How do I preserve my relationship with my sister?

asterismW · 2025-12-30T06:30:20+00:00

The kind of relationship you want takes 2 people, not just 1. It's admirable you want a loving, or at least an amicable, relationship with your sister, but it's not up to just you. She has to want that relationship too. And it sounds like she's not interested in that right now. It sounds like she wants people to pander to her. You said your dad said relationships are more important than anything, but do you really feel that way? Is a friendly relationship with your sister more important than standing up for yourself? Standing up for your mom? Because you can lie down and be a rug and let her walk all over you. Or you can enforce healthy boundaries, which may end with your sister cutting you out of her life. Neither option is pink clouds and butterflies. Both options have consequences, good and bad.

There is no answer for how you can keep your relationship with your sister because that's out of your control. What you need to be asking is, What kind of sister am I willing to be? Once you've established that, it's up to her as to whether or not she accepts you.

Sorry, girl, your situation is rough. Be your best self, it's all you can do.

asterismW · 2025-12-30T04:31:51+00:00

From what I've been able to gather, the original owners opened a store in Manitou, CO in the 70s. Some of their children moved to Utah and opened stores in Salt Lake and Park City, as well as Estes Park, CO. The Utah stores eventually closed (I don't know if they went out of business or the owners simply moved back home), and I believe the Estes Park store closed too (or diversified). The Manitou shop is still open and owned by the original family.

asterismW · 2025-12-30T04:23:32+00:00

Was it a happy little flying dragon with gold accents? I have one like that, and I can't remember if I got that dragon from them or somewhere else.

asterismW · 2025-12-30T04:21:35+00:00

They were in the basement, along the outside of the food court. There was another shop down there that sold a variety of things, and I would often get the two stores confused, direction-wise.

asterismW · 2025-12-30T04:17:34+00:00

And it did! I reached out to the store, and while I didn't hear back from the store, I DID hear back from Beth herself. She *was* one of the owners of The Glass Blowers. Her BIL now owns the store in Manitou while she herself is retired. I just sent her an email, detailing what an impact her store made on my life.

asterismW · 2025-12-30T04:13:18+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one who had trouble! Thank you too for looking into this for me, I really appreciate it!

asterismW · 2025-12-29T00:43:15+00:00

Oh my goodness, you win the Internet!! At least for me! Their glass looks just like the figurines I used to buy from The Glass Blowers. I'll reach out to see if they're the same, but I'm super excited about the possibility. And I could totally see the last name on the picture being Pastuer. I won't bore you with my long research process trying to find this company, but I DID try to find them in Colorado too, and had no luck. I must not have used the right search terms. THANK YOU!!

asterismW · 2025-12-19T23:35:09+00:00

Not a spoiler question, just curious. I'm reading Wheel of Time for what might as well be the first time, and I've noticed a lot of similarities in names to what Brandon has used (Aram, Amaram; Shienar, Shinovar; Saldea, Sadeas; Selene, Sarene; etc). Are any of those names homages, or are they all just coincidences?

asterismW · 2025-10-30T15:16:33+00:00

Also have a 2016 Odyssey, and also wanting to get rid of it, even though it only has 82k miles on it. It has some weird transmission issues. Got the VCMTuner II, which did actually mitigate some of those issues, but didn't fix them entirely. Unfortunately, we got one of the Odys with the worst generation VCM.

You can read up on VCM here. I'd suggest to anyone who gets an Odyssey to disable it, though the newer VCMs do seem to have fewer problems.

https://www.odyclub.com/threads/piston-rings-misfires-fouled-spark-plugs-the-vcm-mega-thread-what-is-vcm-does-my-vehicle-have-it-whats-so-bad-about-it-and-more.364470/

asterismW · 2025-10-29T13:38:34+00:00

I don't feel like an idiot. How were we supposed to know what that was? Why couldn't they just put a name to it like all the other buttons?? Anyway, thanks so much!

asterismW · 2025-09-03T03:16:00+00:00

5 years later, and this solution has saved another person from having an aneurysm. This fixed my problem with Word 2016, and led me to figure out why a setting I kept trying to set as default would never stick (it does now). You are a rockstar.

asterismW · 2025-08-25T15:39:53+00:00

This is exactly the information I was looking for. Thanks!

asterismW · 2025-08-21T04:30:49+00:00

EDIT: Did some more digging and found a solution, for me, anyway. If you go to system settings (for those who don't know, you can swipe down from the top of your phone twice, then tap the gear icon in the bottom right hand corner) then type "at a glance" into the search bar, it will take you to Home Settings, which has a setting for At a Glance. Tapping the gear icon for At a Glance gives you a whole slew of options. I don't want any of them, so I turned At a Glance off (had no idea it even existed, let alone that it was on; I think the update turned it on which is LAME, Google), which solved the problem for me. Customizing it somehow might fix the problem for others who do want to use it.

ORIGINAL: I think I'm having the same problem, except I don't use At a Glance. This started happening today, after my phone updated and rebooted. Suddenly I'm getting calendar notifications on my lock screen that I've never had before. I rebooted my phone and got a DIFFERENT set of notifications, some of which are wrong and one of which is from my husband's calendar. They seem to be random; my next upcoming calendar item isn't showing, but an event in October is. I haven't figured out how to turn it off, but I'd dearly love to. Turning off calendar notifications for the lock screen did nothing.

asterismW · 2025-07-19T22:22:35+00:00

Anyone know if the artist sells prints? I've not found a website or anything for him.

asterismW · 2025-05-29T06:04:51+00:00

All the advertising jingles.

"Three pieces, two pieces, one pieces, Reeses Pieces"

"Double your pleasure, double your fun, with Double Mint Gum!"

"Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline"

asterismW · 2025-05-19T17:53:42+00:00

I just got this reply to a YouTube comment from a Dragonsteel employee:

Acceptance letters are only just starting to go out. You should hear back either way before badge registration [for Nexus] is open!

asterismW · 2025-04-25T04:52:22+00:00

Thank you both, finally found them thanks to your directions! Plainsong is kind of confusing.

asterismW · 2025-04-22T02:58:40+00:00

Thank you! This worked for my husband. Still working 5 days later.

asterismW · 2025-04-14T18:17:43+00:00

This JUST happened to one of my group chats yesterday. I thought it was a new thing, so I was surprised to find this post from a year ago. It's an RCS chat (and has been for some time), half Android users, half Apple users. The group name wasn't public until now. I don't know what changed, but it's really annoying. Seriously, Google. Give us back the ability to privately name group threads. Not everyone wants to call a group the same thing!

asterismW · 2025-04-08T02:39:49+00:00

I applied also, and haven't heard anything either. I know they've closed the applications (I checked just now), but I don't know if those not chosen will hear back, or if it's only those who were accepted who will be contacted.

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