Rei Ann's posts

I want to buy like 10 of these.

@Kory: Yeah, houses further out are better targets, because in the cities the police and fire departments can get their faster. No so much in small towns. But now adays there are cheap systems people can buy for protected. Like even stuff one can put on windows.

Well my hometown had a big drug problem, so you'd end up seeing a lot of unhinged people. So I guess in the city, I'm just like able to ignore it. Everyone has a story and most people don't plan to end up in those places.

Well I guess that would be because you are a poc, right? When I drive home and such, and see like 5 cops talking to one poc on the side of the road, i get so worried. Like I know I have some privilege due to my skin, but less as I am not a man, but I worry so much. The cops are terrible, and it's like oh your skin has some color to it, you are now scum and must die. The worst experiance I had with the cops, was when my friend, she's a poc, was being taunted and attacked at show, and she is bipolar on meds, and she snapped and started yelling back, they came in and cuffed her and I'm like screaming, stop she's bipolar. She hadn't even done anything but yell at the white woman, who was attacking. Me and my other friends at the time held her back.

I ended up sitting with her in the hallway, while she was cuffed trying to calm her down. It was the worst ever. She didn't go to jail, but that was a mental health moment triggered by someone trying to fight her, and she was the one who got treated like a thug. It sucks, and the system needs reform.

Well I'll admit my mom dying, did reopen a lot of wounds. As i've said before, she wasn't good mum, and she had been really bad into alcohol and I think some drugs. So we, me and my siblings were estranged, but I guess always hoped that she'd get better. She never wanted to get better. So there some of that to work through now.

"Of course." She moved back a few steps and sat on the water's edge. She left her feet in the water enjoying the cooler temperature. "I agree, this place is lovely. I didn't know it was here until I stumbled on it by chance." She turned her gaze to him. She was worried, he seemed to be in a funk. He was upset and seemed gloomy. She didn't know what she could do to bring him out of it. It was one thing to realize you made a mistake, it was another to dwell on it.

It wasn't like he needed to forget it, but he instead needed to remember what he did, but focus on doing better. She knew this was new for him, so she wasn't trying to push him in any direction. This would be something he'd have to choose on his own. Still she couldn't help but worry, and her heart ached for him. She was unsure what to say, she felt tongue tied. She was racking her mind so much to figure out something to say that wouldn't make him feel worse. "Did you know that there is a giant statue of you, in the center of the village square. This statue different from the ones in the temple, because it's you and your harp, and it was done with you dressed."

She knew it was usual for statues of him to be "clothed", but this one had been made this way, because the artist wanted to show case Aristide and the beauty of his music. Not the beauty of his body. They wanted to place him in the heart of his town, so he could hear and see the lovely sights and noises made by people. Of course the square was the loudest part of town, so she wasn't sure of what sort of music it was. It would be nice if she could show it to him. But as far as she could tell Aristide didn't seemed to like to go about in disguise, like his Father Zeus did.

If he were to go into town as he was it would cause a ruckus. The few people left would swarm him and beg for his forgiveness and ask that he spare the town. Many had felt that the town's decline was because they had angered him. It was why there had been daily offerings. At one point the town had almost considered offering unwed woman to the god in a sacrifice to appease him. Thankfully someone had put a stop to that. She knew if he knew that his guilt would be worse, so she wouldn't tell him that. But if he disguised himself as one of his own priests, then he could enter the town under the guise of praying to himself. Which would be kinda of funny to see, a god praying to himself.

Dorothea also wanted the chance to show him where she had grown up. To point out where the festivals she told him had happened, to show him everything she had told him about. Well she couldn't just offer to take him there, what if he didn't want to go to her village. What if he saw that as her trying to rub his shortcomings in his face. When he called her name she snapped out of her thoughts. "Yes?"

@MoodyB: I guess they wanted to make it more interesting, but if I wanted hard puzzles, i go play a full puzzle game.

@Kory: Same, but it's his money and we didn't know the price til the check was out and we already drank it.

Well I know lots of crime happens up where i live now, but like since the area is so huge, i don't deal with it a lot. The most that happen since i moved up here is my bestie had moved into a new apartment and some crazy girl broken in while she was downstaris doing landuary, cause she thought her boyfriend was in my friends apartment for some reason. She didn't take anything. Just was just cray.

Otherwise more crime happened in my hometown. Like there was murders all the time, and drug deals, and like a kid i went to highschool with murder the mom of another kid at the local lonestar steak house. So I think it's just what we experience that makes an impact.

Even before my mom died, i didn't have fond memories of my hometown. It's the place where I was casted in the role of cinderella from 7 and up. I got me some nice baggage ya know. I love my life up here so much better. It took me decades to get in this great of a place, and mental state.

It seemed just as it had been time for her to make a confession, it was now his turn. Her brown eyes went wide in shock, when he apologized for being arrogant and causing pain to the village. He didn't see that apologizing to her, that admitting his mistakes showed that he was a better person than he thought he was. Bad people don't admit when they mess up. He may not have fixed everything in the village with a wave of his hand, but he was on his road to change. He had apologized. When had ever a god done that? Something told her that if she pointed this out, he wouldn't take it well. But she couldn't let him drown his self in this misery.

Before she could even said anything else he was saying that he wasn't a good person. If she thought about it, she wasn't sure if she could say out loud that she was willing to forgive him just yet. Yes he was changing, yes he was apologizing, but besides food for her and her family he hadn't made any changes yet. She wanted to scream at him, yes these things happened, but what was he going to do about it now. Was he going to wallow and not do anything. He may not be able to fix the past, but the future was not lost.

" The past is the past. Yes parts of it are bad, but there is still the future. Just as the day changes to night, so can anything." She spoke softly as if not spook him. She knew that if she told him it was okay, and she forgave him it would be hallow. But if he kept on his path of changing, it wouldn't be long before she could. It would be best if they let the topic end there. It was clear that he was getting upset. She nodded when he asked if they could move to music. Then realized he still had his back to her.

She mused over what she might sing for a moment, and then decided on a song her mother sang her in the youth. Back with Dorothea was an anxious child, and her mother would often find her in a panic. "Take a moment to think of just, Flexibility, love, and trust.." As she sang, she stepped into the water, enjoying the cooling sensation on her feet. As the edge wasn't so deep, only the ends of her dress got wet. To some the sight of her seeing there, might be considered magically, but all she was trying to do was ease his emotions. When she finished, she turned back to him. "Shall I keep singing?"

@Kory: It was a huge bottle, and it did serve both of us. So there that at least, but it wasn't special. I'm like ah yes, this is water.


So I have learned that there is going to be crime everywhere. The city doesn't scare me, and I find country crime to be worse. In my old hometown, the drug problem and heroin problem was 1000 worse, than anything I've ever seen in the city. I find that if you just carry yourself like you belong in the city, nothing should happen.

I did go back sometimes. My siblings are 8 and 9 year younger than me, so like I did for awhile. My bro moved up here as he going to the same college as me. Also my mom was still there and i was there in feb, when she died.

Hey party peeps.

@Kory: It was 7 dollars. He didn't seem to mind, but I felt salty for him. I'm like, wtf. They were like do you want sparkling or bottle water, and he goes just normal water. So idk.

I find that where I live well, I like the most. It's near the city, but not city. It's subrub ish without being so. Bascially stuff is like 10 to 5 or 15 mins away. Before most things were 30 to 40 away, and even then it was like 1.5 hours to the nearest malls, which were smallish.

Oh yes, def a small town girl. I had to get so early for the school bus to get to the more center part of town. It's bigger now, than it was when i was a kid, because the government is really boosting the base. But our town would die without the base, for sure. Oh yeah, there was nothing that delivered to my part of town. It really sucked.

Other humans might find his attached to the harp odd, but she found it endearing. It would be hard to imagine him without the harp, and well even humans had attachment to items precious to them. It wasn't something usual, but was mostly seen in children. As he spent time admiring his harp, she moved back closer to the water bank. She was glad she had found this place, it was so serene, and seemed completed untouched by humans.

She wanted to sigh when he said it was his job to take care of her. She knew she could point out the irony of his statement, but felt that was a subject best not touch. She turned towards him and her eyes scanned his face to make sure he wasn't lying. He had caught her off guard with saying that he respected her. She was completed touched by that. While it would be easy to accept that, and anything he gave her, it still didn't feel fully right. She stepped closer to him, and placed a hand gently on his shoulder. " While I am truly touched to hear that, I also respect you. I know it's your job to take care of all of us humans, but I also know that is draining. So I don't want to always expect you to feed or take care of me, because I feel that would be disrespecting you as as your own being. Purpose or no purpose, you matter to.[b]" She wasn't going to constantly try to repay his gifts, but she could make the best use of his gifts. He may like or want to care for her now, but if she just started to expect him to do it all, she knew he'd find it draining again.

He has said he respected her, which meant that he also like the parts of her that knew to care for herself. "[b] I'm just saying, that I want to make the best use of any gift you bestow, and not just take it for granted. I don't want to treat you, like ever other human has. It's not fair." She rushed to explain her thinking. He might tell her she was being silly, or overthinking the whole thing. She removed her hand from his shoulder, and turned back to the water as her face was starting to flush.

There she was trying to explain her thinking, and just not shutting her trap. She was worried she might offend him. She was trying to explain that she care about him as a person, not as a god who could do something for her. That while he had ordered her here at first, she now wanted to see him. As the was running through her thoughts, she didn't hear him answer her questions. If she had she would have accepted the distraction and answered his questions with a fervor. She would have described the village in every detail, but she was focused on her internal struggle.

Almost as if someone from the heavens was whispering at her, she mind chimed in with, 'Just tell him that! It was like something had clicked, it might be close to a love confession, but he wouldn't know that. She whipped back around to look at him. Her eyes crossed met his. "Aristide...I.. well I just wanted you to know that I care about you as a person. I don't care if you are a god, human or whatever. I don't care what you could do for me, because I just like spending time with you, as you are." There she said it, and her heart was beating so loud, that she felt it was the only sound she could hear.

Oh heavens, oh heavens, what if he took that the wrong way. She just wanted him to understand that she respected him, not his status or abilities. Sure those things were impression, but they weren't want drew her to him. But now she was so embarrassed she had been way to honest, why had she been so honest.

@Kory: Yeah, my guy asked for normal water, and that brought that out. I think we were tricked into it, but whatever, it is what it is.

Not really, all those states are just fine to me. There are things I like, but nothing I super like.

My old hometown, there was no near ikea at all. So I wouldn't mind a 45 min drive as that what it was like to go anywhere, in my hometown.

@Kory: If the water is fancy and comes in a bottle, they can charge for it.

I've been to Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, driven through Georgia, Florida, DC, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Ikea is just 15 mins from me or so, so that means I can go later. It's just a hassle.

@Kory: I hope it helps.

I saw the ocean in Maryland in Ocean City.
I've been to other states, and when i was little and my parents still together, i lived in VA. I also aftter their divoriced lived in FL for a few years, but most if not all my time I lived in MD, just different parts.

So i've done a little traveling, I would love to see more of the us.

That's very true, and there so many side dish options, but like they also charge for water here, so can get costly.

As for Ikea, we only went into the marketplace, and honestly the place seemed picked barer, than i've ever seen. Maybe cause colleges started recently, but half the things I wanted, weren't in stock, so I'll have to go back.

@MoodyB: I agree with you 100%. Some are like bam, got this and others make me feel like I need a PHD