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…for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most joyous traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, but with respect for the religious persuasion of others who choose to practice their own religion as well as those who choose not to practice a religion at all.

Additionally,

a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the generally accepted calendar year 2000, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions have helped make our society great, without regard to the race, creed, color, reli

I’m alone. I’m so overwhelmed. I have friends but I’m the one they go to when they have a problem. If I go to them, I get an awkward “I’m sorry” and then it’s back to their problems.

I don’t have a partner. My family is the same way. They’re all in another state anyway.

I tried therapy. It got me labeled with “depressive disorder” and an attempt to put me on stronger meds. I don’t need that! I just wanted someone to talk to!

I vented to ChatGPT and this is the only time I actually feel listened to. It hurts that the only empathic validating response I can get in my life is from a stupid computer.

To celebrate two months of doing great on our rising test scores, I let my 2nd graders (7 going on 8 years old) have a party. I made a list of party types and raffled it off.

The kid who won picked a board game party. I told the kids they could bring any board game they wanted as long as I didn’t also have it in my cabinets.

One girl brought Connect Four. I walk by and I overhear her say, “Sorry. I tried to bring the ouija board, but my mom caught me.”

I really don’t care about the background music but I’m having so much trouble hearing dialogue of a lot of my movies no matter how I fiddle with the tv settings. Is there a soundbar that can help me with this specifically?

Tv type is a Hisense. Hoping to spend less than $500. I have the subtitles on but sometimes the subtitles aren’t synced to the show or movie and it gets frustrating to keep up. Couch is about 8 feet from the tv.

I bought talenti gelato for the first time and I could not get the damned thing open. At first, I was cursing my alone status because I thought it was a me problem, but a Google search revealed that they just make their jars impossible.

Got the stupid thing open at last! (Thank you, YouTube.) Forget making a bowl and ice cream scoop dirty. I live alone and I never have visitors. I’m enjoying this straight from the evil jar. Cheers! 🥂

I picked Carmel cookie crunch. This is delicious.