A. H.

Ate foods. Thanks for the encouragement.

I ate some foods. It was hard to cook when so weak but it happened.

I did shakily make myself food. And I’m at least feeling a bit better.

I ate!

I used to rely on protein bars for this. But gradually became disgusted from every flavor I can eat from eating them too often. Lol.

My husband coming into my life meant regular meals cooked for me lol.

I just stood up and my feet almost gave out under me but I don’t actually feel hungry lol.

But I knew I must be because I can do math. And I’ve eaten like 400 calories today.

I have back to back meetings on Mondays for most of the day so he brings me food during my meetings most days. And now I’m too fatigued to cook for myself.

Oh also tortilla chips. I don’t really have energy to heat up food but my husband won’t be back for a couple more hours and I’ll have even less energy as things go on.

Someone make me go eat. I’ve had two pancakes and a protein bar all day because my husband was working out of the house all day and didn’t bring me food.

And the soup we were going to eat for lunch was frozen solid.

I do get a lot of resistance every so often from folks that I don’t really understand.

One of my colleagues was shocked that I was only four years younger than him and not 25… and I wonder how much people reading me as very young affects how I’m perceived and treated professionally as someone with a lot of authority and a big title.

I did not buy enough snack variety for my snack bed. Rookie mistake.

Should I get more snacks?

That was said from my Snack Bed, btw.

Mine was too… like 10 years ago when she imparted this wisdom.

Have never looked back.

I once followed a flight attendant on Instagram and I’ll never forget the advice she shared:

When you travel for work always get two double beds. Make one bed the bed you sleep in and the other bed your Snack Bed.

Genius level shit.

Exactly. And all this over a $20 canvas that she didn’t confirm she wanted or was picking up but somehow felt entitled to enough to destroy my algorithm for the last several weeks.

He did confirm 1.5 hours before she did. And I had no guaranteed way to keep him from coming since he doesn’t check messages and had our address already. She’s mad that I sold it to him and claimed I was shady as I had a deal with him when I spoke to her (after the man was a no show Tuesday).

An old man who was supposed to come pick up the item the night before and didn’t show up them messaged to say he would be there that evening (Wednesday) at 5:45 in reply to whether he still coming Tuesday night. He was obviously confused and doesn’t check marketplace much. He was driving 1.5 hours

This is what she believed constituted us “having a deal.” She said “probably” and that she would “have to confirm”. At no point did she even say she would definitively take the item. At no point did she confirm a pickup time. She was just suggesting times that could work for her if she bought it.

I sell things on fb marketplace because I support a disabled family member. My algorithm has been off lately and so I investigated.

Turns out some woman who was 1.5 hours later than someone else confirming gave me a 1 star defamatory review saying we had a deal & I sold it from her. We had no deal.

He was like, “No, I don’t need that,” and his wife was like, “what are you talking about. It’s been a nightmare and it’s finally over. Ship us the bell. We’ll take it.” Lol.

We’re going to get on FaceTime with them when he rings it.

My father in law is completing his cancer treatment this week and I insisted on shipping him a vintage bell to ring to mark the occasion since he doesn’t get to ring a bell at the cancer center.

We all need ritual and ceremony.

Yes and they aren’t visible to the eye. This is 1 inch away from the canvas
Or less. And a very small portion.

Right? That’s the exciting part but also they told us later it’s still another 2-3 weeks. Lol. So many hoops.

She also was like “I could have printed this out myself” and I just think if you own a large sized industrial printer at your home maybe use that and don’t buy prints on marketplace. 🤷‍♀️

You can kind of see faint boxes but they aren’t regular so might just be craquelure from the age of the original painting. That also can look geometric.

Imagine digitally manipulating photos of a print to show pixelation not visible to the human eye, demanding a refund and then threatening to have someone arrested for it? Because THEY’RE the scammer.

This woman threatened to get me arrested (wouldn’t have happened but she wanted to and 100% believed she could!) because I was such a scammer for selling this clearly low quality 40x30” print to her and refusing to send her a transfer back cause that’s a common scam.

So, we exchanged the item for another item today and we could not reproduce her images showing pixelation. We came close getting 1 inch away from the canvas, zooming in 2x AND playing with the lightness settings.

Her version on the left. Mine from 1 inch away and not zoomed in on the right.

Generous but also this woman threatened to return irate to my home last night with the enormous print. I was afraid of property damage. Or violence. I have had no issues with doing exchanges where I live (there’s always a dude home and my neighbours (a friends) dog but this is making me rethink.