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Years ago I got a 3/4 length corduroy coat that fitted beautifully and looked great on me. Unfortunately I then gained weight and the coat stopped looking so good  A couple of years ago I lost a load of weight again, and managed to shrink right past my lovely coat so I still didn't get to wear it.Yesterday I found an almost exact duplicate of the coat - same brand and stying, slightly different colour and in my current size, in a thrift store for 10 euro, plus it had just been dry-cleaned! I am ridiculously happy about this danged coat 
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I saw Midsommar
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Nov 11, 2019 06:35
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oldpainless posted:I saw Midsommar More like oldattestupainless
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My dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer a few years back. It's apparently a slow-growing type, the kind that won't become fatal until ten years after he's probably already died from something else. It's more or less under control. He mentioned it to his cousin earlier this year, and his cousin encouraged him to get in touch with the VA, that it might have something to do with his stint in Vietnam and the Agent Orange he encountered while there. So this summer he did all the paperwork and got into their system to possibly be considered for, I guess, reparations of a sort. He saw a VA doctor last month and has been waiting to hear back. Today he found out the government will compensate him at 100 percent disability. They sent him a check for a significant amount of money, thousands of dollars, more than three times his monthly government pension. That was backpay dating to when he first filed the paperwork this June; he'll continue getting a check for about 75 percent of his pension every month. My parents were stunned. They haven't been struggling financially, exactly, but they've been putting off small household projects that are decades overdue and worrying about some potential new medical expenses on the horizon. This is such a huge weight off their shoulders, and I'm so happy for them. (And I'm glad my dad is doing okay.)
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Nov 13, 2019 02:40
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I finished my first year as a trainer for the new interns at our firm, which was exhausting and mentally taxing but worth it. At the end of one of the sessions after the interns left on a ten minute break I ended up talking with my coworker who was assisting me and ended up opening up about my depression. It’s something I often struggle with talking about, not because I’m ashamed but because I’m afraid if I let people in that much they’ll either hurt me or get hurt as well. Being able to find someone that I was able to trust that much was a major accomplishment for me, and I know it’s a step toward getting help if it ever got to the point where I truly needed it.
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Nov 13, 2019 05:42
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After weeks of waiting for an interview with an NHS position in sheffield, I applied for and got an interview slot for a much closer one in the town I actually live in for better money. The interview's tomorrow, hopefully it goes well. Otherwise it's back to 11 hour days putting cheese in boxes.
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Nov 13, 2019 05:52
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Wow, not only do I have today's interview, I just got called for one tomorrow as well. Things are really coming together!
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Nov 14, 2019 12:47
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I found a story I've been looking for for like half a year, one ostensibly written somewhere on SA about a guy discovering a tribe of intelligent mice in his basement and becoming friends with them.Phy posted:loving I FOUND THE MOUSE FRIENDS POST If you want to read it without leaving the loving embrace of father lowtax click on my name in the quote cause I requoted the story in my original post
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Hirayuki posted:My dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer a few years back. It's apparently a slow-growing type, the kind that won't become fatal until ten years after he's probably already died from something else. It's more or less under control. He mentioned it to his cousin earlier this year, and his cousin encouraged him to get in touch with the VA, that it might have something to do with his stint in Vietnam and the Agent Orange he encountered while there. So this summer he did all the paperwork and got into their system to possibly be considered for, I guess, reparations of a sort. He saw a VA doctor last month and has been waiting to hear back. That's marvellous - a real case of something good coming from something bad. Hope your dad's health stays good  My latest awesomeness: I found a perfect christmas present for my mother, who is a fairly new vegan who has a lingering love for leather handbags. Yesterday I found a beautiful, high-quality portuguese leather bag in a thrift store so she gets to have the bag but not the guilt of buying it new!
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Pookah posted:That's marvellous - a real case of something good coming from something bad. Hope your dad's health stays good So she's Vegan Buffalo Bill. "I won't eat you... but I love your SKIN!"
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BioEnchanted posted:So she's Vegan Buffalo Bill. "I won't eat you... but I love your SKIN!" Pretty much. We do not question the ethical inconsistencies, doing so causes much irritation.
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my mom is finally free of the nasty little potentially-cancerous growth on her jawbone. after two hours of surgery and some kinda lovely doctors(dismissive, callous) and one handsome and super accommodating and helpful doctor operated on her, they removed two teeth, a whole lot of gum tissue, and shaved a little bit of jawbone off. they also hit a particularly gushy vein and she apparently lost a pint of blood before they got it under control. but it's done, she's okay(relatively), they signed off on the paperwork I asked for, we're finally home after obscene amounts of traffic, it's all good. tired, but good. now to prepare for the refinancing appraiser who is showing up on monday. I don't know the normal procedure for that poo poo, I guess they have to come in and take photos of everything in the house or something, but I feel like there's never enough I can do to make things look good enough for appraisal. oh well.
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Nov 22, 2019 22:43
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My lens fell off my camera and into a river last week and after a week of combat with it, tearing down the entire shutter mechanism, cleaning and rebuilding, I have it back to working condition! https://i.imgur.com/Gy68M1Q.gifv
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Nov 30, 2019 10:27
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how much does that sucker go for new, guessing it's worth repairing rather than ponying up hundreds/thousands to get a new one
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BioEnchanted posted:So she's Vegan Buffalo Bill. "I won't eat you... but I love your SKIN!" "Say, are you about a size 14?" 
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Captain Invictus posted:how much does that sucker go for new, guessing it's worth repairing rather than ponying up hundreds/thousands to get a new one Copal don't exist as a company any more, so if I was going to replace it it'd be $300 for a new lens and shutter. Really hard to find shutter only sales.
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Nov 30, 2019 22:01
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I found out my friend has been saying “going to hell in a ham basket” his entire life.
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Dec 9, 2019 00:13
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Made some awesome chicken and gnocchi soup with home-made gnocchi and tossed in some spicy sausage for zest. Then I air-fried the extra gnocchi and made pretzel bites. A good lunch for a rainy day.
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Dec 9, 2019 00:30
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Rolo posted:I found out my friend has been saying “going to hell in a ham basket” his entire life. Please don't correct him
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Werong Bustope posted:Please don't correct him The jig was up immediately, he said it in front of like five people.
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Dec 9, 2019 22:19
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I found out today that someone's friend has been running around saying "going to hell in a ham basket."
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:I found out today that someone's friend has been running around saying "going to hell in a ham basket." oh my god I hope you get the chance to ask - kindly - "what's a ham basket?" there's no way a grown adult has internalized such an idiom without having SOME idea as to what it is
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Pastry of the Year posted:oh my god I hope you get the chance to ask - kindly - "what's a ham basket?" Tell that to anyone who says "I could care less" or "For all intensive purposes"
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Dec 10, 2019 08:01
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Got offered a better position where I work. It’s a little bit more money but most importantly I’m back on days. Working nights for three years has really strained my marriage as well as my relationships with my girlfriends.
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I found an old story I had written maybe fifteen years ago and decided to rework it into something new. I’m now closing in on 10,000 words and feel far better about the content than I did when I first put it together back in college. It makes me feel really, really good to enjoy something I’m creating this much.
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Dec 12, 2019 12:24
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A tabletop game that I started developing in 2014 is going to be out the door soon. A good chunk of that time was life getting in the way, but still
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Megabound posted:Tell that to anyone who says "I could care less" or "For all intensive purposes" Up until a few years ago, I thought it was "making end's meat." At least it sounds the same. And I still say it makes just as much sense.
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Cat rear end Trophy posted:Up until a few years ago, I thought it was "making end's meat." Me and my sister both thought the phrase was "a goose walking over your grave" and this made perfect sense to us.
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Sentient Data posted:A tabletop game that I started developing in 2014 is going to be out the door soon. A good chunk of that time was life getting in the way, but still Can I get a link when it's released? I wanna have a SA based game night with a couple of friends, but the only one I have is Sword of the Bastard Elf.
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Werong Bustope posted:Me and my sister both thought the phrase was "a goose walking over your grave" and this made perfect sense to us. That... is the phrase. 
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Werong Bustope posted:Me and my sister both thought the phrase was "a goose walking over your grave" and this made perfect sense to us. https://www.waywordradio.org/goose-walking-over-a-grave/
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This is huge; we've both been roundly ridiculed because the phrase is supposedly "a ghost walking over your grave." I feel so vindicated right now.
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I've always heard "someone walked over my grave." No ghosts or goose or ghost geese.
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Dec 14, 2019 02:36
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Solice Kirsk posted:I've always heard "someone walked over my grave." No ghosts or goose or ghost geese. Ditto but it would make sense if the someone was a goose There was an entire video game this year about their malice
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Dec 14, 2019 02:57
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Werong Bustope posted:This is huge; we've both been roundly ridiculed because the phrase is supposedly "a ghost walking over your grave." I feel so vindicated right now.
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Realized I was slipping into some bad old eating habits I've been trying to discard. Stepped on the scale to face the truth and it turns out I lost five pounds. Looks like making it a point to exercise on the regular whether I want to or not has been doing me some good.
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Dec 17, 2019 09:15
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Just finished paying off the car loan and credit cards! 
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It's early, but my day is already made awesome. I'm early in the process of knitting a blanket for one of my brothers (with another planned for the other one). Sat down to pick it up this morning, and looked at it going "Something isn't right here." I thought I was going to have to start the whole thing over, but I was able to find where I'd made the mistake, and rip out to just past it, and pick up from there. Still a set back, but far, far less of on than starting over entirely would have been.
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