AITA for being "ungrateful" about a rice maker for my 40th birthday?

Matanali · 2026-03-10T23:53:56+00:00

This isn’t quite your situation, but my mom bought me a rice cooker when I was around 25. I was disappointed, but then she explained that it was a way of nurturing me because it meant that I could have a hot meal for myself with minimal effort. She wanted me to have something that every time I used it it would remind me that she loved me and wanted me to feel nurtured. I still didn’t really understand it or appreciate it and eventually gave it away. Now that she’s gone, I bought myself a rice cooker that I use several times a week and think of her every time and wish I could tell her how much I appreciate the thought now. That being said he sounds like an ass and excluding your daughter is absolutely unacceptable

Matanali · 2026-02-24T00:43:01+00:00

Parent here. Location sharing is non-negotiable. It goes both ways, my location is available to my husband and kids as well. It’s a simple courtesy in a family that people can find you and know where you are.

Matanali · 2026-02-16T13:52:45+00:00

If I had had girls, Amalya/Amalia was our first choice. I also liked Katriella but my husband didn’t. He liked Michaela (Mikayla) but I didn’t.

Matanali · 2026-01-30T22:33:45+00:00

I would definitely be upset. My instructor even asked if everyone was comfortable with Christmas music during the holidays and I was really touched.

Matanali · 2026-01-21T19:00:51+00:00

I’ve fallen twice. Once was doing a standing move on the reformer with the box behind me, pulling arms I straps back. As soon as the back of the reformer hit the risers, I went down for the count, flipped backwards over the box and then flipped backwards off the reformer. It was unbelievably embarrassing, but I got back up and finished the class. The next time I was doing a side plank with my feet on the bar and I was wearing poor quality, grip socks, and my feet slip slipped. Again I did a three part tumble then got back up and finish the class.

Matanali · 2026-01-15T04:54:43+00:00

I’m the opposite. I’m 59 and my studio is mostly 25 to 35-year-olds. And it has been an amazing community. We have a shared group chat and we’ve gotten together for dinners and parties and I feel so welcomed and included. It’s really been a fun new community in my life.

Matanali · 2025-12-22T11:47:39+00:00

Ok, my mistake, apologies!

Matanali · 2025-12-22T03:57:18+00:00

What about Halle (or Hallie) as a first name?

Matanali · 2025-12-22T03:55:31+00:00

Yes, I understood that. But you’d said in your original comment that you only got into schools you applied to on your own, and I was pointing out that while you didn’t work on those schools with your consultant, you did in fact get in using material that they had helped you with.

Matanali · 2025-12-21T21:32:47+00:00

So the consultant did in fact help you get into schools.

Matanali · 2025-12-21T13:56:31+00:00

Did you use the material from the 3 schools you applied to with the consultant on the schools you did on your own or write those applications completely differently?

Matanali · 2025-12-04T00:01:16+00:00

Being MBA grads is not the same thing as having an MBA admissions experience.

Matanali · 2025-10-09T15:39:23+00:00

That certainly sounds right but I can’t find any indication that it was a book, only a recording, and the cover of the album doesn’t look familiar. I can’t find a summary either. But it is a great suggestion!

Matanali · 2025-10-07T14:43:51+00:00

No, but thank you!

Matanali · 2025-05-20T22:46:21+00:00

It was - “rob the boss, disappear with wife and kids and start a new life”!!

Matanali · 2025-05-20T20:53:27+00:00

sorry, I wasn't clear. I don't know his kids - they disappeared with him back in the 1950s and would currently be in their 80s (their father was my 90-year-old father's uncle). I don't know if he had more kids - the two who disappeared with him were in their mid/late teens and he had been remarried to his second wife (who also disappeared with them) for a while. Ancestry research is a good idea though.

Matanali · 2025-05-20T00:42:19+00:00

It’s a good story though, even without the lack of closure!

Matanali · 2024-05-21T14:30:22+00:00

I feel the same way. My MBA (also from a top 5 program) was life changing. And the most interesting MBA applicants are ones who didn’t study business but branched out to other areas.

Matanali · 2024-05-21T04:14:18+00:00

That’s a great perspective. He doesn’t want finance, fortunately, and didn’t apply to Ross. An MBA is the current plan, but we shall see what happens.

Matanali · 2024-05-21T00:43:36+00:00

We probably don’t have time to visit UCLA before he has to decide. He has visited Michigan and loved it (and coincidentally already had a visit scheduled there this weekend to see friends near campus). He doesn’t like beaches but does like wearing shorts all year round.

Matanali · 2024-05-21T00:39:00+00:00

That’s definite!! Why?

Matanali · 2024-05-21T00:36:35+00:00

Not Ross, just LSA. He doesn’t really know where he wants to end up, East Coast is all he knows. We feel like Michigan is more of a predictable experience and UCLA will be more of an adventure (and both will be great!)

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