A trip to Hawaii a couple of years ago coincided with finding out I was pregnant...I had some weird food aversions (couldn’t eat or even look at red meat for the first trimester), but for the most part that all faded. While we were in Hawaii we ate lunch from a garlic shrimp truck. I packed away so much garlic shrimp.…
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I started this yesterday because of your suggestion and holy moly thank you.
I am privileged to have excellent health insurance. When I had my first kid last year, I went through every item on the bill. All told, I paid a few hundred dollars out of pocket. The total for everything was over $45K. I had an emergency c-section, but that was the only ‘unusual’ aspect - no nicu time, no extended…
I’ve had bouts of sleep paralysis - I would wake around 2 or 3 in the morning, toss and turn a bit, and then go down to our living room and fall back to sleep on the couch with an episode of Mad Men on in the background. On a fairly regular basis, I would wake up completely frozen and absolutely certain there was…
Just...do yourself a favor and google ‘farenthold duck’
Put your elected officials numbers in your speed dial. Call on your way to work every morning. Call during lunch, call on your way home, call while you walk your dog, whatever. Call them.
Oof. I’m sorry.
This is fair.
I’m a lifelong Astros fan. This comment brings up bad memories.
The original Times article talks about importing plasma from Haiti for hemophiliacs.
This isn’t scary - I think it’s oddly nice, really. Several years ago, a good friend of my mom’s was battling cancer. She’d been in remission and relapsed badly and quickly. It became clear very soon after her relapse that she was probably going to die. My mom took my sister and me to a movie one afternoon, and…
Thanks for the suggestion! I’m actually about to go in for a sleep test - my partner says he’ll wake up sometimes because I’ve more or less stopped breathing, and then I’ll sort of choke back to breath. I’ve seen sleep paralysis pop up when I’ve done sleep apnea research.
I fall asleep with insane ease - probably within a minute of getting in bed - but can’t stay asleep to save my life. I wake up consistently around 3:30 or 4 in the morning and go downstairs to avoid disturbing my partner. It hasn’t happened in a couple of months, but there was a stretch there where I would suffer…
This sounds awesome - thanks for the rec. I’m going to give it a try tomorrow AM!
What podcasts do you listen to when you run? I’ve only been a music-listener while running, but the idea of actually getting through a podcast uninterrupted is very appealing - I’m just so used to using music to help my cadence.
I have never wanted to die as much as the morning I had to go to work hungover my first year teaching 8th grade. Poor decisions.
I didn’t get to watch the speech until this morning, at my desk. I work for a political org and have to basically wear my bipartisan hat in and out of the office. That being said, I cried for an hour at my desk this morning and I’m not even a tiny bit sorry.
My mom made SpaghettiOs for me once when I was maybe 8 years old. A large (at the time, I was convinced it was gigantic) spider crawled out of it when I stuck my spoon in for that first delicious bite. There was a lot of screaming and I never at SpaghettiOs again. And it took me a long time to be okay with spiders,…
I grew up in Houston - I remember my parents talking about the Gulf War when I was very young and being very confused about what was happening in Galveston. I was maybe 9 when the OKC bombing happened. That might be the first ‘big’ news story I remember watching on tv in the mornings.
She rolled around on stage and pulled her hair out while moaning incoherently at a show here. I got less ‘I hate you’ and more ‘I am very, very high.’