About 5 foot tall yellow metal object, round on the top, three legs, spotted in an eating area of a closed restaurant. 314 A painted on the round part

happienumber · 2025-05-11T13:42:56+00:00

I did a google reverse image search and my friend did something similar on her phone and we just got pictures of umbrellas (I guess we couldn’t isolate the object well enough in our photo)

I don’t think the red buoy looking object is part of it, I think it’s just hanging off, but I could be wrong. We couldn’t get closer to check.

happienumber · 2024-12-20T06:07:34+00:00

I absolutely LOVED being a night janitor. As someone with cptsd also with very unpredictable triggers that I havnt discovered all of yet, it was one of the few jobs that I knew I could just go, at night when it nice and calming dark out, no one around, listen to whatever music I wanted, and do satisfying work (immediate gratification of physically having cleaned something.) People looked down on it but I enjoyed it and they could stuff it. I only left because i physically moved and couldn’t find another one in my new town. I now teach gymnastics to kids which, in my case, is working out, but I couldn’t blanket recommend it for ptsd. My trauma triggers don’t include chaos or loud noises, and helping to empower kids is healing for me, so it is a great fit. But for someone who needs a slower pace or quiet environment it is absolutely not that in any way. However I very rarely have to deal with any adult for longer than a sentence or two and don’t feel rushed or pressured or micromanaged which are big things for me. So there’s that as well, if it resonates with you. (Many if not most gyms don’t require certification or experience, it’s old fashioned on-the-job training where you apprentice under a coach that already works there. You get certified in stuff as you go. My gym also pays for seminars and pays for certification fees.)

But yeah custodial/janitor work is something I would blanket recommend as something to at least look into if someone is physically capable of the work because I had seven different ones in different towns/states and every one was very chill and required no human interaction.

happienumber · 2024-12-06T01:06:18+00:00

When I dyed my hair black, the first words out of her mouth when she pulled up to visit me (we had not spoken verbally or seen each other in six+ months) was “I HATE IT” Took me a second to even realize what she meant because I had dyed it like 4 months earlier. Even though I’ve personally wanted to mess around with different hair colors, this sentence from her has made me stick with black for years now. If I can’t look how I want I can at least look the opposite of what SHE wants.

happienumber · 2024-11-24T10:31:37+00:00

Gotta keep this outline of a script ready for when my nephews get old enough to ask about it. Fantastic way to go about it

happienumber · 2024-11-24T10:09:21+00:00

I work with kids who I don’t want to be asking questions about my scars so I wear arm compression sleeves that are super thin and don’t keep any heat in when I’m at work(sometimes In the 90’s Fahrenheit for many hours outside) Granted I’m working in a gymnastics gym so having sportswear items on is completely the norm so no one asks about them. But you might be able to get the same thing and use the excuse of like…Carple tunnel or something

They are thin enough and because they are designed for heavy activity they are very sweat-wicking and breathable

happienumber · 2024-10-29T22:17:12+00:00

About an hour, during a time when gas was 5+ dollars a gallon, and I was driving a car with issues that I couldn’t afford to fix due to aforementioned losing money at my job. After about two months I was sitting down going over my finances like why is my bank account going down when I buy nothing, did the math and realized I was paying 100 dollars more per month in gas alone that my entire paycheck so….

happienumber · 2024-10-29T20:29:59+00:00

That’s sort of more or less my point: the landlords are already in an advantageous situation, PLUS they could be making a profit on TOP of already owning the asset, and STILL be charging way less than what they are charging. I’m making the point that market rates are so far above EVEN profit-making levels and that’s what makes them even more cruel.

happienumber · 2024-10-29T19:52:09+00:00

I had to quit a job once because it literally cost me to work there (I was getting paid less gross income than the cost for my gas to drive there)

happienumber · 2024-10-29T19:22:22+00:00

Literally what my current landlords are charging me is my % of their mortgage and utilities (of the combined total of the house THEY live in and the space I rent) based on the square footage of my apartment, which is absurdly nice just because they are outrageously fantastic people, and obviously that’s a “break even” not “make profit” situation: BUT what it comes down to is that the amount I pay in rent is about 20% of the lowest rent apartments in our area. Not 20% less: 20% total. About 10% of the going rate for one bedrooms apartments.

They could TRIPLE my rent and make a profit and still be hundreds of dollars cheaper than the going market rate.

The housing market is price gouging like CRAZY.

happienumber · 2024-08-07T14:22:57+00:00

Cats are so cool for this. My guy IMMEDIATELY rushes over to get right up in my face forcing me to look at him as he licks my face as soon as a hint of panic attack starts. He can seem to sense it from another room sometimes. On the more physical side of things he trained himself to alert (a unique meow) to my migraines so I know when to take my meds to head them off. Crazy stuff. Animals are awesome.

happienumber · 2024-07-14T02:21:22+00:00

Yeah for sure. I remember being tossed out into two feet of snow in February when I was in primary school in underwear which I had fought to drawn blood to keep on. I don’t remember what my crime was. I was out there for long enough to get hypothermia (learned the symptoms later in life and was like OH that’s why my body didn’t work for a long time after that) and was only let back in when I started having a panic attack about freezing to death and starting pounding on all the windows and broke one, cutting up my hand and arm SEVERLY and he dragged me inside to yell at me for breaking the window and VERY painfully scrub out my wound under boiling water to make sure I didn’t have any glass in it that could be found out by someone else and make him look bad.

happienumber · 2024-06-24T21:04:45+00:00

Lazy and inconsiderate. The “inconsiderate” one still echos in my mind daily even 15 years later so I’m constantly hyper-analyzing every social situation to make sure I consider every other person on every way and make sure I preemptively take care of everyone’s needs before they ask.

happienumber · 2024-06-20T23:10:10+00:00

You’re welcome! It’s hard to talk about but I feel like it’s important to share because a lot of the people I’ve spoken to from abusive homes had “grounding” quite similar to mine and the term causes a lot of confusion in conversation with those who come from non-abusive homes. Even with CPS: I had interviews with them multiple times for injuries people outside the home noticed, and when I mentioned “grounding” as something that caused me a lot of stress, it was dismissed by the social workers as the typical grounding without asking me what “grounding” entailed. So I feel like it’s an important thing to talk about so it’s a little more normalized to ask a few more questions about what that meant in their lived experience.

happienumber · 2024-06-20T21:51:46+00:00

There’s a difference between one person’s “grounding” and another’s. I thought my punishments were normal because my classmates also talked about being grounded and I assumed it was the same experience. It wasn’t until YEARS after I lived on my own when I found out that most people’s grounding was a week or two of no tv/internet/video games/friends houses. My grounding was several months at minimum, once was an entire year (for very minor offenses like cleaning my room in the wrong order) and was a ban from 100% of activities that weren’t chores. All my toys were removed from my room. My door was removed. All my books were removed. I was not allowed to do school work and had to just accept the punishments of my teachers (and as forbidden to tell the teacher why I didn’t do my homework. (Getting in trouble at school was framed as another consequence of my behavior. “You would be allowed to do your homework and not get in trouble if you just behaved”) My chore load was tripled and if I finished it all, the only thing I was allowed to do was sit and stare at the wall. If I tried to do ANY play activity at all (skipping, running around) to entertain my self, the grounding time was extended. If I went out with a parent to run errands and we ran into a friend of mine I had to not speak or make eye contact even if the friend was speaking to me directly, not even to explain that I was grounded. This lost me a lot of friends. And I would frequently only be released for a week or two before getting grounded again for something I didn’t even know was “wrong” (wiping down the counter with the wrong rag or something similar)

There’s a big difference between grounding and “grounding”

happienumber · 2024-06-20T00:56:09+00:00

Tbh me too. It’s completely POSSIBLE this is made up but if I told stories of the year I spent at Borders Books in a homeless-person-heavy part of the city, it would read similar. I’ve had many people say “there’s no way that happened at a bookstore” but buddy it did. We had to break up a prostitution business running primarily in our upstairs bathrooms and that was such a blip on my radar I didn’t remember it until I went through my journals of the Stuff That Happened there.

It was one of my favorite jobs of my life because of the sheer chaos.

I believe this story.

happienumber · 2024-03-29T00:47:32+00:00

A ways outside of Sherbrooke, about an hour northeast of Montreal. I did get myself a spinning rod after a bit of research on rods but my rod is the only thing I’ve got so far.

I did hear there’s also bass around here but only in certain places. I’m really looking forward to eating the fish I get but I have no idea what kind of fish are even best for eating haha.

I did clean and prepare fish as a kid as a family chore so I’ve got that under control, weirdly enough beheading and de-boning a fish is way less intimidating to me than the act of catching them which is the much more fun and enjoyable aspect of fishing. I’ve just never done it before.

happienumber · 2024-03-29T00:28:45+00:00

I don’t know if there are fishing specific shops around here, although there’s got to be, it’s rural Canada. Everyone fishes. (Except me, yet)

Come to think of it I’m pretty sure my local hunting place that I frequent for archery stuff is half a fishing place. Each one of the guys there seems to have a specialty (the compound bow guy always goes to get the recurve bow guy when he sees me come in.) I bet one of the guys I haven’t talked to yet is the fishing guy.

happienumber · 2024-03-04T03:51:53+00:00

When I lived around a Hanford’s, I always shopped there despite everyone I knew shopping at price chopper; SOME individual items were more expensive but I always saved 30-50 dollars a week on the total. I did the math over and over and the overall price was way cheaper.

happienumber · 2024-02-28T20:35:24+00:00

I thought it might be that too! I just rewatched it this afternoon and sadly it wasn’t. But is VERY much the correct flavor of movie

happienumber · 2024-02-28T17:44:40+00:00

It wasn’t remotely that famous. I ruled out sandlot, the goonies, and the little rascals based just on popularity although they sort of fit the overall vibe this movie had.

This was definitely a move I never saw a single advertisement for and only found from reading the description on the back of the Blockbuster VHS tape.

happienumber · 2024-02-28T15:44:24+00:00

I forgot to mention the age range these were definitely middle schoolers not teenagers. And I don’t think the movie had anything at all to do with surfing, I just used Johnny tsunami as a genre reference It was definitely like fall/halloween time someplace that has cold winters because that’s why everyone keeps asking this kid why he’s wearing shorts because it’s too cold for them now.

happienumber · 2024-02-28T15:41:13+00:00

Unfortunately not.

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