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I have been VERY bad about using estrogen and honestly they just threw me a tube and told me to use it. I bought extra applicators and such however I ended up failing to do it every night. I see a lot of suggestions for general use but not for UTI treatment so what is your best estrogen methods for your best results? Routine, application location, etc. I woke up with another UTI today so I’m about to go to the lab after work in hopes they get me my antibiotics fast.

I both don’t want to be on anti depressants and I’m also going to be losing health care in my state soon and didn’t want to have to withdrawal in a new place. The dose I was on was 30mg. I haven’t taken it for like 3 or days now. My psychiatrist knows I’m going off of it and suggested I do it while still in town just incase I need his help. He didn’t believe I’d have withdrawals at this low of a dose. I am familiar with my body and how it over reacts to basically everything which is also why I don’t want to take anti depressants in the first place. Can somebody help me out with a tapering schedule/advice? I have a full bottle of 30mg capsules and 20mg capsules. I am debating taking a 30 today to see if I won’t be dizzy anymore since he was wrong about cold turkey. To be fair, he didn’t prescribe this and I got it in the hospital and he knows my wishes about not being on anti depressants.

I know how to piece some basic rectangle and square pieces of a quilt on a machine, I have access to a highly skilled quilter and I know a lot already from her. I am getting into hand sewing, hand quilting, Victorian era crazy quilting, and hand piecing (without paper, ain’t nobody got time for that), but I feel like some of the beginner questions I have are stuff I should know already and she knows I should know already so I only ask her things I know are more complex. I need some questions answered:

1. If using cotton thread, cotton fabric, cotton flannel, and thicker cotton threads like pearl cotton: to beeswax or not? I am assuming yes on thread no on pearl cotton thread.

2. How on earth do you cut out shapes quickly and correctly without wasting so much fabric from the plastic templates? Also how do you cut curves around the plastic templates? Same with circles? I’ve only ever seen my grandma cut squares and straight lines when I’m around. She does her cool stuff when alone or with quilting friends. I keep googling it but the search engine is like suggesting everything except what I need. It’s been broken. Even TikTok was showing me cookie cutter videos. Wild to me.

3. Appliqué pieces, can I do these without using interfacing? I low key hate interfacing. I have had to use it before for other things and I find it annoying and so unnecessary for most things.

4. Favorite fabric marking methods for templates? As you are doing hand work is the chalk going to smear itself away? Should I just use water soluble markers? Or will the chalk stay fine?

5. What type of batting do you use for hand quilting? I heard soft cotton batting. Does anyone have any issues using any other types when hand stitching?

6. not a beginner question but a special bonus question: people who are making Victorian styled crazy quilts (historically accurate with fully random pieces and hand sewing them on) do you attach your pieces first then do embroidery work on them on the piece or do you do the embroidery work first then add it to the quilt after? I’m not talking about embroidered seams. Any cool things you’ve found from studying other Victorian pieces that you can suggest?

Thank you for your answers in advance. If I asked my grandma she would go “oh come on you should know this!” I mainly only ask her about advanced techniques lol

I went to my third Al anon meeting today. I have alcoholism in my family but not in my direct household. We joke my mom is the worst alcoholic because she has so much wine but doesn’t drink it. But I’ve managed to date/talk to/be around tons of addicts and alcoholics in my life. I experimented with weed as a teen until I was traumatized by somebody and now it’s a full ptsd trigger for me. I am able to be at a bar sober and be a DD or go out and have one drink and when I’m past more than one drink I know when to cut it off and stop before getting anywhere close to blackout and avoid puking. I went to my friend’s AA meeting where he was a speaker and I ended up meeting a bunch of people and becoming friends. One person told me about Al Anon and I went twice especially after my recent mental health crisis where in IOP/group therapy I realized I am deeply affected by other’s drug/alcohol usage. Most of the most traumatizing stuff that’s happened to me was from somebody in or on their way to active addiction. Two/three of my rapes were by the hands of somebody who was in active addiction and actively on something and the third one was somebody who was sober at the time to my knowledge but had substance issues and later developed more. Then countless other sexual assaults/harassment, emotional abuse, and domestic violence. I have had countless drunk partners put hands on me in ways that were rough, left bruises, or violated me. Even if they didn’t hit me directly. The ones I dated I got lucky enough to get out of the situation fast enough before it got worse but the damage that was there had already been done. I’ve had bruises from them grabbing me too hard and rough when we were intimate after I had stopped drinking and started sobering up but they were still much more drunk. And of course the drunk fights they started. I recently even got ghosted by a guy who I fell in love with and he just ghosted me for his deep dive into beer and alcoholism. It’s just wrecking me. So much PTSD and trauma from others actions and trauma. Now I’m realizing one of the missing links I might have needed for healing is working the Al Anon steps. I am terrified of it honestly.

I haven’t been riding since maybe 2010 and a friend is bringing me out to Stoneyford with him to go trail riding. I’m having this internal struggle with my safety professional background and education mixed with family role models always trail riding in full gear vs saving money and using old gear.

My old helmet (doesn’t fit, I was a kid) and my mom’s helmet (probably fits) were all from 2007, those are being thrown out and I’m buying new.

I don’t have boots that fit so I’m buying new especially after my brother crushed his foot while wearing workboots and not riding boots on a dirtbike in 2018. It nuked his senior year for sports.

I pulled out old gear and the chest protector is a Bilt from 2003. I am looking at the cycle gear sale and the protectors they have now and it’s all totally different new designs (engineering wise not just pretty looks) compared to early 2000’s.

It’s my first time riding again in YEARS and embarrassingly enough I was mostly on Quads and so skill level is beginner on bikes. Also my

For things like chest protectors, knee pads, and elbow pads, do you think there’s been enough development in safety design that I should wear a chest protector from 2003?

The foam feels weak. The plastic didn’t break when I bent it inwards on each of the pieces, but overall it’s over 2 decades old. 23 years is OLD in PPE world. I wouldn’t let my brother on a football field with 10 year old football pads or a helmet. I wouldn’t let a worker on a construction site or mine with a 15 year old fall protection harness that’s had tons of use like this chest plate had. And honestly I wouldn’t even let my ex boyfriend’s kids wear a paintball mask lens over a decade old.

Do you all think it’s worth it to buy new especially since I’m basically a beginner again? I am thinking yes so far because if I crash out there alone with my friend and the chest plate breaks on impact and cuts into me while also not absorbing shock and I am with broken bones, ribs, or spine then the value of the new one would be worth it vs risking with the old one. I luckily have tons of pants and clothes I can wear riding so it’s not like I’d be going full fashion show. I also online shopped price low to high and looked at reviews and found things on sale right now.

I also have another friend encouraging me to stop looking at the Tech 3’s and look at the 5 or 7 instead because of both my brother’s foot injury and protection quality in his experience and based on reviews. For helmet I am going midrange because I value my current ability to think and facial comfort. I also hear the arguments of “if you only go once you’re wasting money” but also like if I go more than once I’m not wasting money and if I crash I’m hopefully saving money. That’s also why my parents have been paying for helicopter insurance since 2007 even after we stopped riding because they saw the bill from somebody we were camping with breaking their neck. Which also reminds me I need to find the neck protector which I didn’t see in our old gear.

I am hearing two sides, some people saying not even to worry about chest protectors and ride with just a new helmet and boots, some people saying not to even get a new helmet or any boots and wear my work boots (big no) and then others saying yes to all new and my dad saying yes to new boots and helmet but use old chest protector and pads. So I’m torn. Plus if I buy new, my brother can use the new chest plate whenever he rides without me.

I just need others input. Have you gone out riding in old gear and it worked fine, did you crash and it hurt you more? Did new gear save you? Do you have any insight into technology and engineering advancements in basic gear since the early 2000’s compared to now? Do you think this level of investment for a possibility of going once or twice (hopefully more than that but life is life and gets busy which is why we stopped riding in the first place) is worth it for the sake of possibly ending up more injured from failed PPE? Opinions please. My pros list leans more towards yes with safety as a beginner rider, possible hospital bills, and low key comfort and my cons lists is just money and having barely used gear sitting in storage. Being construction safety has me screaming that it’s too old.

I started doing my makeup in like 2008. I miss the way we all did makeup in normal schools and areas from 2008-2013 (not rich/celebrity makeup) before the beauty boom. I miss seeing smudgy effortless makeup, colors that make sense on the skin, only a few basic products with good technique. I feel like makeup has become so all or nothing. While you can rip my primers and setting spray out of my dead hands (oily skin) I swear life would be better if we simplified our steps and simple eyeshadow trios or quads or even singles. I used to only put on foundation with flat spatula shaped brushes effortlessly. I wore one satin/shimmery eyeshadow daily. I finally figured out how I wanted my eyeliner to look like back then that I couldn’t figure out at that age, but it sure as hell isn’t a wing it’s an effortless smudgy liner. Everything now is so sharp and looks edited in person like how did they make it look like a filter is on their face irl to the point it’s like uncanny. I would kill to never see baking foundation again. I miss baked formulas too but if you baked face or eyeshadow formulas they all just show people dumping loose powder on their face. And the funny thing is when I say these things, people tell me to mind my own business, but the problem is right now my consumer needs aren’t being met, my content needs aren’t being met, and I feel a bit lonely with the type of makeup I want to see and talk about. I don’t genuinely care others wear things I don’t like or do makeup stuff I hate, but it’s lonely having nobody to talk to or not finding the right formulas and colors I want that used to exist. They used to be very simple formulas and colors where I knew what colors worked for me and what didn’t so I only had a few. Idk I just miss the simplicity and how much better everyone looked with their willingness to wear out messy makeup because it looked good with how we did it. Everything’s too perfect now that it all looks off. Does this make sense? Idk I stopped wearing makeup daily end of 2017 because the beauty spaces in 2015 and 2016 were too intense and the current trends were too high demand. I couldn’t keep up with doing that style of makeup daily. They all kept telling us how bad our makeup was and how to fix it. It was so predatory and created this mess of flawless makeup non stop. I just miss the simplicity.

Hello,

I have a mild personal interest in earthquakes and fault lines. I live in Northern California and I am fairly close to the major fault lines. I can find tons of info on that, but there's some smaller faults I REALLY want to know about. I only see older information about them. I also want to find out if I am basically living on a named fault line too. I am looking for info for Solano County fault lines, specifically Vacaville. Surrounding counties are cool to know about too. I want to know about The Vaca Fault.

I am noticing my favorite tanners so far (I’m new to it and I’ve only used two tanners) have sodium metabisulfite. I’m technically allergic to it and when I take it in medication form (the generics for Delsym have it) I break out in ugly itchy blotchy giant hives. Topical the first two times was okay. My third time was a bit… uncomfortable. I had broken skin I didn’t notice and it got a bit more angry that day and I noticed my skin felt awful using it this last time. Does anyone have any recommendations to replace the St Tropez Water Mouse and classic self tan? I really liked them besides realizing they have that ingredient. I am loving the clear stuff because I can get away with going out and doing stuff with it on. And I don’t think it makes me look orange.

Hi all,
I was introduced to disc golf by somebody recently and while we aren’t talking now, I really enjoyed it and it’s cheaper than my other hobbies (replacing one lost disc vs a $600+ paintball markers or a $50 box of field paint per night/day since I play extremely hard and I’m a bit trigger happy… plus if I go to another field where they don’t do ladies play free…. Yeah… that adds up) and while I enjoy my other hobbies my wallet does not and I need to get active. What advice do you have for somebody new to disc golf? Things to work on, bad habits to avoid? Things that you wish you actually learned to do earlier? I don’t really care about disc types yet and I bought beginner sets for me and whoever I drag along with me so that’s not a concern. I really want to focus on actually getting techniques and form right.