The one time I took my daughter to the ER was when we went to Urgent Care when she was coughing so much she kept throwing up, they gave her some inhaler stuff to calm the cough and then sent us across to the ER anyway “just in case”. They tested her and she turned out to have RSV, but she was well enough that they…

We used claw caps for our two cats for pretty much their whole lives. If you start trimming a cat’s claws when they’re kittens, they’re much more amenable to the situation as adults. It was just a matter of sticking these caps on with superglue as part of the nail trimming process, and keep them on your lap with…

The inconsistency is the reason I wait all year for Sumos to be in season and then pig out. It’s super easy to peel them by just pushing against the protruding part to break it off, and every one I’ve ever had was delicious. It’s too bad they’re only available for a short time in the winter, but I’d rather that than…

My best memory of Disneyland was at age 12, when I got in for free with my stepsister because she was performing on stage as part of a dance group, and we got to skip all the lines for everything because we took her grandmother with us who was in a wheelchair.

My rosemary is forever threatening to take over my garden, so I’m happy to cut off a sprig any day. The garlic thing I learned from cheap meal kits, which were *always* having me throw garlic into everything as a way to get a lot of inexpensive flavor. I couldn’t go a week without getting another couple pounds of…

Easy enough to hit two buttons at the same time on accident when mashing the controller out of frustration. At that point it’s just a matter of figuring out which button combo you hit.

The NES was my older sister’s console. I was always the ducks.

Interestingly, some cars that can be either gas or electric like the Chevy Volt actually have a feature that will remind you to use up old gas by running the motor if you’ve been purely using it in electric mode for over a year. I think it can use the motor as a generator to recharge the battery? It runs the engine…

I know the muscle you're talking about, because I feel it move when I pop my ears accidentally sometimes, though it happens infrequently enough that I haven't captured the ability to move it purposefully like I have the muscle behind my ears from years of wearing glasses.

I’ve always made my soup out of a leftover roast chicken. I take off all the perfectly-cooked meat when it’s cold and keep it in the fridge for later, and just simmer the bones and skin and stuff with aromatics until the broth has the flavor I'm looking for.

If I remember anything from my plant terminology courses, a berry is basically the catch-all name for any wet fleshy fruit that isn’t one of the other few major types. Is it a drupe? Is it a pome? Is it an accessory fruit? Is it an aggregate fruit made up of a bunch of small fruitlets growing together? None of those?…

I’ve done cranberry-blueberry sauce before, but this year I’m definitely going to try out cranberry-passionfruit, because it’s passionfruit season here in the SF bay and I’m absolutely swimming in them from my backyard vines. Much more seasonal than summer berries I’d have to get frozen or imported. I made a…

Four zoos is definitely too many for one city! I would have loved to see a more cooperative game here, with players working together to build one really cool zoo to meet various challenges. Competitive games don’t see much table time with our groups.

I had to sleep on my back for a while recently due to surgery, and as a lifelong side sleeper, I found myself lying awake for hours bored out of my mind. But if I try not to think at all or listen to music or sleep meditations, my overactive mind wanders just as much and it’s not helpful.

Yeah, in my area Fortnite took up one side wall that it shared with Minecraft and Mario and other video-game-related costume items, not much more space than the baby/toddler wall had. Our Spirit store’s kids section was still mostly generic animal/spooky costumes like various witches and vampires and things like that.

Sure, because I’d *love* to go live in a house in the middle of nowhere farmtown where I wouldn’t be able to find a job, not even a remote one because the internet access is spotty, and I’d have to drive for hours to see any of my family or friends, and the nearest grocery/doctor/school is thirty minutes’ drive away…

Huh. I've always called them the opposite names, because the living room is the one mostly used by the people who are living there, while the family room is the bigger one you use when the whole extended family comes to visit on holidays.

Ahh yes, I loved having to boot up my Pokemon Silver before school in the morning because that was the only time I could catch a Ledyba.

In my teens and twenties, I used to be able to stay up until dawn and sleep until noon whenever I got the chance. Now that I’m almost 40, “sleeping in” is 9am at best, I’m miserable past 1am, and for some reason I feel ready for bed around 6pm but then I get my second wind around 7pm and am wide awake again until 11.

I basically only use hair conditioner for shaving. I don't even use it in my hair any more, but it's amazing on my legs.