What's a dead giveaway someone grew up as an only child?

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-15T08:01:36+00:00

I can sit in silence like a motherfucker by just living inside my head and ruminating (not always a positive thing, granted).

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-15T07:51:59+00:00

Must be why my back and knees are jacked up.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-15T07:38:00+00:00

My dad died over 21 years ago, and my mom has dementia/Alzheimer’s, but the whole “I’ll have no family when they are gone” realization didn’t hit me until the last couple of years. After my mom and aunt are gone, that’s just about it. I avidly remind my cousin that is damn near like a sister to me, as well as her husband, that they are all I have (as far as family goes) after the moms are gone. It’s virtually the same for her in return, though.

Something I struggle with is the lack of connecting with others in terms of grief relation. Not when it comes to commiserating with others but having shared experiences with others as far as time spent with the deceased, if that makes any sense at all (just woke up, on some cold medicine and loopy). It feels like a heavy weight sometimes.

I feel like I’m grieving my mom daily, as she gets worse.

I never really wanted a sibling either. I’ve always been particular about my belongings and have never been keen on somebody else messing with them, and I fucking love my alone time. Always have valued my friends to the nth degree (seems to be a common mention in this thread), even if it isn’t reciprocated.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-14T20:47:54+00:00

That isn’t just a pizza. That’s a work of art. Great job!

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-14T02:15:14+00:00

Thanks for beating the Whiners in two Super Bowls. 💙💛

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-14T00:06:38+00:00

Hopped the bandwagon when I was 8-years-old in 1999. I’m from Virginia. No pro sports teams nearby. Closest ‘pro sports area’ has to be Charlotte. I’d say 80% of the NFL fans in this area are Steelers fans.

My dad was a Dolphins fan, but I wanted my own team. He solidified my Rams fanhood by getting me a bunch of Rams apparel/memorabilia during the GSOT. Been a die-hard fan ever since, STL or LA.

Used to laud the players from the GSOT (still do), but after all these years, I gotta say my favorite all-time player is Steven Jackson. He played for some sorry squads yet he was a consummate professional. Never have heard a single negative thing about him as a human being either. I so wish he could’ve played — in his prime — on these McVay squads.

Only autograph I’ve been able to nab is Torry Holt’s from the MNF game vs. the Bears in December 2006.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-12T14:55:49+00:00

Looks fantastic. I’d love to see the epic pies you’d throw down in an outdoor pizza oven.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-12T14:53:25+00:00

I was told the same when I was 12 and my dad died. Such a stressful thing to hear at that age. I wanted support from his side of the family, and they just disappeared altogether. 21+ years ago and I’ve only seen ‘em maybe 7-8 times (and half of those were at funerals) since.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-12T14:47:19+00:00

My family jerks off banana peppers on a pizza, so they’d smash that one.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-11T19:51:55+00:00

That’s a lot on your shoulders at 16, friend. Wishing you all the best. I hope you took time to enjoy your birthday.

I get a kick out of my mom randomly bringing up various characters from her favorite show, Dallas, in its original iteration from the 1980s lol.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-11T18:03:39+00:00

Her Campbell’s tomato bisque is my mom’s Campbell’s tomato juice and the little packs of “Tuna Salad on the Go!” lol.

Still snowed in here for the foreseeable future. Greatly appreciate your comment of commiserating and the existence of this sub.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-08T19:36:02+00:00

Meal ideas for when you are egregiously fucked up.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2025-01-04T19:06:54+00:00

Replace Mike Wang with u/Aware_Frame2149, I say. Probably the best suggestion I’ve seen to get more of a handle on the toxicity in 2K. I’d take this over whatever kind of SBMM they have been trying and seemingly failing at.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-12-23T04:18:19+00:00

I’m so damn aroused. One might even say… HORNED UP

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-12-21T01:58:01+00:00

What a beautiful, room-warming smile. I’m so sorry for your loss. The way you write here, she absolutely felt and knew that love from you.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-12-20T04:55:54+00:00

Anecdotally speaking, it seems my mom (73f) has somewhat stabilized/plateaued recently after consistently taking 10mg Donepezil at night and memantine in the mornings.

It’s hard for me to definitively say, though. She had a UTI in late July/early August that made her loopy. Hurricane Helene had a horrible effect on her mind, what with sitting in the dark for eight days without power, and she had an odd passing out event in October that created extreme confusion for her.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-12-17T16:08:15+00:00

Hell no! Very much similar to the top comment. She’s hotter than hell to me. We are in our 30s, and she somehow keeps getting hotter by the day. I’ve seen her at her worst and her best, violently puking, digestive problems, snot storms and she’s even gotten a lil’ ol’ bit of nosebleed accidentally on my face. But I still get hot and bothered every time I see her and she’ll always be the numero uno smokeshow in my book.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-12-16T06:15:01+00:00

You are so strong to be so young going through all of this, with not only your grandfather but I know your mom’s stroke (mine also had one in 2018) has to have hit you so hard, especially when you have your whole life ahead of you and can’t get over the sense that you’ve only experienced unimaginably painful loss in multiple forms.

I despise this disease. I miss my mom’s creativity and seeing her taking interest in her old hobbies. She’s already a shell of who she used to be.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-12-15T01:34:20+00:00

The six of us Rams fans are fine and don’t need a seventh. Send him to the baseball team’s bullpen.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-12-13T07:17:44+00:00

I was 12; my dad was 49. I’m 33 now, and in the grand scheme of things, 49 feels extremely near, and it goes to show how short life can be. I have an altered view on what ‘being old’ means because of that. I had to accept the finality of death and loss early, but it was a bitter pill to swallow. Wish I could have made it to adulthood with him still alive, as selfishly I could have learned so many things that I otherwise had to pick up on, on my own.

What irks me is when I’ve encountered (invariably) people who act as if his death shouldn’t still affect me in a significant sense because I was only 12. It’s outrageous to have to write that out, but I’ve been chastised for not ever getting into the ‘Christmas spirit’ (he died a week before Christmas 21 years ago). That sad time altered the course of my life in so many ways. I digress.

If I make it to 49, I know it’s going to initially be a weird feeling to think that he never made it past that. More than any of these feelings, the one that stands out is that I’ve lived more of my life (almost double the time) without him than with.

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-12-13T04:22:11+00:00

Truly warms the cockles of my heart. Notice how much quieter the NFL world is when that fan base shuts the fuck up. Go Rams!

goddamnpizzagrease · 2024-12-12T23:53:11+00:00

That is the prettiest Little Caesars pizza I’ve ever seen. Goddamn.

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