I just got very excited because I found a source yesterday for red Thai curry and Thai coconut milk, but then you had to throw in ginger paste. Thankfully, I can get ginger here and make my own.

You sound like my mother, whose motto is pretty much if you can’t be happy where you are, then there’s something wrong with you and you and you need to fix yourself.

(I’m laughing at the mention of tacos because I moved permanently to a new city in Mexico from another city where I only lived part-time and the tacos here really aren’t as good.)

I mistook fluency for native-level speech for years, but really see the difference now that I live in Mexico and conduct my life here in Spanish. I studied Spanish in my teens (25 years ago) and the language is very similar in many ways to my native language of French. So I have little credit for going from babbling…

Your comment is exactly the kind of attitude that makes me sick and tired of Canadians. As soon as I present a valid observation based on actually having lived in nine provinces and two territories, I am shot down by someone who has never done that and only knows what is is presented through media. I have a lot to…

Fellow, very disillusioned, Canadian here as well. It’s amazing how little Canadians know about their own country — just moving to a different province is like moving to another country in many ways. Someone who has never lived anywhere but Vancouver will have a very different story about what Canada is compared to…

Moving to another country. I was unhappy with the cost of living, the climate, the stance on internet access (it’s a privilege only rich people in the city deserve), the lack of ease of mobility within the country if I wanted to retain my healthcare coverage and driving privileges, and my fellow citizens in general…

This is the difference between being frugal and cheap. The frugal person gets the most value for their money. The cheap person doesn’t understand value, only price.

As part of my transcription business, I type a lot of legal documents. The formatting instructions I receive for those have literally been scans of documents from the ‘60s for how to set up your margins and tabs on a typewriter to meet the necessary format. Those clients want two spaces and the old style Courier font.…

The value in a Mac charger is almost 100% in the magsafe, not the brick. The brick is practically worthless.

Of course I’m exaggerating! An average work day for me has a character count, including spaces in Word of 100,000 to 250,000. Then I’d up to double that depending on what else I’m doing that day in terms of writing friends, responding to comments online, etc. I’m usually on my computer 14-16 hours a day.

I’m a professional typist (transcriptionist) who puts in easily 1-2 million keystrokes a day between work and social stuff. Add in that I prefer a French-Canadian layout so I have my accents but buy keyboards with the US/anglo-Canadian layout printed on them. I know my keyboard so well that I can take my right hand…

That’s what I think too. I had some major facial damage about 10 years ago that was then handled by a plastic surgeon. During the extremely long recovery process, I was swollen, black and blue, and basically looked like Frankenstein’s monster. I also had to wear a compression bandage 23.5 hours a day to keep the…

We really need to have tea together one day.

I just bought my first TV in 20 years and the last one was little more advanced than the one in the article picture. I was in over my head and overwhelmed by all the options, but finally decided to go with a 32" smart TV in a brand I trust. Prices were much higher than expected. I finally ended up at a department…

This might make sense for businesses where you have clients coming to and from. But for something like mine where I not only never have clients over but I also never spend time on the phone with them (it’s all email), I’d see such a rule as a cash grab.

Portion sizes are the same, so it’s easier to compare and there’s no difference! Same calories, carbs, fibre... maybe you eat less because they don’t taste as bland?

I was for a long time a prominent voice in the full-time RVing community and still have tons of active contacts there. I’ll make sure they see this. Thank you so much for posting.

That’s interesting... Took me a second to understand that you mean the flavoured pastas. Maybe they don’t use as much flour? Or maybe you put different sauces on them?

I do high lean protein (tons of chicken) with greens (I eat so much kale), fruit or a sweet potato if I need a carb a few times a week, and as little sugar as possible. I don’t have any forbidden foods and I don’t count calories or portions or anything like that, but that’s what I try to do most days. What irritates…