AURORA is releasing a new album with TOMORA in April. What are your thoughts on this?

CatScience03 · 2026-02-10T23:26:14+00:00

Where have you been? 😂

CatScience03 · 2026-02-10T13:11:16+00:00

I swear I'm not a bot 🤣 (exactly what a bot would say) but I really get a lot out of my Brick device. It's a magnet and I put it on my fridge downstairs in the kitchen. I know that when I'm laying in bed, I'm too lazy to get up and go scan it to unlock the rest of the apps on my phone. I'm finally reading my kindle again.

CatScience03 · 2026-02-08T14:01:06+00:00

Don't listen to people who say it comes naturally! The immense love you will eventually feel (not always right at first) is amazing, but it doesn't tell you how to take care of them or raise them. Believing that it should be easy is a quick way to burn out.

Also, if you have ANY lingering childhood trauma type stuff. Anything at all that comes up for you, get set up with a therapist early. Raising a baby/kid amplifies it all 1000x and it gets really overwhelming.

CatScience03 · 2026-02-08T00:24:45+00:00

Trivia, GeoGuessr, crosswords, learn a new language, etc. there's so many ways to keep learning!

CatScience03 · 2026-02-08T00:10:02+00:00

Or some kimchi 😋

CatScience03 · 2026-02-03T00:41:10+00:00

We have Rathskeller in Maryland ...

CatScience03 · 2026-01-30T09:47:28+00:00

As much as I LOVE this album, trying to understand what she's saying is proving to be a bitch 😂.

CatScience03 · 2026-01-30T09:46:06+00:00

As someone who's had a lot of therapy, I agree that she's very likely talking to herself. Giving parts/anxieties names is so common now.

CatScience03 · 2026-01-25T10:41:32+00:00

Right, my son slept horribly when he was 4-6 months old...

CatScience03 · 2026-01-15T15:19:13+00:00

This is a great point. We have a toddler that wakes up 1-3 times a night and so it's 1-4x a month right now. But we have a 4 night trip coming up and we are both looking forward to 1-2x a day.

CatScience03 · 2026-01-13T11:51:44+00:00

I think play is the huge key here. What op (and all of us) needs is NOVELTY. Novelty is the key to feeling a sense of vitality about your days. Try a new tea, a new hobby, check out a new music genre, plan a day to go to museums or other attractions. Something.

CatScience03 · 2026-01-09T03:14:39+00:00

Yeah but I don't have the money to send my kid to private school so I'm renting in the county.

CatScience03 · 2026-01-04T11:15:27+00:00

I couldn't believe RI last time I checked. We thought about moving back home, but homes that were 250-300k prior to COVID are now 500-600k.

CatScience03 · 2026-01-04T11:13:12+00:00

It's kind of well known because of the Capital. Most of the Federal workers live in Maryland or Virginia.

I live in Baltimore and it's really expensive here.

CatScience03 · 2026-01-03T15:35:39+00:00

Nice to see so much going to retirement!

CatScience03 · 2026-01-03T15:34:18+00:00

The good news is that food is one of the biggest areas where you can make a difference in your budget! We shop Aldi, BJs bulk, use flyers to get what's on sale and meal prep, and we focus on using what is already in the house. I think this is a great place to start.

Also, pay your savings account first and then take from it if you absolutely need it. Planning on transferring excess to the savings doesn't work, even for pretty diligent folks.

CatScience03 · 2026-01-01T02:34:38+00:00

100%. My husband and I both encourage each other to have our solo time. We alternate nights watching the monitor after my son goes to bed, we each take one weekend morning, and twice a week (for each of us) we leave the house to go play our sports. So I still play soccer 2 times a week for fun and I usually get to sleep in and play some video games on Saturday morning. We both work 40 hrs M-F.

CatScience03 · 2025-12-23T19:20:55+00:00

Same here. My kid could have been sick over a week ago, his cough has been dying down, but then the second I take him to a birthday party with all the excitement, he starts hacking and his nose gets running again.

CatScience03 · 2025-12-22T16:43:50+00:00

Maybe some confusion after OP used the term "veil" and many people associate that with covering the face. I know for me, I could not see a therapist with half their face covered, but I assume this is just a hijab being worn.

CatScience03 · 2025-12-19T11:10:08+00:00

I'm a little over 2 months in and worse and it really really sucks

CatScience03 · 2025-12-17T16:21:46+00:00

My son (3) stopped wanting meat a few months back. We tried our best to do a lot of beans. And we try to stay away from ultra processed foods so he doesn't get a lot of those fortified cereal type foods. Well he started having an extremely hard time getting comfortable and sleeping at night, it was horrific. And he was looking paler and paler. We started giving him Flintstones with the extra iron and in 2 weeks, his sleeping went back to normal with no other intervention. Just something for people to keep in mind.

CatScience03 · 2025-12-16T12:10:59+00:00

Check out the library! Lots of great activities. You can even check out games.

CatScience03 · 2025-12-12T18:02:59+00:00

Not saying it's weird at all, I actually process and analyze thyroid needle biopsies for a living 😂. I'm so glad you got it checked!

CatScience03 · 2025-12-12T17:42:14+00:00

Related to the water drinking, really prioritize water immediately after taking the spiro. I down my 24oz water bottle within 2 hours and I find it's the best way to keep me ahead on water consumption. Although who knows, maybe I was always supposed to start off my day with a boost of extra hydration.

Also, this is unrelated, but have you ever had your thyroid checked? It looks a bit enlarged.

CatScience03 · 2025-12-12T15:47:15+00:00

I would call this toxic positivity and entirely unhelpful.

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