weariedfae

I live rurally and have spent the night without power 3 times in the last 2 months.

It gets old.

Hahaha you should see the outage map of Washington State.

What do I like to do? Nothing, I hate power outages.

What I typically do is I have a large stockpile of candles from an old MLM scheme. I light those and play on my phone if there's Internet. We have multiple battery banks for these occasions.

If there's no Internet I will read. Both ebooks and regular books because my attention will shift.

I also try to do something productive like study for something.

Most of all I pile like eleventy billion blankets on the bed because I'm so cold. The furry ones are poor space heaters.

When I was a kid we always played games. Like charades or something. My dad would light the camp stove and we'd entertain ourselves for the evening as a family. They were nice.

Is this Penny Arcade?

Same thing with dialog vs music or action sequences. Ugh.

Dermatologist put me on spironolactone and it is a miracle. I had horrible big painful cysts and other issues from a hormonal imbalance.

Before spironolactone I was taking spearmint and it worked fairly well. Spearmint is an anti-androgen. Androgens are hormones that excess of them can cause oily skin and other problems.

This is what is right for me, and I cannot emphasize how life changing it was, but you need to see a dermatologist to see what is right for you. And maybe your GP because any underlying hormone imbalance deserves to be treated properly by a doctor.

Just a heads up: exactly zero topical treatment ever worked for my hormonal acne. I tried -everything-. Trust me. Everything, to the best of my ability, because I hated my acne so much. I was all over skincareaddiction and asianbeauty. Save yourself time and money and skip this song and dance: go to a doctor.

No you were supposed to read The Oatmeal.

This takes a left turn if that is one of those ladles made with the super cancer black plastic that we're all supposed to throw away now.

Viking_Hippie out here with the deep cuts!

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Aren't they colloquially called fairy ears?

Yep.

Hello traumatic memory I had been successfully repressing.

Thanks, I'm cured.

Eyyyyyy my people!