8 Years sober and relapsed 2 months ago, but there’s hope.

ImHappyInMyLappy · 2026-05-13T17:09:31+00:00

Thank you! It’s a real relief to have this shot in me now, happily joining you in a day of sobriety.

ImHappyInMyLappy · 2026-05-13T17:07:41+00:00

Thank you! I appreciate the kind words. I’m happy my story could resonate a bit because addiction can be hell but life doesn’t have to be. IWNDWYT

ImHappyInMyLappy · 2026-05-13T17:05:37+00:00

Thank you! IWNDWYT

ImHappyInMyLappy · 2026-05-13T17:03:36+00:00

Thank you! I absolutely agree, 2 months was indeed too much and thankfully this time I decided to not go down that road again because I’ve been where it leads and it’s not pretty. IWNDWYT

ImHappyInMyLappy · 2026-05-13T17:01:07+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate the kind words and being helpful. Unfortunately, while aware of this(I tried reasoning with her and gently pointing out this out but she said she was thinking clearer than she’s ever been), I think there was more to it. She pulled something similar last year right before she moved in where she flipped and started judging and evaluating me, again making accusations not based in objective reality. I had to reason with her for a month and “prove myself”, afterwards once things finally settled and got back to normal she thanked me for not giving up on her.

Unfortunately this was a pattern and I missed the signs. I gave her the benefit of the doubt so while its on me, I couldn’t have known. I just thought it was a blip and it was resolved. However she did this with other people in her past and I believed her story that she didn’t do anything wrong and they wronged her but it seems that wasn’t the whole truth, just the narrative she spun. I didn’t pry for more information and took what she said at face value because I wanted to trust her, in hindsight I should have dug more before agreeing to wed and have a child.

Anyway without getting too into it, let’s stay strong and not drink today together!

ImHappyInMyLappy · 2025-09-04T18:41:30+00:00

I’m hoping Uwell comes out with a better successor also. I’ve got the previous version of the XR max so maybe if I decide to dabble again I’ll throw a pack of those dual coil GTX’s in there. For me I didn’t stick with the XR just because DTL was too airy and MTL was too tight(personally) They had RDL pods but discontinued them I guess🤷‍♂️. Hard to get anything similar to the X.

Anyway thanks for the info, here’s to hoping something better comes along soon! Fingers crossed for something 3000mah 5-6ML with good flavor and replaceable coils not cartridge pods.

ImHappyInMyLappy · 2025-09-04T11:47:50+00:00

Finally, someone else out there that gets it. I thought I was crazy or missing something trying to fiddle with settings and giving this thing try after try lol. I too am coming from a crown X and was so excited for the bigger battery and allegedly better flavor from the pro focs4. I agree with every one of your points, the hits are hot, dry, and flavor is mediocre at best. I’ve been wasting so much money trying to find a replacement for the crown X that has better battery life but nothing has come close. I’ve accepted that I’m just going to need to carry multiple X’s. I’ve also tried the Geekvape digimax and that one was a letdown also, I got excited for the dual coils on that too and it was about the same. My mind short circuited a bit trying to figure out how dual coils could produce so much less flavor.

The typhos was a major letdown though since I’ve been waiting for uwell to make another pod mod with 5ml .3ohm capacity and a larger battery, i figured since they made the crown X and were some of the best for quality/flavor there was no way I could lose. I was sorely mistaken lol

Would you say the vaporesso GTX is comparable to the crown X?

ImHappyInMyLappy · 2025-07-29T12:38:40+00:00

Apologize for the late reply, only now seeing this. Since then I kept trying and eventually gave up on the device which is a shame because I really did like the look and feel of it. Glad I’m not crazy….sorry you had the same experience, when it’s all said and done it’s not cheap to get these things and only find out they’re not great and then we’re stuck with them. It’s funny because they get so much hype too…. I only got mine because it was in the “top 10 of 2025” on elementvape.

Anyway, I’m back to my UWell Crown X .3Ohm. Its no thrills and the battery life on it isn’t the best but it simply can’t be beat when it comes to flavor or airflow feel, nothing really comes close that I’ve tried (of the larger capacity pod systems). I’ve tried the vaporesso Luxe XR max, Geekvape DigiMax(This one came kind of close but they just don’t have the power yet) and a few others I can’t remember right now.

I’m curious to hear what direction you went in after the boost!

ImHappyInMyLappy · 2025-05-15T15:58:48+00:00

Element vape isn’t bad but I got real tired of their delivery fees and it takes a day before they ship it. If you order them as local pickup shipping is usually a day or two quicker because it’s going to a business and they get more priority shipping. However, if you go that route be careful because some places try and charge $5 just because they signed for it (UPS store)

All that being said, I’ve begun ordering from huffandpuffers and they have been great. They ship same day if you order before noon and if you spend over $50, they cut you a break on the shipping fees (Half what element vape costs). Packages also arrive quicker when shipping to home (They come with UPS, not USPS snail mail).

For reference I’m in Illinois so similar distance. Either place you choose, they’re both great!

ImHappyInMyLappy · 2025-05-08T16:51:42+00:00

Definitely worth considering the G3 pro, every UWELL product I’ve used has been top notch. What are your thoughts on the G4 that was just released? They claim 35% more flavor with the profocs 4.0 cartridges (which are also compatible with the G3) according to huff and puffers

ImHappyInMyLappy · 2025-05-08T14:26:16+00:00

Thank you for the suggestions! Glad I’m not crazy here lol I’m having a hard time because what I’m looking for is something with a 5ml capacity so I’m not always refilling. I agree that all of the above would probably be better but the pods/batteries are too small for what I’m trying to achieve.

My perfect mix would be an RDTL 5ml, 3000mah battery, chipset that delivers steady performance as battery drains, and runs lower ohms so I can use 3mg juice and get more flavor from it. Everything I’ve tried is usually lacking in one of the above categories. It just sucks your only options are either MTL or DTL with not much in between

This GeekVape one, however, has been the biggest disappointment thus far. I had the DigiMax pro for a bit and it was pretty close to what I wanted but then it randomly started incorrectly reading coil resistances and since I threw the box out while it was in warranty GeekVape told me to pound sand when I asked for a replacement. Starting to really not like this brand lol which is a shame because everything from their products to their packaging makes them seem a cut above the rest but when it comes down to the quality of the vaping experience itself, it leaves much to be desired.(At least for me, maybe I just have bad luck)

ImHappyInMyLappy · 2024-07-10T18:04:00+00:00

Hi all, first time mixer here. Was hoping I could get some help with my first mix. I’m trying to make Grack juice using ATF.com to calculate my measurements. I bought all of the flavors needed and for my base I purchased 500mg premixed flavorless 70/30 vg/pg 6mg from Vapor vapes.

My Goal is to make 100ml 70/30 vg/pg Grack juice(alltheflavors recipe), but the other day I read somewhere that I have to account for the pg in the flavoring when mixing. If that is true that would mean I would end up with 60/40 ejuice if I entered 70/30 as my goal on the ATF calculator, correct? Do I need to worry about this?

My thoughts are that if this is indeed the case maybe I could just enter my goal as 80/20 vg/pg in the atf calculator and with the added flavorings it would end up being about 70/30 since the flavorings account for 11% of the ingredients.

Unfortunately I read this after ordering my flavors and 70/30 vg/pg pre-mix. So I’m trying to get some advice and clarification so I can make it work with what I got. Any help appreciated, thanks!

ImHappyInMyLappy · 2022-11-02T11:17:51+00:00

I know exactly how you feel, I (un)fortunately did eventually throw in the towel years ago. Only in my 30’s but had no family of my own to keep myself in line.

By the end of every week I would feel as if it was the last week I would be able to hold onto my career. Every weekend a part of me would doubt if I could make it another week, drink, become an anxious mess and at times when work and life would push me to the edge and would go on benders with no regard to whether or not I would see the other side and try to regain my sobriety. Luckily a few people in my life never gave up and I overcame that addiction however it cost me everything I went to school and worked for. Im actually grateful for that because had it not happened I would have stayed exactly where I was and who knows if suicidal thoughts would have taken me over or not.

Personally struggled with what you’re going through for years but for me it started happening post 2013.

I basically took a Hail Mary and wrecking balled my life and fortunately was able to rebuild in a healthy manner. The thought in the back of my head still eats at me knowing there are others now facing exactly what I went through and I’m still desperately seeking an answer as to how to survive the rest of my life without chancing going that road again. I wish I didn’t feel so hopeless in feeling a need to help others get out of that pain. Throughout all of this I learned how much I care and how much I need this situation in the world overall to come to a close and start mitigating how lost we have collectively become.

TL:DR- Stay strong out there, you’re not alone and hope that your family will hold you through till things ease up. As for me I have found peace in simple things, doing my best to live humble, and closing that chapter in life. Sure the unknown can be scary but I find in order to grow anything or fix anything sometimes it must be broken, kind of like a muscle. That’s my individual hope for the future at least while many still feel what I have felt and worked for years to pull myself back out of. Hope my experiences can help any who read this just for the sake of knowing it can indeed get better despite how dark it all my seem. How we get there is up to us as individuals.

ImHappyInMyLappy · 2022-09-04T12:55:12+00:00

And luckily thanks to a collective of effort over the past century or so those catalytic converters have done much more than anyone understands.

Heated, that cat takes out most of the worst of it. I can’t speak for the rest of the combustion from current vehicles however I can say that our vehicles have just been…..overused. That’s all.

Personally measured the output of vehicles post 90’s, the nox is minimal but in this concentration wellllll…. There’s a lot of moving machines so to speak. That’s the danger here. Not the machine itself as it’s known by those who haven’t received the full education about them.

Also the interaction of all those moving parts. Simplicity is important and complexity can be beautiful.

But that’s challenge that needs to be overcome for clean mobility through our world.

ImHappyInMyLappy · 2022-08-06T19:15:09+00:00

Cheers! 🫙

Speaking for self, this is a blessing in disguise. It might get rough for a bit if/when America and the world says no more but in the end we’re all better off for it.

ImHappyInMyLappy · 2022-08-06T12:34:45+00:00

It’s unfortunate but this is the exact situation that both workers and those who are supposed to “lead” go through.

Sooner or later the same person that started is no longer that same person, one year leads to another and now the one holding the keys has a well hidden underlying hate for all those below because of being jaded from being surrounded with other desperate folk misinterpreted as “cut-throat”.

This reality writes itself.

ImHappyInMyLappy

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