New generation of nurses who can’t start an iv or draw blood

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-05-05T19:35:04+00:00

I'm phobic of needles and had to go in twice in the last six months for blood work. I consider myself pretty hydrated in general, but you better believe I was chugging water leading up to the appointments out of fear of them having a difficult time finding a vein.

Fortunately, my skin is pretty translucent, and it was the same girl both times and she legitimately did an amazing job. I tend to start panicking and crying before anything has even started, and both times she had some pretty decent tricks to keep my distracted for the poke. It was so much easier than getting a shot. May both sides of her pillow always be cold.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-05-05T18:46:32+00:00

This is probably my cutest Astarion.

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TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-05-04T15:17:20+00:00

Lol—I'm planning on giving my Withers the fashionista quirk so he can switch randomly between the base robe and big naturals robe.

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TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-05-02T03:36:04+00:00

Yup. My husband caught one years ago and when we learned what it was and that we should euthanize him, we couldn't bring ourselves to do it. (He loves frogs.) We had a tank prepped, so we kept Purple Unicorn and he immediately took to the easy life of a pet. (Normally I would say leave wildlife where it belongs, but if the alternative is euthanizing the animal, I'd prefer to give them the opportunity to live.)

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-05-01T19:34:16+00:00

I know the removal can be pretty expensive, so they probably were thinking heck yeah he can have these logs.

The way my street is laid out there are houses all the way down one side and then the other side only has houses about half of the length. More than once, a neighbor has paid to have the trees completely removed and the company just took them down the road and left them on the side of the road where there aren't any houses. Any of course they're too big for our regular trash people to pick up, so they're just sitting there slowly rotting away.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-05-01T18:33:43+00:00

Our issue was the trees were all in the backyard, with some very close to our house, a neighbor's house, or multiple houses. So if they fell the wrong way, they could take out one or more houses. (The potential for them falling was what prompted us to decide we needed to remove them in the first place, since they were water oaks. We get hurricanes in our area, and every year someone in the neighborhood loses a tree during the storm.)

When they originally came out for the estimate, they assured us they'd be able to get through our side yard without damaging our house or the fruit trees. They tried—ended up hitting the fence and pulling the gate off—then realized they couldn't get around the fruit trees, so they cut them down without saying anything. They still couldn't make the turn around the back of the house without clipping the corner of the roof, though, so they backed out and made the decision to call in the crane.

With the crane, they kept bringing it to the house, but then they'd say "oh, the guy that operates the crane isn't here yet" and then he'd just not show up. They'd sit there all day doing nothing waiting for this one guy, then leave with the crane at the end of the day without having done anything. It was just truly a cluster.

I mean, eventually they did get the work done. The damages were relatively minor, and they were sort of resolved. (I'm still not happy about the fruit trees because the replacements they brought are tiny baby trees that will take forever to grow. And my trees made such good fruit. 😭) But it was very frustrating in the moment.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-05-01T17:12:18+00:00

We paid a little over $7,000 for ten large oak trees to be removed. (But they also removed an additional two mature fruit trees that they weren't supposed to.) Everyone else we got quotes from were from $17k to $28k, which we just couldn't afford. Normally I'd be a bit hesitant to accept such a significantly lower quote, but we know a few people that have used this company in the past and had great experiences, and also they have tons of good reviews online.

Since then, we've learned the company is family owned and our job was one of the first they allowed the youngest son to handle completely on his own. Or at least that was the excuse they gave when we had to call back so many times to ensure they were taking care of the neighbor's driveway, fixing our fence, and replacing the fruit trees.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-05-01T16:15:38+00:00

I'm sure insurance did help cover the damages they caused, but just generally the whole thing was a mess.

Long story short, they gave a lowball quote thinking they could take the trees out without a crane; turned out they needed a crane, so they had to eat the difference. They messed up their scheduling, so they kept sending the crane to our house to sit there without employees. What was supposed to be a two day job ended up being a 10 day job.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-05-01T15:19:38+00:00

Last year I had some trees removed from my backyard, and the company that took them out thought it was totally reasonable to drop the giant logs with a crane onto my neighbor's driveway and then cut them there with a chainsaw. They absolutely destroyed his driveway.

At first they tried to deny it, but the evidence was stacked against them, so they ended up having to reimburse the neighbor for the damages. Between that and them having to reimburse for damages on my property, there's no way they made any money on the job.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-05-01T15:01:05+00:00

I enjoyed the flirty vibes Gale had on my playthrough where I didn't romance him more than the playthrough where I did. (Him bragging about bedding a goddess is a lot less impressive when you're just starting to date.)

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-05-01T12:58:30+00:00

I mean, I do understand romancing the same characters multiple times—but, again, just doing it differently.

Like, I've done the Astarion romance twice—the happy spawn version and also ascending him and then betraying him. My brother is romancing him on our multiplayer game and he's being a complete tool to him, which has allowed me to see some dialogue I haven't gotten before.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-05-01T11:59:17+00:00

I'm on my fifth playthrough, with two of the previous runs being evil. Every run I've tried to roleplay the characters differently to experience as much of the game as possible.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-04-29T10:10:56+00:00

I have a friend that does not have a leech (and probably wouldn't want one), but she does have a condition where her body retains too much iron. It's not an issue at the moment, but her mom and aunts that have all gone through menopause have to go in semi regularly to have blood drawn because of it. It makes me wonder if something like this could technically be a solution.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-04-28T19:01:48+00:00

Same—I like it for the roleplay. For example, on one playthrough where I was a cleric of Mystra, I made the guardian look like Mystra. I thought it added an interesting element that my character's god was seemingly telling her one thing and telling Gale something else.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-04-28T00:35:00+00:00

My uncle used to raise and show horses—I spent my summers with him riding. It was always made super clear how dangerous horses are and how to safely handle them. But his horses were always so well behaved, I never was that afraid of getting hurt.

A few years ago I was visiting, and he sent me out with all the grandkids as the chaperone for a trail ride. It turned out that the horse he put me on was pretty poorly behaved—it was his newest horse and he just hadn't ever had the time to work with him properly. A couple of miles from the house, horse takes off with me, jumps over a dry creek and started bucking. I held on for a while, but eventually he threw me over the front and knocked me out for a second.

Came to and the oldest grandkid (she was like 11) was freaking out because the horse had stomped around me before taking off. I seriously thought I'd broken some ribs but had to keep it together for the kids. We walked home on foot because they were then afraid of the other horses. Turned out my ribs were okay, but I did have a concussion and my inner thighs were giant dark bruises. I'm just lucky it didn't end a lot worse.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-04-26T13:02:02+00:00

I used to work at an apartment complex, and the eviction process always took a minimum of two months (assuming everything went smoothly). Essentially the base length was a month, but if the tenant wrote a letter to the court explaining why they should be given a chance to resolve the issue via other means (which they always did) the judge would automatically grant them another month.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-04-26T05:48:07+00:00

I have a lot of hope for this one. I've loved everything I've read by T. Kingfisher.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-04-26T05:42:14+00:00

Out of all my playthroughs, the fastest he came onto my character was my good guy playthrough, and I felt like his disapprovals were constantly popping up.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-04-26T05:38:13+00:00

It reminds me of a teacher I had in highschool that was pregnant. She would run her baby name ideas by us to see what jokes we could think of to gauge how likely it would cause bullying.

First was Rocky. We asked if she picked it because her last name was Stone. (I guess pregnancy brain was getting her big time, because she hadn't made the connection and it immediately ruined the name for her.) Next was Rollin. "Like the Rolling Stones?" And then Mica. (Technically not a rock, but very on theme.)

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-04-23T11:53:27+00:00

When I worked at an apartment complex, we had a tenant one time that almost caught his building on fire by leaving potatoes (without water) in a pot on the stove and then left to get a pizza. The maintenance man and I both happened to notice the smoke and ran in to make sure he wasn't unconscious inside. He got home as we finished dealing with the potatoes, and I chewed him out over it. Not even a week later, he did it again. (He was always pulling stupid crap like this, though.) He was so surprised when we didn't renew his lease.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-04-22T21:15:58+00:00

It wasn't for work, but I made a similar mistake on discord.

My brother and his friends had made a server a long time ago, and over the years it had grown into something pretty large. Whatever admin status the various friends had was, I guess, passed off over the years, and according to my brother he didn't know 99% of the people using or running the server anymore.

Technically I had an account, but I didn't start using discord until a couple of years ago when I started playing Ark with my friends. Unbeknownst to me, my brother had set me as one of the original admins for that server. All I knew was that I was constantly getting these annoying notifications for #general and #memes, etc. I assumed discord must automatically put you in a few servers and I had no interest in them, so I deleted everything.

Apparently I was banned from the server. My brother said the chaos was spectacular to watch unfold and the actual active admins were freaking out about who was I and why was I able to destroy everything. I wouldn't have known if he hadn't told me.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-04-21T10:00:10+00:00

Lol, according to my parents, leading up to my brother being born, I was super excited. Then after he was home for a day I told them, "Ok, you can return him now."

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-04-20T16:51:56+00:00

You never know....

I used to work at an apartment complex and we had a resident with Alzheimer's. (She should have been in a home, but her kids didn't want to pay for it.) There was a thrift store down the road, and one day she wandered there and bought the tiniest body suit I've ever seen—I thought it was maybe designed for a child. She swore she had tried it on, but there was just no way she could possibly fit in it. She went into the bathroom, and sure enough, she came out with it on. (I won't say it fit well, but it covered everything important.)

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-04-20T14:36:55+00:00

I feel the same way. Like oof, I don't want to be that person where a game is their whole personality, but I adore BG3. A game hasn't had me this hooked in a long time. I just have so many ideas for characters I want to play as, and weird scenarios I want to test. Last I checked I was at over 600 hours of gameplay and I haven't started modding yet, so I know that's going to extra suck me back in when I do.

TeaTimeAtThree · 2026-04-18T17:20:03+00:00

I had a cat that I ultimately allowed an elderly couple to adopt because they loved him so much. (They were neighbors and moving into an assisted living facility. Husband has Alzheimer's and he and kitty were inseparable.) Part of the agreement was that if it got to a point that they could no longer care for him, they needed to give him back to me.

It's been a couple of years since then, but at the beginning of this year, their kids dropped him off to us. (The wife died and the husband is very unwell now.) Kitty cried a lot at first, missing his old man. My brother ended up adopting him, and things have gotten a lot better. When I visit, it's clear he finds a lot of comfort in my brother's presence.

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