u/cookie_cat_82

If / when you left one of your jobs, clinics, schools, etc., did you do any kind of little farewell gift for your kiddos? A little goodie bag, note, etc?

I thought about doing it but it completely slipped my mind over the weekend with how busy I got, handling all the stuff with my new job's onboarding, being sick, etc. Now I feel terrible and am wondering if I should still do something to leave behind? Or if any of you don't typically do anything like that?

I started babysitting about a year ago for a family two days a week, weekly. It worked out pretty well because their house is out by where I work but also sort of on my way home, so the days my schedule ended a little later it worked out nice to be able to just drive to their house and get in the babysitting days to make a little extra. So long as I see them a total of 8 times a month, I make $400 ($50 per day, 2 days a week).

I recently accepted a new job and it’s no longer out by where I work now / where their house is. For reference, my drive was a 40 minute drive west, and now my workplace will be right by my house, if not a few minutes east. That being said, it definitely wouldn’t be on my way home anymore. My new job is also gonna be working in a school, so I’ll be done by 3-3:30 most days, and then would have to kill some time by eating dinner, going to the gym, etc. before I had to leave again to drive the 30 minutes to their house to babysit from 6:30-8:30, and then drive 30 minutes home.

I was gonna keep up the babysitting but the more I think about it, the less worth it it seems to have to go back out and have a late evening again when I finally have a job with great hours to give me a nice work life balance. On top of that, I’ll be driving 1 hour a day, 2 hours per week round trip to babysit. The money is definitely nice to have, but it feels like a different story when it’s no longer on my way home in a sense and instead I have to go back out, out of my way to make $50 a day.

Curious what everyone’s opinion on this situation is, and also if I decide to no longer babysit, how do I phrase it to the parents without coming off badly? I feel so bad to drop them when I’ve been able to consistently sit for them every week, but I just don’t know if it’ll be worth it for me.

***side note, they do have both of their moms that now live in the same development so I wonder if it wouldn’t be that much of a problem if I left and if they considered just using their parents for babysitting anyways, but i’m also afraid to be wrong and suggest that for no reason (if for example they don’t want to subject the grandparents to a weekly babysitting schedule to be stuck to)

I’m new to owning a Nespresso and I’m about to buy pods for the first time. My first question is do you buy your pods from Nespresso? Or do you get your pods elsewhere that aren’t Nespresso but compatible for your machine? Are they cheaper that way / are Nespresso pods pretty expensive?

If you do get Nespresso brand pods, I know they come in packs of a sleeve of 10. How many do you typically buy at once? I got a coupon code from Nespresso for $20 off of $60+. I was wondering if it’s worth it to rack up my cart and still spend about $40 on pods (given that I got the $20 off and still am getting that much more worth of pods).

Just curious where everyone likes to get their pods from and how much. Thanks!

I still can’t believe there’s no florida show for this upcoming tour. why do yall think that is?

ilya is my FAVORITEEEE and I needed a raiders t shirt with his name / number on the back so I finally went ahead and bought one. But now, just hours after buying, I realized I want a hoodie LOL thinking about how cozy it would feel to watch season 2 in his hoodie.

Someone make me feel better about the chance that MAYBE I buy the hoodie in the same exact design that I already bought the t shirt in 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

I know I sound like a cheapskate saying this but money doesn’t grow on trees and your girl is kinda broke LOL but tell me the extra $30 spent will be worth it!!!

*edit: OR DO I WAIT FOR >!CENTAURS MERCH!< for a hoodie???

I landed my dream job and it was all very sudden, I heard about the job, interviewed and accepted all within a few days. I have to complete a drug screening and I’m spiraling freaking out that a recent event can have an impact. I don’t regularly smoke weed or consume THC, maybe an occasional 1-2 hits when my bf smokes lol but it’s been at least a few months since that, so very few and far between.

a week ago from today (before I knew about the job and future drug screening), my bf got these new THC infused drinks and wanted me to try a sip to see what it was like. It was a pretty small sip I took, not even a mouthful. But now my anxiety is telling me I’m gonna fail this drug test. idk how it all works and I’m becoming a victim of the Google rabbit hole and it’s telling me how there’s no guarantee either way and how a chance of passing is never 0 if you’ve ingested something.

This has been making me wanna have a panic attack all day lol I even got them to push back the window of time so I could “make it” with my current work schedule, but really I wanted to extend it to do it at the last available time which would be next friday, which is 2 weeks since I had this sip.

Yes, I need to find a new therapist so I can cope with this kind of thing. but in the meantime it’s just me and my anxious self and I need someone to tell me i’m being paranoid and crazy because i’m actually terrified of screwing this up over something so stupid

SPOILER FOR THOSE WHO HAVENT READ TLG!!

I’ve seen a pretty even split of the opinion on the topic of buying shirts / hoodies, etc. of Ilya’s merch for Boston. Some argue not to buy any of his Boston merch since he obviously ends up playing for Ottawa. But for me personally, the way I see it is it all STARTED with him playing for Boston. Him and Shane’s relationship starting and the RIVALRY starting lol I get that yes, he doesn’t stay with them forever, but it feels nostalgic to own merchandise that says Rozanov on the back of a Raiders shirt knowing that that’s where the story began. I understand for real life scenarios people not wanting to buy, for example a jersey, of a player who has switched teams, but the good news (and unfortunate news LOL) is that Ilya is a fictional character.

I’m curious what everyone else’s take on this is? 👀

I haven’t interviewed in a while, especially for a school
job. This one means so much to me because it’s such a perfect opportunity and I really wanna do my best :(

any advice or tips for me?

now I don’t mean to sound too dramatic because it was (so far) only one day for one extra session / an extra half hour, but still.

So i’m a COTA and I work for a small, privately owned Outpatient pediatric clinic where my boss / the owner is the other OT. There’s only 3 OT practitioners that work for us: me being one of them (a COTA), my boss, and one more super part time OT. I’m the only one who sees OT for after school hours and I usually work like a 9-4:30 or 5:30.

When the end of school comes around, my boss puts out a notice for any families who want to change their spot for summertime to a different time a day. She puts the disclaimer however, that if you choose to give up your time slot (like an after school slot) for a morning spot for summer, there’s no guarantee you’ll get that spot back come fall time again.

Well, I had a client who switched to an earlier time for the summer primarily so he could get speech back to back (since a lot of our SLPs also don’t do after school hours and spots are limited). To be expected, that client’s after school spot that they left got filled by someone else, so now there was no room for them.

So INSTEAD of following her OWN RULE AND DISCLAIMER, what do I notice that my boss does? She goes into our schedule and extends one of my days (primarily ending at 4:30 but that she then changed to end at 5) in order to fit that client in back on my schedule.

This is a client that’s been coming for quite some time and I understand you don’t wanna lose them. And yes, it’s a client who I like and whose family I like. But that doesn’t mean I should have to take the consequence of my schedule being extended WITHOUT MY CONSENT ??? in order to accommodate them!

Im not mad at the family, I’m angry at my boss. I’m mad for 2 reasons:

1.) Where she’s wanting to put this client on my schedule, that makes 6 back to back sessions for me with no break. Granted, they’re only 30 min each and maybe some people find that a piece of cake, but I don’t operate that way as a therapist. What angers me is my boss KNOWS this. About a year or so ago I had a total breakdown to her. I let it all out and sobbed about how stressed and burnt out I am and I spent day after day hiding in the bathroom to cry between clients when I had the time. Since then, I’ve even put blocks into my schedule to serve as a separate break from my lunch to break between clients so I’m not seeing 6-7-8+ in a row with no break.

2.) I understand it’s only a 30 min add on and shouldn’t be the end of the world, but it’s the PRINCIPLE in my eyes. It’s the fact that you went and changed MY schedule without consulting me or even LETTING ME KNOW. I find it extremely disrespectful and I feel like I just keep getting taken advantage of. Being a COTA, not being the owner of the place, being the only OT who’s a little more full time, being the only one to work the after school hours because there’s no one else, being the one to take on clients from my boss’s caseload because she wants to practice less.

I truly am so angry and idk what to do. I’ll probably end up sucking it up and keeping him on, but I think at the LEAST I need to advocate for him to go on a different day so I’m not stuck with the same burnout of having so many kids in a row to the point where I can’t even function at work.

I’m just at a loss for words. I expect this from a DOR or upper management people who don’t get what it’s like to be in the therapy department, but not from my boss who’s an OTR and I thought would have more of a heart than to do this to me.

was inspired by a tik tok I saw of people talking about how Olivia Rodrigo’s new album / most of the songs relate heavily to Ilya in TLG and one of them referenced the line in TLG where Ilya tells Gallina “you’re supposed to fix me so I can be enough for him” 🥺🥺 and as sad as it is I think it might be one of my favorite lines, just so raw and hits the heart so so deeply.

It got me thinking, what’s all of your favorite quote(s) from The Long Game? I’d love to relive all of the favorite lines :’) bonus points if it’s an Ilya quote because he is my absolute favorite character.

**honorable mention of COURSE would be “I already chose you Hollander”. I’m genuinely gonna need to be sedated when I see that on screen.

I’ve teared up and cried on more times than one hand in this book lol. ‼️ POSSIBLE SPOILERS ‼️ for anyone who hasn’t read it, but also please no FURTHER spoilers as I still have about 100-150 pages left lol:

I cried reading the “I already chose you Hollander” scene. I had seen “spoilers” / seen people mentioning this line all over social media and thought it was spoiled for me, but thankfully I didn’t know the context. I thought it was gonna be a romantic type of scene with the “I chose you, I’ll always choose you, etc”; I did not at ALL expect it to be in the context that it was and it made that scene so much more powerful and heartbreaking.

I cried at the plane scene. I cried at the proposal. Don’t get me wrong, I love and adore both Shane and Ilya, but Ilya has always been my favorite and seeing everything from his perspective in this book is BREAKING MY HEART. I have so much love for his character and it genuinely makes me so sad to be a witness to all he goes through mentally in this book. I can only begin to imagine how Connor brings it to life.

getting 7brew today and have only had it 1 other time but it was quite a while ago. I do remember that I tried the banana bread latte, but now I’m debating getting something different.

I don’t care for my coffee to be super super sweet, I like a balance and enjoy tasting the coffee as well. My go to orders are always a latte with almond milk with whatever flavor I choose.

I was looking at the cinnamon roll, snickerdoodle, toasted marshmallow, blonde or brunette, or tuxedo. I’m also debating how their iced macchiatos are if anyone’s had those?

open to all suggestions or if anyone has tried any of those flavors and can attest! thanks!

I made a post in here the other day about how to go about not getting paid yet for my day, but it was a different situation because the mom is recovering from a surgery from her cancer diagnosis and the dad is the one who handles paying me via venmo

I took everyone’s advice and decided to just send a Venmo request of the day this week that he didn’t pay me for. Then I immediately sent him a text to let him know that I received one of the payments, but not from the other night (I go twice a week and he always just pays me each day separately). I then asked if it would help make it any easier on his end if moving forward I just requested the total for both days at the end of the week, rather than him having to go in and do it. And like I said, I also mentioned that I sent him a request just now for the 1 day he forgot to pay me.

well now I’m starting to plan out what I do in the worst case scenario which would be now….he read my text…didn’t respond…and didn’t fulfill the request I sent.

Now I completely understand they have so many things going on rn. But that’s why I thought my text would be helpful…to serve as a gentle reminder while ALSO sending him the request for what he forgot so he didn’t have to go out of his way and push more buttons again. I’m at a point where I feel like I’d rather just let it go and lose out on my $50 for the day lol

Now granted I sent the text last night, he read it this morning at about 7 am so maybe he just forgot and is gonna come back to it. I’ll try to give him the benefit of the doubt, but what do I do if he doesn’t…

**side note, I usually text both parents in a groupchat when the father forgot to pay me, but I only texted him this time because I know this woman is going through a lot and I didn’t wanna burden her with my texts about my missing payment lol