greenmangostudio

Honestly, this is more of a "Today I Stopped Fucking UP" but I wanted to make the post anyway, especially if it can inspire some folks to go. So, I think my last dental cleaning/check-up/whatever you call it was when I was 12 or 13 years old. Dental hygiene wasn't ever firmly enforced on me growing up and as a shithead pre-teen I found out I could get away without doing it with just a few work arounds. Parents didn't find out or really care when they did catch me, and I created a bad habit that followed me MUCH too far into my adult life. Flash forward to now, in my early 30s. Two teeth that have broken/shattered over the years (unfortunately they both happened when I didn't have dental insurance) that I just face-tanked. The SEARING and MISERABLE pain of exposed nerves that stuck around for years, the self-lancing of multiple abscesses, having the side of my face swell up like a balloon just before a flight - that I ended up popping and draining while in the ...

Hi all. Obligatory not today, but this happened yesterday. So my boyfriend and I had been planning a ski trip to blue mountain PA for a couple weeks. It was both our first times skiing and we were super excited! We decided against renting snowboards because we weren’t sure if we were up to the challenge (and thank god for that). Skip to the day of the trip (yesterday). We get there, we are geared up to the brim in layers, heavy awkward boots, huge snow pants and tight helmets with goggles. Carrying around awkward heavy skis and poles, I’m hot and completely over stimulated. Everything was about 10 times more uncomfortable than I predicted it would be, putting me into a somewhat sour mood until we would get to the slopes and it would all be worth it. We approach the bottom of the mountain. After checking the map several times, we’re still confused on where to go. My boyfriend suggests we just hop onto the closest lift and hope for the best! Trial by fire being the best way to learn ...

My wife Marge 29F and I 31M have a 5 month old daughter Maggie (names changed for privacy). I am currently working at a office located only 7 minutes from home, and often come home for lunch so I can spend more time with our daughter. Yesterday, I was eating my lunch and Marge offers me a jello cup, which gave me a brilliant idea. I asked Marge for a straw, to which my wife rolled her eyes (she knew what was coming) but obliged and grabbed me a straw out of the pantry. I grab the straw and start sucking Jello out of the cup using the straw as a way to make Maggie laugh. It worked, maybe a little too well, because Maggie was laughing the cutest hysterical baby laugh I had ever heard. I sucked up one more line of jello out of the cup, and her laugh made me laugh just as I sucked the jello up and the jello went back out the wrong way: my nose. I immediately knew I fucked up. I felt the globs of jello stuck in my nasal cavity, and it was burning like crazy. I started coughing uncontro...

I was at a home improvement store with my girlfriend roleplaying as boring suburban homeowners because we think it is hilarious, and I jokingly said "I just want to build a life with you and maybe tile a backsplash someday" she laughed and said that almost sounded like a proposal, so my dumbass, thinking I was being so clever, grabbed a random washer ring off the shelf, dropped to one knee in the lighting aisle, and fake proposed as a bit, except she said yes with full teary eyed sincerity, and now I am just standing there holding a rubber washer ring, her mom is already blowing up her phone asking if she can announce it on Facebook, and I still have not told her I did not actually mean it because at this point I am 72 hours deep into a bit that has somehow spawned a group chat, venue pricing research, and my dad asking if he should wear a tux, so I guess I am either getting married or dying on this hill please send help or cake samples. TL;DR: Turned a joke about tiling bac...

Title. This past weekend, I sold a pair of “BRIMNES” nightstands (via Facebook marketplace) that I’d previously picked up from IKEA years back. Girlfriend and I were selling them to be replaced by a more thematically appropriate pair. Anyway, prior to selling them off, mine respectively was used to hold a bunch of miscellaneous shit: Papers, art supplies, and of course: This bottle of Trojan lube for accessibility purposes, and as such it remained even after being cleaned out for sale. I figured why not? It can stay in there until they’re sold. It’s also worth noting that I never attached the wheels to either stand and opted instead to keep them in their provided drawers. As a result, whenever I moved them, I’d hear a gentle ‘thud’ that I assumed was the collectively packaged wheels shifting. So, day comes for pickup, I load them into the buyer’s car and she drives off. No problem. I offered for her to test the drawers beforehand but she voiced her good faith in my ad details and...

The car I drives tags expired in November and I haven’t been able to afford the repairs to get the check engine light off so it won’t pass the echeck (requirement for my county) I have the 300$ ticket plus court on friday and i’m really stressed out about getting it paid and getting my cars tags back in good order. The officer said that I am required to show up for the court so obviously I will be going to that but I really don’t know what to expect. Could I face more trouble for my car still being expired and how long do I have to pay off the ticket? my bank account is literally in the negatives. is it more important to get the ticket paid off or get the car fixed and tags renewed? is there a way to get the car cheaply repaired or do enough to pass an echeck?? TL;DR - court for speeding ticket, tags expired, check engine light on. don’t know why problem to fix first