This is my opinion 100% - that this will encourage (unfortunately it had to be done with the stick) employers to keep employees around as long as they can, eventually meaning benefits and raises. Instead of the intern driven system at play in today’s world. Where no one develops expertise and those who do, are fired…

I had the same reaction when I tried Seasonale. Hard to get the doctors to understand, “No, I’m still bleeding. Still bleeding. Yes, still bleeding.” Finally got some pill that stopped it and immediately scheduled an IUD appt.

Key Lime pie is excellent but dairy-free anything is the devil, so you’re on safe ground here. I also hate dairy-free “creamer” AKA JUST SOME WHITE POWDER

I used to live in NC but now I live in Colorado and for the first six months I constantly filled out forms with Denver, NC as my address. Only funny to me and those who knew it was a real place :-)

#1 reason I did not join the swim team in high school is practice started at 5:30 AM and my mom was not getting up to take me to that.

Agreed, I always had a soft spot for Hecht’s

Oh, fun! :-)

Off topic, is your name a Charade reference?

When listening to the crazy spew about chemicals and toxins, it’s been helpful for me to remember alcohol is a solution. Chemically speaking.

That is excellent! I have a friend whose cat is named Casual, he just ignores it because he’s a cat, but it’s a fun name.

Nice! I’ll have to try that. I’m used to eggs and cheese with grits, but Colorado doesn’t really have grits, so we’re experimenting.

Ah! That’s fantastic! I ended up studying that kind of thing and my career is in a related field, so it’s very satisfying to my inner 12-year old.

I loved those too! I so wanted “violet eyes” and the obsession became pronounced when I watched National Velvet with Elizabeth Taylor. I also liked the Circle of Magic books (also by Tamora Pierce) - really identified with the yarn magic/string magic girl Sandry.

Loved that book! Mutinies, round robins... siblings and cousins and I used to sign confessions to bad stuff we’d done like that. Aka I made them do it since I was the oldest and the only one into it

Just to be clear, Borax and boric acid are very different. Borax is the precursor to boric acid and while it’s not very toxic, probably best to stick to the pills in the link you mentioned which actually are boric acid.

It really doesn’t taste much different when you cook oatmeal with the egg in it. I’ve done it on purpose for a more complete breakfast and it’s pretty good. Does have a slightly different texture.

As a child we used to put food coloring in our Cream of Wheat breakfast... I made mine especially blue-green one day and was very freaked out about blue poop until I realized. I was maybe... 8?

You look great! This photo kind of looks like you’re standing on a box that says “Washington Prom” in order to make you as tall as your date. I think the shinyness of the floor is giving the effect. :-)

Totally makes her look even shorter than she is! She looks crazy tiny next to Mulder for the first four or so seasons until she puts on a coat that fits.