LaunchesKayaks

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[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The safest place in my house is a closet in my finished basement. When the tornado that fucked up my foundation extra bad hit, I was in this tiny ass, pitch dark closet with two panicking dogs and the whole house shook and it sounded like a train was in the house with me. I thought I was going to die. Best part is that I was asleep when the tornado alert came through my phone. I booked it downstairs in 30 seconds. Found out later that the tornado was on the ground before the alert went off

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

That's a crazy temp drop omg. And I'm already packing up important nonessentials to store at my parents' place. This week is supposed to be good weather-wise until Wednesday, then we're getting more storms. I've gotten like 10.5 inches of rain in the past month alone. The retaining wall beside my house is starting to bow and crack because the ground is expanding so much from the rain. There's just no drainage for this much water. I'm also on a hill, so I'm not even getting the worst of it all. Most of the water rolling down the road misses me entirely.

It is, but I'm sure you're aware of how fucked all insurance is in the US 💀

 
[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fahrenheit 451. I started noticing increasing censorship and the growing intentional denial of knowledge and learning more and more. It's terrifying.

 

A tornado spawned essentially on top of my house in June and applied enough torque to fuck up my foundation. One corner of my house is coming off now. I'm fighting my homeowners insurance to cover it and I have a foundation expert coming out tomorrow to give me estimates for the costs of repairs. My cousin from ohio knows all about real estate, so he gave me and my mom so many tips for how to get the insurance to cover it. I requested a new adjuster for a second opinion yesterday and one should be contacting me next week.

This whole thing has me freaking out and more severe storms have rolled through and made it worse. The whole right side of my house has shifted on top of the one corner coming off. Found more cracks in the wall of the finished basement today. We had a crazy storm yesterday, which probably cause the cracks.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Man, idek how to fuck around at this point. I'm doing way too much finding out lately.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Lmao my immediate thought was AI when a .NET update broke the Cambria font recently

 
[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Who do I contact to rectify this debt

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I mean there are pretty ruthless horse people, but not many are like that. Everyone I know goes above and beyond for their horses. My mare was considered a lost cause by many when I met her two years ago. I spent those two years rehabbing her and becoming her bestie and now she's in incredible shape physically and mentally. 10/10 worth the effort. I'll probably only get a couple more years with her because she's very old, but she living an exceptionally wonderful life now and that's all that matters to me. I want her to have the best old age she can. She's had a hard life and deserves to live out the rest of her days in comfort and happiness

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago (4 children)
 
[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's doomed as in they'll die with most bad leg injuries. Horses cant support themselves on 3 legs. They're just too big. There was a foal with 3 legs that lived for a couple years and made its round on social media, but it was eventually put down because it just grew too large. Poor thing should have been put down immediately because the life it lived was of terrible quality despite getting specialized care.

I've seen a few horses get put down for a bad leg injury. Almost had to put down my childhood mare after she fucked up her leg in a fence. She made a full recovery, but it took almost a year for it to heal. Her leg got caught in the wire fence and it got shredded to the bone. It was awful, but she was able to stand on it enough to keep herself upright and all that, so we decided to try to get it healed and were miraculously successful

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

She looks better than she did lol. Spent 2 years rehabbing her. She's also old as fuck, so she'll always look a lil yee yee ass

 

I had to drop off her supplements and I wanted to say hi. She made a noise at me lol.

I go to a concussion clinic tomorrow for the lingering symptoms. Nausea, visual weirdness with certain things, and headaches. The most annoying thing is the visual shit because it makes my work hard because text gets fuzzy and warps after looking at it for a while. Being outside in the day is fine as long as I have sunglasses on, so I can safely drive while the sun is out. I do it as little as possible though. Driving at night is a big no-go. Drove a little at night on Saturday and it was awful. Almost had to call my parents for a ride at one point. I pulled over and closed my eyes for a few minutes and that reset everything and I was able to get home.

I am hoping this vision bs can be fixed. I'm worried I did permanent damage to my occipital lobe because that's the part of my head that hit the ground.

My hobbies are also limited. I can't play video games very much or look at memes for long, so I've gotten back into drawing and doing cross stitch.

 

Totally nobody's fault. She stepped on the toe of my boot by mistake and I stepped back to free my foot and I just kept going backwards. Smacked the back of my head on the ground so hard it bounced and my glasses flew off my face. I sat up and was pretty dazed and just sat on the ground for a bit to get my bearings. Then my vision got weird when I stood and I got hella barfy. Had my stepfather take me to the hospital and a friend put Sandy back into pasture for me. Sandy was very concerned when I was on the ground and wasn't standing up right away. She was also super upset that I wasn't the one taking her back to pasture and kind of threw a fit. The other folks there think she didn't want to leave me because I'm injured.

I also have epilepsy and according to my stepfather, I seem pretty fucked up and the hospital I went to really didn't take things seriously. Everything has been a blur tbh, which prolly ain't good.. I'm not having seizures afaik, but my concussion is obviously more than mild. My mom is going to take me to get a second opinion in the morning at a hospital associated with my neurologist.

Replying to comments will prolly be delayed, as screens hurt to look at and typing is nearly impossible because of my vision being weird.

I'll def update y'all at some point though!

 
 

He and my other dog shredded it while I was on a work call. They're going to be getting blankets to sleep on while I'm working from now on

 

I made him wait three whole hours before I went to bed. He was ready at 7:30 but I was not. (I know, I'm an awful dog mom lol) He spent those three hours staring at the steps longingly.

Lil dude is the ranked competitive sleep world champ.

He has a fancy dog bed and an entire recliner to sleep on in the living room, but he just wanted to be in my bed with me holding him. His fave way to cuddle is to be little spoon. I call it baby spoon because he's my baby. He likes it so much, that he knows the command "be baby spoon".

He's so great. And dramatic. And just an all around 100000% USDA certified good boy.

 

Sandy even brought him over to me to meet me! It was so sweet! I'm gonna be so sad when Five goes back to racing. I hope Sandy doesn't get too heartbroken. She has trouble making horsey friends.

 

Lowkey jealous of his mane. Wish I had hair that fabulous.

 

Also, I got an inquiry about Sandy merch. Would any of y'all be interested in that? I was thinking of stickers to start off.

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