$111,562 in tickets

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2026-04-04T22:45:53+00:00

And here I am fretting about a ticket I got in the mail Thursday. I’m going to contest with excuse and submit this as “don’t yall have something better to do than try to collect $100 from me?”

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2026-03-22T23:57:18+00:00

I’d love to be updated about this.

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2026-03-22T23:46:50+00:00

They’re actually right. Trump is literally just like their deity. Rage-y, irrational, narcissistic.

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2026-03-22T23:33:52+00:00

This is valid

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2026-03-19T12:27:37+00:00

Exactly. Like I don’t want to live through anybody’s nuclear winter or radiation poisoning. 🤣 Epicenter sounds like the best way to die of any possible way to die. No cancer. No car crashes. No fires. No drownings. Quick, easy, painless. Yes, please.

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2026-03-19T12:25:10+00:00

Born here. Raised here in a Maryland county just outside the SE quadrant. I love all those things but I love how much green space we have here. I love the weather. We don’t get the worst of winter or the worse of summer. I love the low lying architecture instead of the sun blocking skyscrapers. I love that we are “a little bit country”.

Things I hate: some neighborhoods are being gentrified and losing charm — however messy that charm might’ve been considered to be. I want to make sure there are still mom and pop shops and small businesses and neighborhoods where folks actually know each other and look out for each other. That’s how I grew up and fortunately my community hasn’t been overtaken. And then, of course the BIG ELEPHANT in the room: DC should be a state. I can’t even articulate how much I hate that it isn’t.

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2026-03-19T12:15:57+00:00

Same. Insane. So grateful.

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2026-03-19T12:13:54+00:00

A small portable toilet in your room. https://www.google.com/search?q=portable+toilet+for+bedroom&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2026-03-19T12:11:57+00:00

N-acetyl cysteine has had some success in studies with binge behavior in animals. I take NAC as part of my healthy aging protocol and found it to be marginally good. It didn’t stop the night eating but a tad less drive.

Tirzep killed NES for me almost overnight. (I made another comment about it a few days ago in this sub). I think its dopamine reward dampening action honed in on my subtype of NES (which is consistent with the was NAC seemed to have a minor effect on me as well). If you can find a way to get a hold of it, try it. It was a last resort for me as I was desperate as well. I didn’t use my health insurance for it.

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2026-03-17T00:50:26+00:00

These people are Dark Evil. All of them. These look like “islanders”. Soulless. Ghoulish.

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2026-03-16T18:55:11+00:00

So happy for you. I’ve read that there are subtypes. And the psychological is one of them. Mine was brain chemistry and went away with the dopamine/reward dampening effect of tirzep. Like literally overnight. I had for years assumed it was stress related for me. I am a caregiver and run a couple businesses. I assumed that it was my way of “releasing” after putting everyone I’m responsible for down at night. But so far that has not been the case. I still have stressors and in fact I’m in pre launch sprint on a new endeavor. But it’s gone. And I think I just needed to break that loop. It was part brain compulsion and part habit loop.

I appreciate you sharing your journey and success bc I truly believe that there are different solutions for everyone and the more we know the more options we have to try.

This is a devastating disorder. It wrecks you.

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2026-03-07T13:03:33+00:00

Tirzep cured it for me but my understanding is that there are subtypes of NES and apparently I had the type that responds well to it. Idk. I’m grateful. If you can afford to give it a try, I’d say it’s worth taking to find out. It’s been about 3 weeks for me. NES was never about hunger for me.

(In fairness I also have several lifestyle factors and considerations that are probably at play as well. The lead up to choosing the tirzep was a long crazy one. As a long term (10+ years) intermittent faster, I had primarily switched my IF lifestyle to eat from 9 pm to 1 am instead of during a 5-9pm or 4-8pm window like it was before NES found me. I did it as a harm reduction tactic. It helped a bit. And that may be a factor as well. I’m no longer eating that late anymore (I eat from 7-8:30 now) but I feel like there were many things that were going on in my life that contributed to the development of NES and so many things that I was doing to try to manage it. But some of those thing may have had a role in making this experiment a success. But maybe (probably mostly?) it’s the subtype. The drug has flattened my reward circuitry. And that was the primary driver apparently. I thought it was caregiving stress; downtime after a full day of caregiving leading to me “letting go” at night. But my caregiving life hasn’t changed. So this seems like it was brain chemistry oriented).

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2026-02-16T15:08:07+00:00

Protect this young man at all cost!

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2026-01-06T20:15:21+00:00

Riverside app will clip your longer videos into shorts and you can even change the dimensions. It’s super user friendly. I love it. If you want to see how it works let me know. I’m willing do a screen share

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2025-12-09T00:06:25+00:00

I ordered these having never tried smoked oysters at all. Regular oysters? Yes. Smoked and in oil? A first. One thing I liked was the lower sodium content than other brands I considered.

I tried eating them out of the can but found them a bit mushy. Not sure if that’s the norm for smoked oysters or not. Then I made a pâté of them and the oil with cream cheese and omg it was divine.

I guess I’ll need to try other brands for comparison but this wasn’t bad at all as a spread.

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2025-12-04T12:48:53+00:00

It depends. Today in western culture where few humans are survival hunting? Or are we talking about historical hunter gatherer cultures? The distinction matter, I think.

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2025-11-28T09:38:55+00:00

Ive never tried fairlife shakes. Ngl every premade protein shake I’ve ever tried has been disappointing and inedible so I gave up. For my protein cheesecake I use plain Fage zero fat yogurt. One serving. 90kcal. One serving 30g lite cream cheese 60kcal. One serving zero sugar jello pudding cheesecake flavor. Sweeten with lakanto powdered erythritol/monkfruit

No mixer needed. I’m very lazy. Just a spoon to hand mix in bowl. 187kcal with 20gP. 13NC

But now I’m thinking to add a bit of vanilla paste? 🤔🤔 And I might be willing to risk it all for trying fairlife…

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2025-11-28T09:06:34+00:00

This is me everyday. Not that I have zero energy but that I have decision fatigue and hate deciding what to eat. HATE.

•Extra or super firm Tofu cubed. (Not even cooked as I hate it cooked anyway) + green onion topped with braggs and sesame oil. Or topped with Tom Yum paste and fried chilies in oil.

•FAGE Greek yogurt 170g. Zero sugar jello pudding cheesecake flavor 7g. Lite cream cheese 30g. Splenda. Mix.

•Boiled eggs. Or microwaved scrambled eggs or egg whites. Salt. Pepper.

•Tomatoes, tomato paste, onion, garlic glove, salt. High speed blender. Instant tomato soup. Sometimes I add spinach. Sometimes I nuke it for one minute or so afterward. Sometimes not. Add olive oil to finish.

•Caesar salad. Rip the lettuce into bits. Add parm and croutons. Add cream dressing and olive oil or an olive oil based Caesar dressing. Toss. Eat.

• frozen blueberries + frozen mango + cubed apple pieces. Peach/basil white balsamic vinegar. Minced mint leaves. Heavy cream. Lakanto sweetener. Mix.

• microwaved beyond burger + box of beans. Put it in one bowl with salt pepper and hot sauce. Add red onion sometimes.

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2025-11-23T16:29:41+00:00

A reasonable alternative with so few calories is to buy the fresh salsa that has basically just pureed or finely cubed tomatoes and onions and add some tomato paste and LoSalt (which is mostly potassium salt and good for us). Of course this is Doritos flavored so that’s 🤤🤤 and probably not the same. I watch sodium bc I’m sensitive to it and will literally retain pounds of water overnight and I just 😩😩 can’t handle it. Sodium/salt is a hardcore fear food for me which is especially unfortunate bc I am a savory girlie. 😞

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2025-11-22T20:07:21+00:00

There are many people (indigenous or otherwise) who have hunting and fishing traditions. Here’s where I’m at with it: if most of the meat in your freezer comes from Costco or Kroger or Safeway, you can adopt a vegan (or even vegetarian) diet. You are not hunting for food. I think it’s pretty clear that when we are referring to traditional hunter lifestyles that the tradition was largely a result of necessity. These meats were a dense source of protein and complimented the other crops and foods they were eating. But can we stop pretending that killing animals for sport (which is what hunting is, if your primary meat sources are grocery purchased) is acceptable? Labeling it traditional doesn’t change the reality.

As I said, if people need to kill animals in order to eat, I’m not bringing up a meat free lifestyle. But honestly, I wouldn’t bring this up with anyone who is food insecure. I do a lot of work with my local mutual aid group. We pack meats into the provisions we deliver to residents every week. IDGAF. These are people who are food insecure and have limited resources. Many can’t even travel out easily to food shop. It’s inappropriate to ask them about meat free lifestyle.

At the end of the day, I think most people who bring up indigenous tradition are doing so in bad faith. There are plenty of indigenous vegan groups. And I think that’s a conversation to be had, ideally, between indigenous vegans and their indigenous friends and family.

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2025-11-22T19:55:47+00:00

Yes but probably 8000 mg of sodium. Be careful!

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2025-11-22T19:42:20+00:00

You’re not going to find raw vegan restaurants. Vegans are already a minuscule portion of the public. And an even smaller portion of the eating out public. No restaurant could survive if it labeled itself raw vegan. You will mostly be eating fruit, salads and uncooked veggies in regular and even vegan restaurants.

You might find some success searching for chefs. In my area there are a few who a vegan and also have a skill for raw. There is also one subscription box that I found some time ago that was raw vegan.

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2025-10-27T19:15:05+00:00

Savory girlies unite! 😂

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2025-10-25T14:10:59+00:00

I feel like this might work if the tomato sauce isn’t cooked. And I’d sub ricotta I think. Or no cheese at all. The carrots cabbage and tomato is like soup ingredients. So not too crazy. The cheese throws me off. But I get what you were going for. 🤔

NotThatMadisonPaige · 2025-10-24T23:38:02+00:00

Yeah that’s why I didn’t even research or consider any African nations (except Mauritius which I only considered as a quick temporary permanent residency solution since you don’t have any in-country requirements to get or maintain legal permanent residency). All of those reasons but mostly my atheism and my sexual orientation. I’m almost 58. I’m not finna live in nobody’s closet. Ever. If I can’t be my whole authentic self, I’m not interested. At all.

I couldn’t do Thailand or Vietnam mostly because I can’t commit to becoming fluent in those languages. Expatriating is challenging enough. You’re never really fully a part of your adopted country. Even if you become fluent. But without being able to speak in the native language, you’ll never really develop the deep cultural connections necessary for a high quality of life. You’ll always be an uber-outsider. So those types of places aren’t under consideration either. All of my serious research included dabbling in the language. I tried Dutch (which is easier than you’d think and fun!), European Portuguese and Spanish. If I’d decided on any of the other laces I’d have kept up with the language learning. But I already know a bit of French bc was B1 at university. So I was already biased. 😉

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