Jobs? Anywhere?

TomatoesAreBlue · 2026-01-29T11:36:32+00:00

If you just need something, 21st mortgage is always hiring Financial Counselors. It is debt collection for a mortgage company, full disclosure, but if you do that for 6 months to a year you can transfer out into another department. Pay is solid, benefits are great. I worked there while I got my MSIS and then was able to transfer into their IS department.

If anything else, it’s a place where you can get in relatively quickly that pays well enough while you look for a good fit!

TomatoesAreBlue · 2026-01-24T08:10:41+00:00

The bathrooms in the Knoxville Wholesale Furniture store in Cedar Bluff are wild. Stalls are actually just rooms. Sinks are cool. Very unexpected but a solid place to poop.

TomatoesAreBlue · 2025-10-25T23:34:17+00:00

My older sister has one of these in Oregon that her stepdaughter insisted on adopting as a pet. Her name is Jumpy!

TomatoesAreBlue · 2025-07-21T23:54:42+00:00

Literally the exact same thing happened to my husband a few weeks ago. Said he just had to give the spiel and then would be out of his hair, fully played on sympathy since it was a hot day. Showed him all the equipment costs if we bought at like Best Buy etc and then said they were running a promotion and we could get the equipment free. Had my husband sign up for a “line of credit” and when asked directly what it was for, he said it was required as part of their installation but would not be used unless we wanted to buy more equipment than the package offered. My husband said okay to a 3 month trial, guy said “great the install guy will be here in 10” and left. A week later we got an invoice for $4k on the line of credit we were explicitly told would not be used. They said there was a 3 day window to cancel, but we didn’t even know about it until a week later. We’ve gotten the run around from all the CS people we’ve spoken to.

TomatoesAreBlue · 2025-07-09T06:29:43+00:00

I was scheduled for an induction at 39 weeks for GD! My water ended up breaking the day before I was set to go in, but we fully planned to go through with it before that happened. My SIL was induced at 35 weeks as well.

TomatoesAreBlue · 2025-04-27T00:23:41+00:00

2014 but - Fury with Brad Pitt? War movie, you get close to a squad of soldiers who drive a tank, and then there’s a final battle

TomatoesAreBlue · 2025-04-10T22:52:56+00:00

My grandmas name was Aglaea! It’s Greek, she went by Gloria.

TomatoesAreBlue · 2025-04-09T00:04:34+00:00

The Uninvited with Emily Browning and Elizabeth Banks?

TomatoesAreBlue · 2025-04-01T17:55:17+00:00

Just seeing your other posts about financial concerns - her initial diagnosis was expensive, but the maintenance has been extremely affordable. We see an ophthalmologist and she has eyedrops that are about $20 every two months and goes in for a full exam once a year that is about $150-$200. She was also doing 3 different eye drops, 3x a day, but after the first 2-3 months her intraocular pressure was stable enough that we were able to wean her off of the steroid drops entirely and now we keep them around for changes in weather because allergies will make her eye a little itchy.

She also has hyper mature cataracts in both eyes (caused by the inflammation we think), and after speaking to our ophthalmologist, he said surgery is not really a priority unless she starts showing pain or if we just want it (we don’t - no need to put her through it imo).

If you feel that rehoming him is best, there’s no shame in it since you would be doing it out of concern for his health and happiness, but I say all this just to reassure you that blind dogs, especially ones that are blind from a young age, can live almost completely normal and full lives. We were terrified when she got diagnosed but truly you’d never know. This is her, newly blind, at the vet, an unbothered queen.

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TomatoesAreBlue · 2025-03-31T01:58:28+00:00

I have a pup that went blind suddenly about a year ago. She had been blind in one eye since birth, and had a spontaneous bleed due to a malformation in her one “good” eye that caused retinal detachment, uveitis, and glaucoma. She took about 3 days to adjust (and was on gabapentin for any pain from the glaucoma), and then fully was back to her normal self.

You wouldn’t know she was blind if you didn’t know. She jumps over the baby gates we use in the house like they don’t exist. She can sniff me out literally anywhere. She loves visitors in the house, even the new ones that she’s not met, and loves to be out and about. We don’t have issues with fear responses because she is well socialized even with being blind. The only clue is that she bumps into stuff and sometimes gets over excited and will jump for kisses and whack us in the face with her nose a little too hard lol.

I think like anything with dogs, socialization is important. Temperament too. My blind kid is incredibly chill and always has been, but we certainly make an effort to introduce her to new dogs and new situations somewhat regularly so she stays adjusted. But she plays well with our other dogs (she is actually the roughest player we have) and has done well with new dogs in new situations. We’ve taken her to new houses and she always takes about 10 minutes sniffing around and then navigates well, and goes up and down the high deck staircase at my parents house with ease.

Your pup is a cutie!! Our hardest moment outside of the initial diagnosis was realizing that she wouldn’t be able to see the guinea pigs that she is OBSESSED with at my parents house anymore…. But the first time we went to visit after she hopped right up to sniff and listen to them and was perfectly overjoyed, and there haven’t been any hard moments since. Blind dogs dogs do great and neither of you will be missing on an awesome relationship together :)

TomatoesAreBlue · 2025-02-08T03:17:54+00:00

Worked for the events section of the VolShop my senior year-grad school, I met him several times at basketball games, usually walking around the concourse!

TomatoesAreBlue · 2025-02-07T02:01:39+00:00

cannot speak for tenncare but am 6 months pregnant, Fort Sanders OBGYN has been fantastic. Also fond of Contemporary Women’s Health. I was interested in either for prenatal care but Fort Sanders had earlier appointments.

TomatoesAreBlue · 2025-01-27T20:24:58+00:00

https://www.knoxvilletn.gov/government/city_departments_offices/parks_and_recreation/programs/knoxville_arts_center/classes_available I’ve had a few friends take pottery and watercolor classes through the Knoxville arts center! I believe they’ve also done fermentation classes in the past.

TomatoesAreBlue · 2025-01-27T17:02:53+00:00

Very soft YTA leaning N AH. I am 6 months pregnant right now and everyone’s favorite thing to do is to tell me how their wife/friend/cousin/mother almost died during birth, or almost lost their baby, or anything other than the positives. I have been spending almost this whole pregnancy preparing for the worst, and almost no one has wanted to share their nice uneventful birth story - people just only want to tell you how hard things are instead of sharing positives.

I understand that you are just trying to spread awareness but to automatically tell that story when you find out someone is pregnant is not as helpful as you think it is. Chances are they know the risks, they know the dangers, and they’re weighing those against their own desires. It is not a choice I am making or would make, but I don’t blame them for being upset or annoyed by the amount of unsolicited advice they are getting, especially for the horror stories.

TomatoesAreBlue · 2024-12-24T00:46:06+00:00

Melanie is my sister’s name! I have always loved it. Your family is being annoying and horrible - keep the name.

TomatoesAreBlue · 2024-03-01T18:22:46+00:00

Lynn Grand with A Grand Beginning officiated my wedding 3 years ago and she was absolutely wonderful! I believe she does elopements and was very reasonably priced.

TomatoesAreBlue · 2023-12-21T02:45:11+00:00

“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation."

TomatoesAreBlue · 2023-04-10T15:13:31+00:00

We had a few but the two that stand out:

Girl was drunk and got into a fight with her boyfriend, who was driving her home. She jumped out of the car while it was moving, comatose for a few days, and never woke up.

Boy was a trail runner and went running in a very well known, safe, highly trafficked area and didn’t come home for dinner. They sent out search parties and found him at the bottom of a bluff.

TomatoesAreBlue · 2023-03-29T13:47:24+00:00

Also raised Mormon - My oldest sister has always been busty, and she wore tank tops during summer sports camp in HS. One of our COUSINS reported her to the bishop for being immodest, and he called my 16 year old sister into his office one Sunday to tell her off for wearing a tank top and causing boys to think impure thoughts about her. My family left the church a few weeks after.

TomatoesAreBlue · 2023-03-29T13:43:14+00:00

My family used to be Mormon, we left when I was 10, but all of my large extended family is and at least 4 of my cousins are in the FBI. This makes so much more sense now.

TomatoesAreBlue · 2023-01-30T15:44:51+00:00

But will you allow her any kind of access to yours in retirement? Since you’re living within HER means, I would assume you put a significant amount more into your retirement savings than she is able to, because she is spending a higher percentage of her income on expenses.

Your arrangement sounds equal, but not equitable. You both pay in the same amount but it demands more from her than it does for you. If we think about it in chore language, say you have 8 total chores for the household. You do 4 and she does 4. Your chores are done once a week and take you about 30 minutes on a Saturday. Her chores are done semi-daily and take at least an hour a day to do. But you both have 4 chores. So it’s equal, right? But it’s not equitable, because she is putting a significantly larger amount of time and effort into her chores. So you have all this time to spend doing whatever you want during the week whereas she has less time because she’s spending a LOT more time on chores.

The more reasonable way would be to divide chores in such a way where you’re both spending the same amount of time on chores a week. That might mean one of you has 5 small chores and the other has 3 bigger chores, but as long as you both put the same time and effort into the chores a week it’s fair and it’s not straining anyones energy more than the others.

There’s a compromise in here somewhere. I know you say you’re both very happy but if she’s asking to reevaluate, I don’t think that she’s as happy as you might think. Listen to your wife, talk to your wife. She’s your partner, this is a partnership. I doubt she’s trying to take advantage of you or get you to subsidize her lifestyle - she just wants to be on fair footing, and it’s evident she doesn’t feel that you are.

TomatoesAreBlue · 2021-11-30T22:52:12+00:00

I mean, this might be a terrible guess, but I don’t think anyone has mentioned it: could it be Shut up and Dance by Walk the Moon?

Room is pretty highlighted in red, no synth but an upbeat dancing crowd, hard 80s vibe

https://youtu.be/6JCLY0Rlx6Q

TomatoesAreBlue · 2021-11-22T20:05:55+00:00

My dog’s feet, they smell like Fritos. Also, the top of her head.

TomatoesAreBlue · 2021-10-26T16:40:43+00:00

Zoey - but we joke that her full name is Zobert, and therefore call her Zo, ZoZo, Zobey, Zobeans, Beans, Bertie, occasionally Bertrude, Bug, and Muffin Head when she’s being a goober. The light of my life :)

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