When we moved into our house, we had two cats and kept finding mouse droppings. (The house had been flipped after belonging to a hoarder.) Lived there for two months and the cats did nothing and we still had mice. Got a dog and suddenly no more mice…

Surprised they made it that long. I guess a kid would complicate breaking up.

Sorbet!

Am I reading correctly that nothing is wrong with them except the tread is worn down? See if there is a shoe repair shop near you. Cobblers can usually replace tread. That way you’re not falling whim to capitalism, keeping something out of the landfill, and you don’t have to break in a new pair.

Haha I have, at least if I’m thinking of the right thing, the YouTube video? He stretches a few (my degrees are in music theory so I can hear what he means and not all of them are exactly the same chord progressions) but I feel seen nonetheless.

Yeah, I feel for the string players, honestly. Especially the ones who take wedding gigs.

Gonna go against the grain here with something classical: Pachabel’s Canon in D. I liked it when I was a kid, for at least the first 10 or 20 times I heard it, but since then I’ve probably heard it thousands of times, and I’m not even a strings player. I’m not exaggerating either; it’s in so many commercials, weddings, movies, just over loudspeakers in the grocery store… ugh it’s inescapable. Pretty the first few times, sure, but it’s so aggressively bland.

The Fifth Element

My husband has been wondering if he should get formally diagnosed for ADHD now that our kid has been. (Talk about a carbon copy of a parent, this kid, geeze.) This explains a lot about the way he cooks. He always says it’s because he “needs more practice” but all I see is a chaotic stressful experience, and of course if I try to help him I just get in the way and make him irritated that I seem to think he can’t manage it on his own. Anyway all I’m saying is that it’s interesting to read your comment because I wonder if that’s my husband’s trouble, too.

Though we got her from a shelter, one of ours definitely picked us. We were cuddling a different kitten who looked extremely similar, and she was making a huge racket from her kennel. There was a post-it note on it that said “HOLD” so we assumed someone was coming back for her, but since she was yowling so much, we asked what it meant. The staff didn’t know; one of them went to find out, came back and tore the post-it note off the kennel. So of course we asked if we could hold her. She snuggled up to me and licked my chest immediately. So of course we adopted both of them. Funny enough, she is now 99% my husband’s cat.

I have PMDD and my Mirena gives me no cycle which means no PMDD and it is literally lifesaving. My flow was similar to yours and the physical symptoms definitely sucked (though I think other women have worse physical symptoms than I did) but the emotional symptoms were insane and definitely made me non-functional without an antidepressant.

Tuna. When I was a kid, I was sometimes fed canned tuna in sandwiches and they were vile. I always thought the person who made them put way too much mayo in (I was also off mayo for a long time) but it occurs to me now that maybe it was Miracle Whip? Anyway they were awful. My brother threw up all over the table once during such a lunch.

Anyway, as an adult I finally was brave enough to try sushi tuna, and it’s fine. If you sear it though, it tastes enough like the canned stuff that I can’t eat it. 100% raw is okay though.

I’m shocked no one else has said the horn. It was the first thing I thought of.

One of many, many problems with how they ended GoT, sigh.

All of my aunts and uncles on one side have had it, including my dad. Various types. Just found out my cousin also has it so that kind of wiped out my slim hope that they had been exposed to something environmental instead of it being genetic.

Heath Ledger

I get why people would say minivan but I actually think Death would drive a huge Excursion or similar massive SUV because of the limited pedestrian sight lines and likelihood of crushing any vehicle it gets into an accident with.

We did that with PG&E. Except we did get something in return: lots of dead people.

If I’m super tired but not willing to sleep yet for reasons (lack of free time other than the evening, being the main one), I usually put the tv on and play games on my phone. Not a great use of time but as we’ve established, tired.

If I’m tired but not that tired, I put the tv on and I knit. It’s my main hobby and I’m good at it, to the point that it usually doesn’t require much thought. My secondary hobby is sewing which is much newer for me and I can’t do that tired; I make too many mistakes.

It sounds like I watch a lot of tv, but in reality the period of 9-10:30pm is the only chance I get and not every night. So it’s not that much in the long run.

I honestly forgot he existed