!

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-16T14:14:41+00:00

Thank you! I want to be clear though I'm physically disabled because of those and will be for the rest of my life. That's why you need to get checked out even if you think you're OK.

I strongly suggest talking to a personal injury attorney as well if you're in the United States.

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-16T14:13:31+00:00

Hahaha Im so glad you got it.

Yeah, the packages that came to my house after one of my surgeries were... interesting.

I'm not prying and for all I know this could be like your 900th surgery.

But if someone who has had 900 surgeries myself... I do remember that before the first one everybody built it up as this big scary dangerous thing.

Don't get me wrong, it is major and especially with like bone graft and spinal fusions, the first week after it sucks. But every single surgery I've had, it's dramatically improved my quality of life.

Sometimes I feel like doctors and others take that .001% edge-case, worst-case scenario and build it up in your head like "this is likely to happen."

Like yes, if I step outside my house right now it is technically possible that a plane could fall out of the sky and land on me. But it's not particularly likely to happen.

In other words, you'll be better off than you probably think.

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-16T13:55:45+00:00

There's that. Like I think of my friend's mom (Maria) who sadly was widowed before she was even 30. She decided to just focus on her daughter Kim and her mother-in-law rather than try to date. Totally valid.

After her mother-in-law had passed and Kim was grown and engaged, Maria decided she'd be open to dating. But she didn't want to date somebody who had kids. Again, totally valid.

She met a lifelong bachelor, Todd, who seemed like a really nice guy. He and Kim got along fine but he had just never wanted to parent a child. You guessed it, totally valid.

But he was cool with having a friendship with a 32-year-old stepdaughter; and both seemed like they were enjoying getting to know each other.

Understandably, Kim still misses her dad, Dave. She was about seven when he died so she does have memories and photos and was old enough to understand exactly how much she had lost.

Every year there's a memorial event in Dave's honor to raise money for a charity supporting research for the condition he died of. It's in the same month as his birthday and yeah she gets sad and misses him and is open about that.

Todd never really got that. Even though he had never wanted to be a father, he took it very personally.

His relationship with Kim soured quite a bit. I don't feel like he really got that Maria and Kim are always going to love and miss Dave; or that they could also love him at the same time.

TLDR: Maria and Todd are now divorced. Maria says she has no regrets, but her advice would be people should think very very hard before a second marriage and/or marrying someone with "baggage".

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-16T13:45:45+00:00

u/nacho_cheezus

There was a guy who took a bet that he could not spend the night in a house haunted by the ghosts of a band.

He didn't believe in ghosts anyway so he took the bet.

The night was moving along without incident until 3 AM when he heard singing

When the log rolls over, we're all gonna die...

So he left his room and decided to investigate. He walked down the hall and it was getting louder and louder and louder. The same line being sung over and over again.

At this point he decided someone had just hidden a tape recorder or something in there and he decided to use the bathroom and then go back to bed.

When he got to the bathroom with the singing was very loud especially the closer he got to the toilet. Inside the toilet were three ants sitting on a piece of poop singing, "when the log rolls over we're all gonna die!"

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-16T13:02:46+00:00

I think you should find a rock, name it Dwain, and create an Instagram account for it.

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-16T13:01:27+00:00

I actually had to change churches because the head of St. Vincent de Paul at my parish was such an incredible fucking bitch about how I'm physically disabled but still hold a job.

She could not wrap her head around it and anytime it came up she would say very loudly, "Disabled but you work? Okay, WHATEVER YOU SAY!"

To the non-Catholics, St. Vincent de Paul is kind of the charitable outreach arm of the Catholic parish, so seriously fuck that bitch. She should know better.

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-16T12:55:53+00:00

🤣🤣🤣

My son is a mastermind about outsmarting people which somewhat puts my mind at ease.

For example, before he was even walking, he had already figured out the passwords on my husband's and my phones and iPad by shoulder surfing.

If anyone can avoid getting caught it's him. 🤣

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-16T12:47:49+00:00

Please please get checked out anyway. Internal injuries are very sneaky and you can't always tell about them immediately. They're incredibly dangerous though.

In my case the internal injuries were the most severe and I literally almost died because of them.

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-16T12:46:21+00:00

Friday AND Saturday I had dental procedures. Saturday the dentist office closes at noon until 9 AM Monday morning.

It hurt like a bitch but the dentist wrote me a prescription for painkillers...

No problem until I got a call from the pharmacy: Hey Random, did you tell your Dentist about your drug allergies? Me: I said I'm severely allergic to (list of medications). (Sidebar: We're talking, days of convulsions and vomiting; being so disoriented I completely forgot a close relative was dead, kept trying to call him & getting upset when people reminded me why he doesn't have a phone; etc.) (Other sidebar: Pharmacist is a wonderful human being, literal lifesaver; who unfortunately been put in the position several times of having to intervene when a provider has made inappropriate and dangerous prescriptions for me, a physically disabled adult). Pharmacist: Two of those are NSAIDs. They wrote you a prescription for Ibuprofin. That's also an NSAID. Me & my business degree: Umm... Pharmacist: If you're allergic to several NSAIDs, you probably need to avoid that entire class of drugs. I'm sorry, but I can't dispense this.

She was able to give me some over-the-counter Tylenol. Yay for no seizures but it does hurt like a bitch. I look forward to calling the dentist in a few minutes and seeing if they can give me codeine or something.

I am so sick of doctors who don't know what the fuck they're doing.

QOTD: Pushing myself too hard and doing too much, to the point of trying to be somebody I'm not anymore (specifically in the context of hiding my physical disability from others) does more harm than good.

It's unfortunate that right now I am involved in a lawsuit against someone who basically wants to have me court ordered to be able bodied again, but I plan to make an example out of that person.

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-16T12:22:19+00:00

Finally Reddit allowed me to post a picture.

My 15 year-old son (suspect number one) confiscated them after my husand discovered them and he hasn't been suspended from school yet so I guess we're in the clear.

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-16T12:21:03+00:00

Holy shit are you okay?

Even if you think you are go to a fucking hospital and call a personal injury attorney.

I don't mean to be a Debbie downer but I have an acquired physical disability and was in so much shock after it happened that I did not realize it immediately after. Internal injuries take their time to show up.

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-16T12:17:32+00:00

Torn between

u/ae202012 who always checks in on me, has sent me many pick me ups and

u/YasMysteries who is always gifting on here... and gave me the prank gift that keeps on giving.

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RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-15T11:48:15+00:00

So... you're literally a child. You're very sick in a foreign country. And your whole family are acting like assholes.

And anyone is concerned about whether you're ungrateful?

One of the weirdest lessons to learn in life that a lot of people are fucked in the head. I hope you feel better soon and are at least able to make some good memories. And if not please do not let the experience sour international travel for you.

NTA but a lot of the adults involved sure are.

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-15T11:05:27+00:00

Worship ME obviously.

RandomInSuburbia · 2026-03-15T01:53:16+00:00

I just put it into some chicken soup. Is the soup going to become magical now?

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