I am very good at cooking now, like whatever I want to make I can AND I can take whatever we have and make something good, and I enjoy it, and people comment on it and want me to cook for them. Hobby level good, I would say. Food and drinks both, always something fermenting over here, and I love making cocktails (obviously).
For personal physical comfort? Between 23-30 (75-85) with plenty of rain & humidity, not dry air. Am ok with hotter as long as it’s not too dry.
For the world? Well down here before the warming the summers topped around the same they do now, just fewer days of it, so almost 37C, with daily afternoon thunderstorms, and winters were longer (not long, but longer) and likely to have a few days below freezing most years, so I guess for emotional comfort I’d take that, thanks.
Leon Bridges and Charley Crockett are touring together, I have seen both and they are great performers but what I am most happy about is the way they are showing the link between country and R&B. What you like is probably not as far removed from what he likes, as you think. Music is a river.
Who doesn’t like Sly & the Family Stone? What the heck?
Cherokee, performed by Kamasi Washington, is one of my favorite songs and I don’t usually like jazz like that. It is amazing.
There was a catechism on Reddit whenever some 20 something guy would say he hated country music:
Jason Isbell
Sturgill Simpson
Tyler Childers
I can’t remember all of them, I do like country music now I found the good stuff, but hate what’s on the radio for sure, it is truly awful music. My husband has come around because of what I listen to.
None of this is to convince you! There is a wide wide world of music, you will not run out even if you are afraid of twang. Your comment just brought me back to the earlier Reddit.
(ETA I was just listening to Sound & Fury today, I like Simpson’s country stuff but LOVE that rock album, start to finish it’s so good )
Homemade tepache #1
Homemade ginger beer #2
Diet Coke/Coke Zero is my #3
I am less than a mile from the hospital I was born in. Like some middle ages peasant.
The city grew up with me, or I grew up with it; when I was young there was not much to do and it was quite violent. Through my life it has become vibrant and safer, not that I had anything to do with it. Now there is so much to do, beautiful parks, concerts, downtown came back to life.
I have visited other places, for months at a time before I had kids, and shorter trips after. But here actually is home, it’s funny. I wouldn’t have dreamed it when I was a little kid.
Kitty Kitty oh so pretty, kitty kitten cat!
More likely you just would not have been kept in hospital four months here. Somehow we have the combination of highest cost and also cost-cutting schemes.
To answer your question - $18,000 I guess, if I got lucky and the insurance worked correctly. That’s the alleged max out of pocket for the insurance I pay for at work.
Yeah my brother said you should always tell people you are older than you are, so that they think you look good for your age.
Yeah I tell people when they ask, they gasp, but then they forget. It’s mostly people younger than me who do this, though. And when I was 12 people often perceived me as a grown woman (I was tall. Didn’t even have my period yet, just the height and my overall look and face I guess read ‘adult’) but just stayed the same for a long time. I am aging, I can see it. But nobody seems to think I look like their idea of my age.
We have an intern at our work who does look like a 13 year old. I think he’s 21 or so but really does look like a child. I can imagine it’s annoying.
Gillian like Gil in Gilbert and the Gill of a fish not Jill like, well, I honestly still don’t know why it’s spelled Gillian but pronounced Jillian.
Zero. I have never gotten back together with anyone I’ve broken up with. LTR? Had one 25 year run, one split. Now in a relationship that has so far lasted 12 years I think? Yes we are happy.
Well I am on the other side of this, I feel so fat even though objectively not overweight at all (BMI of 22, and pretty lean) because I was underweight a long time so in a relative sense I feel fat. I also feel better than I ever did when underweight, physically, and my bone mass is a little better (which is supposed to be impossible to achieve at my age) and that pisses me off, I want my healthiest weight to be the size I like better.
I don’t think it’s good for you to enable them in losing weight, no. Unless you are 100% sure they are not falling into disordered eating. It’s their body, you can’t control that but it’s fine not to support or help them with it.
As someone prone to eating disorders - the suggestion to work out is solid. I find it much better to focus on athletic goals and just let form follow function. It’s good to be able to feel good about what my body can do.
My ex got so mad because down here the boy name Don and the girl name Dawn sound about the same. He would yell no it’s not it’s DAAHN and DWAWN! But we don’t have that nasal Midwestern thing, it’s just Don and Daun.
Having an Inner Critic is normal, but you seem to have fed it, until you believe it is true. It’s not. I hope your therapy does help.
You know what’s funny? I have the body dysmorphia, like still cannot see myself as having a good body, and usually mirror or photo just confirms this. But one time my husband took a picture when I was just in underwear, so nearly naked, and I looked so good, it’s like somehow he captured how he sees me. And we have one flattering mirror in the house, I thought it was like a fun house slimming mirror, asked my kids and they were like, no, that is how you look.
So if you have someone you can trust to bounce things off, that can really help, occasionally others can see past your insecurities and give a clearer view.
What sort of whims are we talking here? The way you word this it answers itself. The needs of everyone are equal, rights apply to all. If we can’t protect “the few” we are all at risk.
But if you mean whims like every time I go to the beach someone doesn’t have food for a week, no, obviously I wouldn’t go to the beach until that was fixed.
By the first evening by 9pm, when they didn’t get dinner.
I would take that “we don’t care” as an invitation to leave and start a new life with people who do care. Nobody should say that out loud, what assholes, but since they don’t need you, you are free.
My kid got a worksheet on the long A sound. She got through most of them but was stumped on the “lobster”. I looked at it - Lobster, Crawfish, neither of those have a long A sound, what the heck?
Hours later it occurs to me.
OH, Craaay-fish? Who in the world calls them that? Nobody here. Where was this printed?
My cats now do exactly as the comic, but I used to have a pair, Max and Minnie (Max/Min) and if the water was too low in the glass, Max would stick his paw in, but Minnie knew that the way you get water out of a glass is to knock it down. So she would just knock it over and lap up the puddle, no glass was safe.