It’s ok to want it just because it’s important to you. You don’t need to have 100% logical reasons. I got married last year. My husband and I are both middle-aged and don’t have kids. He’s the sentimental one, I’m the practical one. Neither of us are religious. I would’ve been ok with not getting married, but it…

I bought the Ulta anti-redness primer and some nailpolish so that I could get their gift with purchase. The primer works pretty well. I haven’t tried all the GWP goodies yet.

I’m a planner and would hate this, but honesty is always preferred.

 I’m also LOL’ing at his title inflation from his MIT days.

He was a technician at MIT for a year before going to grad school. There was an article about people doing this in Nature back in 2011 which profiled him. He apparently wrote to a lot of professors looking for an entry level job where he wasn’t just cleaning glassware and doing gruntwork. It worked out ok for him,…

Target gift card if she has one in town? I live in a college town, and always see tons of students in Target, esp this time of year.

Ugh, been there, done that. Timing the hydrocodone was a problem at first - I’d wait too long and then have problems. I ended up tapering off by splitting pills but keeping with the recommended time between doses. Good luck!

I’m also in their target audience, and I can see why it would be useful in certain circumstances. However, I’m too cheap to buy stuff from the Wegman’s wonderful prepared foods section or their $8 meals, so the price and the packaging make me cringe. I’d rather spend the same amount of time cooking a larger batch of…

I’ve had good luck using generic Rogaine on my eyebrows - I bought the men’s strength liquid and it was about $20 for 6 bottles. I put it on with a q-tip n the morning and noticed results within a month. I gave one to my BFF (she had good luck too) but I still have a multi-year supply

I’m 48 and work with grad students. On average they have their shit together at least as much or probably more than my peers and I back in the 90's.

Ugh - the hangovers. I recently got one from 2 glasses of a really hoppy IPA (over the course of 4 hours), and I love IPA.

Agreed. I’m older Gen X as well and most of my friends have their shit together. Sure, we have a fondness for Star Wars/Star Trek/Wonder Woman/Muppets but at this point we’re pretty much boring middle aged folks.

Perimenopause sleep sucks! Mine gets wonky before/during my period, when my thyroid med levels are too low, anytime it’s warm, and lots of other random times.

Me too! All the PhD’s chiming in seem to have the same dream!

I have this dream too - it’s always math, usually something like differential equations.

I have this dream once in a while, except it’s always a math class that I somehow registered for but never attended class or did any homework. In real life I’m almost 50 and don’t have math anxiety.

I beleive it- I was a chubby kid in the 70's and 80's and ended up with anorexia. My parents were so obsessed with my weight. Looking back at pictures, I was not that much bigger than my peers.

I’m fat. When I got my current job working with grad students, it was eye-opening and nice how different the attitude towards food was. No food-shaming or body-shaming, everyone gets excited about free food, and no one thinks twice about offering the fat lady a cookie. I hadn’t thought my previous job had very much…

we had Pak and Save.

In the US in the 70's/80's, we had generics with a plain yellow label and large lettering. The No Name stuff reminds me of that. Over time that gave way to the store brands, perhaps because Americans weren’t ready for plain packaging.