#derederest

I have alarms everywhere. But I also leave my meds in strategic places.

This one needs to be taken with a meal? The bottle lives on the dining room table where we eat all our meals. This one needs to be taken before bed? It sits on the nightstand. This one might need to travel with me? I split the bottle up so I always have some on me, even if I might be in the car that morning instead of at the breakfast table. And I always have a second alarm fifteen minutes after the first because even if I get up to get the meds, that doesn’t mean I actually take them. Sometimes my brain will go “ah! bottle! task complete!” and then then ten to fifteen minutes later I’ll look up from what I’m doing like “...wait...” 

This is also why I replaced some of my bottle caps with ones that have timers on the top that tell you the last time you opened them. They’re handy and fairly inexpensive at places like Walgreens. You can also get ones where the timer is built into the cap, and it’s very handy to have your literal actual pill bottle make annoying beeping noises at you until you unscrew it.

Cafe is owned by Dark Chocolate! :D

Cranberry Lemon is the cook, Vanilla Bean helps out sometimes but is mostly a waiter just like Cherry Jubilee ^^

Bar is owned by Chardonnay <3

I’m sorry to hear you’re dealing with that, that is always so stressful.

At present, we buy our own insurance through Health Partners.

I know there are some health plans where you can apply for them through the state, which might enable you to keep your providers and meds. But I honestly don’t know enough about it. We were never able to apply because of my fluctuating migrant status, and then we started earning too much to qualify despite drowning in medical debt. Because the medical system in this country is a racket.

This is actually a fairly major theme going forward in the series, so I’m reluctant to give too much away. But I can say with confidence, neither of them are huge fans.

Nathan doesn’t really think much about it until he has to. Mostly he just hopes  Vlad is right when he says it will lead to a boom in industry, trade, and automation that will free people from the shackles of dangerous working conditions. He’s not a fan of the expanding cities, though. He doesn’t like how they’re eating up the countryside. Nor the smog that comes with them.    

There are a couple brushes I like to use, but sadly one of them was deleted from the ASSETS thing, and the other I have no idea the name of since it’s in Japanese!

But I def recommend exploring brushes with textures and a dry brush effect :D

I don’t use any shortcuts because I never knew about them when I started, and once I’d learned them I didn’t have much impulse to use them since I’d already developed the muscle memory for the things I do now ^^;