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So Last week my husband and i moved into his mom's house. We're paying rent and our share of the bills. So, it's more of a roommate situation for us.

So it's important to note that last week we had laptops, this week we got PCs. Everything is on the same power strip. Since we got the PCs, it seems like a nightly thing where our power strip is turned off at some point while we are asleep. We were thinking that it was the dog accidentally stepping on the power button, but now we're thinking it might not be. When we went to bed last night, we put a suitcase and my computer chair in front of our doorway to block the dog from coming into the room ( we don't have a door). So when we woke up, we were surprised to find that the power wasn't working in our room at all. So i told my husband to check the circuit breaker because it may have tripped. He went to the garage and flipped it back on and came back and told me that it looked like it had been flipped because it wasn't in the half way position it normally goes to when the breakers get tripped and was instead fully into the off position. So now we're wondering if his mom flipped the breaker off because she couldn't get in the room to turn off our power strip. This is upsetting because of the new PCs. We put them in sleep mode, or if Tyi is doing updates, he locks his computer and turns off his monitor.

We think it's her because his mom is a stickler about the electric usage, even though we'll be paying the difference we make. She doesn't like the house being below 76 when she's at work, or below 78 when she's home at night, and is always talking about the electric bill.

an air mattress box that doesn't have the air mattress in it but instead, various small items.

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my husband rapid clicking while he plays league and talks to his friends

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@CyclonicMicroburst: Welcome to Voltra! We're a small but active community! i'm sure you'll like it here!

@Vegan: it's quite possible. I mean i only had symptoms for like 4 or 5 days, and they weren't super severe. It's possible that your husband didn't get it because his body just didn't want to let him get it after the vaccine. (It's possible he could have been asymptomatic too)

I think there's a lot of room in Vegan cuisine that you can get away with serving it to non vegans and it not be too much of an issue. A lot of Vegan dishes are absolutely divine too! I think a lot of people are pretty close minded and just do the whole "Ew, there's no meat in this? no thanks." and can be potentially just as snobby as a vegan saying "ew there's animal products in this? No thanks."

I think as long as you've done your research and aren't using like Agave as a honey substitute (because that causes so much harm to other animals like Mexican Long-Nosed Bats). Like i believe in sourcing your byproducts from humane sources (or as humane as you can get when you eat animals, anyways) and doing your research (which i'm certain you have <3)

Yeah, I don't blame him for it either, but i worry about him missing out on things with our kids when we have them (hopefully soon, i might add... trying for kids is a stuggle no one really talks about), because he's so against halloween in general and doesn't even care for when i decorate the house.

I totally get that with the drunk driver thing. I try to avoid driving anywhere after about 6 or 7 if i can help it, and if i can't, i make sure i'm hyper aware of the cars around me. When i was a kid, like maybe 6 or 7, my mom had a husband that was an alcoholic and one time while she was with him she locked her keys in the car when she was at a gas station and asked him to come help instead of calling a locksmith. She didn't know he had been drinking i don't think. But he loaded me and my sibling up into his truck, drunk off his ass and we went to mom's rescue. It was pretty scary too because even at the young age i was i could tell he was really intoxicated and shouldn't have been driving. I asked my mom if i could ride with her on the way home. I think that as long as you're aware of the cars around you, and make sure you have enough space between you and any other vehicle and have an escape bubble around you when you drive, you should be okay. (basically space to swerve suddenly or break if need be).

YEah, i haven't been on ADHD meds for like 10 years, so i just made sure to be aware of what was happening around me even if i was distracted. When i was first learning to drive and up until i was in college actually, i couldn't have the radio on or have anyone talk to me really or i'd miss my turn or run a stop sign( never a red light though, at least), and the only accidents i've been in that were considered my fault (the first one was), happened before i turned 18. The first one i rear ended someone because i was looking for trains too long (i was like 16, and had just started driving on my own without my mom), and the second i had just learned stick shift and was still bad at it. When they ran the lights to determine fault, i forgot to tell them that i had stalled the car 3 times at the previous light, so they said i had 8 seconds before i would have had green. So... i got the ticket even though i wasn't at fault. oh well.
Driving in the city isn't too bad, but you just have to be alert. For me it's more scary to drive in the mountains or on long stretches of straight highway. Mountains are windy, and straight stretches you're more likely to get tired or zone out.

I sat on a wasp once. My thigh swelled up to the size of a softball. it was painful and uncomfortable. (i was getting into my uncle's truck and his windows had been open and it was summer and i didn't see the wasp until i got stung.) i've also been stung by bees on several occasions. They like my hair and have gotten stuck in it more than once. Ants on the other hand, they're unassuming and usually unexpected and somehow end up on you without you realizing they were near you most of the time lol

The sad thing about that particular hit and run is that they DID get away with it. We called the cops to report it, cop said basically there was notihng they could do. There were cameras at the intersection, so i think the cop just didn't care. *eyeroll*



@CyclonicMicroburst: Thank you! I have to make some adjustments to the strap length and make a few popped seam repairs, but otherwise i'm quite happy with the dress!

@Kory: I totally get that! I think both stories were fantastic! :D I liked the fact that in Encanto, you see a lot of examples of different kinds of relationships and you can kind of see a lot of different character's viewpoints and struggles, instead of just the one main one (for example you get to see all 3 sisters' personal issues with their roles). And in Coco i like how you can see the bigger picture of things just by following miguel's struggle to do what he loves.

@Kory: Ooh, i loved Coco! I think both movies were great! I don't think one was better than the other, but i think I'm partial to Lin manuel-miranda's music. Also, coco didn't make me cry or make me have big emotions, but Encanto did, especially with Surface Pressure. I like movies that give me emotions :] I do however think that we don't talk about bruno is starting to get to be like Let it go, and it's just played, A LOT. and that gets annoying fast. Also, Coco was nice because it was refreshing having a male protagonist instead of a female.

I've created a pole Poll here.

I was kinda feeling binging Harry Potter, but at the same time, I can quote the movies. So i'm not sure if i want a comfort flick, or if i want to reach out into other movies, and if there are other movies, what should i watch?

@Vegan: it actually sounds like you may have in fact had Covid without knowing! I started feeling a little sick with symptoms before i tested positive, but what you described sounds really similar to the symptoms i had. I was told that the variant going around right now is less agressive symptom wise, and isn't causing issues with the lungs, nor with sense of taste or smell (except for the normal stuff that comes with a stuffy nose).

I totally get the for the greater good/ do the least harm mentality. I'm glad you're one of the vegans that understands that and doesn't look down on other people for not being vegan, nor do you push your views on other people <3 I've encountered a lot of pretentious vegans that think they're better than other people just because of their life style, and push others to be vegan too. My opinions is that being vegan or anything like that is like religion- it's fine if you do that, just don't try to make me do that or try to make me feel bad for not doing that, because it's my right to chose not to have those beliefs. (sorry for my tangent.)

Tyi won't go if there's any chance of a needle being involved. I think a lot of it was that when he was a little little kid, his sister had Down Syndrome and was in the hospital a lot, if not her whole life ( she died when she was like 3 or 6 months old, on halloween, which is why he hates halloween), and he saw how much discomfort she had when she was poked and prodded that much, and i think it may have traumatized him. Even if he has me go with him or has coping tools to use, he won't go.

Yeah, Driving was pretty scary for me at first too because i also have ADHD, and get easily distracted, but i've been driving for 15 years now on my own, so i've gotten pretty good at focusing or at least focusing enough to not die. I also live in Florida and the drivers here are super scary, so it's not hard to stay focused. I think driving is one of those things that the more you do it the easier it is as far as anxiety goes.

Yeah, it was pretty intense. i'm slightly traumatized by it now and the thought of ants being on me makes me anxious now. and that frustrates me because i know that logically even if i get a couple bites here or there i'll be okay, as long as it's not more than a few at once.

i'm also glad to be okay. It was definitely an adventure. The tire blowing out is nothing new, but the ant allergy was. Like 3 or 4 years ago we got into a hit and run accident. The rear left tire got hit, so that axel is slightly bent, so the tire alignment can't be fully fixed so our tires go out approximately every year or so, so it's not that big of a deal. Though, up til now, it was always me driving, and not Tyi, so it freaked him out a bit.