It's 13 minutes past midnight, and someone has their kids running up and down the street laughing and yelling as though it's 4 in the afternoon.

It's AFTER MIDNIGHT people.

I went to hang out with a friend last weekend, and I was greeted by her husband who said, “She’s waiting out back for you.” Immediately, I was thinking of how I didn’t want to go outside because it was hot (I read her thermometer:104 degrees F), but I met her outside. She was sitting down, and I could see she was fuming mad. So I sat next to her thinking, “Okay, she needs to let off some steam.” She was upset about how her husband was forced to go on leave, and now she’s worried he’ll lose his job. Understandable. Then she handed me a tape measure and said she needed my help with measurements. Okay, fine. Fast forward to me being in broad sunlight (I’m fair skinned but didn’t wear sunscreen because I thought we would be inside so I got sunburned), bit by mosquitos, her spray painting my shoe when making the measurement marks, then her saying she was going to dig holes where these marks were (2 feet down for concrete pours in this hard Arizona dirt), and about a quarter of a hole done, I ended up digging the rest of that hole, plus 4 more holes. I finally quit and said I was going inside and played with her cat. Her husband apologized to me “Sorry she invited you over for THAT. I don’t know what’s wrong with her. She basically invited you over for doing manual labor.” I just was like… Yeah it sucks, but you didn’t do it. She owes me the apology. The kicker is that the last time we hung out, she roped me into helping her do her taxes. The time before that, we did her shopping, and I explained that I cut my aunt out of my life because she would only invite me over to do her favors. And the time before that, she had me baking several dozens of batches of cookies and didn’t let me have a single one! Honestly, if she explained ANY of these situations to me beforehand and asked for my help, I likely would have said yes. But the fact is that she sprung these on me. Now I feel foolish for being used.  I’m done with her.

a lot of aliexpress sellers will let you pick a specific one in a blindbox set, usually for just a dollar or so more! actually the link i posted lets you pick ones for less than the unopened blind box lol

That's how I get mine, since there's usually only a couple designs I'm interested in for each set!

So much construction and renovations going on at our house... Our neighbors are replacing their fence as well so we have twice the contractors.

thanks everyone.

it's been a bad time for my immediate family. we're still waiting on the insurance adjuster to come out. but we had someone from the restoration company the insurance uses out yesterday. she wasn't able to give a timeline yet but she said the damage was bad and my parents were lucky to get out in time. we think the rain may have kept the fire from spreading so rapidly. i think mother nature hates my parents. first floods and now that they moved from the flood prone areas we have this.

i hope your hand heals well BC ice usually helps.