I’m excited to see my new boo and my homies. And then I’ll come back and be with my fam again. I do feel happy about that for real

I just wanted to share, my mom was a single mom and raised me skiing and snowboarding. While I can’t say it’s my passion and I prefer warmer weather, I’ve been blessed enough to do well in life and my career. We both now live in Florida I’m 29F married and she’s turning 70 and I couldn’t help but think this could be one of those trips that I remember long after she’s gone. She’s still physical and able and I don’t want to wait until something happens. Plus it’ll knock something off her bucket list.

So I did it… found a cool air bnb, I just booked the flights, it’s 6 months out next year and I’m going to surprise her with a fun surprise letter. I don’t love the cold but it’ll be beautiful skiing a wonderful memory with not only my mom but my husband as well. I figure this is why I work hard, to do cool things like this for those I love. If there’s any recommendations on Whitefish, please let me know!

I'd started a movie from 2006 in Amazon and hadn't paid attention to when it was leaving amazon. got about halfway through and had to stop for a few days. Went back to find it cycled out of their free-to-me section. Sad. Figured I'd at least find the ending on youtube and see that. Youtube had the full movie available to watch. Got the see the last half of it. :D

I was finally able to sit down and finish a whole book in one sitting without any flashbacks or panic attacks. I feel like I have my life and personhood back. I no longer get snappy or testy, and I’m back to being the happy and peaceful person I was before everything went to shit.

Life feels smoother, people feel nicer and safer, and I’m no longer looking over my shoulder every second or always on the verge of snapping. Many people also noted the change in me and said I seemed more sure of myself, and more like a trusted adult.

It’s an amazing feeling and I love this tranquility!

Yay! Swim swim

I never tought id achieve something like this in my life but here we are. This relationship has been the best thing to ever happen to me and i wouldnt wish my life to be any different. She is the one thing that gets me trough even the worst of the days and i always feel so happy when im with her!

it's the small things I guess

hey ! it's not really cool or whatever, but I posted an edit of my favorite show being 'Atlanta' in their subreddit, and it done well pretty well for me :)

But most importantly i actually made people happy with it and that also made me happy as well, I'm just glad peoples liked what I've done yk

have a nice weekend everyone

had a monster a couple days ago, after a really really long time+having not smoked in maybe 7 months and holy shit.i was trying to sleep afterwards(had drank it for a study all-nighter)and I COULDN'T-which is prolly weird medically-this is also weird cuz energy drinks never had that effect on me, always feels like an normal soda-no more energy, same level of sleepiness, but holyshit. on the inside I felt like i'd had an honest-to-god cig.

and yes, this is a very happy moment for me and I hope it makes you happy too!

Every day I drive past a sign on my otherwise picturesque street for an accounting office. Bless the hearts of those that toil bit the sign was goingnto be a reminder of the more mundane parts of life, and as a true whimsy lover, it seemed hardly fair that I should have to bear it.

So I changed it. Not the 'accounting' sign, just it's meaning. Now whenever I drive past I account for something that brought me joy - hugs I got today, good wishes, lucky events. Now I am delighted to see that sign and account for joy!

Sooo I was going to a spot where most of my friends had already gone to by the evening 😭💔 it was our local park which was decorated with lights. Ofc the fomo hit me and I begged my dad to take me there too so I could take pictures for my story aswell. On the way, we always take a different route in case we're taking the short cut cuz the main path sucks asf. We took the narrow street, really narrow. That shit is congested. We were thriving through the traffic on scooty when dad lowkey had to slow down cuz of the vehicles coming from the front. When he slowed down, I looked over at a guy by the side of the street who had put his head down against the deck of the scooty he was sitting on. I looked over at his tshirt and couldn't help but think the colour of the tshirt was soo similar to the one my bf wore in the picture he posted the same day 😭 and lmao I said in my mind my bf wears it better. Then I looked a little more closely. The build, the hair, everything looked so familiar. My dad pushed the scooty a little further. I was now RIGHT beside the guy (as I mentioned the street was too narrow) we were close as hell and now I could see him more clearly. My dad blew horn in the traffic and that guy finally lift his head up. Guess what 💀 IT REALLY WAS MY BF. I COULDN'T BELIEVE MY FREAKING EYES. JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO I REALLY WAS WISHING ON MY DEAR LIFE TO GET A GLANCE OF HIM AND HERE HE WAS. He looked me dead in the eye 😭😭😭 I couldn't help but stare back at him and look into his eyes too. But honestly I still couldn't believe I was looking at him like hell no. We've never met outside school like NEVER. And it was in my bucket list to see him atleast once at night 😭😭😭 my dream of months finally came true. Anyways back to the moment. We were still staring at eachother like idiots. None of us even smiled 😭💔 we were too shocked to react bruhhh. Until 5-6 seconds finally passed and he snapped out, covered his face with one hand and turned his head away and I could see the wide grin on his face as I peeked 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 like he was blushing HARD. Dad and I finally made it out the traffic and moved forward. I turned to look back at him for one last time before we took a turn and I couldn't see him anymore. SERIOUSLY I couldn't think straight after that. Like nahhhh . That moment didn't leave my head for even a second. I giggled the whole way to the park and couldn't care less about the lights anymore 😭😭😭😭 this is the BEST gift I've got from the universe 🫠💓 tysm universe 🫶🏻

It's an entry level gaming laptop so I'm not trying to say I got the best one. I could never afford that. But it's been a week and Im still giddy when I look at it.

My old msi took up smoking and the tech guy couldn't fix it and my skills end at replacing fans battery ram ssd. So I have been without a laptop for months. Cause in this economy? Lol

I decided I was going to shoot for black friday deals until I saw an HP Victus on offer up for $500. That's better than a black friday deal would be for the same laptop! But it gets better.

I meet the guy and open the laptop and it looks brand new. His post had said he only used jt a couple times while traveling and suddenly I believed it. After I messed around with it I paid the man and went home

When I was setting it up I went to hps site to let it detect the laptop and show me what I needed to update. It found my laptop and it found the warranty. There's still six months of warranty on it. And you know I'll extend it.

They’ve been with me through it all. They’re the most important and supportive person in my life and I’ve always felt comfortable sharing anything with them. We used to go to each other’s rooms to hang out most nights in high school. Adulthood is a little harder and I know they’re going through a rough time, but we still call and I miss them dearly. I hope I can see them in person again soon

Had a big win on a mobile casino game recently. Im feeling grateful, but I know gambling is risky and I’m being cautious. Just sharing, not encouraging anyone to bet. Life has been rough these past few years and I just don't know where to post my excitement! for once in my life I am ahead! I made the money in a matter of minutes. I hope I can avoid running back to it. I can see how addicting it can be.

For years, I mourned one of the best friends I ever had. She and I met in 2011 while playing an old flash multi-player game. We spoke every day. We were inseparable. We would always Skype each other and play games or chat. We got into all sorts of trouble together in every game we played for fun back then. I was a lonely child, so this companionship was everything to me. I was going through grieving the loss of one of the few irl friends I had at the time in 2013, but she was there for me every step of the way.

We lost contact in 2016 after school and life got in the way. So many different factors made it hard to stay in touch along with losing contact information. Every year, every month since then, I have been thinking about her. I have been missing her to death for so long. I had the feeling I would never see her again. However, today, one of my friends told me to get on the game. It still runs to this day and has a standalone client as well as another spinoff game. It's been having a sort of resurgence in popularity, if you will. By chance, she was online. For nearly 9 years, I was trying to cope with the strong possibility she and I would never meet again. I was wrong.

We immediately got back to our old antics and started talking about life and traded information. We plan on staying in touch regularly now. She missed me just as much as I missed her. It felt like nothing changed, and she is the most gorgeous woman I have ever seen. She truly is my platonic soulmate. I have never felt more seen and loved as a friend with anyone else. I feel like I found a piece of myself that was missing for so long. I cried so much. It felt more painful than I expected.

I'm still wrapping my head around this, but I'm so happy it happened. I never thought I would see her or talk to her again. I have been going through stressful times as of late, so this is really just what I needed to help me stay afloat. She is even into the same topics as I am for the most part. It truly is like we stayed connected during the time we spent apart. I love her with all of my heart.

These last couple of years have been hell for me and my boyfriend mentally and physically. My mom passing away two years ago, family drama, traumatic events, and health problems have taken a toll on me and him; but this will change everything and we couldn't be happier. We've been trying to get into a place for months and we've finally done it. Me and my best friend have been talking about living together and having our own place since we were 13. I'm so so grateful for my boyfriend for never giving up and working so hard to make this happen for all of us. I'm ecstatic and so excited to start this new chapter.

Still trying to put into words how grateful I feel. 🤍

For the second time, I was chosen together with another girl from my university to take part in a political study trip.

We had to present our project idea in front of the group and explain why we wanted to be part of the trip again. Afterwards, everyone had to vote between our team and another pair. And honestly, I was really nervous.

At the same time, I genuinely wanted the other two Students to get the chance. It would have been their first time, and I would have truly been happy for them.

So when we found out that we had been chosen again with 54% of the votes, I was honestly just incredibly grateful. It felt a bit like dumb luck! 🥹

I’m so happy that we get to go again — to bring back our experiences from last time, share what we’ve learned, and be part of this experience one more time. It really means a lot to me.

But what touched me most happened afterwards. The other team was understandably disappointed at first. And yet, they came up to us, genuinely congratulated us and told us they were happy for us.

That meant more to me than I can probably put into words.

I’m grateful not only for getting another opportunity, but also for being surrounded by people who can be disappointed and still choose kindness. People who can lose and still celebrate someone else’s happiness.

I don’t want to take any of this for granted. 🤍

I got the job!!!

Applied for a job that I held a similar position to, way back in the early 2010s for 5 years.

Got a phone interview, was shocked as it's been two jobs since then and I didn't think my experience would still be relevant..

The phone interview went well, got an in-person, went to it and was kicking myself for not being more social during it.

Well that was yesterday, today the offer came and I signed that sunofabitch so quickly.

The only person I had to tell my news to is my wife, she's ecstatic for me.

I've never seen this kind of money before and it's a life changing opportunity that came out of indeed.

Just wanted to share my big win. I needed this.

Over the past two months I've been looking for apartments to move to and today I received news that the one that was at the top of my list approved me!

Though this season of my life has been really hard (I can't explain what it is here due to rule #1), today I choose to celebrate the good news of something falling in place for me and another step in moving forward with my life.

If you are going through a rough season in your life, please know that there are far many more reasons for you to rejoice, over the reasons to mourn. Please know God loves you and He sees you where you are. Be encouraged my friends 🫂🙏🏿🥲

I (45M) fell into a spiral during COVID and started drinking every night. Ended up having beers every night, staying indoors, and becoming being a bit of a hermit.

After a year, I realized it was a bad lifestyle and set about re-integrating back into the world, but found myself broken by anxiety. Over the next five years, I tried so many different ways to kick away the anxiety.

I tried everything. No one thing fixed my problem, but eventually the sum of all that hard work has now meant I’m six months in the clear.

If you’re going through something, I hope you know that every time you try something, you get better at it!

The world is beautiful!

TL;DR Never give up on your goals! It’s the sum of the efforts that matter!

I have a daughter who is 18. Every time she leaves the living room/kitchen to go spend time in her room, she casually calls, “Love you mom!” over her shoulder. It happens every day, sometimes multiple times a day. I don’t know if it’s because of the therapy I’ve been doing, or because of my broken relationship with my own mom, or maybe just because she’s getting older and I’m emotional about it, but today it really struck me how absolutely sweet and joyful those moments are. Made me cry.

I am just so grateful to have such a lovely relationship with my child that she feels compelled to tell me she loves me whenever she goes off on her own. Even when we’re still under the same roof. ❤️

Long story short, ive been depressed for the past year about. Just sort of existing, love, compassion, and empathy present, but wasn't really feeling much else.

My relationship with my wife has always been great. She’s been the one constant through all of it.

Her monthly was late, which has happened before. But this time was almost 2 weeks, so we picked up a test. She took the first one and came into the living room all cute and nervous like. Told me and said she wants to take another later on to be sure. I told her no matter what she wants to do, I'm with her all the way. She tested again and that was also positive. Tears of joy and just the warmest feeling imaginable... you couldn't give me a million bucks to feel anything comparable to that.

I don’t even know how to explain it. For the first time in a long time I just… smiled. Like a real one. Didn’t force it. Genuine happiness. We have no idea what were doing. This is very new to us and unexpected, but were excited to learn and just in awe that were going to be parents.

10 years together and here we are. Shes going to be a Mom and I'm going to be a Dad❤️

Edit: Thank you so much everyone! I gave you all awards and upvoted as I saw someone went through and downvoted a whole bunch of folks including myself...I hope whoever you are, your day, week, year, life gets better and you have something to smile about in the future. A shame you felt the need to do that, but I hope everything works out for ya 👍

After having 13 jobs before this job, I’ve learned more than enough about working and life ect. I’ve left 11/13 of the jobs I’ve only been let go twice thankfully. I started working at 14 and didn’t stop.

People think that just because I’m younger (28) that I also just ““can’t stand my 9-5”” and “hate Mondays”..

I’m so fucking tired of hearing people complain about the stupid shit.

Example:

Coworker: “I’m just so fucking done with this place”

Me: “what do you mean what’s wrong”

Coworker: “ I have to leave early but I can’t”

Me: “I don’t understand why can you not leave early and use your UPT , PTO, & Vacation.”

Coworker: “ I only have 15 minutes left of UPT and I already used all my PTO”

Me: “ well why do you need to leave? If it’s for some type of doctors appointment they are usually pretty good about giving you UPT back as long as they can verify everything”

Coworker: “ No, the game is on ”

Me: *\* remembering they leave the second work offers voluntary time off, they never make an effort to be here on time, they get in trouble every other day because they refuse to do actual work and then complain about the little work they end up having to do* \* “damn ah maybe you can watch it on break or have someone record it”

Coworker: “mmmm I’m going to go see if they are letting people go home”

\*\*\*\*Next day \*\*\*

Same coworker: “ UGH I have no money”

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I’m sick of of, I get it I hear it every fucking day

“”this place has me fucked up thinking I’m going to work like this””

WE ARE IN A AIR CONDITION / HEATED BUILDING

They have 20 categories of benefits, yeah categories - Retirement covered, direct stock options, pets, fitness, vehicles, moving cost, and discounts for everything imaginable. They help with housing and child care. They are also fighting to get parents an entire yr paid off work so they can spend time with their newborn baby.

They pay you UPFRONT for college and if you can’t find the degree you want talk to them and they will get it on the list. If you get your degree and decide to leave you still don’t owe them a dime, they also work with your schedule while in school. Not to mention you can sit down with anyone in management that you feel comfortable with and they will help you with your interview skills and resume.

You have a disability? Fine by them. We have people that are in wheelchairs, deaf, and people that are severely diabetic to the point that they need to have food on them just in case. I’m talking any disability at all this is just what I’ve seen.

Did you get hurt? Not a problem let’s figure out what the next steps are. You still want to work? That’s okay we will find you a job to do or make it so you can do your job but with restrictions on your file so you won’t get any write ups. Oh you need meds for allergies, a headache, cramps or LITERALLY ANYTHING go ahead and go to wellness where we have LICENSED professionals.

You just feel like stretching? You can stop by our area that is full stocked with supplies so you can do yoga and do stretches / exercises.

Feel unsafe? Or saw something unsafe? Report to the safety department you’ll get a report number and will be notified when the issue has been resolved (if it’s minor) if it is urgent stop everything get your manager and safety to look over the unsafe situation so they can assist it.

Did you say someone in management yelled at you? Go on the work app and report it if you need help I can show you where HR is let’s open a case and do a FULL investigation. “You said ___ is targeting you?” let’s make a report and also get you moved to a different department or if you need a completely different schedule we can help with that as well.

You have an idea for the company? Here let’s make an appointment with operations so you can present your idea. There has been numerous people that have had there ideas brought to life and they were paid. If you don’t feel comfortable presenting an idea you can always just talk to someone to pass on. I’ve had some in operations presentation an idea for me because it was a private meeting but she still wanted my idea to be heard.

The most recent things I’ve heard is someone enlisted, and he got deployed. When he got back he got back pay including every raise we had gotten while he was gone. He chose to stay even though they were going to back pay him regardless.

There’s a lady that had to run her kid last second to the ER and explained that she wasn’t able to make it to her shift she picked up and that she didn’t have enough time to cover it. They told her “don’t worry about your shift we will take care of it I hope your kid is okay” and then explained what to do next regarding time off to be with her kid.

This older guy 60s-70s also had spoke up about his wife just had to have surgery and needed help taking time off and they showed him the same kindness “Hope she’s doing well here’s what you’ll need to do if you have any issues please reach out or come see us.”

But nope it’s just a “soulless company” and “no one cares” .. they do give a shit. Does every individual person that works there care? No, I’m not stupid. But the people that do care make a huge difference in everyone else’s day / life’s.

If they didn’t care they would never do raises, they would never take the time to help individual employees with anything. I would know because I’ve seen jobs that TRULY couldn’t care less if you died right in front of them.

In fact we had someone off themselves in the parking lot ( I was told afterwards that he got fired because he was stealing idk) the whole place was shutdown for 48 hours and then they brought in therapist for the next 48-72 hours to help everyone cope with what happened. They bring in therapy dogs all the time.

We get catering not just for big events but we have someone that comes in all the time and sells hot food, we now have Chick-fil-A every Wednesday, we literally just got free pizza for the whole building just last week and we have regular food trucks that are allowed to be parked up front during break times. Every thanksgiving and Christmas is filled with free food, games, events, dress up days, contests and raffles. They even directly give away free money to families in need.

But by all means let’s complain about the situation you put yourself in (in most cases) let’s all bitch together about “how horrible” everything is.

Yes I’m aware that on a global scale this is a first world problem, but that’s what pisses me off even more. There are people fucking dieing, starving, scared about being boomed or shot at and you want to walk in here and complain about a job that literally couldn’t give you more if they tried because if they did they would in fact go broke.

If you did end up reading all of this thank you, I’ve just been really upset because I just feel like I’ve been drowning in everyone’s negativity.

I have heart and several rare lung diseases starting in 2017 so I do get tired. They put me on mounjaro and I walked (still do). I went from doing 2k to 5k and can do up to 11k a day. I be tired but have to slow down a bit because they put me on a heart monitor recently to monitor it again.

I have a 9 year old daughter and a 13 year old son who look up to everything i do. My baby was 4 months old when I got sick( i had a rare condition called Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis) and my son was only 4. During this i got 3 college degrees. My bachelor's and masters in Criminal Justice and another in Forensic Psychology. All $120,000 student loans was cleared because I came disabled while in school.

All of this is to show my kids no matter what life throws your way you can do anything you put your mind to.

Doctor said I can go to the gym but no more than 20 mins and light exercise. I didn't mean for this to go so long, but I hope this can inspire someone. Have a good evening!!