I've had similar issues with earplugs, including waking up in the middle of the night because they were so painful-- I've definitely found some that were a lot less painful than others (maybe smaller? fancier? unsure) and if you make sure to put them in correctly (lift your ear upwards? i think the plugs usually have instructions) I think it can help. there's also silicone earplugs, which aren't nearly as good at blocking out sound but are different enough that they might not have the pain problem

ok i did always wonder how people slept with earbuds in, this is a good idea actually. maybe i could repurpose my airplane pillow?

though, i already have issues just sleeping with regular earplugs, it fucking hurts so bad when i wake up, or if i wake up in the middle of the night i can't go back to sleep because it hurts. maybe i'm just weird and sensitive, but it's made sleeping in hostels or with a loud roommate absolute hell lol

ummmmm.................. "hole pillow " .............................. ？ hiii

I think different people have different ways of sleeping. I can't sleep on my back either, I usually sleep on my side. Sometimes on my stomach

I feel like every once in a while I just uncomplicatedly manage to sleep on my back no problem, but the rest of the time it's impossible. no idea how to recreate the circumstances where I succeed

yeah! I just got one of these like 2 weeks ago so i can sleep with ANC earbuds when the upstairs neighbors are stomping around in the wee hours of the got dang morning and it's been helpful.

for her new piercings, my roommate likes the cheaper one she got that looks like a donut with a bite taken out of it (I tried it but I'm so bad at sleeping and needed something more plush). it appears to have vanished from the face of the internet though so idk maybe it was full of poison or something

they sell pillows with holes in them now for piercing healing https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=hole+pillow

what a marvellous and terrible world we live in nowadays...

when i sleep on my back i have a pillow under my knees for support and don’t use a pillow for my head, or maybe sometimes just a small tube shaped one under my neck. i used to have a pillow under my lumbar too but i feel my body doesn’t want that anymore lately

because every body is different you kinda gotta experiment to see what works best for you

i use a neck support pillow (ie a rolled up towel) but i have a lot of nervous energy so i sleep on top of my hands sometimes. i can sleep like a corpse though

🤝 I too cannot sleep on my back! It just does not register as sleeping mode so my brain never even starts to slow down.

"sleeping on my back is englessly borning " is one of the more adhd things ive read

people on the internet have ludicrous expectations about the level of detail theyre entitled to about other people and it should stop. its actually not normal to be able to know everything about someone who you have never spoken to or interacted with based on their profile/posts.

I'm so glad to hear things are starting to go better for you. I knew you could do it, and you did.

This, to me, is amazing to hear, truly

I suspected you could do it, and I'm glad that you got there!

I'm very hopeful for your future too :)

...i've genuinely never considered that ahahah. in my mind it's a given that if i got a new laptop i'll just use it for encoding and if the battery's non-removable then well it's fried lol. but yeah that's probably. that's probably an obvious available option to a third party reading what i wrote, huh

I'd laptop because yeah it wolves more problems. Maybe still using the desktop for encoding, it'll take longer but cause less wear and tear issues.

But yeah I definitely computer shop more than I buy Lol. I don't have a need to buy but I know pretty much exactly what I would buy if I needed to.

fingers crossed for you!! i hope this works out. humans were not made to do paperwork and interact with bureaucracy

also this should hopefully enable me to vote this year. though im not sure thats really very useful, especially in my home state, but whatever lol. if i can, i will

start with an "oo ee oo"

how do i tell my buddy

cheers for the return of the good blog

i do appreciate this review. i used to bike everywhere and im now considering and ebike because if i get one, i may again be able to bike everywhere. i am incorporating your personal blog into my personal brain

you gotta repost it, or i'll never know what the asschap thread is in reference to

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i wanna see your blogs

no matter how big or small

how dismissive or not

i'm so jealous you get to play GAA for the first time

I hopped on Duolingo for a way to brush up on Spanish but all the questions are easy. I'm told i can just keep skipping ahead beyond where it puts you automatically, but I took their level assessment quiz to place me and I got no questions wrong at all.

I think they might be good for "I know three sentences of XYZ language or less, and want to be able to read a newspaper article" or something, but I don't know how much the format can help someone whose level is at "I can pretty much hold a conversation with a native speaker, if they're patient and understanding."