Langley bc restaurants

As a vegan couple in our late 20’s/early 30’s, I find vegan reviews SUPER helpful - so I thought I’d leave an honest review of our week vacation at the Royaltan Bavaro’s All-Inclusive resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
Room: It’s a family resort, so set your expectations for some wear and tear. Our room (building 18, 4th floor) had definitely seen better days - specifically, the furniture. It felt like everything needed to be sanitized, but I’m also a big germaphobe. We didn’t get sick or anything and housekeeping does a good job at tidying up, but just set expectations - it’s not going to be a beautiful, luxurious room, but we felt comfortable
Pools/Beach: - The lazy river was awesome, probably one of our favorites bc our inner child is alive and well - it’s a very SLOW lazy river, but all the splash features kept things fun and there’s even 2 small slides you can use on opposite sides. There’s also the dips lazy river water bar, which was so cool. - There’s also a main Royaltan pool and infinity pool with another water bar - both were good, nothing too special, but no shade - We weren’t diamond club, but didn’t feel like we missed out on the diamond pool - didn’t look like anything special either, but they do have specific activities just for the diamond pool - There’s also a kiddy mini water playground (looked fun, with shade for the parents) and a shallow kiddie pool near the main pool with shade as well. - Finally, the beach palapas were cute and spread out if you want to find shade by the beach - we went in the off-season (Mid-May), but even then they filled up quick, so best of luck 😂 the beach was kept pretty clean too, despite the sorgasm/seaweed
Other Amenities: - There’s a very uneven putt-putt course - fun, but definitely a little goofy without any course decoration - The kids clubhouse looked fun too, but we didn’t spend time here - looked like you could draw, play pool, basketball, and they had some lil kid toys too - Score’s Bar also had a pool table and handles most of the nightlife entertainment like light dancing and karaoke - There’s a casinos, but we don’t gamble so nothing to review on this - We also had access to the private pool cabanas - they were alright, no view of the beach or anything so meh. However, the attending staff are fantastic and you can order diamond beach menu items (none being vegan though so 🤷🏼‍♀️)
Spa/Gym - The gym is great, lots of diverse equipment/weights with TRX. There’s about 4 treadmills and 1 of everything else though, so if you’re there during the busy season you may have to wait for sets. They have plenty of activities throughout the day too, like yoga, Pilates, kickboxing, aqua fit, etc. all very easy level though - Spa was fine, we did hydrotherapy and the 100min couples massage/scrub. Hydrotherapy was just an indoor warm pool and the massage/scrub wasn’t the greatest, but the average person with less spa experience would likely find it all to be great. Just definitely nothing special
Entertainment: Every night, they do a small activity like Just Dance for the kids around 7pm. Following, they’ll do some type of competition for guest volunteers (dance, MJ impersonations, etc). After that, a live band or performance - the circus show is a must, very fun for the kids and adults alike. Aside from that, it’s all okay - we enjoyed ourselves
Food: As vegans, we were on our own a bit. Buffet items are not clearly labeled (mashed potatoes, for example, might have have butter - we could never get a clear answer from staff). The restaurants also didn’t have great options, or just weren’t vegan in the first place. Seemed like staff didn’t really understand veganism - we spoke with the front desk to get accommodations and they printed an English/Spanish list of what we couldn’t have (no leche, no queso, no carne, etc), but that only got us so far as well. Just a lack of knowledge from the staff - we were disappointed bc this resort was advertised and reviewed as a good vegan option (and we had a great time with minimal options IE fries, rice, and beans), but I definitely wouldn’t recommend for vegans
Staff: Hit or miss, some staff were spectacular and outstanding - others seemed a bit unwelcoming and it made us feel guilty to ask for things. Service was excellent, they were all superb and genuinely wanted to help make our stay a great experience - it just wore on our conscious occasionally, which I wasn’t expecting. Just something to note - overall very friendly though! We also tipped our servers and staff, in case that helps frame our experience
Overall thoughts: We had a great time! Best memories we’re excursions, but Royaltan Bavaro was very fun and we’d recommend it to our omnivore friends/fams/couples looking for a holiday inn level resort - stable, safe choice, good experience overall but nothing incredible

I currently live in Brandon, Manitoba, and have never lived in a basement suite before. I recently found a brand-new underground basement suite in Langley, BC. My family includes two kids. What are the disadvantages of living in a basement suite compared to a standard apartment? Since BC experiences limited sunlight in the winter and a lot of rain, what problems could we face living in an underground basement suite there?

i’ve been with my partner for almost 4 years; and realised today that i cannot recall the last time he made a concentrated effort to plan something nice for me without me basically directing where, when, what, and how.
my birthday party is in a few days and he only broke the news today that he hadn’t ordered the cake when he took ownership of dealing with it; he told me months before he was baking it and only told me today he couldn’t do it and would order one instead and asked what flavor i wanted. there are many issues that i took with this. he knew that i wanted my birthday cake to look a specific way as i showed him photos of what i wanted weeks ago and asked if he could do it; he told me he couldn’t decorate the cake that way and i said that it was ok because he was already baking me a cake from scratch which i immensely appreciated. he could have told me at any point he couldn’t do it and that he was going to order it instead. but instead he waited to tell me until the very last minute and also to sort it out at the very last moment possible.
he also did the same in regards to my birthday dinner plans for the two of us; he told me he wanted to book dinner for us and i had already told him what cuisine i wanted. he has access to my google calendar so knew when i was free. i told him i just wanted a dinner somewhere nice with him. instead of that being the end of it, he kept coming back to me with “what about this restaurant? this one? availability XYZ”; it became a back and forth to the point i had to pull out the tiktok folder i saved with recommendations for restaurants in our city, most of which i’ve sent him previously to tell him i would do these restaurants and even went on their websites to check what dates were available until i put my foot down and told him idk why i was doing the labour of booking my own birthday dinner when he said he would do it. and guess what he was able to find a restaurant and just book it. this annoyed me but i thought it was an isolated incident but apparently not.
i got incredibly upset after he told me he basically hadn’t done shit about the cake and i left home and didn’t go back and stayed with my mom for the night because i just could not believe my partner of 4 years could be so unreliable for something as simple as a birthday cake. if my friends were capable of doing it in previous years why couldn’t he? my mom asked me when he has previously taken the initiative to do something nice for me without my input and i genuinely cannot remember a time where he did something that he planned himself and executed without somehow making me responsible for it in some way. when it comes to gifts, i basically buy them for myself and he reimburses me the cost of them. dinners, i choose a restaurant and the date and time and book it for us. trips/vacations, i suggest it and have to take the initiative of choosing a day to sit down and plan and book it. if i don’t put my foot down it doesn’t get done. and i realise he is either incompetent or lazy when it comes to the relationship and i don’t know how to navigate this issue and move past it.
he has apologised about the cake issue but the time apart has made me realise this is a deeper issue and i don’t know what he can do to make it up to me. i don’t see what he can do to show me he can fix things.
can i please get suggestions on how to approach this with him and to move forward? i have previously brought this up to him in the relationship that i feel as though i take on a lot of the emotional labour in regards to household management (meals, when we need to clean bc the mess reaches a boiling point, or buying things we need for the flat) and romance in the relationship (love languages, that i needed more in terms of emotional fulfilment) and he will be apologetic and do it for a while but i think he is just complacent in the relationship.
how do you make your partner non-complacent/not lazy/bring him out of feeling “too comfortable”? don’t get me wrong, we get along great, we are like best friends and love to hang out and just chill and spend time together but i want more than a best friend i want a partner i can rely on to step up to make special occasions actually special for me. it feels as though he loves me so much and to him these things don’t matter but it does to me and it’s important to me but i think he is a bit selfish in that he subconsciously isn’t as considerate or thoughtful. i love him a lot but i need my emotional needs fulfilled too. what can i suggest/what steps can he take to actually show he cares????

Hi I'm writing for a friend, grand mother looking to connect with her grandson, Gordon Broome. Lives in Langley. Her own kids won't give her follow up info on him. Father - son estrangement. She's in her 80's and seeks connect with him. All I know is she said he has relatives, a mom that past on, called Kristina. Grandma,s last name is Baird, the one seeking him. Her own children won't tell her if the rift that happened to disconnect her from her grand kids.she said Kristina Richardson may help. Basically Juanita, Colwood BC is looking to reconnect with her grandson. To find away around the family drama to find him.
Any info would help even agencies I might find more info for her.

Hi all, For those who’ve had Ménière’s for years, has your hearing improved or ever been back to where it was? Started experiencing severe vertigo two years ago and since then, I’ve lost 40% of my hearing (unilateral) so just wondering if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel from that standpoint. There was one week where my hearing went back to normal (could hear clearly) but then reverted back to its usual (fullness, tinnitus) so not sure if I should still hold on to hoping I’d get it back one day since my doc said there’s no way to tell if the hair cells are damaged or not.
My neurotologist also mentioned that even with the “best” hearing aids, hearing may not improve given that it’s in the lower frequencies and it’s a clarity problem, not volume, and that while some of his patients say it helps them, a lot of them don’t so was very disheartening to hear that bc while I’m (hoping) to control vertigo attacks with gentamicin injections (just began last week as steroid injection didn’t help), in addition to the usual of course (healthier diet/low sodium, supplements/Vit D/K2/Magnesium, sleep, reduced stress, exercise, no alcohol, etc..), the hearing loss has been difficult to “accept” as being out in restaurants or even small gatherings at home make it so difficult to understand people’s words. I’m still going to the audiologist in a couple of weeks to start testing out hearing aids and worse case they can be returned.
Besides sharing your experience, if there are any suggestions, recommendations or questions I should ask the audiologist for first time appt specifically for hearing aids, please share! Would greatly appreciate it!!!
And wishing the best of luck to my fellow Meniere’s community! Stay strong!!!

blackened chicken with tomato, onion, & pickle on a toasted bun. i got a side of buffalo sauce but barely used any - the second pic is the sauce after i was done with it, lol
i usually estimate chicken sandwiches at 336cal but i want to get outsider estimates bc this is a new restaurant
i only had 3 fries, but a cal estimate on the fries would be great as well bc i may have them as leftovers!

I know it won't be long before I get tired of generic salads, turkey, and plain chicken. I stopped eating high-carb years ago, but I come from a culture that eats higher fat (dairy, lamb, beef, etc) and I miss having foods that are familiar to me. I miss spices and spicy foods. I miss acidic tomato-based dishes with lots of eggplant and olives. I enjoy cabbage and other fermentable foods, and currently can't have much of that either. The generic low-fat turkey sandwiches will lose their charm pretty soon.
The acid reflux / GERD has gotten powerful since I went up from 2.5, and I am occasionally getting The Shits if I eat over about 20-25g of fat in one sitting. In a beef- and dairy-dominant meal, that's very easy to do. I definitely can't go out right now bc even simple restaurant food is very high in fats. I can't even have much cheese anymore. A couple of eggs with a little cheese is already skirting close to the margin.
If you had a sensitive stomach when starting, about when were you able to start eating more diverse foods?
I'm gonna be straight with y'all, if this doesn't regulate by 6 months, I'm not sure I can do chicken and spinach forever, no matter how much I love those foods. I don't want giant burgers or anything, I just want the variety and flavor back, y'know?

Hi! Looking for your top 3 ramen restaurants in lower BC!
I’ve tried ramen Danbo and it was solid but am looking for better options. It was good but not amazing imo!

Hi everyone. I am posting because I feel like I am on the brink of a completely breakdown over this condition and any help or advice that anyone can share would be so appreciated.
I am running out of foods, constantly developing new allergies and reactions, and went to the hospital a few weeks ago with a brand new type of reaction where my lips swelled up and I was covered in a rash. I haven’t been to a restaurant, visited a friend, or traveled absolutely anywhere in almost a year. My life feels like it is over, it cannot get any smaller. I am utterly defeated.
My body cannot seem to tolerate anything that actually helps me, and what it can tolerate doesn’t work. I am super sensitive to medications and get side effects from EVERYTHING, even if I don’t have a reaction to it. I take Zyrtec every day which has always helped a bit, but when my allergist suggested upping it I tried 1.5 a day and felt HORRIBLE. I felt like I had been drugged, I felt sick and miserable and my entire body hurt. I tried Pepcid for a few months and it also made me sick, my stomach hurt, my hair was falling out, and I believe it was actually making me MORE reactive. I have tried Quercitin and am still taking it, but it makes my heart race and gives me horrible anxiety and I don’t know if it’s doing anything at all. Increasing the dose of anything results in such awful side effects I can’t function it seems.
The one thing that has EVER worked and worked like magic was birth control. I was on Yaz for almost a decade, and it made a HUGE difference. Night and day. Some reactions started again a few years in, but for the most part I could live an almost normal life.
But then I developed some sort of stomach issue, it had all the symptoms of gastritis even though the endoscopy only found mild stomach lining irritation. But it was literally 9/10 agonizing pain. I couldn’t eat anything at all and I reacted to all the PPIs they gave me. The PPIs didn’t even work and the pain lasted for months, writhing on the floor in agony every single day. I tried other birth controls and they not only didn’t help my stomach, but my allergies got worse and worse every single month. I finally quit the BC altogether and my stomach slowly improved, but my allergies have gotten completely out of control and I have ended up where I am now.
Please, if anyone anywhere can suggest anything that I haven’t tried I would greatly appreciate it. I cannot cut out any more food, I am already malnourished and miserable. I also have an allergist/immunologist, but he admits he doesn’t know a ton about MCAS so he is really just suggesting more Pepcid and Zyrtec. I cannot find an MCAS specialist near me and have called a ton of immunologists and allergists and they all recommend the doctor I currently see. I don’t know what to do anymore.

(Context, I am her best friend, but she is not mine. I feel bad about this, but, she drives me insane more often than not.) (TW: Mentions of abuse, and toxic friendship)
I (18f) am planning on having a birthday dinner at a restaurant with my friends for my 19th bday. My friend (18f) assumes she is being invited, though she doesn’t know that I’m even doing anything atm for my bday. Her bday is a week after mine, so she considers us “bday twins”. We were going to do the “Guard the bday girl” TikTok trend, that was months ago. She was down for the idea at first, but then she said “Well what if we go to Vegas for our 21st bday, instead?” No. I’m planning for our 19th birthday, not 21st.
Anyways, that made me upset, so I decided to let it go and plan it later. We have reached later. I am planning invite 10 friends (5 from home, 5 from college). Which already, is a lot of people to invite to a restaurant that doesn’t take reservations. Also, my 10 friends that I invited all like each other, but college friends haven’t met her
If we celebrate our bdays together, she will want to invite here college friends too, which will overall make it around 20 people. I would be humiliated walking into a restaurant with 20 people. So If I were to invite her, I’d suggest for it to be MY party and then we can do something else for her, but with her, she most definitely wouldn’t let that fly. She always tries to make everything about her. I.E At prom, she faked sick for attention. And, she self diagnoses mental issues and makes them her personality. So if I would invite her, I already know that she would do that to get the attention of everyone else. Another issue is, she makes jokes that simply are not funny, and I’m not saying “quirky” shit. I mean, she looked me in the eyes and told me “my dad died” after her dad got in a motorcycle accident, and said I overreacted when I gave her my condolences.
Her bf is as bad, but for different reasons. First off, he is uncomfortably protective of her. They are the “your little pussy belongs to me, tell daddy what you want” discord couples. They act like this IN PUBLIC. I am NOT dealing with that. He also tries to one up everyone over everything! From drinking, smoking, whose life is worse, who is stronger, etc. He argues to argue, but in such a ruthless way. Now my best friend (19nb), was abused terribly as a kid and makes jokes about it, but few and far between. My friend’s boyfriend also had a bad childhood, so I already know that he will try to one up them, and I’m not okay with that
“op just don’t invite your friend and her boyfriend.” I wish it was that easy. If I don’t invite them, she will freak out, and start a huge fight. I feel guilty about it bc she can be a sweet person, but I just can’t hang out with her in groups because of how she acts. I thought about having a day for us, but that wont slide with her. I don’t know how to tell her, part of me doesn’t want to, but I know that is one of the worst things I could do.

I was diagnosed with BED but—since having to stop my adhd meds/antidepressants—I’ve realized my binging was caused by 10 years of serotonin overdosing. I was on the max dose of both and they were doing more harm than good, forced to stop cold turkey bc of insurance. I joined these subs while I was still binging and while I do have a shaky relationship w food, it’s more bc of how my mom would police my eating/shame my weight and my dad would fear of diabetes etc based on what he’s seen/treated as a doctor (I have a deep fear that if I don’t lose all this weight now, I will get diabetes and have to amputate my legs). Now that I can think clearly, im swinging in the other direction, restricting maybe more than I should but I don’t rly panic over what I eat. Recently tho, restaurants now make me nervous and there are some things I rly avoid. I do IF and OMAD but im kind of loose abt it as long as im in my (too low?) budget.
What worries me tho, is im using these subs as like a ‘what not to do’ for my new lifestyle. Like, I don’t think I truly have an eating disorder, but if I could then I can still outsmart it. And the more I think of it, the more I think that’s rly not fair to u guys. But also there’s a lot here I do relate to at least to some degree, so maybe it’s fine?? Could the confidence be a honeymoon phase? Is it like… exploitative? to be here or might I be in deeper than I thought/overthinking? Objectively, im taking risks at best and the childhood trauma isn’t helping.
Tldr: I can’t tell if I did/do have an ED or if im intruding in a space I do not belong (and im deeply sorry if I am)

me and my boyfriend are 23-24 yrs old . we visited tulum for the first time ever may 10-15th. we ARE mexican american but we learned ALOTTT being there. while my boyfriend speaks perfect spanish, i am a little more on the proficient side. before coming to tulum, i did the mistake of checking reddit about tulum. i even asked my boyfriend if we could cancel our trip because of all the things i was seeing . i have only been to mexico once before this . i think a lot of people make it sound worse than it is. we felt safer in the centro than we did in the hotel zone!! there was people of all races and ethnicities riding their bikes and scooters in the nighttime we rented a car and didn’t deal with police stopping us. we did see them stop one person our entire time there and he was a local. we did see them take someone’s license plate but it’s bc they were parked in a no parking zone. yes we are hispanic but that does not keep the locals from taking advantage! we went to the artisanal market and walked into a shop. we spoke to him in spanish and we were honest and said we were from the USA. he immediately began saying that just bc we spoke spanish, he was going to give us good prices but if we were “white” he would charge us more. while we were flattered , i felt bad knowing this is how the tourists are trapped. he gave us a bunch of free stuff though lol . then, went to a shop in the centro to buy a shirt before i left. my boyfriend was speaking to the owner and told him we are from guanajuato mexico and i entered the store by myself. the vendor was trying to sell me 2 shirts for 1250 pesos (about 75 usd). when he was trying to sell my boyfriend immediately walked in and told me no we need to look elsewhere. the owner walked over to the vendor and told him to lower. he only lowered 100 pesos and we began to walk out. the vendor said i’ll give you the 2 shirts for 800 pesos (about 50usd) which is normal in the USA but expensive for mexico. we ended up getting them . they are trying to make a living so obviously be respectful when turning them away. is tulum expensive? yes. any touristy place is expensive. but what we really came for was the cenotes and beach. we didn’t do any fancy beach clubs or go to crazy restaurants because we want to experience the culture here and not the gentrified version of the city. overall we had a great time, lots of yummy local food and spent about 2k for our entire trip including , flight, stay, food, car etc.

I’m one day post op (grade 3 ACL tear repaired with quad autograft) and wouldn’t have made it through the night without an ice water circulation machine. I dislike taking narcotics but was in so much pain when the nerve block wore off that I took one oxy pill to sleep around 10pm. Fewer than two hours later I was in tremendous pain and almost crying. NB I’ve got a pretty high tolerance for pain (left the hospital two days after my c-section and went straight to - restaurant) and am terrified of narcotics due to their addictive nature.
I reluctantly took a second pill four hours after the first one (2am) yet woke up after barely sleeping an hour bc of the pain.
My friend had dropped off a Polar Products cooler (I’m not pitching the brand at all, just sharing info about what she gave me) earlier that day of my surgery and told me they it was a life saver for her. So, I had frozen eight bottles of water and filled the cooler with four of them (lids still on, basically just like a cylindrical ice pack) plus additional water. That was around 3:30am. As soon as the knee was numb I slept like a baby until 7am. Just wanted to share this tip with y’all! Hopefully it will help someone out there.

I loved a music video about an asian girl (i think she was japanese bc the places showed on the video). She was on a date, the video seems to be recorded by his boyfriend on a old camera. Was a romantic soft pop music. I remember some scenes, one was a scene of the girl in a restaurant who was smiling and having some fun and then she takes the camera frome his bf who was recording her and films him but he is very shy. Other scene was about the family of the girl wearing kimonos and playing with those little fireworks on sticks. Other scene was about she doing the face of Fujiya logo, taking her tongue out. Pls help me

Before we start, we have to exclude genetics and eating disorders. Some people are just born big/skinny bc their family is. Some people have real diagnoses which prevent them from gaining/losing weight. Lets exclude "time" for the sake of the argument bc they will hurt/benefit both sides. Losing weight no time to exercise/cook the food. Gaining weight no time to find/cook the food and no time to be stagnant to burn less calories.
This discussion is only talking self-discipline, motivation and free will.
That being said, losing weight. Exercising/ working out and just simply "moving" is free. We move all the time, just do it more. Volume eating is a good start. You can still enjoy a majority of your foods, just eat less of it and eat more "low-caloric" foods. I dont understand how its more difficult to lose weight when you are at a caloric deficit and burning calories. It take less energy to eat less.
Gaining weight is more difficult bc it takes more energy to eat. You have to find "high caloric" foods. Not all high-caloric foods are built the same. We all know fast-food chain restaurants are unhealthy so those aren't an option. Im talking about the high-caloric "healthy" foods which are more expensive than unhealthy foods. Also being in a caloric surplus while burning less energy is difficult bc we have to move, go to work, we are always moving/burning calories.
In addition, i live in the US. Standard American Diet (SAD). We are surrounded by unhealthy fast food which comes down to self- discipline. I understand its convenient but doesnt make it healthy.
In summary, losing weight is easier bc it takes less money to eat less and its free to move. Gaining weight is difficult bc it more money to buy more food and moving less makes you unproductive.
Edit: I literally said "This discussion is only talking self-discipline, motivation and free will." Meaning choices and decisions you make. You wouldn't eat poop right? So thats a choice on which you decide to consume.
Edit2: im very open to gaining weight if you haven't noticed. And ive dont the steps people have been saying the comments. Im going to delete the post if no one can change my view. I love eating btw.
Thanks for reading. Change my view.

I’m genuinely just tired and empty after our last interaction. I (20f) take off work to see them for nearly a month and I just ask to go with my boyfriend and his family since they’re inviting me for their summer trip to a nearby city for memorial day weekend. And it turns into an hour+ long lecture about everything they hate about my boyfriend and what they dislike about me.
I have a traditional Mexican family who are really dug into the traditional (machismo/marianismo) thinking. Because of this: •they don’t recognize him as my partner ever even though i begged them to for months (2year relationship) •barely recognize him as a person “ese muchacho o este persona” •hate that he doesn’t respect them •hate that he didn’t eat at the restaurant they invited us to (devours the leftovers every time) •really offended that he sat cross cross at the table when I do it constantly? •don’t think he can provide for me •judge the fact he isn’t working a full time job while he’s getting a clinical lab postgrad degree •don’t think he’s “man enough”
And shifted it onto me when they were satisfied: •3 years of calling me easy and not fully believing i’m going to graduate college (i’m getting magna cum laude at the end of the year if i keep getting A’s🤞) •hate how I don’t talk to them anymore •really circled back on how they don’t know who i am anymore cause i’m not as happy as i was in HS •think i’m a pushover dog in my relationship •say there’s nothing wrong with my hobbies but think i should stop buying warhammer bc “i’ve spent enough on it, it’s time to move on to practical things” •are upset i don’t communicate when they used to tell me as a kid that i should be quieter •are upset it feels like i don’t want to be back at home and it’s like yeah no shit i am tired of getting shit on constantly.
He hates my parents because of how they treat me and he’s tired of seeing me cry. He treats me well and I feel genuine love and care from him. It isn’t perfect since we still fight sometimes but we hold each other accountable and i’m the luckiest girl in the world to have someone like him choose to support me everyday. I don’t want to waste effort crying over this so i’ll probably just watch youtube until I pass out but man I’m just done. But i’ll have to mask and act all excited and outspoken until i go back to school :(

I loved a music video about a asian girl (i think she was japanese bc the places showed on te video) who is on a date, the video seems to be recorded by his boyfriend on a old camera. Was a romantic pop music. I remember two scenes, one was the girl in a restaurant who was smiling and then she takes the camera and films the guy who is very shy. Other scene was about the family of the girl wearing kimonos and playing with little fireworks on sticks. Other scene was about she doing the Face of Fujiya logo, taking her tongue out. Pls help me

I work as a bank teller at a pretty popular bank, Wargo Fells. A lot of the time when Buisness customers come across I ask what they do and what got them into doing that. I am an accounting student btw going for my bachelors and CPA, anyways I came across a guy with his own firm and was just talking to him. He ended up giving me his number and set up an interview with me for an internship. Interview was scheduled at 10am, I walked in at 9:55am. It was okay in the beginning, he kinda just sat me down with his coffee, and was just talking to me about life, kids, family, etc. He and his wife own the firm, and some 2 or 3 other people work there. So a staff of about 5ppl. So the interview kinda felt like he was just waiting for his wife/teammates to join the interview, however after an extensive 45-55minutes of just talking to me about family, kids, questions about me, depreciation, amortization, and the services they provide. He finally stepped away and let me talk with the other teammates (so the boss/ceo/manager walked away and every teammate had the Opportunity to interview me personally 1 on 1) which wasn’t so bad and it took about 10-20 mins each person. That I didn’t mind, what I did mind was the fact that we just talked for a whole hour about nothing and I was just nodding my head and awkardly smiling bc I had nothing to say and the fact that I didn’t drink my coffee in the morning (I forgot and I’m addicted). I finally left the interview after a whopping 1 hour and 50 minutes. Holy hell, I couldn’t stand being interviewed that long. I’m pretty much just tired and am just trying to hide it. Anyways if you happen to be the manager of this firm, I’m still open to the internship you have a lovely team just please don’t do 2 hour interviews anymore, or maybe conduct them in a restaurant where I can look at my glass of water and maybe snack here and there instead of just maintaining eye contact with you for an hour straight.
Okay I’m done with my rant, thank you all.

hi! idk if i’m losing my mind or what, but i vividly remember reading this book that was kind of similar to the book “starstruck” by yuriko hime but they were adults because one of them owned a restaurant or something because she was a good cook.
i don’t remember the specifics, but i remember there was one scene where the cook went up to the celebrity’s condo, drunk, and told her off because the cook found out that she went out on a date with a guy she was often partnered with as an “it couple.”
then, another scene i remember reading was she got stabbed while taking a break because someone put a hit on her or something.
i hope these aren’t actually spoilers if anyone does know the story and/or is reading them. but i’m truly desperate to find this book because i remember the main character was half filipino (i think?) and i remember it was an amazing book to read as a fellow filipino bc there aren’t many gxg filipino characters.
any help would be appreciated!

This is gonna be a long so I apologize in advance. Me and my gf have been together for nearly four years. We met through work at the time and built a good life together. We got along really well, spent a lot of time together, and loved being in each other's presence. We’ve had hard times during our relationship but most times we’ve managed to get through it and work on ourselves to build each other up. I thought things went well.
Sadly, that is not the case anymore.
She is a university student, and at point she made a friend through class and after they bonded and spent more time together, her friend offered to let her move in to the apartment they stayed at. My gf said yes and moved in, though she alternated between staying at the apartment, at her parents house, and my house.
Sometime last fall, her friend met a guy that she rly liked and both me and my gf at the time were thinking they would end up together. During Christmas, they fooled around but then the guy told her right afterwards it was a mistake and they didn’t pursue each other further.
Now this is where it all starts to fall apart. My gf had hung out the guy and grew close to him, even though her friend expressed how that made her feel uncomfortable, with him coming to the apartment while her friend was there and spending the night and so on. My gf’s response to that was that it’s hard for her to just cut people off like that, despite the fact that she wouldn’t have know the guy if it weren’t for her friend introducing him. That really soiled the friendship between her and her friend, and yet still she hung out with the guy.
By this point, I just had this awful feeling that something more was going between them. I had no proof, other than my intuition alerting me. I even had a dream that she had cheated on me with the guy, and I don’t dream abt stuff like that often, if at all.
So the next day from when I have that dream, she comes over to my house to prepare to go to class, and she leaves her phone next to me while she’s in the bathroom. And while this was a breach of trust, I would not have gotten the truth from out of her, so I went into her phone and found a flirty text messages between them two. Furious, I stormed to the bathroom and demanded that she explain herself. She started off by trying to get me to quiet down because she didn’t want anyone else in the house to think something was wrong, which in hindsight was a major red flag and all the evidence I needed to prove that SHE knew she did something wrong.
Anyway, I was trying to get to the bottom of why she did what she did, but she said she didn’t know why. I never really got a clear answer to any of it, but it’s not like she wasn’t consciously making the decision to do what she did. However, this was the first time something like this had happened, and I gave her another chance to prove that she was willing to try to make this work.
I gave her an ultimatum--either never speak the guy ever again, or I am gone.
She promised me that she would honor the boundary that I set and after she went to school later that day, she told me that she confronted the guy and told him they could not be friends--at least, that is what she told me. And I accepted that and was willing to move forward from it. I never forgot it and every time I think about everything that happened, I get really upset but force it down. But I was at least willing to try to make this work, assuming she respected my boundary.
However, this is one of those situations in which she lied by omission. I spoke to her old friend from university and asked if she knew anything about what's been going on between them two. I had suspicions about what happened bc I haven't heard my gf talk about her friend in a while and she would talk abt her constantly. I asked her (gf) about her old friend and asked why I haven't heard about her recently, to which at the time my gf responded saying i don't know (you will see there is a common occurence going on here in which I will ask her why she hasn't done this or that or whatever and the answer will be "I don't know"). Anyway, I asked her old friend what happened, and she told me about what went on with her and dude, how that made her feel, and how much worse she felt after my gf chose to keep hanging out and talking with the guy. I told her about my situation and emphasized the fact that I felt I still did not know the whole story, which is why I called to get more information. Another one of her old friends that would come to the apartment often was also on the phone, and she was helpful in that she was tracking my gf's location (they had a Life360 group together) and noticed she had turned it off multiple times, one of which she took a screeshot of my gf's location because she was at the guy's house. Again I do not know whether or not she was alone when she went over (she has been there multiple times) and have no way of knowig that but I don't really care about that anymore. Overall, they told me so much information that I never even knew in the first place, which caused me to blow up on her because to me, all of this was extremely sneaky and there was no way in hell she did not know what she was doing while she was doing it (this a point for later, but I had to keep remembering all of the sneaky stuff she was doing later on when trying to determine the pros and cons of staying in a relationship with her). She admitted that yes, she did go over to dude's house but that she was never alone when she did. Again, I have no idea whether or not that is true but I am inclined to believe it is not. At that point, I told her you need to tell me the whole truth because at this rate, learning so many things from other people is just making all of this worse than it needs to be. One thing I do want to bring up is the fact that each and every time I confronted her about something, she cried at some point. I am the person that was wronged through this, and SHE ends up crying.
In addition to that, I learned that my gf changed the contact name for the guy to another name she had for one of her other friends in an attempt to make it appear as though she were talking to that friend and not the guy (i actually learned this when I went through her phone, not when I called her friend, just to clarify).
But recently I hung out with two of my best friends, one of which works at the place my gf and I used work at. My gf had hung out with one of my friend's coworkers, and I found out that when my gf went to dinner with that coworker, that guy was there as well. I had no idea how or why he was there, that was not explained to me at all, though it hardly matters. And no, my gf did not immediately leave or tell him off or extricate herself from the situation. No, she was friendly with him and tried to pretend as if nothing happened, so I am told.
She was out of town at the time in which I had learned this, so I texted her saying that we need to break up and why that was. I told her that you crossed the one boundary I set, which was for you to never speak to him again, and instead of taking yourself out of the situation for the sake of our relationship, you decided you wanted to prove to yourself that you could have these types of friendships without getting in the way of our relationship, as if I wouldn't be affected by it (I assumed she was never going to tell me that she hung out with the guy and it only came out because I found out through my best friend and now she has to explain herself). To that, I responded saying that honestly it isn't him that is the problem, it is what he represents, which is your lack of self control and respect for our relationship. This was pretty much the same situation as her old friend was put through, in which she (gf) felt that she could not cut off anyone like it was nothing even if there are people that have been there for her since day one that she is blatantly disregarding as a result.
At that I told her that for my own mental health and stability, I cannot be with her anymore. She asked me if we could fix this in the future but I told her I had no idea. I really do not. I have a lot of love for her, but I felt like I had been the only one putting any effort into the relationship for months, and I did not trust her very much after everything that had happened, especially considering she was never telling the whole true story. She lied by omission, which I think can be a lot worse than just lying to someone's face. I had to talk to her old friend from the apartment about what happened and see if there was anything that she wasn't telling me, and I found out way more than what she was telling me. For example, she had never told me, even after being confronted the first time with this, that she had gone over to his house sometimes. She told me she was never alone with him there, but I have no way to tell if that was the truth or not. I also managed to piece one thing together that honestly makes this a whole lot worse. So when Dune Part Two came out (one of the best movies I have ever seen, period), I went to go see it first with a group of friends. Afterwards, one of my friends wanted to watch it with me, and I invited my gf out to go see it too, since that friend and my gf had known each other since middle school. I planned out our day--we were first going to have a nice date at one of our favorite restaurants, get some dessert after that, then go see the movie. But then, she tells me the literal day of that she told the guy abt it cuz they were hanging out at the time and expressed how he wanted to go see it too but that he had no one to see it with. So she asked if he could come along, which completely ruined our plans for our date. At the time, I had felt off about the whole thing but I still said yeah that is okay because I also felt a little bad for him. I only pieced this together a while after all of this, but I figured out that they had been flirting back and forth already by this point, and obviously I did not know about it, or else I would have told her to tell him no. And when I brought this up to her, about the fact that it seemed she did not even take our date into account when asking him, she said that she didn't think it would be a big deal. Adding salt to the wound, I had actually paid for the guy because he was broke. I bought his ticket and a few snacks for him. All the while there was so much going on behind my back.
Furthermore, recently, I had told my mother about what happened and she expressed that while she feels my ex gf had a good heart, she seemed very selfish. And given that she was a part of my little sister's quincenera, she had to text her asking for the dress she leant my ex gf back from her, and Ig her tone was off because my ex gf texted me asking if my mom was upset with her. I told her maybe, she asked why, I told her because I told her about what happened between you and I. She responded saying that she felt so one dimensional to us... which i did not understand, because if anything I was taking into account all aspects of her personality when deciding on whether or not to be with her. I tried to think about how it did genuinely seem like she wanted to do better for the sake of our relationship, but I remembered that she overstepped the one boundary I set for her, which was not even that hard to meet (like, just don't talk to the guy, and if you are in a situation where you are both in the same room or place, then do not engage or just extricate yourself from the situation if you feel that you cannot trust yourself in that scenario). If anything, when I initially confronted her, I was willing to ignore everything that happened so long as she respected my boundaries. Obviously that did not happen, but I think it was rather unfair of her to tell me that I see her so one dimensionally because I really do not. I've spent so much time with her, I learned how to love her even with aspects of her personality I may not have agreed with but I was still willing to get past that because I loved her.
And look, I am not free from sin myself. I have done things I am not proud of in our relationship. There were times I did not treat her the best or take her input into account with things we were trying to figure out together because I felt I knew better even though I did not. I had pointless arguments with her that hurt us both, and I will never be able to take that back. But I will not say I did not try to grow from all that. I can tell you with 100% that I am not the same person I was before. I worked on myself and my attitude towards our relationship and made sure she felt like she was my top priority. I bent over backwards to atone for all my shortcomings. I have put so much time and effort into bettering our relationship, and despite my previous sins, I will not ignore the sheer amount of work I've put into becoming a better person and figuring out what kind of relationship I want and how to get us to that point. I value communication above all else, besides loyalty, because that was a huge problem in our relationship. But unfortunately, as you can tell from the length and subject matter of this post, she did not work on that. I expressed how I wanted us to be open and honest with each other. I expressed that I felt our communication was lacking and how I try to put in the work to make sure that we are both on the same page but I wasn't feeling the same coming from her. Hell, at one point I even asked her if she felt uncomfortable with how I hung out with one of our friends who is a girl and told her if she is uncomfortable with it then I would not hang out or talk with her anymore. I made that abundantly clear, but then she said that it wasn't a problem for her. Funny enough, I also learned from her old friends that I mentioned earlier that she brought that up to them as well, and I guess one of them was trying to put in her head that I wanted to be with that girl even though our friendship is purely platonic (I am friends with mostly girls which was not a problem until then ig). I also learned from them that she told them we had broken up, even though WE NEVER ONCE HAD THAT DISCUSSION AND IT WAS NEVER BROUGHT UP IN CONVERSATION. Up until I called them up after confronting her, they all thought we broke up... because that is what she told them. Again, and I cannot stress this enough, we never once had a conversation about breaking up during the time in which this had all happened.
So, needless to say, this is a horrible situation that I am going through right now, borne from so much lying and deceit. I cannot help but to feel betrayed and that all the work I put into our ~4 year relationship just went to waste. But I have a good support system in my friends and family that have been with me through this whole ordeal. And while I occasionally think maybe I should give her another chance to prove herself, I immediately shut that down, because she has already had multiple chances to prove herself to me and she blew each one.
So, now, I am putting more focus into myself and making my life better and healing from all this. I spend more time working on my novel that I am currently writing, and it helps to put my mind at ease and focus on what I love to do. Maybe she will be different in the future, but I am not holding my breath and I only wish the best for her, that she finds the proper help she needs bc she definitely needs therapy.
TL;DR, my gf was talking to another man behind my back, and despite me setting a boundary for her to never speak to him again, she still spoke with him. As a result, I broke up with her. I highly recommend reading the whole thing, as there is so much context to this that this little snippet will not do it justice.
Anyway, I just wanted to come on here and share my story and to tell people that you should always trust your intuition because it may tell you more than what someone else might be.
Have a good day!

Hello. As you can see from the title, I would like advice on how to make friends. I just can't go up to people and put myself out there, the embarrassment I feel is mortifying. I'm always worried that they're going to find me annoying and laugh about me with their friends. Also, I find it hard to start conversations as all I've done in my life up until now is study. No clubs, no hobbies no anything. I don't even go out to restaurants and places bc I'm always inside the house. I can't even talk abot shows and films as ice breaker bc I mostly watch anime and K-dramas and I'm afraid they'll make fun of me ( 80% of the time they'll probably do). All in all , as you a¡can tell , I'm quite the looser so I'd like a way for even someone like me to make friends.
Thank you all