Re: Joys and Good News

by **Enail** Mon Mar 02, 2020 3:02 pm

Congrats on the fellowship! And it's been crazy long, hasn't it? It's been good to have you here! Smile

by Glides Sat Mar 07, 2020 9:51 pm

today has been really really awful. therapy was just a huge letdown, spent all of it being defensive and trying really hard not to cry.

made the mistake of going on my ex's instagram (not the abusive one, the one i dated for very briefly who had been a longterm friend before). basically, in a series of events i can't entirely explain, she started dating my dad's coworker (her family and mine ~~are~~ were friends for years).

so now it was like i was going insane watching her bragging about the guy, someone who used to work with my dad, who helped get her the job after she left her first husband, who i had known since i was a teenager. Someone who used to work with my dad. Not like for a long-ass time, but he's at least ten years older than her and fifteen older than me.

Anyway, that's not the "good news" bit.

I didn't do nearly as much grocery shopping as I was supposed to today, and there were so many things I was supposed to do that I didn't do. I didn't even finish half of it. I felt so bad that I just gave up and decided to get a sandwich at the supermarket, I wanted something to eat that I didn't have to cook, price be damned.

Dude comes up, looking all pissy, I can't blame him, can't be an easy job. I never worked in a supermarket but I've worked in food service, it's hell.

I ask for my order. I think he notices how miserable I look and he seems to visibly soften a little bit, and then I zone out and when he gets my attention again, he's handed me a bag with two sandwiches in it but has only charged me for one.

"I got too much turkey so I made two, gluten free bread is tiny," he says, and then he walks away before I can try to stop him.

So I bought it and now I'm about to eat the other one. And that person showed me more kindness in five minutes than my ex (the abusive longterm one, not the one I had stalked on instagram earlier) had showed me in the entire relationship. Any kindness I was shown by that one was always for their benefit or their ego.

Good sandwich. Really good sandwich. Fuck.

by **Enail** Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:19 pm

Stores are running out of toilet paper and hand sanitizer is long gone, everyone on the streets looks tense, and then a busker on the corner with a banjo and foot-pedal drum starts playing a lovely bluegrass version of You Are My Sunshine, and everyone's smiling for a moment.

by **Werel** Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:23 pm

Hey guys. I’m now Dr. Werel. Finally. Shiny/thrilled

by **Enail** Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:08 pm

It you:

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CONGRATULATIONS! SO MANY CONGRATULATIONS! Hope you're doing some kind of awesome long-distance celebrations!

by bomaye Wed Mar 25, 2020 3:00 am

Omedetou, Sensei!

by **Enail** Fri Mar 27, 2020 7:43 pm

The package that I ordered shortly before non-essential businesses were closed and I thought therefore probably wouldn't get shipped, is coming after all!

by **Werel** Sat Mar 28, 2020 6:37 pm

Somebody changed my title from "Admin" on a weird old forum I post on, and it put a giant smile on my face.

by **Enail** Sat Mar 28, 2020 7:39 pm

by **Enail** Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:47 pm

Happy socially distant Pesach!

by **Enail** Sun May 24, 2020 11:02 pm

A wonderful companion to my badly translated tea cards, an Arabic-English menu someone was given in a hotel:

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by Hielario Mon May 25, 2020 7:05 am

Ahahahhahahahha! Badly translated menus seem to be universal!
I see a lot of those since I live on a very touristy city, but this one is really great.

by bomaye Mon May 25, 2020 9:21 am

"Metal Suspicion" makes me think of like a metal band jamming out but not too hard as they keep their focus on their surroundings because something's not quite right here

by **Hirundo Bos** Mon Jun 22, 2020 8:59 pm

Hirundo Bos wrote:
I had a conversation today that might possibly eventually lead to something cool.

So that thing ... is becoming somewhat official now, though it's still quite a few steps away from happening: Efforts are made towards getting the ttrpg I co-created adapted for television!

by **Enail** Mon Jun 22, 2020 9:17 pm

Wow, that's incredible! Yay!

by Hielario Wed Jun 24, 2020 12:04 pm

I'm glad for you! But also confused: how is something like that adapted for TV?

by **Hirundo Bos** Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:34 pm

Thanks, both of you! I'm pretty happy about it. And Hielario, I don't know a lot about TV production, but the game is more about setting than rules, so the adaptation will probably work to bring that setting it to life, and make up stories that fit.

by **Werel** Wed Jul 01, 2020 4:05 pm

Belatedly: that is AWESOME, Hirundo! Congratulations!!

by **Hirundo Bos** Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:35 am

Thanks, dr. Werel! (Belatedly: Also awesome.)

by **Enail** Sun Aug 16, 2020 12:27 am

Brick toast is so fucking delicious (but it's probably better not to make it yourself - now I know how much butter and condensed milk is in it

)

by **Enail** Sat Sep 26, 2020 8:43 pm

For two years, while the store stayed empty and the window display grew dusty, I waited loyally for my ramen place to come back, never giving up hope, because the fading sign said "temporarily closed for renovation." I believed it. And today they came back! Happy tears

(I actually cheered out loud. The owners humoured me and cheered back)

Joys and Good News - Page 34 Giphy

by **Hirundo Bos** Thu Feb 04, 2021 11:34 pm

I saw a story on a Norwegian news site about an elderly couple who thanks to vaccine could give each other a hug for the first time in a year, and it had me sobbing for a full minute.

by **Enail** Fri Mar 26, 2021 12:37 am

Busker singing and drumming on the corner, a random dog passing by decides to join in. It was trying so hard to properly sing along in rhythm and key. Dogs are very not good at singing, but the attempt was still delightful.

by Datelessman Wed Apr 07, 2021 12:17 pm

It may be a sad commentary that this constitutes good news in my life, but I used my day off on Good Friday wisely and managed to finally land my first Covid-19 vaccine shot (Moderna). I get the next one in exactly 4 weeks, which will be on April 30th. Of course it's not the end of the pandemic nor the end of my responsibility to wear a mask, social distance, and wash my hands a lot, but it does seem to signal perhaps the end of the beginning, finally, to this national (and global) nightmare.

I've also personally managed to save more money in my bank account than I ever have; north of $10,000. The last time I had anything close to that was in January 2011, when I had about $4,200 in there. Granted, back then I was still unemployed during fallout from the Great Recession of 2008-2009 and my unemployment benefits had just expired, so those savings vanished quickly. And if I do get evicted, that 10 grand will also be similarly gone in a flash. But at least I have it, and was able to save it; especially years after times that were so rough I once had under $20 in my savings account. And yes, about $4,000 of it was stimulus, but who cares? We all deserve it.

Trying to keep things in some perspective, folks! Thumbs-up

by **Enail** Wed Apr 07, 2021 1:25 pm

Yay! Those sound like pretty great newses! I'm jealous of how quickly the US is getting vaccinated (but glad you got it)!

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