I looked it up, and this actually isn't the case either. The original quote is in German and is most definitely referring to blood as kin

Well, disregard that post then. I still hate my blood family and have strong preference for those friends who claim me as family regardless of the origin of that ridiculously debated quote.

My medication was increased last month...

I hate that I am so easily offended and easily "triggered".

My fitness coach has been saying, "Omg. I'm so OCD" when she *really* means "I am a perfectionist". And my mom (who has OCD) called her out on it, (politely) and my coach (my mom and I both see her) was like,

"Oh, no. I'm not diagnosed with OCD, I just like everything perfect. I'm a *functional* OCD"

Mom and I were offended, but it's not worth arguing over...
This fitness coach being the same person who said that I am "too young to be on medication"...

Ugh. I want to dress nice-ish for work, but it's also day 1 of the bloodening so I feel like crap and wanna dress super comfy and in things that won't stain. XP

I get you kad. I really wanted to wear sweats to work this week, but my performance review is coming up and last year wearing sweats came up :'(

Tbh, the dress code here is super lax. Like, the only real restrictions are "clean jeans without holes" and "t-shirts with designs are fine as long as they don't have images of beer, drugs, or nudity". But since it IS a museum, even though it's small and not super fancy, I like to at least go with a skirt of some kind and a plain colored shirt without a design when I'm at the front desk.
Today I decided to go more for comfort though with my soft, well worn, paint stained maxi skirt and a slightly loose long-sleeved shirt. Can't wait until I can go home. So I can curl up in a ball on my bed and die.

i can't ever wear pants on my period. skirts are so much more convenient for that time. but only flared ones. dresses are even better, because the only band of a garment to push into my cramping abdomen is the band of my underwear rather than the band of a skirt also.

Yeah Kad we're your family now! Plus I hate people like "OH YOU SHOULD GO OUT WITH *BLANK* WHO IS YOUR FRIEND HE SEEMS REALLY NICE" even though I don't really know anyone like that personally but when you don't want dudes you've already friendzoned hitting on you.... :/

It's a pet peeve of mine when guy friends who know I'm not interested still flirt like no stop. >__>"

It's Asked, not "Axed."
It's Library, not "LI-BERRY".
It's ALZHIEMERS! NOT "ALL-TIMERS"! <X'C
AAAAAAAGH! It's KILLING me not to correct people!!! Must! Resist! Correcting!
;~; but it's so painful! Hnnng! >~<;

Mhh. I say “li-bry”. Faster.

:/ I'm guilty of that too, but I can't stand when "lie-berry" happens. x{

Kitty: Yeah! *highfives* Also, pretty sure I'll have to clarify my friendship with one of my guy friends to my now boss at the museum. Every time I work a long shift on a Saturday she's always like, "oh just have A bring you lunch!" As if he's my boyfriend. xP
Yeah....nope. While I'm sure if I asked, he'd probably do it some days because he is just a nice person, A.) We are not and never will be a couple and B.) He works on Saturdays.
*sigh*
Guess I'll have to come out of the deck (cause that's where the Aces are... lol, I love that saying...) to my boss now.


One of my friends says windowSEAL instead of windowSILL and I cringe every time.

so i found something out when i was having internal abdominal tearing; maternity jeans fit AND are not too tight when sitting

of course you have to wear a top that covers the band but it's a thought if you are having tenderness and pain but have a use for pants

That's just a regional accent. There are a lot of cases of vowels that are pronounced like a short i in some accents and like a long e in other accents. It's not an error, not any more than underemphasizing R-sounds in New England or British accents.

This word is actually one of the few examples where my wife's accent slips out. She usually speaks with a generic American accent (technically, "neutral midwestern") but she grew up in Mississippi and every once in a while the way she'll say a word reveals that fact.

One of the ways you can tell that it's an accent feature is that it's systematic -- when fully realized, people who speak in this accent also say "pill" as if it were "peel", "bill" as "beal", "till" as "teal", et cetera. (The pattern suggests that "will" would be pronounced like "wheel". I've heard that a few times, but it's context sensitive -- in phrases like "will go" the heavy de-emphasis of the helping verb can make it come out almost like a shortened form of "wool" instead.)

Does your friend by any chance replace some long E sounds with long A sounds? e.g. saying "tea" a little more like "tay"

Internal abdominal tearing? Yikes. Hope it's better.


I'm wondering how you can scare a cat away when it prefers to aggressively stand its guard, without harming it. Water sprayer? I'd like for it to not attack the dogs as it becomes more brave.

Well....unless Montana is divided into vastly different linguistic regions, it's not a regional thing. Same as me he was born in MT and has lived here all his life. And does not replace any other long E sounds with long A.
It's literally just windowseal/windowsill.

Update: he has informed me that it's actually a medical thing where his frenulum I think it's called, is farther forward than most people, so it's easier to do vowel sounds where the tongue doesn't have so much vertical movement. Apparently he also says "pellow" instead of "pillow".