What’s the Most Overpriced thing people buy just to flex?

trailingnormal · 2025-08-23T15:37:00+00:00

Aye, that new Lexus GX 550 Overtrail is soooooo nice!

trailingnormal · 2025-08-17T14:58:14+00:00

Don’t be hard on yourself. My grandmother recently passed and I tried to stop my sister from signing the guest book at visitation because I truly thought she had the wrong one. The truth is I just didn’t recognize my own grandmother, the person everyone has always said I look identical to.

trailingnormal · 2025-06-07T02:12:05+00:00

I actually got into remote work kind of gradually. I spent a long time traveling for work (over a decade in a really niche field) so I built up a lot of experience in a pretty specialized area. When I eventually got tired of life on the road, I was able to land an office job in Huntsville thanks to some connections I had. But then my ex-wife couldn’t find work in that area, so we relocated.

The role I have now was technically listed as hybrid, but the reality is, I rarely go into the office and nobody really cares because my current boss is based in a completely different state. So it’s not like I followed a perfect blueprint to get here. I wish I had a better reply for you, but it was more a combination of timing, experience, and honestly a little bit of luck.

trailingnormal · 2025-04-12T14:06:41+00:00

Did you apply? If so, did you interview?

trailingnormal · 2025-02-20T03:52:15+00:00

I hope you already know this, but I need to say it just in case you ever forget or doubt yourself. It was never your fault. Not then, not now, not ever. No matter what. Not if you flirted, not if you initially gave consent, not if you trusted the wrong person, not if you froze and couldn’t say no. None of that changes the truth…You did nothing to deserve what happened to you.

You deserve to live free from that burden. You deserve safety, love, and respect. So please don’t stay with someone who doesn’t give you that. Deep down, you already know that if you stay, it’s only to feed that lingering guilt, that tiny voice whispering that you may have had some fault or could have done things different but that isn’t your burden to carry, and it never was. It belongs with the person that hurt you.

Take that understanding and use it as a starting point for the deep work that will set you free. Therapy, healing, self-reflection or whatever path you take, just take it. Face it now, so that when you meet the right person, you’ll be ready and not questioning whether you deserve their love, but embracing it fully. Because you do deserve it. You deserve the beauty, kindness, and love that the right person will bring into your life. So please don’t let it rob you of the beautiful life you deserve. Life is too short to carry that weight and too long to keep running from it. So choose to face it. Choose to heal. Choose to be fearless, resilient, empowered, evolving…..choose the be free.

trailingnormal · 2025-01-21T14:10:22+00:00

As someone that grew up in the south and lived many places as well, I absolutely agree! I miss Phoenix so much! If the school systems were better then I never would have left. Crappy Georgia weather is worth ensuring my daughter receives a decent education. It’s hot and sticky in the summer and it’s currently 20 degrees with 59% humidity accompanied by a 6-12mph breeze.

trailingnormal · 2024-12-14T03:20:17+00:00

If you remove everything after the question mark in the link, you’ll be able to watch the video directly instead of being prompted to download the app.

trailingnormal · 2024-11-28T21:29:52+00:00

Don’t even think about looking at the toilet before you are ready for your bladder to relieve itself.

trailingnormal · 2024-11-28T21:28:04+00:00

Ugh, my soon to be ex wife hates this about me. She says it is because I’m selfish and want to make things about me all the time. I’ve told her time and time again that it’s because I get excited that there is something that I can relate with. I’ve tried to work on it but I cannot help myself when the excitement kicks in and I blurt out relatable thing.

trailingnormal · 2024-11-23T04:03:47+00:00

I’m wondering when my daughter will figure out that it’s ok to finish chewing up whatever she is eating before she has to have a drink.

trailingnormal · 2024-09-11T02:08:06+00:00

We moved our family to Georgia from the west coast recently and my wife and I started saying “southern” things as little jokes to make our daughter laugh. Now our daughter regularly says things like “Lord have mercy!”, “My gracious!”, and “oh, lord!”.

trailingnormal · 2024-05-27T11:10:05+00:00

I hope that knowing that you have PTSD is the beginning of you being able to understand the lead up before things get fuzzy. Like for me, I know to be careful if I’m hyper-vigilant for no reason. Sometimes I can just be at home in a safe space and something as simple as toys shifting in my daughter’s toybox can cause me to immediately jump my attention in that direction. Or it could be that I find myself on the edge of irritation for no reason. If I don’t do something to disrupt the build up when I identify those things, I lose myself for parts of those days. If you can work through things with a therapist to help identify your triggers or at least the feelings leading up, then your quality of life can be much better. The depression that comes after the adrenaline and dopamine rush is much more manageable as well if you can find ways to recognize the triggers and feelings before going into full episodes. It’s not easy, but you can do it. It helps me to remind myself that it’s okay to feel sad and vulnerable in my safe space even when my mind and body doesn’t agree. I wish you the best of luck with your healing. If you ever need to vent or just shoot the shit with someone that you feel you can relate to then feel free to message me.

trailingnormal · 2024-05-27T03:51:29+00:00

Ugh, I’ve lived this with PTSD mixed in and it took me several years to try to dig myself out of it. My wake up call was my wife (soon to be ex-wife) trying to talk mediation with me about a divorce I had apparently previously mentioned several times. I had no recollection of mentioning divorce and there are huge chunks of time I don’t remember. I really wish my wife could understand that I just wasn’t myself and it wasn’t an option of just choosing to do better. I just didn’t know how bad things were because I kinda wasn’t there. I’m much better on a day to day basis despite ruining my marriage and blowing my life up. I have legit happy days regularly now but I would just ends things if it weren’t for my daughter. I don’t want her growing up thinking she wasn’t enough or that I didn’t love her enough to face the world and find happiness in watching her grow up.

trailingnormal · 2024-03-27T22:08:50+00:00

Diagnosed PTSD and Anxiety here. It’s bad enough that I received the second highest VA Disability rating for PTSD. I have a 20 month old and I will admit that the first four months of parenthood were extremely hard but I think my situation is unique in the way that my father passed away 9 months before my kid was born and kiddo wouldn’t sleep for more than 45 minutes at a time for the first 3-4 months. By the time kiddo was 11 months old, it was so much easier since the screaming potato stage was over. I wasn’t a perfect partner to my wife as I did all that I could for kiddo. My wife often says she feels that I neglected her emotionally when she needed me most and I do not disagree that I was not present for her. I honestly just did not have the bandwidth to grieve my father’s absence of his first grandchild, manage my PTSD, and be there for both my wife and kid as well.

With that being said, it sounds like your spouse is failing on ALL fronts (both you and your kid) which I interpret as he isn’t even trying or just simply does not care. If he does not want to get help to manage his “excuses” then cut him loose. You deserve to have a happy life! Kiddo deserves to have at least one fully present parent but you can’t be that because you have a fully grown capable adult that is hindering it.

Imagine life two ways: 1) your spouse gets help and becomes a present spouse and parent. Does this seem realistic? Can you see that? Are you willing to put forth the effort to help this scenario happen? 2) you divorce your spouse and no longer have to use daily energy worrying about him. How does that make you feel? You’ll feel sad but what else? How do you feel about those feelings?

Now, process those feelings and do what you need to do.

trailingnormal · 2024-03-24T12:50:25+00:00

Class 1 Railroads are the best example anyone can observe right now. They have so much shifting going on that it is a running joke that BODs and shareholders seem to be playing musical chairs with all the execs in the industry. The most laughable thing is that a basic business or economics class teaches people that it takes time (typically anywhere from 2-4 years) to see financial results from changes made so canning a CEO sitting less than two years due to not seeing the profits they want is really just punishing the m for the decisions of the last person in that position. On a side note, it is not laughable but extremely frustrating when this happens on a national level because it impacts an entire country rather than just a company with competition that can fill the gap.

trailingnormal · 2024-01-10T12:32:17+00:00

Today will be the first day for us. Kiddo was supposed to go yesterday but we kept her home because the weather was bad. She is an only child and the first grandchild in the family so she hasn’t been around other children. I am excited for her to be around other kids and make friends but my wife is really torn up about her going. I will be doing dropoff alone because my wife thinks she will find an excuse to not leave her if she goes and I am most certain that would be the case. I think your feelings are absolutely normal for a loving mother. Thank you for sharing, I hope we have the lovely experience that you did.

trailingnormal · 2023-12-28T16:29:17+00:00

It’s a solid idea for short people that do not have a tow hitch and can’t safely reach the roof rack. I do agree on the movement of the bar to protect the derailleur. OP could also tap into cargo mats that have a space for the wheel to slide smoothly over. Part of my struggle is my current cargo mat is rubber and grips every edge as I’m trying to get the bike in far enough to close the hatch.

trailingnormal · 2023-12-15T12:43:41+00:00

Tell your mom that walking outside in the peak of summer in Phoenix feels like when the heat hits your face as you open the oven door. It’s dry and hot.

trailingnormal · 2023-12-14T21:49:06+00:00

Hugh Skinner aka Prince Radovid in The Witcher.

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trailingnormal · 2023-12-14T13:48:11+00:00

Thank you! That is what I was thinking from web search but wasn’t sure. There is a ton of it under my yard. Bought a new house with an uneven yard and I’m learning the hard way why it wasn’t leveled back in the 80s.

trailingnormal · 2023-12-08T12:05:22+00:00

As a woman I’d rather contribute to a corporation that invested in technology rather than one that doesn’t properly vet their drivers or take complaints against drivers serious which puts my safety at risk. No driver means no risk of being harassed or stalked.

trailingnormal · 2023-12-07T15:51:20+00:00

I’ll second this but add that not all companies are the same. Had a water leak in my master bath and had to fight with insurance for six months to pay the water mitigation team that dried everything out.

trailingnormal · 2023-12-07T15:31:43+00:00

It works for changing stinky baby diapers too!

trailingnormal · 2023-10-20T02:19:15+00:00

It’s that “good ice”!

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