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Cake day: March 16th, 2024

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  • I could walk both ways up a hill both ways in the snow after dialysis treatment.

    Past tense because I got a kidney transplant.

    Which caused a very rare Cancer (1st condition to get it, you must’ve never gotten Epstein Barr virus, ever, which 90-95% of the world has. Second is getting a transplanted organ that carries the virus lol).

    Which led me to weird flex #2: I have unusually high cold resistance and can also mentally raise my body temperature. This was helpful when having to walk to the patient hotel in a strong blizzard with nothing but hospital clothes.

    Unfortunately that means I do terribly in the heat, and there’s not much AC in Finland for the summer…

    The funny thing is I grew up in El Salvador, and then Texas.





  • I’d say do it.

    If anything, consider it a win that your kid loves you enough to insist on you going. It could even be a sign that he sees what she did as wrong. Kids aren’t dumb. I can tell you I liked my mom more than my dad in part because he cheated on her. Most likely he just wants to go to the Maldives, but he really really just doesn’t want to go with them. Going with you could be his own sense of justice in all this.

    I’d say make sure he can stay with you tho instead of them. I get the feeling that’s what he wants.


  • As someone who’s only read the title, I don’t think I’d like this book.

    I’ve made bread before, a lot actually. Many kinds with different flours.

    But I’ve used yeast for years because I couldn’t have added phosphorus due to kidney failure (which baking powder has in it). I’ve also had other less commonly used raising agents like cream of tartar and yogurt. I also made it by hand because could not afford a bread machine or had the space for it. It’s extremely messy.

    That said, if you’re using baking powder and a bread machine, you might as well just get bread from the store. You’re just doing the same as a factory does really. And I’m some cases maybe worse since some factory bread is made with yeast instead anyway.

    If you want fresh bread, you can in most cases just go to a bakery section too these days, from what I remember when I lived in the USA. In EU basically every store has a bakery section with bread made daily tho.