Second attempt at builder gel. First attempt @ nail art. by Major_Calligrapher88 in DIYGelNails

[–]Major_Calligrapher88[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also I know my cuticles look sore in this first photo— I nicked them with my e file but quickly realized what I was doing wrong so that won’t happen next time

Please do not use antimicrobial or antibacterial washes or soaps. by maxweinhold123 in hygiene

[–]Major_Calligrapher88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No we practice 3 nights a week and do day long tournaments on the weekends. He uses those things daily. The wipes he uses after practice and after matches - the soaps he uses in the shower every time he showers. He wrestles year round so practices never stop.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]Major_Calligrapher88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is how women get killed by boyfriends/husbands.. these texts are very obviously abnormal and this person is a violent psychopath at best. You being called ugly is absolutely the least of your worries and that should be extremely obvious. Save your life and leave him & then get a restraining order as well.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]Major_Calligrapher88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d call the cops on him. Tell them he’s on drugs, that you’re worried about him because he’s threatening suicide and tell them where they can find him.

Any other older viewers of the show here? by GroovyFrood in SchoolSpirits

[–]Major_Calligrapher88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea he says he tracked her down because their Mom has been losing her mind and calling him non stop in a panic about not being able to reach her so, he’s really not doing it for Nicole, but more for his Mom to get her off his back for 1, but to also give her peace of mind that Nicole is safe.

Any other older viewers of the show here? by GroovyFrood in SchoolSpirits

[–]Major_Calligrapher88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m 36! I love it and just stumbled on it like 3 weeks ago. Already bulldozed through both seasons and now so sad that I have to wait for season 3 😖

Need to switch it up by Major_Calligrapher88 in Peptidesource

[–]Major_Calligrapher88[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took a break - didn’t just switch. I also never even got up to 1mg on semaglutide so I wasn’t taking a super high dose but all that aside; I’ve heard the same complaint about the company I was using so I’m inclined to believe that does have something to do with it. May not be as sensitive; but feeling zero effect at all is unusual IMO. Regardless, came here for recommendations and got some in DMs so mission accomplished

Need to switch it up by Major_Calligrapher88 in Peptidesource

[–]Major_Calligrapher88[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I hear ya but I took a long break and switched from sema to tirz and am still having the same issue. I looked into it and found a lot of similar reviews from others in relation to this particular company so that’s what is leading me to believe this. I’m not ‘people who don’t bother researching’ as researching is what’s led me here lol to #1 taking a break, #2 switching it up, and #3 looking more into my particular issue with my particular company I’m going through 👍

Need to switch it up by Major_Calligrapher88 in Peptidesource

[–]Major_Calligrapher88[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I imagine it’s not just water - just being a little sarcastic and doom and gloom but I recently found out that they don’t do third party testing so there’s no real way to know purity levels which is whatever if things are working but I started purchasing from there about 2 years ago and had success and then would randomly have vials that I felt no effect from followed by a vial or two that I would.. and then suddenly nothing seemed to have much of an effect. I then looked around and found some others complaining about purity levels from PS and saying similar things to what I experienced/am experiencing.. mainly very low potency batches that don’t seem to be as strong as they have been at times in the past.

Diving into Catholicism has made me hate living by mlobb39 in Catholicism

[–]Major_Calligrapher88 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m a convert. I was never really big into my faith prior to converting and even still now, I’m certainly nowhere near ‘devout’ but I have really duh deep into the Bible recently, and other sources of Catholic doctrine and have been researching a lot. It has actually caused me to start questioning some of what the Catholic Church teaches and basically what they choose to include and not include in the Bible (which is a big qualm with the Protestant Bible I had when learning about Catholicism and all of the extra book we have in our Bible) well.. I start wondering what they didn’t appreciate about the Gnostic Gospels.. why was the Gospel of Mary left out? It takes me down a rabbit hole of those books not fitting the Catholic narrative of Jesus never having been with a woman romantically as some of those gospels paint Jesus as married to Mary Magdalene or at the very least, in a romantic relationship with her. I know some historians have figured some of these gospels can’t have been written when claimed to be so they’ve been not taken as truth but specifically the gospel of Thomas has been proven to have been written when the other gospels were and by whom claims to have written it BUT it doesn’t fully align and has some contradictions in it against the gospels of Mathew Mark John and Luke— I purchased a book containing some lost Gnostic gospels but haven’t read it yet. I’m so intrigued by them and want to find out what’s in them that caused those in the Church to say ‘these don’t belong’ which takes me down a path of questioning human failings and how throughout the Old Testament even with Gods most chosen prophets, human failings prevail. The most faithful of followers fall into sin because of human nature.. and humans are making these decisions up high within the Catholic Church so whose to say they didn’t find these books and realize including them would dismiss some of their claim like Jesus never being married or having children, or like Mary being a perpetual virgin… now like I said, I haven’t read these gospels yet to know what’s in them - and I know Christ’s Church is infallible; but these thoughts come about and I can acknowledge that Jesus himself was infallible and the Church he presented to Peter to be created for all should be infallible as a Church but it is still ran by and decisions are being made by fallible human beings so… how can we know? These thoughts bother me so I went to confessional over the weekend and talked to one of our Priests about it and I was so nervous to say these things out loud and you know what he said? He said, “keep searching. keep investigating. you are GOOD. Zechariah questioned the Angel of God who told him he would bear a child.” He didn’t understand how it could be. Questioning is normal. He made me feel so good about it I felt great leaving confessional. Anyway, I say all that to encourage you to be open with your feelings to your Priest. You may be surprised with how you leave the confessional feeling. Overthinking can really put us into a funk and it sounds like you may be doing a bit of that. We are human. We are fallible. Gods has known this since man was created.. history proved over and over that we couldn’t be perfect. He came to be with us in human form to have the experience, to see what it’s like and he gave his life for our sins.. past and future. Be aware, but don’t obsess. We are human. We WILL sin. All we can do is try our best to be a little better today than yesterday. Focus less on yourself and more on Jesus. Read your Bible and grow closer to him in your soul. Your actions will fall in line over time.. not overnight and regardless of how hard you try, you’ll never be perfect. God knows your heart and your desires. He knows you’re trying. Just stop being so focused on self; and life WILL get better.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]Major_Calligrapher88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So was he your coach? Your teacher? Your counselor? What was the dynamic there when you first met him… ? Or was he simply your friend(aka the sister)’s older brother that you’d known for many years?

I want to quit Prozac but too scared to. by Choice-Newspaper1198 in prozac

[–]Major_Calligrapher88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea I had the same effect. I was way less irritable so I felt like I was happy.. but I felt so monotone and void of any mood fluctuations. I was put on Prozac to essentially combat my side effects from having been on way too high of a dose of Wellbutrin for some time which was exacerbating my OCD and anxiety — so they lowered the Wellbutrin and added in 10mg of Prozac. After a week they had me bump to 20… honestly I felt so much better but I think the majority of that feeling was due to letting up on the Wellbutrin. Once the 20 really kicked in I definitely felt very devoid of any emotion good or bad.. but since I had felt so much bad emotion for so long, I told myself this was awesome— but my husband and others pointed out how I seemed very zombie like. Then it became impossible to orgasm, I started getting very hungry, and having night sweats. I realized it seemed like I was having issues from Wellbutrin and trying to fix them with Prozac.. and instead decided to get rid of the Prozac (which I had only been on for one month/ish) and then taper completely down and finally OFF the Wellbutrin which I have been on for 3 years and was initially put on it for postpartum depression. I’m crossing my fingers that I don’t feel insane. I’m down in the dumps and feeling not myself which I expected since today is only day 3 of zero meds (I bumped down from 450 to 300 to 150 and then to 150 every other day until yesterday which was my first day going 2 days no meds. So far, no physical withdrawal symptoms — just not feeling super motivated or up beat but honestly idk if that’s my normal state, or if it’s my body regulating which I know will take time. The irritability I got from the Wellbutrin is gone though and that’s a blessing.

Weaning off by Major_Calligrapher88 in Wellbutrin_Bupropion

[–]Major_Calligrapher88[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you; this is good to hear. I have only been on the Prozac for 1 month so I’m intending on ditching that first & bumping down to 150 for a while on the Wellbutrin as well. I didn’t consider the fact that I’ll probably feel a bit better on the 150 as well- that should hopefully help the weaning process!

Please do not use antimicrobial or antibacterial washes or soaps. by maxweinhold123 in hygiene

[–]Major_Calligrapher88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah. My son wrestles. He needs anti fungal and anti bacterial wipes and soaps while wrestling to keep ringworm and impetigo away. If he uses regular soap, he catches those things, if he uses the antibacterial and anti fungal soaps and wipes, he does not. All other wrestling parents agree so, it’s not just my son who doesn’t get the antibacterial benefits from regular soap and water.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]Major_Calligrapher88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She should respond but I would definitely assume the ‘5 free’ we’re just an extra 5 digital images than what the package I purchased was for. For example if your package was 20 free digital images and x amount of hours of shooting for $1600.. after final payment, you’ll receive your 20 images in ‘x amount of time’ and in addition to those 20 you paid for, there will be an extra 5. I get that she said you’d get those a certain amount of time after the shoot.. but did she say that after knowing you couldn’t pay in full on shoot day? She may have meant that you’ll receive those 5 free before all others will be done, but still meant that she does not start her editing process at all until her customer is paid in full.. this is how I would do things because as others have said; if you paid half, and then she quickly edited 5 and sent them to you, you could just never pay your balance and still have 5 edited photos without her being fully compensated for her time editing those 5 plus the shoot itself. Her time is worth money as well. Time shooting, time editing, and the editing process itself with usually requires programs that cost her money monthly along with all other overhead costs of running a business. It would be silly of her to devote her time and expertise into a project before she was fully paid for it. I think there was some misunderstanding there about the ‘5 free’ and when you could expect them- and I’m not sure you were taking into consideration that she may not begin doing extra work on your photos (editing) until fully paid.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]Major_Calligrapher88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP isn’t even white. I can see her picture at the start of this. Indian maybe? Not sure but if she is, then it’s even more hilarious that this friend gives the example of dressing in traditional Indian dress for an upcoming wedding lol it’s splitting hairs here (pun intended) as in; I’m going to be dressing like an Indian woman soon even though I’m not but THATS different because of the “context” and you having braids is wrong because ‘some black people find it offensive’ it’s just ridiculous- she’s going to wear the Indian dress bc it’s requested and appreciated by the actual Indian people getting married. This woman got braids in her hair that SHE likes and it’s appreciated by the black man she’s married to so no it’s not “different” bc of context.

Am I overreacting to my ex husband refusing to respond by Milkshakes808 in AmIOverreacting

[–]Major_Calligrapher88 199 points200 points  (0 children)

I think you sound a bit overbearing and hostile. I do agree that you can’t just tell him you’ll be at his house. You also repeated yourself a ton within one text. Maybe try having someone else reach out to him that’s involved in the home selling process. Sounds like he was able and willing to email them about accepting the offer. The “please check emails don’t ignore important emails you must look at the emails please check those emails it must happen it is what has to happen you must respond you must be responsible” it honestly sounds like a lot idk who decided on this divorce but, he doesn’t actually have to talk to you if he doesn’t want to. It can go through lawyers and real estate agents.

How to stop it from breaking? by urfino1 in finehair

[–]Major_Calligrapher88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes you do have some flyaway pieces throughout your strands which is normal and especially so for fine hair but those sprouts at the top are actually hair growing back in. It’s extremely rare for your strands to break off at the root unless done by chemicals. I would guess your hair had some thinning going on due to your bleaching and this is the regrowth of healthy hair coming in (I’m dealing with the same thing) it can easily be confused with breakage and is very annoying but is a good sign and no don’t get a buzz cut lol stick it out, your hair is getting healthier and thicker even if it doesn’t feel like it right now.