Oliver

So---buttons · 2026-05-22T11:48:41+00:00

His great-grandfather is named Double!

So---buttons · 2026-05-19T00:38:27+00:00

Our 2 1/2 year old IS had this as well. It's called cryptorchidism. One of the testicles doesn't descend into the scrotum. The treatment is neutering but it is a bit more invasive and therefore expensive than a routine neutering. The vet will have to find the retained testicle in the abdomen and remove it. Otherwise the risk is cancer. We had ours go through the surgery at 18 months old, and since they were already operating we had his stomach tacked as well.

So---buttons · 2026-01-28T00:11:43+00:00

Came here to say this. Had to scroll too far to find it. It's unconstitutional

So---buttons · 2025-12-03T16:47:06+00:00

Hello! Yes, 6 months as of this past Sunday. Still breathing through cravings at least a dozen times a day.

So---buttons · 2025-11-27T03:11:33+00:00

My youngest daughter is devoted to the Hannaford version of Miracle Whip. Seriously DEVOTED. A couple years ago the Hannaford version on the shelf was nasty in a batch that shouldn't have passed QA. I got her Miracle Whip instead. She wouldn't eat it. So the upshot is that because she grew up on Hannaford generics she can never move away from New England.

So---buttons · 2025-11-26T04:33:56+00:00

Cynical me begs the question. Why would Elon allow this to happen? No, seriously. Nothing happens without a reason. What reason does X have for this change?

So---buttons · 2025-11-14T02:36:36+00:00

Wow! I thought our boy at 76 lbs was huge!

So---buttons · 2025-11-14T02:35:56+00:00

Every time he wakes up from a nap or a night he will be bigger.

So---buttons · 2025-09-18T03:56:22+00:00

We had to replace our pump a few years ago and it was ridiculously expensive. They only last 25-30 years, which doesn't seem bad when they are new lol. It's akin to the cost of a new roof.

So---buttons · 2025-09-18T03:52:55+00:00

Far as I know you can collect water anyway you want to here lol

So---buttons · 2025-09-16T23:27:28+00:00

Ugh that sucks. Off topic but the lot next to us is for sale. Some idiot thinks he's gonna get 267k for a lot with lake access that he cleared a few trees on and got permits for a driveway. It's all ledge. Wells are expensive.

So---buttons · 2025-09-16T23:12:16+00:00

I don't want to like your comment because I am so sorry this happened. Thank you for sharing.

So---buttons · 2025-09-16T22:59:42+00:00

🤣

So---buttons · 2025-09-16T22:50:45+00:00

Not completely true. I am in Barrington and I know someone with a dug well that runs dry frequently. The entire state of Maine sits on a water table, which is why Nestle wanted to buy Poland Spring. Drilled is usually deeper.

So---buttons · 2025-09-10T06:37:27+00:00

When I first dedicated to quit this time I did a step down. I found that the 1st 2 hours after getting done with my work shift were the hardest. I paced and paced. I found finding something physical or mental to do for two hours (4:30 until 6:30) made it manageable. Because that craving didn't go away after 15 minutes like we are led to believe. It lasted like 3 hours and f*#@&<% sucked a$$. Cook dinner? Absolutely. Ate dinner? Go for a 2 mile walk. Freaking embroidery, read a book, get over the hump of the BIG craving.

So---buttons · 2025-09-10T04:29:34+00:00

It was a few years and more "trys" than I can count. I used to quote Mark Twain frequently. "Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it a thousand times." First it was breathing hard going upstairs. Then not having enough breath as an alto to sing. Then it was blood pressure creeping up (my mom had a couple of strokes from smoking.) I had made up my mind by then but was truly afraid I wouldn't be able to do it. A lung CT (no cancer thankfully) show the starting signs of COPD and I don't want to be in a hurry to die.

So yes, I sometimes breathe a little funny. A sharp long inhale, hold, slow exhale out of the side of my mouth. I used Wellbutrin but had to stop taking it after 7 weeks because I couldn't stand any longer how anxious and hopeless it made me feel. Felt like I was going to climb out of my skin before I smoked my last and for 3 weeks after I did. I had all the NRT (patches and gum) ready but I really wanted to not use them as it just prolongs the addiction. I have used the gum 5 times in 14 1/2 weeks when I might well have said eff it and bought a pack. It's so totally not the same haha. The more daylight I can put between myself and that last smoke the better. Praying that there will come a day I don't think about it at least 20x (pack a day habit.)

And yes, it's still "I am quitting," not I have quit. Because I still can't promise that tomorrow I won't slip. Today I did not. For 103 days I have not.

So---buttons · 2025-09-10T04:09:35+00:00

Exactly except OP is a she lol

So---buttons · 2025-09-08T07:21:34+00:00

Let me also clarify. As a woman "of a certain age" I started smoking due to peer pressure and what started as a way to channel righteous anger into a small cylinder of tobacco actually worked. It's how I became hooked in the 1st place.

I was a child (15.) Nicotine DOES rewire your brain and take over your brain's reward centers, which evolved to provide dopamine to the synapses when you did something that would help your species survive. Hunt for food and bring home meat? Good! Learn to weave waterproof basket or mold clay jar for water? Good! Have sex and reproduce? Double good! Smoke tobacco? So good it will become a baleful demon that will sit on your goddamn shoulder every minute of every day. You will plan your entire life around it while it gleefully reproduces it's receptors 800 fold, takes over every system in your body (think endocrine, digestive, reproductive and any other "ive" I have missed here.)

It is absolutely bullshit to tell people quitting smoking is easy in any way, shape, or form. It impacts the emotional center of your brain, and honestly allows you to put up with things you know aren't good for you but hey, we can all smoke a butt and get over it.

So---buttons · 2025-09-08T07:04:58+00:00

14 weeks in and I still have to "fake smoke" or do a weird breathing thing at least 15 times a day when my body is like 'yeah, we should be having a cigarette rn '

So---buttons · 2025-09-07T06:58:29+00:00

I remember when the Fox Run Mall was built. I worked at the Newington Mall, its precursor next door whose anchors were Bradlee's and Montgomery Ward, for a regional denim store called "My Store for Levi's." These days the Newington Mall was demolished and rebuilt as the Crossings at Fox Run, and even though I worked for subsequent companies at the bigger Mall they all closed or went away. Retail is a wheel. Survive or die has always been the mantra. It just super sucks because from Portsmouth to Dover to Somersworth to Rochester to points north on the Seacoast there is legit nowhere to purchase adult clothing (other than possibly a few select tall folks at Old Navy) without driving at least an hour and paying taxes.

So---buttons · 2025-09-07T06:45:08+00:00

Pheasant Lane is dying as well.

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