u/CunnyMaggots

My AC only works if it's under 80° outside. It blows super cold when it works... but I don't need it when it's under 80°. Is this normal? Or should I be calling up the dealer? It's a 2021 I bought used last year.

It's summer in the California desert. We don't have AC. Our main whole house cooler broke and we can't fix it right now so we're depending on a couple much smaller coolers to not die from heat stroke.

I'm eating twice a day and about half what I normally would because the heat leaves me feeling sick when I eat anything. This has led to weight dropping off at a pretty good rate and I'm kinda mad about it. I have 4 pairs of perfectly good shorts and 3 pairs of jeans, all in great shape. And every single pair falls off if i don't wear a belt. And on my belt in down 2 holes.

I don't want to buy new clothes. I just want to wear my perfectly good existing clothes until they wear out.

I know. I'm complaining about stupid shit.

(Reposting because the bot told me to agree to the rules and repost lol)

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I didn't do anything special, just did the personality quiz and took whatever looks the game gave him. Random name. Dwight Jordan of all things... lol. He's living in Strangerville.

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The house is... underwhelming. Took the meager money and threw together a prefab living room, bedroom and bathroom and added an afterthought of a kitchen that I stuck a couple cheap counters, a fridge, a stove, and a sink.

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But I'm like okay. Let's do this! I got him a desk and a cheap computer too.

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The first freaking day the house is overrun by zombies and then these two guys calling themselves "agents" showed up and stole the freaking fridge. Left a note about the energy or something.

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Buy a new fridge. Start writing children's stories and researching this weird ass town. Try to adopt a cat but 4 times now the lady has brought me a cat and then didn't let me adopt it. My house is literally made for a cat! Wtf!

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Anyway... the old lady is now my best friend but she is so freaking needy. She comes over every day. She calls me like 10 times a day. We're best friends. I still don't have a cat. Sometimes we cook together but she's awful in the kitchen... lol. I think she wants to woo-hoo.

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The royalties are starting to come in from my books. I'm also reading a lot. General fiction and non-fiction.... about vampires. I've learned how to fix computers. I'm hoping when I make a little more money I can actual fix the flooring in my house and paint or wallpaper the dang kitchen. And it would be cool to build a little office or home gym.

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Also, what's with those weird big purple buds around the property? They kind of creep me out. Anyone else in Strangerville feeling like this place is weird?

For background, years ago my mom dated a guy who lied about himself a lot. He presented as this good guy with bad luck. My mom is slightly slow, she doesn't read people well at all. He told her he would do all the upkeep on the property (5 acres) if she put his name on the deed. Unfortunately she did not tell me any of this until it was done, and as it stands now, whoever outlives the other gets everything.

My mom is 66, he is 70.

This man thinks he knows everything and his way is the only way. He's made it clear that as women, we're incapable of surviving without his help. He lives here in a trailer on the property, and does not contribute to any bills or utilities.

But he's really bad at everything and I always have to redo his work to make it right. The other day he messed with our evaporative cooler and nearly burned up the motor. This afternoon, he lost his shit yelling about the cooler, refused to listen to my workable solution, and when he tried to go out the front door to fuck the cooler up again, I stood in front of the door and I said NO.

Tell me why this 70 year old asshole got up into my face and threw a punch at me. Obviously I don't don't want hit so I shoved him back. He just kept coming at me and I pushed him 1 or 2 times more.

I have never hit anyone in my life but I was close.

I called the sheriff's department and they told me because he didn't actually hit me, it was no big deal and there was nothing they could do, but I was welcome to file a restraining order.

I went online and filed on behalf of myself, my mom, and my two dogs. I don't expect him to move out but I want 25 yards distance from him at all times.

In the past, he sexually assaulted me by grabbing my vulva and my breast. When I confronted him in front of my mom, he told me he touched me like that because we are family. There were also around a dozen times before that that I was in the kitchen and he came into our house and slapped or grabbed my ass.

And before all of that, I was resting on my mom's bed and he grabbed me by the hair and started screaming at me about why wasn't I at work, then he stopped and said "I thought you were your mama" and walked away.

And all the while teasing is so badly, he relies on us to do everything for him. He's completely illiterate in both Spanish and English. And while i would never mock anyone's lack of education, when he's served papers he's going to expect us to explain what they mean.

I'm changing the locks tomorrow and hoping all this bullshit doesn't end up making me homeless but this man is fucking dangerous to both my mom and I.

Sorry if there's any typos or unclear statements. I just took a klonopin because my heart rate has been like 160 since this afternoon when he attacked me and I need some help getting some sleep tonight.

Over the years I've had fancy goldfish which while i loved them, they were insanely high maintenance and I'm never doing that again. I've had a tank full of little asshole black skirt tetras which live with my mom now. I've had a bazillion cherry shrimp house with several bristlenose plecos. A couple bettas in 10 gallons.

My mom still has the tetras and my 55 gallon has been empty except for shrimp for a few months.

I picked up a baby albino tiger oscar today. It's barely 2 inches long right now and hiding behind the driftwood, but I'm really looking forward to seeing it grow out and destroy the plants and settle in.

(Yes I know it will hunt the shrimp)

I know it's an pretty aggressive fish but I did not expect it keep trying to attack my fingers through the transport bag... lol. This dude is going to try to chew my arm off when I do water changes, isn't he?