You always think harder is better. Maybe next time I patrol, I should carry bricks and use a stake made out of butter.

Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'


Spike's Bitches 49: As usual, I'm here to help you, and I... are you naked under there?

Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


askye - Jan 15, 2020 7:43:58 am PST #6787 of 8211
Thrive to spite them

I guess they know how much sex happens. I assume you have a lot of people from all over the world and in close quarters and things happen.

....and I discovered my prescription went up so it's going to be about $60 more a month.

I've been looking at other job listings but they don't pay that much more or pay less than I make and no way to tell if the insurance would cost me more or less.


Glamcookie - Jan 15, 2020 8:33:23 am PST #6788 of 8211
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Yay, Epic!

That sucks, askye. I'm sorry.

Hi, friends! I am going a little bonkers waiting to hear if I got the job at that Huge Company in Seattle. (No, we won't be moving regardless.) I have such mixed feelings about it all, so we'll see what happens. This is the second time in the last 5-6 years I've been contacted by a recruiter via Linked.In and gone all the way through the process, including flying to Seattle for a full day of interviews (latest happened last Fri and supposedly I'll know something by the end of this week).

My youngest continues to be an Experience. Challenging, beautiful, angering, loving - it's a lot, y'all. I did (finally) start therapy several months back. I see his therapist, which somehow seems very fitting (she's a play therapist by trade). I love her, even though I cry every damn time I see her, even when there's nothing particularly upsetting happening. Shit. And she's out of the country until the end of the month and I'm already missing my sessions. Sigh.

Sorry for the novel. Just needed somewhere to put it and remembered my Buffista friends.


askye - Jan 15, 2020 8:55:40 am PST #6789 of 8211
Thrive to spite them

Thanks Glamcookie.

A good therapist is worth their weight in gold (and good tears from good sessions). I miss therapy and my therapist but I just can't add another expense or the toll of driving so far to see someone. And I don't want to deal with finding someone local.

Right before the stupid car accident I was beginning to feel like I was in an ok place and that things were going to start turning around and I could really budget to pay off debt and now....the cost of the medicine will be bad until the deductible kicks in and I should meet that in May. I'm very lucky/privelaged to have parents who can help me out but they have done that so much I have started to feel like they have enabled some bad behaviors. So it's just like - I've had all these realizations and am ready to make changes but now this stuff happens that will make it harder.


meara - Jan 15, 2020 11:22:04 am PST #6790 of 8211

Oh man, Glam, that's tough. If you get the job would you be in Seattle occasionally? Because that would be cool!


erikaj - Jan 16, 2020 3:18:35 pm PST #6791 of 8211
Always Anti-fascist!

I hate Facebook. And not for just the reasons everyone does. They have new Page security requirements that...aren't for the technologically-challenged.


Zenkitty - Jan 17, 2020 5:49:53 am PST #6792 of 8211
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

So my also-job-seeking former co-worker says she wants to go into a medical field, but she doesn't want to work with gross sick people...


Toddson - Jan 17, 2020 5:51:02 am PST #6793 of 8211
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

So insurance company?


Zenkitty - Jan 17, 2020 5:53:12 am PST #6794 of 8211
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I might suggest that! She was thinking of something like ultrasound or X-ray tech.


EpicTangent - Jan 17, 2020 6:18:16 am PST #6795 of 8211
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Medical transcriptionist, lab tech?


Zenkitty - Jan 17, 2020 6:31:30 am PST #6796 of 8211
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

We both just want something we can get trained/certified for quickly. But she's constrained by pain using her right hand and needs to limit keyboard usage, and I'm constrained by pain in my ankle and I need to limit walking/standing. Unfortunately all the technician type jobs I've looked at require one to be able to do all those things.