I really love this one. You are so good at painting skin, the range and depth of colors is phenomenal. The background is amazing too

I asked my VA therapist about this today, and she said this directive has already been rescinded following provider feedback.

I’m 100% service connected.

But yeah, they did lose it. I have emails from opm and the va just three years ago telling me they couldn’t find it. I don’t know where my peer found it, but I’m lucky she did. That was half the point of my comment above

I got out in 2006, that fire happened in 1973

To add to this, get in touch with your local VA peer support. They aren’t in every city but if you have a regional center they will have at least one peer support. They have the connections to help you get whatever records you need. The military “lost” my dd214 and the only reason I have it now is because of an incredibly persistent peer.

They are also great shoulders to lean on through the process, because it sucks. You will be made to feel like you are less than others for your service connected disability, and sometimes you may question whether you have one at all because of it.

Hang in there!

Nah. Celine is Canadian. Rihanna is from Barbados, and that’s still where she spends a lot of her time.

Madonna is American but lives in the UK now and has for decades

Could try one of these corset style belts, I always think they look great with the empire waist

My dad was/is a gamer. We had every Nintendo system except the SNES at release. He’s a little bit older than the grandpa in this scenario, but he still gamed on the old systems by the time I stopped speaking to them. Had a huge CRT in the garage next to the beer fridge and all that lol. My sibling and I had our own games that we could play, but we always had to ask permission because the systems were my dad’s

I’m glad it has the name of the comic and the artist visible. I just went to check out some of the comics, they are so cute!

I was an AuDHD kid in the 90s. That specific word was thrown at me a lot by both adults and my peers, especially because I lose the ability to speak when I’m stressed/overstimulated. I guess it still hurts when I hear it or read it, and going off this thread that’s a “me” problem. Definitely regret posting my original comment

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I don’t understand why this word has come back into common usage

I keep my doors closed both for climate control and light. I prefer darker spaces but I have indoor vegetable plants in my spare bedroom. I very softly close my doors though, because I’m overly sensitive to sound lol

Whoa. It’s crazy how varied velvet ants are. I was so sure the ones I grew up with were red with a black stripe in the middle of their abdomen.

Turns out I didn’t misremember: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasymutilla_occidentalis

Rihanna hasn’t dropped an album in 10 years, and I think she has said she’ll never make another album. I’m positive her wealth comes more from her very successful Fenty brand than her music (as much as I absolutely loved her music back in the day, she wasn’t selling like Swift or Beyonce)

Edit: I’d say the same for Gomez, her wealth is probably from Rare Beauty nowadays

There was an article a few weeks ago where folks were interviewed at a gas station in Pennsylvania. Two of the Trump voters who was fine with the higher prices said it was an acceptable price to pay to keep the nation safe. They really thought Iran was going to attack the US, possibly with nukes.

I have no hope of changing the minds who fervently believe in that crap

Oh, I’ll start! Pentastarm, you’re so handsome!

Well, that’s my new word for the day xD

Shootings on bases in just the last year. One is a domestic violence situation, and I fully believe there will be more as the war rages on

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/judge-to-decide-whether-to-accept-guilty-plea-of-sergeant-accused-of-shooting-5-soldiers-on-ft-stewart/ar-AA1ZORGi

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/shooting-on-holloman-air-force-base-in-new-mexico-leaves-1-dead-1-injured/ar-AA1YUKCK

https://www.wdsu.com/article/new-orleans-police-investigating-shooting-lower-9th-ward-area/70704569

There are 35 countries that have unrestricted birthright citizenship, lol