I love jumping spiders. I have 3 females living in my house right now and they're the best. I love coming across them in my daily life.
The kids at my school didn't get away with it because social media and all that shit. This was also in 2014-2015, so tracking down whodunnit was exceptionally easy lol
She was upset with me at first because she just wanted to graze. Then she got into it when she started trotting around lol
Kids are so dumb.
In senior year, my school district had 30+ bomb threats in one year. Every time we'd hear the loudspeaker ring, we'd just start grabbing our shit. They stopped telling people about them after a while because evacuating the kids once a week was a shitshow. Every threat was linked to a handful of kids who wanted attention or wanted to get out of tests/homework. I was out sick on the day the feds showed up and started arresting kids.
That's an idea lol. The only birds that don't like me are parrots. Ducks and chickens are fine
She doesn't like me very much
Haven't used Amazon in two years. I don't even have an account anymore. Doesn't stop them from sending me emails 3x/day to sign up again. I try to shop local, but I do have to go to shitty corp stores for some stuff.
My mom works in a school and her 3rd and 4th graders regularly use slang she doesn't understand. She regularly texts me for translations so she knows if she needs to talk to the kids about inappropriate language. It's the reason I'm so up to date on the current slang of kids and teens. Meanwhile, I still use yeet unironically every day. Apparently yeet is super outdated lol
Every time I read about this, I just imagine some creative person with the right resources decided to dip into the fantasy genre and do world-building. I'd do similar things as a kid. I made up all kinds of fictional things and made little encyclopedias for them. It is great fun
If by younger, you mean two years younger than now, them I have a story that is applicable in regards to my career.
Got fired from my first job in my field (IT, specifically tech support/help desk.) The firing was unexpected and done in a Tuesday afternoon with zero warning. I wasn't given and kind of formal write-ups and had been getting great performance reviews. I was crushed. The reasoning that my boss told me was that "I wasn't learning fast enough." Which was absolute bullshit because I was left alone to run the department on a regular basis. I did all of my tasks and did them well and users loved me.
I suspect I was the fall guy for all the failing projects my boss was implementing. They cost far more money than he said they would. I believe I was fired so he wouldn't get a pay cut.
I was absolutely heartbroken and considered going into another field entirely, after fighting my way through the rampant sexism in college and in job hunting. The first tech job I applied to after being fired (three days later), called me almost immediately after I applied. I did a phone interview and was then asked to do a practical interview the next day. I did well enough to get offered the job before I had finished the half hour drive home.
I make so much more money now, have great benefits, and I am respected and encouraged to grow. This job is absolutely incredible.
My grandmother says getting fired from my previous job was the best thing that happened to my career and I agree with her.
The emotional damage getting fired like I did has given me crippling anxiety that my therapist likens to that of PTSD, but without some of the PTSD symptoms. I'm getting treatment for it, and I'm at the stage where it's getting worse before it gets better.
I had an hour long panic attack when I had to tell my boss that a doctor told me to take a week off to recover from an injury that wasn't healing right and hindering my daily life. My boss wasn't pleased and told me my attendance will need to be near perfect because I have already missed a lot (I have.) I'm not worried about getting fired anymore, so I haven't panicked since, but I do get flare ups of anxiety. I get to go back and face everyone on Tuesday and hope that I won't have to talk about it face to face because I will end up panicking then.
Love how nature is fighting back lol
Asked him very politely to move so I could sit and he gave me this look.
Every Friday, I work from home. Immediately after clocking out, my dogs and I take a nap. Radar was looking forward to it the most lol
Then she got an exam and her smile went away. She doesn't like the vet touching her. It makes her nervous.
She also has allergies and was put on allergy meds. She's thrilled because she gets pill pockets every day now. I'm not thrilled because her medicine is $130/month
Mama Duck is interested in them, but not enough to leave her nest. She doesn't attack me on sight anymore though lol
She was restless all night. I'm glad she's finally resting like she needs to.
Omg that makes me so happy. I love my spoders. I moved into my house 2 years ago and so far, I've had 5 different spiders. One male and four females. They all die eventually, but I love watching them grow.