u/Historical-Cat6229

Hello, 38F here. I used to be a huge pushover, and I fully believe people can pick up on that. One of my jobs was at a little retail store. I was only 19/20 and couldn't stand up for myself worth a darn. My boss was a Bible thumping, man hating, crazy lady, who thought it was her mission in life to save all the tweakers and junkies. So she hired them. A TON of them, despite warnings from numerous people. One crazy junkie immediately started stealing sh*t left and right. She stole money from MY register and I got blamed for it, my boss literally blamed me, who had been working there for almost a year by then, and had proved that my register was ALWAYS right on the money again and again and again. Yet I got threatened with my job if it happened again. Another junkie, a woman, who just got out of prison for drinking and driving and "accidentally murdering her 5 year old daughter," because she wasn't buckled in properly and got ejected from the car, dying instantly, was arrested a few months later when a camp trailer, parked right outside her house, blew up due to it being a meth cookhouse. Not only was she able to keep her job until her trial, she told our boss that it wasn't her fault that she was doing meth, and that people were making her do it. The boss immediately ate that crap up and told her "oh, you poor thing!" This boss also hired an alcoholic, that would start his day at 6 am by buying a case of booze every morning before work, a meth addicted schizophrenic, who fully admitted he was bat shit crazy, tried to kill his father on numerous occasions, and set fire to his parents house, but he was "working on himself." I actually became friends with that dude because he turned out to not be such a bad guy, and he really was trying to get better. Eventually I couldn't handle my boss forcing us to hold hands and pray every morning, telling all the women who were married that their husbands were shit and would cheat on them and leave them like hers did, and letting the junkies run the store and boss everyone around. Super fun workplace!

I have many more stories so please let me know if you want to hear more.

I can see Elena being with Damon like because of the sire bond, or when she turned her humanity off, but it just doesn't make sense when you REALLY think about it. He was so evil. Look what he did to Caroline, to Jeremy, to Lexi. Killing Jeremy just because Elena rejected him is straight up ABUSIVE behavior. How could Elena ever forgive that? Yeah sure, he kinda became a sweetheart later on. It still doesn't excuse his behavior. Especially after Elena becomes human again. Plus Damon said he loved being a vampire and that being a human sounded miserable and when you think about it, how did he survive as a human? He was so used to compelling everyone, using violence and anger to get his way, and he was a bit of a lush. People tend to overlook these things because he's "so hot." I could see them having a brief fling, but I think it would have made more sense if Elena got with another human at the end, Damon stayed a vampire, and they went their separate ways but that's just my personal opinion.

I'll never forget in the first season when Caroline was really flirty with Stefan and he shut her down and said "it's never going to happen." Ever since then he really kinda stuck by that. Him and Caroline were friends and then in Season 6 she starts letting herself fall for him again and he keeps pushing her away and she seems to get mad at him that he won't reciprocate her feelings. So then he gets to feeling bad and it seems like he tries really hard to force himself to have romantic feelings for her. It just never made sense to me and it's super cringe to watch what seems like a very forced relationship. Am I alone in this?

I'm a MAJOR Elijah fan so he's the top of my list. But here's my rating:

Elijah: 100000/10 🥵

Damon: 10/10 but he kinda looks like he's 40 🤷‍♀️

Stefan :6/10 he reminds me too much of Edward Cullen 🤢

Klaus: 4/10 took me awhile to find him attractive at all, but his attitude ruins a lot of it.

Alaric: 1000/10 daddy vibes 😉

Jeremy: 9/10 very cute, bit too young

Matt: 1/10 no thanks 😕

Tyler: -1/10 gives off frat guy energy

Enzo: 10/10 who doesn't love a bad boy?

Kai: 8/10 the fact he killed his family ruins it but he is hot.

The other originals aren't really worth mentioning imo. Let me know if I missed anyone.

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Rumor Has It 2005

A film starring Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Mark Ruffalo, and Shirley Maclaine.

A woman named Sarah Huttinger (Aniston) discovers her family may be the inspiration for "The Graduate" (if you don't know, it's a book, turned film, starring Dustin Hoffman, who plays a young college student seduced by a much older woman Mrs. Robinson) Sarah, suffering from pre wedding jitters to her fiancé Jeff Daly (Ruffalo) tells her grandmother Katharine (Maclaine) about her uncertainty and discovers from her that Sarah's mother was also scared to get married and ran off a week before her own wedding, where she met and slept with Beau Burroughs (Costner) Ultimately Sarahs mother gets over her fear and returns to marry Sarahs father. However, Sarah starts piecing things together and learns that she was conceived 9 months after this whole debacle, making her wonder if Beau Burroughs is her real father.

Long story short, (Aniston) also learns that her grandmother also slept with this man, Beau Burroughs. (Aniston) goes to track him down thinking he may be her real father and to ask him questions. She finds Beau in San Francisco, asks him if he could be her father, he says no that he is sterile. They go out to talk more, he confirms that he did in fact sleep with her mother and grandmother, so guess what?! She gets drunk and sleeps with him too. Gross. Her fiancé finds out they have an argument, she tells her fiance that shes ready to get married so they work it out and decide to go ahead with the wedding. They also vow that if they ever have a daughter, she is NEVER to meet Beau Burroughs. Wtf?

Thoughts: Mark Ruffalo is freaking hot in this movie! Who tf thought of this sh\*t? That is so beyond DISGUSTING to sleep with the same man that your mom and your grandma slept with! Also, she originally thought he might be her DAD, but THANKFULLY after she confirmed he wasn't, then she slept with him. I think that's the only positive note about this movie.

Has anyone seen it? Did you like it? Personally I would give it a 1/10

Everyone on tiktok makes fun of that twilight music that goes something like HOA HOA HAAAAA HAAA HA or the actual name of the song "Eyes on Fire." Its always linked to twilight and a staple of the saying "its feeling very Hoa hoa right now." BUT, it's also in TVD season 4 episode 8. Yet nobody seemed to notice or maybe they just don't care.

My MIL; 68F. Ex junkie (meth was her choice of drug) Still an alcoholic although she went from drinking 2 gallons of vodka a week, to now "only" 🙄 drinking 10+ bottles of beer a night. She doesn't see this as a problem. She also smokes about 2 packs of cigarettes a day. She was born with a HEART DEFECT. She has had 2 open heart surgeries. It is amazing that this woman is still alive. Her doctors told her they estimated she had 6 months to a year left to live. That was in March 2025. So it's been a year and 3 months and shes still kicking. She refuses hospice. Shes had several close calls with death but some how always pulls through.

Today my husband called me and asked me to please go get her and take her to the hospital. I did because I love my husband. I never got along with my MIL. I don't hate her, shes an awesome grandmother, but the things shes said and done to me can't quite be forgiven. Not to mention she messed up my husbands life by drinking alcohol like a fish drinks water, doing drugs, and smoking like a chimney, WHILE PREGNANT with him. She has no remorse for that. Always just laughs and says she "had the best time in life) Anyways, I take her to the hospital. Diagnosis: pancreatitis. The doctors keep badgering her about her alcohol use. She immediately gets annoyed. They tell her that her current diagnosis is a direct result from her lifestyle. She doesn't want to hear that. Instantly pissed, she starts snapping at everyone. She wishes she never would have came to the hospital because now shes admitted and has to stay for 24 to 48 hours. She only wanted something to make the pain go away. The absolute audacity of the doctors to tell her that her choices, are the consequences of her dying. I got disgusted and left. Told my husband not to bother me anymore with his mother. Doctors are kinda on the same boat, it all boils down to they cannot help her if she isn't willing to help herself. She cries about dying, but gets mad when they tell her why. Shes never taken accountability for anything. So, I have zero empathy. 20+ years of dealing with this has made me lack remorse. AITAH?

EDIT: I would never stop my husband from being there for his mother. Ever. That would be pure evil. I told him a long time ago that this struggle was getting harder and harder to deal with and he agreed that I could take a break. I've gone up to an entire year not visiting my in laws. Not even for Thanksgiving or Christmas. It's my peace of mind. But I also never forced my husband to stop seeing them. I have anxiety and depression. Had a nervous breakdown about 10 years ago, that's what caused it. If I don't have to deal with drama I won't. My husband understands wholeheartedly, and I understand his need to be there for his mother.

UPDATE: I went up to the hospital today because MIL insisted she was going home! Nobody else could pick her up when she got discharged so it had to be me. They wanted to keep her longer but they reluctantly agreed because she was doing better. HOWEVER because she thought she was in the clear, she popped a vicodin 🙄 which made her blood pressure plummet. I have no idea how she has a prescription for that, because they don't usually give addicts prescriptions for pain pills so 🤷 anyways they asked her if she took anything and she sheepishly admitted to popping a vicodin. They immediately took it from her and locked it away and she threatened that she would no longer tell them the truth if they didn't give it back. So obviously there are still problems with her, and I didn't know she was abusing her vicodin prescription so I have no sympathy anymore. Shes such a dumb b****!