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Cake day: May 5th, 2025

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  • I bought one thing on Temu. Once.

    My mom was recovering from back surgery and needed a bed that could lift up and lower down. Those beds are expensive as fuck, and her insurance wasn’t covering them. I tried to rent, but I was in a funky area where none of the rental companies covered my area.

    Anyway, up pops an add on Temu. So off I go. Find one for like $250. Read reviews, and they’re English reviews and have legit pictures. So, terrified and desperate, I bought a whole-ass bed off Temu.

    Came two weeks later. Put it together. It worked. She still uses it. It’s been almost a year now. Those two weeks of wondering if I just threw away $250 were wild though, lol.








  • Spacial awareness is good to have no matter who you are or what your situation is. What’s not good is being constantly worried or paranoid.

    I look for lots of things. Who’s in the area, what’s in the area and what are different ways to get out if I need to. But I’m not specifically on the lookout for weirdos, as in, I’m constantly worried they’ll be there or anything. If I notice someone sus I keep tabs on them until I don’t think it’s a threat.

    One night I was out walking my dog, who was still under a year old (he was already a big dog though), and a guy is walking in the opposite direction. I see him coming but he’s got a hoodie on and pulled up over his head, ducked in a way that I can’t see his face. My radar didn’t go off, but I made sure to watch him out of the corner of my eye as we passed each other. Then, he turns and heads straight for me.

    So, I turned towards him and put my hands up. I couldn’t outrun him with my dog, and I figured once I started making a commotion my dog might help out.

    It turned out to be my (now-ex) fiance playing a trick on me, seeing what I would do. Once he saw me square up he threw back his hood and gave me a lecture on how I should have ran.Fucking asshole behavior, but I guess now I know what I’d do in that situation.

    Anyway, no one’s ever done that to me since, but I still keep my wits about me. I also don’t think I’m constantly going to be followed by creepers either.