Update for Everyone VIII: He who laughs have the last laugh

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So the pandemic has made my work life pretty horrible. I feel like work has been consuming most of my life in this last year due to having little to no staff, trying to fit my job + the jobs of 2-3 of my not filled staff in 40 hours, being super busy because of poor decisions people made during the pandemic, and 3 of my vacation requests being denied for various reasons from 2020-2021. I'm thankful that I'll finally get a half week vacation next week, because for the first time in my 7 years with my current employer, I had a nightmare about work.

Between work and international border closures, 2020-2021 has been a sh!t year. But, there is a silver lining, as what little free time I had left this last year has been spent exploring my faith further, and a little over a month ago, at the Easter Vigil, I officially entered the Catholic Church. It has been my greatest source of peace I've found in the chaos that has been this last year, and probably one of the greatest joys I've experienced in my life so far.

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Between work and international border closures, 2020-2021 has been a sh!t year. But, there is a silver lining, as what little free time I had left this last year has been spent exploring my faith further, and a little over a month ago, at the Easter Vigil, I officially entered the Catholic Church. It has been my greatest source of peace I've found in the chaos that has been this last year, and probably one of the greatest joys I've experienced in my life so far.

To date, I still can’t believe you used to follow a religion practiced by several of my family members back home and my close friends.

Exactly, after having your formative years in the Baha’i faith, what’s your opinion of it?

I realize as I've gotten older that American Baha'is really aren't all that similar to ones in the Middle East. At least my experience growing up wasn't all that structured outside of feasts, Baha'i school (basically Sunday school but for the Baha'i faith), and Nowruz. It was basically like what you would expect from Americans with any new age religious movements. While we had some small numbers of actual Persian people who led in the communities and kept it more formal and organized at times, it felt kind of like a hippie gathering without the actual hippies or drugs.

To some degree, I kind of wish I paid more attention to the whole theology behind it, just so I can understand it more. My grandparents are significantly more devout than how my mom raised us (they live back in Alaska so they couldn't really reinforce it much), and as I got into my teenage years, I paid less and less attention in Baha'i school until we eventually stopped participating and practicing as a family.

So unfortunately, I don't really think I'd be the best source for giving an opinion on it, as I don't really feel I took it seriously enough.

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I ordered a white pizza for dinner to celebrate the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict.

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that seems normal

I'm sorry you hate pizza so much

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that seems normal

I'm sorry you hate pizza so much

Why order a pizza when you can make it yourself?

because I was too tired to go to the grocery store, prep the food, and cook after work.

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ghosting everyone in my life for absolutely no reason = self care

brb imma send u a goose meme

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I've officially written into my diary to leave this place once I reach ten years.

Two years left.

I still have 4 years to go (if I'm not permabanned before then)

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Muaddib and I are now engaged as of a couple days ago. He proposed while we were vacationing in Sedona.

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Muaddib and I are now engaged as of a couple days ago. He proposed while we were vacationing in Sedona.

Congrats.

Muaddib and I are now engaged as of a couple days ago. He proposed while we were vacationing in Sedona.

Congrats! You two always seemed like a great fit to me.

Thank you!

Muaddib and I are now engaged as of a couple days ago. He proposed while we were vacationing in Sedona.

Fairly sure Atlas Forum has a rule against its use in dating.