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Do you find yourself slipping into humbertposting irl?
Never. Those close to me know that I like Lolita, but only those really close to me know that I have a handle somewhere online going by Humbert Humbert doing bad things.

Humbert Humbert is a monster of unspeakable evil, whereas I am a sweet, charming young woman. Besides, I couldn’t really run around talking about “my lolita ran away, I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze” without somebody being seriously concerned for my mental state.
 
Might have the apartment I want. But my credit took a big hit in the past two months due to getting fired. I make more than enough for the place, I've never missed rent etc. But I'm worried I won't get it. It's a place I'd live in until I got a house*.

So, feeling hopeful but expecting the big "fuck you".

*Assuming they don't raise the rent through the roof.
communists there and they are real people
Friendly reminder, communists aren't people. They're sub-human. TCD.
give these people as much grief
Like the women their ideals are molded after, your existence will infuriate them. Live, live well, and resist. Be the nail that cannot be hammered. That's enough.
 
Most city girls can't even cook, and I mean with a recipe. They can't, or rather don't, clean anything, or take any kind of responsibility for themselves.
This is something I notice with both genders, they can't cook at all. I blame a combination of everyone always being busy + people becoming reliant on fastfood and prepackaged crap. I know back in university that was my reason for eating poorly, I knew how to cook but felt too busy and didn't want to. I do cook now though, I'm glad my mom taught me a valuable skill.
They can't even hold a basic conversation about anything, you have to do all the talking.
See I feel this way about the city guys I dated, they didn't have much to say and it was very boring. I'm the type of person that can talk about anything and I can keep a conversation going even with the most shy/introverted people, but I don't want to have to be the one carrying it the whole time.
They have no family values whatsoever, no love or respect for their parents, especially their fathers.
This is one thing that makes me sad about American culture in general. I would say it's a city problem but I have seen it more recently in rural areas too. Kids just don't respect the elders like they should. Bums me out, I love old people, especially hearing about historical events from their perspective. And I could never be disrespectful to my parents or date anyone that my parents didn't like. Not saying my parents have to approve of my dating life but generally speaking if your parents don't like who you're dating there's probably a good reason.
Can't really address the porn thing, I have plenty of hobbies, so I doubt I have a problem there, but I guess it's subjective.
Porn really is garbage and it's getting harder to find guys that aren't into it. I can kind of understand guys watching porn when they're single (though I still think porn is bad) but once you're with someone porn should never be used. It's crazy how many people excuse guys watching porn these days and if you don't like it, then you're just being a prude.
4 - If you're actually in shape, I can understand wanting someone who's also in good shape, but you probably will have a hard time finding a guy in excellent shape that hasn't become obsessed with it. It's not very easy to be muscular unless you're really going all-in.
I don't need a guy that's a roided muscle freak. When I say in shape, I mean not fat, not skinny-fat, and they are actually strong enough to lift things. Most women don't like guys with huge muscles, and I am one of those women. I just don't like fat, out of shape, or limp noodle arms.
As for me, I'm not obese or anything, but I am kind of overweight (working on it) but I've been lifting for about a year, with some decent results. I don't think my life revolves around the gym (I like the results, not so much the process) but I also do all my workouts at home.
Can you be a gym freak if you don't actually go to a gym?
Good for you for sticking with it, keep it up. And to me, my definition of a gym freak is the kind of guys that basically have no outside hobbies out of getting swol. You know, the big beefy guys who are most certainly on gear and stuff. I wouldn't consider what you're describing as being a gym freak, that just sounds like being healthy and taking care of yourself.
 
I'm a person who struggles to keep in contact with people. Family, friends, other loved ones. Sometimes I'll just... lapse, and go months without talking to people. It just takes so much effort to maintain those connections, especially when I'm having a tough time, and sometimes I just fail to do that.

I miss my old friends. I miss the good times we had before I drifted off into the distance and we all went our separate ways. I miss when it was just us guys and our bullshit, laughing it up with a couple of beers and cigarettes and bitching about how much our jobs sucked that day.

I'm doing okay where I'm at now, but it's like I see little flashes of the past and it hits me in a place that I didn't really realize I had.
 
I might as well post a positive thing in the thread for once.

Both my brother and one of my RL buddies I've kept in touch with alerted me a local comic con happening today had two of the original MK actors at it - Raiden's and Cage's/the ninjas', Daniel and Carlos Pesina, in case you were wondering. I drove there and my brother and I ended up chatting a bit with them. Raiden was actually pretty pleased to be able to talk on his time with Midway/NRS studios up to his retirement two years ago, while Carlos was amused by the fact my brother and I are twins and thus as palette-swap ninjas Sub-Zero and Scorpion were right up our alley to play as. We got pictures with 'em and took an autographed pic of the MK2 Cage friendship picture.

Con itself otherwise was small and thus pleasant. People seemed all-ages in the good way, merch seemed to sell so I'm sure the retailers were happy, a nice blend of cosplay and non-costumed people so it didn't felt weird as one or the other. Nice little unexpected sojourn for today.
 
It's been kind of a rough week. Like everyone over a certain age, when the weather got gnarly early this week, I felt every creaky joint and/or place I had ever been injured. I am an old woman with some old sports injuries and the usual wear and tear, and I could feel it. Normal. Just like everyone else. That resolved in about 36 hours after the worst of the weather passed through, except for one thing, and it's troubling. One injury I had when I was 20 and had no insurance resulted in a fucked up knee that got worse over the next many years. After some serious arm-twisting, an orthopedist actually did look at it and that resulted eventually in a complete joint replacement in my late 40s, which has been the reason I have been able to walk since then. (Before that it was years of being told "lol, you're fat, exercise more" in spite of the fact I was/still am pretty active and only a 'small fat' which I am not happy about but I'm also nowhere near huge. No one bothered to do any xrays, they just told me to quit being fat. Note that this sort of shit happens to even slightly overweight women with regularity.)
The knee replacement was done in 2005, and while recovering was a shitshow and miserable, it's allowed me to be mobile and have a normal life (seriously stressful job, pets, was engaged in interesting hobbies/socials until said job tanked those a few years ago, and I also care for a large-ish 115-year-old house alone) since then. Things were actually starting to get better at work in the last month or so and I was actually looking at things kind of going back to normal.
Until Tuesday, when I realized that my knee still hurt and was googling 'how to tell when knee replacement hardware is wearing out' and got pretty much exactly what I was experiencing (pain, stiffness, swelling, weakness in the joint) from three reliable sources. Artificial joints have a life expectancy of about 20 years, and I've probably been harder on mine than most of the gomers who get them, who tend to be retired and about my current age rather than in their late 40s when they have the surgery. I knew mine would wear out eventually. So I was in some serious pain and had limited mobility, and still had to show up for work.

The pain is under control right now, and I have an appointment to have it looked at on Tuesday. I forgot how much I fucking hate being in pain and how much it affects my outlook.
I admit that this has sent me into a spiral of catastrophic thinking of what it would take to have this surgery done again. I live alone, who the fuck is going to look after me for a couple of critical days? How the hell do I get to medical appointments? Is it going to be another, worse shitshow than last time? (I developed a fever and was kept in the hospital for six days and bedridden for about a week afterward.) Who is going to take care of my house and the cats when I can't be there or walk? Old house with stairs, how am I going to cope with that? I do have friends but they all have their own lives/jobs/businesses that I don't feel I can just yank them out of to look after me; plus in the last few years work has been such a nightmare that I have hardly seen any of them. (The geographically nearest ones are the sort that can't or don't drive, if you can believe that, and they're also the ones who have the most free time, but are basically useless for this). The last time I had this procedure, a friend who was needing to move anyhow came any stayed and basically was a housemate for a couple of years afterward, but this is not the case now, we were all 20 years younger then and things have changed for the entire demographic, not to mention the world.
I'm just gnashing my teeth reading about the munchie princesses having people fall all over themselves to accomodate them because they cause a stink 24/7, and troons who can get gratuitous medical attention when it's a total fuck for me to even get time off work to get to doctors' appointments for normal stuff. I partly blame my particular work situation, which is exceptionally bad in this respect, but crap. Thank you. This is the only place I can vent about that particular thing.
 
I live alone, who the fuck is going to look after me for a couple of critical days? How the hell do I get to medical appointments?
No idea what your financial or insurance situation is or where you even live, but at least in the US, you could consider hiring a home health aide for a few days. They are often available through medical temping agencies. Did this for my grandmother when she had to have things like this done.
I drove a little faster than usual on the highway the other day which I found to be enjoyable. No particular reason why, just felt like going fast.
Happens. Best time I had driving fast was in Montana. The speed limit is high in some places. I have a German driver's license, but have never driven in Germany. I think now I would like to rent some retarded car and go run it for the few km that exist there without a speed limit. Most of the Autobahn is speed controlled, but there are rando sections that aren't.
I'm always very thankful for my family, but reading so much about dating woes is really strengthening my gratitude that we found each other before things were so fucked. I can't imagine dating now, the stories I hear even from friends are harrowing.
I think this was part of the reason my ex and I were so reluctant to divorce for so long. We had been with each other nearly half our lives. Neither one of us wanted to be back out on the market unless there were really no other options. We exhausted them. I spent most of the day driving and caught up on some MATI streams. In one, Null was talking about Destiny's relationship and did say something that is true. Once enough resentment is built up in a relationship, there is no going back or fixing it, no matter how much either of you might want to. I hope you and your husband spend the rest of your lives happily together. :heart-full:

ick as a dog. I've been glued to my bed for like 4 days. God I hate the winter.
I hope you get better soon. I was really sick like that in August. Before then, I hadn't been sick in several years.
 
This is one thing that makes me sad about American culture in general. I would say it's a city problem but I have seen it more recently in rural areas too. Kids just don't respect the elders like they should.
It isn't great the other way around either. I have good parents and I'm pretty close to them, but a lot of families don't treat each other well at all, the elders included. One of the worst things I see from parents is the "kick the kids out at 18" mentality. It's a very selfish thing to do. Then there are other things like how a lot of families will fight over inheritances after a death in the family instead of actually mourning the person who died. My family is nothing like that so I can't even fathom that mindset.

Porn really is garbage and it's getting harder to find guys that aren't into it. I can kind of understand guys watching porn when they're single (though I still think porn is bad) but once you're with someone porn should never be used. It's crazy how many people excuse guys watching porn these days and if you don't like it, then you're just being a prude.
I've always been extremely ambivalent about it, but once you're in a relationship it just seems like the kind of thing you need to talk about and find an agreement on. I think it's perfectly reasonable to expect someone to stop watching it if they're actually having the sex, at which point it's just redundant.

roided muscle freak.
I could never do steroids, I like my hair.

I made the mistake of browsing reddit. Unironically there's a scary amount of communists there and they are real people. It's awfully hard not to fedpost when I think about Gen Z/Millennial communists and how I'm unable to physically hurt them
The day I was banned from Reddit was the day my mental health improved massively.

I'm a person who struggles to keep in contact with people.
I have that problem too. I make a point of calling family, but with friends, most of the friends I've had just sort of faded off because I was the one who always had to contact them first. I have like one friend I still keep in touch with regularly, and I think that's largely because we share a hobby and it's what we talk about most.

As for me, my internet's been out for days, they finally came around to look at it, and then told me they have to call in a specialist to fix it, so now I have to wait for that. I've been using my phone's mobile hotspot, which I've jury-rigged to my router so it's handling my entire home internet, but that's got a data cap, so it'll only last a few days, and it's painfully slow. At least they're crediting me for the days it's out, but it's a little ridiculous.
 
Getting older sucks big dongs.
Have this weird pain in my upper thigh and I'm close to going to the hospital to get checked out in case it's a circulation thing. It feels like maybe something is out of place or a nerve is being pinched, which sort of makes sense because there's ice on the ground today and having to penguin waddle over it might have just irritated something.
But I also went to donate plasma yesterday and am concerned I might have a few blood clots floating around. Think I'm gonna ride it out tonight and see how I feel in the morning. Got some aspirin and a large dose of tumeric/piperine in me so my blood should stay thin enough.
Either way, being old sucks so much, it's unreal
 
I think I understand why I've been perpetually single for so long: I'm a walking anachronism. Even though I'm 27, a lot of my tastes in things like music, games, and the like are from the 90s and 2000s. I like bands like Rush, Soundgarden, Juliana Hatfield, The Cranberries, and so on. It's been fucking 15 years since 2010 almost. Some of these bands don't even exist anymore and if they do they are culturally irrelevant. It's also a huge reason why I don't bother with social media for the most part: I prefer to do things in person or at least in a physical space, but they are getting fewer and farther beteeen.

I think it's also reflected in my taste for women, which can be summarized as the stereotypical 90s chick in the vein of Bjork, Shiina Ringo, Dolores O'Riordan, D'Arcy Wretsky etc. You know the type: they have a certain moxie and vivaciousness to them,they are comfortable around dudes acting like dudes and usually have a few male-oriented hobbies and are down to hang out, yet still feminine and decidedly into things women are into at the same time. Basically, tomboy. Again, these don't really exist as much among zoomer and millennial women. Not in the sense of tomboy being more of a descriptor for young children, but the women of the last couple generations are over-socialized to be excessively feminine if that makes sense. I remember talking to a friend's gf over video games about what types of hobbies most girls do in their dorms and she basically said none other than watching clips on social media and TV shows. I'm not expecting everyone should do exactly what I like, but that just kills any interest I have in a woman right then and there. It just shows a lack of creativity and desire to learn a craft.

I'm not saying all women are like this, but I just feel in general, women don't show interesting qualities about themselves outside of their physical appearance, which is kinda sad really. I don't think all women are like this, but frankly, the best thing I can do in this situation is just pray for Mary's intercession. There's nothing wrong with me to the point that I can't find a woman out there; it's just that considering the type of person I am, the fact I am in the middle of a Ph.D program and have been focused on school for basically my entire adult life, where I am at the moment and my interests, goals and desires, it will take a literal miracle for something to change. Again, if I were 10 or 20 years older, the circumstances I face would be in my favor. They just aren't now. I'm not even really mad per se. I'm just glad things are making a bit more sense atm.


Thank you for listening to my TED Talk.

I'm a person who struggles to keep in contact with people. Family, friends, other loved ones. Sometimes I'll just... lapse, and go months without talking to people. It just takes so much effort to maintain those connections, especially when I'm having a tough time, and sometimes I just fail to do that.

I miss my old friends. I miss the good times we had before I drifted off into the distance and we all went our separate ways. I miss when it was just us guys and our bullshit, laughing it up with a couple of beers and cigarettes and bitching about how much our jobs sucked that day.

I'm doing okay where I'm at now, but it's like I see little flashes of the past and it hits me in a place that I didn't really realize I had.
I definitely feel you. I think I wouldn't be so lonely if I kept in contact with my friends from college (or even the undergrads I met this semester) on a somewhat regular basis. That's something I really need to make a New Year's Resolution about and stick to it. There's enough people around me that I can make and keep some connections.
 
I think I understand why I've been perpetually single for so long: I'm a walking anachronism. Even though I'm 27, a lot of my tastes in things like music, games, and the like are from the 90s and 2000s. I like bands like Rush, Soundgarden, Juliana Hatfield, The Cranberries, and so on. It's been fucking 15 years since 2010 almost. Some of these bands don't even exist anymore and if they do they are culturally irrelevant. It's also a huge reason why I don't bother with social media for the most part: I prefer to do things in person or at least in a physical space, but they are getting fewer and farther beteeen.
Feeling this. Growing up I was one of those obnoxious "born in le wrong generation" fuckers, and while I grew less cringe over the years my tastes never changed. I'm mainly drawn to 70s and 80s shit, music, clothing, aesthetics, culture in general. And even though I work in IT I'm highly skeptical of modern technology and my interest in the field was born out of an appreciation for old computers and software, like 80s-90s PCs, Amiga, Unix/Linux.
 
Plus then they'd be able to see your post history, and that's a real landmine.
"Honey, come check this out: another one of my posts in the Fatrick thread became a highlight. That's already a third one this week alone. When was the last time you posted something that got highlighted in the Beauty Parlor, huh? :smug:"

Not seeing a problem here.
 
Feeling this. Growing up I was one of those obnoxious "born in le wrong generation" fuckers, and while I grew less cringe over the years my tastes never changed. I'm mainly drawn to 70s and 80s shit, music, clothing, aesthetics, culture in general. And even though I work in IT I'm highly skeptical of modern technology and my interest in the field was born out of an appreciation for old computers and software, like 80s-90s PCs, Amiga, Unix/Linux.
Hey, at least you and I were grew out of the worst parts of it. There are still some people that are 40 and older that act like goths, punk music and nu metal are still the new hotness. It's better to let nostalgia for the past be put into something useful like a hobby or job than to cling to the past so dearly, you lose the present and your future as well.
 
It isn't, tho. Unless you're talking about the, what was it, 90s? When Montana had unrestricted areas iirc. When America was great.
I want to say it was as high as 90mph at some point. I don't recall them having no speed limit, though I could be wrong. It seems like something they would have considered though in the empty corridors, but I can't imagine it ever happening because the NHTSA would cuck them over it on interstates. However, I was often going around 110mph on open and empty stretches. My car was a surprisingly fun manual and wanted nothing more than to run. I miss my manual. I have an auto now I can paddle shift but it isn't the same.
Either way, being old sucks so much, it's unreal
Only thing good about getting older is the benefit of hindsight. Youth is wasted on the young.
 
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