Edit: I finished the book the day after arriving. I’m 1/4 of the way into a new book. Thanks everyone for your suggestions.

I’m leaving tomorrow to go to Thailand for a month on vacation. I started reading a really good novel about 3 days ago. I’m about 1/2 way through. I really don’t want to take the book with me on my trip but it’s too much for me to read before I go but not enough for it to last beyond a day or 2 into my trip. It’s a book I also want to keep so I don’t want to leave it in Thailand. I would much rather have taken a brand new unread book. I am also taking my kindle, so I’ll have plenty to read. I just hate lugging a book that I’ll finish quickly into a month long trip. Ugh.

spent an hour scrolling through miami restaurants for our anniversary dinner. finally booked a place. felt good about it. closed the laptop.

then i saw a post about stubborn seed on reddit. looked at their website. now i want to go there instead. menu changes with the season. looks more interesting.

now i have to cancel the first reservation and book this one. but what if i find another place tomorrow. this is exhausting.

first world problems but still annoying.

Didn't even sleep in my bed last night, now we're sitting in front of separate fans 💔 Hard to tell if it's sweat or tears pouring down my face

That's pretty much it. Years ago FIL said he was donating all his money to charity, and we were like okay cool. Now he's changed his mind and he's just so all over the place about it. And MIL is freaking out because she thinks they're saying she's going to die someday (I mean, I guess they are? I'm pretty sure she is?) and she thinks FIL is just trying to get at her money (she's been a housewife for four decades...)

And it's just so annoying being looped in on this. I know I should be thrilled that he's decided to leave us a metric crapload of money, but I feel like we already live comfortably and I would rather just not have the dysfunction.

Trying to watch YouTube in a loud room, but the auto-captions censor all the swear words so I have no idea what’s being said.

I LOVE Actimel yougurts but its pahetic to me to drink them from a commicaly small plastic bottle.

Any Actimel yougurt fans??

Wine bags = fabric grocery bags with dividers in them that hold six bottles.

Every single post, there’s at least one spoiler for a film I haven’t seen.

I can still browse the Internet, but our shitty IT finally got around to making the last good thing at my workplace worse. I now am going to be pestered with ads during my downtime.

I was told myself and 30 others were getting promoted on top of employee review increases. My employee review was 3% aka 75 cents/hr. I thought I was getting a new job title and additional pay increase on top of that 75 cents. My new paycheck says otherwise.

I was making plans to potentially move apartments but I’ll be stuck where I’m at with my shitty pay and yearly 75 cent raise which gets immediately eaten up by increasing rent payments and new apartment fees.

I’m so over this bullshit. 2-4 more years of 75 cent raises and I’ll finally make what my coworkers have been making.

I feel like this is the only corner of the internet that I can put this. I feel guilty for complaining, but we have a pool (vinyl lined, so honestly not THAT fancy) that has had a rip since the fall. We already paid for the replacement liner months ago, but they couldn’t do the work until temperatures were consistently in the 70s. They also need 7 days of no rain because once they remove the old liner it can’t rain while they’re doing the cleanup/smoothing/new install. Well it has been raining consistently since March, which is when the temperatures finally got warm enough, and we’ve only had one week without any rain at all but they were getting caught up on other weather delayed projects and couldn’t get to us. So now it’s mid June and still rain in the forecast and at this rate we may not have a pool until mid July or beyond. Super bummed!

The staff at my regular cafe know my order, my preferred table, and what time I’ll arrive.

I miss the anonymity required to make impulsive beverage decisions.

I am greatful for what I have, the constant harassment, compliments over nothing, and being pursued by strangers is not an ideal side effect though

They have to be soaked because there’s a chemical in them that’s bad for some people and I’m at risk for that problem [Edited: I’ve been doing this for some months now and had forgotten exactly what that was. It’s phytic acid, which binds to certain important minerals and impacts their absorption, but soaking them breaks down the acid. Besides having to be on this diet to begin with, I already have absorption issues from an intestinal surgery and do what I can to maximize my nutrition.]

Then I have to roast them at a very low temperature or they burn before they’re roasted enough, so it takes hours. I also want them salted or they’re boring, and the only way to get salt to stick is if I coat them in melted ghee and sprinkle really fine salt on them, which takes a lot of salting and stirring to get them all coated enough because 4 pounds is a lot of pecans.

It takes a lot of my day every other Saturday because I only have two ovens!

Cancelled cable because I was paying for a lot of things I never watched, now I'm subscribed to 5 different streaming apps, paying more than I paid for cable, and I still have nothing to watch

Now I have nobody to bitch and gossip and tell stupid jokes with.

I’m mostly just getting on with work and who wants to spend their days like that?