There was that story from the 90s about a couple that got arrested for child porn for taking baby bathtub pics to a drugstore for developing. I’d have been very careful after that.

I pronounce “parent” with an A as in “cat”, not “pair” so I naturally pronounced “sharenting” with the “cat” A and thought, wow, that pun doesn’t work AT ALL.

She’s a social media influencer, OF COURSE.

They were talking about heating the honey to make it liquid again - I was just saying you can skip that step and use it in crystallized form for hot drinks.

You can also just spoon it as is into hot liquids.

I am as well, though I think in my case it might come from either mold or yeast arising during the fermentation process. I don’t react at all to coffee or less fermented types of tea, like green tea. There’s very little information about health risks due to black tea online, as it’s considered to be fairly healthy…

Oh, wow, yeah, you could be right.

Well, there’s Clearwater, Florida, for one, as well as a number of places in California, none of which I can remember.

And here I was reading that article yesterday and thinking, “Wow, we’ve come so far that journalists now feel safe enough to write articles about Scientology without fearing for their lives and reputations.” LOL, I guess.

My access to the Hollywood game has been blocked since GDPR came into force last May so I wouldn’t have been surprised if that one was closing down.

I can’t even. And the thing that gets me - other than obviously his feeling ENTITLED to her attention - was the wanton destruction of books. There’s a special place in hell for people who destroy books.

The story with him destroying Amber Heard’s books because she wasn’t paying attention to him filled me so so much rage that I’ll never be able to find him hot again.

I’ve been using my cats as an excuse for years, but they’re all gone now. This morning I luckily got an assignment that’s due at the beginning of January and will have to work through X-mas break anyway so now I have this year’s excuse. ;-)

Thanks! I’ll be glad once the season has passed.

I know, right? I don’t think my MIL is narcissistic, but like my own mother, she was the child of a narcissist and learned a lot of toxic behaviors growing up. Add in both evangelical fundamentalism (my younger BIL and SIL and their spouses) and strict catholicism (my MIL and the rest of the family) and the drama is…

Yeah, I reached my limit the year after the surprise wedding. My new SIL was pregnant and she asked me why we hadn’t had kids yet (we were in our late 30s/early 40s at this point). I’d just recently found out I was infertile, so I told her, adding that I was OK with it as I own a business that fills my life. Her…

OMG, that reminds me of the time my SIL got me a “suit” for X-mas when I started working outside of the house for the first time (I’ve been a freelancer since I got married and this was a second job). It was a lime green velour suit (she wasn’t being intentionally mean, she just lacks taste). The pants were…

The worst giftgiver in the family was my former stepfather, who had a habit of giving extravagant (and frequently stolen) gifts at Christmas and birthdays and then later demanding them back as they had only been “lent” to us. We always refused to return them and this was one of the rare points where my mother…

It still sucks for them, though. A lot of these kids have turned to streaming and other social media content production due to a lack of job opportunities in the world of traditional employment for their generation, showing a lot of imagination and initiative in the process. I hope they find something that sticks.

Eh, learning that you have to play along with certain rules to succeed in life is the epitome of maturing.