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Lou Laurinen

Lou Laurinen

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  • mysterionz
    Hey Luca, I saw you broke your phone :( I’m sorry to hear that.. I have an iPhone 11 as well. My dad has a backup iPhone 8 for emergencies (if I ever were to break my current phone). I wish there was a way to send over a new phone from FL to Maine.
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    tree
    tree
    I was very pleasantly surprised by the book.
    Although it's a J (theoretically meant for 7 to 10 year olds)
    it's an amusing parody of phone usage/social media, and the companies
    that make & sell phones.
    mysterionz
    mysterionz
    @Luca thats amazing :D I’m glad you were able to repair yours. I unfortunately can’t repair my iPad as I cannot afford it rn
    Lou Laurinen
    Lou Laurinen
    Repairs on Apple products are ridiculously expensive. I just go with a local fix-it tech guy instead of the Apple Store. Hope you can get your iPad fixed soon!
    Lou Laurinen
    A few months ago, I removed the screen protector on my phone because it was cracked, and I completely forgot to replace it. Today, I dropped my phone face down on the bathroom floor and the entire screen cracked. I can't get it replaced until tomorrow morning but I'm really debating with myself over whether I should just get an entirely new phone (I have an iPhone 11 and I've had it for years.)
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    Misery
    Misery
    I've never understood why the phones themselves are so incredibly fragile though. Dropping an unprotected iPhone onto that slate floor would see it just outright shatter, no question about it.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    I was cleaning out my fridge, to move out of rental with ceramic floors. I balanced my phone on the top of the fridge door, probably because l thought my friend who never calls me would call, and down that phone went.
    mysterionz
    mysterionz
    My partners mom broke her phone on her birthday when it fell face first out of her back pocket. She spent $200 (IIRC) to get a new phone from a merchant in Maryland.
    Lou Laurinen
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    Lou Laurinen
    Lou Laurinen
    New England is like if "autumn" were a physical location lol. Fall is my favorite season and it's my absolute favorite thing about living here. I have lived in places that didn't have seasons, and as much as I love tropical climates as well, something is so special about autumn here. And it's the perfect place to celebrate Halloween!
    Aneka
    Aneka
    Is that a tree nursery in the background?
    Lou Laurinen
    Lou Laurinen
    Lou Laurinen
    Power is back on. I’m taking the opportunity to charge everything
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    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    I'm glad the power is back on! I really hope you and your girlfriend can enjoy a picnic together like you planned! If not, I hope you can do something equally as nice and relax together :-)
    Yeshuasdaughter
    Yeshuasdaughter
    That's so weird, because we had a power outage too. I live in the big city, so imagine rows of pitch black skyscrapers. It was incredibly surreal. It's a secure building, so you can't even get inside, up the stairs, into the garage, let alone up the elevator, without a key fob. I slept part of the night on a couch in the lobby. It was so dark and quiet. Sort of like being out in the country.
    Lou Laurinen
    My power went out so I can only use cellular data on my phone, and who knows how quickly the cell service will get knocked out. I have two bars right now. So don’t freak out too much if you don’t hear from me until the morning. I will update as soon as I can.
    Lou Laurinen
    Update: I guess no one was actually ordered to evacuate, my neighbors are just all leaving and they told us to evacuate as well. We are less than 200 yards from the coastline, to put this in perspective. There is a tropical storm warning for all of southeastern MA and the islands. I don’t know if we should leave or if we should just sleep in the living room tonight. But my parents are still awful
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Sorry Luca thar you and family are going thru this.

    Stay calm.
    Lou Laurinen
    They are evacuating my neighborhood because of Hurricane Lee, and my parents won’t even allow us to go to their house (they live inland.) Looks like we’re going to have to go to a friend’s house, or a hotel. My parents always stop short of truly caring, everything they do for me is performative (which is why I rarely discuss that can of worms.)
    Lou Laurinen
    My girlfriend came home yesterday afternoon! We're so happy to be reunited. <3 We're going to have a picnic by the water for lunch and hopefully have a nice date tonight. I missed her more than I can even express in words and I hope we never have to be separated again.
    Lou Laurinen
    This is what I got at the thrift shop in Boston/Cambridge yesterday
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    Lou Laurinen
    Lou Laurinen
    We got caught in a downpour so the raincoat (and umbrella which isn’t pictured) really came in handy!
    lovely_darlingprettybaby
    lovely_darlingprettybaby
    That is so cute. I love the red raincoat
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    That was a good find. Our thrift store gets lots of new things,( GWill). So l actually picked up a brand new work jacket for my daughter. Trendy, young cut. There were a bunch of nice leather jackets about a month ago.
    Lou Laurinen
    I'm being brave and not wearing makeup and wearing my hair in a ponytail today, and wearing sweatpants and a crop top, even though I have to go into downtown Boston later. Sometimes getting out of our comfort zones is important.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    When l first arrived in LA about 7 years ago, everybody, and l mean your 92 year-old grandmother, to your 12 year-old daughter wore jeggings. It didn't matter what your shape was. Nobody cared.
    M
    Mr. Stevens
    I love doing this. Sometimes I wear a bright outfit--something people might make fun of me for--and go out to eat alone. It's really fun. Good to get out of your comfort zone and realize you're inhibiting yourself at times.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Downtown Boston sounds fun. What a huge city.
    Lou Laurinen
    I've been pretty rapidly gaining back a lot of the weight I'd lost. I'm not bothered by it particularly, there's nothing to be ashamed of about my body, I'm just always in fear of people in my life making unsolicited comments. I don't know why it's so hard for some people to just live and let live and keep their mouths shut. I'm just not meant to be Barbie and that's totally okay!
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    All-Rounder
    All-Rounder
    I don't suppose people still believe the standard of a female is that which they see on TV which went thru 20 series of surgeries, which is unreachable in day to day conditions especially when bread is part of normal life, we'd been fed it since childhood, and the taste of sweet tends to be a common desire and craving documented scientifically.
    All-Rounder
    All-Rounder
    There are grey areas in body shape, not everyone is either a celebrity or larger. People can be so silly and preoccupied with details and superficiality when they go outside to socialize, instead of having a good time. I guess socializing isn't a word, it's more so comparing humans to one another in the competition ladder of the world. What sourness.
    All-Rounder
    All-Rounder
    Then young people get so worried that they keep extreme diets that make them faint when they are supposed to have a carefree time.
    Lou Laurinen
    I’m already tired of doing errands this week and it’s only Tuesday. I hope I don’t have to set foot in another grocery store anytime soon.
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    DaisyRose
    DaisyRose
    I’m glad I’m not the only one who is sick of the week ahead. Everyone and their momma has been giving 100 dollar bills all week and last week, so we keep running out of change in the cash register. It’s tiring to break the bill and not have enough change. We had to make four trips to the bank today.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Shopped at big box store. Not too bad. The people were more irritating at the gym, then the store today. Sometimes errands are horrible.
    Lou Laurinen
    Lou Laurinen
    People at the gym were always rude to me too. I only work out at home now.
    Errands are horrible sometimes and are almost always a pain in the butt. The highlight of running errands for me is always getting coffee lol
    Lou Laurinen
    Exactly a month until my *real* birthday. Not my un-birthday. It doesn't feel real that I'm turning 29...
    Here's a picture from my birthday trip last year. Perfect vintage autumn vibes (I cropped us humans out lol)
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    Lou Laurinen
    I've been listening to podcasts about paranormal/unexplained phenomena while I've been doing chores tonight, and now I'm kind of freaked out. Probably not the best podcast to put on when you're home alone, it's quiet, and you live next to the forest. Lol
    Crabcore
    Crabcore
    I think I've said this before, but I love / hate creeping myself out like this -- I'll be like, 'pff, I don't even believe in this stuff!', and then bedtime rolls around and I'm laying there going, 'why did I do this to myself?' :D
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Luca, just read your rant room. Yes, l have heard that line. Almost like they set the entire mini drama up, just so they could shut it down. Like l feel they weren't even serious about a friendship. Now my sister-law lied and said she wanted to be my friend. Yeah right, guess, what, not me. She is just too NT for me. Lol
    Lou Laurinen
    I'm tired of people making "you lost a lot of weight and you're still not skinny" comments to me. Did I lose a significant amount of weight? Yes. Am I in good shape? Also yes. Am I ever going to be "skinny" and look like a model? Absolutely not. There's no "one size fits all" for human beings. We come in lots of different shapes. I'm always going to be curvy and I'll probably never be under a size 10. And that's fine
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    lovely_darlingprettybaby
    lovely_darlingprettybaby
    Yes it is very wrong, society makes people feel so wrong for being larger body shapes. And it does not make u ugly.
    It is hard being an easily influenced autistic too, they place a lot of emphasis on thin as beautiful and it definitely can make u view yourself differently especially when skinny is always beautiful and there is something so ugly and wrong and taboo about being bigger or having more curves.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Nobody is ugly. We are beautiful. Some of us have curves. Some of us are stick-thin. Who cares?
    lovely_darlingprettybaby
    lovely_darlingprettybaby
    So true
    But some people do care and get very hurt by negative comments or feedback.
    That is why it is important to be kind to others about their appearance no matter what they look like.
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