I’m the first of 3 and my mom was 38 when she had me so...wtf you goin on about with “late 30s”

ok so I was homeschooled by a mom who actively eschewed all the fun lady things (jewelry, heels, wearing anything but Laura Ingalls dresses) and I am not that person and like me some fancy shit, so only now at nearly 30 do I feel like I mostly have crap under control. I also have the following: fine hair that doesn’t…

The chef at my boyfriend's restaurant makes the only chicken pot pie I like better than my own. It has this wonderfully hearty, peppery sauce and for the LIFE of me I could not reproduce it no matter how much black pepper I grated into the heavy cream. I begged and begged him to tell me how he got it that way, and…