I have straight hair. I’m also a competitive cheerleader. Cheer hair is usually ringlets. I’ve struggled for years to try and curl my stick straight here for competition. It takes hours and when I was a kid I slept with foam curlers in my hair. It’s not oblivious at all, I know how much of a struggle cheer hair is,…

Cheer Hair is often times curly. In this case the team went with straight hair, but very, very frequently, and for years, cheer hair was curls. I know how much it sucks. I hated curling my hair, it refuses to curl and looks like shit when I do it, but it’s just part of the requirement.

A coach at the gym hinted as much on a cheerleader message board. Apparently she’s what people in the industry refer to as “Suzie’s mom”

I’m a competitive cheerleader. There’s no way they’re expecting or demanding chemical relaxers. If straight hair is the decided look for that team, they’re expecting she spend some time with a straightener.

She’s an all-star cheerleader. She’s competing at competitive events. But as with many performance sports/activities, uniformity is part of the requirement/expectation.

But it sounds like this girl was kicked off for more than just hair. The owner of the gym hinted that they’ve had other problems with this mom.

My previous company offered 12 weeks parental leave. I’m fairly certain it was for moms AND dads. I don’t know a single guy that took it. They might take a few days off after the birth, work from home more often than normal for a month or so after that, but I don’t know a single guy that took 12 weeks off. I do know…

I actually had a super easy, practically painless Mirena insertion. But that was my third one (2 paragard insertions before that) and each insertion was completely different pain wise.

I switched to the Mirena after about 18 months of the Paragard as well. I always had easy period and figured that getting worse couldn’t be that bad, but every time my period would come I’d get horrible cramps for days before it started and never wanted to get out of bed the first few days of it.

I have an IUD now and I love it, but I had to go through a few hurdles to get it. I had never gone to a gyn, my PCP handled all of my paps/birth control needs. When I mentioned an IUD, she was a huge proponent of it, but said she didn’t insert them at this current practice, though she used to at a previous one. So I…

I think push presents are dumb, but at lease they’re generally between partners/spouses so if they want to do it, it doesn’t affect me. But even if the second kid is a different gender, all of the big/important baby stuff can be shared and babies grow out of their clothes so quickly, I just don’t understand the need…

My mom never had a baby shower when we were born. That side of the family is Italian and I think that’s a big superstition. All of my cousins now have them though.

When the coordinator told me that, I asked her “well isn’t that no longer allowed under the ACA?” And she said yes, but you never know if things will change. It’s ridiculous.

My mom has managed to avoid dialysis thus far and my siblings and I have been tested to donate for her. It looks my brother is going to donate, assuming the transplant team accepts him, but if you can get a kidney from a living donor you don’t have to do dialysis. I think there’s a requirement for dialysis before you…

I recently went through some testing to possibly donate a kidney to my mom. You can no longer take ibuprofen for the rest of your life, you may be disqualified from getting life insurance if you only have one kidney, if the ACA ever goes away, you could be denied health insurance. You do, however, get priority if you…

I’d be down with that. I will say that when I filled out my marriage application in MA, partner 1 and partner 2, or whatever it said felt very clinical and not very “woo! we’re getting married!” But I’ve looked at it, like, twice since then, so I’m not very concerned about it.

If you lived in the Boston metro area you would have absolutely no problem selling it - probably for above asking price.

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I designed and made our programs and escort cards and that was more than enough work.

But the bone folder really did come in handy for folding the escort cards.

I’m a cold sweater too! I’m always sweating, and I’m rarely hot!

It was! My sister got a cabin in the woods, and we went up Friday night and drank and acted all silly in the cabin, and then Saturday we went tubing on the Saco River - so we just floated down a river with our cooler of beer, it was great. Saturday night my mom and aunts came up and took us to dinner and then we just…