OK, I often say I live in a mid-cost of living area… perhaps I live in a low-cost of living area. Wow, that’s a lot. I’m so sorry! That seems stressful.
That increase is close to my annual itself.
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Yeah, it’s a lot 
We do have so much more house than you, though!
The crazy thing is that our home probably has one of the lowest taxes on our street (it’s complicated and goes back to a tax measure from 1995 that set a baseline assessed value). So I have something to be grateful for. (And thank you thank you Assessor for not re-assessing after the renovation, maybe you’re not doing your job properly but I’m not complaining!)
Thankfully we can afford it, because we love this house so much and the location is amazing!
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Nooooo, I just lost a 1400 day Duolingo streak because I got lost watching reels on Instagram 
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Oh fuck
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Everytime I have taken a business comfort uber lately (at least last 5) and set my preference to “quiet preferred” the driver has tried to speak with me the entire ride despite my 1 word answers! Grrrr!
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Fun fact, 5% of kids get a measles rash after getting an MMR booster. (7-12 days later). Guess whose kid spent all weekend looking like a measles patient from Ye Days of Olde? (And pooping. Lots of pooping. Poor kid). I know this technically qualifies as a “mild” vaccine side effect but damn if a head to toe multi day rash doesn’t feel mild right now.
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I tried, but I couldn’t make it. Turned on the heat before November.
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I’ve alternated heat and air conditioning and open windows since September. 
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I miss fat Lana Del Rey
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My kid insists on calling our grape cutter the “plunge cutter” which would be fine except she can’t accurately pronounce: hard c. L. P. J. T. Which is uh. Most of the sounds of those words. It ALWAYS takes us like 6 guesses and she’ll never just show us or use another term 
like why. Why kid. Just point to it for the love of god
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I’m trying to imagine what she is saying and tbh it’s pretty funny
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One of the biggest issues is that it changes 
since she’s TRYING to get some of those noises, it varies what sound comes out for each one. Something akin to “bun tuttuh” would probably be most often if I tried to write it out.
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My fall planting of yellow crookneck squash just gave up and died of a mildew and/or fungal infection in the middle of a drought. It’s definitely not been too cold for summer squash yet. They just chose sudden death over giving me any squash.
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After 20 minutes of repeating that a test failed because the board had no power, the guy I was talking to exclaimed: “Oh, there’s no power!”
YES, SIR, THAT’S THE THING IVE BEEN TELLING YOU FOR 19 OF THE LAST 20 MINUTES. (the first minute was…checking for power)
The other guy he pulled into the meeting to “help explain” (and who’s a friend of mine and kept repeating “<kenner> has already explained the issue, what isn’t clear?”) suggested that next time I lead with “electrons go bye-bye” and see if that gets the point across.
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Benefits meeting today at work. Everything is getting more expensive, and benefits are getting worse. What a surprise! 
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Same!
I just came here to complain about them saying things like “really generous benefits.” Some of them still are genuinely good benefits but it sounds like they’re digging for compliments and it’s gross.
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Do we work for the same company? 
Our meeting was so over the top peppy, imagine someone smiling while saying “your OOP max is going from $7K to $9k this year. LOL!”
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One of the companies I worked with was like that. It was actually very generous … as long as you were perfectly healthy. And didn’t need anything ever. And pretend other countries with better quality/lower cost health care don’t exist. But besides all that, great.
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We have a 6% company match on our 401k which is on the upper end of what most companies offer, but saying “a generous 6% match” makes it sound like they’re factory owners in the 1800’s and we should thanking them for letting us have a job
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I am just saying, you know where I work and our benefits are genuinely staying the same or getting better! We don’t do a 6% match though.
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