Life has decided to unconsensually fuck me and the people I care about up the ass. I could use some stories about the joy and wins of my fellow Fediverse users.
I was able to get my mom a “new” computer for free because a friend was upgrading from his 2020 mac mini. Probably the newest computer she has had since the 90s. That has felt nice. She already had a cheap refurbished iPhone and iPad so it felt nice to give her the full Apple experience with a newish mac with an M1 processor. Bonus: my first chance to play around on Apple silicon while getting it prepped for her. We are both poor so this is a pretty big deal for us both. (My sister, who is doing a little better than us, had bought her the phone and iPad.)
ha check out this guy, caring and loving for important people in his life!
/s - thats a wonderful thing to do for your mother
I’ve lost enough weight to no longer be type II diabetic.
Hell yeah! That’s awesome!
I found a forum where I can talk about suicide without anyone shitting on me or shoving motivational cheap crap down my throat, that’s good, it feels good to have place where I can talk openly about it.
Mind sharing where you found it? Asking for a friend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctioned_Suicide
Your ISP might block forum access
Okay but they also encourage suicide which is not what someone who’s suicidal needs.
They don’t, this Wikipedia description is exaggerating, even tho they allow to talk about methods openly.
Money is not overly abundant currently. Today we got a notice in the mail from our landlords that our rent is being lowered by 20 bucks a month (yes, you read that right, lowered) and we have been overpaying on our utilities so we’re getting some money back which, incidentally, can then go directly to our upcoming electricity payment haha.
That felt like things working out nicely out of the blue.
our rent is being lowered
Closed on our old house. The sale was delayed after the cleaners we hired managed to flood the bathroom and cause $10k in damage. But insurance didn’t cheat us and covered most of it. We got all repaired, got it on the market, and finally closed last week.
We’ve been in a nerve wracking few months where we’ve owned two houses and been paying two mortgages simultaneously, so it’s a huge relief to be done. With the funds from the old place we paid off a car loan and put the rest to the mortgage on the new place. We’ve now settled into a nice state where our housing cost is about 11% of our gross income. So yeah, it’s been a stressful few months, worrying if the bottom was going to fall out of the market while we were holding two houses. But that didn’t happen, and now we’re sitting quite pretty.
I passed the PMP (Project Manager Professional) exam. I’m really hoping it leads to a real job, I’m desperate.
The shitbox I live in is getting a new roof. And not just any roof. A metal one.
Uh… hmm… um… well, I didn’t die. I mean nothing bad has happened, so that’s good, right?
Today I got three chicken balls at a Chinese food place when the usual serving is two
