Ingredients

1. 11 cups of water, split 10 and 1.

2. 1 cup of sugar

3. 8 ounces of strawberries, fresh or frozen

4. Loose leaf tea or tea bags to make 10 cups of tea. That was about 1/3-1/2 cups of loose leaf, or about 6-8 teabags

Instructions

1. In a saucepan, combine 1 cup of water and 1 cup of sugar on medium heat. Stir continuously until the sugar dissolves and the mixture begins to bubble.

2. Add the strawberries to the mixture. They can be whole with the tops removed. The strawberries will break down in the heat. Use a fork or a potato masher to crush the berries as they cook. You want the mixture to be as soupy and fine as you can get it.

3. While the strawberries cook, heat a large pot with the remaining 10 cups of water. Bring to the temperature required for your tea. I brought it to a boil and let it cool a bit for green tea.

4. Add your tea leaves or tea bags and steep for the required amount of time. Black tea - 5 minutes. Green tea - 3 minutes. White tea - 1 or 2 minutes. Do not over steep.

5. Prepare your pitcher. Use a fine mesh strainer and place it over the top of the pitcher. Pour the tea into the pitcher, straining out the leaves. Empty the strainer and pour in the strawberry sauce. There will be a lot of strawberry mush leftover, which I’m personally fine with. You can throw the mash into a food processor or blender to get it to be finer if you don’t want to throw away a bunch of strawberry mash.

6. Enjoy hot or iced :) I like it both ways

I look at the darker ones, and I think “oh, I needed to pick a lighter shade.” But then the lighter shades look absolutely neon yellow on me. WTF am I doing wrong 😩😩😩 these swatches are from all sorts of brands, varying coverages. Some swatches are even concealer like 2 and 4. 7 and 8 are bb and cc creams respectively.

As you can plainly see, I have terrible acne. I need something that can cover it, which would be all the other numbers. But I look like a clown when I do my whole face with that. Like I painted myself the wrong skin tone. But NONE of these look like the right skin tone, and I’ve tried everything from basically the lightest shades to stuff labeled “medium light.” I just don’t understand how all of them look so wrong, and what I’m supposed to do about it!

I've tried all sorts of wacky stuff, including changing DHPT to outgoing healing gear to keep up with Blade's HP loss, making Acheron faster and slower, making Cipher faster and slower, swapping out DHPT with Ruan Mei, etc. Last picture has my other units. Most are E0, but some notable exceptions are:

• E2S1 Jiaoqiu
• E2S1 Ruan Mei
• E1S0 Silverwolf
• E0S1 Sunday
• E1S1 Sparkle
• E0S1 Aventurine
• E2S0 Welt
• E6S1 Bronya

**TLDR: it was allergies**.

Hey guys, this is an update to a post I made regarding Milo, my 1 year old kitty, who kept getting wounds on the top of his paw. These were shallow, circular wounds that appeared on the TOP of his paw, along the “wrist” area, and he has gotten them repeatedly. I have begged at least 4 different vets for an answer, and I’ve only gotten the verbal equivalent of a shrug.

However, (un?)fortunately, Milo suffered some kind of gastrointestinal… *episode*… shortly after making that post. I mentioned that he throws up more than what seems to be normal for a cat, but we hadn’t found any proper fixes despite

1. Switching to sensitive stomach food

2. Getting a timer feeder

3. Feeding him hairball-passing paste.

That day, Milo threw up excessively (10+ times) over the span of a single night, and he was barely eating over the two days following. I even rushed to the pet store and bought a whole bunch of sensitive stomach food, treats with goat milk, other digestive aids— nothing seemed to help. So, I found a new vet and rushed him there, explaining that I really wasn’t sure how much he managed to eat and drink within the last 3 days, and I was really concerned that his appetite wouldn’t improve. They got me in later that same say.

I left the vet with a skin test for mites (no mites, he was clear), anti-nausea medication, and a prescription for hydrolyzed kibble. They said they would’ve given him steroids, too, but it would interfere with the allergy test I was about to do.

Milo recovered and regained his appetite. I made sure to transition him to the new kibble slowly, and I removed everything that I thought he could possibly be allergic to. That includes catnip and catnip toys. Right around the time he got really sick, my mom came to visit and absolutely showered this little man with catnip toys. I have no definitive proof that’s what the problem was, but the timing lines up.

Anyway, Milo’s test has come back at this point. Sure enough, he’s intolerant of a lot of really basic food products. The crazy thing is that his test says he *shouldn’t* be tolerant of this hydrolyzed food, but the vomiting, scratching, and (apparently) paw-biting has practically stopped. The company we used for the rest was calls 5Strands, and honestly, I don’t recommend them at all. I wish I had gotten the vet’s allergy test even though it was more expensive. These results are too hard to comprehend and their support is non-existent. At least with the vet’s test, I’d have some more concrete proof and a solid list of foods to avoid.

In conclusion, the paw wounds were likely self-inflicted. He might have been itchy or stressed because of his allergies/food sensitivities, and now that we’ve done our best to cut them all out, he’s much improved.

Thank you to everyone who offered advice and commented to boost visibility!

Any help with this would be appreciated. I'm struggling very hard to try and min-max the builds between my Cyrene/RMC/Sparkle/Sunday, etc.

I don't know who should be carrying the Amphoreous planar-- RMC or Cyrene? My gut says that RMC can use it better, but the extra ERR from Vonwaq along with priority on Mem summon is very strong. On the other hand, Vonwaq on Cyrene lowers her speed requirements and is very powerful in combination with Eagle 4pc.

But if they both use Vonwaq, then nobody on the team is providing the speed buff, which hurts even more...

And the final wrench in this whole thing is the fact that I have some cracked deliverer pieces for Cyrene that are suboptimal on RMC because of the HP% rolls. RMC wants ATK orb, too, which I don't have. In general, I'm just sitting on a bunch of great pieces that I can't make use of because I don't have the speed on the rest of the pieces to make it work. Do I just take the L and try to make something with resin? Block and Reroll something?

TLDR: My cat keeps getting hurt in the same spot on the top of his paw in the joint regions, both back and front. The wound is usually small and circular, but it has been terrifyingly large (dime-sized) twice. He is now on his 6th wound, and the 3 different vets we have visited are clueless. Please, if anyone knows what might be happening, please please share your thoughts.

Location: Georgia, USA

Milo is my 1 year old male cat/kitten, and he has been getting reoccurring wounds on his paws since we took him in from the street at approx 2 months old.

Shortly after getting him and his brother off the street, we noticed Milo had an open wound on his back paw. It was small, circular, and located on the top of the paw in the ‘wrist’ / joint area. Not the paw pad. We didn’t think much of it at the time. We thought he might’ve gotten hurt when he was still living outdoors. When we took the kitten to get their shots, we brought it up to the vet, but she just shrugged it off.

About a month later, he got another wound in the corresponding spot on a front paw this time. Again, it was small, circular, and we were totally clueless as to what happened. We thought, since him and his brother would go nuts playing with each other, that they might’ve been a little too rough. We brought it up at their neutering appointment, but the vet (this time a different one) gave us the same wishy-washy answer. It seems like from the size/location/shape, it’s hard to tell why he keeps getting hurt.

The third time it happened, he was about 8 months old and the wound was extremely severe. Like, dime-sized and deep. You could see some kind of tendon(?)/muscle tissue exposed. As soon as I saw his paw, I immediately rushed him to the vet. The vet gave him an antibiotic shot and shaved the fur around the wound so we can keep a better eye on the healing process (he is a black cat, and the fur is hard to see through). We begged her for an answer, anything, even something plausible that we could do to stop this from happening again. We didn’t get an answer.

Our working theory is that it might be a play injury from my other cats’ claws. We’ve been trimming them down ever since. But Milo has still now gotten hurt 2 MORE times; one was a small wound, and now he has much bigger one. Not dime-sized, thankfully, but it is maybe 3-4mm in diameter.

Please, I am begging, what could possibly be happening??

I’ve tried to do my own research on what it could be, but nothing sounds right. He’s cleared from parasites. If it was an insect bite, why is it only happening to his paws in the same location on them? If it’s a scratch from playing, why is it a circular wound and not a slash? Why does it keep happening even when we trim the other cat’s claws?

Aside

I don’t know if this is connected— it may very well not be— but Milo seems to have a gastrointestinal issue. He and his brother (though his brother seems to have grown out of it) have some kind of intolerance to wet food and some kinds of kibble that makes him throw up. We thought he might have been eating too fast, so we got a timer feeder that releases small but frequent potions. Didn’t help. The only thing that did help was switching to a sensitive-stomach kibble. It cut down on the amount he was throwing up by about 70-80%, but not completely. He still throws up kibble 2-3 times a week, sometimes once, but rarely any less frequent than that. We currently think it’s a hairball passing issue, so we’re feeding him some paste that’s supposed to help.

3rd pic to prove he’s not actually fat, just fluffy and compressed 😂