Is this the complaint thread or the NON-complaint-thread. Well, I guess this works either way.
Someone keeps spilling their puppies on my floor!
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Smiling and a little teary eyed.
An ex co-worker reached out to me, JUST to tell me how much they miss working with me, and that āyou were the person who was able to understand our thoughts and problems.
ā At my old job I worked at a global manufacturing company and was super pals with all the folks on the international teams. Apparently, theyāre all missing me like crazy because I actually listened to them and didnāt treat them like they knew less, and genuinely cared about them all. I had no idea this went so far to connect with people, but Iām NEVER going to stop doing it for sure now. 
Itās breaking my heart a little since I was laid off and didnāt actually want to leave all these lovely folks behind. I miss the heck out of them! But itās really heartwarming that here almost a month after I was laid off Iām still hearing from one or two of my international buddies at least once a week. And itās really heartwarming that theyāre missing me, because Iām missing them too.
Bittersweet is the term, I think.
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My boss was actually sobbing when he had to lay a bunch of us off recently. That sucked. I normally engage XTRA CALLOUS mode when Iām laid off, just to cope, but I couldnāt in this case, even though heās still employed. Heās a genuinely good person. Yay for good people, I guess.
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I cried my eyes out practically non-stop my last 3 days. I hate that I get so attached to people. But I guess it was nice that this time they got attached back? Sigh. Layoffs suck.
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I am a dog person. I grew up with a pack of dogs. We chase cats up trees.
This is Mingus. She thinks sheās a dog. Her best buddy was Angus, a huge chocolate lab doofus. After Angus died, I was chosen as her substitute Angus, and my cat-reticence just made her more determined, because thatās cats. I can give her belly rubs and mess with her teeth and claws, and she just purrs louder. Nobody else is afforded this affection, sheāll shred them. So I guess I have a cat now.
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Today is my 13th wedding anniversary!
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Congratulations! May the next 13 years be EVEN BETTER! Wishing you a lifetime of joy and happiness!
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You have been picked!
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I had to look it up - the customary material for this anniversary is Lace. How nice!
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Hmph. Iāll deny everything.
āDAV help, your cat is doing X!ā
āImpossible, I do not have a cat.ā
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Heās a dog, and his name is Mingus.
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My family had a habit of adopting neighborhood strays, and one day we took in a big gray tabby and named him Aten (we named our homed strays after Egyptian gods/goddesses). He immediately picked my dad as his person, and this cat had NO IDEA he was a cat. He thought he was a dog. His tag read āDadās Cat Dog.ā 
The only cat thing he did was purr like a revving engine!
That cat was something elseā¦still miss 'im.
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I think I mentioned in the Pets thread that my partnerās Dachshund, Archer, thinks heās a cat. He was raised around cats and sheās always been a cat person until she got him. When he was a pup he even had a sound he would make that was his attempt at purring. To this day he canāt stand other dogs but loves cats.
āMeow, yāall.ā
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Mingus Dew?
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Well, helloooooo consumer, yes hellooooooo consumer!
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
What kind of puppies?? The one in back looks like a Rottie but that wouldnāt explain the white bits. Bernies? Swiss Mt dogs? Mutts?
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Alaskan Husky/German Shepherd mixes.
Mostly just lumps of floof at this point.
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Saw my neighborhood cat that lives a block away from me. His name is Jack.
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I made it to Wisconsin and, after an unloading that left me drenched in sweat and nearly falling over with exhaustion (my sisters helped with the unloading, and some people from my church helped, but the people from my church were only there an hour after we started), all my stuff is in my apartment but Iām staying the next couple of nights in a nice hotel with my sisters and my niece until they leave.
So Iām not precisely smiling at this point, but I am relieved to have everything unloaded so that the organizing can begin. Tomorrow. After Iāve slept.
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Glad you got there safe. Now to start a new adventure!
(and the hotel has a hot shower, a good bed, and, most importantly, room service!)
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