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Cake day: August 4th, 2025

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  • Graduated high school 12 years ago and never got any further education than that (college, trade school, apprenticeship, or whatever else). It’s far too expensive to risk starting and realizing I hate doing what I wasted money on or that any job that would take the degree pays less than I currently make or just straight up doesn’t exist (even if it did exist when I started education). My current job pays $50k in a small Midwest town which is fine for right now.








  • My problem is with having to twist my hands and bend my fingers around my hook a lot. Work only allows the cotton gloves they supply which get changed out often due to them getting soaked fast which only makes it colder. They gave me these sleeve things which are extremely tight, but even wrapping them around the ends of the gloves doesn’t stop my hands from freezing.



  • Tried the Vaseline cause I’m not allowed to wear scaves or masks at work where it’s also cold af. Didn’t work. Same with trying to wear 3 layers of cottom gloves while working which didn’t stop my hands from being in pain from the cold (they get cold faster than anything else on me) and more hinders my ability to work efficiently. I’m only comfortable when in a 70-85° area (or whatever my shower can get to at max heat). Any less and I’m freezing, but I can handle a decent bit more.


  • I like summer the most cause it’s the only season I don’t feel like shit. Whether it’s allergies, sinuses, or just general hatred for going outside (and no don’t tell me to just put on more layers cause I’m already wearing 5 layers in 8° weather and still freezing my ass off while struggling to move). Doesn’t help that I work in a cooler so spending 8-11 hours in a cold room only to leave into the colder outside isn’t enjoyable. I miss going on walks at local parks, but all I want to do now is get back in bed ASAP cause that’s the warm place.







  • This can be a problem for people not in or near a city. Hell I live 40 miles from St. Louis and I struggle to find groups without them being the kinds of people I’d feel uncomfortable around. Like I love movies, but every film group I can find are the ones that want to watch movies while drunk or go get drunk afterwards. I can’t stand being around people drinking alcohol cause they tend to always be annoying (from personal experience anyway cause I’ve never been around a pleasant drunk person). Same thing happened when I finally saw a video game group on Meetup. Granted it seemed odd cause it was at someone’s home, but I signed up for it. Only for the host to message everyone the night of how much alcohol he had and where to put more at without mentioning if they had any non-alcoholic drinks.