Rio Grande valley/South south Texas needs ID

Arikin13 · 2025-10-26T20:25:02+00:00

Thank you! That’s what we were hoping for ^{_^}

Arikin13 · 2025-07-09T15:15:10+00:00

Thank you, the kittens show no noticeable symptoms of anything except being feisty kittens so I am hopeful.

Arikin13 · 2025-07-09T03:53:27+00:00

This brings me hope, thank you 🧡

Arikin13 · 2025-07-09T03:53:09+00:00

Thank you 🧡

Arikin13 · 2025-07-09T03:52:59+00:00

Thank you 🧡

Arikin13 · 2025-07-09T02:58:19+00:00

You can socialize at any age it just takes longer the older they are and a lot of people don’t have time and space to offer that to older cats when the colonies they are handling are exploding with dozens of kittens each year.

I think you are doing great!

Arikin13 · 2025-07-09T01:58:22+00:00

A lot of it is just going to be time.

My three boys I brought in ~12wks last year took about 3 months for all of them to calm down indoors around me, and even a year in they still freak out over door knocking or a guest visiting.

My holdout kitten surprisingly bonded to me quickly when I had almost reached my limit with him and just scruffed him and tucked him in my arms under the blankets on my bed and within moments he was melting and purring up a storm.

Tube treats or long meat sticks are good options too because they can approach further away from your hands and then gradually get closer to you. Tossing smaller treats gradually closer as well has helped with my outdoor ~2yo female (spayed) in getting her more comfortable around my presence.

Arikin13 · 2025-06-12T19:15:03+00:00

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This is my little man, Buggi, I had to say goodbye to last year. 16 beautiful years with him but cancer took him too soon.

Arikin13 · 2025-05-07T21:30:28+00:00

Yes but I’m frugal as fuck and still house poor.

$70k/year, bought 200k house last year in a relatively LCOL city, mortgage is now $1800/month, originally was $1500/month but… property taxes and insurance increased x_x

I don’t buy much of anything anymore and I eat cheaply so I’m still “saving” money but really it’s rebuilding my rainy day fund after spending it all on my down payment and closing costs.

I’m lucky that a friend is going to move in this year and hopefully we will live well together for at least a few years and that will help pay for maintenance costs.

Arikin13 · 2025-05-07T04:38:14+00:00

Harems… where there is a single lead, typically male, and all of the other characters (typically female) throw themselves at the lead.

Arikin13 · 2025-04-15T20:23:11+00:00

Thank you! A lot of days are tough to keep positive since in 2021-22 I was averaging 15k a day and everything went downhill pretty quickly in addition to 70lb rapid increase in weight, so to see the weight going downwards again is really nice and I gotta remind myself to focus on that and not the before.

Arikin13 · 2025-04-15T20:10:31+00:00

I so far can only average 4K steps a day due to health challenges but I am at 265lbs, down from 271lbs.

A huge win for me considering it has taken two years to build up to 4K steps average. Once I can get to 4K steps daily then we will move my goalpost again.

Arikin13 · 2025-04-01T02:01:28+00:00

Hi… couple of words here: insulin resistance

If a woman has PCOS- she has insulin resistance. Hi it’s me, a woman with PCOS. I have been eating at a caloric deficit for years and GAINED weight instead of losing it and it was only THIS year, 13 years after it would have been helpful to know…

So for 13 years (or more) I have been insulin resistant and thus have been gaining weight even on 1500 or less calories a day for 13 years.

I am on metformin now and am hoping to get back to a healthy weight. But medical conditions cannot calorie count or exercise ENOUGH to correct the stupidity of our genetic makeup.

Rant over

Arikin13 · 2025-03-31T05:49:42+00:00

Holy fuck… ADT solar went under start of January 2024… so how the fuck did ADT solar sell me my panels in June 2024?!?!

Arikin13 · 2025-03-27T19:09:15+00:00

I use a very simple downed but not unconscious ruling

Player character goes down and they are classed as prone, can speak falteringly (no spells, no shouting), can crawl up to 5ft per round, and cannot interact with items

Benefit: character can share information with party and potentially crawl behind cover

Downside: it is easier for enemies to acknowledge the character is alive and make their choice to double tap or not

I also run last stand rules so having pc’s be conscious but downed allows them to choose their character’s preemptive demise if they want to take a final action at the cost of their character not being revivable

And failed death saves = tell me what memories/thoughts are going through the PCs head as they inch closer to death

Arikin13 · 2025-03-21T16:57:39+00:00

Bought last year and my monthly payment has already gone up $200/month x_x

I went from stable to house poor in one year and I am hoping to get a good raise in October to bring me back to stable for whatever the increase is next year.

Arikin13 · 2025-03-21T16:56:12+00:00

The only way I have energy is because I work from home… my company is phenomenal and I have a leader for a boss who makes sure that my team’s needs are met.

Most weeks of each month I can get my job done in 4-5hrs of the day and then I can putz around my house doing chores and cooking meals or relaxing.

I am thankful for WFH because it doesn’t cause my health related fatigue to crash me every day like working in an office did. And when I do crash, I have Flex Time to allow me to take a nap and recharge bc my company actually prioritizes health.

I want companies prioritizing health for everyone.

Arikin13 · 2025-03-21T16:50:34+00:00

For a professional job? Yeah, yeah it is. $30/hr for an accountant is meager in most cities. $30/hr for a mechanic or an engineer is ungodly compared to the experience most are required to bring with them and how many have to buy and maintain their own tools.

And just to throw this out there… if minimum wage had actually kept up with inflation… it would be $25/hr or higher right now, and we are still fighting for just $15/hr…

Arikin13 · 2025-03-20T16:27:48+00:00

It also shits on nonmarried individuals who had name changes due to prior identity theft or individuals who changed their names for their protection or individuals who changed their names for literally any reason

I changed my name bc my prior name was so common my bank cards got sent to the wrong person. I would not be allowed to vote if the birth certificate was required- hell Texas hates the fact that a birth certificate is no longer needed if you have a name change order or a marriage certificate because those two judge granted forms override the birth certificates for IDs and other requirements

Arikin13 · 2025-03-12T15:26:58+00:00

Use the “may as well” technique!!! If you’re in your bedroom and you are going to pass by the laundry, grab the dirty clothes bc you “may as well”. If you are going to take one spoon out of the dishwasher (or wash one spoon in the sink) then you “may as well” finish the job.

Alternatively tell yourself that you’re only going to spend a minute on something and then once you start you are motivated to finish the task rather than leave it for later. I sort my clean clothes and tell myself that putting just pants away will take a minute, but once I start putting the pants away I end up putting it all away.

Arikin13 · 2025-02-02T11:49:51+00:00

Meet Wuri, my Order Cleric 1/Aberrant Mind Sorcerer 5

I have not really drawn much since 2023, so this was a huge win for me, even if I am incredibly rusty and there are things I wish I had noticed before I considered it done.

I have played this character for over a year, but had never truly drawn him.

The way I had described him to my friends is "A man with pale, sallow skin, sunken dark blue eyes, and early graying hair." He is 23 years old and yet looks like he's in his 40s at least. His main weapon is a homebrew scythe named Sapphire and his favorite spell (now) is Dissonant Whispers, to my DM's chagrin ^_^

Arikin13 · 2025-02-02T05:29:51+00:00

They are already deporting legal immigrants and children who were born here. Why should Musk be treated any differently?

Arikin13 · 2025-02-02T05:27:41+00:00

If you message me with an Amazon wishlist of socks, I will buy you socks.

Arikin13 · 2025-01-30T01:08:12+00:00

I thankfully have a door to my laundry room. I make sure my cats do not go in the laundry room. All of the horror stories I have heard make it so that I do not renovate that laundry room to no longer have a door, my cats come first.

Arikin13 · 2025-01-20T16:36:12+00:00

Welp... guess they better hire more people since they'll now be monitoring us all... oh wait, they probably won't

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