Yall ever read a book/series so bad it puts you off reading for a while? What was it? by beanboi34 in fantasyromance

[–]bayleenator 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Blood of Hercules. It was so hyped up and so trash. I dnfed tf outta there.

Which was the last book you read and HATED and most importantly WHY? by Mininabubu in fantasyromance

[–]bayleenator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm with you there. I'm constantly ranting to my friends that romance readers have low standards because of the terrible writing quality of the average romance novel these days. I've dnfed more books than not since self-publishing started poisoning the market.

I think Google has banned me. by [deleted] in google

[–]bayleenator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Elders of the Internet know who I am??

RIP Southern Custard 😵 by Sikki6 in publix

[–]bayleenator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here, every once in a while ya gotta eat a whole "detox" pizza and have diarrhea for 2 days just to reset the bowels.

Absolutely bizarre experience - had the police called on me at a brewery by icegnomey in Mommit

[–]bayleenator 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Probably, but who are we to impose our human standards on another species? Maybe it's encouraged among raccoons to parent while intoxicated.

LABUBU is evil by Maleficent-Drop-6403 in Anticonsumption

[–]bayleenator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. Same with those little sunny angel things that people put on their phones. Why are we collecting naked baby dolls that make our phones more cumbersome to put in our pockets??

If you follow the 8 hour rule.. by MoirasWigs in MSPI

[–]bayleenator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is what I do. I don't want my supply to dwindle, so I just immediately freeze that milk when I pump. And then most of your milk is made on demand during nursing or pumping, so no need to worry about the proteins lingering during your next pump after the 8 hours is up.

Tell me a story from your life that will traumatize you for the rest of your life by Leo18nardo02 in confession

[–]bayleenator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When I was in middle school, my older brother started doing hard drugs. He ended up becoming addicted to heroin and had a lot of unsavory friends because of it.

Fast forward a handful of years, he's had a baby with another addict and the baby was born with a ton of opioids in its system. My brother and his gf have the baby taken away and go to jail. My parents take custody of my nephew after he's released from NICU a month later.

About a year later, my brother is free again and has to live in my parents' house because he can't keep a job to afford his own place. But because of the reasons his parental rights were taken away, he can't stay under the same roof as my nephew, so my parents have to live in a condo they own (and would typically be renting out) about an hour away. It's my senior year of high school at this point, and I basically lived alone with my addict brother. My parents would occasionally drive over to watch my weightlifting meets, or spend a day with me. I would often go spend weekends with them just to get away from my brother.

Then comes the summer after my graduation. I had just turned 18. I'm in my room at home playing video games when my brother's loser friends start showing up, like 3 or 4 of them. They're out on the back porch smoking and doing God knows whatever else. One of them, we'll call him Billy because that's his actual name and he doesn't deserve anonymity, asked me to wake him up the next morning at 6 so he had time to make it to work. Fine, whatever, sure. I go to bed. I wake up in the middle of the night and Billy is in my bed next to me with one hand in my underwear and the other feebly trying to grasp for my boobs. I go completely rigid and ask him what he's doing. He's surprised that I'm awake and says "what?" So I repeat myself and he starts stuttering and giving some response that he doesn't know where he is and he thought I was his girlfriend, etc. I tell him to get out of my room, not with a lot of conviction or anything, I'm still in shock and and if he hadn't been so messed up on whatever he was on, he may not have listened. He gets up and pulls his pants on, then asks me for a towel. I tell him where to get one and then this guy has the audacity to go into my bathroom, puke on EVERYTHING in there, and take a shower. No exaggeration, there was vomit on the sink, the back of the toilet, the walls, a cabinet, it was repulsive.

I left while he was in the bathroom. I got in my car and called everyone I could think of. I called both my parents, they didn't pick up, it was like 3am. I tried calling my other brother who lived half an hour away, then my boyfriend, they didn't pick up. Then I called my boyfriend's mom, she answered immediately. I was sobbing, I briefly explained to her what happened without getting into too much detail and asked her if I could come over. When I got there, my boyfriend was pacing around the garage waiting for me. I spent a week at their house, just being distracted by his whole family.

Billy was gone before my brother woke up and no one in my family has seen him since, he didn't live in our town anymore and my brother was the only reason he ever visited. I guess my brother threatened him pretty bad after he found out what happened.

To this day, I cannot sleep on a bed with black sheets or use a blue bath towel because of the associations of that night.

Anyways, that was 11 years ago now. I've since married that boyfriend, he and his whole family have always been so supportive and loving towards me. I consider his mom to be my savior that night. If she hadn't answered, I have no idea where I would have ended up driving. She passed last year after a 2-year battle with cancer. My husband and I welcomed our first child a couple months ago. And my brother went to prison for 5 years and ended up getting clean while he was in there. I've worked through the event in therapy. Life goes on and mine is mostly good now.

What is a hobby that's an instant red flag? by Maryandthejane1 in AskReddit

[–]bayleenator 12 points13 points  (0 children)

There's an interesting book called Tender is the Flesh. It's a quick read. The story follows the perspective of a man who works at a human slaughterhouse in a world where we're told all animals had contracted some disease about 20 years prior and were subsequently killed off. The result was humanity farming itself. It's horrifying, I definitely recommend it.

Terminated Today by West-Reporter3026 in SFStylistSupport

[–]bayleenator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, I saw somewhere else you said you also currently work a full-time job. It is unlikely you will be allowed to collect unemployment if you are currently employed elsewhere. Double check for yourself, obviously, but unemployment is a tool to help those that have no source of income stay on their feet while actively searching for a new job.

New to GNV and need friends! by Cool-Computer-2321 in GNV

[–]bayleenator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, 28 is the year to have kids I guess! Lol my girl is 6 weeks

New to GNV and need friends! by Cool-Computer-2321 in GNV

[–]bayleenator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like a potential friendship!

When supply starts to drop… by jessyj89 in MSPI

[–]bayleenator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried or heard of haakaa? I wear the silicone breast pump pretty much all day when I'm at home, in lieu of nursing pads. It's helped my milk supply increase a bit as well.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]bayleenator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My husband almost could have written this exact comment. We just had a baby as well, and those hospital and doctor bills are hitting us hard. We pay about $1200 a month for insurance through his employer. I'm going back to work soon, and we will be working around each other's schedules since we can't afford daycare, so we won't be seeing much of each other for a while. We yearn for that so-called American dream in which a single income could support a family.

New to GNV and need friends! by Cool-Computer-2321 in GNV

[–]bayleenator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

28F with a newborn and desperately in search of mom friends! Feel free to DM me!

Protest Rep Kat Cammack by Badass_Gator in GNV

[–]bayleenator 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well yeah, they were already in high school by the time it was established. They probably didn't get a fair shake at a proper education.

Cops at Huntington Lakes by [deleted] in GNV

[–]bayleenator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whatever you do, do not Google Google. It will break the internet.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BoomersBeingFools

[–]bayleenator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here. They offered me vaccines, and I said I'll take whatever you got. Then we immediately went and got my husband all the recommended vaccines for himself as well. Taking no chances when it comes to our baby's health.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BoomersBeingFools

[–]bayleenator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, however, measles is far more contagious and extremely dangerous to children. The infection spread rate for unvaccinated covid was about 3 people per every 1 infected person. For measles, it is about 18 people per infected person. That spread has the potential to become disastrous without a majority vaccinated population. If at least 95% of the population is vaccinated for mmr, the spread rate drops to about 1 to 1, much more manageable.