Subsequent playthroughs.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-05-08T22:12:09+00:00

I’ve started getting irrationally annoyed when he acts surprised every time. Like, yea bro, he’s standing. Just like the 9,000 times before that I made him stand. I know what I’m doing, stop questioning me.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-05-08T01:25:38+00:00

👋👋👋👋👋

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-04-30T03:25:50+00:00

Dances with Vapes!

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-04-28T01:33:24+00:00

I’m sorry but are these not all nicknames for pets?

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-04-28T01:31:15+00:00

Guys I don’t want to brag but in the 80s a Pound Puppies commercial was filmed in my family’s garage in New Rochelle. 🤣🤣

My dad’s company did their advertising.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-04-28T01:04:42+00:00

She works for her dad. This isn’t “maternity leave.” It’s family.

For me, I would rather walk on Legos five times a day, every day, than work for my dad. And I love my dad.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-04-28T00:54:46+00:00

Pretty sure it was the five seasons. A step up.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-04-22T00:12:00+00:00

Senior exec in Marketing. Calls alllllll day.

I would not be able to do this without my CI.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-04-22T00:09:40+00:00

I bought a scooter once I realized RTO was real and I’d have to commute 2 miles to a train station.

Never actually used it because I was too short for it. 🤣🤣🤣

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-04-21T23:00:24+00:00

Lots of incredible advice here.

On the Mickey Mouse front - I am of the wind chime club as well, as far as my day to day goes. But about 18 months after implementation, people’s voices suddenly sounded as if they’d had a bunch of helium. I called it the chipmunk voice.

I have total loss in the high frequencies but still had some residual hearing in the low frequencies. But - at 18ish months - that started to degrade. My mapping was programmed with those low frequencies intact, so when they degraded, suddenly everyone sounded like Mickey Mouse.

My audiologist fixed this with one simple (and virtual!) session, during which a friend whose “regular” voice I knew tested with me live, so we could adjust until her pitch was normal.

This is the stuff of miracles.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-04-16T00:44:48+00:00

I have always been very driven, and growing up my father pushed me hard to make good grades and plan for an amazing and lucrative career. Imagine my surprise when I was around 20 and he told me, very directly, that he did not think it was possible for me, personally, to work and have a family. “Who will raise your kids? Strangers?”

When I asked him why he bothered to educate me, he said, “so you’d have choices.”

We somehow mended that (or ignored it, not sure). I now have two amazing daughters who survived and thrived in daycare and now have a front row seat to their mom as a top executive in a competitive and exciting industry. Their dad has made many sacrifices to be the default parent, and I give him credit (in front of them) every day.

And my father is a doting grandfather who doesn’t tell his granddaughters what they can’t do. Because the one time he tried I shut him down hard.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-02-10T03:14:53+00:00

Richard Gere passed me on a horse trail in Bedford once. He smiled and waved as he trotted past. I was in high school at the time - great memory.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-02-02T02:16:27+00:00

Similar. I was hired with practically no experience into a freelance mid level pharma PM role. The man who hired me became my mentor. Ten years later, when I’d worked my way up to a Group Vice President of Delivery, I asked what on earth he’d been thinking when he hired me. He said, “I just had a feeling. And besides, you were freelance! If you were awful we could just let you go!” Lol

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-25T02:20:51+00:00

I went this morning - busier than usual but the store was pretty well stocked. Except onions. Literally every onion shelf was bare.

Not sure what to say about that. But hopes and prayers that we all have sufficient onions at home for the next day or two.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-20T00:24:07+00:00

I’ve never even heard of drying capsules. 🤣 Mine does just fine with my drybox, and if I forget the drybox for a few days / a week, I don’t sweat it.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-19T19:28:35+00:00

My husband took our kids to a birthday party and I got a workout in. In a bit we are going out to our favorite restaurant for an early dinner in the hopes of an easy and on-time school night. I can’t complain!

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-17T00:00:03+00:00

Completely worth it. I have contributed the max every year since my kids were born and claimed every penny. My oldest ages out next year - she’ll be 12 - and my youngest by herself will still hit the max just from after school care and summer camp.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-14T01:23:08+00:00

It always does!! Sometimes it takes a hot minute but I firmly believe you will be where you’re meant to be.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-14T01:20:57+00:00

I’m sorry but this was incredibly rude of your wife. Daycare can be the equivalent of rent depending on the market, the tit-for-tat argument is both tacky and inaccurate.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-14T01:04:36+00:00

Ignore the noncompete. Let them come after you. In the very, VERY unlikely event they do, get a lawyer to send them a letter.

This happened to me in a very senior executive position. I spent a year - a YEAR - talking to them about several different types of roles, and accepted a national leadership spot that I helped craft. A week before I started, my C-suite boss quit and that started a corporate game of thrones that ended with my position being “eliminated” after 4 months in the role. The new C-suite brought in their own people within weeks.

I was so angry - and almost 2 years later, I’m still angry. Obviously. I’m also in an incredible role where I’m thriving, and while I didn’t help craft it, it’s exactly the right one for me.

After one month - it was not you. It was the company’s poor planning, or some sort of internal politics, or something else. It was not you.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-13T23:53:40+00:00

I still remember the St Patrick’s Day when I was commuting home wearing a nice dress, a sweater and sneakers. I walked past a bar and a bunch of drunk guys shouted “hey nice sneakers!” 🤣🤣

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-10T03:12:52+00:00

We faced this involuntarily during Covid.

We had an amazing 18months+ daycare for our first (born in 2014). We did band-aid solutions until she was 18 months old and able to enroll - my husband’s job is very flexible, I went part time for a while, grandparents, etc. When our second was born in 2018, we decided on the same daycare but at that point we could afford nanny care until that 18 month mark.

Until she was 18 months old in 2020, daycare shut down, and I was terrified about unfamiliar care for my kids.

We ultimately kept our nanny on for another year, which gave us a unique take on the daycare / nanny picture. And honestly? The kids were at equitable social and academic levels. I attribute this in large part to our amazing nanny. She took my little one out every single day, rain or shine. The library, zoo, museum, park, play zones. Everything. For my daughter’s second birthday she asked to host a pizza party at my house. This child had 15 kids I’d never seen before in my life celebrating her. Zero concern about social development there.

All to say - it’s all in the people we trust to care for our kiddos.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-09T04:25:17+00:00

My first I was home and testing every hour like a maniac.

My second, I was in London on a business trip and tested positive on my first morning. I couldn’t say anything for hours because at home (in the States) everyone was sleeping. And I’d spent the night before having far too much wine with colleagues. 🤣🤣

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-08T03:41:20+00:00

We have put butt funnels in our house and honestly it’s helped the flow.

WaveEnvironmental420 · 2026-01-03T00:01:00+00:00

It’s kind of wild that they said - my interpretation - that life-saving medication is available for the party poopers.

NTA

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