When I lived with my old roommate and her cat, we had great luck with an old yoga mat instead of a specific litter mat. The cat box was in the hall closet with the door narrowly opened for him to go in and out, so he never seemed to mind walking on the yoga mat and it was sticky enough to hold the litter bits in…

I struggled a lot signing for the rollout in my state. I moved states and my doctor is in my old state. I wasn't sure about proving my health info here. 

Catholics with a lick of power can be so judgemental.

Thanks! I have to credit Covid for killing the commute costs/justifying too many lunches out at the office/takeout after a long day for decreasing my expenses. I miss hitting happy hour with friends or my ex, but it could add up quite a bit.

Thanks! These loans are all fairly close in price, but I did a mix of avalanche and snowball for the loans in my name (these are Parent PLUS) and it was such a good feeling. Divided them up by interest rate, then went small to large in each bracket, rolling over the payments until I got to the point now where that…

This is exactly what I’m doing. I was able to build up a much more robust emergency savings, because Covid made me realize the $3,000 I had already saved would not last long in an actual emergency.

I’m using the buckets in Ally to organize my savings. I filled my emergency fund to $10k, started a bucket for a used…

Biden sure loves to play up his connection to Sarah McBride, the class president when I graduated from my private DC university, whenever he needs some “woke” credit for being friendly with a trans person, but apparently those who also thought we’d go to that school in some misguided sense we can make the world a…

Yeah the lack of communication is the real issue, and I think the thing that could be reasonably addressed.

I started having sex in 2009 when I was in college, late teens, for context. A not insignificant number of dudes would just start choking me without any discussion of boundaries, if I’d like that, etc. Like they had a mental checklist of steps to sex, and choking was one of them.

I’m from PA and didn’t eat okra growing up, but when I studied abroad in India bhindi masala was one of my host-mom’s go-to recipes and we ate it weekly.

I have used Covid as another indicator to really streamline my social media. If I follow someone from high school and am ticked off that they flew home to see family, why is that my business if that person isn’t an actual friend that I would talk to? So I deleted a lot of folks.

Congratulations! I wish I had implemented something like this with my ex.

I only wear athleisure these days, since I only leave my apartment to walk my dog and go on longer weekend walks. Realistically once it warms up my wardrobe will probably just be cuter athleisure sets, since I don’t see my isolation ending any time soon.

I want to spin around in one of those chairs with a cat on my lap like a Bond villain so badly.

I briefly tried Hinge after a breakup, before deciding that a pandemic is probably (hopefully) a once in a lifetime chance to do some self reflection and work on myself before diving into something to distract myself. 

This was the story that made me decide to not follow my local news on social media anymore. I saw the headline, saw there was a number of comments and a lovely mix of “react faces” under the story, and just decided to nope out of that cesspool.

Honestly my only fault with my air fryer is when I want to do tofu and broccoli for a stir fry. Both are truly at their best air fried, and I tend to snack on whichever I cook first while I wait for the second batch.

It’s a really great addition to popcorn, when you find it. 

God do I just want to swan around my house in that second one. 

It’s such a small thing to appreciate about her, but I went by an -ie name until college, then switched to the -e version to feel more adult/professional.