How Was Your Day Thread V5

[Tyrannogon]

Why am I having so much troubling focusing on my school work? Brain, focus dang it!

[Aneira]

Spoiler

Was kind of having trouble for the past week deciding if I should at least acknowledge my mother for Mother's Day. Ultimately came to the conclusion not to, and to just maintain no contact. Done feeling guilty for taking someone who's incredibly toxic and manipulative out of my life. You don't get to tell your own daughter to go to hell, use her dead dad against her, claim she's the most ungrateful child ever, constantly claim my stepdad who's been in my life longer than my actual dad isn't my fatherly figure, and consistently talk shit about her behind her back without consequence. And she made it pretty clear that she wasn't willing to reconcile in the future when I politely told her "If you want to mend things in the future, you're going to have to give me the time and space I need now." After she denied me access to my passport and other official documents I still had at the house because of the fact that I blocked her on my phone.

You'd think after BOTH of your children cut all contact with you, you'd realize that something you're doing is, just maybe, wrong.

I'm a good person, and I've had to come a long way to convince myself of that because of how she's always brought me down. I'm grateful, and happy where I am in life right now, and she doesn't have the right to tear me down because I can't agree with the shit she's done.

Divorces man. They bring out the worst in people, and I'm getting the shit end of the stick because I tried keeping both my parents in my life, but apparently I'm not allowed to do that because I'm "Choosing an 'alcoholic' over my own blood."

[Real]

This is so great. We're hosting the first birthday party at the salt house tomorrow. 15 kids, ages 4 to 8. And I'll mostly have to oversee them by myself.
I foresee a disaster. Big sigh.

[jessk]

Found my first gray hair today. Personally, this is a hell of a milestone for reasons not to be discussed in a happy game forum

Also, WHAT ARE THESE FB POSTS AND TWEETS I SEE ABOUT FOLKS GETTING STICKERS WITH THEIR COVID SHOT?! all i got was paperwork (sad face)

I bought myself a "vaccinated" pin to make up for the lack of stickers at my vaccination site

[Kestrad]

three days left! frantically breeding hybrids so I have a nice stock of hatched gifts by the time magiversary rolls around

[Dancingstar]

IM SICK AND I WANT TO DIIEEEEEEEEE

[Real]

Surprisingly, yesterday's birthday party was some sort of a success. Just got an appointment for another one on Friday, with less kids.
Hmm...

[Soleil]

Well unfortunately we are going back to teaching online. North and Central Vietnam are having more covid outbreaks, some of which they can't figure out how it's spreading, so Saigon closed all schools as of Friday in hopes of preventing mass spread since there's almost 2 million students in one city alone.

I can't wait for covid to be lessened or gone completely. I wanted to go back to the States in July, but I can't leave the country right now due to covid closures. Maybe next year...

[jessk]

Surprisingly, yesterday's birthday party was some sort of a success. Just got an appointment for another one on Friday, with less kids.
Hmm...

I'm glad it went well! I think

Its weird to get vaccinated and watch things close down at the same time. I thought I'd feel all this freedom, and I kind of do. Freedom from the most extreme of my personal anxiety. But at the same time I don't really know what the right level of interaction, socializing, making plans is. I feel so weird being with people without masks now.

[Ribbonchan]

I was very worried about a friend who accidentally took some medication that they weren't supposed to so I slept poorly (read: not at all until about 8am). I missed out on making breakfast for my granny for Mother's Day as well and I feel I let her down somewhat, but she tells me it's okay and that my Auntie got money from a family member to take everyone out for a big fancy dinner tomorrow so it wasn't a total loss.

But in the end, everyone, including my friend turned out okay and I'm practicing my singing despite having a roughed throat from coughing on a pistachio or two.