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Widow, mama. “Do not complain, daughter, for it is ever thus that I treat My friends.” “Ah, Lord, it is also on that account that Thou hast so few!”

Joined September 2014
Female health influencers: Please enjoy my daily three hour lymph routine encompassing multiple modalities and set to plinky string music 🥰 Male health influencers: It is most EFFICIENT to take a GUN and place it DIRECTLY-
Crazy idea but I’m fairly certain a $220 massage gun to the skull is one of the best mental health tools available and no one talks about it. Oh it’s a chemical imbalance making you anxious and depressed, maybe get some blood flow going… actually move your neurotransmitters. People stretch, do gua sha, use foam rollers and get massages, etc to break up fascia, improve blood flow, and help the body circulate all the things it needs to, in order to be healthy feel better. Why would you not apply the same logic to your brain? There are waste products the brain creates and needs to clear and circulate. Vibrate that chunk of meat that determines how you think and experience the world. I don’t have anything to support this but I’m fairly certain it boost neuroplasticity simply by moving your neurons around a bit, allowing potential new connections to form and breaking weak ones.
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I see the jobless layabout who wants to keep his kids in a 45 degree home washing in a pot of frigid water has big requirements when it comes to the wife respecting his Deep Business and Connection Man Conversations (which she never needs to have, sweet empty-headed thing.)
If you do not have the virtue of magnanimity towards your family, you do not have it at all, and your sinful, selfish nature is standing in the way of love. Anyone who’s spent time in classical/trad religious intellectual circles knows these men, and how their families suffer.
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How could he ever make all the business connections required to provide cheap meat and fruit three times a week if he's constantly interrupted by the toddlers he made??
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"We take your voter privacy extremely seriously, now please place your giant ballot flat on the tray of this machine in front of a cheery helpful hovering poll worker and six people in line behind you. What's that? No there is no 'face down', it's double sided. Why?"
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With my husband dead and my dad stuck in an Italian hospital how exactly am I supposed to know how to fill out this ballot
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Discovered a new nice feeling today: "realizing your altar boy son is sitting peacefully to the side of the altar and wasn't involved in starting the absolute conflagration licking up the wall behind the reredos during the homily."
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Requesting prayers for my parents, who were supposed to come home from Europe over a week ago. They've been unable to travel because my dad has now been hospitalized four times with hemorrhagic nosebleeds that they can't get to stop for more than a couple of days at a time.
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I've been nonstop researching cruises and medical options because it's very risky for him to fly now due to the pressure changes. He has an artificial heart valve so is on permanent blood thinners, which complicates things.
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Replying to @Chase
@Chase introduced new AI-powered fraud prevention - block suspicious transactions before they go through! It’s ok though, they call and unblock if it’s legit. But hey you know what happens when Chase blocks a card twice in a row? The airline goes ahead and blocks it forever!
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Two hours of my morning, a bout of tears, multiple phone calls, and nearly throwing my laptop across the room because @Chase prefers to “prevent fraud” by preemptively destroying my ability to buy my parents’ plane tickets home.
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Still not resolved because I was already late for an afternoon of driving kids here and there, and the fares I found likely won’t be available by the time I get home and figure this out.
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Someone at this thrift store spent a lot of time figuring out the absolute least effective way one could organize books that are for sale.
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Just saw a house today listed by the realtor who lied about two other listings that I know of. Walked around like “wow this actually feels accurate good for her!” Got home and realized I was thinking of the wrong listing. She had it listed 1400sf more than I estimated.
Continually shocks me how many realtors will pad square footage 20% or more on the listing. Even when the floor plans are included and marked, people can do math!! Caveat emptor and all that but wow.
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As with the last house of hers I saw, it is literally impossible for it to have been as big as she claims without including the unfinished Scary Basement and the garage. And possibly the patio.
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On the way out of the church from confession, held the door for a very elderly lady in a big white Kamala cap heading in to Mass. She glared daggers at my kids and I don’t think I’ve ever had the experience of literally biting my tongue on snark aimed at a stranger before.
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“Bless me Father for I have sinned, my last confession was seven minutes ago…”
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Opening the 800th furniture site looking for a semi-non-toxic sofa that's not $10,000: "Please have something vaguely traditional and comfy...!" Website: Please enjoy this SQUARE COUCH with SQUARE CUSHIONS and NO ARMS and HALF A BACK it comes in GREY and WHITE and OTHER GREY
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Took some back roads home so I could easily pull over and take some leaf peeper pictures, but it turned out the best one is still the one in my front yard. Many such cases.
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Dude I can totally see you.
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Has anyone developed worse tooth sensitivity/abfractions/enamel deterioration (translucency) after using nano hydroxyapatite toothpaste for a few months??
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My favorite thing about this is all the single dudes/young adults with adult roommates like "this is a skill issue!" Honey nobody with small children even registers your opinion as anything more serious than baby babble lol.
I mean… my dishwasher takes two hours on the shortest setting and I have to pull it out to dry, and the couple of weeks it was broken I was absolutely floored how much of my life became washing dishes. Every gap in the day was washing dishes. Constant. Endless.
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No, the guests are here all the time.
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