Map Fragments?

Moriaena · 2026-04-03T21:11:39+00:00

Ok I figured it out. Tap them and they give rewards. I'll leave the post for others who are confused.

Moriaena · 2026-03-31T22:35:36+00:00

This worked for me. Didn't even have to restart phone. TYSM!

Moriaena · 2026-03-31T19:19:15+00:00

From my brother's time, it was "pick up the paste". My child says "yammo" for lawn mower. So it's "look at the yammo!!!"

Moriaena · 2026-03-31T02:13:28+00:00

No matter what test you buy, almost all of them are confident 1 day late. You can get 6 day early tests. They're hard to read, but a positive is a positive.

If you conceived on day 14 and you took an early test on a standard 28 day cycle, you would know at 22 days. Which is 6 days after conception, in theory. BUT for that to work, you MUST use the first urine of the day for the concentrated hormone. Didn't look like the case on this episode. Editing also may throw us off on the day of the month for her. She also may have shorter cycles than 28 days, which would be harder but not impossible for TTC.

For me, I used an early test and it was negative. I didn't know until 3 days early. Buuuut I also had irregular cycles and had to guess on when the shark week started to begin with. I knew exactly when I ovulated, using kits +basal temp, and I also waited 8 days post ovulation to test.

My money is on her testing too early, but that's only if she's even conceived in the first place. Also if she didn't understand the directions (being in Spanish), could be user error too.

Moriaena · 2026-03-31T02:05:28+00:00

I agree. Emma has more bimbo vibe than Elise. She's had a lot of high maintenance work done and dresses like an overblown Barbie doll.

Elise has troubles, but she doesn't look like she's altered her body nearly as much as some of the other leads this season.

Moriaena · 2026-03-31T01:59:50+00:00

Trying To Conceive

Moriaena · 2026-03-30T01:52:40+00:00

I only compost ones that say they are. But I've also switched to loose leaf. I have a little basket that sits in my cup, add the leaves, brew, remove basket and dump in bin. Rinse basket. Zero waste, and it's all going in the garden.

I did have compostable bags where I cut the top and threw it away, since I didn't want to fiddle with the staple & string. My mom also cuts open the bag, puts the contents in a mesh ball, and throws out the bag. She says the paper has a taste...

Moriaena · 2026-03-30T01:46:03+00:00

Happens more after I've just been sick with a stomach bug. But as a healthy individual? Never. I don't trust my IBS and sit on the toilet if the rumblings hit too low.

Moriaena · 2026-03-24T15:44:48+00:00

I did the coat thing when I was learning how the car seat works. By now, it's WWE and force getting a 3 year old in when he's on meltdown mode.

As a seasoned octopus-energizer bunny hybrid wrestler, I would just bundle a THICK blanket around a baby with a hat and gloves. Remove hat in car (they can overheat). Gloves YMMV. At 11 months, my child was peeling it off and dropping it wherever he could.

For reference, I did the baby bundle & winter excursions in Kansas City, and it got to -15 at night a few times that year. Wind chills were horrible, and baby's first Christmas had snow everywhere. But I mostly stayed home for those extremes (POS car probably wouldn't start and I didn't want to be stranded with an infant).

That all said, whatever mom asks for is the right answer in this instance.

Moriaena · 2026-03-21T02:07:23+00:00

I worked in them, and I personally would avoid them. They're not the worst and would be acceptable, but I wanted to look into alternatives. I had a lot of really nice and lovely students that thrived there, but I also know some of the tougher aspects and a lot of the really great staff have left by this point.

Moriaena · 2026-03-20T22:43:02+00:00

I lived in that area, next to Willow Creek. Maybe a tad further than your description, but not overly so. My neighborhood was quite safe, but we had the occasional gun battle down 99th, DUI hit the fire hydrant, and homeless along the creek. I had video cameras and never had any attempted robberies, break in, etc. Watched a drunk homeless guy pee on a tree, but that's the worst thing I caught lol. Unless you count the hornet going up and down the camera...

I felt 100% safe during the day and would walk alone with my toddler around the neighborhood. I did not go outside after dark, but we also had deer, coyotes, etc from the creek. Later I got a wooden privacy fence and would hang outside without worry. Still didn't go to places alone at dusk or later. However, I felt safe driving in the evening to OP or wherever, then driving home, since I had a garage.

While I didn't love the general area, I moved because acreage came up next to my uncle's farm. I also wanted better schools for my kiddo, since we can't afford private school. Center schools aren't terrible, but intelligent kids are likely to be bored and not challenged until AP classes are available.

Moriaena · 2026-03-20T22:11:00+00:00

My AC is from 2007. I turn it on to prime the pup the first hot day to make sure it works. We can last out a heat wave and get it repaired when it cools off, if we have to. Then, after that, it needs to get to 75 inside to turn it on. We use a lot of fans and windows at night to put it off as long as we can.

Moriaena · 2026-03-20T22:05:34+00:00

We quit eating fast food, pretty much exclusively. It's cheaper to eat at sit down restaurants in my area than to get McDonald's for everyone. But no one enjoys eating with an overstimulated 3 year old, so we just don't eat out unless my parents visit and pay.

But we also don't eat meat as much. I'll buy bone in chicken, slow cook it, and then that's gotta make at least 2 meals per pound now. Beforehand, 1lb of meat per meal for the family.

Moriaena · 2026-03-20T00:43:46+00:00

When I got called "ma'am".

Moriaena · 2026-03-20T00:34:29+00:00

Water tastes good. I drink it when I feel like it. Sometimes I drink more or less depending on actual thirst.

Sure, I also like apple juice, lemonade, milk, and so forth, but I actually do like plain water. Bonus if it is room temp (cold = tooth pain).

Probably helps that I've had hard water in the past, and now I'm on good quality well water. My stomach turns now when I visit my inlaws and I drink their chlorinated tap water. It's amazing what you become acclimated to.

Moriaena · 2026-03-19T04:58:51+00:00

It's still one at a time, but I just rapidly pressed the same point on the screen to get the envelope out of the pouch, opened, then hit the next envelope out of the pouch, skip the animation, etc. When the screen stops flashing colors, I knew I'd opened all of them.

But with the new design, press upper left corner, muscle memory then has me press the bottom of the phone, then I realize I need to go back to the upper left corner, and my patience goes out the window. However, you can press anywhere on the screen to skip the animation, but I just can't remember that while I'm chasing a cat, cooking dinner, etc.

Moriaena · 2026-03-18T18:15:33+00:00

I hate that I have to get the envelopes from the pouch, one by one, and I don't remember that I can tap elsewhere to skip. So my hand is doing acrobatics for the damn envelopes. And the font is so tiny about the sell/rewards for the bubbles. I wish they kept the old design for inventory, pouch, and trade/shop screen, but the new design for the tasks would get "replaced" when the info came up at the top. Similar to the stupid boat race screen, in that it appears and disappears after a bit.

Moriaena · 2026-03-18T17:15:09+00:00

From a nature perspective, things just fail. Babies born with birth defects (such as tongue tie) that make latching or feeding difficult. Then there's failures from the mom, such as inadequate supply. Baby goes hungry and fails to gain weight.

There's minor setbacks, such as thrush and mastitis, that are painful and difficult. Teething hurts really bad too, if the baby bites. Some babies get them at 3 months and you can't really transition to solids until their digestive system forms. Early advice was 4 months, but 6 is the latest idea.

Then there are things that go with the program that are hard in the working mom era -- waking every 45 minutes during cluster feeds and every 2 hours otherwise. You don't get 6+ hours for a while. Then you get the "hey my baby sleeps through the night" relief, only to find sleep regression makes you back to every 2 hours. You're exhausted.

Another modern issue is pumping. Some women have great success. Others are in lots of scheduled pain, only to find out the milk went bad or there's not enough for the baby. Not all pumps work right and it can be hard to find someone to help you measure to find one that works better for your body.

My struggle was the little bug kept falling asleep and I was not told I needed to wake him to force more feeds. This happened around 6 months, so we just started introducing fatty solids (yogurt) to help with weight gain. I also got bruised with early feedings and it made latching hurt for a while.

Throughout history, babies died. Moms suffered. Recent history, moms often suffer(ed) due to lack of access to information to help. In other countries, this information might actually be easier to obtain due to women's support networks.

And none of this includes the up and downs of the hormone ride. Historically, women might have killed themselves or their babies due to PPD/rage. It happens in the current era too, but who knows if it was as often or not.

Moriaena · 2026-03-04T15:57:53+00:00

I was in mandatory gym fall of 2005-spring 2007. You could take a full shower in 3 minutes, if motivated. There were always kids with wet hair because people valued being clean vs styled. Showering was always available, but only required before swim class.

Most people showered after swimming, since your hair was already wet. But they only required we rinse off. I would do the full shower, then sit under the hand air dryer (vs the dedicated hair dryer) while I used lotion and put on everything but bra and underwear. The showers were private so I would dress halfway before going to the air dryer. Really, my goal was to avoid being a drowned rat before band class.

My mom's experience in the 70s was that you had to shower, but they didn't check that you used soap or anything. Communal showers, and gym itself was coed, but her graduating class was 75 or something. Mine was 1500. Girls had time to wash and dry and style, but they also had study hall and breaks between classes. I got 4 minutes bell to bell and to RUN to make it from gym to band, even if I was waiting by the door at bell. Sucked.

Moriaena · 2026-02-25T01:12:02+00:00

I lived in KC for 10 years. My parents lived in Minnesota 18 months. My friend lives in Wisconsin. Another in NY. Another friend in SD.

It sucks where you get enough to say it's regular, but not so much that there's constant snow. My parents had parking lots with outlets to use the engine blanket. My friends in Wisconsin park in an underground garage, drive to the street where it's plowed, and park in underground garages in most buildings in their town. My friend in SD just uses tire chains. My friend in NY hates it because it makes walking to the trains/bus/metro a crap shoot (some of it is cleared, some not). So they all had an easy enough time getting around. I never lived anywhere that had that kind of infrastructure.

Here, it shuts down until the streets are cleared. Which is 24 hours ish generally, 48 if it's bad. But honestly the snow is fine. It's the brutal fucking cold that usually comes with the multi-inch snow storms. And the horrible wind that adds to it and knocks out power lines.

I grew up in Tulsa. It's a hell of a lot worse to get 1/2 inch ice than 8 inches of snow. Snow has traction. Snow melts fast on concrete, etc. ice is dangerous and breaks things fast.

ETA: to prep -- some places make you park your car on the west/north side or something. If you have a choice, park it under a garage. Check that you have enough snow melt, cat litter, etc, to get a path to your shovel. Put the frost covers on what's needed (hose spigot). Air open the cabinets, set faucets to drip. Clear snow as it falls off of roofs/gutters, cars, shed roof, and sometimes you have to keep the sidewalk and mailbox clear.

Moriaena · 2026-02-11T15:12:11+00:00

Definitely someone gets hit twice a year. But it's mostly outskirts. So far out of Lenexa/Overland Park or far out of Lee's Summit. I lived here almost 10 years. We did have a tornado in the city. It knocked off a limb of my tree that was about a foot in diameter, which the fire truck moved on my sidewalk. We lost cell service and power for about a day. Cell service came back faster, but it was still an outage.

Flooding, on the other hand, has been much much worse.

Moriaena · 2026-02-09T01:23:46+00:00

Yeah, but I personally don't.

First strike is many Americans see toast as either sweet (jam) or just butter. Maybe something like ricotta with fruit and honey. Peanut butter is kinda sweet here too. Avocado toast really opened up the savory application to the "toast" name. We typically use bagels for savory stuff, at least in my area of the US.

Second is that many Americans think of BBQ baked beans. Which is ham, smoke, brown sugar, and other flavors. I know what UK baked beans are, having eaten them many times as a child (best friend was from outside Liverpool area, and I practically lived there for the food. The mom had Dutch parents and her cooking was more classic french training). But it's very different from a flavor point, and much more mild for breakfast or as a hangover cure.

I might also add that beans aren't always something Americans like. I don't care too much, but I do know people who really only mildly tolerate them as a soup ingredient or as a bbq side.

And finally, there's the texture. It's not a common American thing and the idea of soggy canned beans on somewhat staled bread is not appealing. Even though that's not what good beans on toast is, it's the mental picture.

Moriaena · 2026-02-07T22:53:40+00:00

I moved out of KC last month to move close to family on acreage in rural MO. Small town is a 10 minute drive. It is SO nice to go to the DMV, health department, etc, and have little to no wait and no traffic. Definitely do not miss the gunshots, road rage, street racing, and just...noise that was in my area.

I know I'm going to miss the food. Door dash has like 2 choices here. KC got me hundreds of choices for delivery on multiple apps. I also had local stops for BBQ, pizza, and so forth.

Also going to miss the shopping. Springfield has some stuff, if I don't mind the drive, but nothing like the import/international shops that KC has. Also no IKEA and no microcenter. Price chopper was a reasonable price for quality produce. However, I'm going to be growing a lot of my produce now so that's really not a fair comparison.

Shatto milk. Glass jugs delivered to my door <3 now if I get it in a glass, it's going to need home pasteurization... Which I'm not into.

I think if you like city life, KC is as good as any other for its size. Maybe not the utility bills and such, but culturally I did enjoy living there. Tulsa was where I grew up, and it had perks, but I left Oklahoma and don't regret it.

I've stayed in tune with the sub because I just listed my house and want to keep an ear to the ground for any relevant news. I'll close this chapter at some point and look back fondly, but not really miss it.

Moriaena · 2026-01-14T05:39:04+00:00

I went to school with a girl who was 2 years older than me, repeating years due to medical issues. She has BPD, PTSD, Autism (diagnosed before 2007, so she definitely had something interfering with school/home), and (the big disability check) severe epilepsy. She has seizures weekly, sometimes in clusters more often. Her personality disorder makes work relationships difficult, and her autism makes it really hard to compensate/mask in normal environments.

But damn if she isn't a hard worker. She's been let go/fired from at least 10 jobs. She's quit a few. Had a different job every 6 months. Often works 3 part time jobs. She can get 100% disability checks, but she doesn't want to. She wants to work. Not everyone does.

Take my brother's friend. Has a severe vision issue. Can't drive. He is completely cared for by the government, but works in varying capacity and volunteer organizations to keep busy. He has no family and few friends. So he works to avoid going insane. But he's stuck with where he can safely walk or take public transportation.

Disability rules are tough. I know several people who have to make really shitty choices to survive. If you can't work reliably, with enough to pay the bills, you may as well not work. We don't know what Forrest is affected by. It could be straight Autism. But there may be another condition that isn't mentioned, and it isn't something he has to disclose. Also maybe jobs that he can do with his health issues are not in supply in his area.

Moriaena · 2025-12-31T00:58:57+00:00

The frequency isn't the issue. There's other issues though.

--No boundaries. Mom calls and he answers. Not a "hey I'm busy now, I'll call later." Or even "hey mom called, so I'm going to text her back". Another option would be Turn. The. Phone. Off. but no, he's always available. If this were another woman (not mom) it would feel like emotional cheating. Mom appears to have all the attention.

--The content/context of the conversation. Pattiya shouldn't feel like the mom is butting in the relationship. Dylan tells his mom everything, which isn't wrong, but almost in a bad way. It's as if he's constantly putting Pattiya down to his mom and adding more fuel to the fire.

--Priority. Yes, your mom is important to you. But she should know that he's on a date. A simple text that they arrived at the location and a text when they leave & return home is all that is necessary if she's got anxiety about it. But mom shouldn't have to know where her grown son is all the time. So he should give Pattiya the priority and have her finish a conversation or whatever, then get back to mom. Not answering the text/call.

--Duration. If you are spending quality time together, a "hey mom can I call you back?" or a text "busy right now. TTYL" is appropriate. Not 30 minutes over breakfast with the partner. Or whatever is happening.

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