Date 1 - fucking shit show

It was weird and horrible. I survived. I feel better now.

My legal ties and financial obligations to my wife are still complicated and will be for potentially years to come. So I was avoiding it. However, my recent preoccupation with a flakey crush/hook up was a wake up call (sorry you had to hear so much about it - I regressed to being 14).

What's up?

I emailed some ideas for continuing to reinvigorate the groupthink community. I’d like to attract newcomers, but keep our culture intact. I sent it to the groupthinkmods email.

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Tag a post with commenting guidelines and some past modtalks here so they are in once place for newcomers

A few random kinja tips. Add your own if you have them.

I am so sick of looking for something with no underwire that is cute. I went on a shopping rampage and just bought like 15 bras planning to return what I didn’t like. I found some clear winners. More are on the way, but these were worth every penny. I am a 34 F and these are so comfy.

I’ve been in my new role for 9 months. My department is on it’s 3rd name. My title is about to change for the 4th time. My job changes all the time. So much so ,that I cannot wrap my head around what I actually do or will do in the future. No idea if I am meeting expectations. My head is spinning and I just hope I can…

Instead of cleaning my apartment (it’s pretty clean and I should stop being a freak about it), and meal planning, and shopping...I decided to buy a play station and drink sparkling rose. Must be a mid life crisis. The guy Target asked me if it was a gift, and I was like nope, it’s for me. I now have the Sims game,…

I went to bed bath & beyond to buy some towels and a wine opener. Some how I ended up with towels + new pots and pans, new knives, and a soda stream (YAH!!!). Also, a ton of other junk. I needed two carts to get to the car, but my kitchen was in bad shape. Still forgot the wine opener. ’ve already made fizzy lemonade…

There was a note on my car. Hand written on a piece of torn graph paper. It reads, “Every thought that is not related is a wasted thought.” I would be creeped out, but it wasn’t specifically for me because almost EVERY car in my parking garage at least on levels 3-1 appear to have. The time and effort to hand write…

I have, admittedly, had a rough time and some depression. It’s treated with medicine and I feel like I’m doing well on that front. Lately, I have had worsening and worsening PMS. For most of my life, I had bad cramps. However, they only lasted about 24-48 hours. Now, I have PMS symptoms for a good 2 weeks. I’ve been…

My boss is hiring a third person to do my role. He sends an email (marked confidential) to me, the other person in this role and a third person who will be on the interview panel just giving us info about an internal candidiate. My colleague replies all with a three paragraph email about the importance of not telling…

Menopause can’t come soon enough. I feel random flashes of PMS fuled murderous rage today. I am not fit to be around other humans.