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2024.05.15 03:01 Business_Ad_5821 I’m really struggling right now

I’m really struggling right now. DDay was 10 1/2 months ago. We have been living together the whole time. WS just ended PA with AP 2 months ago, but there’s still an emotional connection. WS has been saying for a while now, he has two opposite feelings at the same time, which oddly I do understand, hence my struggle.
On one side, he wants to try R. On the other he doesn’t. He loves both me and AP. he has been trying to disconnect with AP. They still talk, text, see each other. One days he wants to work it out, 2 days later he wants to move out. It’s a constant cycle. Not so much a cake eater, but unable to make a decision.
I have decided that I can no longer live this way. I made the decision to leave. I have a new place waiting to be able to move into.
I want to leave because I don’t want to live in limbo. But I don’t want to leave either. We have never gotten along so well in our 20 years together as we have since a month after DDay. We can laugh together, the intimacy is insane, we can be vulnerable, all things we weren’t able to do for a cery long time. We were pretty toxic and communication was horrendous. We love each other, but there’s another person involved. We never fully disconnected from one another.
I am well aware of the reality. 1. He cannot/is unable to go NC with AP 2. There is no shot at “us” with any type of relationship with AP. WH has an established career that he cannot leave or transfer. They work together and AP will follow where he goes. 3. I still love him. 4. I know I have to do what’s best for me and my mental health. 5. I know it’s going to hurt either choice I make. I decided to leave thinking at least then the pain could dissipate, whereas if I stay it never will due to AP still in his life. 6. I know I have to do what’s in the best interest of the kids.
I’m excited to start a new chapter, but I am so incredibly sad at the same time. I’m really proud of myself for all the work that i’ve done. I am self aware now. I can control my emotions as opposed to bottling them up and then exploding. I’ve gained self esteem (didn’t have before A). It’s like I failed as a wife (the things leading up to A) or I am failing myself. This is all what I mean where I understand the opposing feelings WH has. The concept of it at least.
I know there’s a chance he’ll “wake up” once the home is empty. I also know there’s a chance AP will slide in. She’s really quite manipulative and a snake… that’s a whole other story.
I’m just having a really hard time with all of this.
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2024.05.15 03:00 Foreign_Bunch_2765 AITA For not playing along with a woman's attempt to get rid of a creep that was following her?

Throwaway.
I (39m) went to the gym last Friday. After finishing my session, i had planned to meet my wife and kids at a nearby mall. As I'm walking through the parking lot, I see a woman with her phone on her ear and a man that's behind her (who I soon figured out was following her in the pervert type way) I don't think anything of it, it's like 1p.m., and if I were a creep following women, I could think of much better times to do so. I think they're bf and gf, and the woman looks me dead in the eye, so i give her th "'sup," type of nod and go back to my day. A couple seconds later, she's right by my side, chatting me up (probably tryign to act as if she knows me, so the guy would go away, since I was kind of bigger than him) while the guy is trailing us. By then, i get the memo but i quietly whisper to her that I'm in a rush (my wife is very punctual and wanted me to be there at 1:30) and I can't linger, but to find someone else if she can.
Then i got in my car and drove away. That was at least before asking where the guy was going, and he turned around, hopefully continuing to do so after I left. When I arrived (yes i waa 5-10 minutes late) my wife asked me where i was, and i basically explained the whole first paragraph. She then got mad at me for indirectly putting her in danger (Even though i didnt) and that she didn't care about punctuality.
It's been a topic of discussion betweeen us lately, so im asking a third parrty (assuming this is the correct sub for this type of thing) if im the ah here,.
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2024.05.15 03:00 kintsugiwarrior Spirited Away: Similarities between the character "No-Face" and the "Narcissist" [Analysis]

Spirited Away: Similarities between the character
I used to watch the Japanese movie Spirited Away, and there were symbolism and hidden messages in the story. I always loved the movie, but I never focused my attention on the character called "No-Face". I was hesitant to make a post about my thoughts regarding the similarities between No-Face and the Narcissist but the more I considered its significance, the more I think this metaphor can bring value to the people still trying to dissect the narcissist. I will try to explain my interpretation of the character along with images from the movie, the behaviors, and the intentionality of the character, and how (in my opinion), these behaviors resemble the invisible psyche of the Narcissist:
https://preview.redd.it/zcdopotgkh0d1.png?width=1699&format=png&auto=webp&s=8e576e8bd0e48ad1ed8f1c46e9bc9bbc8f52ddd9
In the movie, No-Face shows up and stands in the rain watching Chihiro (the girl, and main character), and as it's raining and she's empathetic, she left the door open for him. This made me realize that we have to open the door and welcome the narcissist for them to come into our lives. Soon after coming into the house, No-Face identified Chihiro's "need", and she needed soap to do her work. As a result, No-Face stole a lot of soap to give her (baiting). This is important as each new person (potential source of Supply) has different needs, and those are used to ensnare them in the first interactions with the Narcissist.
https://preview.redd.it/kfq6wbyrkh0d1.png?width=1699&format=png&auto=webp&s=6ce244e21304f9580f258801e53b842bcb98abc1
However, when she said that she didn't need the soap ... No-Face disappeared (what we usually call "Ghosting" which is a RED FLAG), since he didn't get the expected reaction out of her.
Then, No-Face realized that humans wanted "gold", and he started to make a "replica of Gold", it wasn't real Gold, but people started to believe it was real, and so, he was able to ensnare his first victim: a gullible frog.
It is VERY interesting because up until now, No-Face is an empty shell that wanders around without any identity or purpose for existence. However, after engulfing (enmeshment) his first victim, he takes the personality of the frog (Character Trait Acquisition). Of course, there is No Boundary recognition at this point, as the frog becomes an extension of him.
https://preview.redd.it/ckduj7vwkh0d1.png?width=1699&format=png&auto=webp&s=c1aa8cca89ea2ed3bd6bc65d4dd71ed8b509e45e
No-Face was not able to talk before, but now he's able to use the VOICE of the Frog, and uses his voice to ensnare new victims, and acquiring these new traits makes him more effective. This makes me think of all the new character traits the narcissist learned from us, especially to emulate "false empathy", and "fake emotions".
https://preview.redd.it/qmg37nr2lh0d1.png?width=1700&format=png&auto=webp&s=5a11b40abd4b88fdc2815b7056e8281e3e687a0f
At this point in the movie, No-Face has grown more powerful and respected. He continues to give everyone Gold, so people choose to worship him providing Attention and Adoration (Narcissistic Supply or Fuel). The man dancing in the following scene is suddenly discarded as he is irrelevant. Now, No-Face has his attention on the new victim (Chihiro), and tries to give her everything she wants, so she is brought under control, and can provide Attention to him too. I find this interesting to better understand why the narcissist can be someone with us, and someone completely different with someone else.... because they would give anyone anything they want so they can bring them under their control.
https://preview.redd.it/f4mce0q9lh0d1.png?width=1700&format=png&auto=webp&s=51d6b7d8f704ea362e5fa27a8d9ffb2d011e741a
No-Face offers Chihiro more Gold than he has ever offered to any other character in the movie. This makes me think when the narcissist gives everything to the New Supply, and people wonder why, as some people feel like they have no value .... but it's more a matter of doing everything they have to in order for the new victim to become a potential Source of Supply. We can also see here the dynamic as many people are trying to please the narcissist, making them first sources, secondary, and tertiary sources of supply. This scene can also be seen as a form of Triangulation, as No-Face is giving everything to Chihiro in front of the others who are making efforts to get exactly what he's giving to her...
We can also think of how "Gold" is simply a representation of something precious that others desire, as in our case it was "Love".
https://preview.redd.it/h7uvniwilh0d1.png?width=1699&format=png&auto=webp&s=e08a6abd5c0bfde093177cf4bb27cebfd2cb7b9a
But when Chihiro rejects him again, it seems to me that No-Face gets sad, and suffers a Narcissistic Injury.
Immediately after, No-Face needs to soothe this injury, and swallows 2 more people, engulfing their Character Traits and personalities as well.
https://preview.redd.it/982yvzxplh0d1.png?width=1699&format=png&auto=webp&s=73130484b9cfe1f8f2286f226aee09b0925108eb
https://preview.redd.it/r1c04leqlh0d1.png?width=1700&format=png&auto=webp&s=b0d503ddf78f496b79f7d8b1dfd845de5a011791
Then, No-Face continues his obsession with Chihiro because it's the only one he cannot buy with Gold.... especially as Chihiro has strong boundaries, is not coming from a place of need, and has clarity of her purpose. This makes me think of how the narcissist gets obsessed with some people, and they never get over those people who rejected them 10 or 20 years ago... and bring them up in conversations over and over.
https://preview.redd.it/a60lsc8ylh0d1.png?width=1700&format=png&auto=webp&s=ad0e8000de8b5ac8aa989898f6c0204a5d0d28d7
As No-Face continues to make offers to Chihiro (Love-Bombing), and she continues to reject his advances... he starts playing the victim. As we already know, Narcissists oscillate between Grandiosity and Victimhood... and especially after an injury, they play the victim to instill our empathetic traits, so we take the role of Rescuer. But Chihiro cannot be manipulated and derailed from her own purpose. This, in turn, causes narcissistic injury, obsession, and subsequently Narcissistic Collapse.
https://preview.redd.it/dd3dbto5mh0d1.png?width=1700&format=png&auto=webp&s=ae2f84807a68785e573bdf06c3254b65c67556ae
https://preview.redd.it/ze1vki66mh0d1.png?width=1700&format=png&auto=webp&s=41d620f069f676fa3669c5e0327766eb593c608a
Suddenly, No-Face enrages, from what I see as Narcissistic Rage. He loses control and exhibits fury chasing Chihiro and trying to take her by force. This is the most dangerous moment of the dynamic, as the victim escapes, and the narcissist turns aggressive and unpredictable...
https://preview.redd.it/5ernv0mjmh0d1.png?width=1699&format=png&auto=webp&s=e1759b21251cf2cb8eef68d8c86a1ed0df3b32a9
In this scene, No-Face throws up a lot, and while throwing up, he expels 2 other characters he has previously engulfed. As we know, the False Self of the narcissist is made up of character traits he steals from other people. But during a Narcissistic Collapse, this Fake personality crumbles down and disintegrates, as it requires External Validation. I find this symbolic representation interesting as it reminds me how the narcissist is literally "nothing" without their engulfed character traits... in the absence of a real identity.
https://preview.redd.it/zy9lmqcpmh0d1.png?width=1699&format=png&auto=webp&s=44184826705bc35cd6dba7fc419e80d52d1a91fe
Ultimately, No-Face throws up the frog, and loses his voice and its character traits. He went back to being this empty shell, husk or ghost; without a real identity/personality behind the mask. I like the representation of MASK, as it truly shows that No-Face is nothing without the mask... and this is especially true for the narcissist too.
https://preview.redd.it/736ulfyvmh0d1.png?width=1699&format=png&auto=webp&s=334e07258883c5915da4829337258746de164ce4
And after No-Face was gone, the Gold he had given everyone turned into mud and dust. This is exactly what everyone realizes eventually, that the LOVE the narcissist provided was neither real nor authentic, but just a "replica of love" to keep us controlled.
I've watched this movie so many times throughout the years, even before marrying a narcissist. I enjoyed finding the similarities between No-Face and the Narcissist, and wanted to share it with everyone. I would love to hear your interpretations, whether you agree, disagree or have anything extra to add.
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2024.05.15 02:57 asclw7643 Horrible boss

I had a boss who was hired around the same time I was and was paid three times as much as I was, yet he couldn't even type on a computer or figure out spellcheck. He gave me a negative performance review because I let him publish a document that had a spelling error in it that he didn't catch. How dare me.
When our finances started failing, I was the one axed instead of him because he was 64 and I was 28, even though he had 0 leadership skills and I was essentially begging him to communicate and be open-minded to new ideas. He was terrible at giving instructions, provided me no training because he didn't even know how to do my job, and he viewed questions as signs of me not being qualified rather than being qualified enough to pursue answers and not act solely on my assumptions, as he does.
He was fired from his previous job for running that place into the ground. I giggled when I heard that the institution plummeted even deeper without me and that they had to hire 2 people to replace my role. I had a lot of ideas to avoid that, but he didn't like my ideas and pushed the blame on me for causing failure (ultimately just following his orders). It's almost as if I had a modern master's degree and he was less qualified than me on every gauge except length of work history.
It didn't surprise me when one day his wife dropped by to say hello, and he just asked, "What do you want?" She should have divorced him a long time ago because (1) he's insufferable as a person and has no emotional regulation skills, and (2) he takes no accountability, including with raising his children.
Her first sign to leave should have been that 2 days after she gave birth to their first child, he went on a solo vacation that she didn't even want him to go on, but he didn't see the issue and still doesn't. I'm amazed there was even a second child. She does everything around the house and he'll just watch TV and go golfing with his friends. (His wife worked in a different department and called or stopped by for various reasons during my time there. We talked a lot.)
Oh, to have the unquestioned and injustly tolerated authority of a salaried white Boomer man who was bumped up the corporate ladder when it was expected rather than earned...and whose angry threats were yielded to rather than seen as red flags that he didn't know how to collaborate and was unwilling to recognize that someone may have a single insight he doesn't.
He acted like he was doing everybody a favor by working there rather than retiring. As if going on 2-week vacations during our busiest scrambles of the fiscal year (he took 6 vacations in 10 months and would more than not show up to work at least an hour late and leave hours early to go golfing) was helpful at all.
My biggest regret in life is not being 15 years older. Might have had a shot in that work economy to have a better paying job and more influence than a discarded peanut shell.
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2024.05.15 02:57 Worldly_Tomato13 AITAH

i have been in a long distance relationship with my boyfriend for almost 10 months now and i told him i can’t do it anymore. i hate not being able to be with him every day or at least every weekend. we’re both working full time jobs and it’s not easy to get time off to see each other. i currently live on my own and he lives w his parents. i have told him for months that if we ever decide to move in together 1. i will never move there (it is too expensive and not practical) and 2. if i did he needed to get us our own place because i am not moving into his parents house w him. the more i thought about it the more i decided i didn’t want to move there i love where im at and i don’t want to leave my family. he on the other hand doesn’t have a great relationship w his family and constantly tells me that he wants to leave and be away from his family so i started thinking that it would just be better if he came here then. after thinking and being afraid that we won’t survive if i move there i kind of gave him an ultimatum and i told him that if he doesn’t move here w me that we should break up. AITAH?
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2024.05.15 02:56 Shrekidishrunk Getting into ranked

So I’ve been playing the finals and absolutely love it I’m hooked. Problem I don’t really have any real life friends who wants to play it. I’ve tried convincing them a couple of times but they weren’t really interested sadly.
Until the other day when one of my friends finally said yes to giving it a shot. I was pretty excited and qued up with him, so I could show him the ropes. He’s pretty good at fps’ and fast pace games so he picked it up really quickly and got some banger casual matches with me. He even got more kills than I did in some of them and plays pretty well objective wise. He of course still has to learn the strategies and game sense of the game, but nothing earth shattering.
So after we had played a like 10 rounds of casual or so, I wanted to introduce him to ranked at my own risk lol (diamond 4). It didn’t seem like a bad idea ,since as stated earlier, he was really good and only needed some more game sense. So when I tried to que up with him it told me that he was not ready for ranked yet. Ok no bother. Maybe we just need to play a couple more rounds of casual or he needs to unlock some more weapons. Not a big deal. I then asked him to see what we needed to do to get him ready for ranked. He looked, and what did he need? Not more weapons, not 5 more rounds of casual, not more rounds as one of the classes. No. He needed to play 40 ROUNDS OF CASUAL!
  1. That’s absolutely ridiculous. I get 10, 15 or maybe even 20 but 40?!
This was really a bummer cause I know he likes competitive games and can easily get hooked on those just as I. I’ve been here since launch so I didn’t have to bother with the 40 rounds since I probably already played those by the time ranked came out.
I’m just scared he’ll lose interest if ranked is gatekept this much. And I think it could really hurt the interest of new comers to the game. So please Embark lower it a bit.
Anyway sorry for the long story/rant, and any grammatical errors. English is not my first language.
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2024.05.15 02:55 Environmental_Map554 Poop at hepatic flexure

On the 3rd of May I did an x-ray for my constipation, lots of gas and stool at the hepatic flexure, corner of ascending and transverse colon. This was giving me throbbing pain for already 2,weeks prior under right ribcage. Today 11 days later, after having taken a lot of laxatives the past 2 days that turned 💩 into diahrea, the stool is still sitting there. My chiropractor did the x-ray today. He told me that my colon is like a bent garden hose and that the liquid stool is going around that 💩. What can I do?
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2024.05.15 02:55 allthedarkspaces my neighbor's basement is hiding something awful

I naturally fell into babysitting around the age of 14. Through friends and family, I got leads for babysitting to score some cash, which definitely beat having to work at a restaurant. The job had its ups and downs, but overall it wasn’t a bad gig at all.
Yet, as many good experiences as I had, they were all eclipsed by one night.
A new family in town talked to my dad at work and it turned out that they needed a babysitter. I happily took the job and found myself watching their 10-year old boy a couple of weeks later. There was nothing out of the ordinary about the family themselves. They were the model citizens of suburban America, complete with the white picket fence and blue shutters. Nothing about their house was strange or even unique. Their son Avery was very mild-mannered and polite. Even their car was basic. Not that these were bad things, but I expected it to be a very boring night.
What I did not expect was the uncomfortable, inexplicable feeling that I got when I set foot in the house. A chill ran through me, but there was no draft. I rubbed my arms as I gazed at their staircase as we passed. They gave me a brief tour of the house before they left a note of instructions and all the usual information I expected from a job.
While trying to figure out what was making me so uneasy about the place, I noticed something about their basement door when I passed it. A padlock was placed on the door, along with a deadbolt in place.
"Any questions?” The father asked as my mind was pulled out of my curiosity.
"No, sir. Everything looks great!”
So they left and Avery and I played some games before I made dinner. A couple of times, I thought I heard Avery call me into the den. Both times, I found him sitting on the couch in what most recognize as the TV-zombie state. He denied having called me, and I went back to making dinner. After the third time, I told Avery it wasn’t funny and that he should stop.
“I’m not doing anything, I’m just watching TV!”
His voice went to that higher tone of pleading, sounding desperate for me to believe him.
“Avery, I know it’s my first time and sometimes you wanna test things out, but I’m trying to get dinner ready so if you call me again, I’m not checking on you, okay?”
“I didn't say anything.”
The child glared at the TV with a pouting face, and I began to feel bad. As many times as I’ve heard lies, I was starting to sense that he was telling the truth. So what was I hearing?
“Hey, it’s fine. I’m not mad. Promise.”
Avery turned his head back towards me, seeming to test if I was the one fibbing now.
“How about I let you stay up a little later if we forget about it?”
“Do you really promise?”
“Pinky promise.”
With our contractual pinkies interlocked, spirits were raised again and I was able to finish dinner. Although I didn’t finish without hearing Avery’s voice calling me once more. I ignored it, and when Avery didn’t mention it at dinner I figured it was him fooling around again. The whole time we chatted as we ate, I couldn’t help but feel that something was not right about this house.
As hard as I tried to not look, my eyes kept diverting to the heavy padlock and chain on the basement door. Curiosity got the best of me and as we were cleaning up, I couldn’t help but ask.
“So Avery, what’s the deal with the basement door?”
“What do you mean?”
His words did not match his demeanor. It was obvious he didn’t make eye contact as he forced his sentence out.
“C’mon, you know what I mean. The padlock, chain, and deadbolt. Y’all have dangerous chemicals down there?”
Avery’s face grew paler and he stared at the wall for a moment.
“Hey, it’s okay. You don’t have to tell me. I didn’t mean to…”
“Dad said no one can talk about it anymore.”
This really threw me off, and I couldn’t possibly finish my sentence now. A thick veil of tension materialized between us.
“So you…you guys aren’t allowed to talk about it?”
Avery shook his head.
“Ah, okay. That’s cool. No big deal.”
It was nothing but a big deal.
Was their dad doing something illegal down there? Or was it something strange that no one could do anything about it? Maybe their dad was in denial about something going on. There were waaaaaay too many questions going through my head now.
“Hey, how about we put on a movie?”
“Yeah, sure.”
“What am I saying? Everyone likes movies, right?!”
Now excited, we decided on a fun movie that quickly pulled our minds away from the mysterious basement door. Well, that’s not entirely true. Maybe Avery was distracted, but it was killing me. As we ate popcorn, I couldn’t help but watch Avery, wondering what was going on in that little head of his.
Was there something awful going on in the house and there was nothing I could do to stop it? Or maybe the dad was just…
“Stop,” I told myself inwardly.
Mulling over it all endlessly was not doing myself any favors.
So the movie ended, and I ushered the drifting child to his bed. Now, the house was all to myself until twelve, so I had a good three and a half hours to myself. Immediately, I began texting my friend to tell her all about the weird experience I was having that night. She dismissed it, saying that I was getting spooked by a new place. This annoyed me to no end. I’d been at bigger, way creepier-looking houses but never got weird vibes like this.
Then…I heard it.
“Stephanie…..”
I went instantly still and listened intently.
“You didn’t hear that, Steph. Just keep texting your friend and…”
“Stephanieeeee…”
There was no mistaking it this time. It was definitely coming from the basement.
The acoustics couldn’t have been from Avery upstairs. The voice sounded like a little girl’s. In fact, I’m not even sure he could make his voice like that, anyway.
Slowly, I stood up from the couch and approached the door. Maybe like earlier, I was just hearing things. Maybe being creeped out by the house was starting to mess with my head. That made sense…right?
“Stephanie?”
I jumped back from the door, almost wetting myself in the process. There was no way I could dismiss it as anything else now. There was a little girl’s voice coming from the basement.
“H-hello?” I responded.
I couldn’t keep my voice from shaking.
“Is this Stephanie?”
“Y-yes, it’s Stephanie.”
“Can you help me?”
“Who are you? Why are you locked in the basement?”
“My name is Meredith Rosenberg. They’re kept me locked up for a long time now. The police were almost on to them and that’s why they moved. Can you get me out?”
A cold shock washed over me and made it hard to respond. Was I actually babysitting for a family that kept a little girl prisoner?
“Oh my God…um….how long have you been locked up with them?”
“Ever since I can remember.”
I felt somehow hot and cold at the same time, and wanted to throw up. This all made sense now with what Avery had told me. Of course his father didn’t want him talking about the door…
“I just need to find the keys and I can…”
“They’re hidden in the garage underneath the metal shelf. It’s inside a magnetic key holder.”
“Okay, just hold tight.”
In a panic to free the poor girl, I darted into the garage and began feeling the space underneath the bottom shelf and sure enough, there was a magnetic key holder there. Running back, I popped the key holder open and began to insert the key into the padlock.
“Did you find it?”
“Yes, sweetie. I’m almost there!”
“Oh, please hurry! Sometimes they come home early!”
This sent me into even more of a rush, and I barely managed to fumble the key into the padlock. I finally heard the successful click of the padlock, pulled the chain off, and slid the deadbolt to the right.
“I’m coming, Meredith. Hold on!”
I turned the doorknob and threw open the door, only to be met with darkness. Now full of adrenaline, my hands felt around for the light switch. Finally finding my purchase, I flicked the light on which lit up most of the stairs.
“Meredith?” I called out.
Unless I was remembering it wrong, it sounded like her voice was just on the other side of the door a minute ago. In fact, it was quite strange that she wasn’t waiting for me at the top of the stairs. Wouldn’t you immediately run out of a basement that you were locked in for God knows how long?
“I’m down here!” The little girl’s voice called out.
Judging from the distance, it sounded like she was calling from somewhere at the bottom of the stairs. My brain suddenly began piecing all the details of this interaction together and the idea of going down into the basement became absolutely terrifying.
“Meredith, you can come up now! The door’s open!”
I couldn’t hide the tremor in my voice. Why I was scared of a little girl was beyond me, but much like the house itself, something felt very wrong here.
“I hurt my leg, owww! When you said you were getting the key, I went back down to get some of my things and got hurt. Ahhh….”
Her sounds of pain filled me with sorrow, but an invisible force was holding me back from taking another step into that basement.
“Can you move? Maybe pull yourself up on the railing?”
“I can’t! It hurts too bad!”
“Okay, sweetie umm…”
“What’s wrong? Won’t you help me?”
“I-I it’s just…really dark down there and…and I don’t want to get hurt too. Is there any way you can get to the stairs? Any way at all?”
“I tried to sit up, but my shoulder hurts too much.”
“I thought you said your leg got hurt?”
The words hung in the air like a noose. It was only after I said it that I realized there was several things seriously wrong about all of this. A question popped into my head I didn’t even have time to think about until now.
How did she know where the padlock key was?
A deathly silence took up the space between me and wherever this girl was. It was a standoff, and I couldn’t think of anything else to say. There were questions I could ask her to figure out what was happening, but I felt that her answers weren’t going to be honest. Perhaps at this point, the truth was too frightful to know.
"Meredith? Are you still there?"
It was a stupid question, but it was the only thing my mind could conjure. The additional silence only unnerved me, so I decided to try and get a better look. Fishing my phone out of my pocket, I clicked on the flashlight. It didn’t do me any good because of the awful range, so I did the one thing I’d already told myself not to do…
I took a step forward...
Maybe it was the angle of the stairs or the lighting, but that one step gave me more information than I ever wanted to know. I caught a better view of the bottom step, which was essentially a ledge into a black abyss. Something looked different on this step, but it took a second to register what it was.
The step was wet, a pool of some unknown liquid overflowing into the darkness of the basement. I knew for sure that the father hadn’t mentioned any flooding so it would be way too random for that. So I stood there, watching in frozen curiosity as the puddle then suddenly rippled…and I realized the abominable truth.
It wasn’t water.
It was a puddle of saliva…and something was drooling into it from the dark.
A wretched chuckle emanated from the horrid void beyond the step, and it cemented me even further into place. It was a wet chortle, and positively evil.
“How did you like my voices?” The thing said from the dark. “I’ve been practicing."
The epiphany creeped down my spine…it was now talking in Avery’s voice. Everything in my body screamed at me to run. I heard the screams but I couldn’t respond no matter how hard I tried.
"A pity though…almost got you."
At this, the most gruesome face peeled back the shadows and revealed itself, along with its unearthly mandibles and small fountain of saliva. My faculties finally came to and I threw myself into the house and kicked the door closed. In mere seconds, I had the door bolted and chained. Leaning against the door, my chest heaved as I struggled to catch my breath.
Just as I felt I was safe, the door shuddered as a terrible blow rocked it. I screamed and ran upstairs to grab Avery.
I practically dragged the poor kid out the door and called the police. It wasn’t until the operator came on that I realized I was about to report a monster in the house. Thinking quickly, I told them that I heard a burglar in the home.
It wasn’t long before the police and Avery’s parents came home. Nothing was found, even in the basement, but I didn’t even care at that point. I just wanted the hell out of that house and away from whatever that….thing was. Avery’s parents kept glancing at me funny the whole time, probably because they knew I had their basement key. I shoved it into their hands before I hugged Avery and got into my car to drive home. That poor kid has to live in that house with that thing, but there was nothing I could do about it.
As long as I am alive, I will never….ever set foot in that house again.
And as for basements go, I can't go into them anymore. I just simply can't...
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2024.05.15 02:54 spaceboys My mood is a freaking rollercoaster and my mind a trap, please help 😔 why is all of this happening to me?

I'm tired of existing into my own mind, I wish I could be one of those people who are happy and positive even in the hardest circumstances...
1) I feel very sad and empty when I'm physically alone and sometimes after good activities that made me happy ends
2) I feel very angry at my house being horrible, dirty, and being so hard to live in, it's 5x times harder to do any normal activity in my house
3) I sometimes get very angry and negative at everything that cross in front of me for no reason, I feel a lot of anger and sometimes regret the stupid things I do when I'm like that
4) Sometimes I get paralysis by Analysis in the worst way possible, I get freezed for hours trying to make very simple choices because 2 reasons 1) I analyze all the possible choices, pros and cons and possibe outcomes before choosing or 2) I know it requires a lot o enegery to make that choice so I postpone it for forever
5) When I'm happy, active and with energy (rare thing) I'm a monster and want to eat the whole world, just a week ago came home after traveling alone out of nowhere to 2 different countries one after the other (1 day back home and left) after like 4 years of believing I wasn't capable of doing shit like that on my own
6) I feel like the only exciting thing left for me is traveling as many stuff that used to get me excited doesn't do the job anymore, well, just sometimes when I'm in the mood
7) Sometimes I'm so desperate of my house being trashy, dirty, without any order , or desperate at life feeling going so quick for the paralysis by Analysis that I feel life is too much for me (if you know what I mean)
8) there's whole days I won't get out of my room to eat or anything being in my phone just avoiding problems in my house
9) there's days that I don't get to do anything productive in the daytime and I feel so guilty about it and when my energy get boosted at night for no reason I can do thousand of things from my to do list making me getting to bed at 4 am or later
10) I'm becoming crazy, I can feel it, but I still has some light of mind from time to time that shows me there should be a way to fix this and I try hard to prioritize that ( but
11) I don't know how to prioritize shit everything looks so urgent)
12) in a burst of angry/anxiety I broke my hand hitting at my gaming chair which is stupid because I thought it was going to be soft (is this self harm?)
13) When I'm in my worst mood I think into dying, or that I'm so freaking overwhelmed by life choices resoonsabilities I'm not capable of solving any soon that I should just leave the world, and I don't think it because I'm sad or empty or not loved but because I'm freaking tired of my mind and life being problem after problem after problem
Hellllpppp
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2024.05.15 02:54 allthedarkspaces my neighbor's basement is hiding something awful

I naturally fell into babysitting around the age of 14. Through friends and family, I got leads for babysitting to score some cash, which definitely beat having to work at a restaurant. The job had its ups and downs, but overall it wasn’t a bad gig at all.
Yet, as many good experiences as I had, they were all eclipsed by one night.
A new family in town talked to my dad at work and it turned out that they needed a babysitter. I happily took the job and found myself watching their 10-year old boy a couple of weeks later. There was nothing out of the ordinary about the family themselves. They were the model citizens of suburban America, complete with the white picket fence and blue shutters. Nothing about their house was strange or even unique. Their son Avery was very mild-mannered and polite. Even their car was basic. Not that these were bad things, but I expected it to be a very boring night.
What I did not expect was the uncomfortable, inexplicable feeling that I got when I set foot in the house. A chill ran through me, but there was no draft. I rubbed my arms as I gazed at their staircase as we passed. They gave me a brief tour of the house before they left a note of instructions and all the usual information I expected from a job.
While trying to figure out what was making me so uneasy about the place, I noticed something about their basement door when I passed it. A padlock was placed on the door, along with a deadbolt in place.
"Any questions?” The father asked as my mind was pulled out of my curiosity.
"No, sir. Everything looks great!”
So they left and Avery and I played some games before I made dinner. A couple of times, I thought I heard Avery call me into the den. Both times, I found him sitting on the couch in what most recognize as the TV-zombie state. He denied having called me, and I went back to making dinner. After the third time, I told Avery it wasn’t funny and that he should stop.
“I’m not doing anything, I’m just watching TV!”
His voice went to that higher tone of pleading, sounding desperate for me to believe him.
“Avery, I know it’s my first time and sometimes you wanna test things out, but I’m trying to get dinner ready so if you call me again, I’m not checking on you, okay?”
“I didn't say anything.”
The child glared at the TV with a pouting face, and I began to feel bad. As many times as I’ve heard lies, I was starting to sense that he was telling the truth. So what was I hearing?
“Hey, it’s fine. I’m not mad. Promise.”
Avery turned his head back towards me, seeming to test if I was the one fibbing now.
“How about I let you stay up a little later if we forget about it?”
“Do you really promise?”
“Pinky promise.”
With our contractual pinkies interlocked, spirits were raised again and I was able to finish dinner. Although I didn’t finish without hearing Avery’s voice calling me once more. I ignored it, and when Avery didn’t mention it at dinner I figured it was him fooling around again. The whole time we chatted as we ate, I couldn’t help but feel that something was not right about this house.
As hard as I tried to not look, my eyes kept diverting to the heavy padlock and chain on the basement door. Curiosity got the best of me and as we were cleaning up, I couldn’t help but ask.
“So Avery, what’s the deal with the basement door?”
“What do you mean?”
His words did not match his demeanor. It was obvious he didn’t make eye contact as he forced his sentence out.
“C’mon, you know what I mean. The padlock, chain, and deadbolt. Y’all have dangerous chemicals down there?”
Avery’s face grew paler and he stared at the wall for a moment.
“Hey, it’s okay. You don’t have to tell me. I didn’t mean to…”
“Dad said no one can talk about it anymore.”
This really threw me off, and I couldn’t possibly finish my sentence now. A thick veil of tension materialized between us.
“So you…you guys aren’t allowed to talk about it?”
Avery shook his head.
“Ah, okay. That’s cool. No big deal.”
It was nothing but a big deal.
Was their dad doing something illegal down there? Or was it something strange that no one could do anything about it? Maybe their dad was in denial about something going on. There were waaaaaay too many questions going through my head now.
“Hey, how about we put on a movie?”
“Yeah, sure.”
“What am I saying? Everyone likes movies, right?!”
Now excited, we decided on a fun movie that quickly pulled our minds away from the mysterious basement door. Well, that’s not entirely true. Maybe Avery was distracted, but it was killing me. As we ate popcorn, I couldn’t help but watch Avery, wondering what was going on in that little head of his.
Was there something awful going on in the house and there was nothing I could do to stop it? Or maybe the dad was just…
“Stop,” I told myself inwardly.
Mulling over it all endlessly was not doing myself any favors.
So the movie ended, and I ushered the drifting child to his bed. Now, the house was all to myself until twelve, so I had a good three and a half hours to myself. Immediately, I began texting my friend to tell her all about the weird experience I was having that night. She dismissed it, saying that I was getting spooked by a new place. This annoyed me to no end. I’d been at bigger, way creepier-looking houses but never got weird vibes like this.
Then…I heard it.
“Stephanie…..”
I went instantly still and listened intently.
“You didn’t hear that, Steph. Just keep texting your friend and…”
“Stephanieeeee…”
There was no mistaking it this time. It was definitely coming from the basement.
The acoustics couldn’t have been from Avery upstairs. The voice sounded like a little girl’s. In fact, I’m not even sure he could make his voice like that, anyway.
Slowly, I stood up from the couch and approached the door. Maybe like earlier, I was just hearing things. Maybe being creeped out by the house was starting to mess with my head. That made sense…right?
“Stephanie?”
I jumped back from the door, almost wetting myself in the process. There was no way I could dismiss it as anything else now. There was a little girl’s voice coming from the basement.
“H-hello?” I responded.
I couldn’t keep my voice from shaking.
“Is this Stephanie?”
“Y-yes, it’s Stephanie.”
“Can you help me?”
“Who are you? Why are you locked in the basement?”
“My name is Meredith Rosenberg. They’re kept me locked up for a long time now. The police were almost on to them and that’s why they moved. Can you get me out?”
A cold shock washed over me and made it hard to respond. Was I actually babysitting for a family that kept a little girl prisoner?
“Oh my God…um….how long have you been locked up with them?”
“Ever since I can remember.”
I felt somehow hot and cold at the same time, and wanted to throw up. This all made sense now with what Avery had told me. Of course his father didn’t want him talking about the door…
“I just need to find the keys and I can…”
“They’re hidden in the garage underneath the metal shelf. It’s inside a magnetic key holder.”
“Okay, just hold tight.”
In a panic to free the poor girl, I darted into the garage and began feeling the space underneath the bottom shelf and sure enough, there was a magnetic key holder there. Running back, I popped the key holder open and began to insert the key into the padlock.
“Did you find it?”
“Yes, sweetie. I’m almost there!”
“Oh, please hurry! Sometimes they come home early!”
This sent me into even more of a rush, and I barely managed to fumble the key into the padlock. I finally heard the successful click of the padlock, pulled the chain off, and slid the deadbolt to the right.
“I’m coming, Meredith. Hold on!”
I turned the doorknob and threw open the door, only to be met with darkness. Now full of adrenaline, my hands felt around for the light switch. Finally finding my purchase, I flicked the light on which lit up most of the stairs.
“Meredith?” I called out.
Unless I was remembering it wrong, it sounded like her voice was just on the other side of the door a minute ago. In fact, it was quite strange that she wasn’t waiting for me at the top of the stairs. Wouldn’t you immediately run out of a basement that you were locked in for God knows how long?
“I’m down here!” The little girl’s voice called out.
Judging from the distance, it sounded like she was calling from somewhere at the bottom of the stairs. My brain suddenly began piecing all the details of this interaction together and the idea of going down into the basement became absolutely terrifying.
“Meredith, you can come up now! The door’s open!”
I couldn’t hide the tremor in my voice. Why I was scared of a little girl was beyond me, but much like the house itself, something felt very wrong here.
“I hurt my leg, owww! When you said you were getting the key, I went back down to get some of my things and got hurt. Ahhh….”
Her sounds of pain filled me with sorrow, but an invisible force was holding me back from taking another step into that basement.
“Can you move? Maybe pull yourself up on the railing?”
“I can’t! It hurts too bad!”
“Okay, sweetie umm…”
“What’s wrong? Won’t you help me?”
“I-I it’s just…really dark down there and…and I don’t want to get hurt too. Is there any way you can get to the stairs? Any way at all?”
“I tried to sit up, but my shoulder hurts too much.”
“I thought you said your leg got hurt?”
The words hung in the air like a noose. It was only after I said it that I realized there was several things seriously wrong about all of this. A question popped into my head I didn’t even have time to think about until now.
How did she know where the padlock key was?
A deathly silence took up the space between me and wherever this girl was. It was a standoff, and I couldn’t think of anything else to say. There were questions I could ask her to figure out what was happening, but I felt that her answers weren’t going to be honest. Perhaps at this point, the truth was too frightful to know.
"Meredith? Are you still there?"
It was a stupid question, but it was the only thing my mind could conjure. The additional silence only unnerved me, so I decided to try and get a better look. Fishing my phone out of my pocket, I clicked on the flashlight. It didn’t do me any good because of the awful range, so I did the one thing I’d already told myself not to do…
I took a step forward...
Maybe it was the angle of the stairs or the lighting, but that one step gave me more information than I ever wanted to know. I caught a better view of the bottom step, which was essentially a ledge into a black abyss. Something looked different on this step, but it took a second to register what it was.
The step was wet, a pool of some unknown liquid overflowing into the darkness of the basement. I knew for sure that the father hadn’t mentioned any flooding so it would be way too random for that. So I stood there, watching in frozen curiosity as the puddle then suddenly rippled…and I realized the abominable truth.
It wasn’t water.
It was a puddle of saliva…and something was drooling into it from the dark.
A wretched chuckle emanated from the horrid void beyond the step, and it cemented me even further into place. It was a wet chortle, and positively evil.
“How did you like my voices?” The thing said from the dark. “I’ve been practicing."
The epiphany creeped down my spine…it was now talking in Avery’s voice. Everything in my body screamed at me to run. I heard the screams but I couldn’t respond no matter how hard I tried.
"A pity though…almost got you."
At this, the most gruesome face peeled back the shadows and revealed itself, along with its unearthly mandibles and small fountain of saliva. My faculties finally came to and I threw myself into the house and kicked the door closed. In mere seconds, I had the door bolted and chained. Leaning against the door, my chest heaved as I struggled to catch my breath.
Just as I felt I was safe, the door shuddered as a terrible blow rocked it. I screamed and ran upstairs to grab Avery.
I practically dragged the poor kid out the door and called the police. It wasn’t until the operator came on that I realized I was about to report a monster in the house. Thinking quickly, I told them that I heard a burglar in the home.
It wasn’t long before the police and Avery’s parents came home. Nothing was found, even in the basement, but I didn’t even care at that point. I just wanted the hell out of that house and away from whatever that….thing was. Avery’s parents kept glancing at me funny the whole time, probably because they knew I had their basement key. I shoved it into their hands before I hugged Avery and got into my car to drive home. That poor kid has to live in that house with that thing, but there was nothing I could do about it.
As long as I am alive, I will never….ever set foot in that house again.
And as for basements go, I can't go into them anymore. I just simply can't...
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2024.05.15 02:54 Acceptable_General_2 In laws spreading lies about their own son

Salam everyone, the issue my husband and I are facing is the fact that his parents spread lies about him. His father tells people that we moved out because he caught him stealing and kicked us out. When we actually decided to move out because of how badly they were acting. After years we now understand why when we used to visit his family members they wouldn’t treat us well and gave us dirty looks. His father also doesn’t like me for two reasons which I would like to have opinions about. First one is because the day of our wedding in laws asked my to get my makeup done in the morning 10 am to get a photo shoot done which I didn’t agree too because the makeup artist wasn’t gonna stay with me and I knew that my makeup will look so bad by 7 or 8 pm which was the time guests were gonna come. Second incident was when we lived with them he was having an argument with my husband he told me go call him he was in our room. I go in the room and slightly pushed the door but didn’t close it completely. That’s when he got furious followed me to the room and told me how dare you close the door. That’s when he said don’t close the door, out of surprise I said you mean our room trying to understand what he meant. He started yelling and said she is telling me this is my room I will close it this is my room and I’m assuming he told other family members.
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2024.05.15 02:53 allthedarkspaces my neighbor's basement is hiding something awful

I naturally fell into babysitting around the age of 14. Through friends and family, I got leads for babysitting to score some cash, which definitely beat having to work at a restaurant. The job had its ups and downs, but overall it wasn’t a bad gig at all.
Yet, as many good experiences as I had, they were all eclipsed by one night.
A new family in town talked to my dad at work and it turned out that they needed a babysitter. I happily took the job and found myself watching their 10-year old boy a couple of weeks later. There was nothing out of the ordinary about the family themselves. They were the model citizens of suburban America, complete with the white picket fence and blue shutters. Nothing about their house was strange or even unique. Their son Avery was very mild-mannered and polite. Even their car was basic. Not that these were bad things, but I expected it to be a very boring night.
What I did not expect was the uncomfortable, inexplicable feeling that I got when I set foot in the house. A chill ran through me, but there was no draft. I rubbed my arms as I gazed at their staircase as we passed. They gave me a brief tour of the house before they left a note of instructions and all the usual information I expected from a job.
While trying to figure out what was making me so uneasy about the place, I noticed something about their basement door when I passed it. A padlock was placed on the door, along with a deadbolt in place.
"Any questions?” The father asked as my mind was pulled out of my curiosity.
"No, sir. Everything looks great!”
So they left and Avery and I played some games before I made dinner. A couple of times, I thought I heard Avery call me into the den. Both times, I found him sitting on the couch in what most recognize as the TV-zombie state. He denied having called me, and I went back to making dinner. After the third time, I told Avery it wasn’t funny and that he should stop.
“I’m not doing anything, I’m just watching TV!”
His voice went to that higher tone of pleading, sounding desperate for me to believe him.
“Avery, I know it’s my first time and sometimes you wanna test things out, but I’m trying to get dinner ready so if you call me again, I’m not checking on you, okay?”
“I didn't say anything.”
The child glared at the TV with a pouting face, and I began to feel bad. As many times as I’ve heard lies, I was starting to sense that he was telling the truth. So what was I hearing?
“Hey, it’s fine. I’m not mad. Promise.”
Avery turned his head back towards me, seeming to test if I was the one fibbing now.
“How about I let you stay up a little later if we forget about it?”
“Do you really promise?”
“Pinky promise.”
With our contractual pinkies interlocked, spirits were raised again and I was able to finish dinner. Although I didn’t finish without hearing Avery’s voice calling me once more. I ignored it, and when Avery didn’t mention it at dinner I figured it was him fooling around again. The whole time we chatted as we ate, I couldn’t help but feel that something was not right about this house.
As hard as I tried to not look, my eyes kept diverting to the heavy padlock and chain on the basement door. Curiosity got the best of me and as we were cleaning up, I couldn’t help but ask.
“So Avery, what’s the deal with the basement door?”
“What do you mean?”
His words did not match his demeanor. It was obvious he didn’t make eye contact as he forced his sentence out.
“C’mon, you know what I mean. The padlock, chain, and deadbolt. Y’all have dangerous chemicals down there?”
Avery’s face grew paler and he stared at the wall for a moment.
“Hey, it’s okay. You don’t have to tell me. I didn’t mean to…”
“Dad said no one can talk about it anymore.”
This really threw me off, and I couldn’t possibly finish my sentence now. A thick veil of tension materialized between us.
“So you…you guys aren’t allowed to talk about it?”
Avery shook his head.
“Ah, okay. That’s cool. No big deal.”
It was nothing but a big deal.
Was their dad doing something illegal down there? Or was it something strange that no one could do anything about it? Maybe their dad was in denial about something going on. There were waaaaaay too many questions going through my head now.
“Hey, how about we put on a movie?”
“Yeah, sure.”
“What am I saying? Everyone likes movies, right?!”
Now excited, we decided on a fun movie that quickly pulled our minds away from the mysterious basement door. Well, that’s not entirely true. Maybe Avery was distracted, but it was killing me. As we ate popcorn, I couldn’t help but watch Avery, wondering what was going on in that little head of his.
Was there something awful going on in the house and there was nothing I could do to stop it? Or maybe the dad was just…
“Stop,” I told myself inwardly.
Mulling over it all endlessly was not doing myself any favors.
So the movie ended, and I ushered the drifting child to his bed. Now, the house was all to myself until twelve, so I had a good three and a half hours to myself. Immediately, I began texting my friend to tell her all about the weird experience I was having that night. She dismissed it, saying that I was getting spooked by a new place. This annoyed me to no end. I’d been at bigger, way creepier-looking houses but never got weird vibes like this.
Then…I heard it.
“Stephanie…..”
I went instantly still and listened intently.
“You didn’t hear that, Steph. Just keep texting your friend and…”
“Stephanieeeee…”
There was no mistaking it this time. It was definitely coming from the basement.
The acoustics couldn’t have been from Avery upstairs. The voice sounded like a little girl’s. In fact, I’m not even sure he could make his voice like that, anyway.
Slowly, I stood up from the couch and approached the door. Maybe like earlier, I was just hearing things. Maybe being creeped out by the house was starting to mess with my head. That made sense…right?
“Stephanie?”
I jumped back from the door, almost wetting myself in the process. There was no way I could dismiss it as anything else now. There was a little girl’s voice coming from the basement.
“H-hello?” I responded.
I couldn’t keep my voice from shaking.
“Is this Stephanie?”
“Y-yes, it’s Stephanie.”
“Can you help me?”
“Who are you? Why are you locked in the basement?”
“My name is Meredith Rosenberg. They’re kept me locked up for a long time now. The police were almost on to them and that’s why they moved. Can you get me out?”
A cold shock washed over me and made it hard to respond. Was I actually babysitting for a family that kept a little girl prisoner?
“Oh my God…um….how long have you been locked up with them?”
“Ever since I can remember.”
I felt somehow hot and cold at the same time, and wanted to throw up. This all made sense now with what Avery had told me. Of course his father didn’t want him talking about the door…
“I just need to find the keys and I can…”
“They’re hidden in the garage underneath the metal shelf. It’s inside a magnetic key holder.”
“Okay, just hold tight.”
In a panic to free the poor girl, I darted into the garage and began feeling the space underneath the bottom shelf and sure enough, there was a magnetic key holder there. Running back, I popped the key holder open and began to insert the key into the padlock.
“Did you find it?”
“Yes, sweetie. I’m almost there!”
“Oh, please hurry! Sometimes they come home early!”
This sent me into even more of a rush, and I barely managed to fumble the key into the padlock. I finally heard the successful click of the padlock, pulled the chain off, and slid the deadbolt to the right.
“I’m coming, Meredith. Hold on!”
I turned the doorknob and threw open the door, only to be met with darkness. Now full of adrenaline, my hands felt around for the light switch. Finally finding my purchase, I flicked the light on which lit up most of the stairs.
“Meredith?” I called out.
Unless I was remembering it wrong, it sounded like her voice was just on the other side of the door a minute ago. In fact, it was quite strange that she wasn’t waiting for me at the top of the stairs. Wouldn’t you immediately run out of a basement that you were locked in for God knows how long?
“I’m down here!” The little girl’s voice called out.
Judging from the distance, it sounded like she was calling from somewhere at the bottom of the stairs. My brain suddenly began piecing all the details of this interaction together and the idea of going down into the basement became absolutely terrifying.
“Meredith, you can come up now! The door’s open!”
I couldn’t hide the tremor in my voice. Why I was scared of a little girl was beyond me, but much like the house itself, something felt very wrong here.
“I hurt my leg, owww! When you said you were getting the key, I went back down to get some of my things and got hurt. Ahhh….”
Her sounds of pain filled me with sorrow, but an invisible force was holding me back from taking another step into that basement.
“Can you move? Maybe pull yourself up on the railing?”
“I can’t! It hurts too bad!”
“Okay, sweetie umm…”
“What’s wrong? Won’t you help me?”
“I-I it’s just…really dark down there and…and I don’t want to get hurt too. Is there any way you can get to the stairs? Any way at all?”
“I tried to sit up, but my shoulder hurts too much.”
“I thought you said your leg got hurt?”
The words hung in the air like a noose. It was only after I said it that I realized there was several things seriously wrong about all of this. A question popped into my head I didn’t even have time to think about until now.
How did she know where the padlock key was?
A deathly silence took up the space between me and wherever this girl was. It was a standoff, and I couldn’t think of anything else to say. There were questions I could ask her to figure out what was happening, but I felt that her answers weren’t going to be honest. Perhaps at this point, the truth was too frightful to know.
"Meredith? Are you still there?"
It was a stupid question, but it was the only thing my mind could conjure. The additional silence only unnerved me, so I decided to try and get a better look. Fishing my phone out of my pocket, I clicked on the flashlight. It didn’t do me any good because of the awful range, so I did the one thing I’d already told myself not to do…
I took a step forward...
Maybe it was the angle of the stairs or the lighting, but that one step gave me more information than I ever wanted to know. I caught a better view of the bottom step, which was essentially a ledge into a black abyss. Something looked different on this step, but it took a second to register what it was.
The step was wet, a pool of some unknown liquid overflowing into the darkness of the basement. I knew for sure that the father hadn’t mentioned any flooding so it would be way too random for that. So I stood there, watching in frozen curiosity as the puddle then suddenly rippled…and I realized the abominable truth.
It wasn’t water.
It was a puddle of saliva…and something was drooling into it from the dark.
A wretched chuckle emanated from the horrid void beyond the step, and it cemented me even further into place. It was a wet chortle, and positively evil.
“How did you like my voices?” The thing said from the dark. “I’ve been practicing."
The epiphany creeped down my spine…it was now talking in Avery’s voice. Everything in my body screamed at me to run. I heard the screams but I couldn’t respond no matter how hard I tried.
"A pity though…almost got you."
At this, the most gruesome face peeled back the shadows and revealed itself, along with its unearthly mandibles and small fountain of saliva. My faculties finally came to and I threw myself into the house and kicked the door closed. In mere seconds, I had the door bolted and chained. Leaning against the door, my chest heaved as I struggled to catch my breath.
Just as I felt I was safe, the door shuddered as a terrible blow rocked it. I screamed and ran upstairs to grab Avery.
I practically dragged the poor kid out the door and called the police. It wasn’t until the operator came on that I realized I was about to report a monster in the house. Thinking quickly, I told them that I heard a burglar in the home.
It wasn’t long before the police and Avery’s parents came home. Nothing was found, even in the basement, but I didn’t even care at that point. I just wanted the hell out of that house and away from whatever that….thing was. Avery’s parents kept glancing at me funny the whole time, probably because they knew I had their basement key. I shoved it into their hands before I hugged Avery and got into my car to drive home. That poor kid has to live in that house with that thing, but there was nothing I could do about it.
As long as I am alive, I will never….ever set foot in that house again.
And as for basements go, I can't go into them anymore. I just simply can't...
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2024.05.15 02:53 shallow_effing_value D205 - Passed in 10 Days

I'm done with class #2 after 1 revision! My approach:
Interestingly, Labs on Demand is supposed to time out after 4 hours and if you haven't saved your work, then it is lost. At least, that was my understanding. However, there were several times that I logged out or just closed out of the tab and then came back 1+ days later and still had "2 hours left" with all my documents and information saved in the environment. This was slightly helpful when I had to revise my PA. I had emailed all the documents to myself but when I logged back into Labs on Demand, all my files were still there.
I chose a relatively simple research question. When writing SQL queries, I tried them out in PgAdmin and then when they were working as I intended, I put the queries in Google Docs. I also had Google Docs open on my main computer so I could pass information back and forth to write my PA. I also saved the queries to a .txt file in Labs on Demand so I could easily copy and paste as I progressed through my Panopto video.
I was pretty confident about my submission until I got it returned 3 days later saying that my Professional Communication was "Not Evident"! It turns out, after I created my Panopto video, I edited the title from whatever their default title was to my name and the course. I did not "Apply" those changes so when the evaluator went to grade my PA, it gave them an error message that my video was still being edited. Because I wasn't sure at the time if that was the entire issue, I re-recorded the next day and contacted Student Support so they could verify that my new link was working. I did not want to wait another 3 days just to find out that I had done something wrong with the link again. Student Support verified that my link was good to go, I resubmitted, and passed with no issues.
I began working on D206 while I waited. Will likely submit tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes.
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2024.05.15 02:53 Muslim_4throwaway Feeling sad

Ascalamualkum everyone. Just want to share what I feel, cause I feel really down from the past few days. Idk what I want from this, just want to post it lol, will delete probably like always I post and feel like 2 hours later, I'm being un thankful.
I'm not complaining at all, just want to share my feelings.
Idk what it is but I really have like nostalgic feelings. I miss my old days, and just beings tears in my eyes to think about it. It's like my chest is heavy.
About 3-5 years ago, it's so dumb but I used to have a group chat. I made it on Instagram and got some random people to join. I was like 16ish, didn't know all the rulings of islam and talking to girls and all. I made it and it was like Corona virus time, online classes and all. So I would talk all day, joke, troll, that was like it gave me so much happiness. Like I would wake up for classes and be so excited to massage the group and see what everyone talked about while I was sleeping. I don't know anyone in real life from that group. Want want to tell the names but their were people from 🇿🇦🇨🇦🇮🇳🇵🇰🇸🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇫.
Everyone was like 16-20 ish lol.
It was so nice man. After I realized like 2 years later or a year and a half later that it's wrong to talk to females and all, I was like I gotta stop. So I left the group. But then i just couldn't leave, I got back, I left again, and someone added me back, and so on for some time. Eventually I was like I gotta just leave, i started on my prayers and was trying my best, fasting and all, giving dawah etc.. I eventually just left one day. The people kept adding me back but I keep leaving without messaging. Tbh it hurts. I texted my friends evtually like I dont want to talk, but I just felt so down, I would send like salam, how are you to them, would be so happy like they will reply. It's not even about girl or boy, it's just for all of them I felt so happy. Evtually i asked them all the girls like can you delete my chats, and they said sure. One of them would every now and then ask how are you, I'd just keep it simple and reply back. I would get the urge idk why to just ask how they are, I would send the message, 10 mins later check it and unsend it.
Idk why, I still remember stuff from the group. Things we talked about, the people, and even their @s.
Am I just stupid? I feel so dumb and stupid to be crying over that. Idk why I think about it. I just miss it. It makes me feel.so weird to think like right now those people are involved in their lives, doing something totally diffrent, and how everyone has their own lives. It's not just that group. But fir me that group was too big of a deal. I feel so dumb. Like they probably dont even remember, or think about me, why would they. But why am I. Like I can't remove the thoughts.
Ah man. I look at the sky and feel so sad. I miss one of the people in the group, who passed away. It's so wierd like I live in America and I think about it, one of the people, she is from 🇿🇦, it's so wierd like shes all the way on the other side of the planet. She has her life, everyone's life so different, everyone is doing their own thing.
Just what I feel. But not complaining, cause I left it for the sake of Allah.
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2024.05.15 02:53 shaneka69 CANCER ZODIAC - UNEXPECTED INCOME! TAROT READING MAY 2024

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2024.05.15 02:52 Muslim_4throwaway Feeling sad

Ascalamualkum everyone. Just want to share what I feel, cause I feel really down from the past few days. Idk what I want from this, just want to post it lol, will delete probably like always I post and feel like 2 hours later, I'm being un thankful.
I'm not complaining at all, just want to share my feelings.
Idk what it is but I really have like nostalgic feelings. I miss my old days, and just beings tears in my eyes to think about it. It's like my chest is heavy.
About 3-5 years ago, it's so dumb but I used to have a group chat. I made it on Instagram and got some random people to join. I was like 16ish, didn't know all the rulings of islam and talking to girls and all. I made it and it was like Corona virus time, online classes and all. So I would talk all day, joke, troll, that was like it gave me so much happiness. Like I would wake up for classes and be so excited to massage the group and see what everyone talked about while I was sleeping. I don't know anyone in real life from that group. Want want to tell the names but their were people from 🇿🇦🇨🇦🇮🇳🇵🇰🇸🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇫.
Everyone was like 16-20 ish lol.
It was so nice man. After I realized like 2 years later or a year and a half later that it's wrong to talk to females and all, I was like I gotta stop. So I left the group. But then i just couldn't leave, I got back, I left again, and someone added me back, and so on for some time. Eventually I was like I gotta just leave, i started on my prayers and was trying my best, fasting and all, giving dawah etc.. I eventually just left one day. The people kept adding me back but I keep leaving without messaging. Tbh it hurts. I texted my friends evtually like I dont want to talk, but I just felt so down, I would send like salam, how are you to them, would be so happy like they will reply. It's not even about girl or boy, it's just for all of them I felt so happy. Evtually i asked them all the girls like can you delete my chats, and they said sure. One of them would every now and then ask how are you, I'd just keep it simple and reply back. I would get the urge idk why to just ask how they are, I would send the message, 10 mins later check it and unsend it.
Idk why, I still remember stuff from the group. Things we talked about, the people, and even their @s.
Am I just stupid? I feel so dumb and stupid to be crying over that. Idk why I think about it. I just miss it. It makes me feel.so weird to think like right now those people are involved in their lives, doing something totally diffrent, and how everyone has their own lives. It's not just that group. But fir me that group was too big of a deal. I feel so dumb. Like they probably dont even remember, or think about me, why would they. But why am I. Like I can't remove the thoughts.
Ah man. I look at the sky and feel so sad. I miss one of the people in the group, who passed away. It's so wierd like I live in America and I think about it, one of the people, she is from 🇿🇦, it's so wierd like shes all the way on the other side of the planet. She has her life, everyone's life so different, everyone is doing their own thing.
Just what I feel. But not complaining, cause I left it for the sake of Allah.
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2024.05.15 02:52 Muslim_4throwaway Feeling sad and down.

Ascalamualkum everyone. Just want to share what I feel, cause I feel really down from the past few days. Idk what I want from this, just want to post it lol, will delete probably like always I post and feel like 2 hours later, I'm being un thankful.
I'm not complaining at all, just want to share my feelings.
Idk what it is but I really have like nostalgic feelings. I miss my old days, and just beings tears in my eyes to think about it. It's like my chest is heavy.
About 3-5 years ago, it's so dumb but I used to have a group chat. I made it on Instagram and got some random people to join. I was like 16ish, didn't know all the rulings of islam and talking to girls and all. I made it and it was like Corona virus time, online classes and all. So I would talk all day, joke, troll, that was like it gave me so much happiness. Like I would wake up for classes and be so excited to massage the group and see what everyone talked about while I was sleeping. I don't know anyone in real life from that group. Want want to tell the names but their were people from 🇿🇦🇨🇦🇮🇳🇵🇰🇸🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇫.
Everyone was like 16-20 ish lol.
It was so nice man. After I realized like 2 years later or a year and a half later that it's wrong to talk to females and all, I was like I gotta stop. So I left the group. But then i just couldn't leave, I got back, I left again, and someone added me back, and so on for some time. Eventually I was like I gotta just leave, i started on my prayers and was trying my best, fasting and all, giving dawah etc.. I eventually just left one day. The people kept adding me back but I keep leaving without messaging. Tbh it hurts. I texted my friends evtually like I dont want to talk, but I just felt so down, I would send like salam, how are you to them, would be so happy like they will reply. It's not even about girl or boy, it's just for all of them I felt so happy. Evtually i asked them all the girls like can you delete my chats, and they said sure. One of them would every now and then ask how are you, I'd just keep it simple and reply back. I would get the urge idk why to just ask how they are, I would send the message, 10 mins later check it and unsend it.
Idk why, I still remember stuff from the group. Things we talked about, the people, and even their @s.
Am I just stupid? I feel so dumb and stupid to be crying over that. Idk why I think about it. I just miss it. It makes me feel.so weird to think like right now those people are involved in their lives, doing something totally diffrent, and how everyone has their own lives. It's not just that group. But fir me that group was too big of a deal. I feel so dumb. Like they probably dont even remember, or think about me, why would they. But why am I. Like I can't remove the thoughts.
Ah man. I look at the sky and feel so sad. I miss one of the people in the group, who passed away. It's so wierd like I live in America and I think about it, one of the people, she is from 🇿🇦, it's so wierd like shes all the way on the other side of the planet. She has her life, everyone's life so different, everyone is doing their own thing.
Just what I feel. But not complaining, cause I left it for the sake of Allah.
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2024.05.15 02:51 neon_genitals (Rant) Students should be allowed to leave with a BA, B.Com or BBA degree on the completion of the respective course.

I'm currently in the final year of my law degree, which I truly hate, and my time with it has been absolutely miserable. I was pressured into the degree after I somehow randomly cleared CLAT with 20 days of preparation. The idea that I'll get to study BA subjects (especially history) persuaded me to go with it (like if I had a choice in the first place).
But that's in the past; in the end, I went with it, and that's on me. What I really want to rant on is the fact that there is almost no protection from the education system or the bar council itself. You don't study a single BA subject after the completion of your third year, and still, for some reason, you have to complete all 10 semesters to get your degree. This stings even more when the government has provisionally announced that students will be able to pursue a PHD in courses after bachelor degrees of 4 or more years.
So anyone who is in their first or second year and hates the degree and can afford to leave it, please do so. Otherwise, it will be too late. You'll hate yourself even more when you'll see people around you preparing for judicial while you just try to pass exam after exam so you can escape one day without any plans and all the things that you were passionate about getting further and further away from you.
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2024.05.15 02:50 Anxious_Fold_3350 I'm worried about how moving senior year of highschool has affected me

Hello! I am new to this reddit community although I discovered Healthygamergg's videos around a year ago.
I have moved around a number of times in my life, but this year I moved from a school I had been at for eight years back to a school district I lived in before those eight years.
Anyways, I feel like at this school I am unhappy because I feel like I don't have the same deep friendships that other seniors have, and I don't feel any true connection to the friends I do have here. Perhaps this is because I simply haven't been here for long enough to form those connections. I also am upset at the fact that it's hard to find friends who I share similar interests to. For example, I really like basketball, and at my old school I knew many kids with whom I would play with. Here, I did find a friend and we did play basketball, but it was only a few times and I never quite found a group of friends who share similar interests to me.
Also, I have developed quite a bit of social anxiety, and I am constantly worried that people will judge me for all kinds of things like how I dress and how I look and who I am friends with and what I say. It makes me exhausted, and because of this very often I dread going to school, which is foreign to me because at my old school I actually liked going to school.
And I feel like to some extent people are actually judging me, and it's not all in my head. Let me explain:
I have always been someone who likes to talk, and I would consider myself a really witty person who when they are comfortable. I approached this year with a lot of optimism, and I did meet a lot of people through activities and sports and classes with whom I am now friends. But I feel like when I do make jokes and get too comfortable, people stop taking me seriously, or sort of see me as the clown who is the person to be laughed at. I don't like that. Don't get me wrong, I feel like people still respect me and I have made friends through my humor, but sometimes I feel like people are laughing at me rather than with me
It might also be helpful to mention that although I moved to this school for senior year, I lived in this school district around 10 years ago, so in early elementary school. Because of this, a lot of kids still knew me and I knew them, which is a good thing I guess, but I also was a kind of weird kid back in the day, and maybe I still am. It's just that I feel like here I am treated like I am more weird, whereas at my old school people treated me with respect and I felt like I was appreciated as a person.
Maybe this is bias, but I feel like I have reason to believe that in this school district I have just been treated worse. For example, when I was here, I was always put in either the normal or "special" classes and was never a smart kid. Then I moved to what is now my old school and I feel like I was given another chance to prove my academic ability and since then I have been a straight A student taking all the hardest classes. Also, in this school district, I used to have few friends, and I knew that people would talk behind my back or judge me for how loud I could be, or for I don't even know what just people would judge me. But at my old school, sure people initially made fun of me or judged me, but I feel like I slowly built respect and made a lot of friends who actually cared about me and thought I was a cool and normal person. Something I want to have here, which I feel I don't.
Anyways, I hope this makes any sense (my brain is fried since I have an AP tomorrow) and I know that all of this won't really matter because my school ends next week and I graduate in a few weeks, but I do worry that this year my self esteem has gotten a lot lower, and I know that this can do a lot of harm when I try to build relationships after highschool.
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2024.05.15 02:49 AdviceAndFunOnly What exactly should I do to I fix my sleep schedule? Help me please! It seems impossible to fix this issue!

First of all, Don't judge me please. I know I'm not perfect but at least I'm trying to become better. Maybe for some of you all this might seem very easy to do but not for me. It seems like a real challenge. Meanwhile there's other skills which seem easy for me and not for others.
My current sleep schedule thing is a pretty serious problem because it made me often late to university and I have bad grades now. So I don't even know how in the hell I'll be able to apply to work properly if I'll be late literally all the time.
It's even worse because I'm very sensitive to sleep and whenever I really haven't slept well I just feel horrible.
And if I'm late now and I sleep badly now, when I actually have a lot of free time this year, imagine how this might be much worse whenever I'm at work? That's why I'm afraid to work and I feel like I'm unable to be independent. And it's not for a lack of trying!
So I'll explain how we got to that point and how exactly my sleep schedule became so messed up.
When I was in high school, this wasn't the case. Well, I lived with my mom and she always watched me so that I went to sleep and woke up at the time needed. Also, we had a school bus only at one specific hour, so I couldn't have missed it. I had a semi regular sleep schedule.
Then came corona, and also first programming university, then one year of wandering around, and now languages university. A lot of things changed, but it seemed like it all became much more chaotic and disorganised. The timetables literally changed every week, half of the classes were online, and the teachers and other classmates didn't care at all about where you've been, unlike in high school. Also, ratings and important info was on the email instead of on a specific dedicated website. I was very used to the high school organisation and first followed it through university, including with workbooks for each course, but became less and less organised as time went on, because other people in my class weren't that organised, they even saw my organisation as strange, and also, all the stuff that I've cited, like the timetables, definitely didn't help in any organisation. Also, I started losing motivation and feeling dreaded and resentful, so I ended up going to sleep late, waking up late, and not even caring anymore.
Anyway, now, a few years have passed but this problem hasn't become better.
And it's not for a lack of trying! I know this is a serious issue and I did try to change my habits. But it really seems kinda impossible.
First of all, there's some reasons which aren't specific to sleep. Like for example, sometimes I wake up at night because I need to go to the bathroom. I know this isn't really my fault, nor a self discipline thing, and I definitely should and would see a doctor over this. (But unfortunately, tbh, sometimes I see a lot of doctors and I feel like no one ever helps me. Don't know of it's true but that's how I feel unfortunately).
Also another thing. I don't always eat regularly.
That's because I live alone now, and also because I try to eat good food, cook at home, and eat vegetarian, instead of just eating fast food, but the thing is, everything is very expensive, and sometimes I don't have the time and motivation to cook, so sometimes I don't even have anything to eat. It's not always a problem but sometimes it definitely is.
I was taught how to make specific dishes but it's not a skill I really master that much.
I think it's really not a great things because it definitely screwed up my sleep schedule too.
Sometimes it's also too hot or too cold and I hope it won't be that much of an issue this summer, but honestly, I'm really scared. Hopefully the cold showers, window blinds and fans will make it bearable.
Because I'm very sensitive to all that. Heat, cold, food, etc. I'm also very sensitive to sleep too. I definitely need go sleep to be able to act like a functioning adult.
But now some other reasons. Leaving that alone.
Let's take this week for example.
I definitely did try to go to sleep and wake up at good hours.
Two days ago, I tried going to sleep at 22 hours, but I simply couldn't. I wasn't able to sleep. I was in the bed for an hour, tried to sleep as much as I can. But I was unable to. As a result, after minutes wandering this way, I opened up my phone. I ended up learning about some historic event and installing some new program that made my phone work faster.
I only managed to go asleep at 2 hours in the morning.
Now, people will tell me that I shouldn't use my phone in the evening. But imagine if you feel horrible, you try to go to sleep but you can't, and you want to go to the toilet at every second. Should I really do nothing in all that time?
And also, my phone also can help me go to sleep, because I can listen to calm music that could relax me and make me able to very fastly go to sleep. Especially if I'm stressed and tired.
But anyway, I went asleep at 2:00. I thought it wasn't a big deal because I didn't have school the next day. But I still unfortunately woke up too early, like at 8:00, because of my cats.
And the people here would definitely say that it's a good thing. But was it? I felt really terrible all day. And BTW, when I sleep terribly it's actually much harder for me to concentrate and resist temptations. I feel really horrible, I want to sleep, I don't wanna do anything. As a result, I haven't done that much that day, actually. That's why tbh I sometimes prefer sleeping well even if I'm late to somewhere because at least I'll be able to do something, and also feel amazing, otherwise, I literally feel like a zombie that hates life.
But another thing is that me not sleeping well one day doesn't necessarily guarantee me sleeping much better the other day. Many people here say that you need to force yourself to wake up late even if you feel horrible because it'll automatically become better the next day. But it's absolutely not working for me.
The thing is that when you haven't slept well you're tired, that's true. But it doesn't automatically imply that it's very easy to go to sleep.
Often times I have a weird dilemma. Should I directly go to sleep because I feel very tired but I'm sometimes unable to because I feel dirty? Or should I rather go to the shower first, but this shower will inevitably remove my tiredness? Sometimes it's even more ridiculous, with me being on minutes on my phone the evening (because I feel tired and am easily distracted and it's hard for me to do anything), and then feeling that I have to go to the toilet which makes me not want to sleep anymore. Or should I not go there and directly go to sleep? That's an even worse idea.
Ah yeah why am I on my phone? Well if for example my stomach hurts am I really supposed to only be in the toilet without a phone? I really feel like I'm hours in the toilet sometimes because my stomach hurts!
But anyway. What happened next? Even tho I didn't go to sleep that late I still haven't managed to recover. I slept 8 hours, but that's it, not 10 hours needed to fully recover. Yeah it was so amazing waking up the best day!
And then the next day I ended up feeling really tired and terrible. Very very tired. So I ended up taking a nap. But the thing is that because of that nap (from 16:00 to 19:00), I haven't managed to go to sleep at 22:00 either, nor even at 0:00. Only at 3 hours! And was it my fault?
Should I have forced myself to not take a nap and only go to sleep properly at 22h? I've tried this strategy too a couple of times. First of all, this means the day is effectively ruined because I'm unable to do anything. But secondly, what actually happens?
Sometimes, my body still feels like 22h is a nap. So I end up waking up at 2 in the morning and not able to asleep anymore either.
Other times, I end up sleeping the whole night, but only like 8 hours or less, and not enough to both sleep well this day and recover from the previous one (therefore like 10 hours). This happened to me a lot of times, and the best day, I felt horrible. I didn't feel like going asleep but overall lacked all the energy I needed.
So what exactly should I do?
And that's also forgetting that I'm also very easily distracted. Sometimes I want to go to sleep at 22 hours but then look at some video or some new Reddit community and my brain feels very excited and I can't think of anything else. Maybe it is because of the phone but also when I was a child I had the same problem with books, so it's more of an ADHD issue, and not something that I can easily remove by getting rid of the phone, as if it was that simple.
Another thing is that it seems like today, literally everything takes up too much time for me. Whenever I'm in the toilet, or I eat, or I go out. Is it because of my phone? Maybe. But the thing is that it's not that easy to give up my phone when I don't have such an active life outside of my phone. Even if I try to. And also sometimes I feel like I try to be very fast but am unable to. Especially if I want to go to the bathroom at some moment. I don't know why and how all this happens. I guess this autism thing definitely doesn't help.
I really need 8 hours of sleep. Maybe not literally every night but at least most of the time. And preferably these 8 hours shouldn't be from 4:00 to 12:00, especially if I actually want to study and work properly.
Don't forget please, I have autism (basically here it seems to manifest in a similar way as ADHD) so it makes all that much harder unfortunately.
Anyway, please, I hope you guys will actually give me sound advice and I'll be able to follow it, because for now I just feel like I'm literally unable to and as if I'm disabled and will forever be late everywhere to any job.
I also feel like literally nobody is able to help me and no one even cares about me. Instead people constantly only criticise me as being egoistic and not serious. And shame me for using the phone. That's it.
Doctors tell me there's nothing wrong with me but sometimes I absolutely feel there's many things very wrong with me. Otherwise I'll be a functioninf adult.
I guess I shouldn't feel so bad about myself because while my schedule is absolutely disorganised, at least I don't have other problems, for example I never drank or smoked, so I shouldn't feel that bad about myself. But still this is a very serious problem.
But anyway, please give me some detailed advice and some specific things that might actually help. Maybe some YouTube tutorials even.
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2024.05.15 02:49 fender1878 Two Weeks on the Sun Princess: A Comprehensive Review

In case you don't know, the Sun Princess is Princess Cruises' latest behemoth ship, carrying around 3,000 guests and 1,000 crew at full capacity. I just got back from a 2-week sailing and took meticulous notes on this epic new vessel. Here's my extremely detailed, no-BS review:

The Sheer Size is Nuts

When I say this ship is massive, I mean it's absolutely nuts how big this floating city is. Especially when you get off in ports and have to walk back down the dock to reboard - that's when the sheer scale of the Sun Princess really hits you. Even though it carries a ton of people, the only time it really felt crowded was during breakfast. The Eatery fills up quick and the International Cafe, which sits outside The Eatery doesn't lend itself well for crowds of people wiaint for their coffees. You kind of end up waiting in the middle of where the walking traffic moves.

The Medallion Life

Your entire cruise experience revolves around the new Medallion wearable device and app, for better or worse. I'll admit it has some creepy "Big Brother" vibes with how much it tracks your every movement and purchase. But the convenience it provides is undeniable.
The medallion is your modern day "cruise card" that you tap everywhere to make payments, order drinks, unlock your stateroom, get on/off the ship, and more. But what's crazy is the app can use the medallion to detect your location anywhere on board. Order a drink or meal through the app and the server will manage to find you anywhere on the ship to deliver it, usually within 15 minutes. Caveat: there were times when it took longer and other times when our order was marked "delivered" and it never arrived.
The medallion definitely feels like getting on/off the ship is way faster. The only time we ever waiting in line was for the few minutes it took people to run through security.
This made getting food/drinks almost too easy. On port days when we needed to get off the ship early for excursions, setting up a scheduled delivery of my Egg McMuffin, fruit plate in coffee was really convenient.
Fair warning though - if you're anti-tracking and value privacy over convenience, the ubiquitous Medallion system may not be for you.
Story: we were sitting by the Crooners bar having our nightly pre-dinner cocktail. The bar was packed on this night for some reason. A staff member in a suit started wandering the room, made eye contact with me from 40-feet away and then made a b-line for us. He wanted to sign us up for a wine/food pairing event they were having. I have to believe this is because of the tracking being done via the meddalion. They could see we drink our share of wine. It definitely felt like targeted marketing.

Premium Package Was Best for Us

We opted for the Premium beverage package at $80 per day and I'm glad we did for a few reasons:
  1. If you need to have more than one device connected to the internet at a time, Premium makes sense just based on that (you can have four devices). The cheaper Plus package only allows one device, which was a non-starter for me needing both my phone and laptop to be online. I'm unfortunately not able to just live off the grid for almost three weeks and need to periodically check in with my clients.
  2. The wine selection is way better with Premium vs Plus. As a wine drinker, the upgrade was 100% worth it.
  3. Two free speciality dining meals are included, which was clutch on our 2-week cruise to break up the repetition of the main dining rotation.
  4. Unlimited premium desserts and ice creams - a nice perk for those with a sweet tooth.
Basically, Premium removed almost any need to think about or worry over costs on board. For $80 per day, the premium drinks, speciality dining, better wines, desserts and internet made it an easy choice for our group's needs.
And for those wondering about the 15 drink per day limit (since there's almost a weekly post asking about it) - it was never an issue for me. I'm a scrotch drinker and to get a decent pour, you basically have to order a double. Even drinking doubles, I never got to 15 drinks/day. This even includes sea days where we'd typically have a mimosa or two with breakfast, a few cocktails/beers at the pool, an cocktail or two before dinner and then wine at dinner.

Staff & Service

I can't say enough about how incredible and friendly the service was across the board on the Sun Princess. Our room steward, waiters, bartenders - everyone went so above and beyond daily, it really elevated the experience. I'm always amazed how they remember everyone's names.
However, we did notice a clear slip in the quality of service in the second week compared to the first, likely due to a crew changeover partway through our sailing. Simple things like forgetting drink orders or getting meals wrong became more frequent from our new set of MDR servers.

Suites & Staterooms

We originally booked a balcony room. When the bid offer came in I followed some old advice and just placed bids on upgrades because "you don't have to take the offer if you don't like it." Well guess what, that's not the case anymore. My offer was accepted and we automatically became the proud recipients of a Reserve Mini-Suite for an additional $500. In hindsight, I'm glad it worked out. The room has noticably more space than a standard balcony room. These mini-suites are spacious, basically a separate living room and bedroom divided by a curtain you can close off. Having two TVs and an extra closet was great.
As mini-suite guests we also received a nice amenity of free premium wines in our room - on the second week they even topped us up with two more complementary bottles! I guess each week is looked at as a new sailing -- so you get two more bottles! Some older posts complained about the wine quality. It looks like it's been upgraded because we received a Pinot Noir and Chard from La Crema. Being California wine people, La Crema works great for us. If you can swing it, I'd highly recommend going for a mini-suite over a regular balcony.
That being said, I'd avoid the "Cabana" balcony suites. The layout is really bizarre and in my opinion a downgrade. When you walk out onto your balcony, it's not really a balcony. There's another area in front of your balcony that connects a few other cabana suites. The idea is that a few rooms share a private balcony with jacuzzi. However, it also means that walking out onto your balcony doesn't give you a private ocean view because there's this 20-30 feet of additional patio in front of you and everyone above you just looks down into your balcony area.

Dining Highs & Lows

Main Dining Rooms

It can be confusing because there are three floors (Decks 6, 7 and 8). We reserved dining in the MDR prior to the trip via the app for the first few days just so we knew there was a guaranteed place to eat. On night one, the dining room manager introduced himself to us and said he went ahead and booked our table for us every night of the trip. If we didn't show, it was fine.
Food quality in the main dining rooms (MDRs) was consistently good across breakfast and dinner. On port days, it's an "express breakfast" which just means a shorter list of options. Nothing mind-blowing, but solid and tasty. My biggest gripe here is the operating hours. On sea days, the MDR closes for breakfast at 9:00am. You basically have to choose between sleeping in a little, hitting the gym, or getting a decent breakfast.
Pro-Tip: Biggest breakfast tip is stay away from the scrammbled eggs -- they're gross. We figured out that the scrambled eggs come from a bag. If you want real, cracked eggs, either get an omelett or over easy/medium/hard/etc.

Reserve Suite Dining Access

The Reserve mini-suite gives you access to the Reserve Restaurant. It's a little bit more elevated of a dining experience and reservations aren't needed -- you just show up. We dined her a few times and it did feel more elevated. Unlike the MDR, the server in the Reserve Restaurant feels more personal because they're handling smaller groups.

Lido Deck

For more casual fare, the Lido deck had some surprises like an awesome made-to-order salad bar station that became my go-to for healthier meals between all the indulgent dining. The burger grill, taco station and pizza areas were pretty standard, but that salad bar slapped.

Lackluster Buffet

On the flip side, The Eatery buffet left a lot to be desired. Despite different themed stations, the quality was mid at best. We largely avoided eating at the buffet outside of quick breakfast grabs. The Eatery closes for breakfast around 10:00 AM. At which point if you move further into the ship, the restaurants that are normall Catch and Butcherblock become a buffet extension that's opened later -- it's kind of funky.
The layout of the buffet is weird and leaves people wondering if they're cutting in line especially when you go to the extended buffet at Catch/Butcherblock.
What's odd to me is you can go grab a million cheese plates, fruit plates or hummus/veggie plates at the buffet. But if you order those things through the Medallion app, it's not "complimentary." You have to pay like $4.99-$5.99 for those items. We still can't figure out why it costs $5 to order a tiny cheese plate but ordering a cheeseburger is free.

Specialty Dining Winners

We used our two speciality dining credits at Crown Grill and Butcher's Block. I was a little worried because I had read mixed reviews on here about both of these restaurants. However, both meals were really good and before you come at me, I'm a foodie guy -- I'd tell you if they sucked.
We chose Crown for my parent's anniversay dinner. The service was awesome and they made us all feel really special. The setup here is like a steakhouse, where you order your beef and then the sides are a la carte family style. We had a group of seven -- the manager just said "we'll bring you out all the sides, enough for your whole party" which was great.
The next week, we hit up Butcher's Block by Dario. I've never left a meal more full on a cruise ship than at this place. It's family style dining and they just bring out everything for you -- almost like a brazilian barbecue place. We started with a bread appetizer and a glass of wine while you wait for them to get the dining room setup. Then there's more bread on the table + veggies. Then the food starts coming out: beef tartar; beef carpaccio; etc. The main event is the massive tomahawks and porterhouse steaks they carve up tableside. They'll just keep putting beef on your plate until you beg them to stop. Finally, there's desert and a grappa digestif.
Both restaurants were great experiences and a very welcomed change from the MDR after a week of repetition. The food, service and overall vibe were a noticeable step up.

Spellbound

We also splurged one night for the Spellbound immersive magic/dinner experience and it was easily a cruise highlight despite the $150/pp price tag. After an elevated multi-course meal, you get ushered by a guy in a top hat into an exclusive hidden club. While waiting for the magic show, you hang out in their bar which is reminiscent of the Dinseyland Haunted Mansion. While enjoying your drink, there's a magician perorming more intement magic for everyone at the bar. Once they're ready for the show, you're brought into the room where the actual magic show takes place. Afterwards, you're welcome to hang out in the Spellbound bar and continue drinking.
If you're from LA, you probably know about the Magic Castle in Hollywood. Spellbound is an extension of the Magic Castle. Just like with the Magic Castle, you show up in formal wear. This means a coat and tie for the men and an evening gown/dress for the woman.
Overall, we really enjoyed it.

Room Service

This was hit or miss for us. You fill out the paper door hangar and place it on your doorknob before heading to bed. Then you hope and pray that it will actually arrive -- which in two of our instances, it never did. Your options are also super limited. You also may or may not receive what you actually ordered. With coffee for instance, you have a choice of ordering it to-go (paper cup) or stay (actual coffe cup). We always seemed to get the opposite of what we ordered to the point where it became a running joke for us.

International Cafe

This became our goto for a lot of things: coffee, snacks, quick breakfast food (pastries, coffee cake, avodcado toast, Egg McMuffins). Werid fact though: if you order the Egg McMuffin through the app, it comes as an egg patty just like McDonalds and with cheese. When you get the one at International Cafe, it's just an over easy egg and no cheese. Why they can't just be the same is odd.

Night Owl Needs

My main dining gripe was the lack of solid late night food options for us night owls. The Eatery buffet closed at an absurd 10:30pm, leaving only spotty room service or mobile ordering as the choices if you worked up an appetite after evening activities. More robust late-night casual dining would be appreciated.

Bars & Alcohol

Overall, great selection of cocktails. All of the bars have their own little theme and different menus. The ladies I was with were consitently impressed at the quality and thought of the cocktails at each bar. They were also super impressed with the quality of the glassware being used. I must admit, everything from the rocks glasses to the martini glasses really were beautiful.
If you just want straight spirits, you have to order a double to get a normal pour (they're actually measuring out the pours). That being said, with either Plus or Premium, you'll get a good selection of top quality booze.
You gotta try really hard to hit the 15-drink max. Some days I had drinks at breakfast, during the day, lunch, before dinner, during dinner and after dinner. I never hit my max.
One thing that impressed me was staff actually being concerned about drink quality. We were having drinks at one of the bars on the Lido deck. The supervisor was upset with the bartenders because they ran out of premium liquor and hadn't requested more. He made sure to remind them that when someone orders a premium drink they get a premium liquor -- no exceptions.
You also must checkout the Good Spirits bar. There's a few times throughout the night where you watch a live cocktail demonstration. The bartenders at GS are so fun and playful -- really makes for a great vibe.

Amenities - Hits & Misses

The gym facilities on board were a bit of a disappointment, especially for a new ship. While they had a nice assortment of cardio machines, the actual weight room was laughably small with only a few pieces of strength equipment that were always monopolized. Not a deal-breaker, but an area that could be improved.
The pool areas were nicely spread out across different sections of the Lido deck. On sailing days, there was typically a band, the DJ and then a random movie on the jumbotron. The random blasting of action movies at 3pm really ruined the pool vibe and it's typically when the deck would thin out. One minute you're relaxing in the jacuzzi, the next an action movie with explosions is shaking the pool area. It made no sense and seemed tailored for a much younger crowd despite this sailing's passengers being mostly older adults.

Technology & Support

In addition to the Medallion app, the overall internet speeds on board were fast and reliable enough for me to easily stay connected for basic work needs.
The technology support via the app's live chat feature, however, was utterly useless. Any time we had issues properly being charged for drink packages or had to modify reservations, the live chat was a time-wasting nightmare. You're clearly just talking to an outsourced rep with zero actual knowledge of Princess' systems or operations. Your best bet is to go in-person to the guest services desk.

Other Notes & Quibbles

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2024.05.15 02:49 Last_Ad4313 Backyard Lawn Help

Backyard Lawn Help
I put a ton of work into my lawn every year. I have a two part question, and any feedback is greatly appreciated.
  1. The first two photos, are from a renovation I did last fall to level a severe slope with 5 yards of material (southwestern Ontario KBG/perennial rye was seeded). I put down an inch + of topsoil after the slope correction. I got growth as you can see, however it is thin. My planned approach is to aerate, seed, spray tenacity, and then lay down a thin layer of peat moss. I will fertilize 2-3 days after. Would you advise differently? If so, what would you recommend to thicken this up?
  2. The rest of the photos are of my main area of my backyard. I have put down a blanket coat of tenacity about 10 days ago (hence the white spots). Two out of the last three years on top of this, I have also attempted brute force ripping this weed from my entire lawn and reseeding. It has been successful temporarily, but it keeps coming back strong the next year. It grows outward from a central spot and then lays flat in a circular shape (see second last photo). I don't believe I have correctly identified the weed, as I have tried multiple things. Initially, I thought it was Nutsedge, and applied Sedgehammer with no success. I have tried Speed Zone, and always do Tenacity applications in spring and fall. Any help identifying my weed, and how to actually kill it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time and help on my behalf!
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