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I (22F) decided to start self-discovery after a really unfortunate event recently in my life. Today, while me, my boyfriend and his mother went grilling in our garden, I thought about going lacto-ovo-pescetarian.

I was raised in a "normal" family, where everyone eats meat. The whole country does, same after I moved countries. Except that I have never really been so infatuated with it. Like sure, it's okay, but I like fish more. It's not my first encounter with vegetarianism and its types (at least internet considers pescetarianism a subtype of vegetarianism to some extent), as my ex-boyfriend became vegetarian. I did read through all the types of non-meat diets and this one seemed more fitting, as I'd be cutting out something that I don't have much attatchment to and just, going vegan doesn't seem very appealing to me yet.

I want to do it for myself. Most of my life has been a result of someone else's remarks/choices influencing mine and this is where I want to start doing things because I want them to be that way. The only reasons why I'm having doubts, is because the country I live in, is heavily into meat and meat dishes. Most of my favourite dishes also include meat (although nowadays they could easily be replaced with vegan alternative if I want to). My current boyfriend would be supportive of it, however I am somewhat afraid of standing out too much. My immediate family most likely wouldn't understand, as my mother is the type of person to post on Facebook how she had a blast going to steakhouse and ate sooo much meat (and she did already).

Perhaps you could share a few encouraging words and give some advice regarding all that. It is a big change and encouragement is definetely needed.

Also für Kontext: ich bin 22, fast 3.Fachsemester und Ausländerin. Habe letzte Sommer eingewandert, da ich in Deutschland studieren möchte.

Ich weiß nicht warum, aber ich bin ehrlich manchmal eifersüchtig über meine Mitschüler aus 9. und 12.Klasse. Mehrheit von uns sitzt auf Instagram und man sieht z.B dieses Jahr, dass alle haben jetzt Ihre Bachelorstudium abgeschlossen, in Psychologie oder Lettische Sprache und Kultur, Kunst usw. Naja, ich habe 2 Jahren in Berufsschule gelernt, dann abgebrochen und nach Gymnasium gewechselt, so dass ich in der Uni gehen könnte (und Deutsch, weil meine Schule Deutschrichtung hat). Also 2 Jahren "weg".

Und jetzt siehe ich auch, wie meine Mitschüler aus 12.Klasse aus verschiedene Trips gehen und Partys und mit Freunde etwas feiert und ich bin die einzige, die jetzt in Deutschland wohnt und hat ganz viel Stress, ob ich mein Pädagogikprüfung durchfalle oder nicht. Don't get me wrong, ich mag es hier viel besser, Klima ist viel freundlicher außerhalb Hitzewelle, aber ja. Ich habe keine Freunde in der Schule gemacht, weil ich mehr Priorität zur Schule und Arbeit gegeben habe. Und jetzt irgendwie auch, aber jetzt habe ich paar Freunde gefunden, obwohl wir treffen uns einmal pro Woche in ein Englischkurs.

Vielleicht habe ich bisschen FOMO, aber vielleicht ist es Heimatweh, keine Ahnung. Überall ist es komisch zu sehen, dass alle Leute neben mir, die ich kenne, immer so viel Spaß haben und ich sitze Zuhause und versuche es in der Hitzewelle zu lernen. Und es ist auch schwierig, wenn man kleine kulturelle Differenzen hat.

Also hart arbeiten oder studieren ist kein Problem, bisher habe ich es geschafft. Problem ist nur, was mache ich mit dieses Gefühl von "missing out in life"?

My gyno prescribed me a combination pill 2 weeks ago. I've been taking it every day, but now I'm stopping bc of the horrible side effects I'm getting from it. Before you get at me, I did take birth control for a year or so when I was 16, now I'm 22 and I had few years break.

I thought that I'll have it the same, with minimal side effects, just like last time. Yea no, my appetite is completely gone, I'm constantly nauseous and I'm having severe mental fog. Yesterday when I went to ergotherapy, I sat in the metro tube, thinking "oh wait where am I?" 🫠 I can't study, can't focus, it's absolutely shit.

Honestly I'd rather suffer once every month (although for me its more once every 1.5 months) than have these side effects. The pain is...bad, but I had genuienly worse, like after getting hit by a car.

I also don't want to do hysterectomies or anything surgical cause of my PTSD after the same car accident. I guess I'll just try to eat healthy and find ways to manage without involving hormones.

As soon as I saw the game pics and all, I talked quite often about how the game looks so damn cute and would be fun to play. Little did I know when I checked my Steam today, my boyfriend bought me Paralives as a gift! It took a bit of a learning curve for me to learn, but it's so awesome!!

I really do love that there is a tutorial in the beginning and you can pick between pre-made households or making your own Para. Not to mention the customisation options! And I do like the career options, although bit limited at first.

I'm glad to join the community and see the game get better. Happy to support the smaller game dev studios!

In my legacy forever save, I have main branch (the heir) and the rest. In Gen 4 so far there are 3 children, all girls.

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Gen 3? 8 sims, 4 girls, 3 boys, 1 boy was adopted into the family. One of the gen 3 sims is carrying twin girls at the moment.

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In total I have 18 sims in the family tree, from which 6 are men and the rest are women. I'll be out of men townies to marry soon, so I resorted to making some of them lesbians or single until the end bc how are boys so rare in my game? 😭

I don't have a specific genre in mind, but please no Sci-Fi or horrors. I tried once reading Sci-Fi and it is not for me.

I'm looking mainly for novels, preferably 350-600 page count as I am approaching my obessive reading phase again. Series are welcome too (max up to 8 books).

So far I have on my list: Emma, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Handmaid's Tale, Sense and Sensibility, Wide Sargasso Sea, The Memory Police. Recently I have finished Jane Eyre.

Some earlier books I've read were Madame Bovary, Apothecary Melchior and ______ series, The Calendar Girl series, Master and Margarita, Truth and Justice I (national classic), 451 degrees Fahrenheit and so on. Hopefully it summarizes my taste. I do like classical books with occasional reading of a smut/romance and self-help/psych books, but mainly classical novels. Idk what it is exactly, but they are very gripping. I hope some of you might be able to help me expand my list! :)

Mäkk on ülemaailma tuntud ja paljudes riikides on saadaval eritooted, mida mujalt telluda ei saa. Nt Saksamaal on NcRib, Filipiinidel spagetid ning Vietnamis on hoopiski riisitoidud saadaval burgerite kõrval. Mis oleks puht eestlaslik mäki toode? Või millist toodet tahaksid sa ise, et Eesti mäkis müüdaks?

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Eile tellisime poisiga mäkist õhtusööki ja neil oli palju erilisi tooteid, seega pani mõtlema.

So my sim a SimHub content creator and is studying in uni. Her husband is graduating soon with a history degree and thus he has 3 main options:

-Politician

-Law

-Education (I think)

And idk what would fit better here. She is studying Art, with possibility of dropping uni to pursue a full-time SimHub career. If not then I was thinking she could be a style influencer or an entertainer. Thoughts, ideas?