Chat Thread

[Enny]

Yeah, no signs of zits that I can tell, and I can usually feel the fuckers intrusively, anyway

Yeah, no signs of bleeding whatsoever, but who knows, might just be super-cancer. I'm falling apart, anyway. I have to pop the pinky-toe sides of both of my feet back into place (fuck if I know how they get out of place) periodically or else it gets really painful walking, my left knee is bum as fuck for some reason, I get the occasional, very discomforting pain in my back muscles every few days

I bet it's all because I need to drink more milk

Might go to the doctor today, might not, depends on when they can see me. American health-care, right?

[Sen]

There might be something seriously wrong with your diet if that kind of stuff happens, otherwise maybe it's arthritis? Ask the doctor when you're there for your ear cancer.

[Enny]

My diet is whatever I can find and eat. No veggies or fruits normally, but when we have them, I'll eat most fruits, and enjoy carrots, broccoli, spinach leaves, and a few random veggies I guess.

Mostly microwaved foods, don't actually eat breakfast or lunch, because we don't really have anything. Cereal sometimes when I'm feeling it, a sandwich at lunch, or a couple hours after/before, but yeah, normally it's just "eat when you're hungry". The only actual 'meals' we have here are dinner, which we have probably four, five nights out of the week. Busy schedules and being broke, and all that.

So yeah. Will try and look into better eating if I can ever actually find a job, but until then, it's just too expensive. I appreciate the concern, though!

Stepmum is at the doctor's this morning anyway for my little brother, she's going to see if we can get an appointment set up for me this afternoon, but ehwhoknows.


So on the OT side of things, I have this really nice leather chair that's like, thirty years old and it's great. I expected it to start getting depressed after a while, especially being that I sit on it for like, eight hours a day, most days, but it totally hasn't yet. My brother has this one, and it was nice for a while, despite the back not being tall enough to rest your head on like mine, but now there are these three bolts or whatever poking up into your ass like, three minutes after you've sat down.

Does anyone else have chair-related experiences? Good or bad.

[Sands]

Microwaved frozen food is shit is nothing but calories. It's not all that expensive to buy some fresh stuff now and then. It does make up for any extra price that might be there (seriously though, it's usually always much cheaper to make shit from scratch on your own) when you are healthy enough that you don't need to see a doctor. You could still be growing and some might be growth pains and some people do have very loose bones that can easily pop out of the correct place, but these all issues sound like something a doctor should take a look at just in case in my eyes.

I need a new chair before the one I got falls apart. Nice ones are pretty expensive, though. Worth it, but poor people like me would first need to save up for it.

[MegaBusta]

Get to saving, poorfag.

[Sands]

But I'm too lazy to save...

[Enny]

My chair was sitting in my mom's basement for years because her boyfriend is one of those people who buys shit at thrift shops and garage sales and makes bank re-selling it. It was heavy and dusty enough that he just never bothered with it. It's probably worth three or four-hundred USD, if I were to guess.


But yeah, food. Well, we here in the glorious economy we're in, make about five-hundred a week, six-hundred on good weeks, have five other people excluding me in the house, and one of them is a toddle. So buying fresh and healthy ingredients constantly is impossible, especially when my frigging step mom rarely feels like preparing home-cooked meals, in lieu of like, gross stuff that comes in boxes cause cheap.

And when she does cook decent food, she puts fucking onions in it, which is one of two foods I physically can't stomach. I don't hate onions. I like the taste on many things, but the second the shit crunches in my teeth, I lose the ability to swallow. Corn is the other food. Everything else is free game, though, not that we have it. Tonight, we dine on boxed Macaroni and cheese, mixed in with canned chili. Nothing else.

Sigh, someday I'll hopefully have the money to eat like I plan on living more than another five years.

Also, went to the doctor. Scratched the hell out of the inside of my ear, somehow. Nothing too bad, and nothing important, but yeah. Weird.

[Sands]

Well, you could start cooking stuff yourself for starters instead of relying on your mom. Laziness really tends to be the main cause, but it honestly doesn't take all that long. Why not try to involve the whole family in cutting stuff too, if there's a lot to cut and listen to what people like and compromise. Less/no onions one day because someone doesn't like it, more sometimes if someone does love them. It does good for da murkans to stand instead of sitting and watching TV while eating their frozen microwave shit meal and prepare a meal.

You could also cut onions into teeny tiny pieces. I'm not too big of a fan of giant pieces of onions in my mouth either, don't even use them all that much... But when cut small, they only bring the flavor but none of the annoying crunch.

[Enny]

The only thing I'm aloud to cook is like, Homemade Alfredo. They won't just buy healthy stuff so I can make and eat it, or make it for everyone. Even then, I can cook just fine, but we don't have the things to cook with, and likely won't in the time I'm still living here. So we're stuck with things we throw in the oven, fry, or put in the microwave, as well as a dish that isn't nutritionally awful for us once every couple weeks.

The only thing keeping me below the overweight category right now is honestly just the lack of eating multiple times a day on some days. A couple years ago, I was severely underweight for it, and I'm only just up in what's considered "healthy" in the past several months.

So really, between not really being able to afford all of the healthy stuff, and the inability to really make it, I'm stuck where I'm at for a while. We only even have one jug of milk on most weeks due to budgeting, everything else is too much, sadly.

[Sen]

How much do those boxed meals cost for the whole family to eat? I reckon that if you buy a fuckload of rice, bulk meat and fresh vegetables when you can, things will be cheaper. And you won't be dead in five years, yeah. Oatmeal is cheap, bread is cheap, seasonal vegetables are cheap.

At the very least, try to get yourself and your family eating some fresh green stuff, it's really the least you can do to stay healthy.

We have an IKEA Markus chair, it's nice and sturdy. Leather makes your ass hot.

[Sands]

Yeah you gotta stop the murka in you and your family while you still have the choice. Stop the laziness. Make them see the truth.

[Enny]

Leather is so much comfier, though. And my ass doesn't get hot, I like to keep my room cool enough that it doesn't. I mean, if you're sitting naked in the chair, your ass is probably more likely to get stuck, and in-turn heat up, but I hate being naked and would never do that even if I were the last person on earth.

Boxed meals cost like, friggin, two to three dollars. We normally get $40 or so of hamburger meat every couple weeks and just mix it all with that.

I don't know what this 'bulk meat' you speak of is, as we have a Wal-Mart and and nothing else, really, and meat is nowhere near cheap in any quantity, unless we wanna eat, idunno, questionable chicken-legs all the time. Rice, yeah, we have plenty, not that there's much to go with it. We eat it with beans and cut up sausage once every week or two. Bread, we do buy, eat it with dinner. Oatmeal isn't thaaat cheap. It definitely doesn't last more than a couple days per box, and we don't have it in any other form down at Wal-Mart.

And veggies, we have a lot of them down at Wal-Mart that are ridiculously expensive for no reason, but I guess a couple aren't toooo bad. They don't go too far, though, none of them, which sucks.

Who fuckin knows. My step mom complains about buying more than a gallon of milk a week, and that's only four dollars, if I could convince her to buy any veggies whatsoever consistently it'd be a miracle. I might try this next week though, if I'm not too busy being asleep, and playing da piano

[Sands]

Two or three dollars per one person's meal is quite expensive if you actually want to save money. You need to start doing the math. How much of everything does one meal per person take and how much does it cost. If you ate nothing but potatoes, and entire family's meal for a day would pretty much cost less than a euro here already. Even if something looks expensive at first, you need to consider how much it costs you to eat one tomato per meal rather than buying tons of tomatoes and then whining that's expensive. Because you'd be using those tomatoes for more than one day/one meal, unlike that one boxed meal.

Do the math, show proof. If you actually want to save money and your mom is claiming that over just being lazy, you can rub it in her face alright. Then there's only one excuse left: laziness.

[Enny]

The box is for the whole family, actually.

Mix it with hamburger meat, lasts a serving per person or so.

All the other stuff is well and good, but I'm not the one shopping, and I'm not allowed to make points or prove people wrong. I already look like a smartass to my family. This one time, my dad tried telling me it was a mathematical fact that with age, all people came to prefer nature over the city, because he hates the city. Nevermind personal preference, but I asked where he learned that, and when he told me he read it in a newspaper, I pointed out that: A), he doesn't read fucking newspapers, B), regardless of any math used in determining statistical consensus, you don't say it's a 'Mathematical fact', because that's retarded. My ass got a stern talking to about being a smartass and not knowing how the world works, probably followed by some religious talk, and how the government is planning to enact martial law cause guns, and has the cure for cancer but they're hiding it for us, whatever it is he talks about every single time regardless of the actual subject matter.

Point is: I'm on thin-ice as it is, my step-mom cooks, she likes things that are cheap and easy to make, partially because three-year-old, partially because my sister is anemic and we need easy food on-hand, and also we don't really have the same amount of money for food every time we buy, cause bills are fuckers, and they like buying the same thing because they know how much it costs, roughly.

Also wow, I don't know exactly how much potatoes are here, but they've gotta be a lot more expensive than they are where you live :l

We also eat potatoes that come from boxes cause lazy, sorry Snads

[Sands]

PS. anemic doesn't mean you need to eat a lot, it means you need to fucking eat iron and this kind of shit diet will most likely cause you to develop it, especially if you are a menstruating girl. Anemia is a sign of diet poor in iron more often than not. Frozen, premade food is food lacking in everything and will cause you all to develop all kinds of nutrient deficiencies in the long run. Try to avoid scurvy, the lovely friend of everyone not eating fresh food.

Also I doubt any murkan food will ever be more expensive than it is in this shit country. So fucking expensive, man. Like, someone says that a gallon of skim milk in murkaland costs about 2 dollars, here you're lucky to get 1 liter for 1 euro so that's like what, almost 4 euros for the same amount. And our milk supposedly is pretty cheaply priced compared to some other European countries even though our everything else is hella expensive.

Frozen potato wedges already cut into pieces tends to cost like, 3+ euros or so here. Same amount and more in fresh potatoes is like 50 cents. When you buy premade stuff, you are also paying for the people who have to do it. That's where the extra price tends to come from. I tend to look at American prices and go all wow, that's so cheap.