#ezraye

[megatownac]

ezraye replied to your post “Well My copy of New Horizons arrived late last night, and I decided to...”

I don’t like my starting villagers either. But I’m figuring it’s better to start with people I can kick out. I don’t have to worry about accidental losing someone I love before I understand the mechanics of moving

That’s actually a really good and well-made point. I know practically nothing about this game except that there’s a ton of crafting and I’m going to hate that. Also, item durability, and I’m going to hate that, too.

But it’s fine!! Probably!!

[pharmacyforthemasses]

I have had a full hysterectomy and ovary removal. I use an estradiol patch changed twice a week. It’s Medicare open enrollment and I’m comparing plans. Most don’t cover my patch. It’s over $700. Is there a cheaper form of estrogen that I could switch to? Why are these patches so expensive? They are generic! Is oral estrogen comparable? I googled and saw some coupons for estradiol- are coupons used once only or can I use them every month?? Thankyou for your time!

Hi there!

Estrogen therapy is available as a skin patch, a cream/gel, a vaginal ring, and a pill. Different formulations have different risks and benefits. Transdermal estrogen (the patch, cream/gel) has the lowest risk of causing blood clots, so that makes it a good choice for a lot of women. Oral estrogen has a higher risk of causing blood clots because it passes through the liver before being circulated systemically, and that affects blood coagulation (I’ll spare you the details).

So, yes, there are other forms of estrogen available but I can’t say if they would be a better fit for you. It’s a risk/benefit discussion you’d have to have with your doctor.

I’m not sure why it’s so expensive, and it’s bullshit that most Medicare plans won’t cover it. Can you get a prior authorization and get it covered that way?

As for coupons, my pharmacy allowed people to print out multiple copies of the same online coupon and use them every month. Most pharmacists aren’t going to hassle you about that, we hate the pharmaceutical companies as much as patients do, and coupons make manufacturers eat the cost.

[ratralsis]

ezraye replied to your photo “On the right is the bed I bought for my cats a few years ago. They...”

Maybe the actual cat bed isn’t high enough off the floor

It’s entirely possible! They do often sleep or sit on things that are off of the floor, even if it’s just by a little bit. There’s also an old multi-level scratching post/tower that they sleep on a lot, though they do very rarely use the bed:

And they also really like cardboard, so I humor them by keeping some around, or even just keeping boxes of cat food at floor level for them:

Note that she is not even fully on the boxes. She seems fine with that. She COULD be. She’s done it before. She just isn’t RIGHT NOW.

The simple fact of it is, they spend more time living in this house than I do, so I try hard to let them do what they want so long as it isn’t actively damaging anything important. Basically, if it doesn’t hurt me, and it makes them happy, I’ll allow it and even encourage it.

[laundryandtaxes]

ezraye replied to your post: If I save I should be able to literally buy a car...

Now you can get yourself to the gun range and fishing like anytime!!!

GOD I was literally planning to maybe go camping next week but I FORGOT THIS MEANS I CAN GO TO THE GUN RANGE WHENEVER

[drearydaffodil]

Another sunset stored in

Shirt pockets, wrapped in

Silk and saved to smooth

The edges of the morning

Life is a puzzle missing

Half the pieces and we

Do the best we can to

Simply make sense

Here's hoping for a

Smile sweet like

Buttercream, and

Arms that feel like

A soft place to land

~~Happy Birthday @ezraye ! ☆☆☆ 🍾🎂🦄~~

[wildcherrylime]

What does "ask to tag" mean in your reblogs??

i hope its ok to answer this publicly since i feel like its useful for other people to know too!!

i use “ask to tag” to indicate when i feel like im missing a potential tag on something, but im not sure what it is :O because tbh honestly im pretty casual about tags (its mostly just for me to organize/find things things on my blog and yell about things)

tbh when i started on tumblr tagging everything was more of a Very Big Deal i feel like so its really just a spill over from that

[megatownac]

ezraye replied to your photoset “I spent so many hours doing this. It was killing me to do it for so...”

Wait what are you doing? Leveling it all out?

Still working on it, but yes. Eventually, the villagers and I will live north of the Resident Center. The shops will be south of it, just north of the airport. The campsite is probably fine as it is.

There will be a massive fruit orchard (including bamboo) north of the houses. Cedar trees north of the river on the clifftop. Coconut trees along the beaches. Decorations and flowers will be placed in the empty spaces. There will be plenty of those.

This screeshot is from a few days ago; I’m further along with the plan now. I imagine that this is not how the game was meant to be played, but I can’t help what I like.

[megatownac]

ezraye replied to your post “ezraye replied to your post “Well My copy of New Horizons arrived...”

I missed talking to you about games

God, yeah. Your posts have been really uplifting these past few days. I’m super happy to see you playing Animal Crossing with your family again.

Sorry I took a while to post about your other comments, and I hope you don’t me making the replies public like this, but I thought it might be interesting to kind of share my thoughts on the game so far like this.

As far as the crafting goes, I find it very tedious, and that it artificially breaks up the flow of the game in a randomized way. Like if I want hardwood to make an item, I can’t just go get hardwood. I have to get hardwood, softwood, and wood all at the same time, and I get it randomly by swinging an axe at trees. An axe that will break and force me to make another axe, using tree branches and stones, which I don’t know how to farm for and can only get so many of in a day.

So I’m constantly making new items, foraging for items to make those new items, and running out of things to forage so I just have to stop for the day and shrug and say “Welp, no more fishing today, I guess.”

As a general rule, I think crafting in games just adds meaningless busywork. I’d rather just find a treasure chest containing a bronze sword than go to the mines to mine for copper and tin, then to the forest to get wood, then head to a forge and make it. It doesn’t make it more satisfying. It just makes it take longer.

My hope is that there’s an ultimate-tier tool list that don’t break, but what I’ve heard so far suggests that the best around is probably gold, and those probably break. It seems... less than ideal.

But so it goes. I’ll just expand my inventory and carry around a boatload of tools, I guess!! Hopefully, once I have more money, I’ll start buying them directly from Timmy, right? I saw that I could do that, but I don’t know how good or bad an idea that is.

Probably a good idea. If this game IS like New Leaf, I’ll eventually realize that I’m making much more money than I need.