I want some good news.

  • Like the wind...
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    536 months ago

    Changed my name from what some family’s abusive mother gave me, got a job at Amazon, on my way to move out and never see that family again. ✂️👔

  • @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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    326 months ago

    My parents, in their 70s, started receiving a guaranteed income supplement (they’re Canadian). They’re still poor, but finally they can afford the basics of survival without having to work full time.

    It’s such a huge change.

  • @jrubal1462@mander.xyz
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    256 months ago

    We switched my son’s Pre-K for a number of reasons. Mostly because they didn’t have room for him in the older class (where he belongs), but also because it was kinda trashy, kinda franchisee, and every day we dropped him off he was crying and clinging harder and harder. The new school is just some lady running something out of her house.

    A friend asked him what he’s thankful for last night and he said, “My new school” 😭😭

    • @Today@lemmy.world
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      46 months ago

      They’re so cute!! My DIL doesn’t want to see her family for Thanksgiving so we rented a house out of town for the weekend. It has llamas and I’m so excited to just sit and watch them. I hope i get to pet them!

  • @dedst@lemmy.world
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    236 months ago

    my kid slept the whole night last night. first time. I didn’t even know what to do when I woke up and no one was crying.

    • @Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      66 months ago

      I was lucky with both of my kids. They both started sleeping through the night relatively quick.

      Good for you! Now, on to the next parenting challenge, but at least you’ll be getting better sleep.

  • @FridgeReborn@lemmy.world
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    226 months ago

    I’m sort of dating someone.

    2ish weeks ago my parents met another couple at a cocktail party and found out they had a single daughter about my age. In an extremely unsubtle attempt to set us up our families did an escape room together. Honestly, sex and dating have never been important to me. My longest relationship was a couple months long in high school, I went on maybe 3 or 4 dates in college. I went to this escape room thinking I’d make pleasantries for an hour, solve some puzzles and go home. But when I met her she was cute, and smart, and funny, and after we escaped she asked if I wanted to go with her to something else she was doing that day. We ended up spending the whole day together. And again the next weekend. I haven’t “officially” asked her out, or kissed her, or really acknowledged anything about what this is. But I have had so much fun with this badass trapeze-flying, skydiving, engineering, competitive dancing, just-so-cool woman that I can’t stop thinking about when I’ll see her next.

    • @WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      66 months ago

      Don’t wait, ask her out. Nothing is worse than an opportunity missed from procrastination, and some girls have short fuses when establishing a romantic foundation with someone.

      Asking her out isn’t a binding commitment for a long relationship, but it does bookmark you as an interested party.

  • @Wrongdoer4094@lemmy.world
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    216 months ago

    I am traveling through Greece with my girlfriend. After a nice (and exhausting) hiking route we are back in the hotel – one of the best rooms I have ever been to. She is having a shower and I am chilling over the bed. At this very moment everything feels great.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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    206 months ago

    I started a new job I really like, and got offered a promotion at the old job.

  • Monster
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    166 months ago

    The company that lost my $3500 computer a month ago finally sent off a free replacement and it’ll be here next week! Normally, they replace it with a refurbished one but since they don’t have any, I’m getting a new one.

  • @neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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    156 months ago

    Apart from my mortgage, I’m finally debt free, and I’m running a surplus every month after all the bills are paid.

    Well, except what we jokingly refer to as my “cripling gambling-induced credit card debt”; I returned some bottles while at the store the other day. The payout wasn’t a lot, but enough to cover the mundane items I was buying. Instead of dealing with the bottle return receipt I pushed that button where it buys you a small lottery ticket instead and the money is donated to red cross. Not surprisingly, I didn’t win. When at the checkout counter I realized that my GF still had my usual card after borrowing it earlier, so I had to use my credit card to pay the laughably small sum.

  • @QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world
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    156 months ago

    My employer offered me a modest severance package, and set my last day to be the first working day of the month, meaning my health care benefits are valid for almost a full month after my last day.

    Tell me you’re American without telling me you’re American