i'm at a crossroads in my life right now. i'm 18 years old and graduated high school last year (late birthday). i've been struggling since then to decide what i want to do, what career or post secondary i want to go after, and have been working part time retail in the meantime. i really wanted to go into paleontology. dinosaurs are a huge passion of mine and i'm constantly fascinated by fossils, tracksites and bonebeds. but i struggled so hard in high school just to pass my courses. i was dealing with undiagnosed and untreated ADHD, depression and dyscalculia at the time as well. i dropped grade 12 math because i was failing it so badly and i was so stressed and miserable. I passed math 20-2 with a 60% average and math 10-1 with a 55% average. i ended up picking a trade at random to go into because it was hands-on learning. i couldn't see a future for myself, anyway, so it's not like it would matter, right? i still really struggle to see a future to myself. i'm just surviving day to day and i'm so tired. i met my boyfriend (he's 20) back at the end of November. we talk constantly and spend hours together, whether i'm staying the night with him or we're just calling to play minecraft together or going on a roadtrip together. he graduated college recently and is going into medical school. he was accepted into his dream school two provinces away. he's moving mid August. i've been debating moving out there with him. it's not like i really have anything here, aside from my family, but they have their own can of worms that makes it not so hard to move far away from them. it's such a huge change. the trade i chose has no regulations in that province though so there's no schooling. you just apply for an apprenticeship. if i did follow him, i would be going in late September at the earliest, but i just... i don't know. i don't really want to do anything in life. my only passion i can't turn into a career because i struggled so much in school, and math is unfortunately required for any sort of degree in paleontology. i don't know if i can put myself through that again and that crushes me. i still can't see a future for myself. i know i'm young and "have my whole life ahead of me" so i should "just follow whatever is interesting". i've heard it all from all the adults in my life. well. i guess i'm an adult in my life, too. does it get easier? i hope it does. i want to want a future but i'm stuck just trying to make it through the day.

Hello and happy Thursday everyone! I am a fellow Austinite but struggling finding something new to try for a birthday celebration in North Austin (between West Anderson Lane and Cedar Park area). I’ve been to nearly every nicer place in the said area. Is there a new restaurant that I don’t know about?!
Looking for something delicious, intimate. The style of food or price are not concerns as we are very open to varieties and we’re celebrating a few things!
Thank you so much!

So I pulled the trigger and booked our flights and hotel..gonna wait for the sale tickets to drop on the 29th and fingrs crossed hopefully get some and reservations for mid july. Our flight into LAX arrives really early around 8 am... on Monday. I was planning to do Disneyland Parks Tuesday Wednesday Thursday. I have a feeling the kids will be really tired from traveling on day 1 since our departure time is 6 am. My question is what are some things we could do that day. We're staying at the Fairfield Inn and won't have a car. We leave on the 20th so I was thinking to do knotts berry farm on the 19th (which is my son's birthday). So need fillers for monday and saturday (our flight back leaves at 9 PM). Thanks so much!

Anyone know about how many tickets they usually offer for these events? It sold out within minutes and I was really hoping to go - it's on my birthday!

I apologize in advance this is long. I would appreciate if you could take the time to read, and just give your opinion. If this doesn't fit I will remove.
So, I know this may seem stupid or unnecessary, I just want other people's views on the subject. This isore of an inner conflict I guess- anyway...
My grandmother passed away in 2017 at the age of 60. She was and will always be my best friend, and the person I will miss most in the world. If it were possible I would do absolutely anything I could to just talk to her one last time, I would give my life over so she could have a second, and better one. She was cremated and early last year I got a tattoo for her, we both had the same favorite flower, so I got a white magnolia tattoo with her name on the stem. The artist rushed it and it looksuch older than only a year, lines fell out, some parts are thicker than others, etc.
I have an appointment to get it fixed in June for my 21st birthday. I've been thinking alot about asking the artist (who I trust fully, they are one of the best in my city) to mix some of her ashes in with the ink.
The part that's making me wonder if this is a good idea or not is what she would think. My grandma was an old fashion Christian woman, and while I myself am non-religious, I have no issue with religion. And she was probably the only person on this Earth who's opinion mattered to me, even if it was through her religious views. On one hand I think if she knew I wanted to do this, she would be touched. She knew me better than anyone and I really think she would know how much it would mean to me to constantly have a piece of her with me forever. It's making me very emotional thinking about it lol. On the other hand I don't know if she would want her ashes separated and messed with. My father would say that she always wanted to be buried in between her parents, which I fully plan to do. I've kept her ashes safe until I can make the trip back home to do so. The thing is, my father is someone who... has issues. He and my grandma fought quite a lot, they both have their issues, but ultimately he is very explosive and she did not deserve alot of the aggressive she would receive. He is also a pathological liar, he has burned his bridges with all of our known family, myself included. When I was little he meant the world to me, he was my hero and the person I wanted to be, until I grew up.
The issue is also with him and my siblings. I do still speak to my father every now and again, just when I have to go to the place he lives and he speaks to me first. He is unfortunately living with my maternal grandparents because they feel sorry for him. It's super weird to have my mother's ex-husband living with OUR family, but I will focus on the main topic. He knows I have a tattoo for my grandma, which is fine because I don't care what he thinks. I just don't want to deal with him telling me how disrespectful I am for "desecrating" his mom's ashes. He has never once asked where they are/what I've done with them. I don't know if this is because he only cares about himself, or because he knows I would never let anything happen to them. Not sure. If he were to say stuff like that it would make me feel like I've done the ultimate damage to my grandma, and the ultimate sin in her eyes, as far as disrespecting the dead and her memory.
My siblings are also not the most understanding, I only stay close to my sister for my nieces, my little brother is the only one I love, and my oldest brother is dead to me. As much as it would mean to me to have grandmother's ashes as a part of my being, she was still their grandma too. My little brother would completely understand, and my sister knows how much she meant to me, her and I were best friends, and always will be. I don't want to be selfish and hurt them by disrespecting our grandma. I'm not really close to alot of my family, but this just seems... Different. I don't know.
I'm not really sure what I feel to be honest. I guess I just want to talk about it, I don't want to necessarily talk with my siblings about it. I don't know how they will react, but I don't want to feel guilty by doing it behind their backs. What do you guys think? I don't know how this will come off to strangers, but to me this is a very sensitive subject so please be kind, you can give your opinion and not be hurtful. Thanks for reading!
TL;DR: want to get grandma's ashes tattooed in me, but scared of what she and/or my family would think. It would mean the world to me, but I may hurt other people I guess.

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Ive lost 30+ pounds in 6 months but really ive been stalling the last 3 months. I get anxiety about planning cheat days because i have so many cravings and then i go way overboard. I have a lot of trouble getting back on track after my cheat day, taking too many cheat days, having more weak moments. There are too many special occasions, mothers day or a birthday or an anniversary or a gathering... I feel like I’m losing my edge, and I’m starting to show a lot of weakness. Any advice???

I (21F) and my fiance (23M) are getting married in a couple months and so far wedding planning has been going smoothly but stressful as expected. I come from a strict Catholic religious background and my parents are very involved in our wedding planning (they graciously offered to pay for our wedding, even though I said it wasn’t necessary and was willing to have a very small wedding). My parents insisted since I’m their first child getting married that it was very special and they would love nothing more than to provide us our special day. However, now things are getting weird. For some context, my parents kicked me out before my 19th birthday simply because I wanted to “do my own thing” (i was in school and working full time at this time) and didn’t want to be responsible for helping out with taking my little siblings to school, extra curriculars ect. (i have a very large family). That in itself is its own issue. Since getting kicked out I used any penny I had to buy myself a car and phone and figure out a place to live. Things with my parents are fine now, especially since I’m getting married and they love my fiance.
Yesterday my mom and dad put me and my fiance in a group chat saying they would like to meet with us for a brunch this weekend to discuss wedding plans. However I learned yesterday that my father called my fiance and basically told him they are very close to canceling the wedding and sending out “un invites” to everyone. My father said he doubts my finances ability to “be a hard worker” and most of all doubts him because my fiance and I have been struggling to go to church. I was raised in the Catholic religion and have been personally struggling trying to figure out what I believe . My parents are crossing major boundaries by doing this, and are trying to get way too involved with us in my opinion. I was beyond livid that my dad would doubt my finances loyalty and work ethic (my fiance works 80 hours a week on average in a demanding blue collar job). Anyways I am trying to keep the peace till the wedding so everything goes smoothly, but part of me wants to rip into my parents for how my dad spoke to my future husband. I don’t tolerate the disrespect my father displayed to him. My fiance is working overtime to save money for us and take care of me financially once we get married, so i won’t have to worry about bills or grocery money. I work two jobs to pay for my expenses at the moment, but my fiance wants to alleviate my stress once we’re married so my money I earn can be spent on more leisurely things for me and him both.
My dad has used this threatening tactic with me before. After high school he said he was more than happy to put me through cosmetology school since it was what I wanted to do with my life, but when he kicked me out he told me he would be no longer paying for my schooling. (he ended paying for it all but during this time I was basically homeless so this caused so much anxiety. ) I just don’t know if my dad is being serious about wanting to cancel our wedding or not.. (mostly all wedding expenses have already been paid so i’m confused) and i’m feeling so overwhelmed and stressed because I never even thought they would try to threaten our wedding after saying they would whole heartedly be happy to pay for it.
any advice helps .. i feel so lost and stressed

I (30 M) am still fighting over this conflict with my ex-girlfriend who I’ll call Jane (27 F) who ended up cheating on me after dating for 5 years. Me and Jane were childhood friends for as long as I can remember. I never thought in a million years that she would do this to me, or be this type of person who would cheat. I thought we had a great relationship with our normal ups and downs like any other couple. About a year ago I was contacted by some girl I didn’t know through social media, I don’t usually respond to messages sent by people I don’t know but this girl who I’ll call Sam sent me a message saying that Jane was cheating on me. Somehow she knew about Jane, I told her to please provide any proof she had. She ended up sending me screenshots of text messages of her friend, who I’ll call Kevin (28 M) and Jane texting each other, sending explicit messages, and talking some other sexual crap that I can’t describe on here. The thing that shocked me the most was the text Jane had sent about her being pregnant, fucking pregnant! We were talking about having a baby at the time before I discovered the cheating, and we did initiate intimacy with protection of course. I was fuming to say the least. Sam had sent me a video of Kevin drunkenly admitting about sleeping with Jane without protection. Sam told me she had gotten a hold of Kevin’s phone while he was out and was left unlocked. She wanted to let me know about this issue because she didn’t want me to have false hopes of me being the father to the kid that could possibly not be mine. I thanked her and asked how she found me, she said she had found Jane’s social media account that was linked back to me in a post. Jane’s social media is open, but she doesn’t really use it that much, other than making posts about us or shopping accessories. I thanked Sam for letting me know and saved all the screenshots she had sent me along with the video. Jane was visiting her mother at the time, so I took the liberty of packing Jane’s stuff and other important essentials she owns. Jane came home later that day looking all happy and jittery. I had to put on a fake smile when she delivered the news that she was pregnant and hugged me. I told her we should go out to celebrate, and she agreed, not knowing of what I have in store for her. I ended up driving her back to her mother’s place as she was confused as to why we were there, I told her that she could drop the act already and told her that I know about the cheating. She looked like a deer in headlights if I’m describing correctly. Of course, she tried to deny it until I showed all the screenshots to her that I got from Sam. Jane ended up breaking down and confessing that the cheating was in fact true, I asked how long was the cheating going on and Jane was a bit hysterical before telling me that she was seeing Kevin behind my back for the last 2 years. I then asked if they had worn protection when she was cheating on me with Kevin, she said no. I told Jane we were done and to never contact me again. She lost it and started crying even harder after I took out her belongings from the trunk of my car. She refused to get out of the vehicle, and she begged for another chance, Jane even told me that she would have the a-word if it means staying with her. I kinda got spooked hearing that. I didn’t expect her to go so low with that option. I told her that whatever she decided is not gonna undue the damage she has done to both of us, I ended having to get Jane’s mother involved and explained the situation to her and showing her the evidence and conversation I had secretly recorded Jane’s mother apologized for her daughter’s actions and after a couple of minutes Jane finally got out of my vehicle and I drove off without looking back or giving her a chance to speak to me again. I ended breaking down myself after I got back home and couldn’t eat or sleep right after what happened, and this was a repeated cycle that lasted for a couple of months. It’s been almost a year now, and I’ve nearly recovered from the incident, but the scars are still there. Just 2 weeks ago Jane messaged me since the break up and told me she wanted to get back together, I told her no straight up and blocked her. Then a few days ago Jane showed up at my front door, not gonna lie she looked like a total mess when I saw her through the doorbell camera, and she was asking me to speak to her, I didn’t let her in, so I told her what the hell she wanted. Jane said that Kevin ended up ghosting her soon after she gave birth to the baby and they don’t know where Kevin is, I told her that it was her problem to deal with and reminded her that Kevin was the guy she left me for. She begged me to help her because she had not gotten any sleep, and she’s basically on her own, her parents ended up kicking her out of their house after she gave birth. Jane said that cheating on me was her biggest mistake and that she doesn’t like being a single mom and taking care of a kid on her own, she asked me if I’m willing to take care of her kid as if it was my own. I got pissed and told her F off and that as far as her and I are concerned there is no her and I anymore. I said that her kid she made while cheating on me was not problem, I told her every ounce of love and respect I had for her died the moment I found about the cheating. In case most of you aren’t aware I was the unfortunate victim of being stood up at my own birthday party when I was 8. Nobody showed up, out of all of my friends I had, Jane was the only one who showed up. Jane left soon after while crying, her friends are now blasting me on social media for not stepping up and telling me that I’m not a real man after all that Jane has done for me, and that I owed it to her. They also said that even though she made a mistake she was there for me, so it would be horrible of me to not be there for her and the kid. What should I do regarding this matter? I feel bad that she was there for me growing up, but I can’t forgive her for what she did. What should I do?

It's my birthday tomorrow and I have the day off. Wonder what sweet birthday deals exist around town. I used to live in Madison and the Nitty Gritty did free tap beer on your birthday, when I lived in Phoenix one of my favorite breweries did a Stein of beer for $1.
For context I don't support national chains so please save your energy and don't bother with the Krispy Kreme, Chili, Cheesecake Factory, Applebee's crap. I have no interest. I live in Pewaukee but am having dinner with friends in Bayview. Looking for option during the day. Whatcha got?

So I don’t have my drivers license yet because I need a new ID to do the driving test, my sister messed up my ID because she put the wrong birthday. Anyways my mom was taking me to school and told me “I’m taking money out and buying my truck” she didn’t ask for permission, and what she means by that is taking out money from my ten grand. How I got ten grand is my dad sold the house and gave everyone ten grand. My mom took 1,300 out of it because she needed to fix her car (Honda civic) but it only costed 225 for the brakes and brake fluid and I asked her what she did with the rest and said “I needed to pay of my credit card bill since I have to put in gas and feed you, I owe the bank a lot of money because of you” and I just got a job and barely getting enough money. So 10,000-1,300=8,700 and I was looking for a car for 2 grand (a used car) and the money is in her dads bank account and I’m mad because I can’t do anything about it and I’m trying to move out as fast as possible, and to take my money because I asked my teacher for advice and he said “she’s gonna take the money slowly” I’m paying for everything, gas and food and her credit card yet she’s supposed to take care of me. I need help and I have no idea what to do, I got a job offer after high school to work for better pay but idk where to start.

When pulling for birthday cards, if you are pulling for the one from this year but want to trade in the gacha stickers for the older card can you?? or do you need to pull only for that one?

Opened some lotr and Baldur gate packs for my birthday and pulled this. Seen it goes for like $50-$70 or something I was wondering where I could sell it ? Do game stores buy cards ? Should I sell it or just keep it idk if I plan to use it I’m planning on making an astarian and blanka deck soon.

Let's explain the situation from the beginning. We are a group of 6 friends and little by little our friendship has deteriorated. I sent him a WhatsApp explaining that I would not take any more trips with him until his attitude changed. Now my friends are telling me to forgive him since we have a trip for the summer.
When we were 17 we always met up to get drunk and smoke. But years have passed and I'm turning 21. And I'm getting tired of this environment.
I think the turning point was when I bought my car on my own (when I was just 19 years old), I was working for months and once I bought it it was wonderful, everyone was super excited until the problems started to occur. Many responsibilities fell on me, organizing plans, taking home, always doing the shopping.
I mainly had a problem with a friend, let's call him House. House was always my closest friend and I knew him from school, in high school we hung out occasionally but when we created the group we became even closer.
We met every day and it was very cool, but I already realized that he sometimes had anger problems (once he broke the neighbor's air conditioning because they stood him up) as well as a childish attitude of always being right.
A few days before I quit a job that was exploitative and I was having a hard time, I promised House that I would pick him up and take him to a nightclub (after work) that is 4 km from his house (5 km from mine). . But I quit so I was happy to be able to drink and have a good time, until he reminded me of the "promise". By that time he had already resigned 1 week ago and we already bought the tickets 2 weeks ago. He didn't say anything to me until we were at the party and he made a passive-aggressive comment at me. I feel bad and I manipulate the rest so that they say that I had to keep my promise... Well, it's not that big of a deal but it was a wake-up call for me.
I had some friction with him, such as him falsely accusing me that he was stealing gas money from him after a trip for wanting to "overcharge him", something totally false. Or one time he got drunk and was on the beach on my birthday yelling at me and another friend to give him the bottle we were all drinking, we refused because he was 3 steps away and if he had wanted to be with us he could, Then he became aggressive and confronted me a few centimeters away, I pushed him and threatened to hit me. Afterwards we "reconciled" but I already mistrusted in a certain way because of what he had shown me.
His parents divorce, he starts drinking every day, he is dissatisfied with the studies he chose himself, no one forced him and he chose a higher degree with no way out because he was funny in front of others. He hasn't gotten his driver's license, he's not progressing in life, and so the months go by.
In my town there is a party and it is like the party that the entire region comes, including people, we are talking about tens of thousands of young people partying, well House meets us but informs us that first he should have a few beers with his friends, proceed not to be separated from them all day. The worst thing was that every time we told him to do something he followed them from one place to another like a dog, until I understood what was happening, he was with them all the time because they were taking cocaine. That disgusted me a lot since he knows that I don't like that and that if he had stayed with those friends of his I wouldn't have cared, but he had stayed with us.
A week later he organized a plan, as I always do, to go have a barbecue in the mountains, a beautiful place where House tells me that he has no money, I invite him to eat with another friend. When we arrive I see that we have forgotten the meat, so I have to call my aunt who lives 20 minutes away to go get it. I did the shopping alone, in the end I went down alone with my aunt, I bought them beer since House and another stayed upstairs drinking. When I arrive they criticize the meat I bought, I forgot to buy bread, and they criticize the coals I bought since they were very "small", in the end we cooked everything even on meat.
After 2 weeks I plan to go fishing, and that's when House openly tells me that the barbecue was "fucking shit", which seemed like very strong words to me. Mainly when they come from a person who has never driven to take me (he doesn't have a license...), I don't buy the meat, I don't cook and worse still he didn't even thank me for having invited him to eat, he has pay from his parents, they are officials. My parents are immigrants and I have earned my money by working. After that he reproaches me saying that since I am studying and he is "working", he is practicing sports. HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A FULL TIME!! Which is my obligation since I am freer than him, he doesn't know that lately I have been studying 9 hours a day, super stressed and bad. After that discussion, I didn't speak to him the entire trip back.
I don't want to see him, it's as if he had clicked on me * and no matter how much forgiveness he asks me and they tell me that "it was just a few words", it doesn't seem that way to me.
What do you think is pride or should I forgive him for the good of the group?

Hi, so I really don’t know where to post this but just wanted to thank you, Morgan, for a really fun and memorable experience at your Boston show last night. I (27M) bought these tickets back in February for my partners (24F) birthday and just with time elapsed and us both forgetting to add this to our shared calendar we totally spaced on the show and only realized when we got a survey email from stub hub 5 minutes after the show started. We hustled over and got to the show (only 45 minutes late 💀) and had a hard time finding seats at the venue. A few minutes after we sat down you shouted us out (“the girl in the white sweater with the guy sitting next to her”) and told us you had been trying to wave us down to let us know there were seats in the front. My partner (and I) are such huge fans of the pod and were really beating ourselves up about almost missing the show and almost didn’t come. You really turned it into one of the best nights we’ve ever had together and my partner was so excited after you shouted us out (“omg she talked to us!!”) and the half of the show we did see was great!
We listen to the pod together all the time and take breaks to discuss the posts and it has just always been a consistent activity we share and it was just such an intimate experience to see you live. Thank you so much!!
P.s. I know there was a debate about this at the show ln but my roommate (also from northern Minnesota) very enthusiastically confirmed “whipping a shitty” is definitely a thing!