About two or three months ago when I was teaching my son how to blow blubbles 🙂

Raised nondenominational Christian. Started having questions and exploring other belief systems in high school. Parents always made me attend church, initially with them and then said I just had to go “somewhere” once I got my own car.

The pastor at my aunt and uncle’s church discussed some Christian guy who did his Master’s thesis on the deck of cards (face cards) and something something something the queen represents the mother of harlots, don’t yolk yourselves with sinners, etc. Made no sense, never went back. I was in my early 20s. Around this time, I was strongly considering various Eastern religions, specifically Islam and Buddhism, but couldn’t get a foothold in either.

Fast forward to about 5 years ago (mid 30s) and I had a client who was extremely Atheist and made several good points against God that made a lot of sense. Started looking further into Buddhism and found the Secular Buddhism podcast. There’s an episode where he basically says God is real if you believe in him but that doesn’t affect reality. Decided right then that I was done. Been a Buddhist atheist ever since.

Yep, exactly. Thus the reason why rates have to be so high if you accept insurance and you want to make a certain amount of money. Like…what part of “This is my hourly rate” do you not understand???

Yaasssss love Storygraph and Kobo!

Licensed professional counselor. LOVE my job. Love my clients. It’s fulfilling. Specific to the place I work, I set my own schedule and they’re extremely supportive. I can also wear basically whatever I want.

I hate working. I’m over it. Wouldn’t matter where I worked, I’m just done HAVING to work. I don’t like the pay but also don’t want to go into private practice. I could go for another practice that gives me a higher percentage of my earnings but that will absolutely come with some caveats. Hate taking insurance but you typically get the most people that way.

“Personally, I won’t be taking any kind of life advice from someone who dresses as a chess piece.” 🤣

Thank you for putting this channel out there.

Video games and talking about music, movies, and TV shows.

https://www.music-map.com/

You type in an artist and it gives you a visual map of related artists. The artist you searched for is in the middle and the further you go out from that, the less similar the artists are.

NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert is another one. You’re discovering artists at random but I’ve found some bangers that way.

Thank you!

Yesterday. I was telling my boss about how my husband abruptly and with finality brought up divorce in the midst of asking for a raise. Didn’t expect to cry but it happened. She was super supportive 🙂

Yep. Nowadays it’s mostly storm drains but it’s happened with pool drains and jumping off high places. I hold my keys tightly when going to check the mailbox. 🫠

Education has no bearing on intellect. Or appropriate life experience.

Also, when people say someone is stupid, crazy, etc, it’s because they don’t understand that person’s perspective.

Late 30s. Looked for Reddit alternatives after they tried to kill 3rd party apps. Landed on Beehaw first, then found Lemmy through Jerboa since you can use both of them through that app.

2016 Camry. Love it, zero complaints. Car I wish I had? Slightly newer model as they look super nice but holding out to see how that generation fares with reliability. Otherwise I’ll drive this one til the wheels fall off.

Tropic Thunder The Nightmare Before Christmas Hocus Pocus Dr. Doolittle Does Titanic count if I watched it for Leonardo DiCaprio reasons? 😂

I watch TNBC every year, usually for Halloween and Christmas. Used to watch Hocus Pocus for the same reason.

😂 Yes, we did (also saw the second one). We both enjoyed it.

The rough thing with me is I’m neither a morning nor a night person so 6am is too early, 10pm is too late 🫠

While on a road trip if it’s raining hard or the weather is otherwise bad, I have to turn my music down or off so I can see better.

I cackled the first time I read about something like that but now I’m that person 🫠

Also had an 8:30 bedtime for at least 10 years. I’ll be 40 next year.

Parents had a 1995 Pontiac Transport and a 2001(?) Oldsmobile Silhouette. Hated driving vans.

Learning to drive sounds lovely in your country if you get to pick your car from a selection! (I’m from the US).

Met my husband at a church we used to go to (I’ve since denounced religion). He asked if I wanted to see A Quiet Place. Agreed. Ended up being a double date with another couple who didn’t want to see A Quiet Place so we saw Rampage instead. Absolutely fucking horrible movie. But he and I never stopped texting after that and did a subsequent date a couple weeks later. 5th wedding anniversary is Sunday 🙂