Truffle

joined 2 years ago
[–] Truffle@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Being a parent has been a journey filled with all sorts of stuff. First off, I knew I did not want to be a teen parent as my grandmother and my own mother were. I wad absolutely terrified of that. When I met my now spouse, I knew I wanted to have a baby with him because he is awesome. We waited until we got our degrees and were more financially stable. We were so eager to meet the baby and wanted it to exist so much. When baby was born we were overjoyed and tired of course lol. I remember the baby days in kind of a fog, then kid turned to a toddler and so on. Being a witness to my kid existing and allow myself to be the kind of.mother I needed when growing up has been the highlight of my life. I absolutely love seeing kid learning New things, laugh together, talking about hard stuff etc. But mostly, knowing that I can always be kid's safe place and that I did not create my kid, we both have created each other along the way and we keep changing, but our love is always there burning bright.

[–] Truffle@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For a while I had a side job correcting subtitles that had context mistakes. It was fun and some people would look me up to work for them if they needed something very specific, mostly independent movies and a couple of things for netflix. Now with AI that side gig is no more but the auto generated stuff is pretty terrible.

[–] Truffle@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Fellow artist who sometimes gets impostor syndrome from time to time: I would love to see your work if you ever want to share.

[–] Truffle@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Exercise. I mean I hate it but I crave it and I am not a skinny person by all means so it is something that I do for me and how it makes me feel.

[–] Truffle@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

I love spending time at mmy atelier be it working in my art, arranging my different art materials, chatting with other felllow artists who also have their spaces in the same antique buillding as me.♥️

[–] Truffle@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Members of the emotionally immature parents club, unite! Thank you for your kind words it has been very painful but at the same time friends and other people have showed up for me in ways beyond what I could imagine. I am determined to end the cycle of hurt and take on emotional intelligence.

[–] Truffle@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That I have to grieve a living mother. That I will never know how it feels like to have the warm embrace of a caring mom no matter how much I yearn for it. It has been sad but so liberating at the same time.

[–] Truffle@lemmy.ml 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There are no lost causes, just struggles you don't face.

[–] Truffle@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is my logic too. I own my house but have been leasing a new car every year for over ten years now.

I was kind of skeptical at first but for now I think it works out for us.

[–] Truffle@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't but I have a dear friend who named his cars with things like "Captain stingray" for a Blue chevrolet he had, "Annoyed mother" for his mom's van, "Stinky Pete" for his dad's Cadillac (he was a heavy smoker) He named my first car "lil' bit" since it was an old vw bug.

Now he drives an electric Mustang called "The beast". Oh! He also own a boat now named "Pretty Betty"

[–] Truffle@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I see you have good taste.

 

Edit: Thank you all for your condolences and the beautiful snippets from your own furry friends. It is so special to be loved by an animal and love them back.

After nineteen years together, we had many beautiful memories and adventures together, but one of my favorite was when we visited the beach. She absolutely loved it and would run up and down chasing seagulls and barking at coming waves as happy as can be.

I will miss you forever, Tandi♥️

 

ETA: I have read and downloaded many of your recommendations and have had lots of fun reading them! You are such a welcoming enthusiastic bunch. Thanks a lot! Still looking for more suggestions in case someone wants to add to the ever growing list. So far this year I have read twenty seven books.

Looking for some good mystery novels/short story compilation, etc. Preferably no sci fi or futuristic stuff, no Stephen King. TIA.

FWIW just finished reading "We have to talk about Kevin" by Lionel Shriver. It was OK.

 

As stated above. I can go months without eating an egg, for example, and suddenly crave eggs benedict for breakfast everyday.

Good thing is my dietitian is aware of this executive dysfunction/quirk/habit and works closely with me to help me out planning meals in a way that works me.

Right now I am on a soup kick: Soup, soup, soup everyday, all day.

ETA A word

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