Show off.
Not everyone can have the cool dreams. :-/
All right, this line right here made me crack up IRL and Iām out with the wife and kids so they think Iām crazy. I mean, slightly more than usual.
I am unfortunately at the point where I rarely remember my dreams, theyāre like wisps of smoke when I wake up and if I donāt write them down (and I donāt) then theyāre gone forever. Like tears in rain.
You are welcome to join me. But stay out of my cabin. Seriously. There are Klingon women and androids and Tholians.
Just trust me.
No thanks, everyone knows red shirts get shot up first.
Iām not a spammer.
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Iāve got one of those days where everyone Iām interacting with seems to be either incompetent, or an asshole.
It brings to mind that saying about āif you run into assholes all day, youāre the asshole.ā Sometimes I miss smoking. This would be one of the times Iād go outside, take a walk, and have a smoke.
There is a third alternative, and that is your (work) environment and the relationships it has forced you and the ones you are interacting with into are compelling you all to being assholes to one another. (yay I can still write Kantian monstrosities!) Customer service will do that to people for example. Itās horrible, unhealthy for the individual and society and thatās something lawmakers should look at.
My mom is turning 60 in a few days. Sheās kind of freaking out on her daughters, telling us she didnāt think sheād live this longā¦ kind of sounds like she maybe didnāt want to live this long. I am pushing her not to pretend her birthday doesnāt exist using my nephews as an excuse, terrible example there but dear lordā¦
When I turned 30, she bawled, like straight up ugly cried because she had 30 year old daughters. I already warned my little sister. She turns 30 in the summer.
Me too. Iām totally relaxed about it, though. Itās just what happens.
It helps that I keep telling myself I could have another 25 years left. The end still seems a bit distant, even though I recently had a bit of a scare when my heart got out of rhythm.
Thereās no point in being stressed about it. Get your mom some good weed or something. Maybe turning 60 is a good time to become a pothead.
I had a priest once that told us not to smoke when we were teenagers.
He said we should smoke when we were old, like him. I guess the logic was you only had a bit more time left, why the fuck not. We laughed.
Hah.
I am pretty sure the shock of turning 60 is she didnāt expect to make it that far because of all the drugs she did when she was young. She tells me she is allergic to pot. I thought it might be a viable option for her when it became legal because she has some ongoing pain.
It would be nice if my older family members would not go around acting like they should have died years agoā¦ as if that would somehow be better. We have a few of those. My mom is the worst at the moment, but she is also the only one hitting a new 0.
Iāve never understood people who get upset about hitting higher ages. Not being dead is good!
Now, being upset about how much being old sucks, thatās fine. But thatās all the time, not the fault of the birthday.
Thatās really more about how you feel. If you feel good at 60, 60 doesnāt matter. If youāre hobbled due to aging issues, then 60 probably sucks.
Iām not doing too bad in terms what I can do. I still play some sports and I can walk for miles. I donāt like bending over to pick up pennies but Iāve been like that for some time now. I may be rotting on the inside for all I know, but Iām still active. I donāt feel much difference between how I feel now and when I was in my 40s.
Sheās not in good shape, mentally or physically. I try to encourage the positives though. Her children are all around (she lost half her siblings years ago and her parents). Sheās got a grandson she is really close to, the local one, and one that she gets to video chat with and will visit this summer.
Itās pretty challenging though when everyoneās birthday becomes an exercise in reminding my mom why itās good sheās still alive. Next year I hit a zero. Iām expecting a total meltdown. On the plus side, it might keep me from focusing on my age for a minute. I am already to the point where I am telling my co-workers, you guys ask me if I remember some tiny ticket I worked almost 3 years agoā¦ Iāve got a pretty good memory but you really need to come to me with more than hey did you change an address three years goā¦ or better yet, go find the notes.
Just wait till you experience hiring someone who was born after you graduated college. That one hit me harder than any ā0ā birthday :)
Just to chime in, my wife tends to always comment on how time passes so quickly now as we approach 50. Like, every holiday she exclaims about how it feels we just celebrated the last one. I fear my boys are developing a permanent eyeroll expression in response.
I am the oldest person on the sub team, the insurance piece, of the billing team. Weāre talking like by a year for one and 2 for the other. The weird thing is, I became the most senior person on this sub team like 3 months after I was hired. Itās been raining jobs in this area for a bit, and sometimes I get these questions like iāve always been here for years and years, and I have to remind one of my younger co-workers that theyāve either been here longer than I have or dude, I was hired one month before you were. What makes you think I know about this odd ball stuff that happened 7 years ago? She always laughs when I say that.
Iām not far off from what you are talking about though. My 10 year old nephew recently celebrated his birthday, not only did I see him bornā¦ I saw his mother born. Hah, my little sister! I still have memories of the nurses trying to rush me out of the delivery room because my mom didnāt get the pain meds she wanted, and she was screaming I donāt want her to see me like thisā¦ as the baby popped out.
Unlike my mom, if my nephew chooses to have children someday, Iād like to be there, not in the delivery room of course because that woman will not be blood related to me, and I am not that socially inept. If my even younger nephew goes the same route, Iād like to be there that too, even if they have to whelel my ass around in a wheelchair or worse.
Because it annoys my other sister though, sometimes when she asks me how I am doing, I say things like still here, Iām told this is a good thing due to the alternative.
Iām only in my early 40ās, and Iāve hired an intern who was born after I graduated high school. Not too many more years until thatās college. There was an organization restructure earlier this year, and now I have a boss who is younger than me for the first time in my career, but Iām sure that stuff will keep happening.
On a light noteā¦
My dad has purchased his manf home on his almost beach home, and in the spirit of Fatherās day and his new home, weāve decided to give him this for Fatherās Day as a bit of a gag gift.
Yes. itās the Charmin Forever Roll with Stand.
And it turns out there might be a few of us who ordered this for real or gag reason because I got this today.
But due to the overwhelming popularity of the Charmin Forever Roll, weāre experiencing shipping delays.
You are in good companyāeveryone loves the Forever Roll! The response is so positive that our rolls are shipping out a little slower than we would like.
Our shipping times will return to normal next week (itās usually 3-5 days) but we couldnāt bear to leave you hanging.
To apologize, let us knock 2 dollars off your next order of three rolls or more. This is on top of the $2 we took off your first order.
I donāt do a lot of gag gifts, and I donāt wan to leave people stuck in an awkward situation where buy something for their new home they donāt actually like, so here it is. My out of town sister will be in town on Fatherās day so I am sure we will either go out or do BBQ while he is here.
Thatās a catās wildest dream, lol