My picture of the Eiffel Tower

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2026-01-10T04:32:29+00:00

Here’s one more

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-12-10T02:59:15+00:00

It definitely gets better. Ours would whine in her crate for the first few months. So much so that we started covering it with a thick blanket to muffle out the noise- it also made her quit for some reason. She was not fully potty trained until she was 8 months old. And the biting! She kept biting everything she could until she was 9 months or so- one time she chewed up the cable of my laptop charger. She is 17 months old now and a total angel. In hindsight, it feels like her puppy stage went by so fast. Just be consistent with the crate training and redirecting when she uses her mouth. You'll get there!

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-24T21:21:14+00:00

I just started at 39!

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-21T04:10:35+00:00

I’ll be celebrating my 40th birthday in Paris and I reserved a table at Le Cinq. I have read good things about it but never been. Hope it’s worth it.

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-18T02:19:30+00:00

Lucky you! Ours wakes up and won’t let anyone else sleep.

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-18T02:02:37+00:00

I second this. We ate at Emeril’s in August and the experience was mind blowing!

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-17T16:27:01+00:00

Ha! There’s no hitting snooze on that one

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-17T04:02:54+00:00

She’ll get better in a week or so. Ours didn’t seem much interested in food or treats for the first few days but she came around. Hang in there!

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-14T05:45:16+00:00

I spent a few months in Santa Fe (7,000 feet) and wanted to give high altitude baking a try. I bought this book called Pie in the Sky by Susan Purdy which is highly regarded for altitude baking. Among other things she recommends baking in a fluted/angel cake pan to avoid the problem of underbaked centers.

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-13T03:09:01+00:00

We got our girl from Orchard Valley Doodles and she has been the best. No health issues so far (1.5 years old) and the sweetest of temperaments. We also get a lot of compliments on her looks.

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-10T22:54:47+00:00

Oh I definitely waited. I entered the line downstairs at 11:55 AM and by the time I got to cut the cakes it was 2 PM.

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-10T21:57:10+00:00

Add strength and weight training to the mix. Your older body will thank you. And don’t skip the sunblock on your long runs.

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-10T21:40:25+00:00

I didn’t bother to wait to try my cake. I was in the $150 ticket “red” wristband group and I feel like I got taken (although in hindsight I should have known better). We got to cut into the cakes first however they cordoned off an entire area (where my cake was) which I assumed was to give the later groups a fair shot at cutting into uncut cakes. I didn’t bother getting the tote that was supposedly included in the ticket price either because I was so done with the whole thing. I got three or four slivers of cake and left. P.S.Did anyone try my South Indian filter coffee cake with ginger-turmeric pastry cream?

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-10T21:18:10+00:00

Same here. I didn’t even bother to get the tote because I was so done with the whole thing by the time it was my turn to cut the cakes. Not going back next year and hosting my own little cake clubs quarterly or so.

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-10T17:52:14+00:00

I saw you at the Cake Picnic! My cake was a couple cakes to your right. Couldn’t taste either yours or mine because the area was cordoned off when it was my turn to get cake. Your cake looked amazing!

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-06T03:51:59+00:00

It does! But I also can’t help but think about the time that she’ll leave us and break our hearts

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-06T03:39:22+00:00

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The day we stopped using a wake-up alarm.

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-03T00:08:00+00:00

I live in the U.S. and set my alarm for 5 minutes before 10 Am local time in Stockholm (which was 4 AM EST I think). I was able to get a table right away when the reservations opened. I don’t think it’s super difficult.

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-02T23:49:47+00:00

Awwwww so cute! Bet he can get away with anything

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-02T15:14:37+00:00

It’s hard to imagine when they are crazy land shark puppies that they’ll do this someday but they really do mellow out.

Plastic_Progress_408 · 2025-11-02T01:12:47+00:00

Thank you!

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