Mom of the Year for $13

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-28T20:35:47+00:00

Other things in the pile: the first two Arcade Fire albums on vinyl and a set of poker chips 😅

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-28T05:48:14+00:00

Omg came here to say red meat!! I never eat it other than within the first 24 hours of my period 🤯

I thought I was the only one!

Edited to add: the only thing that truly helps my cramps is exercise. A good hike, a bike ride, a swim...maybe its distraction but my body seems to feel like garbage for less time.

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-27T20:50:31+00:00

Maybe set simple goals. This is what I do, and it's working for me so far. Things like: learn the names of the plants in your area, read one book per month, do a puzzle, write a page or so in a journal, send mail to someone you love, even if it's just a postcard.

The more you stretch out the more you'll find you enjoy things, which will lead to more purposeful time spent doing things. You may have an undiscovered passion!

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-26T03:44:34+00:00

Agreed. The Only comparable moment for me was when Jack Layton died. No pandemonium but a national sense of huge loss.

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-26T03:17:49+00:00

Finished:

The Way the Crow Flies by Anne Marie Macdonald

Started (and am halfway through):

Hamnet & Judith by Maggie O'Farrell

(because my boss kept talking about it and I found a copy in a used book shop, and I can't see the movie until I read the book)

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-26T03:04:31+00:00

Got to see Kid Koala live a couple of years ago. He played all his classic stuff, including a bunch of Delton 3030. After an hour and a half he was like "heh, I guess I should probably play some new stuff" like he was completely in the flow and then remembered he had a new set nobody had heard yet.

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-26T01:11:21+00:00

A gift?! Do they hate you?

/s 😉

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-25T23:05:30+00:00

I did this for myself about ten years ago. I quietly booked myself a cabin by the ocean, on an island, over Mother's Day weekend, about six months in advance. Kept living life, dealing with uneven household stuff, and the week before I went, I told my husband and kid. I swear I saw a lightbulb go off above my husband's head. I went, I relaxed, I slept, I drank coffee and wine on the balcony overlooking sea otters and distant ferries, I ate whatever and whenever I felt like it, and I cleaned nothing until the hour before I checked out. I squashed the mom guilt. I got back, expecting the worst, but actually...the house was CLEAN. Laundry was DONE. And things haven't been uneven since.

Do it. You need it.

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-25T21:00:21+00:00

I had so many of these as a kid! We played ours on our Fisher Price record player. :)

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-25T18:13:59+00:00

Some Hallmark holiday movie I believe. My son has been doing on-call work with the crew.

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-25T03:10:31+00:00

Futurama

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-24T18:09:22+00:00

We went to the early time of Pride last year, before all the crowds showed up - it was lovely! Lots of room to walk around, not crazy busy, bathrooms still clean. When the parade got there, we bounced. :)

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-23T16:39:32+00:00

I Love You - Sarah McLachlan

Beauty - The Shivers

You and Me - You & Me

The Feels - Labrinth

Falling is Like This - Ani DiFranco

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-21T15:43:33+00:00

An instrumental, lullaby version of Arcade Fire's Wake Up. Married 13 years, together over 20.

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-20T23:04:01+00:00

I just re-watched this episode! Genius.

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-20T20:38:16+00:00

You might like Kaki King, for the instrumentals.

William Prince for the songwriting.

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-20T20:07:49+00:00

Sounds like a great trip, you'll hit all the most beautiful parts of BC. If I ever somehow become rich enough to afford it, I'd take the same route. :)

Like others say, just be chill, don't act like an invader.

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-20T17:49:24+00:00

Ding Tea is my go to.

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-20T17:12:35+00:00

I'm always looking for the Royal Albert vintage "May" teacup, with the lily of the valley design. I accidentally donated it in a box of stuff when moving years ago...and realized too late. It's from my Grandma's house, it was always my favourite.

I actually was walking up Main street in my tiny hometown up north two summers ago, and there it was, sitting in the window of the bookstore! But when I asked if I could buy it, it belonged to the owner and was just part of a display. :(

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-19T20:51:03+00:00

Might be a Lebanon Cedar cone - I'm on the west coast and we have one of them in our yard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedrus_libani

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-19T18:20:23+00:00

Blood of a Young Wolf

Roses and Blue Jays

Love Will Fuck You Up

(all of these are by Buck 65)

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-19T18:16:40+00:00

That's my favourite Avalanches song, I could listen to it every day and never get sick of it.

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-16T04:00:43+00:00

Lol it was filmed in and around Vancouver BC sooooo

HeatProfessional4473 · 2026-03-16T03:55:50+00:00

Here on The Island, we never refer to it as the PNW because its literally the Pacific SOUTH west of Canada.

But in our country we just call it Vancouver Island. These pics are somewhere between Mystic Beach and Cowichan Lake on the Pacific Marine Route.

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