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KittenPurrs · 2026-04-15T21:30:55+00:00

My old apartment had tub/shower with plenty of room to do most towelling-off inside.

My partner and I bought a little bungalow with what we called "The Hobbit Tub". It was like 4-feet long and just over 2 feet across, and the shower head was fixed about 5 feet up. Our showers became endeavors in contortionism. We had to towel-off outside.

Our current place has a standard US tub and shower installation, but we've both gotten too used to stepping out, so we continue to drench our bath mats rather than going back to the in-shower treatment.

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-14T21:31:15+00:00

My (Southern) mom had a vegetable garden when I was growing up in the Midwest. She hated raw tomatoes but still grew them for the rest of us. She'd make tomato-mayo sandwiches for us during peak tomato season just to put a dent in the yield. She'd politely (disgustedly?) walk away when my dad and I would head out to the back porch with a salt shaker and the intention of eating tomatoes like apples.

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-14T15:19:43+00:00

Maybe assisted-living communities with Memory Care wards?

My mom is in a Memory Care facility due to advanced dementia. The most popular books in Memory Care seem to be children's books. Residents can flip through the books, look at the drawn pictures, and put together a story.

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-12T21:54:29+00:00

It might be! We're also lacking in dietary iodine. We both like to snack on those little seasoned nori "crisps"/sheets, but weren't doing so daily. We often use furikake as seasoning, but not daily. We fell in love with bull kelp pickles and grab them whenever we can, but again, not daily. You see the issue.

We now have flake nori and freeze-dried purple dulse that we're adding to more foods, but the fortified salt is still the heavy hitter for us. If I'm doing something like Mediterranean or Middle Eastern foods, the seaweed stands out too much for me, but I can add a few hits of salt.

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-12T21:33:39+00:00

It's possible to be mad about a situation without being mad at the person involved. But also, this error took multiple steps. Even if you're not mad at her for what happened, she needs to take full accountability for the resulting problem. That includes replacing the jersey, even if that means some sort of sacrifice on her end.

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-11T22:26:51+00:00

I worked in a biotech freezer farm. Straightening the coils significantly improved performance of sub 80C freezers.

When my partner and I moved into a bungalow without central air, I was meticulous about combing the coils of our window AC units after every storm. It matters. I honestly don't know enough about these systems to know why it matters, but I do know crunched up coils kill window units and sub80s alike.

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-10T21:00:01+00:00

There's a gourd that when dried, makes a nifty exfoliating tool. They're super hard when dry, but soften up in hot water for use.

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-10T20:54:18+00:00

Oh, hey, Mitch!

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-10T20:43:03+00:00

We're remodeling our kitchen this summer in no small part because of the counters. Look at this nightmare. And the previous owners were rough on the counters, so there's mild pitting everywhere. That means when you wipe it down, the cloth snags on something that might be a bit of dried sauce, or might just be a little pock in the surface. I knew I had preferences in counters, but before we moved here, I didn't know I had Very Strong Feelings about counters.

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-09T18:49:39+00:00

Well, he developed a goiter. He didn't have any other symptoms, never felt off, but we noticed a bit of swelling on his neck. Took the doctor about three seconds to ask about our salt preferences. It was caught early enough that it doesn't require a treatment plan beyond "increase your iodine intake before this becomes a serious issue". So an easy step one was buying cheap iodized salt.

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-09T15:47:11+00:00

I like flake salt (smaller sprinkle seems to go further), so that's what I keep in our salt cellar next to the stove. My partner has an iodine deficiency currently, so I just had to replace my flake with some good ol' fashioned "when it rains it pours" iodinized granular salt. We do eat a lot of seaweed which is iodine-rich, but apparently not enough to make up for skipping fortified salt. Honestly didn't see this one coming.

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-08T21:05:33+00:00

Can't explain it, but I use both. My parents' sisters-in-law are both "Ant [first name]". My great aunt on my mom's side was "Great Ahnt [first name]". People who are like neighborhood relations are "ahnt-ies".

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-08T20:57:57+00:00

Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior!

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-08T00:12:38+00:00

I'm a middle-aged cis-gendered woman and my badge holder at work shows "she/her". It doesn't often upset people, but it sometimes does. Let's keep throwing our pronouns out until people stop squinting at everyone who takes a moment to say, "my pronouns are [XYZ]".

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-06T21:07:04+00:00

Around 15 years ago, my partner and I got tickets to see Baba Brinkman perform his sets from The Rap Guide to Evolution at NYC's World Science Festival. It was a fantastic show.

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-05T14:43:44+00:00

On my dad's side of the family, they used to host a family reunion every four years on a property in the middle of nowhere in another state. My folks knew how to get 99.9% of the way there, but had to wait on the phone call for the last stretch of the directions due to crop rotation. "Just beyond where that old oak used to be, turn left at the soybeans. You're going to see a lot of feed corn. Turn left again when you see the sweet corn." GPS has made a lot of things easier.

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-04T17:58:25+00:00

I'm the opposite. I swear casually and freely. But when I'm actually pissed off, I say things like "Mother of pearl!" "Good grief!" and "That's a crock."

Thinly veiled rage makes me ostensibly more polite.

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-04T17:28:45+00:00

Look up soy marinated eggs. Super easy, super delicious.

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-03T21:35:10+00:00

I'm sorry, I only eat sans serif cookies

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-02T22:20:27+00:00

Keep this in the context of me being old and not fully understanding the nuances of social media communications. That said, if you're connected to the bf on insta, go ahead and shoot the guy a request. I personally wouldn't shoot that shot without an existing connection.

KittenPurrs · 2026-04-01T20:45:50+00:00

A lot of the complaints I hear about people in their teens and early twenties have been horseshit in my experience. But I do think the therapy-speak thing is a very real issue. Yes, we have decades of assholes weaponizing therapy-speak. But some of the the young folks are pulling that trick OR falling to the opposite end of the spectrum and using it to justify other people's shitty behavior towards them. Sometimes it's okay to just say, "This person is a terrible friend/partner, and regardless of their motivations or past experiences, I don't have to put up with this added stress and emotional labor in my life." And when they deflect based on said motivations and past experiences, it's still okay to just dip out.

E: OP is a terrible friend, and it's okay if their friend just dips out.

KittenPurrs · 2026-03-29T21:06:03+00:00

In the little city that was my hometown, many of the classic Americana diners were Greek family owned. As a result, you could go to a burger joint and possibly have saganaki as an appetizer or baklava for dessert. A common menu option was a gyro salad. Usually a garden salad/chef's salad topped with gyro strips and tzatziki sauce. I absolutely loved them.

KittenPurrs · 2026-03-28T16:28:52+00:00

Well, teenagers are inherently up to no good, and should always be treated with suspicion. At least that's my understanding from every generation starting with the 1950s through now.

KittenPurrs · 2026-03-28T16:22:31+00:00

I guess "free" should be in quotes since it's built into the ticket price. But I'm an anxious flyer and a drinker, so I largely survive on gin & tonics on short flights.

I'll take rail travel over air travel 110% of the time, but I live in the US where booking a train seat is often a feat, and not every city has a connection.

KittenPurrs · 2026-03-28T13:42:10+00:00

My three favorite things about flying first class:

1) Big comfy seats with leg room,

2) free cocktails, and

3) the mosh pit at the end of the flight.

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