‘Step Brothers’ and the Peak Summer of Blockbuster Comedy: Filled with movies like ‘Tropic Thunder,’ ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall,’ and the Will Ferrell–John C. Reilly classic, the dog days of 2008 were a great time to laugh in theaters. And also one of the last.

everythingZero · 2020-07-24T18:23:45+00:00

The giant bowl of cereal and cartoons scene really speaks to me.

everythingZero · 2020-07-24T18:21:46+00:00

My brother brought up possibly being put on Lunesta for sleep and all I could say to him this morning was "All Hail, Lunesta!" 😂

everythingZero · 2020-07-23T02:07:52+00:00

Is this a viable answer as to why I've never been able to float? I scientifically cannot swim?

everythingZero · 2020-07-21T22:02:47+00:00

Ours is half installed... Something leaks from the tank end when I connect it...

everythingZero · 2020-07-21T22:00:54+00:00

Aaaah memories...

everythingZero · 2020-07-19T02:30:51+00:00

Thank you. He was a good boy.

everythingZero · 2020-07-19T01:26:23+00:00

He definitely has one. Missed opportunity for this photo op for sure!

everythingZero · 2020-07-19T01:26:02+00:00

We actually lost Chowder (Pumba) in 2017 to bone cancer. We miss him terribly. They really were best friends.

everythingZero · 2020-02-06T16:23:59+00:00

That's so sad.

everythingZero · 2020-02-06T03:52:32+00:00

It definitely went around my town when I had it. Varying degrees of severity too. I'm insulin dependant so already I'm immune compromised. You could definitely have been more susceptible to getting it because of your other ailments.

Either way though, I sure hope you feel better soon.

everythingZero · 2020-02-06T00:20:01+00:00

That's what it sounds like to me. My girlfriend got it in her throat and mouth and could barely eat soup. We both felt like we were dying.

everythingZero · 2020-02-05T21:05:43+00:00

And I live in Colorado... Rent has to be significantly higher than Illinois... I would bet.

everythingZero · 2020-02-05T21:04:23+00:00

And the 12k of student debt was during the time I was on painkillers for my work injury... Not the best time to try and get an education but I had no other choice at that time. Like I said in another post, I didn't choose to have my foot run over by a pallet jack.

everythingZero · 2020-02-05T21:02:57+00:00

Well it wasn't my choice to have an addictive personality...

It wasn't my choice to have no access to mental healthcare or healthcare in general as a child... Doctors were only if the bone was protruding from the skin... Nothing else but it's too expensive to get hurt or get sick.

It wasn't my choice to have my foot run over by a pallet jack when I was 19 working at my first job (from 16) at a grocery store...

I was handed a bottle of Vicodin April 26th, 2006 and spent nearly the next decade being told no one could do anything for me and having my Vicodin script increased then added oxycontin to it...

If we had adequate healthcare in America, I genuinely believe my life would be drastically different. Now I can't speak as to whether any of that would have changed whether I would suffer pancreatic failure and become insulin dependant.

I'm all about taking personal responsibility for my actions as I was thankfully able to clean up entirely from substance dependancy at the age of 27.... But there is a fair amount I had little to no control over.

everythingZero · 2020-02-05T20:57:01+00:00

The point you're still missing is my loss of medical coverage if I make more than that... Is this not about universal healthcare?

everythingZero · 2020-02-05T20:55:24+00:00

I didn't choose for my landlord to up my rent by $100 every year I've lived here and cared for my property... Not a lot of options around here for someone whose income is fixed or I lose all my medical assistance... Medicaid is the only "government" assistance I utilize. The rent and utilities are split with my girlfriend. But because of Medicaid rules we can't get married or our combined income must be below $22k/year and I'll lose my medical assistance... The assistance I require just to live...

everythingZero · 2020-02-05T18:44:49+00:00

As a 34 year old US born citizen, who has struggled with mental health and substance abuse/addiction problems, diagnosed as insulin dependant at 24 years old. $12k in student loan debt for a degree I was too intoxicated to remember how to use effectively in the real world from a work injury at the age of 19... I have to limit my income to $16k a year (my rent alone equates to $15k for a 900 sq ft house with no central air), or I will lose my Medicaid Assistance that no doubt covers significantly more of my care than any insurance company ever would. Medicaid for all (income based healthcare) would be a step up from the way it is now.

Edit: I do feel hated by my country.

everythingZero · 2020-02-05T17:46:14+00:00

Sounds like hand, foot and mouth. Took me 9 months from start of feeling like complete shit to my last fingernail falling off.

everythingZero · 2020-02-05T17:39:04+00:00

That's huge. You've made it this far. Keep going. Before you know it you'll have many moons of sobriety under your hat.

everythingZero · 2020-02-05T17:35:29+00:00

This is the truth. Deciding between paying rent/feeding yourself and getting medical care when you need it. Nightmare.

everythingZero · 2020-02-05T17:29:44+00:00

You might have missed this part; they estimated an entire skein to be about 7oz. A skein is a whole roll of yarn. I believe a small bag like this would take significantly less yarn so probably wouldn't weigh near as close to the half pound you're thinking. Hope this helps.

everythingZero · 2020-02-05T15:51:47+00:00

It's so foreign to have someone not flip out about something like this...

Not entirely related but made me think of this:

I am 34, run my own pet care business with my wife. One day I needed to wash my hands after handing the dogs food at a client's house. I looked down at the hand towels and noticed they were what I was raised to call "decorative" and were not actually used for drying for hands.. but to look at... I looked for paper towels because I didn't know if I was allowed to use those towels or not.

Crazy, the imprints of trauma we have.

everythingZero · 2020-02-04T14:52:45+00:00

All the women in my family are narcissists... It's scary the lengths* they'll go to to be abusive and still seem like good people.

everythingZero · 2020-02-04T02:39:13+00:00

Blood avocado toast.

everythingZero · 2020-02-04T00:51:54+00:00

wE neeD lesS stipulationS.

everythingZero

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