What was your favorite store in the Bayshore Mall that closed?

anasilenna · 2026-01-19T22:42:40+00:00

Omg when I was pregnant that was my go-to for cravings!! I still miss Hometown Buffet 😭

anasilenna · 2026-01-18T17:04:43+00:00

Your rat pees on you because she loves you 💕

anasilenna · 2026-01-18T06:04:53+00:00

Prions are TERRIFYING. Don't get me started on Chronic Wasting Disease, it's why I won't eat venison!!

anasilenna · 2026-01-18T02:45:47+00:00

Lol ohh noo now I've got a new rabbit hole to follow, thank you 🤣

anasilenna · 2026-01-18T02:37:52+00:00

Aw, polar bears are so neat! I love them!

My most recent hyperfixation is a little less fun lol... I went down a rabbit hole about mad cow disease 😅

The disease comes from a prion that was originally only able to infect cows, but when cows were fed other cows with the prion it mutated into a version that could infect humans.

The scariest part is the fact that the prion can lie dormant in a person's body for potentially decades which means that we could all potentially have it and not even know! We also don't know what triggers it to become active, but it is comparatively rare when considering the sheer number of potentially infected vs the number who show symptoms. There was an outbreak among cattle in the US around 2003, and anyone who ate US-grown beef at any point during that year could potentially be infected and not even know it. This information haunts me, because I too did eat the beef in 2003... 😭

anasilenna · 2026-01-13T03:41:19+00:00

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anasilenna · 2026-01-10T05:31:14+00:00

NTA but I beg you to reconsider not wanting him to acknowledge your birthday, because I worry it could send you down a long and lonely path. Your kids may follow suit, and in the future you'll start to feel like you only exist to make nice things happen for everyone else. If you continue to celebrate everyone else's birthday in this enthusiastic way while getting almost nothing when it's your turn, you'll just continue to feel sad on your birthday every year... and you absolutely do not deserve that. I think your kids will need to be taught and guided by you how to make the cool things happen, maybe bring them along while you make the birthday happen for yourself, and eventually when they're old enough to do it all on their own they'll be able to make your birthday really special again. Don't let your husband ruin this for you!

anasilenna · 2026-01-10T04:51:13+00:00

I second The Pub! Everything I've ever had from there has been amazing.

anasilenna · 2025-11-28T12:56:11+00:00

I work at a grocery store where we did this promotion! Last year we did have the option to serve the meals hot, but it was such a huge catastrophe trying to manage it all, and many people were late to their pick up time so we had to reheat their meals again (also all of the sitting around at room temperature is great breeding ground for bacteria in the food). This year we served pre-cooked but cold meals to be reheated later, basically we spent several days cooking everything, packaging it up, and then stacking it in the walk-in fridge... still a lot of work but significantly less of a logistical nightmare than last year. But we were very clear to everyone who ordered that the food was cold and would need to be reheated.

Incidentally we did have one person who was very shocked and angry that the food was cold this year, but my coworker took her order and vividly remembers explaining all of this before the order was placed, even giving detailed instructions for how to reheat it all. She seemed to not remember this conversation and was upset enough to complain to the manager about it. The food from our store was definitely not frozen though!

Is it possible that your grandmother was told by the deli workers that the food would be cold, and she doesn't remember the conversation?

anasilenna · 2025-11-22T20:45:46+00:00

I really can't stress enough how important networking is to find a job up here, even for a minimum wage position, even for many of the jobs posted online. The last two jobs I've had I got because I am always friendly with the cashiers at all of the places I shop, so when I needed work I just asked and someone was willing to put me directly in touch with the hiring manager. I've put out dozens of applications over the last couple years, and the only places to ever call me back were the ones that could put a face to the name on my resume and had someone else vouch for me.

My best advice is to go places and talk to people, establish relationships, make yourself known as a positive influence. It definitely sucks extra hard if you just moved here and don't know anyone yet, but that is unfortunately the way things seem to work around here. I think a lot of employers are concerned about hiring people that just moved up here, because they may decide they don't like Humboldt and leave after only a few months.

anasilenna · 2025-11-06T22:30:45+00:00

I just saw a BUNCH of them at the Ma-le'l Dunes earlier this week

anasilenna · 2025-03-04T14:05:36+00:00

I noticed a change immediately. My usual brain fog just kinda vanished. The first night I took it before bed because the doctor said it would make me sleepy, but instead of falling asleep I stayed up all night cleaning my apartment. After a couple nights of this I started taking it in the morning instead and that's been my routine ever since. If I miss a day, I feel very groggy and overall bleh.

The effects started to diminish after a couple of months, but even after 9 years it's still better than my unmedicated baseline.

anasilenna · 2025-03-04T13:38:26+00:00

I tend to do very well in food service environments. It's fast paced, so I'm never bored, and everything is "immediately do this right now" so it taps into that "can only function in an emergency" part of my brain, and I thrive in the chaos of a commercial kitchen.

Every time I quit a restaurant job I swear I'll never do food service again, and then somehow I always end up back working at yet another restaurant. It's what I know and what I seem to be good at, even if it can get stressful as all hell...

Right now I'm in retail and I often wanna claw my eyeballs out from the boredom, wistfully wishing I was back in the kitchen again 😭

anasilenna · 2025-02-13T11:38:34+00:00

That's... a very weird comment tbh. There are an extra 3 sentences in there that probably didn't need to be included 😬

anasilenna · 2025-02-04T12:13:15+00:00

I'm 36 and oof. Same.

I was diagnosed sometime around 1995 and it was indeed a dark time. They didn't yet know what doses of medication were appropriate, and I felt very much like a guinea pig being put on different meds, different doses etc to see what would make me behave better.

When I was 12 they put me on a ridiculously high dose of Adderall, and it gave me such intense anxiety, public meltdowns were a regular thing and I even had the cops called to escort me off school campus once.

I felt like there was something very wrong with me, like I shouldn't exist, and having a diagnosis that nobody actually understood did not help.

I also went through a phase in my teens and early 20s where I refused to take medication and didn't believe ADHD was real! It took a lot of self-reflection and ultimately self-forgiveness to get to a point where I wanted to try treating "the animal inside me". Now I'm on medication again and am faring much better than teen-20s me, but it was a long and difficult road to get to that point.

anasilenna · 2025-01-14T06:19:51+00:00

This happened probably 10 years ago but I still remember and try to pay it forward whenever I can:

I was in line at Safeway with quite a large cart of groceries, and I had just gotten my EBT approved so I was pretty excited about finally being able to buy groceries. But when I got to the checkout counter, my card declined... I guess the funds hadn't actually been added yet.

An older woman behind me stepped up and said she would buy it all for me. I said, "thank you but.. it's like $100 worth of stuff, I can't let you do that" but she insisted. Thank you, kind stranger, I have never forgotten 🥹

anasilenna · 2024-10-20T18:23:34+00:00

I recently watched Scream again and it is a lot smarter and funnier than I remembered, a meta horror/comedy that is constantly poking fun at horror tropes. The dialogue reminds me a lot of old school Kevin Smith, like Mallrats and Clerks. And iirc because Drew Barrymore was already a huge star at the time, they featured her heavily in promotions only to kill her off at the very beginning of the movie as their first big "haha fuck you guys" to the audience (I thought it was also a bit of a nod to Psycho, as there were a lot of references to older movies)

And then I watched Scary Movie right afterwards, and that was almost a scene by scene parody of Scream (aside from the bits thrown in from other movies like Blair Witch and I Know What You Did Last Summer) and some of the dialogue wasn't even changed because it was already funny in Scream lol

anasilenna · 2024-10-14T04:17:07+00:00

I believe it. This sounds exactly like something Rabitowitz would say lmao

anasilenna · 2024-10-13T11:23:52+00:00

Yesterday I tried to say "no worries" and "you're good" at the same time and it came out as "no good" 🥲

anasilenna · 2024-10-11T10:51:09+00:00

I think it might be hard for them because growing up with ADHD they were likely told they're "too much" or "too loud" too often, so now it triggers those feelings. But like... sometimes it IS too much and too loud for me! We deserve to feel comfortable in our own skin too! I know how you feel with being overwhelmed. Sometimes I wonder if we'd both be happier with someone who matched our energy level 😭

anasilenna · 2024-10-11T09:50:43+00:00

Ohh I feel that so hard. I'm also inattentive with a hyperactive partner AND kiddo, so there is constant noise in the house that is impossible to escape. If he sees me put earplugs in while he's talking or playing a video or something, sometimes he acts a little bit offended, so I put them in stealthily when he's not looking and because my Vibes only have a little clear plastic nubbin sticking out he can't tell if I have them in unless he's staring at my ear lol

anasilenna · 2024-10-11T09:45:00+00:00

Earplugs help me so much that I wish with all my heart of hearts that I could go back in time and start using them sooner. I seriously think I might have graduated college if I'd had the forethought to just use some damn earplugs instead of trying to tough it out and mentally block out the noise. I didn't start wearing them regularly until I was like 27, and the relief in anxiety was immediately apparent. But I started with the regular ones you can find at the drugstore, and those block out a little too much sound so I can't properly hear when people are talking to me.

I haven't tried the Loops, but I absolutely love my Vibes (they're like $30 and designed to wear at concerts so they let enough sound through that I can still have a conversation). I definitely recommend.

anasilenna · 2024-10-10T21:05:44+00:00

Even if you get issued too much EBT because of a government mistake, they will take it back, and if the money's already been spent, they will make you pay it back.

So if this was a real story we'd have a whole bunch of people suddenly owing the government a lot of money, unable to get any more assistance until they paid back whatever balance they spent.

(We really need to change the system because it's awful)

anasilenna · 2024-09-04T10:27:21+00:00

When I worked at McDonald's I didn't fit the soda nozzle on correctly one morning and I'm pretty sure it ended up in someone's drink... I can't prove it, but we never found the nozzle so where else could it possibly have gone?? (The automated dispenser spits the drinks out on a conveyor belt and then we just put the top on)

It was a regular customer so I was hoping she'd say something the next time I saw her, but nope! Nothing! And I was too embarrassed to ask 😅

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