My mother has been cured of her vertigo. She now has balance issues. She returns to work on Wednesday (her work week is Wednesday to Saturday.) and I recently finished working on a mock-up commercial using a song from a show that matched the quirky nature of the video game.

I currently had a rough session at therapy the other day. It was another "exposed underbelly leading to eating junk" day.

I didn't freeze in the office at all today! See I'm like a lizard if I'm sitting still for too long and I get cold and stiff and bleh, which is why I'm in all the layers when at my desk. We're talking thermal top, another top and then something wooly (plus fingerless gloves when its actually cold outside); and having the thermostat at maximum (and sometimes that doesn't do shit and I really imagine myself toppling over like a frozen sim!) Anyway today we had a window open all day and the thermostat was off and I didnt even have a bad time! (well its work its always technically a bad time, but like not temperature related)

Finally got my period after much concern and I plan on making my famous casserole sometime this week. This time, I am going to add bacon and broccoli to it.

My cramps are just awful. I think I will go sleep off the pain. Besides, I am wiped out.

Now I need a recipe!
https://modthesims.info/showthread....0&goto=lastpost

Although I quit my housekeeping job, I got paid in cash for my deal with dental hygiene last week. (Housekeeping got to the point of having me deal with docked pay. The stress of it all made me quit and think about setting up a shop to sell things through Shopify if I come up with a good enough product for HBC (Health, Beauty and Cosmetics for those not privy to retail.) and can sell it for a tidy sum. I seriously need a real paying job.)

I set my $14 weekly into a couple coupon organizers and in a box I lock up. From there, it gets locked in the lilac steamer trunk with the lock with a maximum timer limit of 1000 hours. I set it for 168 hours (7 days).

With that in mind, I should consider moving payday to a day other than Sunday if I want $1 billnotes.

@simsample

As for that casserole, it's extremely sticky when fresh that it could be used as a humane, non-damaging, environmentally-friendly alternative to spike strips.

EDIT: 2024/04/16

Talked with an old friend who noted I could easily talk about consulting\life coaching for those who need to get back to life's joys. In other words, he felt I should be a motivational speaker, like a TED Talk presenter.


I have quite a bit of experience from just being alive and surviving. I realized that when I read about how others in my generation who had it easy thrived while I was busy surviving and that's why some people have different development timelines.

Today was my first day holding down the fort alone in a long time.

I made my casserole as is as a test run, and I think I may need to figure out how to put the bacon and broccoli in without overloading the casserole dish I have in mind.

I slept most of today. I got my information from the office on the cortisol test. I have to stay up late tonight to conduct it.

In the spare time I had...I started off on self-employment. I am working on my life coaching venture. I am working on an idea an old friend said I was best at.

My mom returned home from work after 2 days back due to lower back issues.

I have been having sleep issues and feeling like crap. Like I got hit by a car and survived, but somehow the pain lingers in a "Everything hurts and I'm dying" feeling.

I am supposed to stay up tonight for a cortisol sample acquisition between 11pm and midnight.

Edit: 2024/4/20

Failed to stay awake. This is getting ridiculous to attempt staying up that late. I am at the age where I get cranky after 9PM.

I don't know what and where the weather stations here are reading, but my pc says it's 8°C and raining, Google says 11°C and raining. Yet I've just finished mowing my lawn in 20°C sunshine.
I'm not that surprised, because the weather predictions for this particular region are almost always innacurate, but wrong by 10 degrees and downpour? My goodness, that's a new one.

I think it depends on how they read the data they get, and your proximity to the weather station it's measuring for, and the area it's forecasting for (big area could mean less accurate for outskirt areas). You can have one area rainy and one area sunny if it's partly cloudy. As for temperature, I wouldn't think it's measured in direct sunlight (air temperature, at least), and it could also be average temps. You can get quite different weather forecasts using the same information, depending on how it's interpreted. It's also not certain they're sourcing weather data information from the same places.

Mom's phone died the other day, and she went all "But I can't check the weather!!!"
So I said to her, "Go look out the window, see if there's any rain, and then check the outdoor thermometers. We've got two " - Maybe not an hour-to-hour prediction, but at least it tells you how to dress, and whether it's a good idea to bring an umbrella.
She sometimes trusts those weather predictions a bit too much, and I do mean she'll trust the hour-by-hour ones... Sure, sometimes they're very accurate, but not every time. I tend to bring an umbrella if I'm unsure, because I've had her go "weather site says it's sunny all day but maybe rain in the evening," and then I get all drippy wet on my way home, several hours before it's supposed to rain...

Are you in the UK by any chance?

I remember one day, working as a peripatetic IT tech, I started at 8am on a bright spring day in my city. Then I travelled around 20 miles, into thick fog at a location near a river. Next stop before lunch was a location on the banks of a different river, it was pouring with rain and windy there. After lunch, crossed the big river on the motorway bridge in hail, and drove to a small village in the hills. It started to snow! By the time I'd finished that job there was just time to make one more stop back in the city where I'd started out that morning, and it was bright and sunny, and very warm once more. I'd travelled no more than 80 miles (130km) in a loop. Crazy microclimates!

Last week, I set a timer on a special padlock to open exactly 7 days later.

Today's the day the lock opens.

At around 3:00PM, the padlock will open.

I have a debt to pay.

Pretty sure the general rule is: always have gloves, a jumper, and a raincoat (cos umbreallas can't be trusted) if you're going out

Someone hung their coat next to mine and contaminated it with some nasty perfume and now its on my coat and neck and the smell won't go away
If i wipe the jacket with rubbing alcohol will the stink go away? news update sometime

Nope, East Frisia. But Crazy microclimates applies here too. It can be clear and dry here, but on the other side of the river it's pouring down.
Any weather warnings for the whole state/country don't apply here. We could watch a hurricane destroy the whole country, and all we'd get is some slightly stronger winds.

Weather predictions for Groningen are usually more accurate to whatever's happening here.

Rivers are crazy weatherborders. I had a similar long travel experience, we started a bit overcast, mild temperatures. Crossed one river and landed in a clear sky, humid and hot area, only to drive into insane downpour after crossing a different river.

Are you near the Wadden Sea? Looks beautiful!

I finally got sleep after spending my night awake at 11PM to Midnight to do a cortisol sample acquisition.

But I am still working on adjusting back to a normal sleep schedule. I am at that point in my 30 where any time beyond 9PM makes me cranky.

Yeah, some 20 min drive. But the bay I'm at mostly offers industrial views which does ruin the vibe, at least for me. It's way better to be on one of the islands and look back at the main land
Or if you're daring enough, take a guided walk to one of them during low tide.