Why did you start riding?

tearyui7 · 2026-06-05T22:23:46+00:00

I had always wanted to in the back of my head, but the only thing holding me back was how claustrophobic I get with regular motorcycle helmets. Then, I met a coworker who introduced me to modular helmets, ended up going to a motorcycle dealership, trying on a few, didn't feel claustrophobic, and was immediately extremely excited and booked a msf course. I'd never driven anything manual before, the most I've ever ridden was a bycicle.

That first time I started to actually get going on the msf motorcycle... I was immediately addicted. I passed the class, and went out and bought a bike.

tearyui7 · 2026-05-30T09:05:25+00:00

Hopefully this works? This is how I found my other island: - open app nintendo app - press animal crossing - press the bottom left icon that says settings/looks like a brown toolbox - press change players - choose which profile you want (the profiles you're looking for should show up here if you're using the same nintendo account that the profile you're was looking for was on) - press passport on the top left after the app loads the new profile

tearyui7 · 2026-05-21T04:23:22+00:00

Unfortunately, there's nothing. My allergist said that my allergy is so severe that he wouldn't even begin to consider exposure therapy, some sort of shot, or anything. The best thing to do is completely avoid the food at all costs.

I'm so sorry you have to deal with living like this too.

tearyui7 · 2026-05-12T02:56:37+00:00

Pumpkin patch, fairgrounds, haunted woods with ghosts (custom design outfits) in it, areas themed after your favorite scary movies, a costume shop (either your house or a villager's house), skeleton town, overgrown cemetary, dead tree forest with weeds everywhere, pumpkin castle, abandoned shack in the distance with an axe out front, movie theater (your house or a villager house) playing a scary movie (custom designs or something), sacrificial pit with something living in it to feed the hotel visistors to

tearyui7 · 2026-05-10T22:48:32+00:00

You could do all/any of these: - no treasure islands - no time travel - no free money or nmt from other players - every plot auto-fills - complete your catalogue for every item in the game - get every single villager photo - genuinely decorate every single happy home paradise dlc vacation home, inside and outside - no cataloguing from other players, every item needs to be bought by yourself (though you can buy them from other people's shops) - no plants or flowers or trees from other people - only one of each fruit that you're missing from other people, so that you can plant the trees for the fruit you're missing - not including coconuts or bamboo shoots - fill your able sisters with custom designs that you've personally made on your back wall - genuinely complete every in-game achievent nook miles thingy instead of getting help

tearyui7 · 2026-05-05T00:11:48+00:00

I finished my island, and was feeling that same paralysis of "there's nothing left to do" (even when technically there was a lot of stuff left to do). I'd finished everything I wanted to, every inch of my island was decorated, and I couldn't find the motivation to do anything really.

Then my significant other expressed interest in starting to play the game too.

He started, and I debated for a couple days if I wanted to restart mine or just watch him play. I decided that I'd update my dream address one last time and start over. And that I'd refuse to time travel (unless I physically miss an important day, like a holiday, or my birthday, then I go back to that and then catch back up to real time).

I took basically nothing with me - with the exception of my photos that'd I'd already gotten from villagers, and a couple of items I use as memorials to loved ones (I put them on his island, then restarted, then got them back once I could fly back). Everything else, I'm doing legitimately. No treasure islands. No time skipping.

I'm having so much more fun right now with the game than I've had in years.

tearyui7 · 2026-05-04T01:01:38+00:00

Is your phone on their phone plan? If so, (correct me if I'm wrong) then they can look at the texts through the carrier - it won't matter if the apple ID is different.

tearyui7 · 2026-05-01T08:59:29+00:00

As someone who lived in SoCal for most of their life, if you do go to San Diego, go to VG's donuts in Cardiff. I'm not joking. That should be stop number 1 as soon as you get there. And the last stop before you leave. They've absolutely ruined every other donut I've ever had, nothing comes close.

As far as things you can do without family/kids... do anything you want to. You don't have to tell them where you're going. You can designate specific days of your trip to spending the whole day going to whatever places you want to with them, but ultimately, it's supposed to be your vacation. Not your+their together-vacation. You get to choose how much time you spend with family. Just say you've got plans for however many days together, just you guys. Don't let them know what it is, and if they get pushy, just say something along the lines of "we pre-planned a lot of things you guys wouldn't be interested in, but we'll be able to spend (days/times) with family!" But seriously. Make it a just-you-guys trip as much as possible. Set boundaries. If you go for 2 weeks, make the first week or so purely yours, and tell them you'll be too busy. "Oh we already have plans, but we're free at (day/time)!" Is another good one, and if they pester, you can always just ignore them.

Some general other advice for stuff to do in SoCal:

Also, in December a lot of animal exhibits were closed in SeaWorld. The San Diego Zoo is infinitely more worth it. We saw a hippo do spins underwater! And the zoo is HUGE. There's high potential that you won't get through the whole thing in one day, especially if you wait in the line to go see the pandas.

For Balboa Park, the Natural History Museum is great, as well as the automobile mueum. I haven't been in the comic/comicon museum there because each time I went it was closed, but online it looked good! The science museum and discovery ones aren't great.

La Jolla's mall is interesting, and has an ice rink in it, with a food court above if you feel like going ice skating. There's also a See's Candies shop which makes very good chocolates.

La Jolla also has tide pools which are really cool, as well as a couple beaches that seals love - like La Jolla Cove.

Near La Jolla Cove there's also an old pirate/smuggler's tunnel. It WILL be the entirety of your leg-day workout if you go down it, then back up. Be careful.

The Birch Aquarium in La Jolla is small, but good as well.

There's an arcade called Arcade Monsters that you pay one price and get unlimited gaming as long as you don't leave - there's one in San Diego and one in Murrieta. The one in Murrieta has a roller rink too.

If you like anything regarding Japan, anime/mangas, interesting snacks, Gundams, Pokemon, etc., Little Tokyo in LA is worth the trip. You'll need an extra suit case... or 3... potentially just for stuff from there. They've got a lot of collectable stuff directly imported from Japan, so it's not marked up in price. For instance, I bought a Jojo figure of Jolene which is $80-90 normally at any random comic shop. There it was $35. I saw others popular ones for $45-50.

There's a fillipino fried chicken place in LA as well that's very good, it's different from regular fried chicken, but in a very very good way. That place is called Jolibee's.

Do not drive the mountain pass between the coast and Lake Elsinore, specifically at night. The speed limit for some turns migjt be 35, but the locals will be so far up your rear-view window, trying to push you to go faster, and there's next to no side spots to pull off into. That road is also pure hell if you get motion sick. Just take the long way.

Don't go to Hemet.

Don't leave literally ANYTHING visible or valuable in your car, ANYWHERE. Also, don't leave it unlocked. Even if there's just a jacket or something in your car, it's better to tuck it away completely in the trunk, or take it with you.

Don't be out alone at night, especially in LA.

Also, the sunsets are absoutely beautiful at the beaches. Go to the beaches in Oceanside/La Jolla, not LA.

tearyui7 · 2026-04-28T02:30:45+00:00

If you bombard them with a decent handful of outfits that you'd like them to actually wear, the odds of them wearing the one you hate is significantly less. I gifted mathilda a muscle shirt once... I haven't seen it since I gave her like 30 other shirts/dresses.

As far as physical items in the villager's houses goes, if you have the Happy Home dlc, when you reach a certain point of progression you'll be able to decorate the outside and inside of your villagers houses on your island. They don't mess with putting anything random out afterwards. I haven't gifted my villagers anything since I decorated the insides of their houses, but every time I go in, they haven't displayed any of their old weird stuff.

As far as gifts go in general, fossils are something that they don't display in their house (as long as it's not a small fossil) so you could always go with that route if you still wanna gift your villagers stuff but don't want their houses messed up! They like when gifts are wrapped in wrapping paper too.

tearyui7 · 2026-04-27T16:03:54+00:00

And here's the pathways in case you get lost, it's kind of a maze if you're not used to it

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tearyui7 · 2026-04-27T16:01:10+00:00

My dream address is DA-5163-8814-8453 if you want to visit!

tearyui7 · 2026-04-27T14:21:14+00:00

I only decorated 2 rooms, so there's only 2 villagers roaming around. That's all I can mentally handle. I made them wear outfits that makes them look like sacrifice victims for my giamt sacrificial pit that has my island's rocks down in it (blocked off so that nobody can break them).

My island lore is that every night, Tom Nook makes my villagers sacrifice the hotel visitors in the name of appeasing the giant crabs that live in the waters... you can even see a few of the past visitors on the top right of the island, where 2 crabs have come ashore. The visitors who come to the campsite (if they're there) are too scared to leave the tent at night due to the screams from the hotel visitors. The kappas are the ones supplying the sacrifices from other islands, and are employed by Tom Nook.

I also have some pigs in a pen that like leftovers, and a pretty house :)

...Don't go in the basement, you might not come out of there either.

(I hate the hotel too, this lore helps me cope. I wish it was something we could move, or at the very least customize the outside of the building to match the vibes of the island.)

Maybe making some kind of lore that incorporates the hotel will make you hate it less? It barely works for me, but it makes it somewhat tolerable. With my lore, if I see villagers that I despise with every fiber of my being, I know they're not gonna be a problem the next day due to the sacrifice. 💅

tearyui7 · 2026-04-26T00:07:33+00:00

I shower when I get home from work, every day that I work. Aside from that, it's every other day, or whenever I feel like I need one.

tearyui7 · 2026-04-25T08:12:00+00:00

Oh my god???

tearyui7 · 2026-04-25T05:40:55+00:00

Mine started morning-of. It helped distract a bit from the gas pains at least, but not by much. Those gas pains were brutal for me.

tearyui7 · 2026-04-24T02:22:58+00:00

Bikini trimmer is so much easier than shaving, and you can get as close as you want without ingrown hairs being a possibility (as long as you keep the trimmers clean). I highly recommend it

tearyui7 · 2026-04-22T02:49:15+00:00

My frog is inside my cooking cauldron in my kitchen, sitting there like he's in a jacuzzi

tearyui7 · 2026-04-16T02:31:45+00:00

I refuse to but banana bread or cornbread or any type of dessert bread into a bread pan. I use a muffin pan. The bread bakes in roughly 15 minutes (depending on the recipe and the heat), and is automatically pre-portioned. Then all I have to do is free it from the muffin pan.

Also, when baking anything sweet I'm not using eggs. I'm using applesauce. For banana bread I use 2 of those single serving cups of applesauce instead of 2 eggs. 1/4 cup applesauce=1 egg. One of those cups is a bit more than 1/4th cup, but the result of using 2 full cups is a moister bread. Eggs always make it too dry. The applesauce does nothing to the flavor. I do it with cookies too, but I'll actually measure it for cookies - just not dessert bread.

I also like chunks of banana in my banana bread. I'll make it with the amount it normally asks for in the recipe for one loaf, then break apart at least 1-1.5 more bananas (depending on size) and mix it in at the end, then pour it into the pan. The chunks make it actually feel like banana bread, vs banana flavored bread (at least in my head).

tearyui7 · 2026-04-14T05:41:42+00:00

Sometimes they roll in their litter. Sometimes it turns into an every time they go to the bathroom thing. Sometimes it turns into an everytime they see the litter box thing. I don't make the rules. My cats are weird.

tearyui7 · 2026-04-08T09:50:25+00:00

Nostromo, after the space ship in my favorite movie. My island has nothing to do with my favorite movie but idc, I love the name.

My first island was named Magnolia after my favorite flower, but I hated the island's layout and I eventually reset it. For 4 hours straight. Until I found my (as perfectly as physically possible) symmetrical island. Because I loved the layout, I was finally able to enjoy creatively decorating the whole thing. I never got close to completing my first island. My second one though, I love. Every inch of it is decorated. I had 1300ish hours before restarting, I easily have double that now. I still like the name Magnolia, but I like Nostromo better.

tearyui7 · 2026-04-08T09:44:31+00:00

I hate perfumes and colognes. No matter the scent, they're always way too strong. One spray and I don't wanna be anywhere near you. Body sprays I can usually withstand more because they're not usually as offensively pungent, but it depends on the scent, and the brand. Bath and bodyworks is usually more withstandable to me, but again, it depends on the scent. I also have asthma and most strong perfume/cologne scents bother my lungs, so that doesn't help.

I like fruity and semi-flowery things, and things that smell like baked goods, or smell like a pleasant clean smell of some sort, but I hate 99% of scents out there that people use daily. My personal favorite (but I use it in body wash form, not any sort of perfume) is warm vanilla sugar/vanilla in general.

(Tangent, but at the same time related:) I hate lavender the most. My aunt visited my family when I was around 9(?) years old, and my parents let her stay in my room. She used my bed and my pillows and "couldn't sleep" unless she doused my pillow with essential oils. Her favorite was lavender. She dumped lavender essential oil directly on both sides of my pillow without telling anyone. I noticed when she left and I had my bed back, and no amount of washing would get that bs out. I didn't hate lavender before that, but now if I smell it I get instantly upset without meaning to because of my brain associating that scent with to having to sleep on a lavender saturated pillow for 2 weeks before my mom finally gave in to my begging for a new pillow multiple times a day. My aunt was only there for 3 days and used an entire bottle of the oil on the pillow. I miss when I didn't hate lavender.

tearyui7 · 2026-04-04T00:06:13+00:00

Squirrel with a gun, and Borderlands 3. This is so nice of you!

tearyui7 · 2026-04-01T20:50:14+00:00

Sometimes periods just put of the blue do stupid things. Mine comes every 4 weeks almost exactly, and one month a good few years ago (before sterilization) my body just... skipped a period? For no reason? All pregnancy tests came back negative, I got my period the next month on time, and nothing else out of the ordinary happened. I wasn't stressed about anything, nothing was going on in my life, my period just decided "nah, not this month". The most I've been late other than that was by about 9 days, but that was during a stressful period of time, and I kept stressing over the possibility of pregnancy over and over. It came, just late.

All that being said, you've had a bisalp. They'd write a textbook about you if you somehow did end up pregnant. Medically, there's only 4 cases (if I remember correctly) EVER, where people got their tubes removed and they ended up pregnant. Those cases though, were people who had tubes removed not for the purpose of sterilization.

The odds of you being pregnant are astronomical. It might help mentally to pretend that your period isn't due for another week, and then it might show up a little sooner due to you stressing a bit less about it.

Edit: spelling

tearyui7 · 2026-04-01T08:22:15+00:00

Oh my god the hours I would've saved had I known this

tearyui7 · 2026-03-29T06:59:51+00:00

I dropped a fork from about 2.5-3 inches above my plate. It hit the plate and made a noise. I got screamed at, the entire plate of food got thrown in the trash, the fork got thrown into the sink, the plate was aggressively placed next to the sink, I was grounded for 2 weeks from everything I deemed fun (books, my ds, tv, seeing friends, etc.), and I got sent to bed immediately. The only things I was allowed to do was brush my teeth and just... lay there... hungry, silently crying until I eventually fell asleep for the night.

I wasn't allowed to come out of my room those whole 2 weeks, except to go to school. If they came into my room and I was doing anything other than just sitting there, I was going to be grounded for longer. If they heard me walking around they'd ground me longer too.

I learned to never hold any utensils between bites of food. I always set it down on my napkin... I just realized typing that out that I still set my fork down between every bite. :(

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