What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[PretentiousHipster]

In a perpetual state of exhaustion due to that turning 30 life-changing event, at least life-changing in my eyes. I sleep for like 9 hours during the night and then nap for another 3-4. Barely play games or do anything now

Tattoo parlours open today. Trying to find an artist willing to do my next one. One quit obv

Might have found another parlour. Someone who specializes in geometric tattoos, so he might be perfect. He said to wait until the 17th to email him as he's booking the 3 months of cancelled appointments.

[fastbilly1]

So you get 12-13 hours of sleep a day?

[REPO Man]

Best night's sleep in almost a week! Went to be around 12 last night and didn't wake up until about quarter to 1pm.

It wouldn't be possible if I didn't have the whole day off. And I've got tomorrow morning off from Duck Donuts so I'm setting my alarm for 10am.

Still have to work Food Lion again tomorrow night.

After that I'm back to waking up at 6, working Duck Donuts at 7 (until noon on Sunday, until closing the rest of the days) and Food Lion 3-10.

Next Wednesday I'm scheduled to get the last shot and three weeks from there I'll be fully vaccinated! I put in for that day off, though if the previous weeks are anything to go by, it's pretty much in the bag. Also, since I'm operating on the assumption that Food Lion's only able to give me one day off a week, I wouldn't be able to have my birthday off. So I'm gonna see if I can't get my family together for something on Wednesday. Ideally, I'd be able to bake a cake and screen a film of my choosing, so naturally it'll probably be a store-bought cake and being told no one wants to hang out and watch a movie.

Considering how Baja Blast is currently at my disposal I'd use that in lieu of water when baking the cake. Apparently soda makes a cake more moist and fluffy. Given Baja Blast is a lime-based flavor I'd probably go with a lemon cake and add some lime gelatin mix and Baja Blast to it and then add some lime Kool-Aid mix to some lemon frosting.

As for the movie, I'd have to remember that my nieces and nephews will be there, aside my oldest niece who went to camp. So nothing R-rated (or anything capable of getting an R rating), and then I'd also have to cut out anything with gore, sex, subtitles or anything "weird". So basically 99% of my Blu-ray library.

[PretentiousHipster]

So you get 12-13 hours of sleep a day?

Yea, type 2 bipolar is pretty much a permanent depression where anti-depressants don't work, plus times where I act "crazy". I do take 2 meds that help quite a bit, but as a cherry on top they are both drowsy meds.

[marurun]

Considering how Baja Blast is currently at my disposal I'd use that in lieu of water when baking the cake. Apparently soda makes a cake more moist and fluffy. Given Baja Blast is a lime-based flavor I'd probably go with a lemon cake and add some lime gelatin mix and Baja Blast to it and then add some lime Kool-Aid mix to some lemon frosting.

Dude, warn us when you're gonna post shit like that. That sounds absolutely disgusting. If you want a day-glo sugar bomb there are tastier ways to do it.

[REPO Man]

I actually did something similar with blue velvet cake mix. I added MtDew Voltage to the mix, along with blue raspberry gelatin mix. Then I topped it with blue funfetti frosting with some leftover gelatin mix.

As seen here on my IG

[REPO Man]

Looks like my plans are a bust. My mom said that my oldest niece is coming back from camp but she also said that she has dance cheer on Wednesday, so if I do anything my mom and niece won't be there. Now my potential plans are either hang out at the house or go up the beach with my mom and niece, which more or less amounts to getting dropped off at Walmart to buy some stuff (still need to get black slacks that actually fit). Her dance cheer lasts from 5-5:30 to 8:30 so if I don't decide to go to Walmart I'd have to find something to preoccupy my time until my mom can pick me up at 8:30-9.

Further proof I need to live in NYC. I'd have friends to hang out with and it'd probably be easier to get my actual birthday off and plan a decent get-together, even if it is just breaking out the projector and setting it and the screen up on the roof of my apartment building and ordering some take-out. And with my friends I won't have as many restrictions when picking out a movie to show. And that's not taking into account the various events occurring seemingly everyday.

[Gucci]

I only know a bit about your wanting to move to NYC (I lurked before I made an account).

I know there are a few other New Yorkers on here to reign me in if I’m wrong here (and I hope they do because I’m by no means an expert) but NYC is probably not the best place to move to right now.

We’re still recovering from the pandemic, both from a social (not “going out with friends” social — but social programs that provide assistance to the less fortunate) and economic standpoint. Housing is bad for cost and availability. Crime is high with shootings, subway attacks, and random acts of violence (including the spike in Asian hate). Poor job opportunities and low paying jobs that barely cover the cost of food. Rising general costs. Strained social programs. And it’s an election year for mayor and other offices so there’s some political instability from that as well.

I talk to several people from the office and one of the points we can all agree on is that it’ll be several years before NYC, specifically Manhattan, to recover to pre-pandemic levels.

Not to spark a political discussion here (local politics maybe?) but I worked in the city at two points in time where we had two different mayors. One was during the Bloomberg era, 2010 to 2013. Things were… normal. Lower crime, more affordable housing, lower rate of homelessness. Then I worked from 2017 to 2018 under De Blasio. Stark contrast. Cops are encouraged not to do anything for crimes that fall under “broken windows” policing. Increased violent crimes. Increase in homelessness and so on. It’s much more complicated than that but I just mentioned surface level stuff.

Sorry for the tangent. I’m not here to scare you but to make you aware that making a big move to a massive city is extremely complex in both the move and in understanding what you’re moving into.

My offices are in NJ but if my job asked me to work in Manhattan again, I would turn it down. Not worth the added stress.

[marurun]

No one in NYC is going to be willing to touch those nasty cakes with a 10 ft pole, dude. Sorry to crush your dreams.

[PretentiousHipster]

Honestly I can see those cakes going viral on YouTube or TikTok.

I MADE A CAKE USING MOUNTAIN DEW AND KOOL AID