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[Nichi]

Sounds nice on the job, bro.

So, Happy Thanksgiving Bird Day*; here's how my day went:
*I was sleepy when I got up to get coffee, and told dad "Happy Bird Day"

Phase 1: There was a guy named Joel; not too different from you or me~
After leaving the house, we arrived at grandma's house, as everyone ate; my uncle's spicy mac & cheese was pretty good, and the cheesy broccoli & rice my sister made was shockingly good...and mom made some of the Cheddar Bay Biscuits from Red Lobster (They have box mix for it *w*). Once I finished, I grabbed one of my brownies, went to the back room, and setup my laptop to catch the MST3K Turkey Day Marathon; coming in at the end of Outlaw, and catching Eegah and most of Gorgo when connection issues interrupted me. By the time those issues set in, I decided to actually visit with family (Some relatives I haven't seen in a long time had just shown up). It went nicely, and eventually, we left to go home (As it began to rain), drop off dad, and then prepare for Walmart.

Phase 2: You're a kid; you're a squid
We arrive at Walmart just before 5PM...and the setup this year was simply baffling; in past years, one could freely grab any of the lower-tier items they wanted (DVDs, games, etc.), and only had to wait in line for big ticket ones (TVs, laptops, etc.), while this year, you had to wait in a line for every last thing. I initially was going to throw in the towel because I felt Splatoon wasn't worth the extra long line...but my mom decided she was going to wait in line to get the DVDs she came for (Mostly for season 8 of The Big Bang Theory; as she already owns seasons 1-7), so I decided "eh, fuck it" and waited in the extra long line, chatting with the people in front of and behind me to help pass the time, while hoping that Splatoon doesn't sell out (I did have that happen in the past, with the Guitar Hero Double-Pack; they had maybe 5 copies tops to go around, and sold out before I figured out where they actually were). Thankfully, I was able to get it, and then began to try and track down mom...while evading a former coworker I did not care to see or even acknowledge the existence of (That asshat that worked nightshift). I wasn't able to find her, and she wasn't answering her phone, so I began to try and figure out where the check out line was.

One employee just, a few seconds ago, said where it was, but when I tried to ask, she cut me off quite rudely and said "I don't know where anything is" (Amazing; my former boss would have scalded her with the fury of a deep fat fryer for speaking in such a tone), as I continued to wonder around, eventually finding the start of the checkout line. It took what felt like an eternity for me to finally be able to check out, as mom began to text me of her progress waiting in line to check out (She was on the opposite side from me, it seems), and when I finally got to the register...the person in front of me is having issues with getting their TVs. Finally, I was able to make my purchase, rejoin mom, and then we went back home.

Phase 3: [JonTron intensifies]
Arriving back home, not really feeling like getting back out to go to grandma's office, I settle in and watch new JonTron. That's where we are now; I'd say it was a pretty good day, all things considered.

[Chocofreak13]

@Simon: glad to hear you're well! are you initially from AK, or did your family move there? if it's the former, it must be sort of nice to be back in your home state. :0

@Pent: glad to hear you had a nice time with your family. it's your dad's side, right? if not i'm amazed you could even have a conversation. xD

>be me
>wake up at 8am
>fuck this shit, too early
>roll over and attempt to sleep, get up at 10am
>go in house, wait in line for bathroom behind Steve
>Steve's mom is cleaning, music is blaring, exchange a few pleasantries on the way out
>go back into room, have breakfast, proceed to dick around with Don't Starve for a few hours
>hurriedly get dressed around 1:50, 2ish
>go inside, realized i really rushed for nothing since only his parents and uncle are even here
>have some food, chat a bit, Steve's younger sister arrives with kids in tow about 15, 20 minutes into it
>eat and chat moar, Steve's older sister shows up with son and dog in tow
>chat and go outside with kids and dogs for a little while
>go back in and have pie, chat a bit more
>fuck this noise, we out (4pm)
>Steve gets changed as i get frustrated with my craptop while trying to fix some music that didn't copy properly
>fuck you laptop
>drive off toward Mel's
>fuck fuck fuck i forgot the food
>drive back
>pick up dessert i made for Finch and Mel
>arrive at Mel's around 5
>give birthday present, Mel loves the items, give pie filling, dog is not amused by cinnamon
>shoot the shit for half an hour and get two calls from Karen, mention to her that we are not going to make it for dinner but are still coming over, sorry
>leave there around 6
>go to parents' house (arrive around 6:20???)
>too stuffed for real food, i have some cider and pie and Steve has one of their allergy pills
>do inventory of manga
>shoot the shit again for an hour or two
>bid them farewell and herrpy thrnksgrvrng (8pm)
>drive back, put stuff inside, go out to car and do more manga inventory
>settle back in around 9ish
>be me now
>Steve is napping and i am finishing typing this at 10:27pm

[Nichi]

Sounds like a good day, yeah :3

Also, yes; it was my dad's side. My mom wasn't even willing to go see her family xD
(As she mentioned, gatherings with dad's family are just more laidback than with her family)

[Bella]

I had a mediocreish Thanksgiving dinner, on my computer table because the dining room table (and the island, and the breakfast table) is buried in junk, did nothing productive and watched MST3K for like 6 hours, I'd call that a draw.

It's easy to feel like an ungrateful fuckwit because the turkey was slightly dry and the candied sweet potatoes sublimated into some sort of instant-diabetes-inducing inedible sugar goo and my life crappy in other distinct ways*, but at the end of the day I'm free, I'm housed, I'm relatively healthy, I have food and water and a computer which puts me ahead of a heartbreaking number of people on this earth and means I really don't have much to complain about on the grand scale of things.

*I could do with 100% crushing aloneness, romantic frustration and constant terror about my chosen career path, but at least I'm sacrificing my happiness in the name of purpose, so at least it's not in vain.

[Simonorged]

@Choco: well yeah, i was raised in RI but was born in AR and it sorta is, the only thing i remember is shoving my arm through a glass door.

Also never talk to a religious about politics cause they end up contradicting themselves  I still count myself a christian but I cant take all that nonsence

[LeaflameSD]

edit: i really need to stop advertising (;--)

[Chocofreak13]

huh.....i think i was making a post earlier, but it must have crashed. :\

@Simon: i tend to avoid talking to religious types as a rule anyway, though i'm rather political.

@Bells: tbh i feel like that a lot too, almost guilty for lamenting my own problems since there are people that are much worse. i have a warm bed, a laptop, 3 nice jobs, a loving boyfriend, and food in my stomach. on the other hand, though, we're poor as dirt, in a LOT of debt, have medical issues we're both going to have to pay out of pocket for, i'm trying to find a 4th job without jeopardizing the other 3, struggle with feeling like a burden for not working more, and college has never seemed further out of reach--all this with untreated mental issues on top of it and no car. so if you want to feel like crap and look for shoulders to cry on, i say no shame in that. everything is relative.

i've had like......6 cups of tea today? i want more, but we're out of milk. ;^;

[Nichi]

Indeed. I mean, I have a bed, a job, a car, a capable laptop, and a decent desktop...but I'm 25 and still living with my parents (Which still bothers me greatly, especially when I've been trying to move out for the past 5 years but have always had something come up that puts me back at square one), I'm at the closest I've ever been to moving out but now I'm stuck waiting on matters beyond my control to align so I can (And also hope dad lets me take the car), I hate most of my coworkers for being goddamn morons*, I'm stuck paying on said car which prevents me from being able to put money into savings (And due to me trying to get money back into savings, I can't pay as much as I hoped to pay on the car), the desktop I built myself died just a few months short of the 5-year mark**, and due to all the endless bullshit I endure on a day-to-day basis, I feel like I'm becoming more bitter and cynical with each passing day.

(*The dish area, when I got in today, was a disaster, and them demanding I wash specific things they're out of didn't help at all, when things are so lazily thrown around that it was liable to collapse if I didn't carefully move things, which meant I couldn't put priority on any single thing...but they couldn't accept that. I can't stand their mindset of "lazily pile everything up in such a sloppy manner than the smallest gust of wind is going to result in everything falling and ignore it no matter how big the problem becomes until I come in, and then expect me to be able to wash certain things they demand right fucking now when there's no way for me to get to any of it without causing an avalanche...which will then be labeled as my fault")

(**Which, due to the other monetary obligations I have, I am unable to afford repairs on it. In my frustration, I have seriously considered just recycling the entire thing and pretending it never happened; it's honestly pathetic when a gaming desktop I put my heart and $2k into couldn't even last half as long as a shitty eMachines desktop)

EDIT: My space heater sounds like it's trying to short out. Yay; another thing I have to replace :\

[Chocofreak13]

if i shipped you an electric blanket for xmas, would you use it? :0

[Nichi]

My mom has said I should just invest in an electric blanket, but the thing I like about a space heater is that it heats up my entire room vs. just the bed, so when I get up in the morning (Like on a Sunday, where I work mornings), I don't go from comfy to the rest of my room feeling like a meat locker. It makes it a lot easier for me to get up, especially when my feet have such poor circulation as it is :\

[Chocofreak13]

mm, i figured that was your reasoning. sadly, that means i can't help here. even if i found one for free, the shipping would likely be a bitch, unless it was a mini one. :\

[Nichi]

The one I use is fairly small, actually; I'd say it's roughly the size of 2 cans of Coke taped together :3

[Odin Yggdrasil]

Ceramic core heater. Walmart, $25. They're super-powerful in a compact size, and the ceramic core makes them safer because they don't have any red hot elements or anything to catch fire.

I've seen units of the type in service that were more than 20 years old and only need regular dusting, take some compressed air to one when it is cold and blow the dust out of the ceramic block.

[Nichi]

That's what this one is, yeah. IDK how old mine is, but dad thinks all it needs is to dust it out and replace the rear filter (Which looks like I could just take a filter for a Shop-Vac and trim it to fit). I might still invest in a replacement, though; given IDK the age of mine

[Simonorged]

I found a website filled with dead domains
http://www.domaingraveyard.com/list/2010-06-08.txt