My work healthcare went up as well. They were like “well I’m sure you’ve seen all over the news that healthcare costs are going up” I think it was just an excuse to pass costs onto us because they also are dropping other benefits too that they’ve always offered.
I’m only in my 30s. My dad supported our family on a high school education. I don’t have a college education but I did two different certification programs to work in my field. I’m single with no kids and live alone and I’m still struggling. I don’t know how anyone has a family right now. I can’t even afford me. I’m so mad that my dad raised an entire family and bought and paid off a house and I can barely pay my damn rent and buy groceries with a better education and job than what he had.
I miss my s3. It was my first smartphone and still my favorite. I loved the size, the shape, the fact that the battery was removable, even android was so much better back then.
I know I’m going to get shit on but I still like the s-series. I’ve gotten non s-series smart phones twice (the htc one and an unlocked Motorola something) and I hated my htc and was meh on the other. I’ve had the s3, s7, s10, s21, and now I have the s25. The s10 stopped connecting to the network when they upgraded the towers to 5g and shut off 3g and because of the carrier I’m on I would have had to jailbreak it to fix it. It was already 4 years old at that point so I just ugraded to the s21. I had that for 3 or 4 years until the internal antenna died and it stopped connecting to the cell towers. I’m hoping I get similar usage out of the s25, but I’m planning on my next phone being some cheap ass POS because it’s all I’ll be able to afford.
Curl up in bed with a book and some tea.
Resting is being productive. Your body requires rest to get better. Ignoring your body’s needs is not helpful and will only drag your illness out. If you had a child or a loved one who was sick or injured would you force them to run around when they didn’t feel well? That would be abusive. Don’t do it to yourself. It sucks to be forced to rest when you don’t want to, but learning how to rest your body and your brain is a skill too and it’s ok to not be productive 100% of the time, in fact it’s not mentally healthy to have to be productive all the time.
Memes are my love language.
I don’t like anime, I don’t demand that the endless anime pages close so I don’t have to see them on all, I just make good use of the block button.