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Ik youre not supposed to come into contact with anyone right after putting the t gel on but i love my cat and he always wants cuddles. I pump it directly onto my shoulder and rub it in with the opposite inner-arm (side note, should i be switching sides/application areas?) and then i wipe the excess moisture off on my stomach and wash my hands like a doctor scrubbing into surgery. Im really worried about getting my cat or any of my mom's pets sick so ive been trying to be as cautious as possible with not getting the gel on my palms to the best of my ability, applying it by myself in the bathroom, and washing my hands after. Im wondering if theres anything else i can be doing to protect my pets or how long exactly i have to wait until im safe to go around them again

More of a discussion than a question so let me know if i should change tags.

Ive seen a lot of discussion about wether of not moonspell will be "replacing" monster high g3 in the sense that mattel will make less MH as they make more MSM.

I want to start off by saying that i dont think that this is their current plan, with the leaks for the next lines it seems like its going to be a similar relationship that EAH and MH g1 had.

However, would it be that bad if MH G3 gets pushed to the side? They already are not nearly ad popular with kids as they used to be.

They arent creating new characters at the same rate they used to due to them giving everyone a unique body mold with their own monster characteristics. While it makes for a higher quality doll, i think the lack of rapid variety that G1 had is the cause of G3s lower popularity.

Additionally G3 has had no original characters yet. Just drac after drac. This is also lowkey killing the line. Its the same as Disney making live action reboots imo. The people want something new, not something old repackaged as new.

This leads me to Moonspell. The characters are humanoid so besides varying of body types it would not be hard for them to make new characters re using the molds they already have. If they can keep the fashion at the same quality and awesome academic witchy style i think these girls will end up having much more variety than MH G3.

Let me know what you guys think about this! It was kinda a shower thought that started after i bought my Willow and Claire today. (If they do make new characters, it would be great to see more disability representation too! )

I was diagnosed with OCD last year when I was 19, but I've had intrusive thoughts and compulsions as far back as I can remember.

Last month my Sister announced her pregnancy and despite our family being completely unprepared for the situation we were over the moon with excitement to have a new life in our family.

She announced her pregnancy when she found out at 4 weeks and instantly the intrusive thoughts started. I know that it's considered "bad luck" to announce your pregnancy too early in fear of losing the baby, so this is what I've been worrying about for the last month, on top of all the preparations we needed to handle before the baby arrived.

Well, it happened. The intrusive thought nightmare situation came true and my sister had an extremely painful miscarriage last week. I feel like i've been taking it way harder than everyone else because the OCD keeps telling me it's my fault, that i somehow manifested it. Im scared to mention this to my family cause i don't want them to also think it's my fault.

Ive had to double up on the hydroxyzine to get to sleep the last few days and i've been self-medicating more with the flower throughout the day. I know the solution is to sit with the feeling and accept it but this one is too big for me to handle on my own. I feel like I killed my nephew with my OCD.

I need reassurance that i'm not somehow in control of the entire universe and that my intrusive thoughts don't directly impact what happens in the real world. Any advice for how i can prove this to myself?

I work as a stocker at a department store and obv wear a binder. The whole job is basically doing laps around the store with a lot of bending over and moving stuff. The job is honestly really easy, but shifts are getting harder and harder to get through with cause of my binder tho. So im looking for a new one or possibly an alternative.

The most comfortable binder i have is a wivov but i feel like it doesnt get me as flat/the shape i want like my good ol GC2B, so i really only wear that one with a lot of layered clothing/in the winter. But everybody knows how uncomfortable the GC2Bs can be, and its been in the 90s recently so i cant get away with a hoodie all day.

So im looking for something with the comfort of a wivov but with a little more shape/compression? Ive also tried binders from Spectrum but i find they only last one or two wears before you have to wash them to get them back in shape and im not living in a place where i can do laundry daily (ik its probably gross but i dont wear the same binder every day so 🤷‍♂️) Ive also tried tape but i think im allergic to the adhesive idk it was really itchy and uncomfortable but that was also a few years ago.

If anyone has any brand recommendations or alternatives to binders like a good compression bra please lmk so i can get through my shifts more comfortably. I also havent bought a new binder in a few years so im hoping theres something new on the market i havent heard of yet.

edit: wanted to add that i have an hour long lunch where i normally sit in the bathroom with my binder off. Not ideal but i dont have my own car or anything to sit in. But yeah i am giving myself a break in the middle of the day it just only helps so much

Hey yall! I work at Walmart as a stocker and when i saw them on the website yesterday i was excited to go into work today and maybe be able to put them on the shelves myself. I saw a big box from Mattel on a pallet and thought this is it! Opened it up and it was just some barbies 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

So on my break i got curious and looked at the upcoming "modulars" (basically abstracts of what the shelf should look like fully stocked) and according to the app my store isnt going to stock them until the week of August 24th. It also says that MirrorMis will be stocked the same week!

My store just fully moved around the toy section last month so it would make sense that they aren't going to do it again until MirrorMi comes out so that they don't have to do it three times in one summer lol. It also probably makes them more money to stock the competing brands at the same time.

Luckily my store doesnt get much traffic, the last few lines of MH, SH, and RH that have come out are still pretty much fully stocked, so ive been hoping this will be to my advantage and ill be able to get my hands on all the girls i want, MirrorMis and Moonspells. Just kinda sucks that ill be spending money on both brands in the same week and that i have to wait so long after ive already been waiting since the leaks, but at least i know when to save for.

Just wanted to make this post in case anyone else in more suburban/rural areas may be confused as to why they arent seeing the girls in their local stores yet. Some other stores are probably going to be stocking them the same week. If it matters, im in NY.

On a side note- A girl came in with her mom today looking for the Moonspell girls and i had to tell them that i was also patiently waiting for them and ive been checking every day 😭😭

i get home in the morning after overnight remodeling and it feels like i cant even walk. I have to limp around the house and lay in bed as long as possible. OTC pain killers dont seem to help, and neither does "gardening." WHAT are yall doing to survive out here because im SUFFERING

basically i had my first night and the hr rep told me i had training videos and lessons to go through before i could go onto the floor. We got my computer log in set up and then she had to leave because her shift was ending. she told me she would be back in the morning before my shift was over and asked if i had any questions. i said am i just going to be sitting here all night and she said pretty much.

there were a lot of lessons, way more than i expected and with lots of text. i think i'm a pretty fast reader, but it still took my entire shift to get through it all, and that's the issue.

when i had completed about half of the lessons one of the team leads came to check on me and due to my progression rate i estimated id be done around 4. Well 4 came and went and i realized the lessons in the second half are way longer and it was going to take me all night.

Mind you, I am reading everything fully and doing my best to learn from these things, and apparently that is abnormal. But i am a very literal person, so when someone tells me to do something im going to do it how i am told to do it.

one of my new co workers came back around 4:30 and made a remark about how long it was taking me. I said well there's a lot to learn i guess and he asked me if i was actually reading them in a sarcastic tone. I told him yeah. he took this sort of condescending tone and told me i could just skip through everything and get out on the floor. I said something like i want to learn it like this and in terms of the store policies i like to know what i am agreeing to. After that it just seemed like he thought i was weird for having that mindset.

After that i had my second 15 so i went out to update someone on my progress before i stepped outside to vape. (oh yeah i guess i haven't mentioned this until now but i was pretty much by myself all night and this added to the nerves and me not really knowing what i was doing i guess ) Anyway, i couldnt find a team lead so i found a coach and she asked if i was done yet. I was kind of surprised she asked me that but i told her i had a few left but they were longer ones. She said okay, and i went out for my 15

a bit after i got back from that break the co wither from earlier comes back and says something along the lines of youre still here huh. I said yep still reading and then he started talking about "milking it" as if that's what i was doing and like i was respectable for it. i tried to re iterate that i just like to learn this way and he laughed me off.

Hr rep came back about a half hour after that and seemed surprised to see me in the computer room still. She asks me how im doing and i tell her i have 3 longer ones left. She tells me the team lead (that i havent really seen all night) was asking if i was done yet. Now at this point im feeling like shit because i think everyone thinks im a slacker who just wanted a free shift. But im telling myself its in my head and im being a good employee for actually reading the lessons.

I finished about ten minutes before my shift ended and i started rushing just so that i could get it done and no one would complain about or think poorly of me on my first day. I had to finish up some account stuff with HR so i did that and then she said lets go find your team leads and ask them about tomorrow.

Well both team leads had already left at that point so i didnt get a chance to talk to them, not like i did very much of that anyway. So i approached the same coach from earlier cause she was still there and she seemed super ticked off with me. I asked her what i should plan for tomorrow and she didnt really give me an answer. Then i asked where i should even go tomorrow and she just said "the garden center," so thats literally all i know, just a general location.

I dont want everyone to think im a bum and already be pissed with me after my first day. Maybe im in my head and overthinking because i havent had a job in a while cause of school and im really nervous about the whole thing. But is it actually not normal for people to read the whole lessons, am i a crazy for that, or am i actually a bum for making it last my whole shift? Please help a bro out.

Hey guys! I have my first shift tonight at Walmart working overnights. Im really excited since the job seems well suited to an environment id like to work in.

At orientation I learned about the health care benefits and saw a lot of things were covered, but transgender hormone replacement therapy or anything similar wasn't specifically mentioned.

I was just wondering if anyone had experience with this! Thanks so much in advance!

Theres hardly any gender neutral bathrooms on my campus. Theres one, maybe two per building, and they always seem to be in use when i need them. And its always cisgendered/straight people who could have used literally any other bathroom. I feel like it's kind of a mess? The people who preach use your correct bathroom... arent doing that

Edit: i guess i should add more context

This thought came to my head after i saw the president of the TPUSA club leaving a gender neutral bathroom. This guy has said before that he believes there shouldn't be any on campus. This makes me think most people who claim that the gender neutral bathroom shouldn't exist actually don't really care and would use the supposedly evil bathrooms themselves! Im not trying to assume anyone's gender by saying theyre cis, but i know for a fact this guy is.