Omg! This! 100 This! And That At 40 Things Will Change And It Will Confuse The Hell Out Of You. I Went

Omg! This! 100× this! And that at 40 things will change and it will confuse the hell out of you. I went from a harbinger of doom migraine for the period to it moving to announcing my ovulation instead, and it was insane and unexpected and essentially overnight. I went from one month feeling like absolute disaster right before the period to the next month being surprised by my period because the harbinger was gone, other than the slight mood thing (and that first month it could easily be explained away by jet lag) and then it socking me a couple weeks later during ovulation. Discover that there is a such thing as Mittleschmertz. Like PMS but for ovulation, and some people with ovaries suffer with that. Apparently, my 40s are gonna be a whole new adventure in learning my body all over again.

I'm actually surprised that this system allowed sharing. My stepmom got really sick with a mystery ailment, which, when finally was figured out over a year and a half later, was a rare bacterial infection that had eaten some of the bones in her spine because it was left to rage in her body so long.

She had a lot of sick and vacation days accumulated, as she'd been at her job over 20 years, and was allowed to roll them over to the next year if they weren't used, and since her job was a desk job, she didn't take a lot of time off.

As the sickness got worse, she took more and more days off and eventually burned up all the time she'd accrued over the time she'd worked there. Her coworkers, some of whom she'd worked with since the beginning, tried to donate a week of sick days or PTO each. There were many in the office and a few from the crew that did the meter readings that tried to donate time.

The powers that be said hell naw. Not unless you can convince everyone to donate. Since there were a few people who didn't want to, and should have had to, to be perfectly honest, it was not allowed.

My stepmom eventually got on disability, because they had to rebuild the upper part of her spine with a cadaver armbone so that she can still walk on her own, but it's hard for her to stand for long periods of time. Even that was an exercise in patience, since they tried to refuse her the disability the first time.

A point for things I've never done then my grand total is ...let's see here... a big fat goose egg! 0, zilch, nada! I've done everything on that list and multiple time for most of them. #I'maninternetdinosaur!!! #Rawr

#damnthatsclosebyme #20milesaway

Evansville Press, Indiana, February 5, 1912

I had a discussion with my mom tonight about the upcoming solar eclipse on Monday and found out exactly how much audacity the local Chamber of Commerce has.

You see, my mom works for the town library, and the library, as a member of said organization, was asked to wait to provide free eclipse viewing glasses until the Chamber had the chance to sell some for a profit.

The asking price?

$50!!! Fifty fucking dollars!!!!

For the cardboard piece of shit glasses that you can buy at the Wal-Mart 4 pair for 5 bucks or get for free with an Eclipse slush at Sonic!

The fucking audacity!

We are in the path of totality here and will be in it for just under 4 minutes, so the price of everything has soared for the weekend, including hotel rooms at our 2 just barest of okeyest hotels, has skyrocketed.

The price on those hotel rooms?

Starts at $675 a night this weekend. Starts there!

That, and most of the surrounding area hotels are sold out at those prices. We are not metropolitan, just rural with a little bit of industrial mixed in. We should not at all be able to command that pricing.

One of the local churches wants fifty bucks to park in their parking lot to watch it, and a few other places around followed suit. Private residents want anywhere from ten to fifty dollars to park on their property.

The gas prices here are up because of a predicted peak in use. There's an Eclipse Festival at the fairgrounds this weekend, with bands playing all weekend, and the pricing on it seems to be the only reasonably priced thing in the entire racket.

Our entire city collectively lost their minds in a money grab over this eclipse thing.

This the current joke about our Artificer in D and D, and I'm living for this.

Credit: @pet_foolery