In all honesty? I was EXACTLY like the girl from Wild Bird by Wendelin van Draanen: angry, defiant, overwhelmed and completely out of my element -- I did have my moments, though.
Right I feel you there too. I had a lot of issues and still do, and well, I'm not going into it, but being angry was well within my wheelhouse of emotions. I would flip to it randomly for a long time
Yeah, I got nicknames, too (pretty annoying and cruel ones at that, too) but I, too, had so much more important stuff to worry about that I just let it all slide... I wasn't the bigger person or anything (hell no!), just very, very tired to give much of a fuck, which I bet was the case for you as well.
That sucks. I hate it for anyone getting the old name sling tossed at them, but I know it all too well. By this point in life, with the whole heavy metal ankle bracelet thing, I was called every derogatory term for a lesbian you could be.. 90s and all so you get the idea.
I'm not going to get into some sob story here, but I think my favorite question was "So, how many girlfriends you got in the click, carpet muncher?" and so on and so forth. I did come back with something the little bitch didn't see coming... grabbed her by the back of the head, pulled her head back, lip-locked her, dropped her ass on the school floor, and told her "12. You want to be 13, dear?" She left me alone.
I have just recently started to buy into the whole "ramen" thing, but I'm very pleasantly surprised! It actually tastes really great and everything, but I can guarantee that it's not the same awesome investment for me as it is for you -- I can literally buy four cans of beans for the price of a single pot of (admittedly premium) ramen. It's sort of become my prize snack more than anything.
Right on!
Ramen is very versatile. I don't usually eat it daily. I lived on it as a teen, so I know the feeling. Sometimes, if you just need something quick to go with soup, a quick pasta fix, or even ramen stir-fry, it’s perfect. Many times... ramen has saved my ass when it was a few days until payday.
And as for the investment? Pfffftt. Waffles... I pay 2 bucks for a box of 24 packs of ramen. High-end gourmet ramen, It isn't! XD
As for the other thing... I'm genuinely happy once my bills are paid and that's how my life is at the moment. It's not what I wanted or imagined, but I'm proud of myself for managing when the deck is so utterly stacked against us and I bet you are, too.
And that's the most important thing, Food and the Bill's are paid
and ya.... I can't complain. I own the place I live in, my bills are paid on time, and I may not always have what I want. But I always have something to eat and hey, sometimes that's all that matters. It doesn't help that I get paid bi-weekly, though. -_-;;
That's horrible! I hope someone sat her down for a talk or something.
No idea. She was still almost white blonde the last time I saw her, so no idea. She was that kind of girl who bleached too much and spent way too much time in a tanning salon/bed. I swear she looked like she had leather skin the last few times I saw her. Though she always did smell like a Hawaiian drink, so...
But, that's been well over 15 years ago, maybe a little longer.
Probably wouldn't know her if i bumped into her TBH
Mine is already falling out due to many years of undernourishment (not starving, just eating critically low amounts of essential vitamins until something had to give) but I agree.
Mines pretty secure still so :o
I did get on some fights and drove around like it was GTA: Buenos Aires, yes ;D!
No fights on my end. Mostly after work or during my free time, I would drive to an old store parking lot to get away from everyone and think and just write, scribble ideas, or doodle.... meet up with girls, you know, typical I just got my driver's license and other things Stuff.
Don't worry, I got the right to ban you on the staff lottery... I SAID NOTHING ;D!
Funny, that's not what... never mind <_<;; >_>;;
That is an AWESOME car! I'd have loved to own something along the lines of that thing, specially in that color.
Not the coolest car to have, though now it would be due to retro nostalgia, but at the time I didn't care. I was free and could go anywhere I wanted.
(This was a year or two after the whole ankle bracelet incident)
The color I did love on that car. Generally I don't like blue Ten or now, just that car, it suited it. My grandfather told me once that if you repaint a car, you should do so with the same color, or it just won't look right.
Mine was a Regatta-S that had had (literally) a dozen owners before me -- it was limping to the finish line when it got stolen by some low lives in 2011. I loved that car, but it's hilarious to me that someone would steal it when it needed four new tires, something done to the engine block and to have the gearshift checked out because it couldn't engage in the higher ones without being forced to. Idiots XD
I had to Google the car, as I had never heard of it. Was it a Fiat Regata? If so, cute car. And that sucks, I feel you, honestly. But look at it this way... maybe they broke down in front of a cop car with it.
And yeah, some people are fucking idiots, especially thieves
Oh! And because the universe works in mysterious ways, I had removed the VERY expensive Swiss toolbox I kept on the back two days before it was stolen. I had never taken it out before.
Well, that was a Upside i suppose
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