I started picking my fingers when I was around 12, definitely a high stress time of life. Over the years I have gotten it under control for the most part. I still do it but not to the extent that it's noticeable or disruptive. Keeping my nails very short actually discourages me from doing it, but I only started keeping my nails super short all the time because of the typewriter. I am glad you have found a way out!

I have to take the nail clippers to the rough or loose skin around the edges of the nail or I *will* idly pick at them. Maybe a professional manicure is my next step.

I’ve always been an anxious nail biter/skin picker. I have considered getting a manicure to see if that would help break the habit, but my nails are so short that it seems not allowed. Like, am I going to annoy some poor manicurist with my stubby canvas?

emily, skep, oopsiedoodle... so happy to see there are so many disgusting finger picking bretheren online!!! <3 though, with love, stop it

@emily yes i can only imagine how annoying the nails would be on a typewriter, since the keyboard is already tough... typo rate skyrocketing

@skep get one and report back. another pie situation

@oopsiedoodle i think you should just go if you think it'll help!!! that's what did it for me, as you can see... years of not going because i was embarrassed but then once i was forced to just rip off the bandaid (metaphorically) by someone else buying me an appt it fixed everything... there's some message here about how we allow others to treat ourselves more than we allow ourselves to... #thisisdeep

new, very disorganised, blog post: https://sorbier.neocities.org/blog/diningset

congrats on the new furniture! getting to bring people round to your house and make them food is such a delight, i'm excited for you ^^

new blog post: https://sorbier.neocities.org/blog/wendys

The impulse to acquire a Wendy's fresh-never-frozen Big Bacon Classic is a natural human response to the stimuli of a Wendy's fresh-never-frozen Big Bacon Classic, and sometimes we have to acknowledge our biological shortcomings and, in so doing, reward ourselves with a Wendy's fresh-never-frozen Big Bacon Classic

One time when I was a teenager at Taco Bell, I my boyfriend and I ordered several items, including a chalupa. We took our food to the table and I could not find the chalupa and...I'm not going to say I made a stink about it, but I assumed they got the order wrong and had them make me another chalupa. After I ate the new chalupa, I found the original chalupa amongst all the wrappers and wept.

I once had a lunchbox mix-up when I was in school and took a bite out of someone else’s sandwich. I was a child. It’s been like 2 decades. I *still* think about it from time to time.

@skep you must have been the man. im not about burgs im about chicken sandwiches, ty

@emily at least you got two chalupas!!! one for your happiness and one for your shame. we must maintain balance in life

@qsky if you'd already taken a bit you might as well commit and just do away with the rest of the evidence