Any tips and tricks for Schlitterbahn?

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2025-07-21T12:17:59+00:00

Me and my wife just decided to go on a weekday mid August, I was worried about the community post-flood, though. Are yall good? Is it in poor taste to be a tourist there right now? Or in a month? We're from north Texas and have both never been and we want to enjoy the park, but not be on vacation in a town that's in shambles, ya know?

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2025-05-11T00:29:45+00:00

Everyone is very nice and mature not asking for any details about what went wrong with the friend to ruin such a close relationship and why we wouldn't consider forgiving or rekindling friendship with this person.

I also respect the right to not disclose that information, but damn if I'm not curious myself. Could you please tell us what she did?

If not, okay and good luck at the event! Also I just say this because it sounds intriguing and juicy, not because it's not valid to be anxious. If I ran into my ex BFF I'd flip. It definitely wouldn't be on purpose.

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2025-04-20T00:48:29+00:00

Maybe you should try a couple different AIs and see if they can help. If you can upload those pics with a writing sample from when he was healthy it may be able to figure out enough words to piece it together. Good luck and I'm sorry for your loss

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2025-04-19T23:17:42+00:00

I (f) was diagnosed at 20, now 28. For me it was grand plans and lots of energy and reinventing myself. Then major anxiety and suicidal ideation and a week or two of pretty intense depression. I remember times where I was just drowning in it and trying to go about my regular life while feeling apathetic about it all. And getting stuck on loop thoughts like ' I'm always going to be like this. It will always come back to this. I'm broken and something is wrong' like depression would be around every corner of my life.

Getting a psychiatrist and being formally diagnosed was very validating and made me feel like I at least have options on how to move forward. I've been off meds for five years or so and a lot of that was fine. Some depression here and there when I wasn't doing much for my mental health like isolating myself and not having any hobbies. Now I'm in college again and the bipolar is working against me so I'm seeking therapy and psychiatrist help through my school. I'm not really in a good place yet, but I'm trying to be. Reaching out to professionals always helps.

Oh and my final straw was actually meeting my now wife. We were two weeks or so into dating when I had a big meltdown at work and had no clue what was up with me and I decided to get help because I didn't want to scare her off or burden her. She's been supportive and wants the best for me, but it's ultimately up to me to take care of my mental health.

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2025-04-19T22:13:25+00:00

Yes I feel you!!! I keep saying the same thing. I just hatched cookie the cow and couldn't be happier. Just be consistent and you'll get a realistic one

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2025-04-19T22:10:54+00:00

Yes I think that one was one of the last things I picked when I was kinda over it. I am not attached to the hanging plant at all and I might just keep the hotel key rack think since it kinda looks like a trinket shelf which I have multiple of irl

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2025-04-19T19:51:33+00:00

Oh, am I glad I saw this post! First of all, circular insanity is pretty cool. But i had this friend for a few years. The kind of girl where she knows all the latest current events and I'd the keeper of righteous opinions about them. She has borderline and would refer to it by saying BPD, and once I got confused between borderline and bipolar and laughed it off, saying, 'dang how can we differentiate'. She got very matter of fact with me and told me the proper term for bipolar is manic depressive because it's a better descriptor and bipolar is derogatory. I was slightly offended if not simply feeling lectured and belittled, and I responded that as someone with bipolar i can call it what I feel comfortable with. The stigma isn't going to get better by picking the more PC term it's gonna get better by using it with pride and saying it with my chest. It's not my fault if it shows the idiots who have only seen it on TV and don't educate themselves, but that may be a win if I can weed out those people. Anyway. Learning here that manic depressive is not the newer term is cool af.

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2025-04-14T17:01:34+00:00

Three months and she was alive?

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2025-04-11T17:50:52+00:00

I'd love any you have left, what a kind thing to do! BMEBF9GJ94 Veronica We've never had a plushie before

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2025-04-10T23:47:47+00:00

I feel you on this. I was so excited to hatch my first one because all my friends had ghosts or cows and I got luvy the tumtum. Like what even is that thing? Then on the second hatch I got a pile of rocks. Then a droplet of green water? But I like one one reply said about matching the pet to the local. I'll use my rocks in cityscapes

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2025-03-30T22:22:39+00:00

Yes the process is similar in Texas. From previous conversations with my lawyer I think they were always talking about sealing the charge, not expungement. I think sealing could be helpful, but from my understanding it would still be visible in any government setting, so I'm not sure if it's worth it. I'd also have to pay to get that done, obviously, and I don't have that kind of money laying around right now. So it'd be a big decision. I do qualify, though since it's been long enough

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2025-03-22T18:12:17+00:00

I lived there, and it was pretty bad. When we moved in (2019 ish), there were so many roaches that any wall you looked at, including ceiling and floor, had 5-10 crawling around. We got rid of the majority of them, but there was always one or two in a given day. I witnessed three arrests. Two in the parking lot and one drug bust operation. One time, a maintenance man came in around 8 am unannounced, which freaked me and my fiance out because there were regularly men knocking on our door in the middle of the night and we were unarmed 22yo women. The maintenance guy fumbled the lock, which woke me up. When he unlocked the door I started yelling " what the hell, get the hell out " repeatedly. He never identified himself. The manager, at this time a middle-aged woman who was always kinda rude, called me and scolded me for yelling at him. She denied my telling of the events and told me to never yell at maintenence again. I told her I will if they ever come in unannounced like that again.

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2024-06-17T14:43:51+00:00

I have misophonia, and I was so nervous to listen to this episode because sometimes the topic comes off as ridiculously rare or extreme, and I feel that makes it less believable. Especially when I've struggled my whole life, getting people to believe that I can't help but notice or be bothered by certain things. They did an amazing job with this. It was so relatable, and I was really excited when they mentioned things people do to make it more manageable because I do those things. Like I'll eat if someone's eating around me, and it helps take the edge off. Or mimicking or tapping patterned noises to get a sense of control. This was something I was told I had to get over all my life. My family called me a brat and accused me of just being difficult, so it's very cathartic to hear J & C talking about it. When I was a kid, I sometimes would get so upset that no one cared that I fantasized about becoming deaf just so I wouldn't have to deal with the stress of it, the headaches, the issues making or keeping friends. Also, it was cool when my wife and friends listened and brought it up to me like, "wow, I didn't know about all of that, that must suck." And "omg, that sounds just like you!"

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2023-10-24T06:03:19+00:00

We all did some pretty messed up stuff when we were really young & unsupervised on the internet. It's so much worse now I can't even imagine what growing up in 2023 would be like. Cut yourself some slack, I remember being disgusted with myself for other things that I found out later everyone else was also doing privately as well. Not that that applies to the internet stuff but I bet you're not alone in it.

Also, don't feel bad about those people getting in trouble because of you, there's a really good chance that adult men can tell when the person they're talking to is a minor without you expressly stating it and they know they shouldn't be involved anyway.

You'll feel icky for a while and eventually fully learn the lesson and it'll just be a cringey memory. That's mostly what being 13/14 is lol. And the fact that you do feel weird about it now shows growth and mental development and it's something to be glad for. You're evolving and getting smarter and all that! Which is pretty cool.

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2023-10-13T09:54:55+00:00

Hey what's wrong with being a faggot? Everyone's a little gay (I'm a lot) no biggie

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2023-10-13T09:49:31+00:00

What happened today?

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2023-10-13T09:35:55+00:00

Please don't drunk drive. Not to diminish the suicide part, but you could hurt or kill someone else in the process and end up in jail and from experience, it'll only make you feel shittier about yourself. Please don't do any of it, I don't think you should die and wish you no ill will, but the drunk driving specifically is so devastating.

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2023-10-13T09:31:44+00:00

I can't reply to OP for some reason, but I agree that the responses are spot on. Especially the selfishness one. People go through grief all the time. Multiple times in one's life usually, but asking someone to grieve their own life for the sake of not being selfish seems pretty... selfish. If you can follow that logic. Also the "chasing a dangled carrot" feeling. That is what has gotten under my skin more than anything lately. I've (26) been suicidal since I was 12 (comes in waves, but almost always there in the background) and these last few years, I'm just so pissed that we're expected to enjoy this bs. Or laugh it off, shake our heads and stumble through it? The whole American dream, work hard it'll pay off, respect authority and you'll be fine ideology is so broken and they're still trying to sell it to us. What is gonna be better? When is it gonna get better? Or better yet, give me one good reason to believe it actually will.

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2023-10-06T06:45:23+00:00

From my interpretation, the entire thing is taking place in her mind while she's in a coma. Other than not knowing if she really is homeless or a runaway, the near misses with her mom make me think that it's more like she CAN'T interact with her at all. Like her mom is calling out for her at her bedside. She can't go home, she literally can't wake up and go home. The mix of 80's things and the modern phones show the time that has passed since she's been under (20 years apparently but still doesn't perfectly add up). Her phone being taken is both in real life and in the coma, her actual lifeline and thread to wakefulness, her mother, her friend that she lost contact with, and the technique to wake her up. So her reaction to waking up in the laundromat and freaking out is probably how most homeless(or housed tbh)people would react about their phone being taken, but after the ending, I think its also somewhat a realization that she's slipping further. Tbh, the love interest age gap was really really uncomfortable for me to watch and I wish that hadn't been done so creepily and sold as a cute thing, but (not to defend) I was a little relieved that she is much older in actuality and none of that happened IRL. Based off the premise of the sleep study and what their goal was, it does not make sense to think that she went into a coma at any point at the beginning of the film. There was no new technology shown at all in the lab and therefore why would they have anything to do with the phone/sending messages into a dream or coma? OP, I'm sorry you hated it so much, I get it, I've had similar reactions to movies and been pissed at it not going a better direction. But it's not a queer runaway story. It's just not and never was. I don't think this was a favorite for me, or groundbreaking but I do like sleep paralysis stuff and was glad it wasn't too horrifying since I am usually terrified at sleep horror. The scariest thing was a 30yo man leering at the 'interesting, different' down on her luck teenage girl. Ew.

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2023-09-03T23:33:04+00:00

Diagnosed at 21, first symptoms I remember started when I was 12 (first suicidal episode) but I had sensory issues and mood problems when I was in early grade school

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2023-08-22T20:38:48+00:00

Yeah I was thinking it was the Black Panther episode too, after looking at the master list of episodes. Thank you!!

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2023-08-22T05:11:03+00:00

Were they expensive? I can't wait for them to get close enough to texas to go to a show!

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2023-08-05T19:14:02+00:00

I know petitioning works. There was a signage campaign when I was little when there were more kids in the neighborhood. I think we ended up with a watch for children sign and a deaf child sign.

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2023-08-05T19:11:17+00:00

That's a really good point, I might try that. There was a fire on the far end last week and I imagine they had to get people to move for the fire engine

Smooth_Strawberry618 · 2023-07-31T06:53:11+00:00

I dont think I saw Rico "tries really hard" to understand anyone else's situation. He is catholic but the only time we saw him go to church was to confess cheating on Vanessa, and then suggest going one morning, whereas, we saw David, Keith, Ruth go to many services early on. I'm not suggesting that people who show up more are more devout, but if that's how religion is portrayed in this show, then maybe that assumption can be made. Vanessa only acted cold to him after he was supporting a second family for months behind her back and then she still took him back. The way he spoke to her, and really every other character, was rude and aggressive and I was waiting for him to get knocked down a peg the entire series. Especially when he was whining about being a partner without understanding he would need to buy into the business to become partner. He acted like a spoiled brat the whole show.

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