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MargaretYakoda wrote: »Tourists. Too kitten many kitten tourists.
Yes.
All these beautiful places out in nature I want to visit and everybody else from the whole northeastern part of the country is there. Clogging up the parking lots and hiking trails, and favorite ice cream spots. Yes, the Old Man fell off the face of the mountain and if you pull off the road, you'll be able to see where it's not. Instead of crawling along at 20 mph.4 -
When people scratch off lottery tickets while still at the cash register so they can decide if they're going to cash them in then or buy new ones.4
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MargaretYakoda wrote: »Tourists. Too kitten many kitten tourists.
Yes.
All these beautiful places out in nature I want to visit and everybody else from the whole northeastern part of the country is there. Clogging up the parking lots and hiking trails, and favorite ice cream spots. Yes, the Old Man fell off the face of the mountain and if you pull off the road, you'll be able to see where it's not. Instead of crawling along at 20 mph.
Hard same, but the other side of the continent.
My town is an old Victorian seaport.
When I moved here half the stores on the main street were boarded up. Real estate was practically being given away. That was almost 40 years ago.
The Big Important People (my brother-in-law included) decided tourism was the answer. And they made an absolute killing.
Now the town I loved, with its “shed boys” and lovely everyone-knows-everyone character is gone. Replaced by Star Bellied Sneetches who look down their noses at anyone who doesn’t love the fact that you can buy $80/ounce hand made truffle flavored olive oil where the boarded up second hand store used to be.
Oh. And there’s no parking left. RVs clog the roads. And you get told you’re not supporting the local economy if you buy a package of Haines socks for $12 at the Walmart the next county over, instead of buying the only type of socks available in town - $20 for one pair of high quality hiking socks at the CoOp.
Kitten tourists. They can go vacation in kitten.
Oh. Ya. Also? If I see one more magazine story about how great it is to retire here? I’m going to kitten scream.
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My unkempt office. I was working outside and the sprinkling rain turned into a pretty heavy one.
My office is a pig sty.2 -
Fools rush in. They make it easy for the government to assume we're all a bunch of idiots.5
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My mom complaining that I don’t keep her clued in to my life when I literally text her first EVERY time and trying to get her to have a conversation with me is like pulling teeth. Like, what are you even talking about? And clued in to my life? She asked about my work schedule.... 🤷🏻♀️
I say all the time as a big joke of my life that I can’t even get a text back from my mom because half of the time, it’s true.
On a sad note she said one of my childhood/young adult life cats is dying. Vampire cat Shadow. Yes, he’s black and has a white spot on his chest. Long in the tooth and big on the sass. He’d talk back at us with that chatter they usually exhibit with birds. The gf said a phrase last night that made me laugh, “Evil, but with a heart of gold.” And that’s how I like to think of Shadow. Sassy, will bite you but also will lay his head on your shoulder.
He’s 13 1/2 years old according to mom. I got to see it all happen, him and his siblings be born. Litter of 5, all boys. Three black, two orange. After he passes we’ll just have the orange boys.8 -
Family drama. I am disconnected from it because I live so far away, but somehow, I get to hear about it anyway. I'd rather stay away from it all together because a.) not into drama and b.) one of the parties is my mother... and the other party is my cousin, who I was quite close to growing up (he was raised by my grandmother because his dad was a bit of a prat and more interested in drugs and alcohol at the time).
I don't want to be involved in it.. and I certainly don't like it happening around my grandmother, who has dementia and can't remember a lot anymore and really needs these people to come together and keep taking care of her (her dementia is bad enough that she needs someone to live in with her, which my uncle does). I refuse to take sides in this issue since I'm an outside party.
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KosmosKitten wrote: »Family drama. I am disconnected from it because I live so far away, but somehow, I get to hear about it anyway. I'd rather stay away from it all together because a.) not into drama and b.) one of the parties is my mother... and the other party is my cousin, who I was quite close to growing up (he was raised by my grandmother because his dad was a bit of a prat and more interested in drugs and alcohol at the time).
I don't want to be involved in it.. and I certainly don't like it happening around my grandmother, who has dementia and can't remember a lot anymore and really needs these people to come together and keep taking care of her (her dementia is bad enough that she needs someone to live in with her, which my uncle does). I refuse to take sides in this issue since I'm an outside party.
I am so sorry. Unfortunately a dementia diagnosis can do that to a family.
Honestly? Trying to stay out of it is probably your best move.
Doesn’t make it easier, though. 💐3 -
MargaretYakoda wrote: »KosmosKitten wrote: »Family drama. I am disconnected from it because I live so far away, but somehow, I get to hear about it anyway. I'd rather stay away from it all together because a.) not into drama and b.) one of the parties is my mother... and the other party is my cousin, who I was quite close to growing up (he was raised by my grandmother because his dad was a bit of a prat and more interested in drugs and alcohol at the time).
I don't want to be involved in it.. and I certainly don't like it happening around my grandmother, who has dementia and can't remember a lot anymore and really needs these people to come together and keep taking care of her (her dementia is bad enough that she needs someone to live in with her, which my uncle does). I refuse to take sides in this issue since I'm an outside party.
I am so sorry. Unfortunately a dementia diagnosis can do that to a family.
Honestly? Trying to stay out of it is probably your best move.
Doesn’t make it easier, though. 💐
I just really want to know why this side of my family is so hyper focused on money. If it isn't someone needing money and trying to get it from relatives who they feel *ought* to support them and loan them money, then it's people accusing others of mishandling money (when left in charge of someone's money when that person can't do it for themselves anymore) or having random relatives I've NEVER SEEN show up at the funerals of people and accuse them of the most AWFUL things.. and then try to sue other family members for money they feel they are owed!
My dad's side of the family isn't like this.. that's all I'm sayin'.
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KosmosKitten wrote: »MargaretYakoda wrote: »KosmosKitten wrote: »Family drama. I am disconnected from it because I live so far away, but somehow, I get to hear about it anyway. I'd rather stay away from it all together because a.) not into drama and b.) one of the parties is my mother... and the other party is my cousin, who I was quite close to growing up (he was raised by my grandmother because his dad was a bit of a prat and more interested in drugs and alcohol at the time).
I don't want to be involved in it.. and I certainly don't like it happening around my grandmother, who has dementia and can't remember a lot anymore and really needs these people to come together and keep taking care of her (her dementia is bad enough that she needs someone to live in with her, which my uncle does). I refuse to take sides in this issue since I'm an outside party.
I am so sorry. Unfortunately a dementia diagnosis can do that to a family.
Honestly? Trying to stay out of it is probably your best move.
Doesn’t make it easier, though. 💐
I just really want to know why this side of my family is so hyper focused on money. If it isn't someone needing money and trying to get it from relatives who they feel *ought* to support them and loan them money, then it's people accusing others of mishandling money (when left in charge of someone's money when that person can't do it for themselves anymore) or having random relatives I've NEVER SEEN show up at the funerals of people and accuse them of the most AWFUL things.. and then try to sue other family members for money they feel they are owed!
My dad's side of the family isn't like this.. that's all I'm sayin'.
And, without going into too many details, this is why I’ve had to cut out one of my husband’s brothers, my stepson, and pretty much all his cousins.
Pretty much none of them understand that I’m his wife, and as such, anything I do with our community property is absolutely none of their business. And doubly so when I’ve kept him alive a decade longer than he was expected to live. And he’s likely got another decade to go. At least. Because of my care.
So if I buy myself a second hand iPhone? It’s none of their kitten business.
So ya. Relatives irk me too.6 -
This is what my youngest German Shepard does…. Systematically amputates every toy.
She starts with the smallest appendage then works her way up. But, always leaves the face alone and head attached to the body. The body she rips all of the stuffing out of but face leaves alone.
Lil’ gal monkey… months old.
Ol’ boy camel brand new. 🤷🏼♂️
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When you go to a party and the music is so loud you can't even think but you get stuck with a person who doesn't know how to end a conversation.7
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This is what my youngest German Shepard does…. Systematically amputates every toy.
She starts with the smallest appendage then works her way up. But, always leaves the face alone and head attached to the body. The body she rips all of the stuffing out of but face leaves alone.
Lil’ gal monkey… months old.
Ol’ boy camel brand new. 🤷🏼♂️
She wants em to have a face so she can look em in the eyes when she attacks them. 😂4 -
That it took me so long to realize that I had lost myself completely.
That I was so *kitten* up that I let him metaphorically lead me into the woods and leave me.
That my subconscious controlled so much of my life.
That I’m not angry at him about any of it.
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Our house is small. So my NuStep doubles as one of the chairs in my living room.
So…. When I say to my roommate, “It’s late. I need to exercise soon” what I mean is “Get the kitten off my exercise machine and go back to your area of the home now please”
Not
“Please show me and my partner a bunch of Olympics videos”
Irked, I am.4 -
This is what my youngest German Shepard does…. Systematically amputates every toy.
She starts with the smallest appendage then works her way up. But, always leaves the face alone and head attached to the body. The body she rips all of the stuffing out of but face leaves alone.
Lil’ gal monkey… months old.
Ol’ boy camel brand new. 🤷🏼♂️
It's kinda like eating cake or Oreos. Eat certain parts first, then save the best for last. Ok, maybe that's just me.
I used to scout out yard sales for cheap stuffed animals after donating several of my daycare's stuffies for tearing up purposes. Oh the living room floor was always such a mess, stuffing from one end to another. My dogs hadn't done that in so long; I was actually thinking about it yesterday. So what happens? I go to get in bed last night and see stuffing on my comforter. WTH? One of my dogs had chewed a hole in my comforter and thrown stuffing atop my bed. Do you think she read my thoughts yesterday; that'd be creepy. Now who to blame.....the dog laying right there looking like she doesn't have a clue or the one who is hiding in the other room, pretending to be sleeping and all sweet/innocent?
I miss those chew-the-hell-outta-every-stuffed-thing-in-the-house-even-pillows days. It meant they were still young pups.4 -
That there are so many things that I need to get done out in the yard but can’t manage most of it by myself and I have no one to help.
Plenty of offers, they never develop into actual help. 😒3 -
Life in general *waves hand generally*4
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People who refuse to advocate for themselves and question their doctor, their insurance companies.....they simply accept answers without doing any searching or questioning.
And there's a big difference between refusing and not being able to.....
Maybe I'm becoming much more cynical as I've gotten older but I see people being figuratively S@rewed all the time by the corporations.
I took my dogs to the vet over the past couple of months and with all the catching up we had to do to bring them both up-to-date, I told the vet right upfront that finances were a big consideration right now. She then decided what would be extremely important, vs. kind of important and gave me options. Bless her heart. She understood.
And don't get me started on insurance companies. They say they pay this and that but I see people getting denied who don't appeal. My sister, TG, decided to appeal some charges she was told her insurance wouldn't cover. They ended up covering it all. They probably figure most people aren't going to bother. Because hey, they're big biz and know what they're doing, right? Like doctors know what they're doing, right? 4 -
Myself.
Eff me. I knew I should have bought it. I said I didn’t want it because I didn’t want my property split be a county road.
Someone’s building a house here. Welp, hope they ain’t bashful and don’t care about a long haired country boy, bare assed, playing on his property. 😂
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