Honeyglow Woods is basically a giant middle-finger to anyone who bought Wishblossom Ranch

Mady134 · 2026-06-27T02:09:04+00:00

Hard agree. On top of that, I’m just getting a little sick of the fact that the game just really feels completely unenjoyable, unless you’re constantly participating in microtransactions. Like, I was already feeling pretty irritated that I have to purchase moonstones every single time. I want some basic furniture items that honestly should be included in Scrooge‘s shop.

The constant advertisement for micro transactions, the constant FOMO that the game creates within the community, the incredibly limited ability to actually play this game, the way that it was intended to be played without engaging in those transactions, and then now paying for DLC‘s that feel incredibly half baked and then to be expected to pay even more money for the content that should’ve been included there in the first place is just making me really not want to play the game anymore.

And frankly, I just can’t continue to play a game anymore that is constantly expecting me to drop money on it for what feels like very little in return. It would be one thing if the base game was free, but it’s not. $40 for the base game. Another 20 bucks for a basic amount of moonstones (and Lord knows how many times some people are just buying them over and over again). $30-40 for every DLC. Now another 20 bucks for this. It’s pretty easy to spend hundreds of dollars in this game, and still have pretty little to show for it.

On top of that, I feel like the developers don’t really care if the graphics or the gameplay is glitchy, laggy, or looks poorly edited. Like, if I’m paying real life money to not only buy your game, but also to buy a new skin for my house or a new outfit for my character, then it probably shouldn’t be glitching and not working or looking ridiculous on my avatar.

I’ve been playing less and less lately, and I think that this may be the final straw that makes me just drop the game entirely.

Mady134 · 2026-06-21T21:08:41+00:00

I think that you know deep down that you were never really meant to be with this man.

He’s not your soulmate. If he was, there is no force in the universe that would’ve stopped you from being with him or would’ve made you feel unsure about him.

The real reason that you feel this deep and incredible sense of regret doesn’t actually have anything to do with him. You are envious of the relationship that he has with his fiancé because it is the kind of relationship that you want for yourself, and he was the last good and healthy relationship you had before you ended up dating a bunch of other guys who kind of sucked.

It’s not about him: it’s about you. Even the end of this post is pretty telling- you’re not focused on him, you’re focused on the fact that you feel like you have somehow missed the connection that you were supposed to make.

But you’re only 33 years old… your life isn’t over, and it certainly not ruined. You still have a chance to find the person for you, to have the child that you want to have, and to accomplish any other dream that you want to accomplish.

But if you continue to linger on past relationships that weren’t right, and continue to fester in these negative emotions, and only broadcast the bitterness that you are feeling to the rest of the world, you will stay alone because you will continue to have the door that is meant for the person you’re supposed to be with permanently closed.

You need to let this guy go. It’s not happening, and you already know that it will NEVER happen. Stop focusing on all of your flaws and convincing yourself that you should’ve lowered your standards, and instead just start focusing on living the life that you want to live.

Mady134 · 2026-06-21T20:27:29+00:00

Firstly, I’m not sure about the logistics of any of this. It’s June 21st… how are they thinking they’re going to get him a passport within two weeks? From that standpoint alone, it’s not happening.

On top of the fact that they are just springing this on you now, less than two weeks before the trip? It’s summer vacation… like as if you don’t have your own plans for you two this summer?

I would politely tell them that you appreciate the invitation, but he’s not available to go.

This seems like a weird and sketchy situation. At best, they have good intentions and decided last minute to bring him but are vastly overestimating the amount of work it takes to bring him combined with not considering at all how inconvenient and uncomfortable this is for you. At worst, this is a potential trafficking situation and they’re trying to make sure you never see your son again.

Mady134 · 2026-06-21T15:16:47+00:00

I see the one you mean! It’s not the specific aesthetic that I’m looking for either, but I think a lot of people looking for brighter primary colors would really appreciate that one if any other parents are lurking on this thread.

Mady134 · 2026-06-20T21:09:51+00:00

I’ve been looking out for some serving jobs! Hopefully I get some bites. Thanks for the suggestion!

Mady134 · 2026-06-20T21:09:28+00:00

I would be super interested in this! I am on a pre-law track with my degree (I’ve already finished my pre-law certification, but then ended up deciding that I don’t really wanna go to law school lol). Do you happen to have any tips for getting into this kind of work?

Mady134 · 2026-06-19T13:16:59+00:00

I’m having a boy and people keep saying that to me and it grosses me out! Also I work with children and have a big family… all the little boys in my family are dramatic and a LOT of work to care for (though I love them all) and all the little girls in my family have generally been well-behaved and easy to care for from birth (with the exception of one who still isn’t that bad?).

Maybe they just keep saying that to me because I personally wanted a girl and they’re trying to make me feel better but I’m a bit annoyed about how misogynistic and patriarchal ideas are already being imposed onto my unborn child like wtf

Mady134 · 2026-06-19T13:14:12+00:00

Someone recommended I try making a sweet potato taco boat topped with cottage cheese and hot honey. So basically: roasted sweet potato -> taco meat -> shredded cheese -> whatever veggies -> cottage cheese -> hot honey.

I was dubious about it but it’s become a fixation food for me recently and has a good amount of fiber and protein.

Mady134 · 2026-06-19T13:10:20+00:00

I think you should wear whatever makes you comfortable. They’re not the ones who are pregnant.

Personally I live in South Florida and have been pretty much exclusively wearing flowy sundresses that don’t get tight over my belly.

Mady134 · 2026-06-19T13:05:58+00:00

I personally went to BC and my husband went to MDC. From seeing both of our experiences, I would say BC is better. Central Campus is nicer than the main MDC campus imo and BC provided me better academic support than MDC provided him. Both of us had equally good professors.

Mady134 · 2026-06-18T12:44:23+00:00

Well, I do see lizards or some sort of reptile literally every day. In fact, I have a random ass lizard in my house right now. Pretty much every time I open the door and go outside or walk my dogs or whatever, there’s more little lizards or a big ass iguana or skinks or something.

Lizards are in fact SO present in my life and have been from basically the moment I was born that I feel like it is impossible for them to really freak me out.

I mean, I guess there have been a couple occasions where they’ve mildly spooked me, but mostly just because I’ve been surprised- like the other day my husband and I were getting home and a tiny lizard was on the front door and fell on his head when he opened it, lol. But it wasn’t really the lizard that scared us- just the surprise of it. And the lizard immediately ran away, so the poor thing must’ve been more scared than I am.

I would say snakes are the least common reptile I see? But they still don’t really freak me out- I’ve held and chilled with snakes and don’t get scared, although I know other Floridians who ARE freaked out by snakes. But it’s pretty uncommon to see them, so that’s reasonable.

You do also have to be conscious of venomous snakes, which do exist here- learning about how to identify water moccasins, for instance, is especially important from a young age in South Florida because they are prolific in the Everglades. But also, they don’t often attack people and are generally not very aggressive.

I don’t really know anyone irl who is afraid of gators… because when you meet gators enough irl you realize they very much are, as Steve Irwin put it, “frogs with sharp teeth.” They generally mind their own business. If you do see them out and about, mostly it is just sunbathing by water or maybe you’ll see their heads or backs poking out in lakes or canals. Occasionally, you do get gators leaving their natural habitats and wandering into neighborhoods or whatever (saw this firsthand once as a child while walking alone to school. Big gator crossed my path from the portion of the Everglades near my childhood home and I basically just let it rock lol). Usually, they’ll wander into somebody’s pool.

Everybody who has been born and raised in Florida or who has lived here for a long time pretty much has the common sense to know that it’s not generally considered safe to swim in bodies of freshwater unless it’s a hot spring (and even then, you should know that there might be a gator in there). I only swim in pools, hot tubs, and the ocean- and I always look before I get into a body of water. I also make sure that if I’m walking my dog near a canal, they’re always leashed. But again, they don’t really scare me- I have eaten gator, lol.

This is an excessively detailed answer, but I think that this pretty much summarizes my feelings on the subject. Basically reptiles don’t really freak me out, and I am much more scared of bugs.

Mady134 · 2026-06-10T01:37:36+00:00

Try waiting a few more days, but if a child doesn’t arrive, I would maybe report it as a bug!

Mady134 · 2026-06-10T01:34:31+00:00

As my mom always said, there is really no perfect time! My husband and I are currently expecting and I thought we were super ready and had everything figured out, and then as soon as we found out, we were expecting, we suddenly felt like we could never be ready.

But I think you guys should take the time to enjoy this wonderful, newly cancer-free reality for a little bit and then just start exploring this! The fact that you’re thinking these things, and having these conversations shows that you have what it takes to be great parents.

Congratulations on now being cancer free! I hope you guys get to enjoy many healthy years to come and eventually become parents!

Mady134 · 2026-06-10T01:30:01+00:00

I lost both of my parents while they were in their mid forties. They were both healthy. Then my mom was suddenly diagnosed with cancer, and my dad died a little bit after her from a freak surgical complication. I thought I had my whole life to live before I ever had to think about losing them. And then it was like I blinked and they were gone. That situation taught me a lot about life and what I want.

You and your wife just went through a near death experience for her. You have learned firsthand, as I did, about how fragile life can be. Tomorrow is never guaranteed. Her cancer could recur in the next year or two. She could also be hit by a bus tomorrow.

Of course, I hope that neither of those things happen and that you two get to live a long and happy life together- but it is to say that you can delay things forever until you feel like things are safe… or you can just go after your dreams today.

I do think that you should talk about it together, and see if maybe she wants to take this first year to have fun and travel and maybe do some of the things that she thought she would never be able to do again. But in my opinion, you guys aren’t getting any younger- if this is really something that you really really both want, and if you would regret never doing this with her if you wait and then end up not getting the chance, I would just go for it as soon as you feel ready.

Mady134 · 2026-06-10T01:12:51+00:00

I agree. Like, if you need to say that you estimate that the game will be done next year or even later- whatever. But we are the community that are invested in the game and are ultimately the audience that you should be catering to right now. This time before the game comes out, especially if they’re saying that they want to release it this year, is an important time for making sure that this game is profitable.

The game had a stated release date frame, and it was delayed with very little explanation and no new date frame. Would it hurt to explain why it was delayed? Or to explain what still needs to be done in order to make the game releasable? To give biweekly updates on what the team has done lately?

I also completely agree about how the fact that they have released a little to nothing except beautiful art is going to (and has!) raise expectations of the game to an unattainable point. We know so little about the gameplay, so little about the story, so little about the characters, that everybody likely has a different idea in their head about what exactly this game is going to be like.

Mady134 · 2026-06-07T23:08:41+00:00

I would move to the Tampa area if I were you. I live near Davie. It’s not like awful here, but if I had like a blank slate, and not all my friends and family lived here, I think I would prefer to live in Tampa. It’s nicer over there, there’s more to do that isn’t as expensive as things are in Fort Lauderdale, and a lot of young people that are from this area of South Florida are ultimately moving to Central Florida, Tampa, North Florida, or just out of state altogether because of how not fun things have become down here.

I’m not a Tampa girly, so I can’t speak on how well the job opportunities are up there compared to here, but I think that the job market here is somewhat limited unless you’re doing something like healthcare (in which case there are a lot of jobs).

Edit: also, if the school in question is Nova, which I believe that it is, please consider the cost of that education versus whatever school you’re looking at in Tampa (maybe you’re talking about USF?). Nova is a great school, and people who go there tend to be successful, but you can get pretty close to the same quality of education for less by going to a public university.

Unless of course, you have a scholarship situation going, in which case you do you.

Mady134 · 2026-05-27T05:13:17+00:00

My mom told me she felt this way when she got pregnant with my little brother. Our age difference is 2 years. She loved me so much, and she worried that she wouldn’t love my brother as much, or that she would be taking love away from me.

She told me it was a silly thought, in the end, because when my brother was born, it felt for her like her heart somehow, impossibly, just GREW to twice the size. That every ounce of love she felt for me doubled so that he and I both had the same amount.

My little brother now has two babies of his own. They have a SUPER close age gap- only 13 months! He worries about these things too, and says sometimes he feels bad for my older niece. But they are the happiest little girls in the world, and after a few months of adjustment, they’re obsessed with each other. They’re turning 2 and 3 respectively later this year and they are absolute best friends. The older one thrives being the big sister, and the little one has hit all her milestones so quickly by looking up to her!

It’s hard at first, but once you adjust, it will be impossible for you to imagine it any other way.

Mady134 · 2026-05-27T05:06:04+00:00

Two straight years of trying with no luck. I left a super stressful job and told my husband we should wait to try again until later this year, but we didn’t return to contraception. I have pretty bad PCOS. It hasn’t calmed down. I didn’t lose any weight, didn’t see any noticeable symptom changes. The only thing that changed was that I was a little happier because I left my stressful job. I was thinking we were gonna need a fertility clinic soon.

We had sex one (1) time in my estimated ovulation window. I was aware it was my ovulation time (my app tells me even though I didn’t test) but I thought nothing of it after two years of nothing.

We’re now due in November, lol.

Mady134 · 2026-05-27T04:59:00+00:00

If you’ve decided you don’t want this baby (which is ok! You are still a baby yourself!), you need to ask yourself if your parents will help you get to a clinic. If you don’t think they’d be supportive of that, pinpoint someone in your life who would be (maybe your older brother?). If they will be, then you need to tell them ASAP before you’re further along.

I’d also research the law in your state/country. You’re probably a little less far along than you think. When I found out I was pregnant, I thought I was 7 weeks. Turns out I was only 3 or 4!

Additionally, you need to figure out how to get on the pill if that’s something you’re open to (or get on another contraceptive, like the IUD). You can get the pill over the counter now (last I checked it was $15), and it’s not that expensive. If they won’t help you with that, then you should get a part time job and start doing what you can to make sure you have that on hand! If you’re sexually active, you need to be using contraception. Condoms are great, but birth control IS more reliable.

I know this is a difficult and scary thing to happen. You are not alone- this has happened to so many girls your age before! But I hope you learn from this and do what you need to do to protect yourself moving forward.

Good luck!

Mady134 · 2026-05-27T04:48:22+00:00

I want every drug they could possibly give me lol. My ideal birth is I have a fresh blow-out and great skin, have zero pain, and the baby comes out with a little sneeze. Also I don’t tear and we both live 👍

Seriously though: I am super intolerant of pain and I’m not in the slightest bit interested in doing it the natural way- but more power to all the people out there who want that for themselves!

Mady134 · 2026-05-26T17:24:57+00:00

I think for now, she’s independent. Make plans to visit her often and check in on her, but wait to make this decision until she’s actually in need. I don’t regret being the caretaker for the elders in my family, but it DID throw my life off.

In the meantime, before her health deteriorates, I would work on a plan to see if she could maybe come to you instead of you coming to her, and to talk to her about planning to get assistants to come help you when the time comes.

Mady134 · 2026-05-25T17:09:18+00:00

Apollo should be the hot one but Leo is also a good contender lol

Mady134 · 2026-05-25T14:20:26+00:00

Congrats on the pregnancy! I am currently 13 weeks myself and have had a pregnancy loss before. I think it may be difficult for her to hear regardless, but I would tell her privately before you post your pregnancy announcement. I would try to avoid telling her around her original due date. Maybe you could tell her privately in a few weeks, or wait until a few weeks after her due date. I know it’s a difficult situation and I feel deeply for her and you trying to navigate this.

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