What does she like to eat, and why is she demanding you cook only on one day as some bizarre test?
If you make a kale salad and she doesn’t like kale, it won’t work. It could be amazing and she might still say it sucks.
Personally I’d be inclined to not play that game at all. If you like your own cooking you are fine. But if you are going to play, consider your audience.
Around then, yeah. We had an odd confluence of events, landlord selling house out from under us right when I got some bonus $ that would make it possible to do beginning renovations and found a house that was solid but very oddly arranged so people didn’t buy it and I could bargain, and a zero down government loan. I was utterly convinced we were buying at some peak, but fuck me, prices just kept getting higher until they now make no sense. I’m sure it’s a bubble, housing has to have a relationship to wages in the area.
The city has some programs to help people buy a house, forgivable down payment grants - if you live in the house 20 years you don’t pay it back - and others to help low income homeowners with repairs, but of course the wait-list is insane. They are trying though.
What the actual fuck? I would charge them with trafficking, that is certainly not anything that could be described as parenting.
The house I used to live in is over 100 years old and still standing, it’s not like the hurricanes hit directly very often. Insurance charges like they do, though. And it’s not like everyone can just easily pick up and move, where exactly?
Humans live on the coast for a reason. All over the world, population is clustered on coastline all over the world.
Better as I get older at least. Other people seem to think I am a good person but I guess we all have impossible standards for ourselves. By Dorothy Parker standards no. “If you have two coats you stole one from the poor.” I don’t have literally two coats but a dozen sweaters, which are short season items here.
To the extent you can be good and live within the system, yes.
If standing before God and he asks if I did everything I possibly could for those who needed it most, no, I have not, nor have I always been a friend to myself.
Hurricane with 2 week blackout following it.
Tornado but it was a block away - the sky was GREEN. I looked out the window and thought “that’s odd” then my brother called and said there is a tornado by you go take the kids to an interior room (hallway was best we could do). It knocked down a checkers and a car dealership, tossed cars around.
Two good jobs and digging out from each of us being single parents before we got together but no, we are ok. Can’t retire or anything like that but not one bad month from homeless anymore.
I was even in a position to help a friend with a (no interest) loan when she had a very bad month, it was tight for us but not impossible, and my husband did not get mad or worried at all that I did that, so I would say we are well off?
The overall economy is made up of a lot of data points - we are a little bit worse off than we were in terms of cash flow, but wealthier because we bought a house before (well at the start of) the bubble.
Peaky Blinders, for sure. That soundtrack, wow.
I love Monsoon Wedding, but the music is better than the movie in that one too.
ETA: My husband adds Saturday Night Fever.
And another edit, one of my kids would like to add Sucker Punch to this list.
Or a book is a good analogue. I can own a copy of a book, a reprint. It’s mine.
Rebound?
Like if you have migraine headache, take a preventative but when you miss it the headache comes back worse, that’s a rebound headache.
Not a dude, dude. I do love most sensory experiences, no trouble with food or sex or whatever. And I think too spontaneous and disorganized to land in autistic territory.
But even minimally irritating clothing bothers me to probably an unusual degree, yeah. Tags suck. Seams suck. Bras suck. And socks? The technology exists to make them seamless and smooth, thank goodness.
Ok I am not autistic but like the fucking princess & the pea when it comes to socks. Seams? Feel like they are ropes. The slightest lump feels like it’s so big.
Tags can go to hell, there’s no purpose for them. Plenty of companies just use print inside the collar not a tag.
Alligators stay kinda cute looking. I took pictures of this guy at my work until management had him removed.
I agree with Tikiporch. The city matters more than the state.
There are rankings on different measures floating around the internet, best and worst depend a lot on what you are measuring. So I took a look and Minneapolis comes up as ideal for most of what I want in a city but I’m a delicate tropical flower and would die there the first winter.
Florida was much more progressive when I was young, unfortunately we have attracted a lot of conservative northerners who completely changed the political landscape, but the city I’m in still feels nice.
So what are you measuring? Good transit? Stay in the northeast. Good music scene? Texas, believe it or not. Want to raise kids? Maybe NYC if you are loaded, so much to do there. Best is impossible to answer because it’s different for different people. My ex evolved into a slavering racist so he thinks Iowa is best because it’s not very diverse, but that is the opposite of what I like.
Like a lot of the responses here, I don’t like much video porn, it’s more funny than sexy.
Written erotica, that can be so hot, but still not often. Mostly when I need it, imagination is the way to go.
Not exactly but they all get old and whiney eventually. Same as us I guess. I didn’t LOVE my husband’s dog, he didn’t train her well, but I did like her ok.
I did have a kitten so evil I might have taken him to the pound except I couldn’t catch him. He would go into unreachable spaces and piss, would hiss at anyone who approached, was just a wee spitfire demon straight from hell. But one day he metamorphed into a gorgeous long haired tomcat, sweet and gentle and smart. He used to give me kisses with paws on my cheeks, no claws. Was jealous of men, but otherwise an utter delight of an adult cat.
If this isn’t a wrong answers only question:
I would be more comfortable if the guy gave me space, but as long as you are not accosting me, a “good evening” and keep going is fine.
If it’s wrong answers only, choose any of the walks from the ministry of silly walks Monty Python sketch.
I like a drink (obviously, as mod of the cocktail community) but would not consider one or two a day moderate, everyday drinking is heavy drinking, or at least habitual drinking.
Two or three a week is the way I drink. Sometimes one or none, and I take a month off at least once a year, never want to get into a habit.
Pixel I have is still small. I miss the headphone jack of the original one though.
Dogs have a much different idea of what a good smell is. We have caught our dog trying to eat cat poop straight from the litter box. My husband had a dog who would roll in poop. They apparently think shit a delightful and delicious smell.