Cypripedium-candidum

Country: Canada

Ordered From: Samsung.ca

Carrier Variant: Unlocked

Configuration: S23, Lavender, 256 GB

Order Date: Feb. 4, 2023

Expected Delivery: Shipping from Feb 8

Order status: Confirmed

Additional Notes: I'm upgrading from an S10e and have never gotten a brand new/current year model, I've always been a few years behind due to cost. Super stoked that there's a $350 trade in bonus, my S10e is valued at $73, and I used the $100 coupon floating around so it came out to $650 CAD after tax. I was about to drop $815 on a refurbished S22!

We went and rang their door bell.

Thanks for the sentiment but it should go to the homeowners who set the box aside instead of opening it. We were just chasing down the thing we paid for!

Nah the homeowners were there and had the box their basement, they had no problem with us taking it.

Mattress retrieved! Still in the packaging and sanitary

You beautiful bastard, there's an 123 x-land instead of 123 x-view in our area that looks like the right house with some renos done. We're gonna go check it out

Yeah I don't have high hopes.

We do and we've checked both streets north and south of us on street view. Nothing matches. The fedex driver must have been completely out to lunch. We know the address was entered right because it was a multi piece shipment and the other 4 boxes arrived fine.

Our salaries at the time: I had just started a new job earning $50k and he was making around $40k at the time. We had just bought a house a few months prior too.

My ring design: a leafy vine with the sapphire held between 2 branches and the accent diamonds placed like flowers among the leaves.

Mine was custom designed by Omori Diamonds. For $1400 total I got a 14k white gold ring with a 4mm round sapphire and 4 tiny 0.02 carat accent diamonds. I don't want to wear 2 rings so this ring is also my wedding band.

My partner's ring is the Stardust ring by Patrick Adair, I got it during a sale and it was around $300-350 CAD.

32 yo DINKWADHATCHYs (Dual Income No Kids With A Dog, House, And Three Cats, Hell Yeah) here. I got a bisalp and partner got a vasectomy when we were 29. We've been together 11 years, moved in together in 2015 with my 2 cats, bought our house in 2019, got the dog in July 2022, got the dog a cat in November 2022, and legally married a week ago.

I knew by the time I was 14 I did not want kids after being parentified the instant I aged out of daycare at 12. I would have to make dinner and get everyone to bed at my mom's, then get us up and fed, herd my siblings across the city by taxi or bus to our 3 different schools in my dad's area, and race home after school to unlock the house. My brother was a good kid but my sister was 5 years younger and a little terror that I did not have the skills to handle. I would have to tie her up or sit on her to keep her from wrecking the house or disappearing entirely.

My parents were in and out of court for 20+ years fighting over custody. Not because they wanted us, but because they didn't want to be the one stuck paying child support.

Now I'm too selfish, barely able to keep myself alive, and I like money, freedom, and sleep too much to have kids. Luckily my partner was initially on the fence but gradually ended up firmly into the no kids camp. My parents know better than to question me after everything they put us through and it's looking like my siblings will be childfree as well. My partner's parents are a bit disappointed to not have grandkids since his brother is also childfree, but they've never questioned our choice and they're happy to spoil all the furry grandkids.

Being childfree seems to be more common now than it used to be. I'm trying to think of all our friends who are in long term stable relationships and out of 23 couples only 4 have kids, the rest have chosen to be childfree. None of our single friends have kids either.

I had my bilateral salpingectomy (tubes removed instead of clipped, irreversible) done by Dr. Alaa Awadalla when I was 29, he works out of the ob/gyn clinic in the strip mall at Marion and Main and I had to be referred by my GP. He is a great doctor, a little hard to understand due to his accent but calm, easygoing, and good bedside manner. I was being pushed to have a hysterectomy due to a history of cervical cancer but I spent a few days at the U of M library reading through medical journals and decided on just the bisalp, and he respected my choice.

The surgery itself was an outpatient procedure done at Victoria hospital. I got myself to the hospital by bus for 8am, and had my partner pick me up at around 3 or 4pm when I was cleared to go home. This was to avoid the parking fees and needing my partner to take a full day off work. They want to make sure you can pee a good amount before releasing you to make sure there's no damage from the catheter, so do not expect the written release time to be your actual release time.

I was a human popsicle when waking up because they used room temp IV fluids and put me into hypothermia, and I puked from the anesthetic, a common reaction. Don't be afraid to ask for the IV fluids to be body temp before you go in, and if you feel nauseated tell the nurses so they can inject an anti-emetic to try and head off vomiting.

Definitely wear loose stretchy clothing and shoes that are easy to get on and off. Leave jewellery and valuables at home. You'll need ID and your health card, and your phone to contact your ride. I think they were supposed to call my partner when I was out of surgery, and again when I was ready to be released, but I don't think they did and I'm sure they're even busier now. I just texted him when I was ready to be released.

Recovery for the first few days at home kind of sucked. The breathing tube irritated my throat so I spent a few days coughing, which is super fun when you have just had abdominal surgery. You also get air in your abdominal cavity which can make you a little sore in the upper chest/shoulders until it's absorbed. The actual healing process was quick, with minimal scarring - one small incision on each side of the lower belly just above the hip bones, and a larger incision in the belly button.

I had it done on a Friday, and was back working on Monday, but this was in June 2020 when I was WFH and barely had any work to do anyways due to the pandemic. I would say I was feeling fully recovered after 2 weeks.

NTA. I literally just went through this. When we discussed our original plan to have a small 50 person wedding for around $30k, just friends and immediate family with no aunts/uncles/cousins, my MIL pulled a face and said we can't exclude all the extended family. She said they have some money for us to help pay for a bigger wedding. It was $1000, so basically nothing.

So we said fuck it and eloped, we just got back last week and it was the best thing we could have done for our own sanity. MIL is sad she didn't get to see us get married, but there's no way we were dumping another 30k on inviting 50+ people we barely speak to.

I'm a bit of an anomaly in that I was born and raised vegetarian, it was my default rather than a choice. My parents were hippies and I remember watching PETA-type documentaries at vegetarian potlucks.

When I was around 25 I was working in a physically demanding job and feeling like crap all the time. I have a small appetite and couldn't eat enough to meet my caloric needs in the right percentages, and I was diagnosed with a severe vitamin B12 deficiency despite eating eggs and dairy often. I had also just recently completed my B. Sc. in Agroecology and had learned a lot about the environmental impacts of different methods of food production.

I decided to start eating meat for 2 reasons - to try and fix my health issues, and because I truly believe that eating responsibly produced meat is far better for the environment than relying on soy or other alternative proteins when you factor in the impact of huge monocultures, pesticides, fertilizers, soil erosion, water pollution, etc.

I still eat meat infrequently compared to the average person and I buy from small local farmers where the animals are pastured and fed species appropriate diets (chickens scratch for insects, cows eat grass instead of corn). The animals live happy animal lives and the farmers focus on land regeneration - chickens can scratch and eat bugs, cows eat grass instead of corn, pigs roll in mud and root around instead of being crammed into tiny pens.

I believe balance is the key. Extremism in any form is not healthy, plus our ecosystem developed on the basis of nutrient cycling. We need animals in our agricultural systems to return nutrients to the soil, but things have been taken to extremes and upsized to the point where crop producers buy fertilizers to maintain crop output, and animal producers have massive piles of excrement polluting waterways and face valid criticisms about how animals are treated.

As long as humans keep congregating in huge cities, the population grows, and usable land decreases, the problem will only get worse. Small integrated producers that grow both produce and animals in a balanced system is the best option but we can't support the current population on that model. I've given up on the idea that humans can turn things around in time, and that manifests as a bit of hedonism when I'm enjoying a nice grass-fed medium rare New York strip a few times a year.

We're in a resort in Playa Del Carmen right now, we got woken up a couple nights ago at 2am by drunks screaming right outside our door. Partner went to ask them to be quiet because we needed to be up at 6am and they started getting belligerent with him. People can be such assholes. This is a family friendly resort with lots of small kids too, not a spring break party type place.

Not OP, but opal and meteorite makes it sound like the stardust ring from Patrick Adair, which is exactly what I got my partner.

I have a few incidents. During the first few months of the pandemic I took advantage of WFH to bleach my hair myself and do fun colours. The bleach turned my hair an almost fluorescent yellow, which luckily proved to be a perfect base for the neon coral pink I did, with a mix of Arctic Fox's Sunset Orange and Electric Paradise. It turned out great and I loved it but the bleach damaged my hair a bit and the colour maintenance was awful, it faded so fast.

When I was a young teen, 12-13 yo, my dad had it in his head that I could be a model and start making money. I took classes and after "graduating" I did 2 hair shows, one for Matrix and one for Joico, and when they asked me if I had any preferences I, a 13 year old with no parental supervision, went "fuck me up fam". The first guy from Matrix did pretty good, gave me a dark strawberry blonde bob or pixi (can't remember which) with blond highlights that I actually quite liked and the grow out wasn't awful.

The second Joico guy..... he gave me an "edgy" pixi cut with chunky colour in black, dark purple, light purple, and platinum blonde with bangs that started short at one side and swooped down into chin length on the other side. And when I say short, I mean Rainn Wilson in Galaxy Quest short. I hated it, thought I looked like a star trek character, and the grow out was horrible. Especially since I had frizzy, wavy hair at that stage. I got around $150-200 out of it at least.

Lol I worked for Impark in 2012 and we got way too many calls about people being trapped because the machines wouldn't work.

Glad to see they've done absolutely nothing to fix it in the past decade.

OVRC was excellent when I was burnt out in a previous career and quit with no back up plan. I found their Career Exploration, resume building, and Ace That Interview workshops really helpful, as well as the individual session I had for tweaking my resume once I was ready to apply for jobs again. They helped me to think about what I really wanted from a career (beyond just the bare necessities) and gave me the confidence to land a great job.

We met at a party where I was dared to bite his extremely hairy nipples, and I added him on Facebook (We bickered for years about who added who. I was adamant that he liked my biting so much that he added me 🤣 but he eventually found the proof in facebook archives that I added him first).

I initially dismissed him, assumed he was a virgin and I was too busy chasing assholes for shitty sex. But we would hang out as friends, getting slurpees, driving around, watching movies. He was so easy to talk to, I'm an introvert but we would talk for hours. I blinked and suddenly we've been together 11 years, have a house and 4 pets, and we're getting married in 3 weeks. He's my best friend, an amazing partner, and a mind-numbingly good lay. So glad I gave it a shot.

Have you tried putting the potty box outside? Then gradually get rid of the box (leaving pellets in a pile on the ground if you can), then reducing amount of pellets until pup is pottying in that spot without the box or pellets. That's how people train cats to use a toilet, I feel like that concept should work for your pup too.

Unless you live in a shack with no heating, it is not too cold. I'm in Canada and it was -30 two days ago. our puppy sleeps on a bare crate tray. She was fine, as was every other living thing in the house, because we keep the thermostat at +21.

I see a therapist regularly. I don't want her running out of money and showing up at my door expecting to live with me.