I bought some poison and kept it in the drawer for the last months. Even though I thought about kms daily I couldn't bring myself to do it.
Fast forward to yesterday when I was rumbling in my head about things that I didn't do in this life. There are many, but the easiest thing to accomplish that night was getting drunk.
I have never got drunk so I wanted to experience the feeling of numbing myself out. After a short few hours of drinking whiskey and apple cider and feeling lighthearted I started to puke my guts out. I felt horrible and I immediately thought about how awful it would feel if I will drink the poison and I will end up puking like that. Mind you that I did a quick research and I knew the disadvantages of picking poison as the way out, but to get a peek about how would it feel, it was really gut wrenching to say the least.
With an upset stomach and the smell of vomit in my nostrils, I still think that ending my life it s the best choice for me. I had my first attempt at 14, and now at 24 my life didn't got any better and there are no good prospects for the future. I had the same thoughts when I was 14, that I will not be capable of building myself a better life and when I realise that 10y have passed and I didn't accomplish anything I want to stop living.

My son had his cat fixed and he’s still spraying constantly and even pees on his bed. He has a litter box. We’ve sprayed lavender and apple cover vinegar. No help yet. Anything else to try

I’d gotten a bad cold many many months ago (possibly near to a year ago at this point? idk) and mixed up some tang in my water bottle to help soothe my very sore throat. after I got better I ended up really busy, and forgot to clean out the bottle, and by the time I remembered to it’d started to mold. executive dysfunction took over to make the task insurmountable and now it’s pretty gross :( there’d still been some tang in it and looks like the water separated out and the tang powder clumped together as mold. there’s no visible mold climbing the sides or anything, it seems all contained in the water, but I’m still concerned I cant sanitize it :(
I’d just buy a new bottle but I’d really liked it, and they dont make it anymore :( I even looked on sites like ebay and mercari, but they dont come in the same size or color
would soaking the bottle in a peroxide or vinegar solution work (after dumping out the contents obvi)?? would bleach be better??? should I just give up and mourn the loss of my bottle ;-;

So theoretically, if I had all the time and energy to reformat and edit and upload - could I technically publish to KDP, IngramSpark, Barnes & Noble, Google, Kobo, Apple, and Draft2Digital all at the same time?
I know certain features like Amazon Select won't be available - but I'm just looking for general publishing here, not any promotional features.
Or would this really just be a waste of time for not much benefit?
(If it makes any difference: My book is 6x9 inches, nonfiction about women's care and beauty. Planning to have eBook, black & white paperback, color paperback, and color hardcover. IngramSpark would only be for print versions, and Draft2Digital would be for eBook versions. Not sure about the rest of them yet.)

I wish I could include a voice note just so that you guys can hear this. It’s literally 10:41 PM at night. I’m in extreme pain from my period cramps it feels like someone is stabbing my stomach and my mom is downstairs in her room, just yelling, and saying the most disgusting abusive shit to me!! calling me an animal and I’m going nowhere in my life but when I made over $300,000 I gave it all to her and now I’m fucking broke.. she’s the reason that I dropped out of high school, the reason I have PTSD because she used to fucking stand on my head and shit! Literally fucking sliced me! shaved my head bald and put fucking habanero peppers in my fucking vagina!!!!! I even had to jump over three-story building once because her ex-husband was chasing me with a fucking machete!!
It’s just crazy to me because she looks for absolutely any chance she gets just to turn it into an issue and escalate it just so the spotlight or whatever she thinks can be on her like bro it’s 10:44 PM. This is ridiculous!!!! Honestly this happens a lot, so I feel like it should be normal for me, but I’m just in too much pain to be listening to her bullshit right now.. what’s wild is this is all because of fucking Apple juice FUCKING APPLE JUICE BOXES!!
So I had to go to the grocery store for my baby brothers school movie day and I bought him a bunch of snacks. There was a whole drama in the car but to be honest I’m too tired to say the whole story, but in the car, she was literally yelling and saying how she’s gonna crash the whole entire car and was literally screaming at me and the kids in the car… And then I think she said the list in her head and thought she said it to me and literally no one in the entire car heard her say a word and she thought she said it out loud so I told her she didn’t and she said she’s gonna crash the car and kill us…
In my head, I was laughing which is scary because like that’s not funny but it’s just happened so many times that at this point I’m like OK just crash the car because all you do is talk shit… (obviously I said it in my head because I feel like if I said it out loud that’s when she would actually crash the car and I’m too young to die. I’m only 20) Anyways, it’s just really crazy to me though that she’s still yelling about that incident right now and it’s like three days after…
I feel like I’m rambling at this point but I’m just really tired and I can’t go to sleep because there’s so much noise. I’m just a bit happy that I am over 18 and she can’t actually hit me because even though I’m respectful and I really do not like to fight my mother like I’ve never actually fought her but I swear if she comes upstairs and gets in my way, I’m throwing the fucking hands and leaving!!
The only reason I can’t even leave this fucking house, is because she took all the money I have, and still has the audacity to talk shit to me! I can’t even leave because I don’t have my American citizenship or green card I’m on a renewable visa which is under her.. but now that I’ve seen her true colors I’m really about to work so fucking hard and get my money up and honestly just try to pay for citizenship or pay someone to marry me or something because I can’t keep living like this.. like I’ll probably hire an accountant and a really good lawyer to help me cause I’m in bondage rn! This is so fucking toxic
This is really long I just want to say I’m sorry in advance. I’m just so fucking pissed right now and in so much pain. Plus I have lost so much growing up because of her I was thinking about like all the bullshit I’ve gone through as a child growing up. Like there’s one of my uncles who she literally cut his hand. Obviously there’s a bone there, so it couldn’t all fall off, but it was literally dangling in front of me and then I got intensely beat up just because she thought I slept with him. LIKE I WAS FUCKING 10 IDK WTF THAT IS!! The insane part is I kept getting beat up until I was bleeding and they wouldn’t stop till I admitted to doing it smh I really been through some shit and it’s just now sinking into my head like that’s not normal cause I just overlooked it and went numb over the years and said it’s in the past so it is what it is but no it’s not what the fuck it is!!!
I’ve brought this up to her in the past but she just acts like it never happened or wasn’t important or I’m just over talking and she never treated me like that like what??? I literally have marks and witnesses like his hand is still stitched how tf are you gonna gaslight me??? what’s wild is because they made me admit to doing that that every time an uncle came to visit, it would happen again, and again, and again, I literally had to beg my uncles to stop visiting because they would just beat me even for staring or talking about Mickey Mouse (yes precisely I was beat for that)
I’m gonna just stop this here because I could go on for days and I’m just in too much pain both physically emotionally and mentally…. everyone just thinks I’m cool and chilling, but like I really live in a toxic ass home and I lived through hell at such a young age and still getting insulted daily and treated like shit!!

I’m begging, as I can already see it happening in other threads I’ve tried to post this too; to not do what my doctor is doing to me and just say “sounds like you have the sad or the worried” I’ve been suffering for years and this isn’t funny, I’ve been on antidepressants and anti anxiety medication, along with sleep medication because I go days at a time unable to rest, I have a range of symptoms ranging from severe abdominal pain, pain in my bladder while urinating, vomiting, dizziness and fainting, my fingers are physically cold to the touch to the extent they hurt they change color often. Aches and pains all throughout my body, severe lethargy, unable to breathe through my nose due to swelling that is nearly omnipresent.
I’ve had screenings for almost everything, kidneys, thyroid, liver, stool samples, urine, etc, at this point my doctor has chalked it up to being part of my mental health.
However, my mother and I are celebrating Mother’s Day late, I’m not a drinker, but I bought her some wine she loves.
After sitting down and having a single drink, no more than 6oz, almost all my symptoms are completely gone… I don’t know what’s wrong with me, and have no plan to drink as treatment, but I was hoping someone would have an idea so I can get through this without suffering every day.
As additional context I drink incredibly rarely, I’ve been suffering with these more severe symptoms for 2 years now, but I’ve had issues with nausea, fainting, headaches and body pain since I was a child. this is my first drink during those two years time while symptoms have advanced.
At 6ft and 160 lbs and no prior drinking, I imagine my tolerance is fairly low but I don’t feel any of the buzzy or intoxicated feelings… in fact I feel the most mentally clear I have in months, my mother even noting after I caught multiple things falling that my reaction time was better, she told me I even looked like my balance was better.
Both her and I have been sitting here completely in awe at the concept that a glass of wine has made me fully functional with no impairment.

Hi all!! I recently inherited a roughly 30x40 foot greenhouse!! I’m still considering what to put in. Rather than filling it with a bunch of plants, I want to try to turn it into a miniature butterfly garden! I know my must haves so far are dwarf fugi apples, hydrangeas, and some kind of climbing, thronless rose. I plan to grow maintaining a 7-8 zone in my greenhouse and all these plants (as far as my research has gone) do very well in that area and with their different idea sun conditions, they seem to compliment each other well. I’m pretty much game for any other suggestions you might have! My favorite colors are blue, pink, red, and purple! Not a huge fan of orange, and yellow.
Now here’s the fun part. I really want butterflies in my garden (I know they aren’t the best pollinators out there, but what they miss on, I’ll be manually doing with a feather duster or just by tapping). And in my state, I can purchase eggs! How many butterflies might I need to maintain a steady population? I like any kind of butterfly, but painted ladies are native to my area and are abundant for sale on the internet. Thank you all for your help and suggestions :)

Before submitting a comment about an issue, the #1 thing any user should do when they first experience issues with a new update is to follow these troubleshooting steps.

If issues still persist despite the efforts made in this thread, report the issue to cricut.

⭐⭐Print then Cut users⭐⭐
Calibrate your machine right after an update as your calibration settings will not carry over into the latest update. Follow the advice of the calibration guide. Then do a test print then cut of your project using plain printer paper.
If for some reason after calibration your cuts are still inaccurate, clear cache (the troubleshooting guide above this) and try calibration again.

If you are experiencing issues despite clearing cache, please give some background information:

Cricut machine (Joy, Joy Xtra, Explore Air 2, Explore air 3, Maker, Maker 3, etc.).
Device (Windows 10, Window 11, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android).
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Were you successful in doing this project in the past? Or is this a new project?

What has changed (Desktop v8.30.64)? Update on May 6, 2024.

Fixed field issues: This release

The ability to customize the Card project enables users to select specific sizes and personalize them according to their preferences.

After disabling specific contours, the bounding box encloses the remaining ones within the Canvas.

Images not uploading.

Upon selecting, it appears that some of the ‘Make It Now’ projects in the Canvas have disappeared.

Right-clicking and selecting “View image sets” from the Layers panel often displays irrelevant images.

Last 6 weeks:
Over the last 6 weeks we've fixed 74 software defects, including the following priority field issues and reliability concerns:

The ability to customize the Card project enables users to select specific sizes and personalize them according to their preferences.

After disabling specific contours, the bounding box encloses the remaining ones within the Canvas.

Images not uploading.

Upon selecting, it appears that some of the ‘Make It Now’ projects in the Canvas have disappeared.

Right-clicking and selecting “View image sets” from the Layers panel often displays irrelevant images.

Selecting certain fonts in the font selection process is causing delays in rendering on the Canvas

The text box fails to load on the Canvas, and adding a text field in Chinese is not possible

Changes made to the latest project are lost upon sharing.

- Draw projects are being opened as cuts instead of drawings, resulting in a color change.
- Save a project on iOS, then open it on desktop, and notice that the changes fail to appear.

The Canvas tab disappears and it takes longer for the Canvas tab to load.

The saved project only shows letters on the Canvas, but double-tapping the text box reveals the entire sentences.

After finishing cutting the mat that's off-screen, the scrollbar scrolled back to the top instead of moving to the next mat.

My Stuff doesn't show any projects, and the collection is displayed without a name.

Follow button is not working on profile page

Profile links that are copied and pasted shows Blank home page.

Forever stuck on the project details page, with both the customize and make buttons greyed out.

Print Then Cut images appear distorted or the print preview is not accurate

Print Then Cut images did not appear correctly on the cut screen.

The Print Then Cut quality warning message is preventing the user from proceeding to make it.

Clicking "View All" on recent uploads either redirects to the Inspire/Discover page or results in the inability to access the full set of uploaded images.

The Canvas performance drastically slows down when inserting high-quality uploaded images.

The functionality of the automatic background remover has stopped working.

Uploaded high-resolution images, those above 300 DPI, are displaying low-resolution warnings.

When uploading an image with a resolution exceeding 300 DPI, it undergoes downsizing, accompanied by a low-resolution warning message for each uploaded image.

The image icon that regulates the number of images per line remains unresponsive.

The image loses focus when resized, and after hiding contour and resizing, it becomes impossible to move the image upward in the Canvas.

There are performance issues with Warp, as it takes more than a second to enter edit mode and experiences lag when additional characters are entered. Additionally, after completing editing and clicking outside the box, there is a delay.

There's no prompt to confirm unsaved changes, and the previous unsaved Canvas disappears without any notification to replace or save it.

Using the keyboard shortcut cmd + shift + left arrow key to highlight everything results in improper rendering of the highlight.

When opening Image Sets, the images load closely together, and the Image Set name tile appears misplaced, positioned between the top and second row instead of the first row.

When performing combine, subtract, intersect, or exclude operations and attaching them, the color or operations remains unchangeable.

Upon launching the app, users encounter a white screen, a continuous spinner, and a missing refresh token.

Even after power cycling and setting the load to go, the -18 machine connection error continues to persist

When hovering over the mat control multiple times, the mat preview fails to appear.

When toggling the mirror function, the mat selection jumps, causing the left side to scroll back to the top.

Cannot remove images from a collection

Completing the product setup for a second time with a different machine leads to going to the "Get Started" page without setting the correct machine type.

The "Get Started" page on the left rail and the pointer finger suggest that there's a reason to click there.

It's not possible to unlike projects, and an error message stating "unable to remove likes" is displayed.

The bookmark icon fails to switch to "bookmarked" for image sets

The private profile message fails to display, and opening a project link leads to an empty Canvas without the project

The shared profile links are incomplete, leading to the home page instead of directing to the profile

Card Mat - If users attempt to make or customize without selecting a finished size, they will be prompted with the error message, "Select a Finished Size to continue

When adding a photo to the Project details, it's observed that the image is zoomed in excessively, making it impossible to zoom out sufficiently to display the entire photo.

It is not possible to cancel a full-page Print Then Cut project from the Mat Prepare screen.

-After completing the cut with Print Then Cut and Basic Cut operations attached, the mat remains unloaded.
-Performing a second search after the initial one yields no results
-Attempting to open a project with numerous sticker groups results in the Canvas displaying a perpetual spinner, rendering the project inaccessible.
-Loading stickers with multi-layered complex projects from project details takes considerable time to customize or make, typically ranging from 5 to 7 minutes.

The custom border feature fails to function properly with complex shapes and does not create sticker-cut interior shapes combinations as intended.

The Offset function fails to work with intricate PNGs for creating sticker-cut interior shapes combinations, and the Apply button remains disabled, accompanied by a continuous green bar.

When deleting a Warp within a sticker group, the border is not redrawn.

When resizing the sticker image using the Kiss cut & Die-cut Edge option, the image vanishes from the Canvas.

After ungrouping and regrouping the text, the font toolbar is unavailable for the group.

Apostrophes and quotes fail to transform into their left-right variants, causing coded single and double quote marks to appear instead of the anticipated left and right variants.

Text is positioned closer to the bottom right corner, resulting in incorrect text placement after opening a new Canvas and adding new text

When using the delete button on the laptop to erase text, it becomes evident that the undo and redo functions are not operating correctly.

After changing a color or moving an image, the undo feature fails to function.

Users have the ability to delete uploaded images when using new Image Inspiration designs.

When attempting to upload an image, a message indicating "unable to upload image" is displayed, prompting users to check their internet connection.

The learning plan redirects to the Canvas instead of remaining on the home page.

When the uploaded image is added to the Canvas, it displays an image load failure.

iOS

Version 5.67.0 was released on May 13, 2024.

App Improvements
Bug fixes and performance enhancements.

Read more about the update in the Apple Store.

Android

Version 5.59.0 was released on May 13, 2024.

App Improvements
Bug fixes and performance enhancements.

Read more about the update in the Google Play Store.

2nd newbie question of the day : what happens if you add two different mothers together in the same batch ?
Context : started a batch with one mother (from wine vinegar) but added some cider mother later. Will they get along ?

Hi, first time posting.. not sure I’m doing this right but just need some actual perspective. My MiL and I have a fraught history, it’s long but for a long time I thought I was crazy/angry/abusive and then I realized she was pushing all the right buttons on purpose to trigger me and make me look like the crazy one. I did a lot of research on Reddit especially about grey rocking and DARVO and I have a therapist etc. and it made me realize I was playing right into her hands somehow. My husband thinks my therapist just tells me what I want to hear. I’m not without blame because for a long time I was depressed and I’ve realized the pressure from his family contributed to that. I am feeling a lot better these days. Anyway Mother’s Day came and went and I was so happy, my husband went all out and planned a whole weekend, he got me these gorgeous flowers from a special spot in our city and I feel so gross I actually bragged about them to others. I can’t believe I bragged. It’s embarrassing. Well his mom was texting him and turns out he got her a very similar bouquet. He says it was from a different place and the similarities were unintentional. He’s very mad I looked at his phone as he should be, we agreed I’m too obsessed with monitoring his communication with her and he’s changed his passcode so I can’t do it anymore. I know that’s bad so I’m wondering if I am abusive/crazy. Is the bouquet not a big deal? Why do I feel like it is? He got us both the same flowers last year too. And one Christmas I really wanted an Apple Watch and he decided that was the perfect gift for his mom too. In fact she almost wanted the same color combination as me but he convinced her not to. She freaks out if she doesn’t get the full treatment on Mother’s Day from him. Like shouldn’t her husband be buying her such expensive beautiful flowers? I am seriously asking because I don’t know any other men who do that for their mom. He says I ruined a perfect weekend and I don’t know why I’m so obsessed with what he does for his mom. Like he should be able to celebrate her without me caring so much. Am I the justNo? I anticipate these responses are going to be hard to hear but I truly need to know. I just had another baby recently so maybe i’m not myself yet. I don’t want to isolate him from his mom but I am so angry at her still.

song is country/midwestern the music video is of a guy with pink hair and a deceptively deep voice playing acoustic guitar in a rowboat. there's a point where he eats an apple and retrieves the guitar from floating in the water.
The lyrics star off "wake up, wake up can/do you heafeel..." "then something about a ceiling, tightrope an impasse, and the west coast. there also a line that says "she's got eye the color of my thought/faults"
i remember there was a bit of controversy surrounding it as this song seemed to have been stolen from another artist by the person singing/in the video
heres amy best attempt at the melody of the first verse, bridge and chorus https://voca.ro/19Hccd5ekC8t
thanks

I'm 26F and BRCA1 positive. For the past 2 weeks, I've suddenly been experiencing a constant urge to urinate. It's just like this uncomfortable pressure type of feeling in my bladder. I feel like I am peeing pretty often, but even after I go, it still feels like I need to go more. But there's not really any pain, it's just discomfort. I took an at-home UTI test and pregnancy test and both came back negative. I've never really had this experience before.
I had been drinking apple cider vinegar every day for a couple of weeks, but I stopped it to see if that was possibly the cause. However, the sensation has not stopped at all. I started birth control pills for the first time 3 months ago and so far, my period has been not super regular.
Of course, being BRCA-positive, I'm super freaked out about the big C. I have an OBGYN appointment in a week but I'm super anxious and wanted to see if anyone else has ever had this symptom before. I just had a pelvic ultrasound 5 months ago that came back normal and a CA-125 test 3 months ago that also came back normal. But of course I'm still filled with anxiety and want to get tested again.
Any advice would be much appreciated!

Apple cider vinegar stool color

Apple Cider Vinegar

Before submitting a comment about an issue, the #1 thing any user should do when they first experience issues with a new update is to follow these troubleshooting steps.

If issues still persist despite the efforts made in this thread, report the issue to cricut.

If you are experiencing issues despite clearing cache, please give some background information:

What has changed (Desktop v8.30.64)? Update on May 6, 2024.

iOS

Android