Gerbil

Because I can

[gerbilena]

So my CEO brought in a 5000 piece puzzle and left it in the break area, and told us to have fun doing it on our breaks and lunches. Knowing myself, I refused to open the box, because I did not want to be late back from my breaks due to getting absorbed in solving the puzzle.

Then one of my coworkers opened the puzzle and started working on it.

My hyper fixation on that damn puzzle has made be late back from lunch once, caused countless close calls, and all my 15 minute breaks have actually been 20+ since the puzzle was opened.

The puzzle is not even 25% done.

[growaglow]

[wholesome-animal-images]

[anxietyproblem]

[importantcatpics]

[anxietyproblem]

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

But it taste so good..

[gerbilena]

When I was a kid, I mom would wake us up at midnight and open my bedroom window. She would give me a noisemaker and I would make a ton of noise while shouting "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" and once the moment was over she would make us go back to sleep and in the morning, we'd be in the new year like it was a fresh start.

[gerbilena]

Did everyone get what they wanted for Christmas?

[thememedaddy]

[gerbilena]

How many "lazy days" do I need to take before I make up for 20-ish years of overworking myself?

[thememedaddy]

[gerbilena]

White Elephant gift exchanges are fun until the runners make the rule that the person who went first can switch gifts with anyone they want at the end, and the Jack and Coke set you thought you were bringing home suddenly turns into a water bottle.

[brothertedd-deactivated20240822]

[thewickedwilds]

Me when its 1 day after Halloween and the capitalists are already blasting the christmas sale commercials

[gerbilena]

I'm nagging at you

to get yourself in line

It's so frustrating to be your villain

all because you don't care about yourself

I hate that I have to be mean

to get you to want to live

I've had to plan a future without you

at your own insistence

unwilling to change

I don't want to treat you this way

but you've left me no choice

I don't want you to die before me

but I don't think I have much time with you left

you've one foot in the grave

And I am left

Wishing I was enough for you to change

don't lie to me

If I was enough

you wouldn't be where you are

you cry

and your tears offer

cheap platitudes

words of love

placating I've heard before

cheap words

broken promises

heavy hearts

harsh words

need to be said

please understand

I love you

but I can't watch you anymore

worry in silence

quiet anxieties

I don't want to make plans without you

but you leave me no choice

hear my love

in sad words

and try

please try

[wholesome-animal-images]

[greeniery]

[gerbilena]

I am deathly afraid of masks...my desk neighbor at work has been talking for the past month about how much she loves Halloween and is excited to wear a scary costume for work...I think I'm going to die on Friday