#wtf are they storing on my computer?

[dravidious]

My Firefox at some point developed an issue where after a computer restart it would take like 10 minutes to start working. Like I would open it and it would open and be able to do some stuff, but trying to go to any webpage just would not happen until like 10 minutes later and then it'd be fine. A similar thing would happen if I closed it, opened some other program like a game, and then opened Firefox again, though not as extreme. I figured it was doing something like loading a bunch of stuff into RAM maybe? And then opening another program would overwrite the RAM so it would have to do it again? idk what exactly was happening. I tried clearing my browsing history to see if that would help and it didn't, and I didn't want to mess with the cookies, so I just gave up and accepted it.

Then, when I was working on an HTML game with a save system, I needed to track down where the files were getting saved, and I found the "default" storage folder which had ~2.5 GB of data in it, including ~1.5 GB of tumblr cache data. I skimmed through the 500+ folders and deleted everything that didn't seem important (why does random.org need to store data on my computer?). It took a long time, but I eventually deleted like 90% of the folders and got it down to 200 MB. It was mostly just out of anger at the wasted space; why are all these sites that I've visited once to read an article storing crap on my computer!? Probably just for advertisement tracking and garbage like that. But I was hoping that maybe, just maybe, this was what was taking Firefox so long to load.

After I booted up my computer this morning, it took Firefox 30 seconds to open tumblr.

[dawnofus]

one thing about my new job is that they’re making me do anything and everything they can on the pretense that “it’s a small company and everyone does a bit of everything sometimes” as if my actual job isn’t already a lot most times

[kennabeth]

anyone know why my computer barely works if ive downloaded nothing on it ever, almost exclusively use it for hulu, don't websurf, have checked and have no suspicious programs that could be viruses, and run the ccleaner whenever i (try to) use it? bc it went downhill overnight a few months ago and I'm miserable lol

[fuck-customers]

Ok hi hello, how the FUCK are we supposed to reach the "goal" if we're literally not told what the fucking goal is? And wtf is this passive-aggressive bullshit?

So my work has one of those phone number scams where they make us bully customers into giving us their phone number to have in our computer system that does not benefit the customers in any way. No rewards. No discounts. Nothing.

SO I had assumed that the register system automatically kept track of how many signups we were getting and all that shit. Literally what's the point if it's not? I still don't know. All I know is last week, one of the managers said "we're going to start keeping track of signups again" and I was like you weren't doing that the whole time?? Why the fuck did I bother doing the stupid ass signups for all that time then?

ANYWAY

The point of today's story is this:

I go into the breakroom at work and there's a printout of all of us employees and our phone number percentages. (employee numbers only, at least we weren't 100% put on blast, but it wouldn't be that difficult to narrow down which number was whose) with the employees who were under a certain percentage highlighted with a passive-aggressive note written that these employees need to reach "the goal."

1. WHAT fucking goal? Nowhere on this stupid public shaming attempt does it have any indication what the goal is that were supposedly working towards. Are we trying to reach 50% signups? 60%? 70%? Fuck if I know.

2. Even if there WAS a numbered goal, there's no way for the cashiers to know if they're hitting the goal or not until the week's results have been printed out and posted, which it appears management intends on doing. It's not like the registers have a little percentage in the corner so we can keep track of our own progress. Literally only management has access. So we have to blindly hope that we're reaching this unspecified goal.

3. There was absolutely no reason whatsoever to post that information to shame us. None of us were informed that we were supposed to be working towards any goal at all.

And 4. Ok so let's say we reach this mystery goal....and? What? What is that going to do for us? Or we don't reach the goal? And? So what? Management has lied in the past about if our numbers go up, so will our hours and that was a fucking lie.

I cannot stress enough just how useless the phone number thing is. It is not a store credit card signup where customers have to get approved or anything like that. The customer gets absolutely nothing out of providing their personal information. If they want coupons or discounts or rewards, they have to download the store app onto their phone. We cannot access any rewards or discounts on the register. At first, managers tried to lie to customers to say that if they provided their phone number, they could do returns without a receipt.

Except...you can do a return without a receipt no matter what. It's the exact same process/policy for every single customer. Whether or not they provide their phone number, every single customer doing a return without a receipt will automatically get the lowest price for those items in the last 90 days back. Period. There's not even a way to pull up old transactions from a customer's phone number if they lost their receipt. It is 100% useless. I personally suspect there's something shady going on and the company is selling customer's personal information or tracking their spending habits for advertising or something sketchy.

So anyway, someone who definitely was not me wrote a note back telling them to tell us what the goal was or else we cannot reach it.

If you decide you want to fudge the numbers a bit here are some random numbers to use.

Buena Vista Water Sports 407-239-6939 Sky Venture 407-903-1150 Orange Blossom Balloons 407-239-7677 Kennedy Space Center 407-522-5911 Silver Springs 352-236-2121 Cypress Gardens 1-863-324-2111 Fun Spot 407-363-3867 Gator Land 1-800-393-jaws or 407-855-5496 Green Meadows Petting Farm 407-846-0770 Holy Land Experience 1-866-872-4659 or 407-872-2272 Orlando Science Center 407-514-2000 WonderWorks 407-351-8800 Ripley’s Believe it or Not 407-345-0501 Boggy Creek Airboats 407-344-9550 Orlando Museum of Art 407-896-4231 Central Florida Zoo 407-323-4450 Leu Gardens 407-246-2620 Old Town 407-383-6126 Daytona USA 1-386-947-6530 Wekiwa Springs State Park 407-884-2008 Richard Petty Driving Experience 1-800.BE.PETTY Jungleland Zoo 407-396-1012 US Astronaut Hall of Fame 1-321-269-6100 Magical Midway 407-370-5353 Citrus Tower 1-863-324-2111 Sky Coaster 407-397-2509 Scenic Boat Tour of Winter Park 407-644-4056 Orlando Helitours 407-397-0226 Star Flyer (located at magical midway) 407-383-6124 Dotties Orlando Comedy Theatre 407-226-3680 192 Flea Market 407-396-4555 Visitors Flea Market 407-396-0114 Maingate Flea Market 407-390-1015 Medieval Times Dinner Show 407-396-1518 or 1-888-WE JOUST Pirates Dinner Adventure 407-248-0590 or 1-800-866-2469 Sleuths Mystery Dinner Show 407-363-1985 or 1-800-393-1985 Capone’s Dinner Show 407-397-2378 or 1-800-220-8428 Arabian Nights 407-239-9223 Walt Disney World Resort 1-800-W-Disney or 407-824-2222 Hoop Dee Doo Review 407-WDW-DINE Wide World of Sports (407) 939-2040 Disney’s Polynesian Luau 407-WDW-DINE Sea World 1-800-327-2424 or 407-351-3600 Discovery Cove 1-800-327-2424 or 407-351-3600 Universal Orlando Resort 407-363-8000

[du5tydr3am5]

So put yourself in my place about 10 minutes ago

You're on your Koolaid week (period) and you ran out of pads and your dad yells "I'm going to the dollar store for batteries" you go with him and ask for him to buy some pads for you he says "I don't know if I have enough money I left my phone at home and cant see how much i have" you grabbed the cheapest pads you can wear that wont leave you blood soaked and when you get up to the counter turns out he doesn't have enough and he tells you to put your pads back because "your brother might have enough he might be back soon to the house soon"

My dad who "knows how periods work" was willing to leave me bleeding because he really needed some batteries for his computer mouse and mind you he uses a laptop which he could use without the mouse his excuse to not go back and get more money from the house was "it would have been dark on our drive back and I don't like driving in the dark" luckily someone behind us paid for my pads so I dont have to shove toilet paper up my south town and pray I didn't wake up wake up feeling like William Afton after he got spring locked

[lowcaloriesims]

WTF is an mklink?

To all the simmers out there, I’m sure that you’ve come across a lot of great CC out there. There are so many great mods by fantastic people, across all the games. If you’re like me, you’ve probably accumulated gigs upon gigs worth of the stuff. If you want to save room on your hard drive, and move all this great stuff to a larger one while still being used in the game, I can show you how. 

NOTE: This works for all sims games, and much more! You can use mklinks for anything!

What is an mklink? I'm not going to write an irrelevant story, so I'll save you from the bullshit. An mklink is a symbolic link where you take something from one part of your computer, move it to another hard drive, but link it to the first one. Confused? It's hard to explain without pictures and examples, but in practice it will make more sense.

Here's an example, of what I use symbolic links for. In our modern day, at least in 2022, we have a serious space problem on our hard drives. Even though SSDs are faster than HDDs, they also contain less space to save files on. With games in our modern era, it is not surprising to see files that are over 50 gigs easily. Call of Duty Black OPS 3 requires 100gigs, as stated on steam. Mortal Kombat 11 is easily 80 gigs, on my husband's computer, it was over 100. Cyberpunk 2077 is 70 gig as stated on steam. With these huge as games, there's little space to place them all.

Personally, I use the symbolic links for my Sims games, stuffing all my mods on an external hard drive, to save as much space on my SSD as I can. Even though the Sims 2 Ultimate Collection is about 12 gigs, I have...seriously...over 19 gigs of mods and custom content. 😬 I may have a problem, but this is how I play lol. A symbolic link is very useful in a scenario as the sims, where you have to have your mods folder in your documents folder on the C: drive. Without that folder there, none of your mods and custom content will work. That's just the way EA set up the games, Sims 2, or Sims 3 (if you have sims 4, this is probably the case too).

The problem with having multiple large programs on an SSD, plus certain games that need to be in specific folders, is that you lose space very fast (windows dumping all your stray data and temp data in the hidden temp files don't help either. If you are low on space, look at cleaning out your temp files. Seriously. I had 100gigs there.).

In 2021, I looked up if there was another way to store my mods folder, so that I could still use it in my game, but not take up so much space on my SSD. I was hoping that there was a solution to potentially be able to place the mods on my HDD, while keeping the smaller files in place. Symbolic links were my solution, as this ameliorated my problem. To get to the point, the mod folder was placed from my C: drive, to an external hard drive. In order to get The Sims 2 to still recognize my mod folder, I used the 'mklink' command in windows cmd, with a symbolic link. It is called a symbolic link, in my words, because your computer "thinks" it's on the one hard drive, while actually existing on the other. It's as simple as that, and that explanation makes sense. While symbolic links and mklinks are rather unknown to the common person, they actually have a lot of use for more than the standard tech ideologies.

So how the funk do I do it?

There are multiple examples and instruction pages out there, though I feel like many of them barely make sense, or leave out certain details. Very few people in the sim community can seem to communicate accurately, and write instructions that make sense. I know that's harsh and arrogant, but I have spent so much wasted time trying to do something in someone's wiki or instruction file, just for their own documentation to be wrong. like wtf man 🤦‍♀️ I will provide pictures, because not only do I want this to help you, I am writing this to help me later. Sometimes I forget things, and need a refresher lol. Here is the "hard" way, aka doing it manually, without an extension. 1. Move your mods folder wherever you want. I am moving my Sims 2 mods folder, which is called DOWNLOADS, to my D: drive, as it has a lot more space. I am putting my folder in another one created, with the title "MODS LEL". This isn't necessary, organization is just something I like. If I dont put the folder in another folder, then I would just have random "DOWNLOADS" folder with no other description. Hang with me, I know that made little sense.

2. delete the mods folder from the C: drive. Yes, seriously. 3. open up notepad or some other word processor thing. Just in case you mess up and need to edit this. 4. type in: mklink /D "C:\Users\User\Documents\EA Games\The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection\Downloads" "D:\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\MODS LEL\Downloads"

➡️ 4.1] To explain the syntax, we have the mklink /D, with "/D" standing for directory. There are other letters we can use, but I want to keep this simple for now. The first "address" is where we want our file to show up, symbolically. So, for me, I want to "trick" my computer into thinking that my mods folder will be in the Sims 2 ultimate collection folder, on my C: drive. The reason why we deleted the C: folder, is that the symbolic link cannot be created if the folder you want to exist, already does. Bear with me here.

➡️ 4.2] The first "address" is where we want the symbolic to go, and technically, be created. So we have to put the name of the folder/location we want it to be. It is important that we have QUOTATION MARKS. I see many guides talk about symbolic links, but look over this fact.

➡️ 4.3] The second "address" is where our mod folder actually goes. The D: is where my mod folder is actually located, and accessed.

➡️ 4.4] So, for reference, the formula we have is: mklink /D "location you want the folder to go" "location where it actually lives" Think of it like a shell company that is avoiding the government. There are American companies that are based in the USA, but start fake ghost companies in Europe to act like it's not them, and avoid taxes through, and more than likely launder money in. It'd be like Walmart opening a shell company in France called Ballmart, and acting like it was a separate whole company, despite the fact that it was really them.

5. Open the command prompt AS ADMINISTRATOR. If you do not know how, press the windows key, and type in cmd. When it pops up, right click, and you will have the option to run the program as the administrator. 6. Type in the mklink that you created, or copy pasta it if you wrote it on notepad or something. Hit enter. 7. If done correctly, you should now have a symbolic link! Congraturations!

If you aren't sure that you made the link correctly, there will be a little arrow icon on your folder, indicating that it is symbolically linked.

Hope this helps!

[This was originally posted on my neocities page.]

[astralcities]

why is tumblr storing 2 gb on my computer wtf

[writing-hat]

hi hat! im the same anon you responded to earlier in the day and i wanted to say two things:

thank you for being concerned about my essay :) i got it finished on time lol

WTF CHAPTER 15 WAS SO GOOD AND I STARTED TO HYPERVENTILATE HALFWAY THROUGH AND CRIED LIKE TWICE 🤩🤩🤩

like i said before, your writing is so good! after reading ch 15 i was inspired enough to sit down and work on a wip thats been rotting on my computer for months. thanks for being such an inspiration even if it wasn’t something you planned :D

sincerely,

anon :)

(ps from now on im signing these with a smiley face so you know its me)

HIIII I'M SO SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG TO BE ANSWERED I kept deleting and rewriting stuff cuz I can't speak properly _(:3」∠)_

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I'm glad you finished your essay in time GKGRQJKGJREG studies are important (I am obliged to not tell you otherwise RSEKLGRESG) And I'm really glad you enjoyed chapter 15 aaaaaa it was a tough chapter argh sorry you cried ;;w;;) thank you for the nice words tho <3

I'm so glad I got you to work on your own WIP!!! Definitely not something I planned but hey not complaining for more beautiful creations to be sent into the world! Can't wait yo see what you're writing about (if you ever want to share it of course)

Thank you again smiley anon!

Hope you'll like what I have in store next! And see you around!!!

[softsnzstuff]

Based on THIS prompt by @ceiestiaie

*****

Steve sat in his room, trying to relax before he was meant to stream. He was still lounging around in pajamas and one of Eddie’s tee shirts. The other man was out and about, picking up some things at the store.

Steve had a cold and really only had the energy to stream some chill games later in the day. He rubbed at his nose with the back of his finger, trying desperately to relieve the itch, but it just didn’t seem to be working.

His breath started to hitch, a telltale sign that he was going to go into one of his fits. He put a hand on his desk to brace himself as he jerked forward with the first of many sneezes.

“AESSSH! Issssh! Tissssh! TSCHIEW!”

He sniffled helplessly against his wrist, the itch already returning with a vengence.

“H’akt’CHEW! Ikg’tsch’IEW! H’AESSSSH!”

The brunette grabbed some tissues, blowing his nose when his phone vibrated in his pocket. He pulled it out and saw a notification from Eddie and Robin.

Eddie: Holy shit are you good? That was some fit. Also you’re live btw, have funnnnn 😘

Robin: Are we streaming sneezing fits now, Harrington?

Steve immediately flushed crimson, looking up at his computer and the huge amount of chats coming in. He must have hit “go live” when he grabbed his desk.

FuCk dude are you okay?

GROSS omg blow your nose or something

Wtf is this stream

Hello Steve????

Homie what the hell

Bless you….?

Does he like… not know he’s live?

Are u sick?

“Oh my god… hi guys. Sorry. Didn’t mean to go live just yet.” He rubbed at the back of his neck awkwardly. “I uh, caught a cold and I guess you guys got a little snippet of what the last couple days have been like. Anyways, come back in like 30 minutes, I’ll be playing animal crossing.”

[tathrin]

👀 Do you have any WIPs that you would never let see the light of day? If yes, what are they about? ✨ Choose three adjectives to complement your own writing.⏰ Do you spend more time reading fic, writing fic, or do you do both equally?

👀 Do you have any WIPs that you would never let see the light of day? If yes, what are they about?

Well, I don't have the very first stories I wrote on a computer anymore because they died when the old family desktop did, but I have brought all my files along with me ever since I got my own laptop for college, so let's go have a peek in my oldest folders...

From Star Wars:

Ooh look, here's Baby Tathrin's Very Mature And Not-At-All Mary-Sue-ish Lengthy Backstory Novel for Rhysati Ynr, who deserved so much more character development and screentime than Rogue Squadron gave her and I'll do it myself if I have to, dammit, fic... Yeah, I still think Rhys deserved more story-time, but I'm definitely never going back to that fic because I'm not thirteen anymore XD

Bounty Hunter's Winter, which was supposed to be a young-Boba-Fett-grudgingly-teams-up-with-Sheltay-Retrac-in-Clone-Wars/Purge-Era and then timeskips to juxtapose with an-experienced-Boba-Fett-grudgingly-teams-up-with-a-young-Winter-in-Rebellion-Era fic that basically just existed to show How Fucking Competent all three of them were. There's nothing wrong with this one, it's just not got enough framework/point to be interesting going back to now.

Padmé Jedi Prequels is the working-title for a what-if? re-writing of the Prequel Trilogy where Padmé, you guessed it, was a Jedi too. Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon still get sent to deal with the Trade Federation over Naboo, but Obi-Wan has been recently Knighted and Padmé is Qui-Gon's new Padawan. I do like what I have written for this one, but it would be a LOT of work to write the rest of it (basically: everything between "landing on Tatooine" and "the ending scenes w/ the Purge"), and the canon has changed sooooo much since I started working on it that I'd either have to re-work a lot of details or just throw my hands up and go "this is pre-Clone Wars tv show continuity reconstructed from memory, it's gonna be a bumpy ride!" and know that everyone, including me, is going to be so fucking confused lmao.

From Lord of the Rings:

Okay I'm so glad you asked this question mainly for this answer, because I had completely forgotten I ever did this, but: apparently back when I was in college, I started writing a story where a portion of the Fellowship along with Elrond's kids, Faramir, Éowyn, and Éomer were all re-embodied (in the case of the mortals and Arwen) or sent from Aman (in the case of the elf, half-elves, and dwarf) to go deal with some Terrible New Threat by...pretending to be Normal Modern Humans Undercover In College, I guess??? The only things I ever wrote for it were the intro, an "everybody tries to figure out how modern clothing works in a big department store and it's a Disaster, thank goodness they have Éowyn there to wrangle everyone" scene, a snippet of Legolas and Gimli being Very Good At Acting Like Humans on a balcony and annoying Aragorn, and Legolas nearly having a stroke when a bartender serves Gimli and not him, because "he's clearly old enough, but you look way too young; sorry kid try again when you have a better fake ID."

I've also got an ancient Three Hunters get pulled into the Star Wars universe post-War of the Rings when Artoo and Threepio's escape pod lands in Gondor instead of Tatooine story that I can't imagine I'll ever touch again, but does admittedly have some amusing (if very painfully Old Writing) bits written for it, so that was nice to look at (and wince over) again.

Also there's this, of course.

From the X-Men Comics:

A fanfic about a New Excalibur Team being formed that actually has (if I do say so myself, and I will) an excellent beginning, but which I failed to write-down the Actual Planned Plot of, and now I can no longer remember wtf I was going to do with the damn story, so it's probably never going to get any further since that's uhhh. kind of an important part of Writing A Story lmao.

One where Illyana gets shunted back to Mythical Camelot somehow when she dies during Inferno, irritates/distresses Merlin, befriends both Guienevere and Mordred, annoys Morgan le Fay, learns some advanced magic, and eventually has to help destroy Mordred to save everyone else; only then does she find her way back to the present, and comes back to life several years after her younger self has died of the Legacy Virus to be re-united with Kitty and the New Mutants. Given that in the (many) years since I started that fic, Illyana already has been resurrected it's uhhh. kind of a moot point of a story now lol.

Also there's surely some half-started Potter stories sitting around here that idk if I'll ever feel the urge to touch again (Green-Eyed Snake included). Maybe the burst of celebration I'll feel the day she just self-combusts from all that hate and finally just fucking dies will be inspiring...

✨ Choose three adjectives to complement your own writing.

Detailed, plausible, and most especially verbose ;)

⏰ Do you spend more time reading fic, writing fic, or do you do both equally?

Writing, definitely; although I've read a lot more fic in the past few months than I'd read for years, and I'm enjoying it mightily (navigating on AO3 is sooooooooooo much better than trying to slog through FFnet and livejournal and geocities omgggggg I can actually find good stories now, what is this witchcraft???).

[squishroom]

Love discovering today that every single fucking folder ive created and file I've downloaded and/or moved to one of those folders has been automatically designated as an online-only file in my one drive account, that I never use and just automatically connected to my pc when I logged in with my Microsoft account, and that none of the files actually exist on my computer.

How did I find this out? I got tired of onedrive yelling at me to buy online storage space so I decided, hey I didn't ask for/want/need this backup so let me delete everything from the backup and disconnect my account so it stops downloading all of my files.

Then, all my files fucking DISAPPEARED from my computer and I was like ??? Wtf just happened?? Thank God I can restore the files but God damn I'm so annoyed right now.

An app I didn't want decided that file I download/create on my personal computer should be automatically created as a LINK to its online server??? The fucking audacity. No bitch, I don't want links to files on my pc I want the file. I don't want to be unable to access my shit the moment your server/my wifi dies.

Currently downloading everything off my onedrive but damn this is frustrating. So PSA I guess if you have onedrive connected make sure you are actually storing files on your pc.

[fuck-customers]

We're out of carrots at my grocery store, and people are mostly understanding.

But this bitch.

"How can you be out of carrots??"

Me: well the warehouse is out. As soon as they get them, they'll send some out.

Her: this is RIDICULOUS! A grocery store isn't supposed to RUN OUT of things! Who does the ordering? They really fucked up!

Me: (thinking wtf bitch) actually all ordering is done through the computer. But if the warehouse is out, they can't send them.

Her: oh blame the computers then. I bet you do the ordering and you messed up and don't want to take accountability!

Me: all grocery stores have computer ordering now. Ask anyone. Have the day you deserve.

And I walked away. I was so done with her shit. She complained to the (higher) manager about me but he said that he overheard and I wasn't even able to be perceived as rude. And that she can't talk to people that way.

Fuck her. Thanks to managers for standing up for us.

I have also had people flip me off, or straight up walk away after I tell them we're out. No "thanks anyway" or whatever. Just turn and leave.

Posted by admin Rodney.

[not-so-rosyyy]

WAIT WTF THATS THE THIRD DIFFERENT PANTS WITH A Z !!!

Sorry, but wtf I thought the Paris pants with a Z was one of the two we had already seen because no one really talk about it, BUT ITS A DIFFERENT ONE !!

I'm actually sick, she really stitched a Z on ALL of his pants, like my brain isn't computing right now

Hold your horses, I went back to the video and I think the NYC store pants is the same as the Paris ones based on the design on the pocket 😂

[kdipshit]

Well then

Alrightyyyy, hows the crowd feeling tonight, I’m hearing so many cheers rn girl. First of all I feel good, I read a whole ass book in one sitting pretty much, and Jesus lord have me. I’m coming to the full understanding and awareness that I am not my brain, my brains is a fucking computer. I know, what the hecka, I change the colour of it, its pink. LOL WTF it already was, but now its a compter that lives in my brain. 1 computer, all files away neatly stored away safely. Omgggg, yanno my middle place? Well now I have a computer in my room, thats my brain, it’s all my thoughts, feelings and beliefs. I’m beginning to feel from my heart… thats my intuition, my gut feeling, my love, me.

[moongoddessmox]

alright so, im finally on my computer so i can type this all out. remember the introduction of B from work? yeah, well things have developed in a way that's........ugh but also not ugh. let me explain, this is gonna be long.

The last two weeks have been very....interesting. Things have moved pretty fucking fast ngl. So we left off on the second day B and I had ever interacted, back when it was just a simple awkward Hello at work. Well, after that I told B that I was gonna invite him to breakfast with my dairy crew and asked for his number, he told me he dropped something on his head and that's why he went home early. After that we kind of texted but he's like, really bad at responding. Like, it would be a day or more with no response so I was like, ughhhh.

Well, I finally got him to talking about plants because he loves them, and we looked at the plants at our store after work, then we walked to his car and talked. He told me to pick three things and he'll choose one for us to do outside of work. So we made a plan to go hiking. At this point, we're talking more and he's responding better. I'm still doing most of the talking but he's actually saying things now. (He also said he's gonna make a powerpoint to answer all my shit because I talk so much lmfao he never did but whatever)

Anyway, he tells me about his life and that he's divorced, that was a shock tbh. He seems too young to be divorced already but whatever, nbd idc. Anyway, he then tells me he's not sure if he's emotionally or mentally ready for a relationship because he doesn't want to put his remaining issues onto someone so he said "is it okay if we're just friends for awhile?" and ya know, that immediately put up a red flag because i've been told that before. But he seems sweet and we vibe literally so fucking well. So it's okay, I'm cool with being friends with him. He's great. So the next day he invites me to Lowes to look at plants and he bought me starbucks, then we went to the park and walked the trail and to the dog park with his cute ass DOGGGGGG. He's literally so adorable with his dog, yall its tough not to fall for him.

So we hang out like 3 hours or so, and have been texting so much since. The day after that, he facetimed me and showed me all his plants and garden and we made a spontaneous plan to go hiking at the state park, so i got ready and he picked me up and we went out there and hiked. I've never been hiking yall, but it was fun. We talked a lot, joked around, and it was great. We have the same energy but he's more extroverted and goofy. He also kept looking at me and I was like "what" and he said "nothing just figuring things out" and he claimed he was just being weird but like, why would you say that smh lmfao

So, we were texting later that day and about crushes and things and he asked if I wanted to be FWB, which kinda shocked me like, ok so he does like me, but here we go again. I've had a FWB before where they didn't want a relationship but just wanted to use me. So I was like, red flag #2.

However, he's so fucking cute, so hell yeah im gonna do that wtf. Anyway, so we've basically hung out every single day, and we talk rapid fire now, there's no issues with responding. We haven't done anything but kiss, and we don't even sext or anything. Its just kinda flirty sometimes, its like starting to date someone rather than a FWB.

But on Thursday he asked if he could come over on his lunch break and hang out, because we're off on different days, so i super cleaned and he came over and was so kind and gentle with my cats and we talked and hung out and he fucking kissed me and it was so nice. We didn't like, full on makeout but we kept kissing and hes so playful. He snooped around my apartment and had knocked over my painted as I tried to stop him from going upstairs, and it knocked my Castial pop vinyl into my candle and melted the box lmfao yikes. But it was all playful and fun and very touchy. And he's just so sweet and kind...

Then he came over Friday on our lunch break and we hung out in my bed and he literally grabbed me from behind and walked me to my bed and kissed me, pulled me down on top of him and kissed me on the bed. like bro......BRO

He didn't try to do anything else, hes been very respectful and im just like, bro fucking take me, TAKE ME RIGHT NOW BC THIS TEASING IS TOO MUCH, HOW IS THIS REAL

and today he told me his best friend who we work with invited me to their Sunday Football hangouts like.....B told me he wasn't gonna tell anyone bc he didn't want people hounding him about it but he's talking about me enough that his friend is personally inviting me????

So today he's gonna come over and hang out, hopefully lmfao and god. GOD. Yall this is such a mistake because hes so kind and sweet and cute and we match each other so well and I feel like maybe i'm reading into his looks and behaviors too much but hes so genuine and sweet to me.

LIKE yesterday we were talking about favorite starburst flavors and we both said pink, and today at work he held his hand over mine and dropped a pink starburst into my hand. Then when i went to my car on break, he had left a starburst on my door handle........and he gave me veggies from his garden, OH AND HE GAVE ME ONE OF HIS PLANTS yall.............this isnt real.........this is so fucking insane............

i'll add some pics of what i can for proof bc this is crazy

[harrelltut]

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