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15:22:42
minty
yeah. i decide to start back up an exercise routine and now i've worked 6 of the last 7 days there's no way i'm gonna
15:23:10
isoraqathedh
/No one/ would ever believe that there's a link between "me doing the exercise like every good person should" and "I get sick immediately after".
15:23:33
isoraqathedh
No matter what I say or think I see, it's always 'well maybe you should exercise more' or 'well maybe you should eat some green veggies'.
15:24:10
isoraqathedh
Not to mention that doing exercise would eat into what little time I have left.
15:24:36
isoraqathedh
And then my mum has the temerity to say that "well everyone has to do this kind of routine at some point in their lives, so why not just chin up and eat it."
15:26:26
minty
nah, eat what you can eat. i've become lactose intolerant so i need to cut back on milk and cheese or i vomit my soul out, if you can only have meat and no veggies? eat that
15:26:37
isoraqathedh
(But she'll also complain that my dad works too much. In a normal weekday I have not seen him do anything other than work or sleep. Allegedly, the remainder is eaten up by TV and weirdo Three Kingdoms mobile games.)
15:29:38
minty
my child gets the same shit for not eating veggies. everybody when we go anywhere or have company over "you need to give him this" "i was the same way until my mom forced me to eat this"
15:32:13
minty
he doesn't eat ice cream, pizza, scrambled eggs, eggs AT ALL really, and for a small, brief period he would eat chicken nuggets but doesn't anymore
15:33:28
minty
it is frustrating. i would like him to eat more stuff, but i've seen him try a different flavor of oatmeal, the same TYPE of oatmeal, and gag on it. so, it's something mental?
15:34:48
isoraqathedh
Now I have to say that my anti-vegetable stance is mostly mental barrier related too, but on the other hand I can normally go out and eat without too much trouble. There's normally one or two dishes per restaurant that I can just have with no problems.
15:35:30
minty
my kid likes a lot of french fries and chips (crisps, in other parts of the world), but won't have other potato-related items
15:36:06
minty
he also eats cheese, drinks a lot of water, and will have some different types of cereal
15:36:23
isoraqathedh
I'm reminded of this. https://www.arfidawarenessuk.org/copy-of-what-is-arfid-1
15:36:24
Colleen
www.arfidawarenessuk.org/co... Website (HTML), Title: WHAT IS ARFID? | ARFID Awareness UK
15:36:24
Colleen
www.arfidawarenessuk.org/co... Website (HTML), Title: WHAT IS ARFID? | ARFID Awareness UK
15:36:53
isoraqathedh
Allegedly, the kid only likes chips and chips and bread because they have the correct textures.
15:37:44
isoraqathedh
(Referring to some 12-year-old with ARFID that has gone blind because his diet is entirely chips, and the other chips, and some white bread and finally maybe a bit of ham.)
15:38:27
minty
holy shit thank you iso. this is exactly it. he's got very high self-esteem, is happy with his body, but is veeeery narrow in his diet. i make sure he gets enough protein and vitamins and everything. he's not nutritionally deficient by any means
15:40:17
isoraqathedh
Now obviously I'd caution you against just thinking it's ARFID because it reminds /me/ of it, but if you believe that it's something you want to address or otherwise get it checked out about then, well, I would finish the sentence but we all know how that conversation would continue.
15:42:38
minty
oh, yeah... i just, it's a small town here of like, 200 people with only one doctor. on the off-chance it is this, i'm betting the doctor is not aware
15:43:13
isoraqathedh
Presumably if you bring it up to him he'd talk to his network, but I suppose he probably has none.
15:44:18
isoraqathedh
(My expected reaction is something like "see a doctor", "can't, it's too expensive", forty more lines of the same "healthcare in the USA is bad" call-and-response sequence that we've all been at before.)
15:48:40
minty
but yeah health care in the u.s. is prohibitively expensive yada yada so is housing yada college costs are soul crushing blah blah
15:51:42
minty
ON A MUCH MORE CHEERY NOTE when i get the paycheck from this two weeks of working 6 days a week i'll be able to pay for my car's registration AND pay off my paypal credit line!
15:53:03
minty
having two credit lines open, and student loans, that i make regular payments on is the only reason i was approved for the car loan.
15:53:44
minty
banks need to know that they can reliably take your money before they approve you for something where they can take your money
15:53:52
isoraqathedh
The knobheads over at G7 have finally decided that the things they wanted from two years ago are in fact the things they still want to say today.
15:54:05
isoraqathedh
They sure haven't done anything to those effeects, but the things are the same.
15:55:10
minty
they said they were gonna raise the minimum wage here, and forgive some student loan debt
15:55:59
isoraqathedh
I mean even with that express statement they can't even get a profit motive for Nord Stream 2 to keep happening.
16:01:25
isoraqathedh
It dropped on the ground and then I looked on the ground and it's not there anymore.
16:07:54
minty
man... now that i've eaten and opened the school tabs i need to read i'm getting immensely exhausted
16:08:33
minty
1 more week of this schedule too, wake up go to work, come home college papers fall asleep do it all over again
16:11:12
minty
i really don't get the u.s. system. "we need an educated society for a competitive edge in the global business world" "let's financially crush everyone who wants a higher education"
17:54:48
gingerale
https://chat.tymoon.eu/data//stevenchan/0f7651ab3945bd0145d29eabb0617c0da346680c40888aea2965d02ea34f0080.jpg
20:20:34
minty
https://chat.tymoon.eu/data//stevenchan/f47fd1168cca0cba46b23fac0f6b553788e9597c41922b617ffa73c9413b769b.jpg
20:35:35
minty
https://chat.tymoon.eu/data//stevenchan/9ba611a4ff3ee7887b28de3599bbddf7f0b23cd748eaee59831467585926d2f9.jpg
20:39:15
minty
https://chat.tymoon.eu/data//stevenchan/f3a4b786046c9f8d052b5fdeda7e2655d16fb553e5138669406796de1a43be50.png
20:41:02
minty
oh gosh, old peanuts comics... i used to have original hardbacked peanuts books from the late 60's n such...
20:41:20
minty
https://chat.tymoon.eu/data//stevenchan/7c201ce35d6930161ff5ef75153d2c40b89176a68123bf16661e890ca4b4b0f3.jpg
20:41:24
minty
https://chat.tymoon.eu/data//stevenchan/748503a1718e40c0f4294ea15fb60841e80b6e4021c643e3be48176d367d6216.jpg
20:42:51
minty
i think my brain has done enough school reading for the day here... i've entirely checked out now