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This weekend was probably one of the most stressful and embarrassing since this all started. If you trigger easily you may want to keep scrolling. My niece, who is currently pregnant, got married this weekend. We traveled across multiple states to get to her to support her. Since all the family was together they decided to do a baby shower the day before the wedding. I bought her a gift, steeled myself to sit through it and watch but not participate. My niece 100% understood, her mom (my sister) completely understood, I thought I was good. I sat at the end of the table away from the mass of people. They did presents, talked with everyone. Then the games came out. I do not do baby shower games. Ever. For anybody.

They started with the game of guessing how big the mom is, my BIL starting making his way around the tables with a spool of ribbon and scissors. I waved him off and said no. He continued to push it at me all “why not? Come on!” I folded my arms and said “I said NO.” My sister realized what was happening and waved him along. Then my niece started coming around letting people try their ribbon and I couldn’t stop the tears from welling up. My sister told me I could go outside if I needed to, but I didn’t want to attract any attention. I forced the tears down and wiped my eyes.

Then BIL came around with a new game to guess how many things in the jar, I turned that down too and then my dad looks over and he’s like “why not? Just make a guess.” I told him I don’t do baby shower games. When they had all the guesses two people tied, and then someone won the “find the hidden items” game, taking 3 of the 4 prizes. My niece came over and handed me the extra prize, saying that nobody had won it so she wanted me to have it. I thanked her but honestly it felt like a consolation pity prize. A family member spoke up at that point and told me not to give up, it’ll happen one day. I got up at that point and disappeared into the bathroom until it was over.

I went solely to support her, because I love her. But that was painful and so humiliating. I honestly wish i had refused to attend. I was doing so well until they had to start shoving it in my face insisting I participate. This sucks so bad. At least at the wedding the next day everyone had the decency to not mention it. To add insult to injury I got my period during the reception and then had to ride 15+ hours home with that. Shitty end to a terrible weekend. At least my niece was happy, she was very pretty in her wedding dress.

I just tried to do the Vault 88 settlement but I’m lost on what I’m supposed to do. It’s just a massive open space. No direction, no idea what building pieces snap together, no idea how they go together to make a nice vault. I also quickly caught on to what the overseer was doing, and I couldn’t be part of that. In the end I just murdered everyone, scrapped everything and took the pile of junk back to sanctuary to be used for other settlements. Did anyone manage to actually build a thriving settlement here? Or is my experience pretty typical?

My sister has been hunting for a remote job lately because her pregnant and engaged daughter moved several states away to be with her soon-to-be-husband and my sister wants to be able to visit her daughter and first grandbaby without having to take pto. So she hunted, interviewed, and eventually landed a position, seemed like a dream job. Totally remote, growth opportunities, paid almost six figures. Great, right?

Well she started work there at the beginning of August. She needed her own laptop so she used a credit card to get one thinking it would be easy to pay off. She started working, they didn’t make her do any paperwork but insisted on two weeks in office for training. She worked a week, then asked about onboarding paperwork, pay schedule, things like that. Normal employee shit.

Turns out they did not hire her, they put her in as a 1099 independent contractor. No benefits. Paid once a month, 30 days after turning in her work invoice, which goes in at the end of the month. So she wouldn’t be paid until OCTOBER for August work. Then to top it all off, they told her the remote position she was hired for was no longer available so she would be in office for the foreseeable future. So they straight up lied to get her in the door.

Plus, they have her as an independent contractor but demand her to work from their location, they tell her what hours to work and what to do during that time, she uses her own computer but it’s connected to their VPN during the work day. Does that not make her actually an employee? Shady practices. I told her she needs to quit and find something else asap. These kind of companies make me so angry for the people who have to work there.

I miss the taste of real meat. It’s gotten so beyond out of control that even chicken is becoming unaffordable. Are there any substitutes that maybe I’m not thinking of? We used to love beef, but now it’s $8 a pound. Husband won’t eat turkey, we have a turkey in the freezer but no idea what to do with it, I’ve never cooked a turkey or eaten it (other than lunch meat) outside of thanksgiving. I strongly dislike pork in all forms except bacon. So when we do buy meat we go with chicken normally but I just can’t justify spending a quarter of my small budget on meat. Here lately I’ve bought things like hot dogs, sausage links, frozen bags of chicken but those are getting pricey now too and I’m sick to death of hot dogs and sausage. My only option for shopping is Walmart, everything else is way more expensive. Any ideas?

BG: I’m 37, hubs is 35, tried for 11 years and gave up. Walked away empty handed. Parents and other family are well aware.

Conversations with my family are a fucking minefield right about now. My niece is pregnant, getting married in a few weeks and due in November. So that’s what 90% of our conversations end up being about these days because that’s all they can find to fucking talk about. The other day I found a picture online of one of the children of a famous relative of ours and sent it to my mom and sister.

Later that day we were all talking and I brought up the picture, saying it was cool to see because I didn’t even know he had kids. Mom pops off with “he’s in his 70s, of course he has kids. Nobody gets that old without a kid.” I went quiet for a minute and then said “not everyone has kids.” She sighed and said “well yeah but most people do. It’s a safe assumption to say that they do.”

Gee, thanks ma. Glad my situation annoys you. It annoys me too.

Then to top it all off, this past weekend I got some bad food and ended up throwing up all day Saturday. I’ve been getting texts ever since from family asking if I’ve taken a test recently, and telling me to go to my gyno. Every women who pukes is not necessarily pregnant ffs. I’ve been bleeding for over a month now, that’s not conducive to pregnancy. I just want to go to bed. I hate it here.

They were on a secluded island, nobody could see or hear anything. They were there for weeks, changing her would have taken 3 days. She would have returned to Forks as a vampire and not dying. They could have packed up and left to avoid drama with the wolves, the baby never would have happened, the volturi wouldn’t have come for them, Bella and Edward could have had so much time for just the two of them to enjoy married life. I know Edward wanted her to have as much human time as possible but honestly, logically, it would have been 100x better for everyone if she had been changed while on the island. Jacob would have eventually moved on from Bella if she wasn’t around.

I’ve perfected the first ten levels on both pc and Xbox. I’ve played through act 2 and the community levels. Just now found out how to obtain the third mop! Google told me it wasn’t possible. It makes the big maps so much easier!

My 3 year old mini schnauzer mix tested positive for hookworms at her recent appointment. The vet wants to give her a $14 dewormer to get rid of them.

I have a bigger problem though- I have three other dogs and a cat. None of my animals leave the house apart from vet visits so I have no idea where she got infected. The vet said each dog needs an office visit to get their own dosage so they can be tested, but that’s $70 per dog and I don’t have that kind of money right now. As of their last vet visits all tested clean.

Is prescription medication necessary for this? Couldn’t I just buy dewormer from Walmart or ivermectin from tractor supply and deworm them all at once? I’ve never had a dog with hookworms before but I had one once with heartworm and ivermectin killed those, and Google says it works on hookworms too.

Any advice? Am I just completely naive to think regular dewormer would work fine?

I am searching for a new gynecologist in the Tyler area and am hoping for recommendations. I absolutely love my current doctor but I have medical issues that is making the walk to her office more and more challenging as the years go on and I just can’t do it anymore. Looking for someone who has an actual parking lot (not a garage) and ground/second floor office.

I’m also hoping that there’s someone that also is infertility friendly and doesn’t allow children in the office or maybe has separate waiting areas for OB vs Gyno. This is one of my favorite things about my current doc and I’m hoping to keep that, for the sake of my mental health.

I’m not fussy about the doctor being a man or a woman. But given my age this person will likely be the one to help me begin mammogram screenings and other such things as I get older so I’d prefer them to be gentle and understanding, not just brush off my concerns and questions.

Any recommendations? I appreciate any help you can give. Thanks!

I took my dog in for her shots at the vet. She’s 3 years old, mini schnauzer mix about 17 pounds, terrified of strangers. We’ve been working on leash training and she’s doing excellent. We get called back, I go to walk her around the main desk to the exam room and suddenly this little Jack Russel comes bolting out of his owner’s lap and charges straight for my dog. I instantly pulled back on her leash, and she froze. I pushed her back a little and stepped in front of her to give the owner time to get his mutt, and he comes over laughing, “don’t worry, she’s friendly!”

I just gave a little sigh and responded, “yeah but I don’t know about mine. Please take your dog.” He did, while rolling his eyes at me. My dog then refused to move, forcing me to pick her up and carry her to the exam room. Ffs people, you’re in a room full of people with dogs who may or may not be friendly or trained, leash your damn dog. I saw that dog charging at mine and all I could think about was keeping her from getting attacked, poor baby is so timid.

I downloaded Librarian last night thinking it would be fun. I’m a type A person and find organizing to be fun. But… holy moly. Where do you even start with this mess? I saw a tip to get all the white books because they’re easiest, so I did that and mostly filled the Holy, Healing, and Psychology sections. I also got most of the Book of Spells tomes since they are easy to spot as well. So now I’m left with… a really huge mess lol. How do you guys divide it up? Do you sort by color? Or theme? Do you make little piles? Or do you just grab an armful and put them away one by one? I think I’ve bitten off more than I can chew here.

I know a lot of yall are into sorting games, and this one has a lot of that. Basically you take on jobs cleaning money that is covered in dirt or goo, and sometimes it’s marked by gangs or police so you have to locate and remove the marks (or set them aside for future jobs). It’s actually a lot of fun if you’re into mindless sorting and organizing stuff. Plus it has a cat, that you can pet and boop and carry around.

I filed paperwork from my dad to gift ownership of his house (inherited from my grandpa) to myself this past January. They had received the property tax bill that was due Jan 31, paid it, and I confirmed with the lady at the counter that it was paid when we filed the paperwork. At the end of February we received a notice that the property tax office had recalculated the tax due so it had a new balance. I called them and they said it was due to credits that no longer applied so they were removed. Fine, whatever. I asked how long I had to pay it since the notice did not have a due date. She told me since it was an adjustment that it didn’t have a due date, just needed to be paid by the new year. So I added it into my budget. Then I get a new notice in the mail that says it’s past due and they charged me a late fee! I went ahead and paid off the bill to get it over with but really? How can they charge a late fee when they said it didn’t have a due date and it wasn’t even sent until after the January deadline? Is this normal?