five minutes of meditation a night is not going to fix most people’s stress. I’m not stressed because I don’t meditate- I’m stressed because there’s a pandemic and everyone is acting like we should just send our kids back to school with no masks as cases steadily rise, and every day it feels more and more like the…

I can’t find a gif, but all I can think about is the scene in Armageddon where Owen Wilson says, “Course, we’re just in the beginning part of space, we-we haven’t even got to *outer* space yet!”

I put mine is the dishwasher (upright! In the silverware caddy!), so ngl, I was relieved to see that’s a valid method and I’m not gross.

They keep using orchestral covers of pop songs, so this tracks. 

Best of luck to y’all!

Wait, my screen name isn’t a reference to anything I’m aware of...what is this MST/RiffTrax? 

I’d been complaining of heavy, painful periods since I was a teenager. I never got any real answers, just new painkillers to try. They finally got better after I had a baby and got an IUD. The pain and bleeding started up again last year, so I saw my doctor to check on the IUD placement. At 32 I was finally diagnosed…

Additionally, I could afford to put my kid back in daycare, but since zero daycares in my area are doing anything at all to prevent the spread of covid, I can’t. (He has other medical complications and I won’t be elaborating.) He’d be fine if there was universal masking, but no one is doing that. He should start…

I’m curious if places without a drive-thru did worse than places with. I know I often pass on Subway because they don’t have a drive thru- even before the pandemic. I didn’t want to unbuckle the car seat and deal with a toddler in Subway. Plus you get one person who’s new at ordering and suddenly a 10 minute stop…

Having mine removed didn’t hurt that much, and having the second one placed was less painful than the first one. 

My problem is that if I let my son play on a screen before the doctor sees him, he won’t want to stop playing when the doctor gets to the room, which can lead to a meltdown and a tough time with the exam. The wait time is so varied too, some days we wait 5 minutes, others we wait 30- so it’s hard for a little kid to…

I saw an article that blamed the stress response of the pandemic for a lot of the aggressive behavior lately. We’ve lived a collective trauma, it’s not over, and our society isn’t set up for us to heal from this. People are massively burnt out, and it’s no excuse to be an asshole, but it’s something to consider when…

The warning on prescriptions says to discuss the med with your doctor if you are pregnant. If I were pregnant and my doctor wrote me a prescription and that label were on it, I would hope it had already been determined that it was more beneficial than risky for me, and not that I need to call my doctor again to…

At Wendy’s you have to order the “value size” if you want a small. And you can’t get a small combo.

My husband and I went on our honeymoon in Hawaii 10 years ago and we opted for bus passes over rental cars. I would definitely recommend it- driving while traveling always kinda sucks, especially in cities. We were able to get everywhere in Honolulu easily- and all the other major tourist destinations nearby. We only…

I’m including a screen grab of the lyrics in a video project I’m working on and it’s so fun. 

I just made cupcakes for our guests (just the grandparents and uncles) and then a half sized cake for our household when we had a covid birthday party. Candles were on the cake, cupcakes brought out after. It worked pretty well for us. 

I started out not sure I wanted any, but one day my period was late and I was disappointed instead of relieved by the negative test. A year or so later, we started trying. It took 10 months to get pregnant. Pregnancy was fairly uneventful, and I felt great, but I ended up with gestational hypertension and had to be…

Now this is using a terrible system to do some good. 

No, Carnival at least is VERY strict about sick staff. A family member used to work for them, and he always said that they do not fuck around with sick crew- if you don’t report norovirus symptoms and quarantine immediately, you get fired. Staff quarters were no more packed than guests, and sick crew do not interact…