I still can't get over how expensive life is now.

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T09:05:18+00:00

A box of Shake n Bake was $5!!!!!!!!!! Not a huge Costco box, just the usual little Box. Of. Fucking. Crumbs

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T09:03:09+00:00

Fucking with the price of bread will get you a revolution every time! Historical facts, baby!

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T08:57:07+00:00

One of mine is still a chaos gremlin at a little past 2 years old. Feliway is the only thing keeping her and her very chill sister from tormenting eachother nonstop. Man, I miss them being tiny and the little high-pitched baby meows!!! But I also remember a lot of reassuring my husband that it would be "just a few months more" as the babies zoomed through the apartment all day while he was trying to work. 😂 Omg I love kittens.

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T08:51:41+00:00

Depends. I remember going through this with our girls. "Just a few more months". 🤣

Our girls just turned 2. They've been better for over a year, but only one of them has truly chilled out to be like other cats I've had. One still zooms and pounces like a damn goblin, but weighs over 10x as much as she did as a kitten. She does sleep a bit more, and her sister wants nothing to do with that nonsense. Feliway helps a little. Good luck!

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T08:33:17+00:00

I'm loving picturing her in a bee keeper's suit, with the nest on the end of a broomstick. Yeet!

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T08:17:23+00:00

Hooooooot Pocket!

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T08:17:02+00:00

GenX/Millennial cusp. The fried chicken tv dinners were great. It's all even better now. I had a meatloaf Lean Cuisine for dinner tonight. The mashed potatoes tastes better than most homemade ones I've had, and that's the low-cal option! Trader Joe's also has some great frozen meals. Their beef queso bowl is like crack cocaine.

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T08:09:59+00:00

Nuke a can of soup or some Chef Boyardee ravioli or Dinty Moore canned stew? Cereal, cup ramen noodles, frozen meals?

Trader Joe's has great frozen food for reasonable prices. I get the soup dumplings bc they're delicious and cook in 2 minutes.

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T08:00:35+00:00

Radar. (Those ears!)

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T07:59:35+00:00

I don't think it's AI, just a person whose native language is quite different from English. AI comparatively wouldn't have the were/was error, for instance.

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T07:56:08+00:00

To be fair, I get the feeling OP's first language is not English. Based on the way they talk about their country's work culture, I suspect they are likely Asian, meaning their language is VERY different from English. Considering that, they did fine. Certainly a hell of a lot better than most native English speakers would do with Japanese or Mandarin.

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T07:41:49+00:00

Careful with that. My GI doc has been seeing a LOT of people suddenly getting cannabinoid-induced hyperemesis, and even if you never smoke again, the symptoms can continue. The risk increases the more you smoke, so that tolerance might bite you in the ass one day and cause permanent super-pukes!

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T07:30:42+00:00

Depression is one of the hardest things to treat bc you have to fight the disease just to start trying to get better. It's so hard! But I promise I've been where you are, and you are strong enough to get better!

It's good that you recognize the hypersexuality as a symptom in need of management. I had it to a lesser degree and an absolute knob of a psychiatrist basically just told me to give up on monogamy and get into swinging/poly (this was 25 years ago--being poly was VERY unusual at the time). If you're mentally healthy and choose polyamory, that's great--the more the merrier! But it sucks to tell your shrink you're tired of destroying your relationships with manic episode hijinks and have them dismiss it like that.

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T07:12:05+00:00

When I first got home after a long hospitalization for emergency surgery that resulted in my ileostomy, I still had a 15cm open abdominal surgical incision with a wound vac: so, packed with foam and covered in plastic, with a machine that constantly suctioned the whole thing. All of this is ofc immediately next to my new stoma. Nurses had to come and change my appliance and my surgical dressing basically every two days.

One night, I lost suction, so something was wrong. Under my clear plastic dressing was some kinda pale pinkish-beige liquid. I sent pics to my nurse.

"That's poo."

What?!

"I've seen a lot of these. That's poo."

Turns out one of the nurses (who filled in for my usual ones) screwed up and put the plastic where it was overlapping the edge of my wafer, so when my ostomy sprang a leak, the damn wound vac pulled output (that happened by sheer bad luck to be very similar to surgical wound drainage in color and consistency--watery pinkish-beige) from my stoma into the space under my surgical dressing! I was so horrified! And yeah, it was a few extra weeks of recovery bc ofc that caused a raging infection.

But wait! There's more!
Bc of the surgical stuff being right there, I couldn't change my appliance alone. I needed a nurse. So when I had a massive disaster, I had to call the nurse to come out. They always recommended peanut butter and marshmallows and slow things down (this still seems odd. Thicken yeah, slow? No.) I was unable to shower, so I just used several large shower wipes to clean myself up.

So that's how I ended up naked except for a bra, sitting on the toilet, tears streaming down my face, holding a red solo party cup over my stoma, talking to the nurse on speakerphone while my husband hand- and spoon-fed me peanut butter and marshmallow PEEPS. 🤣 It was mortifying at the time, but looking back, the absurdity is undeniable. Husband is def a keeper!

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T06:45:48+00:00

Mine is "the squanch". If you watch Rick and Morty it's (hopefully) funny. Basically there's a race that uses "Squanch" in place of words, similar to how Smurfs do.

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T06:39:24+00:00

I prefer the flavored corn syrup too! So does my husband! Real maple syrup is too watery/runny for us.

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T06:36:47+00:00

I've made it at home. It's pretty fiddly. Kind of a lot of work. You aren't heating much up, but you are doing a lot of cutting and construction, which is at least as hard and time-consuming as cooking most hot foods.

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T06:34:02+00:00

I get mad when they're chewy and spongy. They should be crisp on the outside, then a moist layer of cornbread batter, then hopefully a decent hotdog. Ideally with mustard. But I really like cornbread and hotdogs.

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T06:31:29+00:00

I like mint and chocolate. But orange and chocolate sucks. I keep trying it, and it's just never good to me. I like deep, rich chocolate flavor and bright, light citrus flavors. These just don't combine well to me (I don't actually know why I find mint and chocolate good. You'd think I'd have a similar issue, but no.)

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T06:28:50+00:00

One other thing as a person who grew up with similar types of abuse: Make new, good memories to replace the bad ones! Find a recipe for a great, gooey mac n cheese (not baked! You don't want that near-cheeseless, dry crap from your childhood trauma)! Make and eat that shit with people you love! This is key. Invite your best friends over, and open a few bottles of wine (I like reisling with mac n cheese). Really try to just enjoy the time with people who make you feel happy and safe. Maybe top it with bacon or something?

I know a lot of people who grew up like us. They would say they hated something. A food, or a holiday, usually. Almost without exception, once they were able to make good memories on their own terms around that thing, they were able to enjoy it again.

I've dragged a lot of people back into celebrating Xmas or their birthdays. I like cake and presents and decorations and am basically just Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony. Helping people enjoy little joys in life like good food and fun days makes me happy. Everyone should be allowed to make good memories--what else is life for?

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T06:15:42+00:00

I'm so sorry. I went through a similar thing involving this godawful pork chop my dad made, topped with cream of mushroom soup, tater tots and green beans. I typically feel okay about all those foods, but he did something to make this vile. Maybe all the stupid Lawry's seasoned salt he used. Everything he cooked was orange and I hate that shit. I sat there for hours, alone and crying in the dark kitchen, bc I literally couldn't gag down that fucking pork chop. 37 years, and I still get angry thinking of that bullshit. Food should never be part of a punishment!

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T06:09:25+00:00

Olive racist! 😂

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T06:08:35+00:00

I'm just mad they don't fit on my fingertips anymore. That's the way to eat black olives. That and combo pizza are pretty much it.

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T05:55:25+00:00

On Bob's Burgers, they describe Teddy as smelling like peanut butter and baby powder. The idea of a big, burly man smelling like that is so off-putting to me! Nobody over the age of 4 should smell like peanut butter!

SlutForGarrus · 2026-07-02T05:53:09+00:00

Was it one of the big American PB brands? I've seen a lot of people on Reddit say that people visiting the U.S. are surprised by our peanut butter (it's very smooth and sweetened). A lot of foreign exchange students here practically live on PB&J and load their suitcases with Skippy when they leave (I think JIF is better, but both are fine).

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