stupid first world problems you're dealing with

Breast in peace m3,000,000

so far the virus has stayed clear of my body somehow. this norovirus thing is amazing tbh, makes you vomit & shit hardcore for the better part of one day or two days at most, then it slowly goes back to normal. 1st world virus quite.

happy holidays watmm

When my ex was working on a cruise ship there was a Noro outbreak, and she witnessed one morbidly obese passenger shit and puke all over himself in the gift shop.  Grim.

FWP: my dad officially no longer knows his favorite local pub.  My mom took him there and he was all like "what is this place?  Why are we here?"  F U dementia.  On the bright side, his most frequent utterances are "this is wonderful" and "that's beautiful!"  He's probably the happiest person I know right now.

  On 12/25/2016 at 5:15 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

When my ex was working on a cruise ship there was a Noro outbreak, and she witnessed one morbidly obese passenger shit and puke all over himself in the gift shop.  Grim.

and there's nowhere to go. at sea, no one can escape your barf/noro.

  On 12/25/2016 at 5:15 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

FWP: my dad officially no longer knows his favorite local pub.  My mom took him there and he was all like "what is this place?  Why are we here?"  F U dementia.  On the bright side, his most frequent utterances are "this is wonderful" and "that's beautiful!"  He's probably the happiest person I know right now.

That's fucking terrible. Sorry to hear that, man.

Dementia is such a piece of shit.

How old is your dad?

  On 12/25/2016 at 5:15 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

FWP: my dad officially no longer knows his favorite local pub.  My mom took him there and he was all like "what is this place?  Why are we here?"  F U dementia.  On the bright side, his most frequent utterances are "this is wonderful" and "that's beautiful!"  He's probably the happiest person I know right now.

Oh man, that's terrible. I wish you the best fortune possible dealing with this.

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Spending Christmas alone. Don't know if I'm sad about it or not. I'm not attached to it at all, judging from all the shitty ones (all of them approximately) I've spent ever since my late childhood with families that weren't mine. I don't know if Christmas is something I should let go for good or not until I actually want to celebrate it. Is that important ?

dementia is awful yeah, my 86 year old grandmother spending christmas with us this year, spent an hour talking with her this morning about her toast, after each slice she had she insisted she only had one, after the 4th slice she was convinced there was a family conspiracy to deny her access to toast, she has literally zero short term memory at this point. agree with everything they say and figure out various distraction strategies, only way to go, everything else leads to stress and aggravation. her childhood memories are actually stronger than ever though, get her talking about the old days and it's like there's nothing wrong with her.

  On 12/25/2016 at 2:50 PM, Perezvon said:

 

  On 12/25/2016 at 5:15 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

FWP: my dad officially no longer knows his favorite local pub. My mom took him there and he was all like "what is this place? Why are we here?" F U dementia. On the bright side, his most frequent utterances are "this is wonderful" and "that's beautiful!" He's probably the happiest person I know right now.

Oh man, that's terrible. I wish you the best fortune possible dealing with this.

 

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Spending Christmas alone. Don't know if I'm sad about it or not. I'm not attached to it at all, judging from all the shitty ones (all of them approximately) I've spent ever since my late childhood with families that weren't mine. I don't know if Christmas is something I should let go for good or not until I actually want to celebrate it. Is that important ?

Zephyr: like others here, wish you the best fortune with that situation.

Perezvon: I'm not a Christian so for me it's about spending time with fam and friends, which is nice. My immediate family is abroad at the moment, so I'm with friends this year. I'd say find meaning in it as you will, take what's important about it to you, and celebrate that part. If there's nothing about it you like or find important, then just enjoy the time off work (or school). Merry chenmas!

Thanks guys.  I believe he is 77, Squee... or 76.  Sorry about the serious-ness of that one, I guess it's more of a serious problem rather than an FWP.  It was just the first thing that popped into my head after my gross noro anecdote.  

FWP: fucked up a lyric on this Santa Baby cover, because almost every lyric site has a very bizarre interpretation of the "'54 convertible" line... somewhere down the line the internet decided that was an "auto space convertible" which isn't even a thing.  I pointed out how weird that lyric was when we were recording it, but figured it was just some archaic 50's thing.  It's okay though, Shakira got trolled by the internet too.  The real FWP here is that we are now just as stupid as Shakira.

Ugh... Christmas is always the longest day of the year.  How is it only 6:30?  Feels like 10.

  On 12/25/2016 at 9:35 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

FWP: fucked up a lyric on this Santa Baby cover, because almost every lyric site has a very bizarre interpretation of the "'54 convertible" line... somewhere down the line the internet decided that was an "auto space convertible" which isn't even a thing.  I pointed out how weird that lyric was when we were recording it, but figured it was just some archaic 50's thing.  It's okay though, Shakira got trolled by the internet too.  The real FWP here is that we are now just as stupid as Shakira.

FLOL! Yeah this December I have been analysing lyrics of post-war Christmas standards because they really do have these now anachronisms placed throughout which makes the modern covers of these songs even more ridiculous. Hearing Ariana Grande sing about 'Parson Brown' or 'The 5 And 10', wtf.

Yeah, dealing with modern renditions of post-war Christmas songs is my current FWP. It will soon be over though!

fuck it all. don't take any of it seriously, online dating is trash.

  On 12/26/2016 at 5:59 AM, usagi said:

fuck it all. don't take any of it seriously, online dating is trash.

met my gf of 2 years thru tinder lol

  On 12/25/2016 at 9:35 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

The real FWP here is that we are now just as stupid as Shakira.

1) have broken up with GF, but she hasn't moved out yet

2) hate my well paying job, have a mortgage that requires a well paying job, cannot think of any feasible (jobs that aren't in dying industries) alternative i'd like to do (well paying job involves other peoples health, so can't half arse it)

plan:

sell house

rent cheapest possible place i can in some remote place (?tasmania)

try hand at dying industry

fail

unburn bridges

go back to job I hate

  On 12/25/2016 at 2:55 PM, caze said:

dementia is awful yeah, my 86 year old grandmother spending christmas with us this year, spent an hour talking with her this morning about her toast, after each slice she had she insisted she only had one, after the 4th slice she was convinced there was a family conspiracy to deny her access to toast, she has literally zero short term memory at this point. agree with everything they say and figure out various distraction strategies, only way to go, everything else leads to stress and aggravation. her childhood memories are actually stronger than ever though, get her talking about the old days and it's like there's nothing wrong with her.

Yeah, my grandmother is getting there. She tells the same old stories over and over but she can't remember things that just happened. The worst part is that she knows. At least my grandfather didn't really that he couldn't remember things.

A couple of years my dad was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia which was fucking terrible. The worst 6 months or so of my life. Turned out his liver was just fucked from his alcohol abuse. Oops. Stupid fucking doctors.

  On 12/26/2016 at 5:43 PM, Sally Vingoe said:

1) have broken up with GF, but she hasn't moved out yet

2) hate my well paying job, have a mortgage that requires a well paying job, cannot think of any feasible (jobs that aren't in dying industries) alternative i'd like to do (well paying job involves other peoples health, so can't half arse it)

 

plan:

sell house

rent cheapest possible place i can in some remote place (?tasmania)

try hand at dying industry

fail

unburn bridges

go back to job I hate

  On 12/26/2016 at 11:41 PM, auxien said:

 

  On 12/26/2016 at 5:43 PM, Sally Vingoe said:

1) have broken up with GF, but she hasn't moved out yet

2) hate my well paying job, have a mortgage that requires a well paying job, cannot think of any feasible (jobs that aren't in dying industries) alternative i'd like to do (well paying job involves other peoples health, so can't half arse it)

 

plan:

sell house

rent cheapest possible place i can in some remote place (?tasmania)

try hand at dying industry

fail

unburn bridges

go back to job I hate

Very similar stuff going on around these parts, shit is rough. Serious fwp.

Absolutely firstest of wps

fucking ants.

People who act and talk like shit to me. And also people who talk shit about me when I'm in the same room. This problem alone just drives my anger issues wild, so wild that I start to stutter when I try to talk back and fail miserably. Also people who underestimate.

  On 12/28/2016 at 5:08 PM, darreichungsform said:

 

  On 12/28/2016 at 5:04 PM, Consul said:

People who act and talk like shit to me. And also people who talk shit about me when I'm in the same room. This problem alone just drives my anger issues wild, so wild that I start to stutter when I try to talk back and fail miserably. Also people who underestimate.

 

That sounds terrible! 

Yeah it does, I had so many outbursts in high school, it's insane. Those are the reasons I lower the count of my friends. Too many cooks spoil the broth, you know.

  On 12/28/2016 at 5:12 PM, Consul said:

 

  On 12/28/2016 at 5:08 PM, darreichungsform said:

 

  On 12/28/2016 at 5:04 PM, Consul said:

People who act and talk like shit to me. And also people who talk shit about me when I'm in the same room. This problem alone just drives my anger issues wild, so wild that I start to stutter when I try to talk back and fail miserably. Also people who underestimate.

 

That sounds terrible! 

 

Yeah it does, I had so many outbursts in high school, it's insane. Those are the reasons I lower the count of my friends. Too many cooks spoil the broth, you know.

 

Yeah, lots of idiots around these days (and not only these days). Not even saying I'm not one of them though

Bookshelf I ordered is being delivered by a terrible delivery company we use at my workplace (UK Mail: has a 1.5 out of 5 rating on Google which is accurate), and their drivers--especially the driver who works this area--treat the parcels like shit. I know this for a fact because I load the parcels onto this driver's van every night, and he completely ignores bright FRAGILE or THIS WAY UP labels, throwing the parcels into his van like a bank robber chucking bags of cash into a getaway vehicle. I can only imagine what shape my bookshelf will arrive in, and that he know it is me who complains about the condition of it. I pray the bookshelve is so sturdy it survives his manhandling of it.

 And he will probably arrive so goddamn early it will ruin one of my few lie-ins I get. And he will see me in my pyjamas.

  On 12/26/2016 at 11:35 PM, Squee said:

 

  On 12/25/2016 at 2:55 PM, caze said:

dementia is awful yeah, my 86 year old grandmother spending christmas with us this year, spent an hour talking with her this morning about her toast, after each slice she had she insisted she only had one, after the 4th slice she was convinced there was a family conspiracy to deny her access to toast, she has literally zero short term memory at this point. agree with everything they say and figure out various distraction strategies, only way to go, everything else leads to stress and aggravation. her childhood memories are actually stronger than ever though, get her talking about the old days and it's like there's nothing wrong with her.

 

Yeah, my grandmother is getting there. She tells the same old stories over and over but she can't remember things that just happened. The worst part is that she knows. At least my grandfather didn't really that he couldn't remember things.

A couple of years my dad was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia which was fucking terrible. The worst 6 months or so of my life. Turned out his liver was just fucked from his alcohol abuse. Oops. Stupid fucking doctors.

 

How's your dad doing now?  I think mine is in a state of continual decline.  I had to call 911 for the first time in my life last night.  He got on the floor and couldn't get back up.  Started talking about the lady in the light.... sounded like a light at the end of the tunnel death talk to me.  He's still alive tonight though... just some run of the mill old confused guy delusions.  There are no white blood cells in his urine, which is good, and extremely rare for someone his age.   So on the bright side my dad's in good condition physically.  Mentally he's totally fucked.  He's still alive but in in a sense he is gone.  I don't think we will ever have what can be considered an actual conversation from this point forward. I don't think I have fully processed this yet.        

FWP I don't have permission to edit what I just wrote.  PS TMI would undo if possible.