Having a Bad Day?: Get 'yer Hugs here!!

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Man, I just love waking up to cramps.  

[Kaymyth she/her]

9 hours ago, Ookla the Pug-whisperer said:

Man, I just love waking up to cramps.  

naproxen and a heating pad, stat

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

8 minutes ago, Ookla the Mythical said:

naproxen and a heating pad, stat

I have ibuprofen, need to buy a heating pad. Got plenty of chocolate, though. 

[Delightful]

1 hour ago, Ookla the Pug-whisperer said:

I have ibuprofen, need to buy a heating pad. Got plenty of chocolate, though. 

Chocolate is good. 

*hugs*

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

Man coming home at midnight after your car breaks down and jumping on the shard to find that people haven't realised how stormed up I am is very tiring

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

3 minutes ago, Mesa the Ookla said:

Man coming home at midnight after your car breaks down and jumping on the shard to find that people haven't realised how stormed up I am is very tiring

Pardon my bluntness, but how on earth were we to know? 

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

2 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

Pardon my bluntness, but how on earth were we to know? 

I knew I was too diluted here, iu guys want the concentrated stuff, check out Brain Bleach in the Sanderson elimination discord group.

Many souls were lost

[marsoupial they/them]

Just now, Mesa the Ookla said:

I knew I was too diluted here, iu guys want the concentrated stuff, check out Brain Bleach in the Sanderson elimination discord group.

Many souls were lost

We can't exactly know what you're going through if you don't tell us what you're going through, so...

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

1 minute ago, bleeder said:

We can't exactly know what you're going through if you don't tell us what you're going through, so...

If o told u guys half of what I gp through, u all would treat me differently

My real friends ended up doing so :/

[Delightful]

42 minutes ago, Mesa the Ookla said:

If o told u guys half of what I gp through, u all would treat me differently

My real friends ended up doing so :/

Hey, the shard is all our support groups. If we treat you differently it'll be more sympathetically and supportively. Open up and we'll help you to the best of our collective abilities. You're anonymous here remember, we can help. 

[Kaymyth she/her]

I thought that with the hard freeze finally hitting this week, I could stop taking my allergy meds.  Oh, gods, was I ever wrong.  Unless I'm getting sick, which is also a possibility.  I don't want to be sick.  It's not fun.  I do not approve of this.

[Delightful]

I'm skipping class - which I'll get in trouble for - to cry because everything sucks and I'm homesick and I don't know what to do anymore. 

[Claincy he/him]

23 minutes ago, Deliiiiiightful said:

I'm skipping class - which I'll get in trouble for - to cry because everything sucks and I'm homesick and I don't know what to do anymore. 

*hugs* how much longer are you there for?

[Sunbird she/her]

17 minutes ago, Deliiiiiightful said:

I'm skipping class - which I'll get in trouble for - to cry because everything sucks and I'm homesick and I don't know what to do anymore. 

I'm so sorry to hear that, Del. *hugs* Maybe some videos of birds taking baths will help?

Spoiler

 

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I wish I could do more. *hugs*

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

II think I'll surf it till I reach the age I can deattach from everything and start a new life

Maybe even fake my death

[marsoupial they/them]

*hugs all 'round*

[The Honor Spren she/her]

The rest of my family had Korean fried chicken for dinner . . . I had tapioca pudding.  I don't want to sound whiny, but being unable to chew anything or eat any hot foods really sucks.

[Orlion Blight he/him]

On 12/1/2016 at 9:34 AM, The Ooklent One said:

1 hour ago, Ookla the Miraculous said:

The rest of my family had Korean fried chicken for dinner . . . I had tapioca pudding.  I don't want to sound whiny, but being unable to chew anything or eat any hot foods really sucks.

Orlion here. 

For me, I was able to eat fun things again pretty quick after I got my wisdom teeth out (something like 24 hours)

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

1 hour ago, Ookla the Miraculous said:

The rest of my family had Korean fried chicken for dinner . . . I had tapioca pudding.  I don't want to sound whiny, but being unable to chew anything or eat any hot foods really sucks.

No, not whiney. I remember this. Coconut-mango smoothies and pear sauce got old after the first two days. I began seriously contemplating making myself a bacon shake just to get some meat back into my diet. 

But that first hot meal….I don't remember what it was, but I know it was one of the best things I've ever eaten. 

[Briar King]

On 12/3/2016 at 5:57 AM, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

Man, I just love waking up to cramps.  

This will prob sound strange from a male. My ex wife and me were just having a convo about our 13 yr old. I asked if it happened yet(as I'm kinda dreading it) and I just haven't been told. It hasn't and I find it surprising as I've been expecting it as far back as last yr. I'm sure my son will be asking me ?'s in about a yr1/2 from now.

[Master Elodin]

I haven't eaten lunch or breakfast, and now you're asking me to make decisions? I can't even do that at maximum capacity

[Sunbird she/her]

4 hours ago, Briar King said:

This will prob sound strange from a male. My ex wife and me were just having a convo about our 13 yr old. I asked if it happened yet(as I'm kinda dreading it) and I just haven't been told. It hasn't and I find it surprising as I've been expecting it as far back as last yr. I'm sure my son will be asking me ?'s in about a yr1/2 from now.

Your daughter is lucky--mine started in 5th grade. I was 10.

[Delightful]

10 hours ago, Ookla the Miraculous said:

The rest of my family had Korean fried chicken for dinner . . . I had tapioca pudding.  I don't want to sound whiny, but being unable to chew anything or eat any hot foods really sucks.

Not whiny! It's awful. I had pudding and jelly and I remember being desperate for protein or just something I could chew. Hang in there!

4 hours ago, Briar King said:

This will prob sound strange from a male. My ex wife and me were just having a convo about our 13 yr old. I asked if it happened yet(as I'm kinda dreading it) and I just haven't been told. It hasn't and I find it surprising as I've been expecting it as far back as last yr. I'm sure my son will be asking me ?'s in about a yr1/2 from now.

Average age is about 12 I think, but it can normally start from 9/10 till 15 or 16. I wouldn't worry or anything. 

[Sunbird she/her]

Man, what a disaster today was. Probably the cremmiest day I've had all semester. Here goes a long vent/rant:

Spoiler

So this semester I'm in a digital design/into to print publication class. We've been using programs like Adobe Illustrator and InDesign to lay out flyers, business cards, magazines, and so on to prepare them for professional printing. All digital files for class/HW assignments have to be turned in to a folder on a server that can only be accessed from Mac computers. (Turning them in through the university's official online interface that's accessible from any device with Internet would be too easy, after all. ) I've been struggling to keep up with the assignments for this class  all storming semester. This is partly because our class meets in a computer lab full of Macs and I've wasted way too much time floundering with the unfamiliar user interface and wrong keyboard shortcuts and the stupid one-button mouse misinterpreting my left-clicks as right-clicks and vice versa. It's partly because the software is new to me as well, so I've had to learn from the ground up how to do basic stuff in Illustrator and InDesign. But a large part of it is having to submit the assignments from a Mac. I don't own a Mac. My grandpa, whom I live with, doesn't own a Mac. I don't know anyone I can reliably borrow a Mac from. So submitting HW from the convenience of home is not an option, nor is submitting it from anywhere except on campus--a campus which is notoriously unfriendly to student parking. There are buses for students, but they only go around once every half hour, which is soooo not conducive to meeting deadlines at specific hours of the day.

All this crem came to a head today. Our big semester-end project is to design a book in InDesign and get it printed at the University Press, and the digital files were due today on the Mac server. I stayed up until storming 6:30 IN THE MORNING last night working on the Harmony-forsaken book and eventually went to bed when I stopped thinking coherently enough to do anything productive. So I got like less than 3 hours of sleep and had to lug my laptop along to campus to continue working because it had all the relevant files, not to mention that I've been having issues with making files created in the newer version of InDesign on my laptop compatible with the older version on the uni's computers and still had to figure out how to make that work.

Fast-forward to the end of the class period, 1:20PM. I still wasn't done with the project, but the very last deadline to turn it in was 6PM, so I still had a few hours to work.

...

Or I would have, if I hadn't overestimated my laptop's battery life, forgotten its power cable, and had to shut it down less than half an hour after the end of class so I could go home to plug it in. So once I got home, I was working frantically and finally slapped on the finishing touches around 5:30. I then foolishly wasted 15 minutes trying to figure out how to put all the files in a zipped folder, gave up, stuffed all the files uncompressed onto my flash drive, and raced out the door at a quarter to 6. Cue traffic jam on the way to campus. Long story short, it was 6:15 and I was in tears by the time I finally sat down at a Mac in the university library. I zipped the files (that's like the only thing I can do quicker on a Mac than on a PC), put them on the server almost half an hour late, and came back home still crying tears of frustration. Not just because of this class but because I'd had no time to eat anything in the 8+ hours since breakfast, and I was completely ravenous on top of everything else.

And I seem to be coming down with a cold too. Where's the Doctor and the Tardis when you need a shortcut to Christmas break?

 

[Briar King]

Ahhh Rust!! The forecast has changed from the high 20's to low 30's for the Artic blast. I mean it is still going to be COLD but it won't be COLLDDDD.