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Forums Vibrance Day 2022: Spring Cleaning! Super late posting, help me get a set?
@KDA Drew: its not a really talked about aspect because in my experience only type 1’s are affected like that, not so much type 2’s. That being said, anyone could get too overheated and feel off so xD
Also if your adrenals don’t work well that makes it worse because they regulate your body temp. (Spoiler, mine don’t work well lol) I have an arsenal of different sized gel ice packs that I always keep in the freezer, then a thin dish towel to wrap them in so that its not directly on me but can still feel the coolness that I will put on my forehead or the top of my head or the back of my neck. Back of the neck really helps cool your whole body down so I definitely suggest trying that and seeing if it helps. You could also get a ziploc of ice if you have ice or a bag of frozen peas or something lol
Oh! And if you’re feeling anxious you can put ice in the middle of your chest to help calm down your vagus nerve (the main nerve that controls things like heart rate). Idk if it works for everyone but it has helped me in the past.
Also if your adrenals don’t work well that makes it worse because they regulate your body temp. (Spoiler, mine don’t work well lol) I have an arsenal of different sized gel ice packs that I always keep in the freezer, then a thin dish towel to wrap them in so that its not directly on me but can still feel the coolness that I will put on my forehead or the top of my head or the back of my neck. Back of the neck really helps cool your whole body down so I definitely suggest trying that and seeing if it helps. You could also get a ziploc of ice if you have ice or a bag of frozen peas or something lol
Oh! And if you’re feeling anxious you can put ice in the middle of your chest to help calm down your vagus nerve (the main nerve that controls things like heart rate). Idk if it works for everyone but it has helped me in the past.
@PashminaPanda: glad I’m not alone! Weekends suck for me but I understand why the majority of people like them lol
Oh that sounds fun! I went to a reunion once, but my family are awful people so it was a bust 😂 never went back lol
I hope yours is more fun and better company xD
@Alorrena: I’m alright, tryna stay cool lol how are you? :3
@Totalanimefan: idk according to the announcement it said the forums would close the 19th so I’m just assuming today is the last day lol
you can clean it? xD
The guy cleaned the outside system out but we haven’t done anything with the ducts. Deep cleaning our house is on the top of our to do list lol
Oh that sounds fun! I went to a reunion once, but my family are awful people so it was a bust 😂 never went back lol
I hope yours is more fun and better company xD
@Alorrena: I’m alright, tryna stay cool lol how are you? :3
@Totalanimefan: idk according to the announcement it said the forums would close the 19th so I’m just assuming today is the last day lol
you can clean it? xD
The guy cleaned the outside system out but we haven’t done anything with the ducts. Deep cleaning our house is on the top of our to do list lol
@Ruby: same, actually. Makes me glad my hubby and i moved our computers to the other bedroom- our bedroom is gonna be so nice to sleep in tonight!
i just got back from grocery shopping. Found some pickle flavored peanuts that i just had to buy because the brand is Dee's Nuts. The pickles and peanuts combo is confusing and makes me think that this was probably someone's pregnancy craving with pickles and peanut butter. it's quite interesting.
i just got back from grocery shopping. Found some pickle flavored peanuts that i just had to buy because the brand is Dee's Nuts. The pickles and peanuts combo is confusing and makes me think that this was probably someone's pregnancy craving with pickles and peanut butter. it's quite interesting.
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@Ruby: The only reason I'm really going is because it's the last big party at my grandma's house as she'll be selling it in 2-3 years. </3 I've made a lot of fond memories there, so I try to go there every chance I get. She lives on this huge property with a lake and it's absolutely beautiful this time of year.
Thinking about playing Pokemon Crystal again. 
@Alorrena: I’m so glad my house is finally cool lol summer is always such a big stressor so its nice to have one less thing lol
Omg that sounds kinda good actually xD also A+ business name xD
Omg that sounds kinda good actually xD also A+ business name xD
@PashminaPanda: omg that sounds amazing! I definitely see why you would want to go. Hell I’d love to go too xD
It’d be awesome to have a property like that.
Why is she selling? Is it getting to be too much to take care of?
It’d be awesome to have a property like that.
Why is she selling? Is it getting to be too much to take care of?
@Ruby: yeah, i'll feel the same way once my mother in law moves out and i can bump the AC down a few degrees. She keeps it at 78-79 all the time and it's pretty awful. It's comfortable if you're not doing anything and aren't near the PCs or in the kitchen cooking. And she rarely cooks at home, and she doesn't use computers at home. So she's comfortable all the time while Tyi and i are usually dying.
They were actually. And yes, the brand is what caught my attention, actually. i found them at Walmart. Tyi tried them and said they were weird, but i liked them.
They were actually. And yes, the brand is what caught my attention, actually. i found them at Walmart. Tyi tried them and said they were weird, but i liked them.
@Alorrena: omg what is it with old people and making it a sauna Dx that is WAY too hot for inside the house. Anything over 75 is too much and 70 is as high as I want it lol
I feel your pain tho my grandma’s apartment is BOILING and she’s a mean old goat.
She doesn’t take care of her house at all so we have to go over and so all the cooking and cleaning and we’re just pouring sweat after. Although now we just turn it on (not too low but enough to have some air flow) and tell her to suck it up lol like if you want food sit down and stfu xD
I feel your pain tho my grandma’s apartment is BOILING and she’s a mean old goat.
She doesn’t take care of her house at all so we have to go over and so all the cooking and cleaning and we’re just pouring sweat after. Although now we just turn it on (not too low but enough to have some air flow) and tell her to suck it up lol like if you want food sit down and stfu xD
@Ruby: i have no clue. The sad thing is is that she's not even that old. She's like, 48 or 49. Her parent's house is worse- they keep it at 80-82, depending on how hot it is outside. if it's hotter the house is also hotter, if it's cooler, they open the windows. I agree with you about it being too hot if it's over 75, and i also want the ac set at 70, though honestly, when she moves out, because of how the house is (crappy insulation, cracks in doors, all sorts of ways for the cool air to escape) we will probably keep it at 74 or 73, because otherwise our electric bill will be ridiculous. Also, while we will be able to afford whatever it is, i don't wanna spend too much on it. If i were in your shoes, i would also tell her to suck it up cause it's only temporary while you're there. Is this the grandma that used to live in Florida?
@Alorrena: omg what? xD that’s even worse then xD
Nah I totally understand, it can really run up a bill pretty quick. We usually try to cool it off at night when its cooler outside and then its easier to maintain the cool throughout the day (keeping everything shut, we have bad seals too so I also understand that lol)
Haha yep that’s the one. She just refuses to do anything and refuses to even try to walk (and she could if she wanted to. She’s not wheelchair bound but she wants to be because she’s lazy and knows people will just do it for her 🙄)
Nah I totally understand, it can really run up a bill pretty quick. We usually try to cool it off at night when its cooler outside and then its easier to maintain the cool throughout the day (keeping everything shut, we have bad seals too so I also understand that lol)
Haha yep that’s the one. She just refuses to do anything and refuses to even try to walk (and she could if she wanted to. She’s not wheelchair bound but she wants to be because she’s lazy and knows people will just do it for her 🙄)
@Ruby: Yeah. And it's pretty bad. Before we moved in she turned the AC off unless she was at home, and even then i'm pretty sure she didn't really use it or she had it set to like 80 or something. And if we put it at 76 she complains that she's "Freezing" while Tyi and i are sweating bullets. Then she complains about our room having a funny smell, but like.... We're sweating, and that's gross, and you won't let us do anything to stop sweating.... so... idk she frustrates me. BUT! she'll be moving out once i get my second paycheck from my new job! So it's only like a month to wait, and then we can put my desk in the other room, keep the doors open, and be as cold as the AC can make it without overworking. I might also buy a stand alone AC unit to put in the window of the room our PC's are in now instead of moving me to the other room, but idk yet. My mom has one for her room at my grandma's because her room gets too hot, even with the AC set to 70-71 (MAYBE 72, if grandma's feeling cold or something. I'm so glad my grandma isn't one of the old people that are always cold). My mom's room gets warmer than the rest of the house because it's central cooling and she has to keep her bedroom door closed because her cats live in there and Grandma's cat isn't up to date on vaccinations or something, and she's an outdoor cat, so mom doesn't want them mingling.
Oh man that's rough. But like, How do you get so lazy that you don't wanna walk? I mean i get it sometimes, but... no, dude. That's not a life to live though... Also she'd LOVE our office lol it's so warm in here just because of the PCs. I need to get off ark, it's too much lol
Oh man that's rough. But like, How do you get so lazy that you don't wanna walk? I mean i get it sometimes, but... no, dude. That's not a life to live though... Also she'd LOVE our office lol it's so warm in here just because of the PCs. I need to get off ark, it's too much lol
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@Alorrena: lol its like pick one. Also if you’re “freezing” put a $&@“ing sweater on >.>
Window units can definitely be helpful, we had to get one when we didn’t have working central air.
Also I appreciate your mom looking out for her cats like that, even more so that it makes her room a sauna but she does it anyway. Cats > myself xD
Omg right???? Everyone keeps telling her that too but nope. She loves to be difficult too tho. Idk. Her mother was the same way. Mean her whole life and towards the end didn’t want to walk and sat on her butt watching tv all day. Guess what my grandma does. 🙄 which is super ironic because my uncle said that when her mom was like that? She couldn’t understand how or why anyone would live like that, “BECAUSE THATS NO WAY TO LIVE” excuse me?!!! She makes zero sense I can’t even.
That being said she also does have some dementia starting so that probably doesn’t help. So we also have the paranoia to deal with. Like, she couldn’t drive anymore right? And she let her license lapse before she moved so she had to reapply when she got here instead of just getting a new card (all because she was too cheap to “pay fo it twice”) but really thats a blessing in disguise because can you imagine her on the road? -shudders- anyway, so she couldn’t drive and refused to even take tests to see where she was at. Obviously they didn’t give her a license. So then her truck sat in the parking lot and finally she was like “okay just sell it” and that took a while it wasn’t instant. So finally agreed on someone and it was all nice and legal and everything. Now? Shes saying we stole her truck from her, we sold it right out from under her, blah blah blah. 🤦🏼♀️ If she had been a nice person before I’d just chalk this up to the illness and age but when she’s always been a raging pain in the ass its so hard to tell what’s up. Cuz she is capable when she wants to be.
Edit: sorry this turned into so much of a vent sesh, that wasn’t my intention but it got there xD
Window units can definitely be helpful, we had to get one when we didn’t have working central air.
Also I appreciate your mom looking out for her cats like that, even more so that it makes her room a sauna but she does it anyway. Cats > myself xD
Omg right???? Everyone keeps telling her that too but nope. She loves to be difficult too tho. Idk. Her mother was the same way. Mean her whole life and towards the end didn’t want to walk and sat on her butt watching tv all day. Guess what my grandma does. 🙄 which is super ironic because my uncle said that when her mom was like that? She couldn’t understand how or why anyone would live like that, “BECAUSE THATS NO WAY TO LIVE” excuse me?!!! She makes zero sense I can’t even.
That being said she also does have some dementia starting so that probably doesn’t help. So we also have the paranoia to deal with. Like, she couldn’t drive anymore right? And she let her license lapse before she moved so she had to reapply when she got here instead of just getting a new card (all because she was too cheap to “pay fo it twice”) but really thats a blessing in disguise because can you imagine her on the road? -shudders- anyway, so she couldn’t drive and refused to even take tests to see where she was at. Obviously they didn’t give her a license. So then her truck sat in the parking lot and finally she was like “okay just sell it” and that took a while it wasn’t instant. So finally agreed on someone and it was all nice and legal and everything. Now? Shes saying we stole her truck from her, we sold it right out from under her, blah blah blah. 🤦🏼♀️ If she had been a nice person before I’d just chalk this up to the illness and age but when she’s always been a raging pain in the ass its so hard to tell what’s up. Cuz she is capable when she wants to be.
Edit: sorry this turned into so much of a vent sesh, that wasn’t my intention but it got there xD
@Totalanimefan: good to know thanks for the tip
@Anarchist Beauty: I didn’t do a very good job checking back either xD oh well lol my fault for missing the event stuff lol
@Anarchist Beauty: I didn’t do a very good job checking back either xD oh well lol my fault for missing the event stuff lol
Did you manage to get an event item set yet, Ruby? I hope you did (but I'm not going to read back three pages to find out ;) ). Good luck!
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@Ruby: I know, right!? you can literally always add more layers if you're cold. I swear, if she weren't moving out, i would have bought her an electric blanket for christmas this year. She actually sent the projected electric bill to us last night, and it's close to 300. So i get where she's coming from because it's a lot and in her name, but we can literally afford up to 350 for utilities if we have to (not including the $50 she pays for), and that's BEFORE my new job, so idk why she freaks out so much about it. We'd rather pay more than be so hot that we can't wear clothes.
Yeah, my mom usually takes really good care of her pets. She built them a Catio too lol She put a removable pet door in the window that leads to it, and that's also where the AC exhaust goes, but above the Catio. She also hung up a tarp for them so they have shade during the summer (and it helps keep her room slightly less warm)
No worries about the vent sesh. I totally get it. My husband's Grandma has dementia, and while she gave up her license before the dementia set in, she always complains about everything and has bad moods. Like, Grandpa doesn't really take her outside anymore because she just won't go back in and causes scenes. When Tyi's cousin was in town, she took gram outside thinking she could handle it, but then gram walked like 4 houses down, stood in someone's yard, and was going on about how kim was "one of them, one of their gang out to get her." or something and to call Kevin (Gram's son), and no one really knows why kevin is her golden child because apparently no one really likes him? idk i know my mother in law can't stand him. but yeah, Gram just did not want to go back to the house, and the only thing that snapped her out of it is that one of her neighbors came out with their baby and Kim redirected her and said hey lets go see their baby! idk, it's stressful. I'm sure it's extra hard since your grandma was already crochety.
Yeah, my mom usually takes really good care of her pets. She built them a Catio too lol She put a removable pet door in the window that leads to it, and that's also where the AC exhaust goes, but above the Catio. She also hung up a tarp for them so they have shade during the summer (and it helps keep her room slightly less warm)
No worries about the vent sesh. I totally get it. My husband's Grandma has dementia, and while she gave up her license before the dementia set in, she always complains about everything and has bad moods. Like, Grandpa doesn't really take her outside anymore because she just won't go back in and causes scenes. When Tyi's cousin was in town, she took gram outside thinking she could handle it, but then gram walked like 4 houses down, stood in someone's yard, and was going on about how kim was "one of them, one of their gang out to get her." or something and to call Kevin (Gram's son), and no one really knows why kevin is her golden child because apparently no one really likes him? idk i know my mother in law can't stand him. but yeah, Gram just did not want to go back to the house, and the only thing that snapped her out of it is that one of her neighbors came out with their baby and Kim redirected her and said hey lets go see their baby! idk, it's stressful. I'm sure it's extra hard since your grandma was already crochety.
married 02/02/2020 - @Ruby: I had a good excuse.
I was on vacation for most of it. XD
@Totalanimefan: I’m at 27 lol I had enough for one so I got a goodie bag to decide later
@Wildfire: my mom was able to get me a bundle by playing a bunch of jigsaw, bless her for that lol so I have at least one of each item although I usually try to get 2 so I can use every pose but, if all I get is the one at least I’m not empty handed lol (having the cap be at 200 a day in jigsaw really cut into being able to get bundles cuz that’s usually what I do)
@Anarchist Beauty: yeah that is a fair excuse xD I’m going on vacation tomorrow
@Wildfire: my mom was able to get me a bundle by playing a bunch of jigsaw, bless her for that lol so I have at least one of each item although I usually try to get 2 so I can use every pose but, if all I get is the one at least I’m not empty handed lol (having the cap be at 200 a day in jigsaw really cut into being able to get bundles cuz that’s usually what I do)
@Anarchist Beauty: yeah that is a fair excuse xD I’m going on vacation tomorrow
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Having you as a Voltie would be awesome.