Luckily I think I've managed to disabuse my extended family about the idea of me ever being in a relationship with anyone let alone having any kind of a kid. That ball is entirely in my brother's court now.
people ask me how old I am and if I don't stop and think about it I just throw out a number in the right ballpark
someone I was working with was like "so you're how old - 31, 32?" and without thinking about it I said "no!, I'm 35!" because that felt about right and I didn't want to take the pause I would need to actually figure it out.
people ask me how old I am and if I don't stop and think about it I just throw out a number in the right ballpark
someone I was working with was like "so you're how old - 31, 32?" and without thinking about it I said "no!, I'm 35!" because that felt about right and I didn't want to take the pause I would need to actually figure it out.
.... It's not right. Oh, how I wish I was 35.
Wait, are you not? I thought you were about the same age as me.
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Oh, is it time to guess tynic's age? It's just as the prophet-poets Blink-182 spoke: What's my age again?
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
That means you're 37 now? Because that's exactly how old I thought you were.
I.e. Just old enough to be supremely annoyed with my teenaged posting style when I joined the forums.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
That means you're 37 now? Because that's exactly how old I thought you were.
I.e. Just old enough to be supremely annoyed with my teenaged posting style when I joined the forums.
I will never forget that time I gave you some satchel booze at the triple door and then you chucked all over the table.
Shit I still remember one PAX in Bellevue I tried to help you find bread in the middle of the night.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
If it was in Bellevue, I was probably trying to find food for the guy I was taking care of. For the first few PAXes I ended up taking care of drunk people more than I actually drank. That'd be 05-07, I think.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
on my 30th 2ish(..) years ago everyone was like "DO YOU FEEL OLD HA HA"
I felt the same as I did at 29
also
people are really laying into me about having kids all of a sudden
"WHEN YOU GONNA SETTLE DOWN" I just got out of a 11 year fucking relationship what the living fuck
Soooooooooooo
Soon?
What's weird is my parents are like "don't have kids if you don't want kids, there's too many kids in the world anyways"
But people I work with and friends do the "oh you're over 30 now, TIME TO HAVE ALL THE BABIES!"
no fuck that noise
fuuuuuuuuuck that noise
I like spending my money on things, and like, having peace and quiet. I really wish there were apartment complexes without kids too... you think they'd let me move into one of those gated old people communities that are like 50+ ?
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
The first step in figuring out how old I am is remembering the year I was born in, then it's remembering what year it is, then comes the math.
Yesterday I was throwing out some papers from work ( only have to keep the past 5 years), and had a brief freak out that it was 2017 already. Yes, 2005 was over 5 years ago, not 2 years ago...
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
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My age maths are blissfully simple, since the Willennium started:
Kind of upsetting to spend a few years being wrong about your own age and having coworkers thinking you're one away from forty and doing all the mental prep work that goes into hitting another decade and making peace with getting older-
Like I feel so stupid. And also like I have to do the last year over again, which I know isn't how this works. It's just such an easy, fundamental piece of self identity that was wrong.
I used to see news stories when I was in my 20s about the oldest person in the world and them being confused about exactly how old they are and I'd be all "wtf oldielocks how do you not know how old you are".
And then I would get confused on if I was turning 36 or 37 and legitimately forget for a few months, and I actually remember what year I was born because it wasn't the 1800s.
If you're rockin 100+ years, you can claim you're whatever fucking age you want.
I'm kinda mad at the fact that lately, I've been getting more and more situations where I can't remember people's names, or whether I locked the car when I walked away from it, or I'm walking around the supermarket getting shopping and there is a voice in the back of my head going "you need to get something...you need to get something" but I can't remember what, and then I'll get home and realise it was actually the one thing I initially went in the supermarket to get. And it frustrates the hell out of me, because I never used to forget anything :-/
Also, yeah, that break room thing would annoy me too!
It's all saltwater these days:
Ocean, tears and heartbreak soup
Half alive in a whitecap foam
Half in love with a white half moon
My territorial tendencies override my social anxiety usually. If I go to THIS break room every time then nothing short of the break room being closed or no seats available will dissuade me from taking a seat.
on my 30th 2ish(..) years ago everyone was like "DO YOU FEEL OLD HA HA"
I felt the same as I did at 29
also
people are really laying into me about having kids all of a sudden
"WHEN YOU GONNA SETTLE DOWN" I just got out of a 11 year fucking relationship what the living fuck
Soooooooooooo
Soon?
What's weird is my parents are like "don't have kids if you don't want kids, there's too many kids in the world anyways"
But people I work with and friends do the "oh you're over 30 now, TIME TO HAVE ALL THE BABIES!"
no fuck that noise
fuuuuuuuuuck that noise
I like spending my money on things, and like, having peace and quiet. I really wish there were apartment complexes without kids too... you think they'd let me move into one of those gated old people communities that are like 50+ ?
My mom has been pushing my brother and his wife to have kids, and one of his friends pointed to me and was all "what about him?"
And I was just like "lady, I can barely take care of myself, and you want me in charge of another human being?"
I'm a pretty chill person IRL, but the kid thing is like the shortcut to me getting ticked off
I have a low tolerance for kids actually impacting my day to day too, like playing with a fucking football around my car instead of in the field behind the apartments.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
I don't like kids in any capacity. Even their HAPPY noises grate on my nerves. They also have this tendency to become overly curious about expensive things and then break them.
When I joined the forum I just assumed that everybody else was older than me, and I guess that mentality stuck, even as other people came in after me.
I also find my perceived age of others thrown off by the fact that some people are 30 and have kids, where I'm just over that and about to have my first.
I'm a pretty chill person IRL, but the kid thing is like the shortcut to me getting ticked off
I have a low tolerance for kids actually impacting my day to day too, like playing with a fucking football around my car instead of in the field behind the apartments.
A neighbor kid was on his bike the other day. I pulled back out of my driveway and started to go forward to leave the park and he decided that was a good time to pedal top speed straight at me... Playing chicken with a car.
Same kid that threw the glass bottle at the pavement while I was looking right at him too.
I'm a pretty chill person IRL, but the kid thing is like the shortcut to me getting ticked off
I have a low tolerance for kids actually impacting my day to day too, like playing with a fucking football around my car instead of in the field behind the apartments.
A neighbor kid was on his bike the other day. I pulled back out of my driveway and started to go forward to leave the park and he decided that was a good time to pedal top speed straight at me... Playing chicken with a car.
Same kid that threw the glass bottle at the pavement while I was looking right at him too.
ugh
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
I started lurking when I was 17, but I don't I posted until I was 18, back in 2002
I'm still really pissed off about the job thing
The short version of the story is I work in the supply chain of a fairly large regional hospital
I used to pick orders and stock inpatient floors
I did that for about five years
It was not exactly "rocket science" but it required a lot of knowledge about a lot of products and areas
I knew how to order and restock somewhere around 30 different floors
It took me four years to get good at it
I don't have that job anymore, but I'm still in the supply chain
Recently, there's been this big restructuring of the whole warehouse side of the supply chain. There's a big warehouse that's going to be responsible for supplying all of the hospitals on our health system, so management is changing everything
Instead of one person being responsible for say 12 floors, ordering and restocking, management is taking the responsibility and spreading it around to several people
Third shift does all the ordering
First shift in the warehouse picks the orders
The people that put away the orders are a third group of people
And it's a disaster. The nearly 8 hours gap between ordering and restocking means it's a guessing game and a shit show. Instead of the three shifts getting along and working together, they've split everyone up into two separate groups and those groups are on three different shifts. There is a huge gap in training with the restructuring and everyone is all stressed out and miserable
It sure feels like management is getting rid of knowledgeable people and I feel like this thing I worked my ass off for years to learn and be good at it is just seen as a simple thing that can be done by anyone with two weeks worth of half-assed training.
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A fun game to play is to try and decide who will be alone forever based on their opinions about children.
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I felt the same as I did at 29
also
people are really laying into me about having kids all of a sudden
"WHEN YOU GONNA SETTLE DOWN" I just got out of a 11 year fucking relationship what the living fuck
edit: the streaks are from sliding my flip-flops that I wear at home don't judge me
Soooooooooooo
Soon?
someone I was working with was like "so you're how old - 31, 32?" and without thinking about it I said "no!, I'm 35!" because that felt about right and I didn't want to take the pause I would need to actually figure it out.
.... It's not right. Oh, how I wish I was 35.
Wait, are you not? I thought you were about the same age as me.
that's close, right?
I.e. Just old enough to be supremely annoyed with my teenaged posting style when I joined the forums.
2015...
BC??
guffaw
ooohoohohoo
Lookit ol' Tynic.
Good Ol' Nic of Time! Outliving religions and such. One of those wacky eternals.
36. Hasn't had a birthday yet this year!
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I will never forget that time I gave you some satchel booze at the triple door and then you chucked all over the table.
Shit I still remember one PAX in Bellevue I tried to help you find bread in the middle of the night.
What's weird is my parents are like "don't have kids if you don't want kids, there's too many kids in the world anyways"
But people I work with and friends do the "oh you're over 30 now, TIME TO HAVE ALL THE BABIES!"
no fuck that noise
fuuuuuuuuuck that noise
I like spending my money on things, and like, having peace and quiet. I really wish there were apartment complexes without kids too... you think they'd let me move into one of those gated old people communities that are like 50+ ?
Yesterday I was throwing out some papers from work ( only have to keep the past 5 years), and had a brief freak out that it was 2017 already. Yes, 2005 was over 5 years ago, not 2 years ago...
Take the current year, subtract 2000, add 20
I used to see news stories when I was in my 20s about the oldest person in the world and them being confused about exactly how old they are and I'd be all "wtf oldielocks how do you not know how old you are".
And then I would get confused on if I was turning 36 or 37 and legitimately forget for a few months, and I actually remember what year I was born because it wasn't the 1800s.
If you're rockin 100+ years, you can claim you're whatever fucking age you want.
Also, yeah, that break room thing would annoy me too!
Ocean, tears and heartbreak soup
Half alive in a whitecap foam
Half in love with a white half moon
She refused to open it.
My mom has been pushing my brother and his wife to have kids, and one of his friends pointed to me and was all "what about him?"
And I was just like "lady, I can barely take care of myself, and you want me in charge of another human being?"
I have a low tolerance for kids actually impacting my day to day too, like playing with a fucking football around my car instead of in the field behind the apartments.
oh god I thought I was the only one
every time this happens to me I wonder if I have a degenerative brain disease
because I'm anxious like that
at any rate, good to know I'm not the only one
I got in trouble this year because one of my friends was like "I'm turning 32!"
I said, "Me too!" without even thinking about it.
So they were like "NO YOU'RE TURNING 33 YOU'RE OLDER THAN ME HOW COULD YOU"
it turns out they were right, whoops
I also find my perceived age of others thrown off by the fact that some people are 30 and have kids, where I'm just over that and about to have my first.
A neighbor kid was on his bike the other day. I pulled back out of my driveway and started to go forward to leave the park and he decided that was a good time to pedal top speed straight at me... Playing chicken with a car.
Same kid that threw the glass bottle at the pavement while I was looking right at him too.
ugh
I'm still really pissed off about the job thing
The short version of the story is I work in the supply chain of a fairly large regional hospital
I used to pick orders and stock inpatient floors
I did that for about five years
It was not exactly "rocket science" but it required a lot of knowledge about a lot of products and areas
I knew how to order and restock somewhere around 30 different floors
It took me four years to get good at it
I don't have that job anymore, but I'm still in the supply chain
Recently, there's been this big restructuring of the whole warehouse side of the supply chain. There's a big warehouse that's going to be responsible for supplying all of the hospitals on our health system, so management is changing everything
Instead of one person being responsible for say 12 floors, ordering and restocking, management is taking the responsibility and spreading it around to several people
Third shift does all the ordering
First shift in the warehouse picks the orders
The people that put away the orders are a third group of people
And it's a disaster. The nearly 8 hours gap between ordering and restocking means it's a guessing game and a shit show. Instead of the three shifts getting along and working together, they've split everyone up into two separate groups and those groups are on three different shifts. There is a huge gap in training with the restructuring and everyone is all stressed out and miserable
It sure feels like management is getting rid of knowledgeable people and I feel like this thing I worked my ass off for years to learn and be good at it is just seen as a simple thing that can be done by anyone with two weeks worth of half-assed training.
I like children. I don't like parents who don't watch their children.
Hey can you watch my kids while I pass out in the gutter for six hours?
it has drastically reduced my dating pool to like
0 people total
I am going to extend my dating range to the entire contiguous united states