Charlotte Finn @SkunkyLass@awoo.space

Despite having worked a decade and a half in the retail salt mines, despite having so many niblings to buy presents for that I had to budget for it several months in advance during the lean years, despite how tough it is when the sky turns endless grey for over a week at a time, I really do try to be a Christmas person.

But I've got to work extra over the next five weeks because the boss is on vacation until Jan 22nd.

Woulda loved to have time off with my Dad! I guess that is not happening. So I guess it's another bah humbug year.

@sanspoint It is very good. A neo-noir movie where the protagonist is profoundly disinterested in the web of intrigue.

@Phorm lol, the Sinfest dweeb? Outstanding

Despite not fully understanding why they had to change Fableman's movie shooters to organic instead of mechanical, I'm gonna give this here FABLEMANS movie a shot

@MexicanYenta Aw, that sucks. Those situations are so uncomfortable.

Aright, it's not quite as bad, I can still have carrots and I can have (a little) (low-fat) cheese, so ham and swiss on rye is probably my new go-to for the foreseeable future when it comes to an easy lunch.

Well, about 50% of my favorite foods are on the avoid list, and the other half are on the enjoy list. I guess I better really start enjoying the taste of fish!

Oh and they recommend 5 days of exercise a week, but that's a given already, I already do 20 minutes on a stationary bike with two days on and one day off

The bad news that has been delivered to me by my doctor is that I'm pre-diabetic.

I am only pre, so if I cut out refined sugars and carbs for a long stretch, as in three months minimum, I should hopefully be able to walk it back.

And if I wind up diabetic, it's not the end of the world. Still. One of those "you're 45, Charlotte, can't ignore it" things.

Anyways. I can cut candy without a sweat, but I'm going to need to research low-carb foods and how to prepare them, and that's gonna be fun fitting into my already overly fussy eating habits. But I did learn the joy of cooking this year; I'm sure there's good recipes for me out there.

@AprilDaniels Sympathies; working it out means reliving it and it can be so upsetting and exhausting a process.

To be clear I don't have anything against Hive and I hope that they fix the issue, but turnabout is fair play 😜

Figured I'd update the meme that was floating around Hive ( gotta update it here since they had a wee security problem)

@arthurwyatt ACAB (All Cats Are Beautiful)

But they were all of them deceived, for a fifth Loko was made

TO BE CLEAR this is 100% a good thing, humans are tool users and we should get to use tools especially for complex math problems. Just funny, is all.

Still can't quite get over the feeling that I'm cheating by using a spreadsheet for my homework.

(this feeling brought to you by being old enough to remember when calculators were considered a controversial item in math class)

The combat is in that sweet spot for me where it's challenging me just a little, where I slowly have to start paying more attention to health, to positioning, to Heroism, to hero unique traits ( I'll master Iron Man's redraw focus eventually.) It's introducing new concepts and things at a steady enough pace that I'm not drowning but I'm not coasting.

I admit I doubted this, despite overall loving Firaxus games. But I needn't have worried. This is splendid.

Having an extremely good time.

There's a lot of AAA to-do list stuff but you can skip a lot of it since it's vanity stuff, and the stuff that's a bad idea to skip - hanging out with and bonding with the team - is stuff I want to do.