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partofme

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  1. As a Chandler/Monica fan, I always hated how their wedding episode was all about Rachel.
  2. I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s when I was 13 years old. I’ve always been skinny and have never had weight issues. Hashimoto’s runs in my family, my mom and all three of my siblings have it and only my mom has weight issues. My mom made the pediatrician test me when I was 13 because I had a large bulge in my throat, at least for a girl and my younger brother had already been diagnosed with it. All I really know is that my thyroid apparently doesn’t work, that I have to take synthroid (or levothyroxine) for the rest of my life and that I have to have my blood tested every year.
  3. I have a strong preference for remote work which is what my last job was. I see no benefit to having to go into the office. Unfortunately I was laid off and need a job and most of the ones I see advertised are hybrid, requiring three days in the office which is ridiculous but I may have no choice.
  4. Is this thread just about Medicare or insurance in general? I was wondering if anyone has ever had Cobra, and if it is worth the $800 a month (plus extra if I want vision or dental) that I would have to pay? I have until April 29 to decide and I’m hoping to have a job by then but I’m currently without insurance and it’s scary.
  5. The daily migraine medicine that I take advertises that you can get it for $0 a month, which is what I was paying when I had health insurance but apparently having health insurance is a requirement for their savings program allowing you to get it for $0 a month. I looked on goodrx and it tells me I have to pay $1126 at their “discounted” rate without insurance.
  6. No I haven’t, but I think I need to speak to a person, either at TurboTax or an accountant. I worked for the same company the whole year and they sent me 3 different W2s. I’ve never gotten anything like this before. The NY and NJ state tax portion are both showing me amortization forms and the whole thing is a mess.
  7. Mine is currently filing taxes. I’ve always used TurboTax, but I moved states in October and it’s turning into a nightmare. It wants to know how much of my income was earned in my old state, and then the new state is claiming I owe them more than I am getting back from the federal government. I admit that I may owe them something because when my employer stopped taking nyc taxes out of my paycheck they didn’t replace it with any other taxes but I don’t think I owe that much for three months. I’ve never hired a tax person and don’t know how to go about doing that but I may have to.
  8. They brought her back a while ago but only Gibbs and Bishop knew. Ziva is my all-time favorite female character and I used to ship Tiva hard so I’m torn on this, it just feels like something that would have been relevant ten years ago.
  9. I used to be. a huge Tony/Ziva shipper but I’m not sure if I want this. On the plus side at least Cote would be working.
  10. I figured out the issue was with my settings. I don’t know if LinkedIn updated something or more likely I messed it up last week because I needed to make myself more visible after I got laid off. But I didn’t want to make myself that visible.
  11. My current peeve is that I think LinkedIn got rid of the feature that allowed you to click on someone’s profile without them knowing that you viewed it. And previously I had my profile set up so that people not connected to me could only see my last initial but not my last name but I changed this last week after I got laid off. Then I accidentally clicked on a profile of someone I went to high school with, I had no idea it would tell her it was me but apparently it did and she wrote me asking how I am and I don’t know how or if I want to reply, there’s a reason I’m not on Facebook.
  12. I’m glad someone else heard this, because this more than anything is what convinces me of his guilt.
  13. So it seems like since 2014 New York State doesn’t allow you to receive severance and unemployment benefits at the same time if the amount of the severance is more than the unemployment would be. So I don’t think I can apply for a while? I hope I’ll get a new job long before my severance runs out because I won’t have health insurance after the end of this month, and I have prescriptions I need for my thyroid and for migraines and I don’t want to have to get Cobra. I have some former coworkers who have been nice and trying to help me with job leads, so I’m trying to be hopeful that networking will work and I’ll get something soon, but I don’t have a great history with applying for jobs and actually getting interviews so it worries me but I’m trying to stay positive for now and hoping something good will come out of this.
  14. The unemployment thing is really confusing. I’ve lived in NJ since October, but the New Jersey unemployment website says if you physically worked in another state that you should apply for unemployment in that state. The company I worked for is located in nyc but I’ve worked remote since 2020 and was in the office once in all of 2023, but I think I need to apply in New York.
  15. Thanks but I don’t have a biology degree, science was never my strong suit. I believe in science, it’s just not me. No I haven’t, I am going to get several weeks severance so I hadn’t even thought of that.
  16. I got laid off today. Hope I’ll find a new job fast, don’t know what I’m gonna do otherwise.
  17. I started watching NCIS in season 5 and it quickly became my favorite show during the Ziva years. Ziva is probably my all-time favorite female character, I thought she kicked ass, and I was a huge Tony/Ziva shipper. The way Cote left the show always seemed suspect to me, I was never completely sure it was her choice, which soured me on the show for a while. I think the show today is a pale comparison of what it once was. I loved Criminal Minds for the first few seasons but then it became nothing but torture porn for me and I couldn’t stand to watch it. Unlike NCIS, it wasn’t a show where I felt much connection to the characters. Northern Exposure debuted while I was still in high school and we didn’t have cable and there weren’t a lot of options on tv. I remember being bored out of my mind by it.
  18. This is me too, Charmin Ultra Soft is the only tp I will ever buy. I don't like the new wavy edge, the old way was better.
  19. New York now requires that employers list salary in job ads. Sometimes they list a big range, but at least I can see what the low end is and if it’s more than what I’m currently making.
  20. Yes I do. Yes as far as I’m concerned these are all pronounced differently.
  21. I used to ship House/Cuddy. The show writers really did a terrible job with them.
  22. What show/pairing did you write about previously? And what types of shows do you like to watch? My problem is I want to read the fic but I don’t want to write it myself. I don’t think I’m a strong writer. I wrote 9 stories for Friends (Chandler/Monica) back around 2004-2005 but I don’t think my writing is very good, some of my one offs were okay but anything more ambitious that I attempted I abandoned. The pair I’m currently obsessed with are from a show that ended in 2015 but I only discovered it in 2020. They have a decent amount of stories on ff.net and at one point there were several strong writers but most have since stopped writing. There’s really only one writer who updates maybe once a month. There was another who was still updating a few stories, she was always busy with work earlier this year which kept her from updating more frequently, no idea what happened to her but she hasn’t updated since June so I’m not too hopeful. And I don’t think I can even attempt to write this one myself, they’re from a British show so the cultural differences intimidate me on top of my not liking my writing.
  23. I’m not sure if you need to download an app, maybe I’m old but I went directly to the website.
  24. I’ve been so desperate for new fics about the couple I ship that I broke down and asked AI to write some for me.(I think what made me do it was I received an email notification from ff.net that there was a new fic and couldn’t find it and realized it was because an author I follow had written a fic for another show). It’s been interesting. The AI fics aren’t great, some are okay, but they’re pretty generic and feel like they could have been written for any couple. It’s weird because the AI knows what both of their jobs are and what city they live in and that they were friends for a long time before they became a couple, but other things it’s gotten wrong like it got his accent wrong in one story and got her eye color wrong in one story and said she had dark hair in another (she’s blonde). Also one time to my prompt it said that while it could write my story it was against the show’s canon to write them as a couple ( they became a couple in the show’s seventh season and remained a couple when the show ended). It seems to have a general awareness of the show but has no idea of the storylines and when I asked about things that happened in specific episodes it was clear it didn’t know what I was talking about.
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