Gave you a "love" because a couple years back, we lost a few trees to a mildly violent storm that knocked down trees, including one that fell on the roof on my side of the house. (Even though it's one house, the way it is treated is more or less a duplex.)

Somewhat okay. Realised I gotta get posting in this place LOL

Days been good. Had physio appointment for my hand.

It’s not hurting that much anymore. (Accidentally collected stainless steel bench at full speed, with my knuckles)

Currently waiting for a phone call from the ENT specialist regarding tonsils and thyroid (have a somewhat large nodule on my thyroid)
May need to have surgery, may not

How does a person become part of Gorl World? I'm not really looking for a answer, but sometimes a person just fits.

It’s a MEGA TJ Maxx / Marshalls Online Shopping Haul | October 15, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0yTmUAjDDI

Dress like a toddler at age 54.

Buy a coat 2 sizes too small then blame that fact that is doesn't fit on the fact that she's sitting down.

Blame the cat for the hoard of stuff that is piled to the ceiling, then knocks down the pile of shit. Mind you, the hoarder has been saying that she is going to chill with the shopping for almost a year now.

Complain that her mother wants to sell her [the hoarder] the house for less than it is worth. Who in their right mind would want to buy a house at a highly over-inflated price? Normal people that are not coping with copious amounts of booze and Zanax would love to pay far less for a house.

Spend previous videos 'bragging' about getting drunk on Baileys that hoarder and mother 'can't afford'. Fast forward to talking about getting back with a ex that has recently gone through rehab. This is nightmare in the making!

This is only 30 minutes in. Who knows what is in store for the next 45 minutes.

Mixed really, good and bad.

Bad has been dealing with bullies lately - I mean honestly, it's 2025, what is wrong with people!

Good has been overwhelming support from friends, and being back here of course! I never really 'leave' just kind of realise I haven't simmed for ages sometimes, after 'life getting in the way'!

Bad is my love life, I was talking to my friend and he described it as 'your situationship', I was like... it's not even that, you're being generous there! lol!

Good is there's a few fun social things coming up to look forwards to, so that's something

Sunday is my birthday party, because my birthday falls during the week.

(10/23 is a date most astrologers would say Libra is my Sun Sign and Scorpio is my Moon Sign. Of course, I would use this type of information to bilk money out of strangers. I rather not suffer any fools. I don't have any time for that.)

So the dinner for me is tamagoyaki, a Japanese sweet rolled omelette. And a pull apart savory cheddar bread ring as my cake.

I even asked for a check towards buying clothes, a Japanese birthday tradition where a new outfit is the big gift. I had been trying different traditions each year since returning to the hometown I lived in.

So far, I cleaned, cooked and even got caught up on season 2 of the Simpsons. I am slowly catching up on the series from seasons 1-20. I would have to say that the only good thing that happened to Fox's animation division since the Fox-Disney merger is that it breathed new life into The Simpsons after floundering for about 15+ years as it heads close to 40 seasons on air.

In the past few years alone, they began to go forward with new storylines to experiment with, especially outside of the "Treehouse of Horror" installments, where it is not canonical to the main story, where the contemplation of "how to end the show" (which has been on air since December 17th, 1989 as a full, half-hour slot series.) had been explored in a prank episode with Conan O'Brien returning for an appearance as cast and crew (former writer) where Bart finally turns 11.

Aside from that, our washer has been out of commission for weeks now and doing laundry means allowing dad to take it to the Laundromat on Saturday at buttcrack o'clock (so early in the morning that the donut shops are busy making donuts, which historically were the only shops open when graveyard shift policemen were getting off duty, hence the "cop and donut shop" association started and some shops even had reserved seating for the police on post-graveyard shift unwinding.)

So yeah, I had an interesting day today.

I went for a really long walk today and it was sunny

Submitted a loan application for an almost brand new car. Fingers crossed 🤞

That bug that affected my insides has returned.

Good thing I had Pedialyte and white rice for this.

But I am still getting back on my feet and keep at it at a speed I can work with.

The party was nice. Just me and my parents. I received $103 from them. I bought a show season on disc, a wig for a performance and 6 MP3 songs.

Update: I woke up from my nap and checked my phone. Turned out my doting aunt (I have several, I live in a large family) sent me a card to celebrate. Should arrive in time, she said. Then again, I will keep an eye on the mail.

I decided that I've heard enough internet yapping, so I opened my tablet so I can continue reading Haunting Adeline by H. D. Carlton. Not a book for the faint at heart. I guess that would explain the laundry list of trigger warnings.

No sooner did I settle in and my tablet shut off. There was a update I ignored. Samsung decided that ignoring the update wasn't a option and did it anyway. It has been one of these kinds of weeks. It is only Tuesday.

Over the weekend I thought I was being smart and downloaded the Libby app so I could get away from physical books and a Kindle subscription. I could log in using Dingus's library card, but I couldn't get bookmarks to work if my life depended on it so I would end up having to find my place every time I opened the app. I don't know if this was a app problem, a user problem or a bit of both, but nobody has time for that crap. At some point I'll go back and get to reading the rest of Starling House, but for now, it is a pass.

Last Friday I put in a pet supply order with Amazon. I thought I would be nice to the Amazon driver and have them deliver everything yesterday. No part of my order showed up. Got a email in the afternoon saying that part of the order might be in next week. Since I never heard about the other part of the order, I logged in this morning only to find out it was going to be another week before the dog food, pig bedding, pig treats and hay were going to show up.

All the critters have food. they'll be fine, but I always order before it gets to the point where I'm going to run out. I don't know if this problem was from Amazon shutting down many places around the internet yesterday or what, but WTF. This morning I ordered the same shit from Chewy; order should be here in a day or two. Amazon owes me a refund.

The back of my neck is aching. I didn't do anything to it or sleep in a weird position. It is all these little stupid things piling up on top of each other and tap dancing on my nerves. IDGAF about the sims community destroying each other over opinions, nor do I care about influencers, fake news and all the other BS. I just want to read my book in peace while I have Calmed by Nature doing its thing in the background.

Cozy Fall Pie Shop Ambience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arYLOCYn7Kw

EDIT:

Amazon gave me my refund.

The knot in my neck is gone after reading until my eyeballs felt like they were full of sand.

I got the Libby app to work on the tablet. I'm not sure which browser setting the app doesn't like on the PC, but oh well...don't need it.

Thank you for the ❤️ - I was feeding the birds and the neighbor whose trees broke came outside and was asking me what I plan to do about the broken trees and told me how dangerous it was 😖

I hope you have money and someone to cart away the tree. It cost my grandfather (who is renting this house to my family unit) in the upper thousands (between $5,000-$10,000) where I live, and it took probably a year to fix the roof from when it fell, with the help of my youngest uncle and my two cousins.

If the trees were on your neighbor's lot, isn't it their responsibility to remove the trees (and to compensate you if your lot/tree was caused any damage)?

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Feeling like a wrung washcloth after probably having overexerted myself yesterday. Everything aches.

Today, October 23rd, is officially my birthday. I am now 38 as of 5:03PM and realizing that I better do something before tomorrow's meeting over the Zoom app.

The birthday money that came inside my doting aunt's card was enough for the Pikmin 1+2 bundle, and since Sonic Forces was on a discount sale, I snagged that. I even bought a wig stand for a wig I sent away for on Sunday.

Still awaiting money from my grand parents and my aunt Fran (due to a familial rift that my mother's family blamed me for, only my mother's sister and her family keep in contact) and my cousin, who is now a firefighter with a wife and two small children, still is amazed by the fact I am still doing voice acting for fun.

The only likely reason I am waiting is well, sometimes, even with my messy and smart family members, they forget sometimes. I understand. Whether it's brain farts or a busy schedule on their end, life no longer surprises me in regards as such.

Playing Pikmin 1 was a bit stressful, considering that you had roughly a month within the game time frame to find 30 parts or die from "poisonous oxygen". It's also the reason I started with Pikmin 2 all those years ago in the GameCube era. I remember that well, it was a strange game to play and oddly addictive for those who love maps with "dungeon" style caverns all over and the mission was to collect treasures that would get synergized names from the ship's AI.

I never really thought AI generated results would be a big deal. Although I did foresee the uncanny valley in various ways when my father and I had a post-movie discussion on the drive home after seeing the movie "S1m0ne" in 2001.

The fact Hollywood is under attack for their first AI generated movie celeb of Tilly Norwood actually isn't really the first case of a AI generated celebrity, because the first one was a rock musician who was mysteriously "deleted" after some questions were brought up involving such issues.

Frankly, I am not surprised by how humans distrust robots or AI also.

Robert Nicholas Williams (in the US) in 1979 and Kenji Urada (in Japan) in 1981 were two of the first and only documented fatalities from assembly line robots. The fact science fiction feeds into these fears, both past and present; plus where I live, a tristate area, a hitchhiker robot was found dismantled somewhere around Pittsburgh and the idea of AI for companionship was met with New York City's hardened hearts as the ads in the ad campaigns were defaced.

The hitchhiker robot successfully hitchhiked through Europe and Canada, but the dismantling in the US tells me the fear of robots is an American thing beyond the hitchhiker thing as well.

I guess I have a lot on my mind as 5:03PM is coming. My mom tells me every year a little piece of my birth story (back then, although video cameras were allowed for birth videos and such things during pregnancy, my parents found no practicality in documenting every micromanaged moment.)

So with that in mind, I made it to 38 and tomorrow, I have a job interview with the Department of Labor and I guess that wraps it up for my birthday post of pondering.

Finance for car was approved and get to pick it up on Saturday.

The only downside is I have to catch a train at 4:30 in the morning on my only day off for the week.
Much cheaper to get a brand new car from a capital city than my hometown

Happy birthday my dear! I hope this year is great for you.

I know it means another 365 days of chances to take. I am currently working on keeping tabs on the news as I have some minor but important government connections and if I don't eat, I get hangry and nobody likes anyone when they're hangry.

This just reminded me of the old snickers ads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP6XG-s32y8

I got a mixed bag of news.

Bad news: The government shutdown in the US has left half the country's food benefits recipients to suffer from food insecurity, like myself, which includes New Jersey for the affected states. Good thing my parents are going to help support me.

Good news: I recently have a job coach being assigned through one of the two available agencies at this moment. Also, I get this service for free due to my conditions. It saved me $4,000. They'll send me a form via email in two weeks.

Better News: I received $50 from my grandparents (Grandpa's handwriting is sloppy on the check, but somehow legible. The mark of a medical scientist.) I bought false nails and special nail rings.

I had a mixed bag day: disappointed, stressed, and surprised. I was burnt out from the week I had.

With the current world situation, my parents held up their end of the promise to protect and adapt, the promise they made last year if something in the world affected me personally as well as others in the same boat.

I got to eat some gnocchi and I had a veggie pizza made with a thick yeasty dough. My parents and I had to call out the one food we can't stop eating once started (in certain weight loss programs, they go by names like "red light foods")

I also am working on being proactive about my health and I will be calling a couple of specialists, Dr. SH (who is responsible for my mechanical parts maintenance) and Dr. RP (my cardiologist who prescribes my medicine for my cardiovascular, due to healthcare worker shortages and his ability to do so.)

I did find a ray of hope in the madness. I ended up trying Cran-Ocean Cranberry juice (a little bit bitter than the Simply Cranberry Juice Cocktail)...

...but still, I am branching out, putting trust in other people, and taking some steps forward in life to assert independence.

This is a moment of reflection that deserves some recognition that I am growing as a person and the fact we as people never stop growing as people. In fact, I was pretty stagnant last year.

Coming to a realization that I am still working on things at home.

I can't wait until today to be over. The woman who bought the house gets the keys tomorrow and I am so DONE with the house. It was suppose to be the 31st we had the house til. Then the 30th. Now we get told she's gonna pick up the keys tomorrow?? We sold through a company and honestly they've just been a nightmare. Husband has to go to the house tonight and finish getting the last of our stuff out from the attic. It's just been so stressful and it was already a quick process but then it's constantly being shortened even more. Like damn let us get our stuff? We don't even get a skip to get rid of stuff we don't need until tomorrow. The kids are off school this week for halloween AND they've both got the flu. I had to download and navigate Just Eat just to get groceries since we had literally nothing and I can't be bothered carting 2 sick kids around.

Also roommate is useless. I swear he's purposefully causing confusion between me and husband. Husband is as said, collecting the last of our stuff after he finishes work. Roommate turns up and says hes picked up stuff from the house. I asked if he had told husband and find out what else needs to be done since he was gonna go there later. Nope he has not. So I called husband to let him know, "oh I was just on the phone with [roommate] and he didnt mention anything". Like ugh why? They both pass messages to me and then roommate especially gets annoyed when I get confused because nobody seems to ever know what's going on. I am so damn tired. My house is still just boxes, and bags filled with all kinds and everyone keeps asking me where everything should go because I'm just expected to be all knowing. Like I don't know what my husband is doing with his damn beyblade stadium. ASK HIM. No I don't know what day roommate is working. ASK HIM.


Also I made this drink. It is disgusting and delicious.

Almost got into a head on collision on my way to work. Quite terrifying to see a car speeding up right in your direction without moving aside (single lane backroad).
I barely had enough space to pull aside without landing (and probably wrecking my bicycle) in the ditch, and the driver did pull away last second. Maybe the driver was inattentive, maybe they didn't see me early enough due to the weather (misty rain and my light is absolute shit), but I'm sure we both were 100% awake after that.

Bit mixed for me, I'm trying to stick to positive thinking, but I do find it hard.

I half fixed the toilet cistern on my dinner break, but might still end up getting someone out, as all that's left are bits I can't reach.

Work was ok, I got left alone which I prefer.

But very frustrated with the new laptop as I'm having issues and it's only about 3 weeks old! I spent the whole evening last night after work until about 2:30am trying to fix it (I get obessed with trying to fix things), then I couldn't sleep worrying and woke up grumpy.

I feel like ass, sound like ass. I have a fever which isn't high, but it is high enough so I feel like my skin is burning. I'm not one of this 98.6 kind of people. My normal temp tends to run in to 97 degree range.

The next time The Boy gets sick and spreads his germs, he is going to spend his free time cleaning all the things he touches with his dirty, germ-covered hands. I will speak with him about this today, then after that if he doesn't take care of things when he's sick, then it is going to all on him. I haven't left the house in over 2 weeks, so it isn't like I'm out and about among the creeping crud sharing people.

Did nothing much but dishwashing duties today. I had a few breaks in between, but I couldn't play with my Switch 2 because I had to put dishes away.

But I really can't complain. I have a decent side hustle and I recently got my second interview papers and signed them. Now all I need is to hear back from my head counselor at the Department of Labor.