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I feel your pain. I’ve been there for sure, and I simetimes I get pretty sad/sensitive around my birthday because I’ve had many plans fall through. Reading this thread, I never realized before that this was such a common ADHD experience.

What’s helped me a little bit is to plan smaller, but more frequent, things with just a few friends. It still doesn’t really fill the longing for a great big party for me, but I’ve had better luck with people committing to show up when they know they’ll only be one of 2-5. For example, how would you feel about having a few separate simple dinners with friends in the week of your birthday? As well, I’ve started insisting on potluck style if I ever do plan a larger thing. So much less headache around planning and quantities.

As for what to say to your friends… I get the awkwardness. I’d probably say something like “a bit smaller than expected, sadly”, try to keep the tone neutral and quickly change the subject. I wouldn’t want to lie, but there’s also no use getting into all of it with someone who didn’t show up. That would just bring up a lot of resentment and end up ugly for me.

All the best for your belated birthday, and I hope the next one is better for you.

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That looks awesome! Got a recipe?

P is the Proportional Limit, where it stops being linear, but remains elastic for a short while longer, meaning any deformation can still be recovered. E is the Elastic Limit, where it changes from elastic to plastic

Switzerland?

And looking up, I noticed I was late

Vancouver?

.5L? You okay?

Sigh…

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I don’t think that means what you think it means.

!geocaching@lemmy.world

Two broken arms

That same real estate agent has offices located in Creston BC. Safe to say this is somewhere in the Interior, probably

The real estate agent’s phone number has a 250 area code. That would mean regions of British Columbia outside the Lower Mainland. Pretty close!

The Lives of Others is a movie about life under surveillance in the DDR. Maybe not quite what you asked, but it’s very well made

All good, thank you for the detailed write-up!

Aha! This was it. Now there is an .exe file I can run. THANK YOU!!