I am so, so, sorry. I cannot imagine how complicated your birthday and his death anniversary must be for you.

This is a good idea.

A family member of mine passed away on my best friend’s birthday. She will never forget.

And the new total should pop up after entering a tip, so if you’re paying close attention you would catch it before it processes.

I love the idea of separate bedrooms. I’d like to have two beds between my husband and I. Not so much one whole room for me and one for him, but a main bedroom and another space with a bed that is still solely ours (and not, say, also a guest bedroom). Sometimes, it’s nice (and also practical) not to share a bed.

$5 Tuesdays at AMC theatres!

I needed to eat more vegetables. For the past few weeks, half of my meal has been a kale salad (cold). The other half, rice with a protein (hot). I get my greens, my hot food, and my variety. I don’t like most salads, but the recipe I use is delicious.

Sorry about your foot pain. :( Yeah, we understand it’s not a norm here and we want everyone to be accommodated and comfortable (including ourselves!), so always the advance notice and the option for shoe covers.

We don’t get many noxious young men coming through our door. We’re in our early thirties. Luckily for me, I haven’t come across anyone with really stinky socks that would clear a room. I’ve heard the horror stories though.

Oh, that’s rough for your dad. We’ve never had that specific situation, but we have a friend who broke his leg come by while he was recovering. His leg was in a cast/boot. We told him specifically not to worry that we would ask him to take his one shoe off. He’d have probably asked to wear a cover anyways because he…

Ugh. Is he being willfully obtuse? We usually say something casual like “shoes off, please” as people enter and that covers everyone who might not remember.

I love that you carry slippers around!

They are especially important for maintenance/service people. I’d never expect them to take their shoes off, and they probably couldn’t even if they wanted to. I do ask them if they’d mind using shoe covers, and to my memory, everyone has said that they don’t mind.

Is breaking toes while barefoot indoors a common…

Seriously. Vomit, food, droppings, pee, soot, cigarette butts, miscellaneous grime and muck. *shudders*

I’m thinking of getting those. How long have you had them? I wonder about longevity for washable shoes.

Also, I notice that the Venn diagram of 1) people who think wearing open-toed shoes out in the city is revolting, and 2) people who wear their shoes into their homes, seems to often be a circle. (Often, not always, don’t @ me). You’re not ok with your feet getting grimy, but you’re ok with tracking that same grime and…

People who wear shoes inside the house beyond the front door are monsters.

This has only served to make me ravenous for sushi.

I’ve unfriended most of the random people from school who tend to friend every one of their classmates even though we were never actually friends. But I still have a few oversharers on my list who are fun to idly follow for the excessive relationship-gushing and other dramas.

Several years ago when FB was newer, a schoolmate of mine fought and broke up with, then made up with, and then fought and broke up again with her boyfriend - all on her Wall. It was a delicious train wreck.

Can’t lie. I’m not above eating up the gossip.