I picked up a 3D printer.
This summer is my first ever in 42 years I have a “beach body”. I’m totally getting a sick Spider-Man costume for Holloween/comic con.
I was a lonely single almost 40 year old guy 2 years ago.
Now I have a wonderful wife and my twin boy and girl are the sweetest little bunches of joy I can imagine. Additional, my mum sold her house and now we have enoth money to take a year of work and care for the kids together.
I’m tied, i am exhausted and I feel so endless blessed and happy every time I look at my wife or my children.
My cat. Sure its not recent. But my cat 😃
My garden in the back of my house started producing spinach, kale, arugula, and lettuce. Still waiting on the green beans, zucchini, and cucumbers. But the garden is absolutely blowing up. So I’ve been entirely invested in it.
Can we get this thread like once a week or every other week or something? This is awesome
This is what Elmo wanted from us.
My union renegotiated our contract and it means I have enough coverage to get a crown for this tooth I just broke, the coverage literally doubled.
After a long recovery I can finally start working out again
Also I have an amazing dog that I love and I’m thankful for him every day.
Friend I’m at the end of a two year long recovery to be able to use one of my arms again. It’s amazing to be able to do things with my upper body
It is joyous
Two specific things.
- My wife & I bought a house! 🎉
- My doctors got me on ozempic because i have hypothyroidism & i literally cannot lose weight. Ive dropped 20 lbs in a month & a half!
Wait, how. Why can’t you loose weight? How does it come, that you can’t loose weight with a calories deficit? I’m really curious.
Hypothyroidism is a hormone imbalance and one of the side effects of that is weight gain. Additionally, to supplement your hormone deficiency, the medication you take causes you to gain weight. A lot of people cannot control their weight with hypothyroidism. This medication is kind-of a god send.
I did not know hypo caused that, I’ve been trying off and on for years to drop weight. I was diagnosed years ago. I did see my weight go up but I assumed it was because I left the service and wasn’t doing PT regularly anymore. I’ve been stuck at -16lbs for months now. Awesome to hear that, might peruse a similar angle myself now.
My doc was telling me that people with hypothyroidism dont have a “set weight” or a weight that your body is comfortable at because everything is broken and terrible. So yeah. Definitely ask.
Congratulations. Please be very vigilant about monitoring GI side effects though, my SO was hospitalized because of Ozempic and is now in a class action lawsuit because the manufacturer did not reveal it can cause gastroparesis.
Im specifically on zepbound which apparently has less side affects. But damn that first week was a literal shit show.
This is a nice thread. I don’t have any big achievements recently but I’m doing alright. Hope you are too.
You achieved positivity for others this week. Win in my book
We bought a house with some farmland and moved in a few months ago. My farming ventures have been hit or miss (“learning how not to do it” as some might put it), but we had some fruit trees/bushes. We now have ume (plum) jam and are still into fresh blueberries and biwa (loquat). It’s really nice to be able to eat things from our own land when they are most fresh and delicious.
Ume sounds so good.
I had ear surgery yesterday that will hopefully help with my hearing loss and sinus drainage. I’ve been waiting for almost two years for this hoping that my country would start to cover the procedure but finally said fuck it, it’s worth it for my quality of life. Feeling like I have a head cold today, but without the sick feeling. So far I think I can hear better already but not sure if it’s just wishful thinking lol. I’m cautiously optimistic!
This is a great thread, definitely cheered me and a lot of other people up. Thanks!
My doc wants to give me draining tubes because I keep ketting liquid behind my ear drums, is that what you got? I kinda ran off because they won’t put me under / give me some xanax or anything. Scary.
Cooked my first beer can chicken today and it turned out great! Two whole chickens and a cast iron pan of cornbread on the smoker, cucumber salad, watermelon, and lemon bars for dessert. Had the ex over for dinner and she brought ex—MiL, but it was fun
Kill it! That sounds fun as hell. Added challenge; there is a dope sandwich to be made from those ingredients. Make it for your future ex.
I just started working after years of covid reclusiveness. Almost 3 months into wotking and im physically feeling better.
I bought a 75" TV last week and, as soon as I finish my CD, I am going to download a mod-ultimate version of Fallout New Vegas, and spend several months melting into my couch and playing it.
