Yes Rank 8 reward is the hair.

Good to hear that you are least got the items you like already and hopefully you will get the knuffel too, let me know if not though, then I can give you one of mine :3

Ooh I knew someone that happened to but he had to take out a loan because he didn't have the money
$800
If they're on their last semester they should just get it. Wtf

Can do
408/601

Kitalpha Hart wrote:I was terrible at doing homework in school uwu
Thankfully I'm long past having homework ahahaha

Same here. If I couldn't do my schoolwork at school, it didn't get done. "Homework" was strictly for work that involved my home, not my school; boundaries are important.
My teachers weren't fans of this stance.
But I kept acing the tests, so it was clear I learned the material.
And I didn't see why they should get any of my time after I'd already learned the material.
Most of the classes, it just averaged out. Assignments I could complete in class and the quizzes and tests balanced against the longer assignments there wasn't time for. Honestly most of the time I still got As.
Some of the teachers caved entirely and just graded off the tests; I did VERY well there.
Some of them deliberately changed their beginning-of-the-year stated grading methods so they could add more weight to homework, and flunked me. Like it was some kind of principle for them that students should have to do homework or something (maybe a power play? Dunno).
I didn't care by that point.
I'd lost all faith in the system by then, lol, so I had no investment in my school records, and the "consequence" of failing just rolled off my back.
Since I didn't react, when they tried to make a big deal out of it, they just got weird looks; I was known as a nerdy bookworm who could tutor anyone in any subject, so the fact that some (okay only two) teachers flunked me despite the fact that I could teach anyone enough to ace the tests they gave... well it just made them look petty.

My GPA suffered from that, but I scored high enough on the pre-college tests to get into my top university pick anyhow. Although I still regret wasting my time at University after I'd already clearly abandoned the academic route of life. Should've just started in working towards my actual life plans. But it was so EXPECTED in the family, I just went.
Probably would've been invaluable to someone with a different life trajectory.
Frustrating.
Waste of opportunity for everyone involved.
Oh, well, hindsight and all that.
And, to be fair, the University library was INCREDIBLE. And I made some good contacts. So it wasn't actually a complete waste of time, it's just that the opportunity cost was well higher than what I typically use as my decision-making point, and it was even then, I knew it before I ever applied. I just wasn't as used to being independent, so I let the family overrule my good sense.
Mistakes are how we learn, I guess.


Wow long rambling tangent that helps no one.

Clearly, I should go sleep so my filters start working again.

G'night and good luck to those of you still tossing water balloons!

413/601

You win some you lose some
I tried college. Didn't like it. Made it through two semesters before I was able to convince my mom that it wasn't going to be useful for me
But she's got a history of going "hey I think Kit will like this" and then I end up bored, annoyed, or otherwise unenthused about it so I don't put in effort and she wonders why I'm doing so poorly
Now that I'm a homeowner and she's moved out, she can't do that as easily. I can simply not show up and let her waste her money after I'd already told her no several times and dad's pointed out that I likely have plans with my friends. She's learning, especially since she can't really throw money away like that now

My family has never been really talented with saving money. Our credit is usually very low as well. I'm working on that after I pay for and pass these two last classes so that I can graduate. A sweet lady that goes to church with me offered to help me make a payment towards my tuition, and I'm going to always be so thankful for her making that investment in me. Now I'll just have to figure out how to pay for the student loans lol.

Yeah my mom is bad too. But mostly cuz she can't say no to her oldest
Who spends money she thinks she'll get before she has it. And then panics when she inevitably finds out she doesn't have it. It's a vicious cycle and my brother and I are, thankfully, out of it
Though he's weirdly bouncy between stingy and lavish with his spending. He can get an overpriced vacuum but can't get a $3 tube for his oldest kid's bike like what
Im.pretty good at saving. Sometimes I drop a lot of money at once but I make sure I have the funds for it first

436/601 I'm going to bed

... I meant to go to bed.
But here I am back again.
Because one-more-thing-itis struck while wandering around looking for a new tube of toothpaste and one thing of course leads to one more thing, and yeah.

But for real.

Bed this time.

Hopefully.

It’s July 30TH! Don’t forget to wrap up your water balloon throws!

I'm absolutely going to finish this with one more knuffel, even if it means an incomplete set of the items.
Don't care.
That's the way it's going!

Lol okay if you say so. XD