u/leadmetothegarden_

(Apologies if this is a tired topic lol)

S4 E6 (Maternity Leave)

When Amy revealed Parker’s name to Cheyenne and Mateo, they started criticizing the name and tried to give Amy a chance to justify her choice of a perfectly normal name. The whole time I’m like.. Cheyenne, you named your child Harmonica. Be so for real. I think it would have been more on character for Mateo to be catty and remind Cheyenne that she named her child after an instrument. Maybe I’m missing something and it was part of the joke for Cheyenne to be against a normal sounding baby name, but when she and Mateo had that poster board full of names, the only “out there” name on it was Obama haha, the rest were perfectly normal names! If I am missing anything please clarify, but otherwise that side plot just confused me 😂

I like to go back 🎵
🎵 I like to go back
🕺🏻
I like to go back 🎵
🎵 I like to go back
Go way back back 🎵

I restarted recently and I’m using NMTs to find my 3 DIY plot villagers before I place the plot down. I’m on my 2nd full day of hunting for Walker and I am going bananas - I’ve seen:

• Big Top 4 times
• Dizzy 5 times
• Ozzie 7 times (and I even found his message in a bottle DIY on one of the same islands he was on!)
• Clay 8 times
• Cranston 4 times, and twice in a row for two of those 4
• Zucker 5 times
• Sherb 3 times
• Cole 4 times
• Pudge 4 times
• Spork 6 times
• Erik 3 times
• Filbert 3 times
• Al 7 times
• Rex 3 times, twice in a row for two of those 3
• Bones 3 times
• Nate 5 times
• Broccolo 6 times
• Barold 3 times
• Punchy 4 times

There are only 4 villagers I’ve seen just one time (Cube, Boomer, Moe, and Benjamin)

When I went hunting for my Normal and Peppy villagers, I found them both within 10 tickets each (Piper and Nan) I’m just dumbfounded at how long it’s taken me to find Walker and I’m still going! I’ve filled my storage with crafting materials so at this point I’m just seeing who’s on the island and turning right back around 😆

I had a promising career in management. I was already an assistant manager and I was running a whole department by myself. I won company awards both on district and store wide levels, attended banquets, and had built a network of people in the company where we’d all call each other when we needed help. It was a mentally taxing job, but it does not even hold a candle to how mentally taxing being a 24/7 caregiver is, and feeling demoted (the money is nowhere near comparable AND I’m stuck on part time hours when I get ZERO BREAKS)

A family member of mine just accepted a wonderful job offer and I am very proud of him. He has worked hard to get to where he is and this is hopefully his forever job. Unfortunately for me, all the congratulations for him are igniting feelings of jealousy and bitterness within me and I feel awful for even being jealous. I feel as if my life is no longer important or meaningful, and I’ve been reduced to an in-house servant for someone who is mentally impaired and doesn’t even understand, much less appreciate, everything I left behind. This thought process sadly causes me to spiral and I just get angrier and sadder every time I think about what happened to my life over the past few years, knowing there’s no end date in sight. This could very well go on for the rest of my life.

Thanks for reading. I hope your day is going better than mine. 🫂

Hi experts,

My brother gifted me some uncured bacon which had a normal bright appearance when it was raw. I’ve got it cooking in the oven and I opened it to flip them and they have turned gray. It is my understanding that the salt used to cure the bacon can have an impact on the look of the final cooked product, but I just wanted to see if anyone had any experience with that and if it is still okay to eat. Thank you very much; my breakfast is dependent on your feedback. 🥓

My job is 24/7. My (30F) cousin (43M) is totally and completely disabled and dependent on me for everything. Nutrition, hygiene/incontinence, lifting from the bed to the wheelchair and vice versa, you name it, I have to do it for him. He’s been with me for over two years. His mom has been deceased for 6 years. The original plan my family had in place was for my other aunt and uncle to take him when my aunt/his mom died. My uncle died 4 years before his mom did, and his wife became disabled in the process before she died back in 2022. Everyone in my family that would have taken him in is dead, except for my mom who couldn’t keep him anymore and my siblings whose lives were too important to change by taking in a disabled adult. I’m mad at everyone for dying and leaving me in this situation, being forced to step up and take him otherwise he’d be miserable in a facility full of strangers. I have no help, no relief, I’m stuck at home all the time, I get paid for doing this but I’m in Alabama and I’m still fighting for a 40 hour wage - I’ve been on part time hours since he moved here after waiting 13 months with no pay for paperwork to be filed - I can’t even afford the mental help I need. My stupid caregiving life is sucking my energy dry and I am struggling to be present for my husband and our three dogs. I don’t know what to do. I’m just so angry and miserable all the time. I feel like I ruined my life, and all for someone who doesn’t even understand the sacrifices I’ve made. Tired doesn’t even begin to cover it. My stress has stress.