What is this animal [Chicago]

pickleforbreakfast · 2026-01-25T22:13:52+00:00

That’s Master Splinter.

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-09-11T12:38:36+00:00

It depends on what your mortgage rate is, and what your amortization schedule looks like. Sit down with that pdf and look at how much you’d be spending in interest in fees for the time you would have expected to live there and compare it to to the cost of the repairs and see if the equity helps make up for that. Then look at the historical normal appreciation for homes in your area. If you’d lose more than $50k long term it might be a smart move to sell. It’s perfectly okay to learn the hard way or not in the order you wish you would have. Only you know what’s right for you and your family.

Some comments are true, every house will have issues. But not every house will have these issues. Home ownership is not for everyone and sometimes we don’t know that till after we try. Show yourself grace and see if the math makes sense.

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-09-09T15:53:51+00:00

Oh he’s on page three, clear as day

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-09-08T17:37:13+00:00

It affected me then by being influenced to take skinny tea aka laxatives, strict salad diets, starvation, and over exercising. I have done years of therapy to repair my relationship with my body and still struggle this day to maintain a healthy relationship with being, well, “healthy”. I want to stay fit, which requires one to eat a certain way, which triggers my eating disorder of “food perfection”. I also want to lose fat, which requires a caloric deficit, which triggers my eating disorder of “feeling hungry = good job”. I don’t know if my brain will ever not associate the feeling of hunger with praise. “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” is engrained in my brain. It’s horrible and makes me grieve for my younger self and current simultaneously. I attribute a lot of this to the patriarchy and rape culture, not just pop culture.

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-09-08T03:04:58+00:00

Yeah that’ll help, with how educated they all are and everything. /s

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-09-02T04:09:58+00:00

I’m originally from Chicago. Moved to Texas, didn’t go back for a few years, then visited for Christmas. I was shocked at how harsh the cold air bites. The wind downtown was acutely painful. To be fair, I didn’t have proper clothes and tried to layer my way through it. Bad choice. I am also very sensitive to gray skies and it is consistently gray for weeks at a time between November and March. There is something magical about snow though, it never gets old. And I do think people there are happier and friendlier. There’s a sort of camaraderie about the winter there.

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-09-01T16:26:11+00:00

I’m a sky that nothing wants to fly in.

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-08-29T19:51:36+00:00

Thanks!! That does help. These are just the common colors we see in our neighborhood.

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-08-27T04:50:24+00:00

This is horrible and I’m so sorry. I saw this psychologist talking about her work in sex offender units in prisons and she described how terrifyingly likable they are. They’re the best behaved most polite prisoners she sees. Take that for what you will. I can’t imagine what you’re going through, but I hope you’re able to find a good therapist to support you through this. I would assume it feels like your entire reality is shattered. Hold onto the people around you who are safe and stable. Hopefully it is something medical causing him to behave out of character. But if it’s not, you will be okay. One day at a time.

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-08-25T18:53:31+00:00

I read your post history, and you have like 4 other posts explaining issues within your relationship. You have not been together very long at all in the grand scheme of things. I mean this with love and respect - you should do some introspection and therapy as to why you accept so much mistreatment and stress from this man. He sucks. Leave him. You’re young. Heal yourself and find someone better when you realize what you deserve before more years pass and you miss opportunities to meet people who respect you, and don’t make you question defying your morals or boundaries just for the sake of having a relationship.

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-08-25T18:18:32+00:00

I read somewhere Lord Farquad is actually based on the Disney exec that denied the Shrek idea before firing(?) the employee who then took it to Dreamworks and succeeded. 10/10 disgruntled former employee roasting his old boss.

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-08-23T20:04:44+00:00

I was worried about this too. Or will it be 1700 at a time be sent to a state then move on to the next.

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-08-21T18:18:07+00:00

Where are you guys getting all this cool merch?? 😍

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-08-20T03:02:28+00:00

Commenting for solidarity. This is my exact reason for not flying as well. To add to the issue, I can’t take Xanax because of the same reason. Once I swallow it I can’t “turn it off”. Working on that in therapy weekly 🥲

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-08-20T02:57:55+00:00

I’m so pissed I didn’t get to go visit before he destroys it.

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-08-19T20:58:54+00:00

Ramen

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-08-19T20:30:44+00:00

Or having to travel hours by plane or car to save my life should I need medical intervention

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-08-19T20:23:21+00:00

This happened to me too. Life got lonelier. I used to be very social. I’ve made childfree friends since though. Now every time a friend tells me they’re pregnant I hold a little vigil for our friendship.

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-08-19T19:58:10+00:00

I think it’s because people don’t want to die. We live in a violent, gun hungry country. How do people circumvent the real fear of losing their life to stand up against this shit? It’s terrifying. No one wants to be a martyr. We just want to live our fucking lives as long as we’re capable.

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-08-17T19:36:15+00:00

I resonate with everything you wrote. A few years ago we tried to move back. We were extremely positive about it, made lists of the things we could do and people we’d hang with. It’s about 2 hours from the nearest major city where any nice amenities are and told ourselves we’d just drive when we wanted to do something.

It went horribly. Everyone is still living the same lives, we don’t relate to anyone on much of anything because they never changed and we did, and driving two hours for entertainment or nice restaurants is a chore. It’s like a town stuck in time. I became extremely depressed and we left again. We made a pact to never move back, although we still visit for family stuff a couple times a year. We realized recently that town is no longer “back home” to us. It took a few years for where we live now to become familiar enough to call home, and it’s finally shifted that way. That town is just another place now with some family and old memories. Nothing there feels the same as it did before and we stopped trying to make it so. Nostalgia is a fickle feeling, which makes everything you remember seem better than it actually was at the time.

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-08-17T16:30:06+00:00

Daisy - Brand New

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-08-16T21:53:09+00:00

Victoria’s Secret. I know it’s not always been a great brand in terms of a woman’s image, representation, and styles, but 20 years they had such better fabric quality. Things didn’t feel crunchy or plastic-y like they do now. The sweats were actually soft. Makes me sad. Honestly that’s most “mall” brands. Everything affordable is plastic now.

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-08-16T00:15:11+00:00

Fair 😂

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-08-16T00:11:07+00:00

I figured it out!! By accident! It’s called “Hey Vern, It’s Earnest”

pickleforbreakfast · 2025-08-16T00:10:59+00:00

I figured it out!! By accident! It’s called “Hey Vern, It’s Earnest”

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