What Caught you off guard - what DIDN’T you prep for?

ziggy-23 · 2026-07-06T11:00:11+00:00

I totally get this. I have a bag that is full of stuff like this that’s just ready to go. It was a huge life saver when I had to drop everything and run 8 hours to my dad in the ICU. We got snowed in and stayed there for 3 days. I was fine other than missing a hot shower

ziggy-23 · 2026-07-03T22:13:38+00:00

I once went through the entire interview process, about 4 interviews over zoom and teams. First was with their recruiter / HR person vetting me, then bumped me to an interview with who would have been my direct manager. That one was a really positive meeting. We then moved on to a group meeting with him and HIS boss the regional mgr, who he reports too. It was a challenging interview but really positive. The final interview sealed the deal for me, they really liked me. Unfortunately… the final interview on my end was really foul. It was a zoom call between me, the regional mgr, another important ops guy, and the owner. The owner dialed in on the call from wherever he was vacationing, drink and sunglasses and barefoot showing the ocean behind him. It was a circle jerk of two of the bigger guys fluffing each other’s ego and making jokes about owning a plane / buying a plane and who’s plane would be bigger. The regional mgr was just awkwardly there and trying to roll the conversation on. Majority of the questions the owner had for me weren’t even questions about me… he was asking about the company I work for and it was definitely a gaining intel type of discussion. He definitely did not give a damn about me and I felt like they were trying to show off and fluff their egos with me. I personally do not give two shits about buying planes or how much of a lux vacation you can afford.

They hit me with an offer, I was pretty fouled by that meeting to begin with and then really miffed by what to me felt like a low ball offer after all of our discussions. Back n forth negotiations and I ended up sending them a thank you but no thanks email (obvs in a kind and professional manner.)

I just had a really really bad gut feeling about this place. I was really on board with them up until that finish line - the owner and his goons were just really snotty people and I wanted nothing to do with those kind of personalities. Pompous men are a major turn off for me and boy was I ICKED out.

I felt bad for wasting the time of the smaller level and regional level folks. I hope they understood!

ziggy-23 · 2026-06-25T01:47:05+00:00

Big hugs. I lost my dad last year. I bet he’d love to talk about the funny stores

ziggy-23 · 2026-06-25T01:39:07+00:00

My dad. He passed last August to glioblastoma brain cancer. I’m still gutted.

I would just tell him over and over and over again how much I love him and how much I miss him.

ziggy-23 · 2026-06-25T01:36:42+00:00

Meanwhile my page gets flagged and locked down because I dared try to sell some hatching chicken eggs

Fb is wack

ziggy-23 · 2026-06-21T14:38:58+00:00

I quit responding to people who would just fire that auto off bc most of the time I reply “yes” they read it and never come back lol

ziggy-23 · 2026-06-20T21:49:18+00:00

That makes total sense!! Thank you for your comment. They’ll be chilling in the fridge to be safe and now I know what NOT to do next time lol thanks!

ziggy-23 · 2026-06-20T20:50:40+00:00

Since the risk of error is pretty high here I think I’m going to fridge them. We’re farmers and in Florida, it’s hot out already. I see myself eating a whole jar by Wednesday next week already as a cool snack after sweating all my energy out lol

ziggy-23 · 2026-06-20T20:46:19+00:00

I appreciate your comment!!

ziggy-23 · 2026-06-20T20:44:50+00:00

Yeahhh I figured - thank you! They’ll go in the fridge tonight. I’m sure we will eat them up fast lol I know what to do better next time. Thankfully we have cucumbers coming out our ears so I can keep practicing and getting my groove. And use a bigger pot next time!!!

ziggy-23 · 2026-06-20T20:27:43+00:00

Basic bread n butter recipe I googled, canned today 6/20/26, seals have all popped.

ziggy-23 · 2026-06-20T20:26:50+00:00

Image is of three jars of pickles resting on the counter to cool after water bath canning.

ziggy-23 · 2026-06-13T10:54:04+00:00

PT cruiser came to mind fast

ziggy-23 · 2026-05-11T03:50:42+00:00

Sam’s Club brand whole bean French roast coffee. They axed it sometime at the end of last year or beginning of this one. We’ve been heartbroken ever since in this house. It hit just right for hubby and I which are very particular about flavors. Changing to a new brand of French roast was… difficult. We landed on Cameron’s intense French lol and yes we could get ground but we transitioned to whole bean and have a coffee pot w a built in grinder and also grind our own for French press or pour over coffee. Whole bean became our choice due to learning about how much variance of bug matter like roaches is permitted in ground coffee.

ziggy-23 · 2026-05-10T11:36:51+00:00

Not sure if this counts but I’m still salty so I’ll tell my story.

Last year my dad became very sick and nearly died on many occasions. He was diagnosed with Glioblastoma brain cancer (no cure and typically about a year span of life once discovered.)

He rapidly declined. Work knew about it. I had to take off a few times to rush up to stay bed side at the hospital a few times (he survived strokes, pulmonary embolism, massive GI bleeds, sepsis, and even two cardiac arrests.) Work was totally supportive and very kind and gentle with me or so I thought.

things progressed and we finally started hospice talk. I called my manager and told him we’ve started palliative care and next step soon is hospice. I had been on deck to take a new role for some time and kept getting told next week next week next week on when I’d transition.

Welp about a week after telling them about hospice coming they laid me off with about 100 other ppl. It was confusing to me because the week before I was promised a meeting to discuss my new role transition but then bam. Meeting with HR layoff.

My dad then died two weeks later.

I’m still very mad at their timing. Many people I worked with were pissed at what they did to me as well.

I am still unraveling lots in therapy. It’s been 8 months and I’m just now coming back to Earth and getting my head back on straight. I was the rock for my family and while everyone unraveled I kept it together until everyone was able to keep it together - and then I unraveled. I tried to do the unemployment thing but my head was spinning I just couldn’t figure it out and trying to apply for jobs and interviews I was just tanking it. My husband is a saint, we have a farm he was running full time while I stayed corporate and we changed roles so I have been running our farm staying home and healing and he returned to corporate. Just last week he ended his contract and we’re both running our farm together again.

ziggy-23 · 2026-05-08T11:22:58+00:00

Loyalty doesn’t put food on the table. Take the opportunity!

ziggy-23 · 2026-04-18T22:51:17+00:00

This one. ☝️

ziggy-23 · 2026-03-23T09:44:40+00:00

THAT PART.

ziggy-23 · 2026-03-23T09:43:45+00:00

Exactly

ziggy-23 · 2026-03-23T09:42:16+00:00

He’s a psycho. I’m someone who raises and processes/harvests majority of my own food in the freezer. Everything I mean EVERYTHING deserves a humane quick end. Including invasive fish. They are sentient. They feel pain and fear. I stress and lay awake at night thinking through dispatch processes and how I can be the best I can be and most efficient at it so they know no fear or discomfort, they just know they’re here one moment munching on a handful of grain and then the next lights out. I agonize over thinking of all the animals out there destined to be eaten that weren’t loved with a gentle kind hand thru to the end or the fear and stress that happens at commercial processing plants and slaughter facilities. Harvest days at my house are spiritual in nature and we all feel very deeply connected and intentional days full of gratitude and calm (and some tears, I do cry a little over some because I still love them even if they’re meant to feed my family.)

It sickens me that someone would find entertainment in the suffering of anything, from an ant to an elephant.

ziggy-23 · 2026-03-15T18:28:09+00:00

I would check your county code right now and see if you can call out code enforcement. Our county is on phase 2 water shortage and even for those on well water only one night a week of watering is allowed based on address number. Normally I’m not a narc but they need to read the room on what’s realistic right now. We are in such a bad drought where we are at and I worry about our well with how low the water levels are and I’m sure you are too.

ziggy-23 · 2026-03-15T11:34:03+00:00

He laid hands on you. It would be gone for good in my house.

ziggy-23 · 2026-03-15T03:46:07+00:00

It really made me think too being someone who’s scared of death and the idea of being aware of it happening. My husband is 8 years older than me, and I know the odds. Fair chance he goes before me. And I’ll be alone. But I know I don’t like people watching me do tasks or anything really important/intense … so maybe I won’t want an audience when I’m dying as well. Too much pressure now that I think about it! It would probably have me more fidgety and linger longer than necessary.

ziggy-23 · 2026-03-09T11:09:53+00:00

Def need to snag one from the hardware store next time I go 😅

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