The New York Times had a nice recipe for a pumpkin spice bundt cake with brown butter frosting. I’ve made it 3 times and it’s always a hit

FWIW we had friendsgiving today and there was a boatload of carby food, and we still ran out of mashed potatoes. My husband gets anxious whenever we entertain and he thinks we might not have enough food or booze. He bought about 4 dozen rolls for Friendsgiving and sent me out for mayo and cheese this morning in case…

I made a cake too, even though we had a ton of desserts (we had friendsgiving today). The New York Times had a nice recipe for a pumpkin spice bundt cake with a brown butter glaze.

Most years I just bring mashed potatoes or homemade bread, but today we hosted Friendsgiving for appx 25 people and cooked all the food (sort of) We did one 12 lb turkey and two turkey breasts, two kind of hummus, a ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, brussels sprouts, a pumpkin spice cake and a crustless…

I’m a 48 year old married woman now, but when I was 24 I was similarly inexperienced to LW1 and was also prone to crushes and overinterpreting signs of interest from guys. My advice to 24 year old me would be to own the fact that you’re crushing and that this is natural but this is a work friend that is off limits and…

Former 80's mall denizen here. Agreed. You’d have to be completely over the top awful to get banned from the NorCal mall where I hung out. I imagine it would be similar or worse in Alabama.

Have you heard the term “Schodinger’s Date”? It’s when you’re out with someone ostensibly as a friend but there’s some ambiguity there. It’s simultaneously a date and not a date. People who are less confident may experience this, either as the inviter or invitee. (See also “nice guys” “friendzone” etc)

I would gladly risk death by cats for the cat in the picture

That’s true, and hopefully the former RA will learn from the experience too.

I just need to vent in an anonymous forum. TW for sexual harassment and general creepiness.

MLM was all the rage in the 70's. Our neighbor had a bra party one time, which was like a tupperware party but with bras. My mom went but didn’t buy anything.

Old Biddy here (turning 49 in a month) and I’m going to tell you few secrets. As you get older you will be blessed with a hefty dose of not giving a fuck. I spent way more money on anti-aging creams at age 29 than I do now. Don’t get me wrong - I still care about how I look but I don’t dwell on it nearly as much as I…

I’m late to the commenting, but as a fellow introvert married to an extrovert, I feel your pain. Your husband needs to remember that by starting grad school, he’s got an instant array of potential friends to hang with. (and, making things harder for you, they’re probably still in the socialize in large groups phase)…

OMG - are we married to the same guy? My husband is the same way with the phone.

I’ve got the pieces in place to be able to retire somewhat early, but it’s contingient on the Medicare age being lowered or being able to get insurance on the exchanges. I may try to get a lower pay/lower stress job at my current employer (university) for the last few years just to keep the cushy benefits.

My two cats, who are normally BFF’s, had a weird incident where they got in a fight and the younger one was really scared of the older one. My vet told me it takes 2 weeks for cats to get used to each other and I might need to keep them separated for that long. Fortunately it was closer to 5-6 days. Feliway spray also…

me too. not just pleasant weird, over the top crazy shit that haunts me the next day. I get better results with nyquil capsules.

Based on my personal observations, I agree. Sometimes behaviors may become more obvious later in life, but that’s probably because the dudes have more money/influence then.

It’s one of those hot button issues to get voters, but if you crunch the numbers a lot more people are employed in clean energy or any number of niche professions that don’t even make it on the radar during elections

I second the Khan Academy recommendation! They hired one of our PhD students a few years back to help beef up their AP Chem offerings