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My stomach hates me. But here's Hazel and Aggie watching the Squirrel Show.

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[–] meh@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago

Think I've now recovered from doing a human thing Friday. Friend i only see every few years was in town for a night, so it was a social human thing i actually really enjoyed and made recovery easier. Unfortunately a mutual friend is determined this out of state friend and i get together, and keeps trying to get us to hookup at the bar. While knowing i don't enjoy drunken hookups AND have stopped drinking entirely since the last time she tried this scheme. So now i get to have the "life isn't a 90s rom-com" discussion and it's gonna feel a little like telling a 6yr old santa isn't real.