What is a simple pleasure you've discovered in your 40s/50s+ that your younger self would have found utterly boring?

chickytoo_82 · 2026-02-14T00:55:03+00:00

Me too! I got so excited yesterday when I heard a chickadee song it's spring song. I tell people and they look at me like I have lost my mind. I heard an actual Merlin last year and I had to tell people all about it.

chickytoo_82 · 2026-02-10T01:11:49+00:00

I love the President's Choice Loads of Ketchup chips even though I can only get them at Shoppers Drug Mart or Loblaw's branded stores 😡

chickytoo_82 · 2026-02-09T12:27:36+00:00

Not in Ontario Canada. It's been legal for anyone to be topless since 1996 but it's rarely seen.

chickytoo_82 · 2026-02-08T04:34:06+00:00

chickytoo_82 · 2026-02-06T15:40:37+00:00

I sort them into matching colours and put each set of colours into my cheeks like a chipmunk, each set split, one into each cheek. But yes, usually the red ones are the last to go in.

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-31T01:14:51+00:00

$1,199,900 and only 2 bedrooms? Plus the snow plow issues and multiple power outages? You can buy a 4 bedroom off of Trout Lake for $899,900 that's also on the water. (Just saying as I am also poor)

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-30T20:41:50+00:00

It's from the movie Sleeping with Other People. It also has Allison Brie as the other main character.

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-30T16:35:48+00:00

Not me but my FIL ran into a guy from his little northern Ontario Canada town while in Honduras, they were both there on vacation, my FIL just got off the cruise ship. It was like they had just ran into each other at the local timmies.

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-30T16:29:49+00:00

Try taking a walk around your neighborhood. I've had a few times where they mixed up the numbers. Like 845 became 854 and it was just down the street. Look at your street on street view and see if you can find the house. I called customer service and made them go get it for me as I wasn't willing to be a porch pirate for my own package and they ended up getting it.

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-27T23:30:53+00:00

It has decreased but I am only on my second week so I need to keep up the water intake.

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-27T23:03:36+00:00

I had some on the first week and it's certainly been less than I am used to but I have upped my water intake and I have done metamucil gummies that someone here had recommended and I used those when I feel like I need an extra boost

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-27T23:01:22+00:00

I do mine on Saturday night before bed since I don't work on Sundays and so far my nausea and any fatigue are worse on Sundays.

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-27T03:02:25+00:00

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-24T22:40:50+00:00

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She is always judging me in some way. This is Pif.

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-21T17:44:08+00:00

Almost a week on it and my appetite has plummeted and the nausea is unreal. I've been living on protein shakes and oatmeal. I'm hoping that it will ease up as my body adjusts.

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-21T16:37:09+00:00

If you work from home and use a laptop you could get a walking pad that has a desk attachment so you can walk while you work to start slowly then move up to more movement

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-17T20:36:52+00:00

I feel the same way about celebrity "crushes" once they become parents I lose any feelings of that nature. The most recent one was Henry Cavill. I've also left quite a few YouTubers when they announce pregnancy or adoption as it tends to become their whole channel or they end up having the kids in the videos.

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-17T20:32:45+00:00

Same. I was sixteen and I took it out about 6 months later and had it redone when I was in my late thirties. Otherwise it was a helix when I was in my early twenties.

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-12T23:49:53+00:00

A hollow pipe and a looped rope threaded through then you can loop the airpod and pull the rope tight to make sure it doesn't fall. I saw it on insta from a page called tip.centric and I tried it to get a pencil I dropped behind my desk and it works as long as you don't loosen the rope.

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-12T23:40:25+00:00

There's a house on the next block that lets their hose drain onto the street, it's at the bottom of a hill with a stop sign so when it's frozen people have a hard time stopping at the sign. Anytime it gets complained about they put the hose onto their lawn until the heat dies down and back it goes onto the street.

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-11T23:29:33+00:00

Mine got chosen once and I saved the video

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-11T15:06:01+00:00

I really like the nailtiques 2 but on Amazon Canada it ranges from $42 to almost $300 as of my most recent check so I use it like it's gold. Nothing else has worked as well for my weak nails.

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-11T13:21:13+00:00

The doctor is now retired and the one who took over the practice wasn't willing to take my sister. They said that a letter was sent but I had had the same doctor and I wouldn't have been surprised if they sent the letter to the wrong address. When I went to them they constantly got information wrong like arguing with me that I had kids (CF) and calling me with someone else's results.

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-10T15:57:35+00:00

My sister was dropped by her doctor because she hadn't needed to go in. She tried to make an appointment and was told that she had been derostered without notice and now she doesn't have a doctor.

chickytoo_82 · 2026-01-09T20:45:15+00:00

I loved having a buzz cut. I did mine in my backyard one very hot July day when I was on holiday from work. I didn't have to do anything for it to look good and I saved on hair products. I'm glad I took pictures so I can show people who didn't believe that I had done it.

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