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My mom, who moved in with me after Retirement, and I have some very different ideas of what we need to do to "Adult".

She's a Boomer (end of), and I'm a Elder Millennial. There are days I do nothing after work, but there's also times when even after an 8 hour work day there is shit that needs to be done that evening, or day.

She works 5 hours and sits and plays on her phone. She runs one errand and then just sits and plays on her phone.

I understand undiagnosed ADHD. I have ADHD. I understand manic energy and I understand a type of paralysis where you're so overwhelmed with things that you don't know where to start, and so end up doing nothing.

I don't know if that's even close to what she has. She's only productive if I AM - thus why so little gets done when I'm working.

I cleaned the living room and kitchen. She sweapt part of the deck, and tossed the deck pillows into the wash. While I did dishes, she sweapt the kitchen floor... because I had said I wanted to wash it when I was done dishes. I had to resweep areas because she didn't move things before sweeping (which I didn't realize because my back was turned).

Now, I have to wait to do anything else because I don't like walking across a freshly washed floor, so I sat down to write this and wait about 10ish minutes (it doesn't take long for the floor to dry)... she walks across the wet floor, digs her cell phone out of her bag, and sits to play games. After doing minimal amount of work.

She was on the side of the house where she could have at least gotten stuff on to go outside and start, I don't know, taking plant pots to the shed, or getting out the shovels... but no. It seems to always be my job.

Before anyone says anything, she's not "old". She's capable of acting like a functioning adult, not a 13 year old you have to MAKE take care of the house. Hell, the vacuum cleaner is even on that side of the house, she could have fucking vacuumed, but no.

I'm going to bet that I'm going to be doing 95% of the work. I can almost guarantee it. I lived with her before as an adult because it was mutually beneficial, and just financially smart, but I don't remember THIS.

She's been here almost a year, she's never washed the floors, or cleaned the bathtub, or dusted. I think I can count on one hand how often I have come hone to vacuuming done, or the floor SWEAPT.

This was supposed to be beneficial for both of us! I had been doing inside and outside chores... and a lot of the time, I still am.

Am I whinging? Yes. Am I complaining? Yes. Will I say anything to her? Eh. Maybe.

The trauma of 1) a brainwashing cult religion that forced into my young head to never question my parents, and 2) corporal punishment as a child and preteen doesn't make me want to say anything. She already gets pissy at me if I use a tone of voice that expresses annoyance (not even at her, just a situation).

Should I go to counseling? Probably. Will I? Haha. No.

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Childcare PSA:

No matter how big a fuss your child kicks up in the morning ALWAYS send appropriate clothing in their bag. It is NOT our job to make sure we have enough clothes to ensure YOUR child is properly dressed. The ONLY exception is if you are experiencing property, house fire, or another upheaval in your life.

This INCLUDES footwear. OMG. They want to wear the ballet flats? Okay, fine, TOSS THEIR RUNNERS IN THEIR BAG! They want to wear Crocs in the middle of winter? Okay, fine, toss their winter boots in their bag. Seriously, we will "fight" with them instead, and 9 times outta 10 they will do it for us with little to no fuss.

Your child cannot enjoy their day if they are COLD or left out because YOU, the PARENT, are letting a child make bad choices.

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PSA from a Childcare Educator:

STOP PUTTING FOOD THAT NEEDS TO BE HEATED UP, WITH FOOD THAT SHOULDN'T BE HEATED UP.

Example: spaghetti and sauce in one section of the container and cheese in another, and strawberries in the last.

NO! Use TWO FUCKING CONTAINERS!! It's enough of my time heating up lunches, but also having to separate the food so they don't end up with hot, gooey gummies is ridiculous!

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Ghost Files has achieved a new record (the highest use of the word “hole” in a single ep) – 38 times

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bitches will hear a song and be like 'this makes me feel like i have a gaping hole in my chest' and then they put it on repeat. its me im bitches

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You know, I don't have dogs because I don't like Dog Energy in my house. I also don't like the stink of dog shit in my yard.

I know my gate to my backyard is broken. I don't mind if your dog snoops in my backyard a bit.

But if your FUCKING DOG takes a SHIT in my backyard, CLEAN IT UP!!!

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Me: *goes to room to get ready for bed* *sees a cat has puked down the headboard of the bed, onto the pillows and mattress* *RAGES* *goes to bathroom to get TP to clean up the mess before tossing it in to the Washer* *steps.in.cat.poop* *ABSOLUTELY RAGES!!* *has to wash foot, and clean up cat crap* *mom hears me raging and comes and switches my laundry over so the washing machine is empty* *strips bed, tosses stuff in the wash, remakes bed*

This wouldn't seem so ~Dramatic~ if I wasn't tired, and hadn't already been in "Going to bed" Mode.

Cat crap because at least two have some bowel issues.

Mom because she retired and moved in with me.

Ugh, I'm going to bed now.

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lesbians love and support our trans sisters 💖💖

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one thing about me is that i will cry. i cry when i’m happy, i cry when i’m sad, i cry when i am angry, i cry when i am tired, and i cry when i think about life

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I live in a Small Town, and all the kids in the school (I think we're under 60 this year), all do fundraising at the same time for multiple things.

My motto? First come first served! I am not made of money, so I'll give to the first kids that get to me, and then I'm done.

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Me: *has been gassy for DAYS*

Also me: *can't figure out why * *eats another piece of zucchini carrot cake with cream cheese icing*

Still me: Yeah, no idea.

*is Lactose Intolerant*

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me when it's not october

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Captain's Log

Star Date: 101298.17

When I am ~Exhausted~ I have some weird ass dreams, ones that I usually remember.

This week, and last week, and every week for the last 10 years or so, I have dealt with being exhausted when I come home. Kids are exhausting. Parents will tell you that. Teachers will tell you that. They say the average child asks around 300 questions a day... our Childcare Centre is small, and 3 of them can't really talk yet, but that's still 8 kids asking on average 300 questions EACH a day.

By the time I come home, my brain is mush. So when I say exhausted, I do mean it.

The first dream is from last week.

~ENTRE DREAM SEQUENCE~

I am exploring a deserted building. It is full of glass fronted offices (like in Racoon City in the first Resident Evil movie), but the really weird part is everything is left like the people who worked there, or were clients, just stood up and walked out.

As I'm walking through this deserted place, I see a guy working in one of the offices. I go up to him, and I ask WTF he's doing here. Basically he says it's great and he gets so much work done because there is no one else here.

We talk for a bit, but then I get distracted, because in one of these abandoned offices, is a Gaming Rig... and there is no one there. I end up drifting away from the dude who is working because who the Hell leaves such expensive equipment behind.

The guy who was there notices me leave, and follows me. We both comment on the set up, and ignoring the fact you should never take anything from an abandoned place, I decide to take the ergonomic gaming keyboard, and mouse. I express regret over not being able to take it all... but then I jostle the mouse, and it wakes up the screen.

There is a video game, mid campaign, character doing it's waiting stance... but across the screen is a message, like someone typed it in a hurry. It says, "THE DARKNESS IS COMING!"

Apparently dream me knew what it meant (I'm thinking maybe it was some post apocalyptic world, and so I knew)... and I stopped trying to shove the keyboard into my backpack (because of course I had a backpack), and grabbed the guy who was there, and yelled, "We have to leave NOW!"

He seemed to know what it meant too, and started to protest because his computer and such were back in the room where he had been working, but as I turned with him, we saw this Thing.

The only way I can describe it is like the darkness from StarGate : Atlantis Season 1, Episode 2, or the Mashadar entity in Shadar Logoth from The Wheel of Time series.

I grabbed him by the arm, and we ran.

And then I woke up.

~END DREAM~

The last night, after being so tired I went to bed at 9:00, I had another weird dream.

~NEW DREAM~

There was a creepy house and friends of mine decided we should all move into it because it was big, and anything we heard about it were just stupid rumours.

I agreed but only if they allowed me to take some precautions, and if at least for the first night we all slept, camping style, in the same room.

They agreed, begrudgingly. All night sometime kept terrorizing us, obviously supernatural. It caused one friend to sit up, and start saying strange things, even though I took precautions .

I ended up getting up to go to the bathroom before it could get really weird.

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