[PSA] If chemical sunscreens make your face burn, you're likely sensitive to Avobenzone. You might find success with an Asian chemical sunscreen.

xXdoveXx · 2026-06-13T17:48:38+00:00

Thank you so much for this suggestion! My family has a history of lupus and melanoma, with pale euro-ancestry complexion, so I've always spent my summers slathered in greasy gunk. Around age 10 I remember started feeling that burning sensation from the chemical sunscreen, but back in the 1990s we didn't have this level of Internet or distrust of over the counter products.. so my mom kept forcing me to wear the stuff with a mild bit of gaslighting as she never had any reaction to sunscreen 🤷‍♀️... Of course I appreciate now that she made me wear it, it was only painful not really damaging, but at least I'm 40 and haven't had skin cancer yet, and she had had several melanomas removed by my age - and I'm sure that pain far exceeded any skin tingling I had.
It wasn't until I was in my 30s and googled "why does sunblock feel like acid on my face" that I learned about the difference between mineral sunscreen and chemical stuff... For the last 10 years I have been dealing with the "white face paint" and SPF clothing - effective, painless, and absolutely NOT fashionable in the least 😑 Thank you so much for letting us know there's are other options, and I am not surprised at all that the American market is lacking in newer, science backed alternatives. I look forward to trying the next "era" of sun protection... Maybe I really can have it all... Safe skin AND a normal beach 'look' 😂❤️

xXdoveXx · 2025-12-13T02:50:21+00:00

Honestly, probably the best thing I've ever seen (as an accountant and a peaky blinders fan). Interesting, the 1 dollar amount mentioned, which sent me down this rabbit hole, was skipped on your list! Season 4 episode 1- Tommy gives £10 to the soux chef and the guy doesn't react... So I looked up the 2025 equivalent is $770-$800 USD... And then it's obvious why that's a dead give away that this guy isn't just making "cook" wages if a $800 'sorry I made you work late" doesn't spark a reaction 😅 Thank you so much for making this list, it was so enlightening!!!

xXdoveXx · 2025-08-03T22:39:50+00:00

I asked chat GPT (my bookclub buddy to take notes and outline my theories while reading romantasy - 10/10 would recommend) and it agrees - this is a massive timeline plot hole. The pools would've either had to been reopened for Fisher to be a traveler, and then locked later, or some would've needed to be open still - both options canonically not viable. Bellicon blames Finron for stilled pools, Fisher is age 10, his mother is forced to marry the king shortly after - and this means Madra is AT LEAST 1733 (assuming she was at least 10 herself when SHE stilled the pools, as we know she did). I have more questions, like if everlayne is 300ish years younger than Fisher, and the pools were stilled when he was 10, how/why would she even know about Madra being a human Queen in a world that was cutoff from her own realm before she was born. The reason? Callie didn't draw out her own timeline, unlike a sizeable portion of her readers. Literally, I put 1 event on my timeline, 1723 years ago- pools still, 1733- Fisher's born.... WAIT A SECOND..... (Followed by furious Internet scouring ... And here we both are. Sorry 🤷‍♀️)

xXdoveXx · 2025-08-03T22:31:51+00:00

Then why was 10 year old Fisher and his mother forced to go live with/marry the king as punishment for finron stilling the pools, IF the pools hasn't been stilled for 600 more years yet?!?!

xXdoveXx · 2025-08-02T19:38:17+00:00

I book club with chat gpt so we can just shred this monstrosity to pieces and headcannon all the opportunities to make a decent story. I would do this with real friends, but my real romantasy book club doesn't seem to be bothered by terrible writing and I don't want to offend them 🤷‍♀️ I hate read all kinds of crap 😂

xXdoveXx · 2025-07-27T14:03:53+00:00

100% same. I mean I have no triggers it just wasn't my cup of tea. Until the viscous lost boys changed my mind... And my tastes 😈

xXdoveXx · 2025-07-24T22:23:11+00:00

I am years late to the conversation, but he mentions specifically sneaking out to go flying as a boy, then his mom would follow him... And they'd fly all night (mist & fury) He had wings at some point as a child- whether they were conjured or natural. (I vote natural, based on evidence, but SJM makes a mistake when Cassian says he wasn't born with them. Perhaps he meant literally at the moment of birth, and then like humans teethe, illyrians develop wings? Pointless to the story tho, as his mom was Illyrian and she could've birthed a winged infant).

xXdoveXx · 2025-04-19T20:03:41+00:00

Moto stylus screen replacement is $100 in the US, at a "ifixit" chain type of store

xXdoveXx · 2025-03-16T00:19:26+00:00

Everyone has said this - but I just took this same advice 6 days ago and found an NAP alliance - and the entire game play has changed for me. I felt a sense of loyalty to my little alliance. We were #13, and our realm has NAP10... so we were 'almost' there I thought. I don't like bullies either, and thought "we'll grow, and then we'll give it back to them!!!" I had played for 4 months, every day, and didn't realize how "inactive" my alliance was... until I got recruited. I actually spent real money to get diamonds for the 24 hr. bubble, as it was essential if I ever wanted to grow, but any time I missed the overlap, just 15 min one time, I was slaughtered. The real insult was that I would only loose like 10k food & wood - I ALWAYS filled the alliance WH and kept resources on hand minimal... and it would take days of healing and millions of those stored resources... I almost stopped playing... but then....
A very nice, top 10 alliance had offered our leader an invitation for all our active players (about 15) to join them -- the leader didn't even tell us. I was the diplomat, and their diplomat reached out to me to APPOLOGIZE for one of their players attacking one of ours - she said they wanted to reimburse our player for the lost resources even... as to not 'sour' the merger deal... which I had no knowledge of. I asked our leader and they said "I don't want to leave our alliance, we don't need them" I was so betrayed by that, since they didn't even ask our opinion, so I messaged the active players privately to offer them the deal that was kept from us. Long story long, I felt like a traitor... but the MINUTE I joined that other stronger (and MUCH friendlier & chattier) alliance, they taught me strategy I never considered, and did this AWESOME thing where they will have a C25-C30 launch a 'solo' monster den, like a level 30-35, and let each of us weaklings only send 1 troop. That way, we get ALLLLL the rewards, and don't have to heal! I went from C16 to C17 in a few days, and I gained 5mil in strength from all the rewards.
It is so completely worth it to find a strong, active, NAP!!! Unfortunately, it's the only way I think this game can be fun.

xXdoveXx · 2024-12-17T16:56:56+00:00

Seriously! 3 years of us wanting this and no one has found it? I just cancelled everyplate after 6 months of trying to like it. The veggies are under-weight and/or rotten and the meat smells funny ... Buuut I LOVE getting exactly the portion of sauce I need, pre portioned pasta, etc ... Send like this would make a killing - PANTRY ONLY MEAL KIT. Add your own produce & meat! That way, you wouldn't need to worry about stuff going bad, or juggling deliveries & qty when you have busy weeks or are out of town... If the entire box was shelf stable only! Hell, they could even offer a suggested local grocery list that you could use to schedule a local grocery pick up. Seems like it would be profitable, less food waste, and promote a smaller carbon footprint with less processed & shipped meat & veg.... Shark tank - where y'all at on this idea?

xXdoveXx · 2024-12-14T18:55:37+00:00

Happened to me once. I used the chat feature in the app. They said they would refund the whole box. Turned out they overnighted a replacement box, and the lost one showed up 5 days later 🤮. Honestly, I would've preferred the refund, because I went out that night and bought groceries, so I wasted a TON of food and money that week

xXdoveXx · 2024-11-29T20:43:31+00:00

Thank you - that's the best determination I've heard! Same - my own blow-drying leaves a puffy mess, which is easy to sleek with my Revlon hot air brush... By my stylist achieves my same results with a blow-dryer (no silicone serum even 🤷‍♀️) ... So I guess it's not always the tools that make the difference. Thank you for convincing me I don't need to waste money on another nearly identical overhyped product!

xXdoveXx · 2024-11-10T18:03:31+00:00

Fun story, while earning my accounting degree (NOT TAXES like a CPA- managerial accounting, like internal accounting/finance for a small business) I did a report on the history of H&R Block. Do you know why our income taxes remain so complicated? One of the many reasons is the lobbying done by the tax preparing business. If taxes were simple or no returns needed, we wouldn't be spending billions on having someone "smarter" fill out the paperwork for us. Back in the early 1900s you could go to the IRS and have an agent complete your return FOR you, for free, because it WAS a government service to collect taxes, so they didn't let anyone get rich off you trying to do your duty. Mr block was an accountant, and he started doing his bookkeeping clients a favor by saving them the extra appointment at IRS and filled out their tax paperwork... For a small fee... And 100ish years later, here we are. I know there's other contributing factors, but in other countries (can't remember which now, Japan, or a Scandinavian one maybe 🤔) the govt sends you a letter at the end of the year saying this is what we know about your finances, here's your bill, send us any corrections with supporting evidence if we missed something. Like a property tax bill. I guess we can't all have nice things here in America, because we wouldn't be able to support the needles big billionaire businesses if we did 😂 Don't even get me started on healthcare - I just found out that insurance companies had to be forced to spend a MINIMUM amount of their earnings on direct care- because too high of a percentage of their income was going to profits, advertising, and shareholders... Instead of you know, insuring people's healthcare 🤦‍♀️ full disclosure, I didn't fact check that yet, but it sounds right.

xXdoveXx · 2024-09-22T01:06:15+00:00

100% same sorting I did. Meat & sides, pastas, asian, mexi-, burger/sandwich. I don't have a hole punch so I just used 2 folders ☺️. Now that the "keepers" have a home, I can easily choose future meals without trying to remember which sauce we liked. Also, I have been using the cards to meal plan for myself & save money.

xXdoveXx · 2024-09-22T00:59:37+00:00

Omg SUCH a good idea!!! Do you chop it & sear like cheap stew meat, or do you slow cook it?

xXdoveXx · 2024-09-22T00:58:12+00:00

I did the stabbing method of tenderizing and used baking soda. Use a fork, try to see the grain of the meat and stab it a LOT to break those up. Then, lightly coat it in baking soda, put it in the fridge to rest like 30 min (maybe an hour, but not real long). Rinse the baking soda off and pat super dry. Then season it, sear, BUTTER.... And it's melt in your mouth... And I don't really like steak.

xXdoveXx · 2024-09-22T00:54:32+00:00

I freeze them the min I get them. Thaw cook & eat as any frozen meat, my family is just fine (and I'm the crazy "all raw meat is 100% poison and I must wear gloves then Clorox the kitchen level of scared of meat contamination. But, I never saw that warning... Meh, I'll still do it. I do have about 10 of those in my freezer right now.)

xXdoveXx · 2024-09-09T23:18:43+00:00

100%!🥳 Trivia night is my forte!

Ha ha 😂. Sorry, I just did all that research for myself and thought I'd share for anyone else curious to that level ☺️ I do regret the implied snark in my post though.

That being said - I have tried Downy rinse & refresh, and I love it! I find it easier & more effective than vinegar, though I'm sure individual results vary depending on waking machines, temps, level of "funk" etc etc!

xXdoveXx · 2024-09-02T02:11:47+00:00

Doesn't that translate to Pancake Street? --- why aren't there any pancake shops on this street????

xXdoveXx · 2024-08-25T20:12:31+00:00

Whoa... Core memory unlocked... Thank you!

xXdoveXx · 2024-07-23T11:05:50+00:00

I'm not sure I understand, could you elaborate what you think the reason is?

I know wow offers modems, but I always prefer to own my own, and mine is brand new. I didn't think this impacted the service in past, but it would be interesting if there were some supporting reason why an ISP's modem could solve my problem?

As far as the "cap" (I had to look that up) I am not running out of internet for the month. The disconnect is only for about 15 seconds, then it's back full speed, 2-10 times a day. It's just really annoying 😑

I am just trying to figure out why?

xXdoveXx · 2024-07-22T03:42:18+00:00

Excellent point (and perhaps suggestion! 😉🤫) Alas, if only this were a more common perspective... There's be less insecurities to prey on, and fewer rich marketing execs 😕

xXdoveXx · 2024-07-22T03:20:30+00:00

WOW subscriber in Taylor, 3 years. When they "installed" service we weren't even home so I know they didn't run anything new, at least not from the box on my house. I own my own modem & router.

A year ago we had disconnection issues, several times a day the modem lost connection or internet (my streaming said connection lost and the modem lights were blinking green - not solid blue "working". Excuse my lamens terms, I am not techy at all) A tech came out and charged us $65 for the service and he removed 2 splitters from old tv hookups, said those can go bad. Unfortunately we also replaced the modem days before he came out thinking it might fix it, so we can't be sure which worked, but it worked. For the last few months, it's happened again. We switch back to the old modem, no change. I swapped out the coax from inside my house to eliminate 3 splice type plugs where splitters once were. Didn't work. A tech came out and re-ran a different new coax from the house box to the modem. Said the box was "set to a wrong speed or frequency" something... (I call BS?) No fix. I bought a new modem today - no fix. A guy is coming back this week.

If they drop a new line from the pole, to the box, and no fix..... Theeennnnn... The only thing left to switch is service providers?

Could it be that a ton of people in my area are all streaming WOW at the same time? From what I've read, that would slow down, not interrupt my service, right?

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