Today my dad broke down an old room so i was helping him move blocks and whatever goes between blocks to make them stick and small remains of blocks, In total i moved 500+ kg (for all the silly geese 1100+ lbs) and now I'm laying in bed and my wrists hurt. Even when i opened the fridge door it hurt 🤕. My fingers also hurt, when i touch them, from helping him brake the blocks and walls.

Jennie was looking through the microscope at something she had not seen before. Under the glass slide a sliver of human tissue was growing large by the second. This would make sense if it were cancerous cells she was looking at, but she wasn’t. As far as the test sample said, these were ordinary human cells, harvested for no particular reason.
“Gunnar, do you happen to know who’s cells these are?” she asked, without looking up.
“As far as I know from a car crash victim, this morning,” he said, while balancing two beakers on top of each other absentmindedly. “Donated his body to science.”
Jennie was still peering through the lens as she noticed that the cells weren’t just multiplying, they were changing. They behaved like stem cells, in that they were taking on different traits while growing, except these weren’t stem cells.
“Can you get me more information on the cadaver, Gunnar?” she asked.
With a theatrical sigh Gunnar stepped away from his balancing act and started browsing through the files on the desktop in front of him.
“There isn’t anything special noted. It says he was a biology teacher, divorced, killed on impact in a frontal collision at high speed. Only thing of note was an off hand note from the coroner about an unusual lack of trauma you’d expect from a collision like this,” Gunnar said.
“And what happened to his organs?” asked Jennie, not even sure why she did so.
“Let me see,” said Gunnar as he browsed through the cadaver history. “Heart, liver and kidneys were marked for transplant. Rest was unsalvageable.”
By now the tissue under the microscope was pushing away the slide. Jennie had to remove it and dissect it to further study this remarkable process. Gunnar and her went at it for a couple more hours, making several notes, before putting their research on hold for the night.
The next morning Jennie came in early. Putting her bag on the counter, she opened the fridge to take out the samples from yesterday. When she took off the lid she almost dropped it with a yell. Where she had left the sample and the slide from yesterday, now lay half a hand and a human eye staring back at her. Sitting down on the chair behind her and giving herself a rest, she contemplated her next steps. Could it be that this tissue was regenerating it’s host from just a couple of cells. That would be some sci-fi horror shit she hadn’t signed up for. But she was also a scientist at heart, who had maybe stumbled on her way to a Nobel fucking prize.
First she was going to wait for Gunnar and to pass the time she put on the news. The news anchor spoke about an accident down Main Street with an ambulance involved. Not much was known, but it seemed to be a hit on a transplant transport. World was getting crazier each day. No suspect was arrested, but they had found an empty carrier with no sign of the organ except a blood trail. Following the trail they had apparently found a person of interest, but his mental state made it impossible to get any useful information out of him. The news showed a picture of the man they had found and oddly enough Jennie felt like she recognized the man from somewhere.
“That’s our traffic victim from yesterday,” gasped Gunnar in the door opening.
Jennie hadn’t heard him coming in, but now she remembered where she had seen that face. It was on the coroner report Gunnar was browsing yesterday. As well as those eyes. She leaped on her feed to grab the container that still sat open on the counter, where she had left it. She took out the human eye and held it up next to the picture on the TV. Same color, same iris approximately.
“No way!” she exclaimed.
Gunnar stepped into the room, dropping his bag on the floor before taking place behind the desktop, frantically searching for the report of their tissue donor.
“They’re the same guy,” he said. “How is that possible?”
“I don’t know,” Jennie said. “But I’m pretty sure we’re going to be able to ask him that in a day or two.” Smiling she slapped a sticker on the container that held the hand and put the eye back in. Jennie and Gunnar’s Nobel Prize Project. She wrote on it as she cut of another slice of tissue to study for the day.
“Request everything they can find about what our guy did after those biology lessons of him,” she tasked Gunnar.

I'm 22 years old. I know how incredibly stupid this story and my decision-making ability will seem but oh well, I'm not even able to talk about this to my therapist.Last year, I had some issues in my life that were affecting me and I was also feeling incredibly lonely.
One day, I downloaded a hookup app out of curiosity just for a single day (I would do the same with Tinder, one in a while...install, experiment and delete the same day). There was that man who didn't seem like others. He seemed nice with tons of charisma, experimented and I really appreciated how he took the time to talk about my preferences, show his STDs test results, know my boundaries and offer me to go home anytime if I didn't feel comfortable anymore.
He gave me his address. I didn't think much about it and the next day, I took the bus to that destination. I felt calm as I sat down on that chair, reality didn't hit me until I was right in front of his door, ringing the bell. He texted me to go to his backyard and my heart started to race. It was like my survival instinct finally kicked in when I was confronting a potentially dangerous situation. A tall figure with a black hoodie appeared in front of me and hugged me. He took me to his room inside his basement. What.the.F. are you doing? What the hell (Panick intensifies). He tried to make me feel more relaxed by initiating a conversation with me and repeating that I could go home anytime. He was super confused because he thought that I was joking about being a virgin. He couldn't believe how a seemingly well-mannered ''pure'' university student would do that when most of the girls on that app were truely problematic or F-UP.
Slowly, things lead things to another and we do the deed. I'm enjoying it until the penetration. It hurt a lot, he literally shoved it in and he said that it was because he had to force it in order to break it, let him do because he's experimented. It resulted in a v*ginal tear. Then in the middle of it, he stopped and told me ''Hey..I can't continue like this since you're too honest and humble, not being scared to be authentic with me. I...I lied to you. I said I was 39 y.o. Actually...I'm 42.''. What the f*? My heart started to race, I looked at him with my eyes wide open. I told him that it wasn't that big of a lie so I let it go. After the deed, we layed on the bed, naked and we talked about life for hours. He told me how incredibly stupid I was for giving my virginity like that to a stranger instead of a loved one. He cooked me a meal and drove me back to the subway.
Fast forward, we agreed to meet once a week. Our initial sessions were painful because of my v*ginal tear and I found him impatient...but slowly, it healed and it started to get better. He said ''Wow..I didn't think that it would be so good with you'' or thinking that some things would practically be impossible with me. He would tell me that he wouldn't sleep with other girls, because of how vulnerable I am and how he didn't want to make me feel less pretty or worthy. Besides the s*x, he would talk to me about his high school days, show me his younger self pictures, storytell me about his crazy life anecdotes. He was in 8 LTR and slept with more than 400 girls or so, popular, was considered the most handsome guy back then and still in contact with many friends from hid childhood. He would show me movies, we'd have fun cooking, try restaurants that i've never ate before. He would give me many life advices and listen to my issues. I'd give him back whatever he does with me with pastries, self-care products. I was impressed by his social skills (He could do a conversation with anyone and he really had his games with girls). He's the most extrovert, enthusiastic, confident and funny guy i've ever met. He became...that amazing new wise, cool figure that I never had in my life. I was sheltered for most of my life and compared to people my age to this day, I don't have most life experience..so I was finally exploring and doing many things i've never done before.
H*RPES INCIDENT : One day, I woke up with itchy painful bumps. I went to a clinic and two doctors confirmed it was genital h*rpes. How? His tests were negative and why would he lie? When I announced it to him, he couldn't believe it. I swore to him that I never slept with anyone else and he then mentioned he had cold sores but couldn't understand how I got genital herp*s from somewhere. He drove me the next day to a clinic. After some research and consulting, he felt so bad that he begged me to ask for his help. He started to have nightmares. Why would out of 400 girls, she'd be the one who would get it? I couldn't blame him because he didn't truely know that cold sores could transfer genitally and he tried to make his best to assist me.
RECENTLY : One day, he told me how he wanted to change his ringtone on his samsung for a custom meme sound, but he didn't know how, so I proposed to help him. As I on it, I accidently saw on a tab, that he was still active on this app. My heart sank but what did I expect? I knew what I would sign myself in....but he just shouldn't have said that I was currently enough. Oh well, I should take people words more lightly. I believe it when he says that he hasn't slept with anyone else since we've been frequenting each other. I'll just enjoy the moment and not overthink it...but I feel like i'm holding him from the opportunity of sleeping with other girls while he's still in his 40's (I feel like he wants it). Last month, he said that I was the best at bl*wjobs and that he wouldn't exchange me for anybody, and that I was enough. I liked doing it but hearing that, I was able to do it for 40 minutes...but recently, I noticed how he barely gives me 5 minutes of foreplay. I confronted him about it and he said that it was his mistake and that he'll fix it.
It have been a pretty learning interesting experience no matter how taboo or stupid it is, but this is such a weird relationship that I can't even let people know.

It's time... It's way past time to refresh this kitchen and I'm stuck on where to go with it and I'm looking for help. It's a small kitchen. Roughly 66 square feet walkable space. Roughly 115 square feet for the kitchen itself when appliances, countertop and pantry are included.
Let's go over what you see. Pictures are in the afternoon with pretty much their fullest natural light + lights on. An ancient laminate countertop. An over the sink light fixture that has done the Lord's work but needs to retire. An even more ancient vinyl sheet on the floor which transitions to hardwood floor (pine) on both sides of the kitchen. Oak cabinet doors and door frames with oak covered particle board everything else. New stainless steel range and dishwasher. Stainless steel microwave and fridge will have to be done later as we'd like to do stainless appliances throughout. Ceiling and walls are Ben Moore White Dove.
In an ideal world, I'd bring the hardwood floors into the kitchen but that's a no-go for right now as it would trigger a full blown kitchen remodel. I'm torn between LVP flooring and tile. I've been looking at Lowe's Gary Ashe and White Aspen. Home Depot's Chancellor, Calhoun and even Slate. I'm going to re-cover the laminate countertops. I'm not sure how viable an option restaining the cabinets is as the faux oak tops on particle board have some visible sides. We don't want to default to the white and gray look for cabinets, floors and countertop but it seems to be where we wind up. I know we need to be on the lighter, warmer side but just not sure how to get there. What's in the budget is to replace the flooring, re-cover the countertop, replace light fixtures, paint or possibly restain the cabinets, new cabinet fixtures, repaint the walls if needed. I'd rather not do a backsplash at this stage but I won't say no either.
Thank you so much for taking the time to look at this and help!
Edit to add: it would be nice to actually include the images, lol

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Updated May 2023
After changing reddit accounts and about a year since posting it, it seemed prudent to throw this up for visibility. :)
Few things are worse than not knowing what happened to a loved one. Which is what convinced Robin Ayou to get into a drop shuttle with a lifepod with basically nothing, then fire herself down onto an ocean planet where the only place that she could investigate was a tiny little patch of barely-even-land and pray she can survive long enough to find a way to get off the planet.
Nobody ever told Robin she was great at forward planning.
https://subnauticamap.io/belowzero - This map will provide direction/orientation for this guide, but BEWARE! It marks spoilers if you turn those on!

Touchdown

Once you've landed, you'll find some food and water to start you off scattered around the ship. You won't have to worry about getting cold, since standing next to your now-burning ship will warm you up and the meteors coming down don't actually paste you, they're mostly to stress you out.
Note that may not be the case later. The weather in this game is a serious thing.
Once you have your stuff, you'll find the drop pod on your HUD. Don't go straight to it, though. As soon as you hit the water, look for an indentation in the ground. You'll find some copper in there. Then, follow the northern glacial wall (That's to your right when you're looking at your lifepod) until you find a small cave, which will have some silver and gold. That'll get you started off nicely. Get to your lifepod, take a look at your fabricator. You'll find that the items you have blueprints for can be pinned to the top-right in your PDA by clicking on them in the blueprints tab, a useful feature when hunting for materials.
Your goals right now are your basic survival tools. Note that the kelp forest is a bad place to hold your stuff in your hand. The sea monkeys are kleptomaniacs and will gank your stuff. You can totally get it back though, it just means chasing after them a bit, which is annoying and wastes time. However, if you pull out a flare and hold it in front of them, they freak out and run away from you for a little bit.

Time To Get Rolling

Your first task, as indicated by the PDA, is to find Delta Island. This becomes relatively easy once you find a compass. If you've gone to the emergency cache you'll have the beacon blueprint so stock up on them before traveling so you can mark things. You're going to be making a lot of these but since you can toggle them it's not so bad, you'll just need a lot of beacons. Its south of where the drop pod lands. As you spread out your searching range you'll find that the sea floor drops down among twisty coral structures.
This area is called Twisty Bridges. It's the main go-to for coral samples and you'll want those. There's small bits of Alterra stuff scattered around the area. It's here you'll find mobile vehicle bay, sea truck and seaglide fragments. When you've been in the area for a bit, you'll hear what sounds like an SOS. It's worth checking that out and you'll find that this spot goes deeper than you might suspect. Makes you wonder what's down there, doesn't it?
Beyond Twisty Bridges lies the thermal spires, an area of volcanic activity and thermal smokers. Many sea truck fragments are here. The wildlife here is noisy and menacing sounding but if you don't hang out next to them they're easy to avoid. Smacking one with a blade will made it instantly turn and get the hell away from you. They don't like being hit. On the border between thermal spires and twisty bridges someplace is a small foundation platform with external grow beds for you to scan, but you can get these at Omega Station later if you're not sweating on it. There are large crevices and a few volcanic fissures out here. Beware the heat vents, but exploring those areas can pay off, later.
On the island, you'll find blueprints you need, as well as some materials like sulfur and horseshoe nuts. The latter are very useful to plant in the seabase you'll be wanting. Take care to look around thoroughly for blueprints you'll find useful, as not all of them are inside the buildings. Also, keep a sharp eye out for music disks which you'll find scattered throughout the game, especially in bases.
On the south-west corner of the island is a precursor artifact you can scan. Look for the beach with all the pengwings on it. The habitat builder can be found on a box outside Delta Station. Make sure to scan the map inside the sea base. There's also a PDA up by the comms tower.

Let's Go Explorin'

So, by now you've visited Delta Island, have had a good look around Twisty Bridges and you've probably discovered the sea monkey caves in Kelp Forest. If you haven't gone exploring in those, you really ought to. You'll find more MVB fragments there but that's also where the propulsion cannon blueprint can be found, the laser cutter, as well as a fair amount of gold and some precursor artifacts as well. Once that's all done with and taken care of, you've probably got at least a tiny seabase, but if you don't... what are you doing?
Go on, shoo. Go make a base.
...
Okay, got one now? Good! Hopefully it's someplace nice. Your basic sea truck can't get down to where you want to be going next but a depth module will take care of that. A MkII depth module will let you get to the very bottom of where you want to go. Where do you want to go? Koppa Mine. You'll find it on the western side of the island. Take care to look around when you find the door eventually, since there is a databox just inside the main doors, before you head down. It has the moonpool and will allow you to get that much earlier than you would through scanning it.
To drive the seatruck inside the mine, drive north from the entrance of Koppa mine, you'll come across a volcanic fissure in the seafloor nearby which has JUST enough space for you to fit your seatruck through it. The fissure leads right into Koppa Mine, allowing you to drive the seatruck inside!
The other alternative is actually spare air tanks. Totally a viable solution so long as you remember to refill them by equipping them once you're out of the water. You can swap them out mid-dive and extend your breathing time, which is handy since the prawn fragment blueprints you require are kinda far down there. If you're free diving in this way, note that the bottom chamber of the mine has a hole in the ceiling leading to a small cave system which will lead you back to the surface, as well as having a number of oxygen plants to keep you from choking on the way. The entrance to that is almost right next to the Delta Station docks.
Also note that Site Zero, which has useful blueprints, can be found by hugging the northern glacial wall and heading east along it. You can find it by checking breaks in the ice, one of them leads up to a small hidden cave where the base lies. But if you don't find it, you'll be directed here later. It just has some useful things to scan and a lantern fruit tree. There is a music disk here.

Way Down South

By now you've probably answered the SoS. If not, go do that. As you hang out with Al-An, he'll give you prompts to artifacts that you haven't found yet, if you dawdle in looking for the required number. At this point you should have the following:

• A sea base, even a basic one. The databox in Koppa Mine's entrance will grant you the moon pool but if you missed it, you can get the blueprint later following the storyline.
  
• Seaglide, knife, propulsion cannon, beacons, repair tool, scanner, flashlight, builder tool
  
• Seatruck with at least one depth module
  
• Prawn blueprints
  

Building the Prawn is surprisingly easy, but requires lithium, a material you probably haven't seen a lot of yet. There's a little scattered around in thermal spires, but only a little. You can find a lot at purple vents, but be careful to avoid the doom shrimp. A chelicarate hangs out here. There are other things in this area which are relevant to you which you'll want to mark out for later. There is a small seatruck crash site with a variety of fragments out here, if you find it, look around carefully for the music disk that's here.
Following the marker for the unknown pilots last position, you will find a green area rich in confusing cave systems. This area is the lilypads zone. Old girl can be found down near the signal, just look for the shimmering things on the wall, the hive minds. She's near them. Grab the seatruck defense module she has in there. Be sure to pick up the databox directly outside her base to get the stillsuit as well and if you follow the caves down where they turn blue you'll stumble on an old thermal plant of hers, where another databox lies. There's fragments scattered all over this zone as well as The mercury II stern, which lays on the border between lilypads and purple vents, as well as the bow, which is a little further in on the western side of lilypads. Be sure to explore the area thoroughly and take note of the massive crevasse near the middle of the zone. Inside the chunk of land here is Omega Lab, which will net you the external grow beds, nuclear plant, nuclear disposal as well as a couple new beds and the antenna plants. It's in this area you'll need to search for nickel later, so building a scanner station here is a good idea. Deep Lilypads holds an Al-An body part you'll require. Deep Lilypads is also the only place you can acquire the materials to manufacture benzene.
Don't go too close to the Lily Paddlers, unless you like being off your face, in which case go say hi, it's hilarious. Trust me. ;D
In order to disable the satellite for Dances-With-Reapers, you're going to need to wreck dive the Mercury II. Two of its sections can be found in purple vents, while the bow - the largest - can be found in Lilypads, west of Omega Labs floating island. You'll need the laser cutter for this. Your goal is to scan the parallel processors in the wreck, but there's all kinds of really useful stuff in there too, not to mention all the titanium. ALL the titanium. So be sure to drop beacons on these things, bring a spare air tank and bring your pathfinder tool. If you don't have the pathfinder tool, go look around in the caves full of emeralds between Phi Robotics docks and Phi Robotics itself. There is one up on a small ridge in one of those caves. If you can't find it, don't worry though, just bring flares and use them as breadcrumbs while diving to prevent yourself from getting too lost. The alien containment tank, reinforced dive suit, parallel processor can be found in these. A music disk is in the bow section on a bridge console.

LAND HO!

Aaah, glacial basin. How I hate thee. The basin is split into four sections, two for each part of the basin, north and south. South is where you'll probably end up first. You can find the docks to access this area by tracking along the northern glacial wall and continuing west until you come to the eye jellyfish. Check the radio tower next to the docks, there is a music disk there. The upper southern area is where Phi Robotics lays, as well as frost vase plants and spicy peppers. Both of those are excellent crops to grow, as they net you useful things. The spicy peppers scattered throughout the entirety of glacial basin essentially means that you'll not starve while out here so long as you're paying attention to what you're doing. Note that snow stalkers REALLY HATE FLARES. They'll make your trips out here annoying, even in the prawn, which is the best way to ensure the weather isn't a factor for you. Sometimes they're in the caves. Flares will make exploring these much safer.
You can get to lower glacial basin through the upper part, but it's a bit confusing and I prefer to access it via the glacial tunnel. Head south along the western glacial wall from the glacial basin docks and you'll find a tunnel which eye jellyfish are hanging out near. This tunnel leads directly to lower glacial basin and provides a convenient way to access the area without needing to travel through upper GB every time.
Northern Glacial Basin can be accessed by scanning the hydraulic fluid on the bridge, then repairing the bridge to cross it. DO NOT GO HERE WITHOUT THE PRAWN. SERIOUSLY. The grip arm is very handy to have out here and if you haven't found it, use a scanner room in Lilypads to find the sea monkey nests but it's not necessary so don't stress if you don't have it. Just don't use the snow fox. It's useless and handles like crap.
The iceworms here are dangerous if you stay still too long. Take your time, explore thoroughly and mark out any Alterra sites you find with beacons. A couple of these have the blueprints for the Thumper and this is your ticket to working in this area safely. A thumper will keep the iceworms away within a radius, ensuring you don't get whacked while picking stuff up outside the prawn.
Along the western wall of this zone is a small cave with three large ion cube deposits. Keep a sharp eye out for it, you definitely want those. At the north-east tip of the zone you'll find ice worm corpses you can scan that don't put you in mortal danger during the attempt.
Really funny seeing them pop up and chow down on snow stalkers, though. Pay back sucks, don't it? Al-An's body part is out here. Keep an eye out for the precursor cables and make sure to check all the caves, because the master gateway leading to Phi Robotics is here as well. The room containing the gateway leads to a small docks and tunnel with an ice wall you can cut through to easily access the middle of northern glacial basin from the docks. There is a music disk at those docks as well.

Going Down?

By now you're probably wondering where to go. Remember purple vents? The engine part of the mercury II has a crevasse leading down to where you need to go next. Once you've found the crystal caves, you better hope you picked up the defense module at Marg's base. It's sitting inside her room and sometimes gets knocked to the floor when Preston jumps you. You'll be wanting it for what's down here.
The Shadow Leviathan.
Ohhhh boy are they ever aggressive. Good news for you though, they patrol around on a set route and they don't go through the whole of crystal caves. You'll be looking for fragments here, as well as materials. Lots of gold, silver and kyanite in the crevasses in the floor of these caves. An Al-An body part, the final one, can be found at the bottom of a tunnel which is mouthed by a circular formation of crystals. Once you have it, you'll want to go even deeper to find the fabrication facility, forcing you to wander crystal caves until you find the blood crystal caves.

Oh Yeah, It's All Comin' Together

So, you now have everything you need to build your home boy a body. Once that's done, you'll be wanting to wrap up the bit with Sam. If you've explored lower southern glacial basin, you'll have found the cave with the frozen leviathan. Oh, and grab the music disk in the security bunker. Exploring this cave gets you some useful stuff. You know the little caves here with the blinking markers? Explore these with spy penglings! There's some useful stuff in some of them, actually. Including the antidote Sam hid. You can use that on the loader located on the upper part of the leviathan in the cave.
And... that's that! That's the whole game.

Tips and Tricks

• The air bladder can pull a tiny amount of air into your tank. It's not very much but those 10 seconds of extra air can save your life in a deep pinch.
  
• You can find lots of quartz if you hug the northern ice wall and roam east of west, but be careful of the brinewings. They'll freeze your ass, which can be inconvenient if you're low on air.
  
• Frost Anemone Hearts are actually a really great food source and should be picked up any time you can get them. They'll last forever in the fridge.
  
• Made your base with some helpful sea monkey neighbours? After awhile they stop stealing from you and begin trying to help you - but they don't know what you want! If you mark blueprints in your PDA, they'll try and bring you materials for that if they can.
  
• Most predators will back off if you feed them a fish before they bite you. This includes leviathans. You might still get hurt from them slamming into you or something but feeding them a fish will usually cause them to stop attacking you. This doesn't work against the shadow leviathan, it hates you and everything you hold dear. It doesn't know what those things are, but it doesn't care either. It just does.
  
• Spare air tanks are great and can be kept stocked in your sea truck, but remember to put them on to refill them.
  
• Animals will react to your behavior in some instances. Feel tree to try new things with them like feeding fish. You can even ride on glow whales! Some of them really hate flares too, like sea monkeys and snow stalkers.
  
• Surface bases are a completely viable thing in this game and some of the ice sheets have holes in them, allowing you to have a surface base with a dropped section for moonpools and water filters. Water filters will work outside of the water, but you don't get salt and they're much slower.
  
• Get the cold suit as soon as you can. It's in Phi Robotics. It changes your outside time from 2 minutes to 7 minutes, which is a huge difference. Without it, the prawn is the only way to explore the surface without constantly stressing about freezing to death. You can find the tufts of fur in snow stalker caves where the pups are, make sure you have a flare if you don't like getting nommed on.
  
• Can't figure out how to get on top of the ice sheet, but you want a base up there? Swim down deep and use the air bladder to get some height. You can build a hallway up there, then drop a ladder down into the water to make a surface base with an underwater docking section. Alternatively, you can probably get up there with the prawn and the grip arm.
  
• Speaking of the prawn and grip arm, you can totally launch yourself with it. Attaching the grip to the ground and using it to pull yourself into a jump will get you some serious air time, which is helpful for getting up small ridges on the surface. If you break the map and managed to get above it in the prawn, return to the player area. Being up there breaks progression completely and the only interesting thing is a leftover animation testbed east of glacial basin. The collision on terrain is also patchy here and it's possible to fall through the ground into the void. In your prawn. So don't screw around up there too much.
  
• Spicy peppers and coffee will both warm you up while on the surface, which makes the spicy peppers scattered all over the place pretty valuable.
  
• The greenhouse you get sent to can be found in Lilypads on an iceberg. The three large icebergs here all have things to find so be sure to search thoroughly.
  
• The crashed ship is a great place to get a lot of metal very quickly and will basically hand you a free sea base so long as you're willing to go keep picking it up. If you've already looted it all, give it awhile and check back later, sometimes new scrap shows up as the wrecks continue their eventual rot.
  
• Drop emergency caches of food, water, medpacks, batteries, power cells and flares along with a beacon and never be caught short on supplies because you went out looking for stuff and forgot to bring rations. D'oh!
  
• A small base specifically for replacing vehicles is very helpful when you lose one. Have the materials gathered beforehand and you won't have to spend a long time struggling to get them together after the bad feeling of having your stuff crunched.
  
• Be sure to look for creature eggs out in glacial basin
  
• Rock punchers are jerks and will kill stuff in your containment tank, so now you know, and knowing is half the battle. And the lives of your fish.
  
• There is no good way to scan the leviathans, but your scan progress gets saved if you don't scan other things, so letting it chow down on your seatruck and scanning it while it's distracted, then repairing your vehicle after, will allow you to get the whole scan after a couple rounds.
  
• Make scanner rooms everywhere. Solar panels and bio reactors are your friend. Nuclear power is better but not viable in early game. If you need magnetite, go to the glacial tunnel and look at the ice walls just where the tunnel curves upwards, you'll find ore fissures there with magnetite inside.
  
• Beacons, beacons, beacons. I can't stress this enough, litter them EVERYWHERE. You can toggle them on and off in your PDA, so having a bajillion around the map isn't really a problem and they're really useful.
  
• There are more precursor artifacts than Al-An mentions to you. Keep a sharp eye out, look everywhere and scan for ion cubes. Check icebergs for moulins, AKA hollow chambers inside. You'll need a laser cutter to access the ones you find.
  
• Tree Spires has a hell of a lot of uraninite in its cave systems, it's a good spot to stock up on it. Beware the chelicarate in the zone.
  
• The crystal caves are roughly the shape of a spiral. Knowing this makes navigating them a lot less mystifying. Mind you, it's still difficult. As usual, use beacons a lot. Also make sure to explore the cracks in the floor of the cave!
  
• Penglins/Pengwings drown if you leave them in the alien containment tank after hatching :( They have to hold their breaths. If you breed them, make sure to set them free.
  
• There are no large nodes for lead. You must search for galena outcrops with the scanner room. It's pretty much the only way to stock up on the stuff. The other one people have a lot of trouble with is Magnetite, which can only be found in lower glacial basin. You'll want a scanner room to find it. Upper glacial basin has a TON of lithium if you can handle the ice worms... as well as three large mining nodes for ion cubes hidden in a cave.
  
• Keep exploring Upper Glacial Basin even if you find the precursor body part. There are ice worm corpses and a slipgate out here for you to find. The slipgate links to the Phi Robotics slipgate and has a tunnel which leads directly back out to the docks that you can only cut open from the inside. There's also a music disk down there on a crate so keep a sharp eye out when you find it.
  

Good luck, Robin!

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Okay so removing bottom bins from the fridge for cleaning I noticed (near impossible not to) that the water tanks - the ones that look like 2 large water bottles) are filled with literally yellow water. We just got one of those home water softener systems in a year or two ago, the ones that take rock salt & I'm not sure if that has anything to do with why the water in there is so murky/dirty/gross?
Thing is, theres no leaking whatsoever, the water comes out clear & clean & if it weren't for the periodic clean of the unit itself, id be none the wiser.
My understanding is those tanks pre-cool the water system, i understand it goes thru a filter, but as per the water softener company rep there isnt a need with their filtration and softener system to have any need to refilter at end point of dispersion. Tanks & line obv arent damaged & theres full pressure & no leaking, could it really be the plastic tanks are that dirty? OEM part replacement is like over $100 cant i just clean em? Or is that not even the problem & its somewhere else in the chain of water system here? I dont think it's the fridge filter itself cuz the water comes out relatively fine compared to the yellow color in the tanks. & Water constantly runs thru them as it gets used so is it just a dirty tank that needs removal, cleaning, then reattachment? Its one thing if cracked or broken but its just a plastic bottle id prefer not to replace if its not needed. Any help would be great i do have pics if that helps
Thanks & happy memorial day everyone

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Memory transcript subject: Erim, lieutenant of the Kratotl extermination fleet Date: [standardized human time] October 18th, 2136
I woke up on the snowy ground. It was so cold it’s as if there was never any heat at all. I looked over and saw my father on the ground next to Ciran. The damn Harchen was going to freeze if we didn’t get him somewhere warm.
“Dad wake up” I shoved my dad till he opened his eyes and got up. After checking our surroundings we picked up Ciran and started walking to what we think was south?
We walked for so long and far that my legs were getting tired. I feel to the ground. I couldn’t go any further. I noticed that my father had also fallen over from exhaustion.
I looked over and saw vehicle nearing us when it stopped. A person then exited.
It was a human covered in winter clothing. It had a cane with it and walked over to me. This is it this is how I’m going to die. At the hands of these evil predators!
“Damn you look like shit, come on you bastard” the human dragged me and put me in the back seat of his vehicle. He then went and put my dad right next to me and put Ciran into the passenger seat next to him.
As he drove I started to fall asleep. I drifted off into my mind.
When I woke up I was on a couch with my dad and Ciran was near a fireplace. I looked around at the walls.
Dear Inatala there were mounted heads on the wall. Some prey some predators. They’re were even birds that looked like they were still alive but unmoving.
I looked around in fear. Was I on Earth or an Arxurs wet dream? I was looking at this tan furred creature with foward facing eyes when I heard footsteps and a cane hitting the floor from behind me.
“Ah I see you’ve met the cougar” the old human slowly walked towards a chair with his cane. His grey hair and beard glistening against the light of the fire place.
“Met the prick when I was huntin in Appalachia with an old pal of mine” the human graced his hand across the fur of the cougar head. I backed into the couch cushions ready to run at any moment. My feathers were all puffed up.
“Y-your a p-predator plea don’t e-eat me!” The human stopped at one of the big brown horned heads of a prey animal and turned towards me obviously ready to tear me apart.
“Will you shut the fuck up with the oh please don’t eat me shit it’s fucking annoying alright!” He banged his cane on the wooden floor which woke up my father.
My father backed into the couch when he saw the human. He reached over for his weapon but couldn’t find it.
“Get away from me and my son!” Dad put me behind his feathers. I shuddered as the human went towards a fridge and pulled out a brown bottle. He then took a huge sip and walked over to a soft chair and sat down.
“Alright if we can cut the bullshit my name is Sean and I found you boys stranded in the middle of nowhere” the human took another drink of the brown bottle.
“And if I have to hear anymore of the bullshit of me eating you then so help me god I will chuck you back into the snow!” The human slammed his cane against the floor making a loud noise which startled me and my dad.
“Now I called the UN and they should be able to pick you guys up in a couple days now in the meantime I’m going to need some help around the house” Sean got up slowly with the cane. He struggled with his old age.
He walked over to the tv and turned it on. Instead of the normal news he put on some weird streaming service.
“First job I have for you two is to get your lizard friend over there upstairs and into the guest bedroom bed, it’s the one with the blue door” he watched the tv while me and dad nervously went over to Ciran and picked him up. We walked towards the stairs and went up.
We walked in the hallway where we saw more animals that were dead on display and many paintings of prey animals and forests.
We found the room with the blue door and opened it. We then placed Ciran in the bed and covered him up and left the room.
“Son look at me” I turned towards my father.
“Whatever we do we must stay together. I will make sure everything is fine” we both hugged each other
I wondered to myself though.
How would we get out of here?

PayHourly Rate: $40/hour (3 hours max)ScheduleMon, May 29, 10:00 AM - Fri, Jun 2, 10:00 PMType of WorkKioskIndustryInformation Technology / CommunicationsWork
Location 1: St. Joseph's Health Centre

• 30 The Queensway (kiosk located in the cafeteria 1st Floor, Barnicke Wing)
• Temporarily park beside the Melynk Pavillion entrance / by the EV chargers
• Replace the wooden door that has become loose
• Return the door to KM Office for Repair

Location 2: Lago Condo

• 56 Annie Craig Dr (kiosk located in the Lobby near concierge)
• Street parking is available. Or park in the underground visitors' area
• Install Shims in the base of the Smart Fridge to eliminate vibration

I don't know what else to call this. I typically don't do cold brew but I accidentally bought a bag of ground coffee instead of whole beans. It didn't taste right in the French Press so I let the rest of the grounds steep for about 14 hours in the fridge using a 1:5 ratio. It tasted good black but I wanted to see how it would taste mixed with ice cream for a cold delicious treat. All I have is cookies and cream which seemed suited to be mixed with coffee. After mixing in equal parts ice cream and coffee in a blender, it tastes amazing. My only issue is I drank it too fast and need to make another one.
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End state is to have a decent out door movie set up. I would like the screen to be retractable. Would like the projector to have Bluetooth so I can buy multiple JBL flip5 and be spread through out the yard or on different family blankets. Not even sure where to start… Lumen, throw distance, pixel, 4k, LCD, 1080p. It’s all French to me….
Have about a 2k budget.

by Brian Maycock
I joined the vampire coven because I wanted to meet people not because I wanted to drink blood.
And obviously it wasn’t a real vampire coven. It was a bunch of teenagers my age and a bit older who were fond of wearing black clothes and watching movies about bloodsuckers and the rest.
And when I say meet people, I mean, meet girls.
Now that’s all clear, I can tell you what really happened next.
It was a Saturday night and the coven had gathered in the basement of one of our parents’ houses. It was a good set up, with a pool table and bowls crammed full of snacks.
There was a wide screen tv as well and an old series from the 1980s was showing. All the vampires on screen were completely gorgeous.
I stood in a corner eating a handful of chips, wishing I looked like that.
I was short sighted and had acne on my cheeks and chin. I’d hoped as I got older, this would clear up, but every morning there seemed to be a new, angry outburst.
I put the last of the chips in my mouth and pushed my glasses back up. None of the on-screen vampires wore glasses but I could not wear contact lenses without my eyes getting irritated.
Still, at least I had been accepted into the coven despite my complete lack of good-looking.
I’d moved with my folks to the town six months before and if it hadn’t been for the coven my weekends over the long summer break would probably have been totally solitary experiences.
As it was, I got to do things like this.
Things such as grinning at a girl who walked past on her way to get a drink from a bucket that was full of ice and bottles and tins.
In return, she blinked at me – which I took as a win as it was a lot more reaction than I usually got from girls when I dared smile at them.
She was called Beth and she wore a long, flowing black dress, that was carefully torn in places to show glimpses of more black fabric underneath.
With an awful feeling my complexion was flaring red – a long way from the pale skin of one of the cool undead on the widescreen – I went to get some more chips. Comfort eating had always been a thing for me.
With a fresh supply stacked up in my palm, I tried to concentrate on the tv. But it was no use, Beth was chatting to another girl, Jessica. She was wearing her blond hair up in a way that seemed impossibly sophisticated to me.
And as I tried and continued to fail at not staring, Matt breezed up to the girls. He had been picked for the football team at school and deliberately chosen not to play. He had a scar along most of one forearm as a result of a bike accident that had left bone sticking out. He also had stubble rather than the hairy mess that happens when people like me don’t shave. He was sickeningly cool.
Matt said something to Beth and Jessica and they all laughed.
I’d realized early on, that the three of them were the stars, and the dozen other members of the coven were in their orbit.
There were people like them in towns across the country, and people like me.
The only difference was, we were pretending to be a coven.
It sucked.
I looked at the chips in my hand. I wasn’t hungry but I ate them anyway.
Matt, Beth and Jessica were still in their huddle. And I was not the only person who was looking at them.
Amy wore the standard black. Her dress hung just below her knees and she had on black boots that were too big for her.
Like me, she did not look comfortable in her own skin and kept biting her lower lip as she stared over at the coven’s shining stars.
At Matt, anyway. I realized she only had eyes for him.
A girl had never looked at me like that and I felt an all too familiar sadness begin to overwhelm me.
Beth and Jessica meanwhile must have noticed the other girl making eyes at Matt and they gave her a look then leant in towards each other laughed.
From the smug look on his face, Matt knew exactly what was going on as well.
He gave Beth and Jessica a conspiratorial smile and headed over to the other girl.
I could see her cheeks colouring as he came closer and overheard him say, “Hey, we were thinking about getting out of lame central and doing something properly vampiric. Would you like to come along?”
A smile lit up her face and she nodded then followed Matt as he strolled back to Beth and Jessica. Their eyes shone with amusement.
I lifted my hand to my mouth and remembered I had no crisps left at the same moment I realized Beth was looking at me.
“Hey, Brad,” she said, “You want to come with us as well?”
I wanted to tell her that my name was Jeff not Brad. That I was perfectly happy eating chips and watching an old tv series, and that I could see right through her and knew what a shallow person she was really.
But I did none of these things.
I gulped and said, “Yes.”
Because she was beautiful.
I followed the four of them outside. Matt’s car gleamed under a streetlamp. He popped the lock then opened the passenger seat door and held it open.
I was surprised that neither Beth nor Jessica tried to get in. Instead, they climbed in the back seat.
Surely Matt wasn’t holding open the front door for me? I thought.
Amy glanced at me, and I could tell she was thinking exactly the same thing.
“My lady,” Matt said and indicated with a sweep of his hand that, yes, he was waiting for Amy to get in next to him.
She was shaking a little bit as she moved towards the car and got in.
If I could see it, so could Matt. And no doubt Beth and Jessica had as well and they were finding it hilarious.
I looked over at them and the space that was left in the back for me and forgot about Amy. I would be sitting next to them.
My legs felt like jelly as I got in. My right leg was very close to touching Beth’s left leg. There was no way it could not be.
And as Matt started the car and we set off all I was painfully aware that if I so much as twitched I would touch Beth.
It was intense, and it immediately got much worse.
Sitting so close to Beth and Jessica I began to smell their perfume – if it was perfume? Maybe it was just shower-gel and shampoo?
I had no idea, but it was the most amazing, overwhelming fragrance.
I started to shake then, as if someone was running an electric current through me.
And the inevitable happened. My leg touched Beth’s.
“Sorry,” I said in a hoarse voice.
Beth ignored me in a way that yelled, I am ignoring you loser.
I had to endure this until the car slowed to a halt. I climbed out and looked around, and was surprised to see we were parked in the graveyard on the edge of town. While I was standing there staring, Beth and Jessica linked arms and walked off. And Matt took Amy’s hand and led her after them.
Amy looked totally besotted and I imagined she felt like she was floating on air as they weaved their way in between the headstones.
By the dates on some of the headstones, I could tell we were in an old area of the graveyard and I could make out the dates on some of the headstones. The loved ones who were buried there had departed this mortal coil more than a hundred years before.
Some inscriptions I glanced at as I followed the others were too faded to read. There were a few broken headstones as well and the lamps which illuminated the grounds of the graveyard were growing further apart.
I could just about make out Matt, Amy, Beth and Jessica ahead of me. They were approaching a stone mausoleum.
I had no idea what they were doing and a part of me was thinking I should leave them to it. But, it was a long walk back to my house, and I had the fear.
The fear of missing out.
Cursing myself, I hurried to catch up – and did, just in time to see them entering the mausoleum through a wide crack in the wall.
My heart beating like crazy, I followed.
It was pitch black inside and colder than outside. A shiver passed through me. Then I saw a flame flicker into life. And another.
I could see Jessica leaning over a candle and the glint of a lighter in her hand. This candle lit, she moved onto another one.
I blinked and rubbed my eyes as the space I was in became visible.
As well as six slim candles in ornate holders there were symbols spray painted on the wall, scarlet-coloured swirls and intersecting lines that made me think uncomfortably of dark magic. Of dangerous secrets.
Jessica and Beth were by now standing side by side and Matt now had his arm draped over Amy’s shoulders. Her head was resting against his chest and her eyes were half closed in a happy daze.
Beth looked at me and a smile I could not read played across her lips. “Welcome to the lair,” she said. “Where the coven gathers. The actual coven, not the immature fools who pretend.”
“We are the coven,” Jessica said.
“We are the coven,” Matt echoed.
“We are the undead,” Beth went on. “The undead who must follow the ancient rules. Fear the light of day, for it will burn through skin and bone and reduce us to dust. Drink only blood for sustenance, all else is impure. Do not enter unless invited, then we may feed.”
“The undead,” Jessica whispered.
And once again Matt echoed her words.
My mind raced. I was horrified and fascinated. Did they truly believe this?
These three golden students who had successful futures stretching out before them.
Or where they playing a game?
I thought it was this last, surely it must have been – until Beth took a dagger out from within the folds of her dress.
She held it up. It was slim and looked incredibly sharp.
I was transfixed by it until I became aware Beth was moving towards me.
Close enough to hold the blade gently against my neck. “I will open your vein now,” she said, “And drink your blood.”
A tear ran down my face as a cold wave of fear passed through me.
I did not want this. I did not want to be a vampire, or a vampire’s prey.
Beth pressed the blade harder against me and I felt a point of pain begin to burn.
I wanted to move, to run away, but terror held me.
“Don’t,” I managed to say. “Please. Don’t.”
Beth tilted her head to one side and sneered. “Pathetic,” she said, her voice heavy with scorn.
Then she turned her back on me and approached Matt. He still had Amy close, and she was looking up at him in confusion. He put a finger on her lips, just before Beth placed the blade against his neck.
And cut.
Blood began to flow from his skin.
Somehow, Matt did not even wince. He looked into Amy’s eyes and said, “Drink. Show that you want to be with me as one of the undead by feasting on my blood.”
All the colour had drained from Amy’s cheeks but I could tell from her expression that she would do anything for him. For love.
She reached up and placed her lips against his bleeding neck and began to drink.
I couldn’t watch anymore and staggered backwards, and out of the mausoleum.
Then, without thinking what I was doing, I started walking.
After twenty minutes, I tried to order a cab, but my phone was out of credit, so I had no choice but to trudge on.
By the time I did get home, I was exhausted and my feet were killing me. I dragged myself to my room and fell into bed fully clothed.
The next day, I did not get up until after noon. When I went down to the kitchen, my parents were packing.
They were both academics and were going away for almost a month to a conference in Europe, leaving me on my own in the house.
I had been planning to invite the coven round for one of the next Saturday gatherings, but after the events of last night, I had had enough of all things vampire.
Ten minutes later I was standing on the front door step waving my parents goodbye.
When their cab was out of sight, I went back in, closed the door behind me and slumped down onto a sofa.
My plans were to watch tv and work my way through the well-stocked fridge. I clicked the tv on. There was a show about a time travelling pathologist just starting.
I stared at the screen and tried not to think.
I lost days and nights like this. I trudged between the sofa and the fridge and fell asleep then started all over again. The shows soon blurred into one and I was surrounded by crumbs. It was slob central.
Then, one night, while I was flicking through the channels and snacking, someone knocked on the door.
I had no idea who it could have been at that hour and did not answer at first, hoping they would go away.
But the knocking continued, a slow, heavy tap.
I sighed and got up and went to see who it was.
I was shocked when I saw Amy standing there when I opened the door.
Her eyes were red and her cheeks were wet with tears. She said in a shaky voice, “Matt has told me he wants nothing more to do with me. I think it’s Beth and Jessica’s fault. They hate me. But I need him. I need him so much.”
Fresh tears began to run down her face.
I had no idea how to talk to girls at the best of times. I was completely lost about what to do when confronted with a distraught girl, but I had to say something.
“Do you want to watch tv here,” I told her. “Or I could walk you home.”
Still sobbing, she said, “No. Please invite me in.”
I did not understand and just looked at her.
“Please,” she went on, begging now. “Please invite me in so I can feed.”
Suddenly it clicked. I remembered the rules Beth had invoked and realized with horror that Amy wanted to drink my blood.
“I c… can’t,” I managed to say. I was appalled.
She looked up at me. I could see the desperation in her eyes when she said, “I have not fed since Matt rejected me.”
“I’m sorry,” I said. Then I closed the door in her face and stood there feeling sick. I waited for Amy to knock again but there was only silence.
After a while I went back into the lounge and sat there trying to understand.
The best I could work out after a sleepless night was that Amy had lost her way. In her blind love for Matt she believed that the rules of the undead Beth had spouted were real.
I felt bad for her, but I did not think there was anything I could do apart from hope she got over things soon.
Two weeks later, I found out on social media that Amy had died. There was a lot of gossip, a lot of nonsense, but as far as I could work out the facts were: She was eighteen years old. She had suffered organ failure after isolating herself and not eating or drinking anything for around ten days. The human body can go without food for quite a long time but not liquids. She had been admitted to hospital, but too late. She was to be buried in a few days’ time and her family had asked for donations to be made to a charity.
I was devastated and kept going back to that night she had come round and I had not invited her in.
I should have been braver, I knew. I should have been open-minded and accepting of the young woman who had asked me to give her what she needed.
I could have saved her. But I had failed.
I sank into depression. I would have done anything to make amends.
Last night, my chance came.
Last night, there was a knock on my door.
I went to answer it and saw it was her.
Amy.
She had returned from the grave. Her skin was pale, her smile hesitant. She was hideous and beautiful. Corrupted and innocent.
I did not waver this time. I invited her in, and she fed on me. It was the most incredible feeling.
She left me before dawn. I sat there for a long time crying.
Tonight, when she returns, I will tell her I want to become like her.
People such as Matt and Beth and Jessica will never understand because, for all their pretence, they are creatures of the light.
But I understand now.
I will follow the rules because they are real.
I will become one of the true undead and be with Amy.
We will be two lost souls together in the eternal night.

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*History is a beta feature, only goes back as far as I've been tracking this item, and may not be 100% accurate

Is it just me or do all the new fridges now have monster freezer compartments? We have a 24-year-old Kenmore that thank god is still running, though the ice maker quit a couple years ago. I always wanted a bottom freezer setup, but back in 1999 they were not available at the mere mortal consumer level.
Now they are the norm - but it seems to me that the freezer sections are huge and the actual fridge space seems way smaller than my current fridge, especially when you look at all space taken up by water and ice dispensers and what-have-you.
I did the measurements and my old Kenmore fridge is quite roomy: It has 15.5 cf of fridge space (I measured the interior dimensions). The shelves are half-width shelves, fully adjustable and amazingly versatile. There are four big gallon-milk-jug-deep buckets on the door, adjustable heights, plus two flip-top butter dish-type top shelves and a rail shelf at the door's bottom for, like, salad dressings etc. A pull-out deli drawer. Two veggie crispers. I need every bit of this fridge space - we don’t buy much frozen food at all.
I also have no interest in French door or side by sides. Or water dispensers.
I just want a plain vanilla bottom freezer fridge with an ice maker in the freezer and a ton of fridge space. Is this now a unicorn?

All are counter depth.

1. LG 4 door with door in door. I know, I know. LG. But we would buy it from our local appliance guy + 5 year warranty, all in about $3k. I’ve used their warranty service before and it’s excellent.
2. Best Buy open box Cafe (GE) - we really liked this fridge. $2700. But no warranty, and seems like delivery and install are extra and what if it breaks? Seems a bit risky but it’s a massive discount.
3. Either of the above fridges from Costco, which currently has $300 off and delivery / install etc plus 2 year warranty.

So, another day, another bodge that the buildeprevious owner did being discovered (I'll save the 2"x2" being used as a floor joist for another time).
Having just removed a half height partition wall between the kitchen area and lounge area of my open plan space I've just discovered just how bad and uneven the solid floor is.
I knew from just looking at it that it wasn't level, but it was today that I finally discovered just how bad it is. Whoever laid it clearly enjoyed life on the seas and wanted to replicate that in the floor.
To cut a long story short the height of the screed floor seems to vary by about 30mm from the lowest to the highest point, with the highest area being 20mm above the level of the suspended timber floor. Ideally I need the entire floor area at the same level to tile upon.
Given that I think 30mm is too much of a difference to use SLC on, and it would also make the floor area too high against the suspended floor, as well as causing issues with the french doors I think my only option is to try and reduce the height of the screed.
The "hill" in the floor is semicircular and with a diameter of about 1.2m, so not the biggest area in the grand scheme of things. Currently I'm considering using an angle grinder to cut 20mm groves in it and then use an SDS to break it up, before using some SLC to make the top nice and flat.
Is this a bad idea? are there any other options?

I’m not sorry to say this, though I should be I’m not, my mother died. She wasn’t a terrible woman, or mother for that matter, but she just wasn’t what she should’ve been. For years she gave this long list of dumb rules I had to obey or I would suffer major consequences. The rules were simple: 1. No leaving your room after 11 pm 2. No bringing meat into the house 3. No guests unless informed of rules 4. No taking photos of her 5. Never speak of my dad 6. Always lock my bedroom door before 10:59 pm 7. Do not come out of my room until 5 am
They weren’t insufferable, and I had a private bathroom connected to my room so that wasn’t an issue. She even got a mini fridge for if I got hungry with a small microwave. I didn’t really mind the rules, the only issues had come when I worked early in the morning and had to get there late due to rule 7. For years I wondered why the rules had been in place, I wish I went my whole life wondering. A few days ago, Monday, I learned why the rules had been set in place. My friend (Julie) and I were having a sleepover and had been enjoying the night until we heard a loud crash, and glass shattering. We both immediately jumped up and ran to the door before I paused hovering my hand over the knob debating. “Ali, I’m sure your mom would understand, that sounded bad, and scary.” She said urging me to open the door, I nodded in agreement and proceeded, going downstairs. Julie followed closely behind me as we looked in every room to find the source of the sound, until we got into the kitchen. Once entering the kitchen we saw the window smashed and blood underneath it. It wasn’t a little blood either, there was a large puddle, imagine if the sink overflowed for a while. I immediately ran banging on my moms door, as Julie searched for more blood. My mom didn’t answer so I went inside, and couldn’t find her, puzzled I went back to Julie asking if she found more blood, she shook her head ‘no’ and I sighed calling my mom. She didn’t end up answering, I had called 50+ times leaving multiple voicemails, before I called the police.
The police came, we gave them the information we knew and from there the investigation began. They started a search party for my mom, finding her not too long after starting. She was in the woods, found dead. Their report called it a suicide, saying she jumped out the window and kept going in hopes animals would attack her. I never knew my mom to be suicidal, but I knew she struggled with mental illnesses, and unfortunately understood why they closed on suicide.
Julie helped me start making funeral arrangements and everything that went with that. It was really hard, until she came back. It’s now Wednesday and my mom has come home. She seemed fine and it was hard to find words to ask her what she was doing here, and how is she still alive? She sat me down explaining that when she was younger, around my age, 18, she made a deal with an older woman. Their deal was for eternal life, beauty, wealth, and happiness, but it came with a price. She lacked pride, ambition, and at night became a hungered beast. That explained the rules and everything else for that matter, but what were we to do from here? She’s ‘dead’ how am I supposed to put on a funeral for my ‘alive(?)’ mother in two days?
She helped me figure out a plan, she would stay hidden, live her life in the shadows, she would dye her hair, get cosmetic makeup, since the deal included wealth work wasn’t an issue for her. We decided to continue with the idea that she was dead and that I am now living alone, coping slowly but Julie is helping, she had been here when mom came back so she heard everything. Eventually she explained why she decided to fake her death, saying it wasn’t intentional she just had lost control so she tried to leave before the hunger grew more. She said that though most beasts feast on humans, she’s against that and prefers animals, she explained she didn’t like meat in the house because she’d rather experience other foods while human than the only options she had while being a beast.
The clock grew closer to 11, so Julie and I decided to head to bed, knowing mom would prefer that due to her, condition. Once the time had hit 11 pm I felt an intense burning running up my spine, my fingers began to burn and tingle. Eventually the burning went through my whole body and it began pulsing, Julie ran to get my mother for help. Turns out mom forgot to mention one condition to their deal, when she died for the first time, I too would transform. At least I too no longer have to work, but I have to finish writing this, Julie just looks amazing right now and I need to speak with her.

I’m not sorry to say this, though I should be I’m not, my mother died. She wasn’t a terrible woman, or mother for that matter, but she just wasn’t what she should’ve been. For years she gave this long list of dumb rules I had to obey or I would suffer major consequences. The rules were simple: 1. No leaving your room after 11 pm 2. No bringing meat into the house 3. No guests unless informed of rules 4. No taking photos of her 5. Never speak of my dad 6. Always lock my bedroom door before 10:59 pm 7. Do not come out of my room until 5 am
They weren’t insufferable, and I had a private bathroom connected to my room so that wasn’t an issue. She even got a mini fridge for if I got hungry with a small microwave. I didn’t really mind the rules, the only issues had come when I worked early in the morning and had to get there late due to rule 7. For years I wondered why the rules had been in place, I wish I went my whole life wondering. A few days ago, Monday, I learned why the rules had been set in place. My friend (Julie) and I were having a sleepover and had been enjoying the night until we heard a loud crash, and glass shattering. We both immediately jumped up and ran to the door before I paused hovering my hand over the knob debating. “Ali, I’m sure your mom would understand, that sounded bad, and scary.” She said urging me to open the door, I nodded in agreement and proceeded, going downstairs. Julie followed closely behind me as we looked in every room to find the source of the sound, until we got into the kitchen. Once entering the kitchen we saw the window smashed and blood underneath it. It wasn’t a little blood either, there was a large puddle, imagine if the sink overflowed for a while. I immediately ran banging on my moms door, as Julie searched for more blood. My mom didn’t answer so I went inside, and couldn’t find her, puzzled I went back to Julie asking if she found more blood, she shook her head ‘no’ and I sighed calling my mom. She didn’t end up answering, I had called 50+ times leaving multiple voicemails, before I called the police.
The police came, we gave them the information we knew and from there the investigation began. They started a search party for my mom, finding her not too long after starting. She was in the woods, found dead. Their report called it a suicide, saying she jumped out the window and kept going in hopes animals would attack her. I never knew my mom to be suicidal, but I knew she struggled with mental illnesses, and unfortunately understood why they closed on suicide.
Julie helped me start making funeral arrangements and everything that went with that. It was really hard, until she came back. It’s now Wednesday and my mom has come home. She seemed fine and it was hard to find words to ask her what she was doing here, and how is she still alive? She sat me down explaining that when she was younger, around my age, 18, she made a deal with an older woman. Their deal was for eternal life, beauty, wealth, and happiness, but it came with a price. She lacked pride, ambition, and at night became a hungered beast. That explained the rules and everything else for that matter, but what were we to do from here? She’s ‘dead’ how am I supposed to put on a funeral for my ‘alive(?)’ mother in two days?
She helped me figure out a plan, she would stay hidden, live her life in the shadows, she would dye her hair, get cosmetic makeup, since the deal included wealth work wasn’t an issue for her. We decided to continue with the idea that she was dead and that I am now living alone, coping slowly but Julie is helping, she had been here when mom came back so she heard everything. Eventually she explained why she decided to fake her death, saying it wasn’t intentional she just had lost control so she tried to leave before the hunger grew more. She said that though most beasts feast on humans, she’s against that and prefers animals, she explained she didn’t like meat in the house because she’d rather experience other foods while human than the only options she had while being a beast.
The clock grew closer to 11, so Julie and I decided to head to bed, knowing mom would prefer that due to her, condition. Once the time had hit 11 pm I felt an intense burning running up my spine, my fingers began to burn and tingle. Eventually the burning went through my whole body and it began pulsing, Julie ran to get my mother for help. Turns out mom forgot to mention one condition to their deal, when she died for the first time, I too would transform. At least I too no longer have to work, but I have to finish writing this, Julie just looks amazing right now and I need to speak with her.