I’m sorry for your loss. It’s so hard! We still catch glimpses of our old furry friends months or years later - beside the couch, under the table, in dreams, …

I started using a spreadsheet in 2010. Expenses down the left ordered by due date. Paydays across the top. Months framed and colored.

My phone broke last week. The only way to login or to have customer service look at my account is to have a text message sent to my phone. Its so stupid!! I had to drive to the store 4 times!!!

No. I said this is a very poor area and many people are just trying to survive. Many are likely happy to have any job that allows then to support their families. People think it’s only white Republicans doing these jobs. The Rio grande valley is like 85% Latino. As someone else mentioned, border patrol and ice are not the same.

This is sad. It sucks. You want to say that violence isn’t the answer, but it’s easy to see how people hit their breaking point. ICE agents kidnapping people is horrible. McAllen is poor. The people who work in that ICE facility are likely just happy to have a job with benefits that feeds their families.

I’m a 4-5. Sometimes I can get like a wire frame sketch of the general shape of something.

I couldn’t understand what it’s like for people who actually see and hear things in their heads. I recently realized that I sometimes experience a faint taste and I guess it’s sort of like that?

When I get a song stuck (which happens constantly) I don’t hear it; I just have the unrelenting urge to sing it.

I have no sound, voice, or pictures in my head. I didn’t know that other people did see/hear things until a couple of years ago. Thoughts just come in chunks.

In most states you can order it online and it shows up in your mailbox a few days later.

Good answer. Doc is the best answer but may be financially difficult. Some jobs offer EAP (employee assistance program) - it only gets you 3 free visits, but it is a start. Do some reading on depression. Try to find a reason to get outside each day - even if you start with a 5 minute walk and add a bit every day or two. Is there something or someone you can help? Sometimes you’ll do for others what you won’t do for yourself - a walk for the dog, a healthy meal for a spouse, …

The restaurants I visit usually sell food, not cuisine. Ordering 3x the food I want seems wasteful and expensive. I don’t think that skipping cheese (and associated diarrhea) makes it the perfect meal.

I do this - order a la carte and hold stuff. I try to be very nice about it. I don’t want a 3 taco plate with rice and beans for $20, only to throw most of it away. I want a la carte one taco and rice. Everytime I get a salad without dressing, a burger without sauce, anything without cheese, etc., it gets questioned. Please stop trying to give me other dressings, different sauces, and cheese on everything. I get menu anxiety and usually check it before we go so I can make a plan, especially if we’re dining with people I don’t know well. Know that’s it’s frustrating for her too; extra frustrating if you’re calling attention to it.

Maralago

Interesting turn. This is not the way I thought AI was going to kill us.

No. Also, this is terrifying!

Don’t drive high

I’m in Texas and I’m really shocked it hasn’t happened yet.

Yes.

My grandma called that a whore’s bath. She also had funny sayings like, “it’s colder than a witch’s titty in a brass bra in January.”