This meme might be ironic, but, no joke, this is both fucking adorable and also kinda the point of life.
The little things that you like, that make your every day brighter. Just go and get them.
Honestly! I’m only in my twenties but this meme is so me rn. My fiancee and I are such homebodies with our cats lol
As a homebody I’m curious, how did you meet your fiancee?
It came with the cat.
That sounds like fun, until your cat gets pregnant and you end up with 5 fiancees
Came with, not in.
You can’t rule out that each cat they care for, or are owned by, comes with its own fiancee.
We lived on the same floor in college. I was a little more outgoing as a freshman, but nowadays I simply enjoy our cozy little home.
Small pleasures like this are what I Iive for.
(Although I’m not a fan of the green tea that my Costco carries, so I don’t buy my tea there.)
Frankly, asides from supporting local business, there isn’t much reason not to get tea from online specialty purveyors these days. It’s not terribly expensive to ship the stuff.
You better be a fan of Earl Grey, or I’m telling Miles.
Personally, I actually went and bought a coffee maker that I actually use for tea, and due to the settings on it, it’s the perfect brew every time.
Whenever I want, just toss some loose tea into the top, hit the right size button for my cup and enjoy my favorite plants.
That sounds awesome. So it steeps the tea enough?
I unironically love earl grey. It’s one of my favorites that I always have on hand.
It came with a few nesting pieces going from a k cup style, fine mesh for instant coffee, and a larger cup for other things I’m not certain of.
The instant coffee mesh on it makes the water stay around the tea long enough for a pretty nice brew. If you add slightly more tea than needed, you can fill a cup with ice for perfect ice tea.
Same. I usually keep a couple sealed bags for an individual cup in my pack, so If I get the chance away from home, I can have some of the good stuff.
It’s gotten kind of expensive near me though, I need to find somewhere I can buy bulk loose tea.
I’ve been working at reducing my caffeine intake off and on for a bit. And thought I’d share a similar thing that I recently discovered. My wife got me a tea advent calendar from Adagio for the holiday and one of them was called “chicoriccino”. It’s a chicory-based coffee alternative with caffeine only from cocoa nibs.
Good flavor, though I’d never claim it’s a “coffee replacement”, just a beverage with a similar flavor category (like apples and nectarines). The big game changer for me was discovering that it brews very nicely in my overly-fancy drip machine and at the same ratios as coffee. So, I can just use my regular coffee scoop and get a nice, no-effort brew. Definitely recommended for anyone who likes coffee-like things.
What’s one of the small pleasures that brighten your world?
Lately? Chess. I’ve been playing a little bit every day, and I find it so relaxing and calming. I use chess puzzles on my phone to put me to sleep every night.
The idea the my life is so low stress that I can enjoy simple pleasures? That’s the dream.
I’d like the low-stress part.
Guys only want one thing and it’s fucking disgusting
someone to go to costco with 😢
There’s no way those 2 are in their 40s… Or maybe “just”. Not enough little lines around the eyes.
Those are 25 year-olds.
That’s what green tea does to you.
The girl doesn’t look 40, but I’m 42 and the guy looks older than me.
The magic of not having kids.
Your fifties is where you have already bought everything cool at Costco and start regularly checking your toilet for signs of needing to be changed.
As a 30 YO with a perfectly functional toilet, but the bowl awkwardly is 1/2" larger than the seat… This hits too close to home.
I need to clean it constantly or have urine splatter on my legs when it’s time for a #2.
go buy a replacement seat, after measuring. sounds like you got round instead of oval shaped. its a $20 problem.
Nope, both are oval, the ceramic is just a larger oval than any seat I can find.
You can buy different sizes of oval. Highly recommend looking again
This was my best laugh of the day. I’m looking forward to a trip to a book store tomorrow. I wanna confirm an author’s position on the topic before I buy it.
That reminds me that I need to go to the library this weekend.
And don’t forget they have a really great deal on bananas.
Hell yeah.
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can confirm. in your 40s you lose your edge.
You were edging for 40 years?
gotta do what the Wife sez, right? She may have to twist on the nipple clamps a little harder to sharpen things up again.
Honestly my forties have been some of the best, most adventurous years of my life. I truly appreciate the important things in life, and I have the means to do things I couldn’t when I was younger.
I’m in my forties and I think every milestone decade has been better than the last. I also wholeheartedly agree with the above statements. I hope you continue to do the things that make you happy and carry on your enjoyment of them :)
Same. I’m currently trying my best to lay the groundwork to greet my 50s in as good shape as possible.
I turned 40 last year. All I got was fired.
I’m not a fan so far.
It happens, funny thing is, you should have enough experience and be young enough for it to be pretty easy to get a new job and probably a better one. Sometimes these things end up being blessings in disguise…
I did get a new job, but the time unemployed wrecked my financial situation.
It’s been rough.
Aw, man that’s hard. sorry to hear. You’ll be back in a good place soon.
Hopefully. I’m in a position of needing to replace some equipment, it’s not cheap. I’m currently too leveraged to buy it on credit, but I only have about a month before what I currently have becomes essentially useless.
I need to find about $3000 dollars to do it, and I’m kind of out of options.
Once that’s taken care of, I can coast and pay bills until something else breaks.
I will say that the new job is fantastic. The people are good, my employer seems to be going in a good direction and they’re clearly growing. I did have to take a small pay cut with this job, only about 3%, but I like the job a lot more, and I’m dropping about 3-4k/yr in expenses. The previous job didn’t pay for parking near the office and didn’t have a parking lot for employees to use. The new job is also WFH, so most of the savings are from gas and parking. In a way, I’m taking more money “home” at the end of the day. Definitely a positive move, but I’m still stuck with a lot of credit card and other debts from my time unemployed, so I’m having difficulty keeping everything paid.
Hopefully I find some money to replace that equipment, and I can settle into a routine to pay back all the losses from being unemployed.
can’t remember the comedian, but his flex was “I buy my pants at Costco”
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Agreed on the shorts. I found this pair of costco shorts on the ground awhile ago and i love them
How are those 15$ pants produced?
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My guess is that they are made by semi-slaves in a developing country.
I’m 39, and this but entirely unironically. Think about your teens and twenties, and all the incredible shit that was happening. The parties, the music, the friends and new experiences that you look back on now wistfully. The world felt so big and new. But then take a second to think about how you actually felt. You were really unhappy a lot of the time, weren’t you? I certainly was. I spent what were supposed to be the “best” years of my life pissy, moody, convinced that the whole world was full of things that I was missing out on and obsessed with finding “authenticity” in myself and, and this is the shitty part, disproving authenticity in others.
Now I’m nearly but not entirely sober, I have a steady group of friends and an incredible partner, and I spend my life mostly doing whatever I want to whenever I want. It’s just that what I want has changed. I’m thrilled on an average Sunday to wake up, put on an audiobook and immediately start cooking dinner. I like mowing my lawn and tending to my garden in the evenings. Going to the grocery store with my partner is just the best, we pal around and make each other laugh and get hype about little specials. Who I am has changed, what I want has changed, and I’m realizing that it was never anything external to me. I’ve just become the kind of person who is capable of being happy. My world has gotten smaller, more familiar and so much brighter.
I’m almost 30. I never partied. I still don’t have friends to look forward too. I was unhappy then. I am still unhappy a lot of times now, but there are a lot of happier times. My life will continue to be pathetic tho, but I’ll just continue to age. Not all of us have the best years of our life as we’re older.
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’m “just going to nip and speak to the customer service lot about renewing my membership” just to get a hotdog and coke, and a pizza to take home.
It feels like I’ve “saved” £30 each time.
you dont need to have a membership to get their hotdog and coke and pizza.
We are obsessed with quantity, but I never hear a good review beyond 50 irl, just a list of pain.
I’ve seen some cool shit and tolerated more than my share of strife. First chronic health problem, I’m out. I’d rather choose when then have it chosen for me.
It’s selfish of the people in your life to expect you to suffer for them until that suffering finally consumes you whole.
Considering my retirement is essentially whenever I decide to buy a gun I agree with this.
I’ve been forced to be alive this whole time for my family, but once I hit a medical “wall” I’m out and I just hope whoever is left can understand I can only suffer for so many decades lol
I feel more or less the same, and agree that we should respect people’s end-of-life wishes.
But FWIW pain management has come a long way. When your doctor first brings you bad news, don’t make assumptions, ask lots of questions and get the details.
i mean, i hear you on choosing your end, but i have known some folks who enjoyed later life. my mom died suddenly a couple years ago, and she confessed to me over the last couple years that she was ready to go when her time came. that said, i think she was happier in her early 70’s than i had ever known her to be otherwise. and my family certainly doesn’t have money to smooth the way.
i think she just decided to make the most of it, made an effort to enjoy her community and stayed super active. i’m hoping i will handle aging as well as she did.
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Dude. That actually sounds dope.
Green tea is best freshly brewed, it probably is the same cost between that case and some good quality loose leaf. Cute sentiment though :)
I should really do loose leaf more. It’s just so easy to pop in a tea bag.
Highly recommend getting a cup that has a infuser made specifically for it. Makes it almost as easy as a teabag but 100x the quality. I just got a new tin of super good earl grey and it is astounding how much better it is than bagged tea.
I’ll have to do some shopping…
I find it just as easy to spoon some tea into the tetsubin. Eschew inferior tea.
