Earworm woke me up.

Christina Aguilera feat. Redman "Dirrty"

Except a line went "I keep my car looking like Buster crash dummy drove" and now I want to jam it with geeky references.

Two bloody noses in one night. It's going to be one helluva night if I have to stay up attempting to keep the damage clotted.

Oh no @Bigsimsfan12 I'm so sorry to hear you are having such a tough time!

I fear that I am losing my mind, seeing things that don't exist and just worn out from being stuck in a quarantine.

I'm not physically sick, but my mind is playing tricks on me because I am inside the house the majority of the day and week.

Reminiscing about the 'good old days' has ruined my day. The only friend I have hasn't talked to me in six months, my mental illness is getting worse, my sanity is dropping - depression rising. My brother hates me and the family, and wants to sell our land. Oh a whole lot. I wish someone would just talk to me. Does that sound needy? :/

Hey @simsample , do you have discord? Wanna chat maybe?

@PANDAQUEEN Are you able to go out and take a walk at all, or even just sit somewhere where you can watch some birds and insects and trees? I find it helps for me, just to do some mindfulness thinking (being in the moment and taking note of your senses, what you feeland hear and smell) out in the open.

@HarVee Aww, sorry you are feeling so bad! I do have Discord but don't use it often, I can't keep up with live chat! But I do have lots of friends I talk to like 'pen pals' over email and private message here. So if you want to talk, send me a PM and I'll reply as soon as I can! :lovestruc:

@simsample, Asshole, USA is currently under a heat advisory and I take a number of medications that can adversely affect my health if I go outside in the sun.

It was sport-related. Favourite team not meeting expectations. But any little thing can ruin your day, in truth.

A package in the mail...and a bloody nose.

I purchased a book through eBay and it was a drawing book (kids because I rarely used the construction methods and freehanded it). As I was doing initial inspection, I found it defaced not with anything offensive, but with crayon scribbles. Paraffin wax is up there with ink. There goes $4 I'm not seeing in this lifetime.

Then I accidentally gave myself a 3rd nosebleed this summer. My father usually has to take care of these issues. (He used to get them when he was young and foolish.)

My mother is currently at a music festival with her friend, Wanda. Wanda...is more or less a firecracker in personality. She usually gifts us big bags of popcorn from her daughter's work.

Nice, never met her, but from my mother, she gets along fine and my mother has a new friend, Donna, who she helped train for her position at the warehouse. My mother is getting more easy-going in her age.

^ I've stopped taking the phone when I don't recognize the number (I usually check the number if it's a possible cellphone number or if I'm unsure, though). 9 out of 10 times it's either scammy or some kind of market analysis, and I don't want to answer either one. I usually just block the number.

Never call these people back. That's a scam in itself - one of the possible scams is that they'll keep you talking on a very expensive line, and you'll pay for it on your phone bill.

I know. And they come up with more schemes when the old ones aren't working any longer. They'll easily call a bunch of people just to get that one person who takes the bait.

Not too long ago I got one of those SMS scams that claimed my bank data was compromized, and a link to click to fix it - but I know the bank wouldn't do that (they even specify in no uncertain terms on their webpage that they won't send out messages like this), so I logged in via the regular website (not following an unsecure link in what's likely a scam) - everything was fine. Sent a note to the bank just so they'd know about the scam messages.

People should constantly be reminded that they should never give away their bank info (password, codes, payment details, etc.) to strangers, over the phone, and in uncertain situations, or click any kind of link they see. If it's an unexpected call and someone wants money from you (or Amazon cards, whatever - those card things are definitely scams, btw), it doesn't hurt to do a proper check first. Panic never leads to anywhere good, and if anyone gets mad at you for double-checking info, it's their problem (or they're trying to scam you).

My boyfriend works in a bank as a programmer. His department received an email from outside the company that claimed their data was compromised or whatever. The message also included a link, but luckily for them, the link led to the bank's internal website, offering resources on how to recognize and protect themselves from a phishing attack. Clever, but for the people that took the bait, also a scary moment, because not only would they (the workers) risk their own data, but the company data as well – a bunch of stuff gets compromised if the attackers get ahold of a business computer.

When I was at the doctor on Friday, it turned out I shrank. I used to be 5'3" when I was 15 when I stopped growing. Now that I am in my 30s, which is when adults start shrinking, I am 5'0".

If I ever get to share a kiss with Richard Epcar, he'd have to bend down to show affection (he's 6'6")

Not so much ruined, but I'm really tired of bug hunting.

One flippin' huge spider (about palm-size including legs - not having that one roaming around inside, that's for sure...), at least one isopod (those are getting on my nerves), three moths (one's been buggging me in my bedroom for a few days, one by the bathroom window, and one sat behind the toilet lid, just "Hello there!"), and one earwig trying to get into my bedroom (yeah... nope!), in the past two days.

I swear, any sort of card- or bank-related topic I read, I drop my jaw in disbelief and then remember it's the USA. Rarely anyone accepting tap & pay (hell, everyone still swipes), the country still using cheques, merchants using signatures to authenticate purchases in person, card skimming nearly anywhere (I understand an abandoned vending machine in a dark alley, but in physical stores?) and to top it off, big companies and merchants being hacked on a regular basis.

A sane conclusion my brain makes up is to not have a card there. But then, that's an even bigger issue, because if you don't use credit, you'll get no credit, loans, etc. approved in the future, because "they don't know if you're good enough."

How do you guys survive!?

Here in England I don't think I've swiped a card for at least 10 years or more; and the last cheque book I had was in 2004. I don't even carry a card anymore most of the time (all done by pay apps) and cash... the only time I've handled cash since the pandemic has been when the grandkid wanted to play one of those amusement arcade penny fall things. I am old enough to be able to convert prices to pounds, shillings and pence though!

I was the witness of a physical agression on the train Thrusday just because the woman thought the girl stole her wallet and the supposed robber denied. I cannot speak a lot here because I do not want to be mixed with racism and prejudice you know.This is not a person looks like somebody from an Ethnicity that causes troubles in general , this person is a trouble themselves. That's stupid.
Nobody could do absolutely anything because the train was crowded to explose, it was around half noon.
I just saw , the woman throw her to the railway station floor. Instead of calling Police.
I am right when I say : people are violent.

Since my small travel I am tired so tired !! I want to sleep all day long.

Anyways there are often harsh things that happened in the 15th of August's week... two years ago, a man who suffer from heavy mental troubles (I cannot judge the illness he suffers from because it's hard when we are not a Psychiatrist to guess) wanted the tramway's driver to kill him (smashing him?), whereas the tramway was stopped.
I was the witness of the scene.

In my country, banks hand out debit cards with nearly any account you have open. Most people have two types of checking accounts open: the current account (for daily transactions, including paying bills), and the giro account (which is some form of relic from the times our tax system didn't have surveillance over any and all accounts you had). When I first opened my bank account, I walked out with three pieces of plastic in hand: the debit card for my current account (I used it when my parents transferred allowance), debit for giro (I used it because student jobs pay out exclusively to giro accounts), and a student credit card with a $260 limit. One thing I learned is that I hate using debit cards online - mostly because the available balance gets blocked immediately, and I have to wait ages (read: 3-5 business days) for it to revert in case of a failed order, cancelled Uber, you name it. My credit card, on the other hand, was rarely maxed out, and gradually I switched over to using my credit card pretty much the same way you do - I only pay my balance in full each month, once I get the bill.

What I'm trying to say is what a scary system the FICO score actually is. I suppose we do have some sort of that system over here, but nowhere near as antagonizing as FICO. I'm pretty sure banks do see if you don't pay your bills on time, or how many credit cards and loans you've taken out at any given time, but surely they don't adjust your interest rate just because you have one too many or too few credit cards on file. It could be that I was reading credit card copypasta online or something, but those stories still send slight shivers down my spine.

Oh, and speaking of cashback, I think there's this one card that actually provides cashback over here. You have to spend over $135 every month on it, but doing so every month, I've managed to acquire $9 over a year of spending. Pretty lame. Rewards programs (and it's just this one bank) on the other hand are a total scam over here, and only for the upper class. Plastic is pretty bare-bones here: use it to delay payment, pay for stuff, or withdraw cash. Want any sort of American magic - be sure to pay up yearly membership fees and read the fine print. Also, no "dedicated" credit cards - I read online: at Target, I pay with my American Express 3D Blue Iris Magic Platinum(r) Card because it gives me xx % cashback, but if I buy electronics, I get my Chase Visa Gold - that is, unless I'm buying at Walmart; in that case I use my Walmart Mastercard...

That's absolutely fantastic! I do dream that one day (in Europe, however), I'll have such a future. With the inflation going on because the € keeps dropping in value due to the war on the east, buying groceries every week makes me want to take out a loan. Flour, (edible and mechanical) oil, sugar - anything and everything at least doubled in price - and it's only been months. Scared to think what will happen in years' time.That is one crazy system! The decimal systems made all of us fairly lazy with their neat "multiply by 10" scheme.

I think it may not be tied specifically to Tide pods - it's the fabric softeners that dampen (no pun intended) towels' ability to absorb water. I've noticed that I need to add only a slight amount of fabric softener (to every other wash!) when washing my bathroom towels.

^ That's true. Fabric softener has certain properties that don't go well with certain materials, especially synthetic ones. It can leave a waxy coating that makes it more difficult for water to go through the fabric. Unpleasant odors and stains can be more difficult to get rid of, and some fabrics can also get worn out faster. Other places you might want to skip out on the fabric softener are for instance denim, microfiber and synthetic sportswear.

Back when I had access to a dryer, I found it made the towels soft and absorbant. Hanging the towels to dry - with fabric softener, before I knew the above - always made them feel too stiff, so I honestly don't know if the fabric softener did anything useful. Never used the dryer for my clothes, though (too much wear-and-tear). Only towels and bed sheets (mostly because I didn't have the space to dry them properly).

Yeah I'm very much surprised how certain people toss everything and anything in the dryer - and they're not to blame! The dryers today have options such as denim, shirts, blouses instead of the standard cotton/permanent press thing. Because every single T-shirt that I have says do not tumble dry (cotton falls apart on high temperatures).

My biggest pet peeve though definitely has to be underwear with a care tag that says wash on 30 °C (86 °F) only. Excuse me? All the fluids of my body get mixed in that one fabric, and I'm not even supposed to wash it right? (And I'm not talking about those Calvin Klein or other high brands. I'm talking regular boxers!) I mean, it does say that low with a purpose - the lining where the elastic waist band is starts to wear off if washed higher - but lately instead of paying attention to the shape and color of my underwear when buying new ones, I am on the lookout for a care label that says 60 °C, at least.

Something that almost ruined last evening?
Tried opening my site, and got a message *site doesn't exist*

Enough to get anyone a bit riled up. But It's happened once before, so I kinda hoped it was just a bug and would be back to working in a day or so. Turned out I was right, and it's back to working now. Apparently it happened to several others, too.

It's frustrating when it happens, though. Especially with sites going down left and right, Tumblrs being auto-deleted for no reason, and the first thought in your head is "what the *bleep* did I do?"

Got chewed out for being "lazy"...at least in her eyes.

My mom doesn't truly understand the burden of depression when combined with other mental health issues (all she has is depression).

For me, I want to voice act and sing. I want to set my own work hours. But she doesn't see that in me. She wants me to join a desk job and that crushed my spirit.

Spider gang is back. Three large spiders - two in my room and one peeking through the gap under the bathroom door - in three days. I swear, the moment there's even a smidge of autumn (and it's even nice weather!) those critters start banging on the door, wanting to get in, or peeking out from their hidey-holes. Absolutely no idea where they're hiding all year, but september/october they're everywhere!

The isopods are a year-round pest, except winter months (3-4 of those as well, and a moth - "go for the liiiiiight!", well, not when that light is my room, no thanks!). Those are annoying, but at least easier to catch than a runaway spider. The wall crawlers I just caught in a cup and removed, but the bathroom spider ran away in the tightest little spot it could find, under a drawer. Got it in the end, though...

Edit: 5 spiders in 4 days! 5!!! All big ones, too! I swear, they're having a party or something... And one of them is hiding up in the ceiling moldings in my bedroom and won't come out (unless it zoomed off somewhere else while I was sleeping - it pushed itself so deep into that hide-hole nobody could've gotten that thing out). I tried, but on my way out to get a long stick to scare it with, another spider sat in the hallway just "hello there!". Smacked it with a shoe. I've had it up to here with these critters...

At least it's the big ones and not the mega-huge we had a few years back. Those were almost as big as my entire hand. These are about the size of my palm (plus/minus, counting the legs - which is big enough, but at least they fit inside a cup/glass/whatever I can catch them in, and they're easier to catch than the small ones).

Half a day later, the last spider is still sitting up in that corner, hiding. Peeked out for a few minutes just to say "I'm still here, yeh know" but I tried to coax it down with a stick, which had the opposite effect, and it zoomed back into its hidey-hole. If it doesn't reappear somewhere further down, it's vacuum cleaner next...

Aaaaand gone with the wind.

A while ago my boss told me I had to use up some of my holidays, so I booked a few single days off at random, one being today.

My favourite thing about having a day off is staying up late the night before (doing sims stuff normally), and having a lie-in, I love sleeping!

With hindsight today was really bad timing - I'm on my period, so have had crippling headaches all week, and apparently today is the caretakers's day to mow the lawn.

So my 'lie-in' (alarm set for 11:30am) went like this:
7:30am = Postwoman puts letter through my door (my letterbox is metal so it bangs) and chats to my neighbour
8:15am = My friend texts me about going out at the weekend - I put my phone on silent at this point
9:45am = My mother 'pocketdials' me, the vibrating of the phone woke me up, so I had to ring her back to check no-one had died
10:00am = Can't get back to sleep as it feels like my skulll is about to crack open, get up to take some cocodamol (Thanks period headache)
11:00am = Caretaker starts mowing the lawn (his ride on mower is so loud he even has to wear ear protectors)
11:15am = Spam phonecall - I don't answer these but the vibrating phone woke me up
12:00 = After pressing snooze a few times, give up and get out of bed (the caretaker is still mowing the lawn)

When I'm at work, no-one ever wants to talk to me, but when I'm trying to sleep, I'm flavour of the month for some reason!

I want to go out once a week, on the weekend - but always end up getting asked to 2 or 3 things, I find it really hard to make the money stretch, and there is a definite element of 'can't be arsed' too! I don't get excited about nights out anymore, like I did when I was younger, but it's the only time I see other humans now that I'm working from home, so I feel like I have to or else I'll get lonely.