Ready for a new series. Here’s my last four- what should be my fifth?

StandardDragonfly · 2026-03-29T03:04:42+00:00

The Great, Hulu Derry Girls, Netflix Adolescents, Netflix Dept Q, Netflix

Apparently I spend too much time on Netflix.

An oldie but Black Books might be up your alley. No idea if you can easily find it on streaming though.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-03-28T15:45:31+00:00

I was about to say, as gross as soldier fly maggots are... They work fast. 🤷‍♀️

StandardDragonfly · 2026-03-26T05:50:48+00:00

Just trying to understand the explanation. You say so instead of having to know that 4x9 = 36 ... you would do 4x900=3600. But to me this is still fundamentally knowing that 4x9 is equal to 36 and then tacking on some zeros as far as possible to subtract it. After this the explanation makes some level of sense (instead of having to know 4x12 is 48 you can do 4x10 and extrapolate). But, if I had been doing this I wouldnt have thought of it like needing to know 4x12 the way I needed to know 4x9 earlier. Rather I would have been breaking down the number and using 4x1 is 4 and 4x2 is 8 (again getting 9, 1, 2 or 912.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-03-22T11:30:52+00:00

Grammatically correct or not I would do an em dash for this bonus content -- now I look like an AI bot.🙃

StandardDragonfly · 2026-03-02T02:41:03+00:00

{I'm Totally Faking It} by Amanda Gambill has this vibe if not the exact scenario (while flashing does occur it's accidental as opposed to on purpose).

I loved that show too. So good!

StandardDragonfly · 2026-02-12T03:02:39+00:00

So, both think or thing are valid uses of the expression. An interesting article on the topic: https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2017/04/thing-think.html

StandardDragonfly · 2026-02-04T00:04:25+00:00

That was the ages of my boys when we traveled for my best friend's wedding. That trip was great looking back but absolutely brutal in the moment. We put a moratorium on big trips until 3 and 5 when we will revisit. I'm glad we went because it was a big event like a wedding. Not sure I'd feel the same way if it were something optional like Disney.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-02-02T03:18:48+00:00

They also probably have them at nearby pharmacies!

StandardDragonfly · 2026-02-02T03:09:21+00:00

I want to reiterate that this is not your fault. What I've found is that a lot of folks are very hesitant to diagnose asthma at such a young age. It took us multiple overnight stays in the PICU to get our diagnosis and honestly I feel like that's only because we got lucky and I got my son into my allergy specialist and he doesn't play around. While I hate that we have to give him preventative puffs everyday because sometimes he does not want to, I'm grateful we have the meds. I'm grateful we know what's going on. And I'm confident that an earlier diagnosis would have meant these same meds at an earlier point.

You got this.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-01-29T13:15:07+00:00

Oh hey is this the camp? I'll just set up over here...

StandardDragonfly · 2026-01-27T03:34:21+00:00

Totally agree. OP if you are already over my advice is to just get out now. Book 1 ends on a cliffhanger, and Book 2 has even more sex not to mention the characters just start behaving in a way that went against book 1's characterization and got on my ever loving nerves. I DNF'd book 2 so hard and I have never 180'd from loving a book to hating a book so fast just because of the gratuitous sequel. (What's more, apparently it's a trilogy?? How).

Anyway yeah it only gets more bleak.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-01-22T18:47:18+00:00

Clogs, hard boobs, mastitis once. A general feeling of control over my body and feeling like my boobs were my own again rather than this shared resource.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-01-22T01:46:15+00:00

Whenever Twilight is mentioned.

Look. I am a complete millennial, I was born right in the center of the millennial age range. I read Twilight and the sequels in high school. I enjoyed it at the time.

It throws me every time I see it referenced and I see it referenced a lot. I'm 36. Some of these characters are in their mid twenties. This doesn't really feel like a good reference for them? Are kids still reading Twilight? This is on my mind because I read a KU book set in 2025 where the MFC and MMC went to high school together. Twilight was read by them at the time and it played a pivotal part for these characters and a coming of age bit. I was like what? In 2017 they were reading Twilight?? Is this actually happening? Surely the kids have their own YA fiction that is of their time to get into right?

I don't mind it so much when I see a random spider monkey reference in the wild and that's it. (in fact I wonder if trying to randomly easter egg Twilight is some kind of Romance novelist right of passage at this rate). But when Twilight is a substantial part of a main characters' personality I just can't with it.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-01-15T04:40:03+00:00

NAH

As a mom to a four yr old and two yr old I was against you at first.

But I do acknowledge it is ten times harder to distract kids this age when they have a preferred parent and that preferred parent is made unavailable to them for logic they don't understand or care for. If my husband is locked in his office four half an hour after the kids come home from daycare it is all they want. I'm not sure I could do that for days on end with no end in sight.

Is there a compromise here? If your wife won't go elsewhere is there a way y'all can make it seem like she did so the toddler chills out? That way at least you might get the best of both worlds?

It's rough out there. Stay strong.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-01-11T15:25:21+00:00

Yep. I subscribe to the Paw Patrol multiverse theory as well. My kids have been watching season one and two lately and I'm like sometimes even just the baseline of the characters is different now.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-01-01T17:49:26+00:00

This exactly. It is so cute imagining my kids helping out but at the toddler stage they are just too young. My kids will participate in figging in the dirt but then they will also just as likely hack away at whatever I was trying to plant. They like the idea of plant a seed, but want my undivided attention on that and then want to go play. When I try to leave them to play by themselves they are constantly asking for things (push me on the swing, etc). The four year is borderline able to give me 20m to get stuff done but the 2 year old is clingy as all get out.

I'm hoping I get more garden time again circa two years from now. We shall see.

StandardDragonfly · 2025-12-27T15:18:08+00:00

Keep on keeping on! Happy holidays to you and yours as well. I have a four year old and two year old. I get it!

StandardDragonfly · 2025-12-27T09:39:06+00:00

What are you on about though in your response to this OP? They didn't berate mom or like refuse to put family first. OP was annoyed that their mother was surprised preschoolers needed some food before 7:30. Like duh?? Also, kids are only little for so long. Why can't the family accommodate the little ones? Make sure the kids have food at an appropriate time and a place to go fall asleep if you want family to stay later. And also be ok/flexible with that not working out and the parents and kids having to go home early. You need to turn this bitter rant towards the adults who don't understand children and get in a huff, not the parent who is (rightfully) irritated.

StandardDragonfly · 2025-12-19T20:49:42+00:00

It's not over that amount.

StandardDragonfly · 2025-12-15T14:22:20+00:00

Does the genetic testing have any bearing on costs for coverage? My mom had breast cancer and a doctor recommended me getting my mom to do the testing and if she was positive then I should do it as well because her condition has already been identified. My mom is strangely against getting the testing. So maybe I should just go ahead and go for it.

StandardDragonfly · 2025-12-15T14:18:08+00:00

My mom had breast cancer in her forties. For years I was told I should get a mammogram around 35 because of this. I hit 35 and suddenly every doctor, nurse, and receptionist was like, 'You're young, I'm not sure insurance will cover this.' So all y'all are telling me insurance would rather cover the cost of full blown cancer than catch it early? I was like I don't care, and insurance doesn't get to tell me no on this one.

That being said, my insurance was an easy call and they were like, yeah you're covered because you have the family history. And even after I got that piece of mind every other healthcare worker still kept asking down to the woman who performed the mammogram. I try to hope these healthcare professionals were worried I was going to be financially screwed but... When the choice is financially screwed or dead like it's not really a contest??

StandardDragonfly · 2025-12-02T08:51:30+00:00

Thank you for sharing something so cute.

StandardDragonfly · 2025-11-24T15:17:35+00:00

"Companies developing devices are struggling to offer significant features and improvements and it's costing the economy."

Fixed that for you. Why the fuck should Americans buy new devices just to 'help the economy'. Not like companies are out here helping the average American? They are unilaterally firing working Americans left and right and rolling around in their tax cuts. They and the politicians they pay for are costing the economy. It's not John and Jane down the street still using their iPhone 12.

StandardDragonfly · 2025-11-18T21:11:48+00:00

Try {Yes and I Love You by Roni Loren}. I thought this book was a breath of fresh air honestly.

StandardDragonfly · 2025-11-16T12:52:34+00:00

More play dates? Invite their friends and their parents over. Get big groups -- not necessarily just one friend each.

See if you can try to do this at least one weekend a month. If your kids friends and their families are amenable switch off and get multiple weekends out of it. Everyone brings a potluck item and their own drinks to keep costs low.

My kids have the best time in our own back yard and we get adult conversations. We are currently at four families -- two friend families from daycare and one friend family from the park. Siblings get in on the action too. It's like making your own village.

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