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We have a moron rapist criminal running the country raising our cost of living. My ex wife left me six years ago and it still hurts today. I can’t believe I’ve not gotten over her. On the positive I get to live my life loving my cat. So grateful for him. Even if he bites me when he thinks I’m starving him to death but I just fed him a bit ago. lol
Between the drama in my life, and the phenomenal psychedelic trips I’ve been having, and finally pursuing HRT, and inevitable societal collapse, I’ve been a metronome rapidly ticking between being on the verge of absolute meltdown and being incredibly driven to self improve.
Overall, the year is excellent. Falls are starting to hurt less, and I’m mending relationships. I still feel like a complete fuckup in the back of my mind, but I feel closer than ever to correcting the feeling.
Try a nice hike out 🙏
Always remember to be kind to yourself. Wishing you the best! ❤️
I live in America, so there’s that. I’m over 40 and now health is definitely a priority.
However, I passed my CompTIA A+ certification and had a few interviews but decided the tech industry is a volatile shit hole even if the pay can eventually be great. I was substitute teaching in the in between and have LOVED it, so I decided to go back to school and I’m starting graduate classes in a week for my Master’s in (elementary) Education!
The boulder gets bigger every day.
I wish I was dead but thanks for asking. I have a busted tooth I can’t afford to fix, we had to get a replacement vehicle and it costs too much, which gave the insurance company and excuse to double the insurance rate even though it’s a newer, better car. We can’t afford that either. I’m going to have to file for bankruptcy just to get by.
Good and meh. Personal life is great. I’m able to engage in all the hobbies I want to and am particularly chuffed about learning to play piano. Got a new motorcycle last month that I actually enjoy riding.
Marriage is pretty good. Got a bunch of child support earlier this year, which helped pay off most of my son’s medical debt.
Work is…meh. I love my job but I’m over it when it comes to working in general.
Health-wise… it’s okay considering how bad it can get. I don’t sleep well due to my heart pounding half or the whole night (been an ongoing thing for over a decade and no one can tell me why) so I take a blood pressure supplement (the only thing that helps). Always tired. I’ve become more of an introvert, which is completely fine because I really love my alone time. Have a good group of friends that I stay in touch with and occasionally socialize with.
Overall, I have no complaints. Unsure about the government situation but I can’t get stuck in worrying about that because that dumpster fire will just keep burning. Hoping for enough resistance to keep things from exploding…
It’s odd.
It’s both fucking abysmal, but also relievingly hopeful.
I finally dragged myself out of the depressive hole i had been in for a ~year an a half but am currently existentially sad and frustrated. lol
…But it will pass. And i can tell that my life has shifted.artistic depictions of my 2025 so far
Pretty epic wheelie tho
Wow, you’re really starting through and going places this year!
Rally driving is a pretty cool hobby though in your case seems expensive.
Outside of my country being on fire and being a bit worried the small company I work for will survive, my personal life has been pretty good.
I’ve been casually seeing a new woman and it’s been nice to break out of my usual comfort zone of “you are now half of my life” relationships. And it’s given me motivation to get consistent with lifting weights because I want to look good for her (and tbh love when she grabs/holds my arm), which has really helped me control my blood sugar. I might even be able to dial back my medications depending on how my next doctor’s visit goes.
It sucks as I’m a black, autistic and bisexual woman, whose rights are slowly taken away by Nazi Germany 2.0 (aka America) and live in a very red state. I wish can flee, but I’m broke and jobless. So I’m forced to stay.
But hey, at least I lost 10 pounds this year!
As a German, don’t bring Germany into this please 😂.
But seriously, sad to see it all. Best wishes.
The state of things is devastating. Actually getting out is the best option, I know easy for someone else to say. Right wingers love to point yo companies moving to red states for lower taxes and no employee protections, when people start leaving the states is when that narrative will change.
Not sure where you are but Colorado has paid family leave and is generally fighting a good fight and may be closest to you, depending on your red state location. Depending on the type of work you donl or want to do, securing employment in advance of relocating or looking at WFH options may be the best option to allow you to get a job and then move and not have to worry about the job location piece. Coastal places with better protections and rights are expensive as hell and probably less of an option for you but depends.
Hope you can get someplace at least measurably better and safer for you.
Thanks for replying!
I’m currently living in Texas with my family and are planning to move to Vermont in two years, even thought the state is very expensive. But at least if things goes VERY BAD in the next few years, we can flee to Canada since it’s only a few hours north of Vermont and we have passports.
I have tried to look for a WFH jobs in the past (and having a Bachelor’s Degree helps), but all of them either require years of experiences or are scams. Instead, I’ll do basic house chores to help out.
Lots of support jobs and customer service (if US based) are moving to remote. If you have any tech/software/computer background you might be able to swing that.
What kind of job are you looking for?
Quadruple whammy. You rolled a D1
I started to argue that it would be a Nat 1. But then I realized that if a D1 existed, it would only be able to roll Nat 1’s… Which feels apt.
Yeah sorry, I meant a nat 1. Brain not functioning
It’d be absolutely grand if it weren’t for the collapse of democracy. There really are a lot of things coming together for me right now and I’d be so happy if I weren’t worrying about having to flee the country.
Got sick for a full week the moment I got back from my New Year’s celebration visit to family, then got sick again a week after I got better from the first time. Then my apartment flooded due to a water heater busting in the apartment above me. Still cleaning up from that. Then I had to quit my job due to a toxic work environment and start a new one with a pay cut, and then the day I go to quit, my grandfather dies (wasn’t close to him but the aftermath was rough.)
And now another family member is on death’s door, so I’ll probably have to go to a second funeral this year.
Needless to say, 2025 hasn’t been my year😮💨
Personally it’s about the same, which is good.
But I wake up every morning worried about all the stupid nazi shit that’s going on in the currrent government.
Honestly pretty great. I love my relatively new position at my company, my career track is great, and it seems like people above me might be aware of the good job I am doing. Plus it’s more money than I have ever made in my life, so while I’m still underpaid for my role, I get to WFH wherever I want, and this has all allowed me to buy my first house in rural northern Maine, with almost 11 acres. I close in 27 days and then I can GTFO of my parents’ house, where I have been for 15 months. With any luck I can then find a Canadian wife and get dual citizenship, the better to flee when the trump gestapo come for me for whatever made up reason they come up with.
I mean there’s all this *gestures vaguely*, but if I zoom into just my personal life, it’s been pretty good?
I adopted an amazing kitty on Jan 4. I’m still grieving the loss of my soul cat last year but the new girl has been a great gift in my life.
My job is very seasonal and 2025 was the most calm season of all 8 seasons I’ve done it. I work on software creation and support season, so most calm = the best season ever.
Then I went on medical leave to yeet my uterus and confirmed that I had adenomyosis, so pretty psyched to see how much this reduces my pain after I finish recovering.
So even with the shit show going on in the world, life goes on at the micro level and so far 2025 is shaking out better than ‘24.
So far it’s been pretty good personally.
I work in stunts, and started training with a new stunt team that does some pretty cool projects. I’m not a member yet, but I keep getting invited to trainings and communicating with people in the team, so it’s been going pretty good. They have a few films announced for the upcoming year, so, hopefully I get to work on a few of them!
