@elricbrothersfan:

I don't do coffee that much.
I'll do the Starbuvks Doubleshots and some stuff like that.

@Kazamas-Keyblade:

God. I can't do caffeine when it comes to coffee, but I do like the Starbucks Refreshers drinks. Those are my go-tos, and 5 hour energy.

I can imagine you'd crash pretty hard, yeah.

@Keba Si Rota:

Candied ginger sounds lovely! Sounds like it turned out very nicely. :D

RIP Keba's leftovers, 2017-2017

@elricbrothersfan:

I recently discovered the wonders of caffeine and use it as a last-resort for such situations.

I don't know how I survived the next day, but as soon as I was done with school I crashed super hard.

@elricbrothersfan:

Here's what happened with the sweet potatoes: The Thanksgiving portion was topped with candied ginger. I put marshmallows on the leftovers... and burned them.

@Kazamas-Keyblade:

Wow. Closest I've come to an all-nighter was staying up until about 2am, and I was dead afterwards. I don't know how you do it!

@Keba Si Rota:

Fair. It does eat data like it's going out of style. And to be honest, I probably waste way too much of my time on it. I'll send you messages on Discord when I wanna catch up with you, then!

It's not your fault! I haven't really talked about it a lot lately, so I don't blame you for forgetting. It seems to be working, which I'm thankful for.

If you've got enough leftovers, why not make tiny sweet potato pies in the individual pie size? Then you could do marshmallows on some of them, and it wouldn't be so many extra calories. Plus, you get homemade pie baking experience points, and a bonus for creative use of leftovers.

Aww, that stinks that it was so stressful. I'm sorry! I know secondhand embarrassment/frustration is just as uncomfortable as firsthand.

@elricbrothersfan:

Truth is that I haven't been on Tumblr much. It's a significant time-waster for me. Plus, I usually access it on my phone and it probably eats up a lot of my data. Which is not good.

What I have been on lately is Discord because theO's chat is there. I know you said you wanted to avoid Discord a while back. Do you still feel that way?

I hope that over-the-counter stuff works just as well for you as prescription medication would. I totally forgot about the money thing. I'm very sorry.

I won't be doing the marshmallows this time. There will be enough calories without it. Then again, I made so much of the sweet potatoes that I have some left over. Maybe I could stick marshmallows in that.

Something tells me that won't fit too well on that particular Tumblr. It was as much our fault as it was theirs. No one was laughing in the background. We were more flustered than anything. At least that's how I felt. And I wasn't even part of the conversation!

@elricbrothersfan:

True, it is hard to appreciate stuff like that if you haven't been exposed to it.

That was my second time so far (for this year at least, I've done it a few times before) and I'm surprised I haven't procrastinated more than that.

@Kazamas-Keyblade:

That sounds really cool! I wish they taught effective studying methods and tools in, like, middle school. It'd save a lot of people a lot of time and pain.

Ouch! I've yet to pull an all-nighter for college, but I've certainly stayed up late to get stuff done. You deserve a good night's sleep tonight!

@elricbrothersfan:

It was a presentation for my learning strategies class.
It's pretty much a class that focuses on effective study tools, and one of the lessons was about perseverance, so I chose a FMA quote.

Pfft, I had that presentation, and 2 papers due today...
Didn't even start them until last night, so I was up all night!

@Kazamas-Keyblade:

Nice! What was your presentation on, if I may ask?

And also, I just submitted a seven and a half page paper on the topic of memes. I am incredibly proud of myself for proving millennials are mostly garbage memes walking around in trench coats //slapped

I used a quote from FMA for my presentation today...if that makes any connection.

@Keba Si Rota:

Keba!! I was wondering where you'd been, too. Usually we keep in touch via tumblr, but it's been a while.

It's not that I have problems with oral medication, per se. Just that I can't afford going to a doctor and getting a prescription, whereas the topical creams are over the counter and comparatively cheap. Thankfully, it worked to stop most of the pain after I woke up feeling like my toe was on fire, and I think it's started to reverse the discoloration. I hope I caught it just in time to clear it up quickly!

Ooh! Mashed sweet potatoes sound yummy. Do you make them casserole-style with the marshmallows?

That's really weird and funny. Maybe you should submit that story to the "clients from hell" tumblr, I think it'd fit pretty well. Was it hard to hold back laughter? It just seems so absurd XD

Hi Elricz! I was thinking about you yesterday, so I'm glad to have an update.

Sorry to hear about your various illnesses. What problems do you have with oral medication? At least it's better than subcutaneous.

I can't think of too many extraordinarily happy things that have happened to me, but I made mashed sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving. Or rather, I'm in the process of making them. I did all the prep work yesterday, and I'll be baking them on the actual day of.

Also, something crazy happened at work today. The team I'm on was testing the website of one of our clients. So, one of my coworkers accidentally Skyped the client's help line and didn't know how to "hang up", and there was this lady on the other end that thought he was a customer! The crazy thing was that everyone in the office could hear the back-and-forth. Even after we tried to explain that we were QA analysts testing their site, and that the call was an accident, the lady insisted that we give her our name to schedule an appointment. It was really strange.

I don't even know if I should have told you that. I guess since I'm not naming any names, I can go and post this. So yeah.