In like a lion out like a lamb poem

I'm American, currently living in the Middle East. I am an introvert (ISTP); hobbies mostly center around casual PC gaming (mostly single player and co-op). There are a few franchises that I'm really into, namely the Elder Scrolls, Mass Effect, and the Witcher for video games, then there's Star Wars (pre-disney), the Big Bang Theory, and Dragon Ball (RIP Toriyama) for shows/anime. I do like some other animes, probably too many to list here. I really enjoy ancient history, specifically Roman and Byzantine. I'm very handy, having built computers and fixed certain appliances in the past.
Physically, I am white, about 170cm with blue eyes. I wear glasses constantly, and usually have a short beard.
I like to live my life at a slower pace, and usually am pretty relaxed. I prefer to stay in most nights, but enjoy going out too.
I'm looking for a girl between the ages of 20 and 36, give or take. I'm not too picky about location, but close-ish is preferred. Christian, preferably Orthodox or Catholic. Dating to marry, wants a family, and doesn't mind long distance for a while and eventually relocating. A fellow introvert, and fellow gamer or interested in gaming. Bonus points if you're tall and/or very thin. Also bonus points for the shy bookworm type.
If any of this appeals to you, and you'd like to get to know me, send me a chat or DM. Thanks for reading!

I feel headachey and tired today but my mood feels better than yesterday so that’s good!
We were in the middle of a conversation last night, he had me utterly soaked and losing my mind and then it went silent and I couldn’t hear him and when I tell you the timing could not have been worse I am not kidding. Except it turns out he could still hear me, which I felt embarrassed about later because I was basically being a little whimpering mess because I assumed he couldn’t hear anything either like he normally can’t. So anyway now he must know he’s baby because I was saying things like baby come back and where are you like an absolute idiot. I think my brain cells lessen even more so when I’m in that frame of mind. Wait and so that means he’d already cum and was over the whole thing and I didn’t know and I kept going, and he kept like… encouraging it with the dirty stuff he was saying. That’s kind of embarrassing that he was just sat there twiddling his thumbs and there I was sounding so stupid. He’s so sweet.
I’ve decided the middle-ish bit of the miss murder song sounds like Jeff Buckley for a little bit, not the voice but the music bit. Only briefly. Anyway my poppunky phase has still returned, I feel 14 again listening to the used and stuff, what a time. I’ve only saved the main big ones to this new playlist though, I know I’m forgetting a bunch of not top 40 kinda ones but whatever these are scratch my lil itch. I’m also just having a lil nostalgic phase with that playlist - it’s wild how much my music taste has changed… but also stayed the same? I loved the klaxons back then, I’m listening to them again and I still like them, and I’m remembering lyrics when I forgot said song even existed. Maybe that’s why I remember nothing from school, because my head is filled with useless lyrics. Good one, brain. Or Simian Mobile Disco? Entirely forgot they existed. I never forgot about the yeah yeah yeahs though, I have succcchhhhhhhh a vivid memory of listening to them while walking around some suburb in Brisbane while we were visiting my aunty and uncle, I think I was 14 or 15, and I was wearing a white tshirt because I remember it started pouring down and it went see through and I felt super embarrassed. But it was night time, or like after dinner time, and I was just going on a stroll cause idk I was a teenager and probably wanted some space to be my angsty self. I remember my uncle had a movie room, not really but he called it that, and it had bean bags and stuff and he had all the HP movies, or at least whatever was out by then. And now I’m day dreaming about how I was a couple cities away from my honey, except what’s the bet he would take one look at 14/15 year old me when he was like 18/19 and be like ew get away from me you little creep. Anyway. Le Tigre were big for me. Xray spex too, the intro to oh bondage up yours still to this day haunts my mind. I listened to that germ free adolescent album a lot at one stage. I’ve just listened to a bunch of it now and I still like it a lot. I have to say the more my mood has dropped and my anxiety increased over the years the more subdued music I listen to, I wonder if it’s connected? Because I used to listen to a lot of… busy music, let’s say. Whereas now it stresses me out sometimes, and I wonder if it’s because there’s too much at once and that doesn’t mesh well with an already hectic head. Omg and MGMT, I had a biggggggg phase of them. I genuinely wanted to marry the curly haired one, I thought everything about him was so dreamy. I want to say his name is Andrew from memory, lucky me getting an even better Andrew! It’s weird to think of Andy as an Andrew, I mean ultimately he’s honeybunny or baby but he’s also Andy. And his friends don’t even call him that? I’m obviously not writing what that name is here. I think it’s so so cute that his friends kid calls him that too, or tries to. Anyway he’s just baby. I think I say the same stuff in these journals all the time.
I feel a lot of relief knowing I have no more things on til July. I’m proud of myself though, it was technically homework for therapy - to do things that make me happy. Outside of the house, around people I mean. And so she asked what I would do if I was “normal” and one of them was go to things like the ballet and plays, things I miss out on because I’m too scared. So we agreed I would go to a couple and I did!! Homework: achieved. She was really proud of me when I said the events I had coming up, I know that sounds so pathetic and stupid but I’m definitely someone that needs to hear that praise and stuff. I can get by without it, but it’s encouraging to hear it, y’know? Idk.
Work is annoying me.
I don’t get why the idea of his friend doesn’t make him jealous. I don’t want it to make him jealous, I don’t want any form of negativity around it, but why doesn’t it? Am I built that differently to him? If he even floated the idea of that to me vice versa I don’t think I would ever recover. I mean that’s dramatic and I would but I would be paranoid about it for a looooooong time. But so why doesn’t he care? It feels like I care more about it than he does, it feels like I’m more concerned about it than he is? I don’t get it. I absolutely don’t want him to be super jealous or anything like that, I know I find the whole territorial thing crazzzzy hot in fiction but in reality I would find it stifling and frustrating. But him having zero ounce of jealousy just idk, it makes me feel like he doesn’t care? If he was to feel jealous, doesn’t that mean he’d want me all to himself? So if he isn’t jealous, then he doesn’t? I know I’m overthinking this so I’ll stop. And also in the past he’s said in reality he doesn’t know if he would actually want me with anyone else, but the idea and fantasy of it all is hot, which I agree with. I mean never say never because idk I guess I kind of do want to experience him and someone else at the same time, like I wouldn’t care in the slightest if it never happened but it is something I think I do properly want. But everything else? Even if we got to the point of finding someone and it eventuating and all of that… I can’t envision me actually going through with it. Even if Andy wanted it. Except maybe I would, but not out of want but out of feeling like I should because I don’t want to let anyone down. I know that isn’t a good reason to say yes but idk. Anyway. None of this matters. I don’t think the fact he doesn’t get jealous as such means he doesn’t care. If he didn’t care then he would end things.
Not to be rude and horrid and hateful but some people have the most god awful voices. There’s a podcast of three women who talk about books and stuff and anyway they’re all American and two of them are fine, if a little grating at times, but one of them has the most disgusting voices I’ve ever heard. It’s HORRIBLE. And she keeps shouting over the others and screeching and it’s just such a gross voice. I feel so mean :(
I worked kinda late, just til 7 or so. And then I had dinner, had chats with M, had a shower, made my bed and showered annnnnd now it’s time with my baby! The sky was very pretty tonight, it was like a glowing rose gold. It kind of made me think of a copper pot on a fire. I feel like suchhhh a lil grub, I only changed my sheets today and it’s Wednesday. That means a week and half of the same sheets! Which I guess isn’t actually so bad compared to others but still. And I also shower right before bed, so in theory I know they’re fine but I like to have fresh sheets every Sunday, it’s just how I am. I can’t wait to make our bed, I wonder if he’d think it was silly to sometimes leave lil lovey notes under his pillow? Just now and then, like a lil post it size note saying something cute. Hm. I do things like that though, and I know it can be seen as super lame and things so idk. I’ll just have to learn what’s okay and what’s not. Hmmm. Anyway.
Night night

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It’s an insurance job, I’d (21F) be trained to eventually become an agent.
The pay is great for what I need right now but the more I think about it the more I despise the possible position.
I’m trying to get my head in the game but I just feel out of sorts with everything.
I come from a long line of agents I know the ins and outs of the field but I wanted so much more then to be like my family.
But I do need it. I cannot afford driving classes or to further my education.
I just need advice because there isn’t other options for me. How to you fellow unsatisfied workers handle it?
I want to start going to school to get a real career but I don’t know any field that interests me and I’ve been doing on jobs to find something I’d hate less and to stick to.
I haven’t found it yet. Im not looking for a perfect job- just a job I’d not hate

My partner and I have been together for 3.5 years (since I was 17 and they were 19), we have lived together for 2 years and we have 3 cats and a dog together. We were both so sure that we would spend the rest of our lives together, but over the past 6 months+ the spark has faded and it has turned into something more platonic. We have both been too afraid to say anything or bring it up, it's just been an unspoken topic. Tonight we finally talked about it and both mutually agreed that we feel like this is more of a friendship and how it's not the same as when we started out. I cannot stop crying, they aren't as upset about it (from what i can tell), I don't know what to do. This is my first long term relationship and i've never had to go through something like this. My main concern is what's going to happen to our pets, I do not want to have to put them up for adoption at all, that would destroy me. My partner would move back in with their parents and take our dog but their mother is allergic to cats. I don't even know where I am going to live or how i'm going to afford it, let alone find a place that will allow me to have pets. I don't know what to do, I don't have friends that I can go to because my partner was/is my best friend. Please give me advice, I hate this so much.

I worked really hard these past months at being mindful, keeping myself in check with non-reality based panic attacks, and reducing the number of antianxiety medication I took only to be sitting in bed, wide awake, while my husband gently sleeps next to me. All because a box fell in the kitchen from being precariously placed, and now every sound the old Victorian we live in has my anxiety raging like a lunatic. My husband and I were victims of a violent attempted break-in from our neighbor who stopped taking his medication last year(like violent ATTEMPTED break-in sounds weird but it's absolutely the closest descriptor I could muster). We moved like 2.5+ hours away no forwarding address kinda deal when he wasn't arrested and instead his parents paid for all the damages he did and then paid to have him move to a brand new apartment within a 5 minute walk in less than 7 days mind you. it's been 6 months and I still freak out when I hear strange noises at night. Even though this kid has no clue where we are! Like my brain is telling me "well it happened once so....."
So here I will sit playing a dopy phone game until 5 am and the sun comes up and then I go to work. Sigh.... It just feels like a horrid little cycle of never getting the rest I need always too tired to do anything. I just want to sleep.

Hey guys.
I have been thinking about this for a few days na and need help for those who believe na figure out nila what is the best setup.
For context, I earn okay naman and focused sa career and hopefully ventures na lumakas.
I like to manage my finances properly, pero I believe to an extent na I know how to save and re-invest properly.
Utilizing it sa ibang bagay like what should I spend for na worth it naman to improve my quality of life is something I am still struggling with, btw buying high quality socks is life changing haha new exp ko yan
Currently, I spend 250-300 php daily whole day food ko na to.
7.5k - 9k monthly projected expenses (di kasama mga eating out syempre if meron man)
If wala time, I go for ordering online or take outs whole day food na altho iniiwasan ko fast food and healthy options parin if may available
If may time which is unlikely right now, I go for 1 rice, meat, veggies, and fruits.
Here's my current situation:

1. Mawawalan ako time to prepare halos, and can only maximize 30-minutes a day if ever I prep
2. Does 200-300 suffice? sabi ng partner ko 200 is tinitipid ko na masyado sarili ko? Is it true? but 300 a day would be my cap I'd say (di kami magkasama due to work pero next year live in na ulet)
3. What are simple ways do you follow right now na maximized yung budget for healthy meal and hindi time consuming?
4. is that 300 a day justified if I earn pretty good naman? Not rich level but enough to save 50-70% monthly of my salary less all expenses na.

I don't have my own maid as I live on my own as a late 20s guy and still figuring out life. I want to be able to start making my meals na alam ko tama ginagawa ko hehe
thank you so much!

My therapist suggested that I find a process group to explore how I relate to others and to practice expressing how I feel to other people. For example, a group like this (fictional group therapy example): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ7ya7sIWTlRpIgx3ycpHWg
I've done "support groups" but in my experience they don't encourage discussion amongst group members so it's sort of like public venting to me. I found that sadly meetings are usually dominated by one or two people.
I've also searched the group therapy association site and there is nothing in my area. I paid a few therapists for individual sessions to see if I would be a fit for their groups. I'm out $$$ with nothing in return. I'm pretty furious with that organization for that. I don't have infinite dollars to keep paying various therapists to interview me to maybe join a group one day.
I've done Pace, but my group didn't really have mechanisms to talk about how what other people shared have impacted us. So for example we if had people say something boundary crossing, there wasn't space to talk about it. Plus the sessions were a bit short and they were doing this meditation thing in the beginning that took up a good chunk of time out of sessions.
Any ideas? I've searched high and low and have no idea of where else to look.

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So I honorably discharged from the military a few years ago and lost my sea bag containing my medical/dental records. I’ve tried gaining access to them online but I can’t seem to get through the verification process on the tricare website. I’ve given up hope in the past of ever filling for benefits but I feel I owe it to myself to try. Two questions Id like ask. Would a visit the VA visit be beneficial to obtaining records ? Also are there agencies/companies ( preferably based out of Texas) that can assist me with getting a rating ? Thanks in advance.

Hello, i’m 20 years old and i’m not struggling to pay my bills but i’m struggling with the way bills get taken out.
My question is are there any services or apps for the phone i can use to make my bills easier to pay?
the issue i’m continually having is i get paid every Thursday evening and like to pay my bills asap so they are out of the way and i don’t have to worry about them, say i have a bill due the following Tuesday, i pay the bill online that Thursday night and then the money just sits there until the bill is due and that really screws me over bc then im having to keep track of what’s been spent and what’s available myself and with Wells Fargo i’m not able to make new checking/savings accounts through their app and customer support wont help, so i have to go in but i work Monday-Saturday 8-5 so going to the bank isn’t exactly easy for me.
i’m looking for a service that will basically “front” the bill, although that’s not the word i’m looking for
like i’d like to able to just put the money somewhere and have it automatically get taken out when the bill is due so i’m not having to.
any thoughts on how to help?
also i find it extremely stupid that if i pay i bill early they don’t take the money when i pay it like if i went somewhere and bought something. ATT, Truist (for my car note, STAY AWAY FROM THEM) Duke Energy, they ALL wait until the day the bill is due to collect even though they send confirmation email that the bill has been paid.

I’m in a tricky spot. My ex left me out of the blue a month ago. We had a great relationship, both had faults but nothing major. We were good to each-other. We had an insanely stressful time period & we lived together for a year at this point, we were also together for 2 years. I think he just needed time away & we needed to go back to long distance for a while. Our living situation wasn’t working out at all anymore & we didn’t know how to navigate that properly.
I don’t think we (mainly him) communicated affectively enough about what needed to happen. He just got lost, confused & just kinda dipped. Then, he did/ said strange stuff & gave a million bs reasons for why he left. None of them were true. I knew exactly why he left. He was just lost. He still loves me & I know he didn’t want to breakup, he just felt he had no choice, which was dumb. I tried so hard to show him he was making a mistake & clearly just in a bad mental state, but eventually I gave up.
I went no contact & tried to move on. Then, he calls a few days ago to tell me he is deeply sorry, he took accountability for what he did & he just described it as him getting crazy overwhelmed & he felt backed into a corner. He wanted to discuss getting back together. I told him I need him to take more time to really think about that decision. While part of me wanted to just say “yes omg let’s do it come home baby” I did not. He has to prove himself to me again. It’s been 3 days since that call & we’ve barely spoken, when we have it’s not about that. It’s weird.
He reopened the wound & yes I did tell him to take them to think, but now I just feel like shit because I don’t know what is going on. I’m scared to even ask. It sucks. I’m tempted to text & call all the time but I’m not sure what to say, I need him to take the initiative but I guess it’s just a weird cross road. I could forgive him for this, I do think we needed time apart. He went about it absolutely awful, but I do believe in 2nd chances. It’s just a shame he called me saying everything I’ve been waiting to hear, but nothing has happened really. We’ve spoken each day since, but I’ve initiated contact more during this time than he has. He still says I love you & doesn’t tackle the topic again. I’m so so confused. I get that getting back together should be a slow process, I get I told him to take time to think, but I don’t know what is even going on & I NEED to know. It hurts.
So, I called him tonight & decided to open the topic. He said he was taking the time to think as I requested, he said he meant what he said the other day. He said his main issue is that he is worried about my feelings & my security. He said he feels like I will never feel secure again, he thinks everytime we argue (if we get back together) that this will be brought up against him & obviously that wouldn’t be healthy. He said he just never wants to hurt me again & while he says he wouldn’t, he knows I’ll have an underlying fear that he will one day leave. I appreciated the fact that these were his concerns, as much as it sucks that they’re his fault. He took accountability & simply stated that he just doesn’t want me to be unhappy in the long haul after what he did.
I told him I think hesitation on both sides is healthy & normal, I also told him I appreciate the fact that those are his concerns. That shows a selfless view on the situation. It shows he clearly doesn’t want to get back together strictly because he loves & misses me. I do appreciate it as much as it hurts. I told him that it’s going to be a slow process, may not work or it could be better than before. It depends. He said he wants to discuss it further & see what we end up doing. Is this a good approach? Thoughts?

Anybody else going through this type of thing? How are you dealing?
My Cousin is married to a person with some behaviors that seem like BDP and NDP types of ways of acting and thinking. The pwPD has almost completely isolated Cousin from their friends and our family a couple times, like a couple cycles of compelte cuttoff. Then Cousin will start talking to us again, then pwPD will start to make Cousin cut us all out all over again. I've tried to help out Cousin and give them some stuff to think about and some stuff to read about the cycle of coersion. Cousin seems like they kind of get it, and they are definetely not happy, but they kind of keep blaming themselves. At this point I'm so hurt by how Cousin has acted to me and to other family members. The cutoffs hurt so bad, especially because Cousin's kids are little and we all use to be close and have a great time together. I can't help but take it kind of personal that Cousin doesn't really hear me and doesn't see the signs in their pwPD, and keeps blaming themselves, and keeps trying to make their relationship last no matter how bad it is for them and their kids and for our friends and family. It's like Cousin is a different person then they use to be. I'm not really mad or hurt much by the pwPD because they are just doing what they know. But Cousin is different because they are a awesome human, so I expect more in a way I guess. I feel real rejected, sad, confused, angry, frustrated, and hurt by Cousin. I know Cousin feels bad about how their relationship with pwPD has been making things crazy for our friends and family, so I don't want to get them feeling even worse.

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hi i’m m20 i feel horrible about myself. i’m generally happy most the time but i know i have so many flaws but i can’t manage to stop and be a better version of myself. i know i’m severally addicted to porn and masterbation and i always try stop but i keep relapsing as soon as i get bored of a bit horny i can’t fight the urge to masterbate. im i’m the same cycle of meeting women and talking to them for a couple months then breaking there hearts. i always end up leaving them because i know im not at a stage of my life where i can me in a relationship. the i reason i entertain these women in the first place is because i get lonely at university and the women being attractive entices me. but it always ends up with me breaking there heart and me feeling horrible for wat i do. i should stop talking to women and masterbating and focus on myself generally i’m very characteristic and confident. i love talking to people and my friends would describe me as funny an bubbly but i feel like the masterbation addiction has an effect on me, i think it causes me anxiety cause i do get quite bad anxiety and i think it makes my under eyes look quite tired. i have 4 months off for summer and i jus want to focus on football as i’m quite talented at it and i stopped playing for a while and want to get back into a team. i work a lot and i earn good money for a student but i’m so lazy with myself. i don’t feed myself properly i have 1-2 meals a day an it’s always uber eats/takeaway. i don’t go gym enough i’m naturally very athletic when i was young i competed in athletics and played academy football but i’ve have not played organised football in a while. i feel like my masterbation/porn addiction is the root of a lot of my problems. not being motived enough, laziness, feeling tired, anxiety, lack of discipline. i work in a warehouse 30hrs a week so ik i can work hard and when i used to play academy football i worked hard and trained everyday but now i’m lazy with certain parts of my life like feeding myself properly, taking care of my health etc. i have good hygiene and i take care of my looks i get frequent hair cuts and i have a skin care routine etc. i jus feel horrible like i’m not maximising my potential i know i can do better. this 4 months i have off uni i should focus on eating well for my body, going gym, playing football and getting ready to play for a team next season. but ik i’m gona get distracted and be lazy and procrastinate. how should i focus on cutting out all these bad habits and distractions?

My family recently adopted a 3 year old 4 days ago, technically my brothers. I’ve been spending the majority of my time with her one-on-one. She is very sweet, she trills when I come into her room and loves to be pet and play with toys. I plan on keeping this up, she came into my room for the first time today and settled in pretty quickly after investigating for a while, but I’ll keep her entertained in her room until she gets comfortable enough to hang out with me in mine.
The problem is that I go on a grad trip in early June for about a month, none of my household family members are coming. Will our bond deteriorate while I’m gone after only being with her for a month? Will she be more bonded with my other family members than me? I will also being going to college this fall, so should I expect her to not like me as much when I come back home for breaks?

Long story short and as much as it sucks to say, I haven't really experienced much of anything. I'm going to intentionally beat around the bush as to what category that "experience" falls under but I think most people should be able to figure it out lol. In other words (and if you play games), I'm a complete noob when it comes to all things girls. As for why those things haven't happened and why I want that to change.. There's a few reasons, but the main reason why I'm putting such an emphasis on this is because I'm a huge homebody and I don't go out much at all which makes it difficult to meet people. That's where Reddit comes in! The message I'm essentially trying to send is becoming physically and emotionally close with a girl is what I want the most. I want to experience it all; the laughs, excitement, curiosity, intimacy, hanging out, fun. Blame all the Disney movies I watched as a kid for that lol.
Finding someone would be a dream come true, but I'd love to find friends too if that's all you're looking for! Local or international, just let me know if that's what you want instead :) We could end up being really close friends and you'll introduce me to a friend who I end up being with? That may or may not be the plot from a romcom 🤔 So that means I definitely wouldn't be opposed to a relationship! I've obviously never been in one so I'm not exactly sure how to transition to that, haha. I totally wouldn't mind finding out, though :) Also someone to say good morning and night to, too. That would be the best even if it's incredibly cheesy.
Anyway, it could be someone with a lot of experience or someone with no experience like me, or introverted or not introverted, etc. I don't have a preference either way :) But if I were to be reaaally picky: they'd be sweet and down to earth because just cuddling on its own would be all kinds of cool. A bit about me: I'm shy, caring, kind, sweet and am normal in the weight and height categories. I want to say I'm cute in the looks department? 🙈 I'll let you decide that though lol. I think it's super fun learning about people through conversation so I'll leave the following hobbies section blank. Then again, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to give a small hint to something I love.. My username should provide clues to that! I Siriusly need to re-watch the movies again. Maybe with someone I meet through r4r?
Alright, I can't hold it in anymore. I pretty much like a little bit of everything. For example, when it comes to music, I go through Backstreet Boys phases to Disney song phases (Moana is awesome and I haven't even seen the movie 🙊) to something like Linkin Park, Paramore or 50 Cent. What I'm trying to say is I like a little bit of everything! So there's a good chance I'll like whatever you like when it comes to hobbies and interests and that means connecting with each other should be relatively natural/seamless. Or maybe that's wishful thinking on my part, haha.
I'm not the best with openers and if you're also in the same boat, then how about this: If you could have any superpower what would it be and how would you use it? Being out of this world smart like Tony Stark is an acceptable super poweanswer, by the way.
Hopefully my first impression is a good one! If anyone is even remotely interested, then just let me know and I'll get back to you asap!

Hi all, I’ve hit my rock bottom and met w my doctor and husband and had an honest conversation about my drinking and how I literally can’t stop. It’s gotten worse over the years and out of control. It was so hard to admit this to my doctor who is also a family friend bc he recommended in patient rehab. I’m scared shitless but know I need to go. I’m in my young 30’s recently married, no kids yet and am motivated to get help and stop drinking. I can’t live like this anymore and feel like I’m letting myself down, friends, family etc. I want to be a better wife and alcohol is destroying everything in my life.
I’m new to this and feel so much shame and guilt but ready to make this decision. I know I’m with my people, hence why I joined the group.
Can anyone recommend or talk about your experience with in patient programs they did in Southern California? Pro’s/con’s etc? I’ve started looking at Betty ford, one in Malibu but not sure at all. Do you have good experiences with the admissions people? I called 1 last night and another today but don’t know how to do this. I’m thankful I have my husband who is so sweet and proud of me and thankful for you all. Thanks in advance!

Like the title says. I’m looking for volunteers who may want to come by and place a build down in the town.
It’s a peaceful creative server. Access to /gamemode and axiom is given by default (you still need to have axiom installed client side as well). Come by, add a building, or half a build, hang out, leave, or stay. Whatever you want to do! I have the world backed up right now so I don’t mind putting out the IP and port. It is:
77.37.67.176:25566 … yes 66, not 65.
I’ve been messing with some multiverse and other settings, so if you don’t load in to the town right away then use /mvtp world and then go from there.
Fly around some so you can see the breadth of the area. It’s big with lots of nooks and crannies. See something you like? Feel creative about a spot? Build something!
Please be respectful of the things that are already there though. Improve upon them if you like, just don’t go deleting or terraforming huge swaths of the land.

hi everyone! i’m a 20 y/o 5”2 female weighing in at about 107-108lbs (used to weigh 126) i’m trying to lose about 7-8 more pounds as i still feel like i have too much fat in the wrong places lol. i exercise (run and lift), have a decently physical job and eat 1400 cals a day. for whatever reason i can’t seem to lose these last few pounds no matter what i do. i’m eating the same amount, eating more protein actually (100g). i just don’t know what to do at this point i thought i had the whole weight loss thing figured out ):
edit: maybe the term im looking for is “skinny fat”?? my body fat percentage is like 18% which is kinda high for my age and height to my understanding. does this mean i need to focus on building more muscle and shedding fat at the same time?