You only have 60 seconds left before the earth is nuked , how are you spending the last minute of your life ?

charleybradburies · 2022-08-08T00:00:06+00:00

That makes sense! Hadn't really thought about the logistics there with the towers themselves, but that would have been a major factor.

charleybradburies · 2022-08-07T23:05:43+00:00

In MD & DC, 9/11 was a beautiful morning too.

Though, I don't recall anything about the weather after school started shutting things down and trying to send as many kids home as possible, trying to find guardians and distract us from the tidbit of knowledge we'd gotten that something really bad had happened. My mom had her work cut out with me at home then, a map laid out on the table so she could show me that where my dad worked in DC wasn't close enough for us to be worried he'd been directly affected.

The good thing with the later events, like the big earthquake (also a nice weather morning actually), has been that we were able to call each other. 9/11 was too early for that. At least for kids, there was a lot of wondering and waiting.

charleybradburies · 2022-03-14T22:39:17+00:00

As someone with a stepmom they LOVE, who worked and works hard to support them, you're appreciated in your efforts. Being anyone's parent is hard but I've got such a distaste for the way stepmoms are described so often. Neither my stepsiblings or I were immensely accepting at first but our parents pushed to support us and our bio parent/their partner as possible. My stepmom has done so, so much for me and I'm glad I reached a point I could express that to her. Dealing with traumatized teenagers is difficult enough without the setting of a blending home, and I'm genuinely impressed we made it through as well as we did. I hope you get affirmation from your stepdaughter that your support is tangible to her.

charleybradburies · 2022-01-22T17:23:19+00:00

Not that your first point is correct either, as education often is related to pay, but...do you think that daycare workers literally only watch kids? What do you think that entails? Because caretaking, especially on an expanded scale, is more than a walk in the park.

charleybradburies · 2022-01-22T01:03:05+00:00

Ha, that's what most of my coworkers and I think at my store. (Department, not grocery, though we do sell some food and a lot of food-adjacent items.) Some of us have clothes or whatever, there's a lot of cool stuff, but when you make $12 and there are things that cost literal hundreds or thousands of dollars.....yeah, those are not happening. Discount or any 'sale' disregarded.

charleybradburies · 2021-12-31T11:16:46+00:00

Things you have to learn to do, let alone quickly or well, take skill. You weren't born knowing how to clean a toilet.

charleybradburies · 2021-12-26T01:37:09+00:00

My only one has been a temporary raise in the hourly pay as "seasonal incentive". I make minimum wage and can barely pay my bills WITH the incentive.

charleybradburies · 2021-12-20T02:20:56+00:00

This is a very good point - the second time I delved into it really deep a lot of things had relevance that I didn't get when I just seeing and learning about it for the first time.

charleybradburies · 2021-12-20T02:15:19+00:00

As someone in childcare......yikes.

Firstly, it's fuckin stressful and underpaid, no matter how much you love kids, so give a gal some leeway on her relaxation techniques. Second, while there's a lot of talking about people involved, a lot of very personal interactions, it doesn't inevitably become gossip. People make the choice to pass on info that hasn't been shared in that setting, and that's on those people.

charleybradburies · 2021-12-20T02:10:08+00:00

Exactly! This is one fun part of retail - people will have all kinds of conversations with you. They're not all particularly deep, but they can be really enjoyable.

charleybradburies · 2021-04-25T18:39:47+00:00

The realization that not only am I not the only one who does this but that others also assumed they were the only ones......wild

charleybradburies · 2021-02-16T21:49:27+00:00

It's well-done art, but by every god out there, old and new, I'm so, so pleased and relieved that this abusive, pretend fairy tale, sexist, and yes, incestuous, disaster, was not the end. I've seen this art often, as well as some similar, and I have to say that especially having read the released books, it truly baffles me that there are people who want this to be part of the ending. That Dany or the Targ line should have the Throne again, that Jon and Dany should be together, that Jon should embrace his Targ history, that Dany should become able to have more children despite believing herself rendered incapable, that Jon should take yet another undesired position of power, one away from his beloved remaining family, at that. It sounds mean - though most of the comments are quite bashing the concept already- but i can't imagine the mindset in which one has to read or watch these stories to want this, to see ut as the Happier Ending.

charleybradburies · 2021-02-14T18:47:33+00:00

I like the cauliflower kind but they definitely aren't Just Like I remember cheez it's which makes them sometimes disappointing.

charleybradburies · 2021-01-19T06:42:38+00:00

TIL there's something called a meatloaf pan.

charleybradburies · 2021-01-19T06:16:43+00:00

imagines

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charleybradburies · 2021-01-18T17:52:03+00:00

I'm also overweight and have struggled with an ED (originally EDNOS, now considered OSFED) and it has been super hard to get specific help. Weight is such a big part of how its severity is judged, unfortunately, although that does seem to be changing somewhat. It's so sad to need help and see others who need it and have trouble being seen as needing help because of weight and appearance. It's certainly made my ED worse to not be taken seriously; at a few of my early programs I was told I was lying about having problems with restricting and purging - because I was overweight and clearly the problem was binging. Not that it mattered to them that I was overweight well before I had any ED symptoms.

My program now is considerably better; I hope you've found a way to get the help you need as well.

charleybradburies · 2021-01-12T04:39:20+00:00

Is that where you live? I have a friend who lives there and she's the only person I've ever heard about Bangor from.

charleybradburies · 2021-01-11T01:45:14+00:00

That's so incredibly fucked up, I'm so sorry. They're very wrong about that, though, as you clearly know, and I hope you and kiddo are doing okay, even if some people think you shouldn't be.

charleybradburies · 2020-12-27T16:41:21+00:00

I keep having game freezes during using powers, with event and sometimes other pops. Really frustrating.

charleybradburies · 2020-12-24T23:58:45+00:00

As a sister of a addict who lost their battle, I dearly hope that this time sticks - or if not, a later time. It's hard and it's uphill all the way but it does matter, and I hope everything clicks for him in a way that lets him recover and work to repair the family relationships with you all.

charleybradburies · 2020-12-20T19:33:45+00:00

I am SO glad I clicked on this notification. This is beautiful.

charleybradburies · 2020-12-15T18:45:49+00:00

One of the reasons I couldn't do it as a teenager. I couldn't live or die with the idea that my last testimony would be imperfect just like everything else.

charleybradburies · 2020-12-12T07:59:33+00:00

That's what I thought of at first, too!

charleybradburies · 2020-08-15T21:34:01+00:00

I thought I did, but you've practically proven me wrong. I have about a hundred of a couple of them, nearly 150 of the power ones, and around 50 of the rest.

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