Oh yeah, that was careless wording! I’ve heard ridiculous anti-vax excuses of like general undiagnosed alleged allergy to like, all metals, including the hypoallergenic needles and anything they’ve spooked themselves with on the list of vaccine ingredients, so I used it. But of course people do also have genuine…

My biggest maternity clothes gripe is that apparently all the jeans are “skinny jeans”. Excuse me I am a majestic steam ship chugging through life right now, the word “skinny” should be nowhere near me. I am even past ordering skinny fries, I need chunky ones. By all means have skinny jeans style trousers, but why is…

With the carseat specifically, there is Official Information that it’s not safe to keep using a carseat that’s been in a collision because it might have a weakness from the collision that’s not immediately apparent. So only take a second-hand carseat if you can trust the person giving it to you wouldn’t lie about…

If your child randomly went into a coma after getting a vaccine, and no other child had ever had that reaction, there would have to be a medical reason to believe it was the vaccine that caused it and they’d try to figure out what exactly in the vaccine caused it. But honestly, your child is more likely to get struck…

Thank you for sharing, that’s really interesting! 

Ye do, and ye should be proud! Eerily delicious cheese-plastics for some, miniature American flags for others!

It’s okay! It came back!

I, a European, eat and drink a lot of dairy ... and stop almost* completely when I visit my partner’s family in the States. It’s literally a factor in not wanting to move there!

Oh my god the “I don’t want sugar OR artificial sweetener” struggle is so real!! I just want the option to buy a thing that tastes like that thing originally tastes like, even if that’s quite sour or dull or bitter. Not everything has to be extra-sweet, even juice. And especially yoghurt. (It’s definitely worse in the…

I’m glad I was too lazy to type it all out again when it vanished into the ether because it did come back! Thank you for the good wishes! I’m about a month away, it’s getting exciting...! And nerve-wracking! 

This is also always my block when I need to find a new therapist. Basically no, there’s no way to fully avoid telling your Tragic Backstory(tm) to a therapist over a few sessions and then deciding if ye click or not. But in my experience, two sessions is enough to tell, which isn’t too bad. My big checkboxes are sense…

Yep it’s totally normal and often happens to me. It’s just a way for your body to physically process high emotions. Especially if a lot of things happen at once and you don’t have time to decompress from them, like what happens in a full day of tournament play. Just take it as a sign to go easy on yourself and make…

To complete this trilogy; my original reply is now back. #JustKinjaThings

I typed a whole reply to you but now it’s gone?? :( 

WiFi is a bit of a pain in Tokyo (my Japanese friends say it’s because Tokyoites all have excellent data plans so WiFi isn’t a big priority) but you’re basically never more than 10m away from a subway station, a konbini, and/or a McDonalds, all of which have WiFi (if sometimes a little annoying to log into). But if…

Thank you <3

Take time with people I love? Indulge myself a bit with steak and chocolate and bath bombs? Call my mother and rant at her? Plan a foreign holiday? Have a duvet day? And drink, obviously.

Wedding planning is weirdly stressful even if you’re doing alternative stuff?? Take it easy, be gentle on yourselves, and make sure the two of you are always the priority. People can be really weird about the most random things, like it’ll turn out one of your parents has a really hardcore specific opinion about what…

Hopefully it’ll work out better than you feared and it’ll be a really nice experience for the two of you to share! But I think it’s worth being upfront about expectations and letting him know you’ve already made plans to be up early most days to do x, y, z and that you’re cool with doing things separately and meeting…

Maya, that’s brilliant! I understand homeless people are often under-counted in censuses, so it’s really important to be helping to include them properly. Fair play to you!