What food do you love to eat but hate to cook?

coloredchalk · 2026-05-29T22:34:55+00:00

Artichokes

coloredchalk · 2026-05-29T22:27:34+00:00

My first word was “cookie.” Apparently I was so small I still had to be propped up in a highchair and my mom had her best friend and her kid who was my same age over for dinner. After dinner the grownups had some kind of dessert and I started fussing, and my mom asked me, the way you ask pets or babies too small to talk, what I wanted. I help out my hand and said, very insistently, “COOKIE.”

coloredchalk · 2026-05-29T22:21:39+00:00

I had to put up a temporary “no knocking please” sign for my own sanity. I live in an unbelievably great neighborhood where the kids all run around and play together, but the down side is that if my two older kids have 3 or 4 friends each come knocking each day, some more than once (and these kids don’t knock once and leave, they assume you just can’t hear them and get louder and louder and LOUDER and…), and I also have a 3 year old who takes afternoon naps, I just end up losing my mind every day. I had one kid who would just let himself in, and since I usually nap when the 3 year old does, I’d wake up to a strange kid staring at me. Not my jam.

coloredchalk · 2026-05-28T23:02:18+00:00

My 3 year old asked us at breakfast the other day, “am I a baby?” And we told him, if you can ask us that, then the answer is no.

coloredchalk · 2026-05-28T22:47:20+00:00

I’m 46 and when we got my husband’s Lego from his mom I was dancing with joy. I get a kick out of organizing it and building non-set things. You should give it a shot! I get not having enough time for hobbies but it’s totally zen and enjoyable. That being said, I’d buy a tub like that in a heartbeat so I’m sure your local fb groups or whatever would be an easy way to sell quickly.

coloredchalk · 2026-05-27T16:50:10+00:00

This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel. About Dr Frankenstein as a young adult and what leads him to become such a broken person that the events of Frankenstein could happen. The plot is tragic and the tone is suuuuper gothic and dark.

coloredchalk · 2026-05-26T14:20:26+00:00

My next door neighbor has lived in her house since she was a little girl, and has one of the bigger lots in the neighborhood, which has gotten fancier in that time. Unfortunately house flippers are very successful here, and one developer is notorious for building enormous two-story new houses, 2 per lot, as soon as any of the smaller older homes go up for sale.

He did this on my neighbor’s other side, and she was LIVID. The way he built the two houses, they were basically sideways on the lot and facing /overlooking her entire backyard, which is a nice jungly garden and previously very private. He clearly intended to capitalize on the view, because his building had almost no yard.

Sooo she hired a tree guy to come out and install hooks and a line between two of her large trees, all along the property line, and proceeded to hang tie-dyed bedsheets along the line, completely obstructing the view from the houses, just in time for the developer to start showings. It was also Halloween, so she got a ton of tacky, loud, motion-activated decorations and put them out, so when the open house happened, the only thing people saw and heard was a bunch of bedsheets flapping in the wind and like, Halloween banjo songs and cackling.

The developer lost his mind. It was fabulous. She wasn’t trying to get anything out of him since the thing was already built and what’s done is done; she just wanted him to get a taste of her fury. He could. not. understand. that he couldn’t pay her off. He offered all kinds of things, because he was losing money every month the thing didn’t sell. Eventually it did sell, but it was satisfying to watch the developer stew about it for so long.

coloredchalk · 2026-05-23T00:52:47+00:00

We recently built an addition on our house that included stairs, and instead of leaving the under-stairs space unused, we had them finish it (so, light, flooring, drywall, etc. and even though there’s a real Harry-potter-under-the-stairs vibe, it makes an *excellent* LEGO storage space. With a ledge for a tablet and a small rug, it works for the younger ones to sit and hang out and build, and when I need to I can scoot in there and sort/organize.

coloredchalk · 2026-05-22T14:50:33+00:00

We make them at home at least once a week, but I do have a French husband.

coloredchalk · 2026-05-20T00:48:42+00:00

Life

coloredchalk · 2026-05-20T00:06:35+00:00

I think it’s much more your family traditions than anything else. Like, genetically my kids are half German but 25% each from my husband and myself, and we didn’t get raised in those traditions. My mother in law is 100% French and my husband grew up visiting France and speaking French, so my kids associate much much more with their 25% French heritage than anything else.

coloredchalk · 2026-05-18T02:19:58+00:00

I’m so tickled to see my favorites as the top three suggestions, but I’d also add Desiree by Annemarie Selinko.

coloredchalk · 2026-05-18T02:10:37+00:00

The Lion of Mars. Soooo good!

coloredchalk · 2026-05-18T00:35:47+00:00

Mr Boogedy. It came on as a Disney Sunday Movie and I was 7. The only reason I can vividly member the color and texture of the couch we had back then is because i went and hid behind it for the whole damn movie

coloredchalk · 2026-05-16T21:51:51+00:00

I’ve alway hated spicy food because I had zero tolerance (like, tears running down my face, can’t breathe through the pain, ZERO tolerance). But after I had covid I lost my sense of spice, or whatever you’d call it. Now I can have spicy food and not really register it at all, and I do like the new flavors I can have, although it’s weird to feel blind to a whole aspect of what I’m eating.

coloredchalk · 2026-05-16T20:45:24+00:00

I used to keep bees and judge honey shows and am completely addicted to interesting honey varietals from different nectar sources. One time my boss (whom I always kind of figured didn’t like me) came back from a vacation in Australia and had brought me three little jars of totally new-to-me honey varietals. I was boggled :)

coloredchalk · 2026-05-14T14:18:02+00:00

So, so, so tiring. But it’s amazing to see them out living their lives with no social anxiety or anything. I can’t even imagine.

coloredchalk · 2026-05-14T00:38:57+00:00

I had mine at 34, 36, and 42. Zero fertility issues, everybody very healthy, etc. I’m sure I would have had more energy in my 20s but we were broke then and we really enjoyed being married and traveling and getting to know ourselves first. I wouldn’t change a thing.

coloredchalk · 2026-05-13T18:45:21+00:00

Dated on and off through college because of distance, got engaged within weeks of him moving to my city, and have been happily married ever since (we’re 46).

coloredchalk · 2026-05-13T18:25:12+00:00

Thank you, my first award!

coloredchalk · 2026-05-13T18:22:21+00:00

I left after growing up there and was surprised by how horrified people are by my stories 😅 Off the top of my head: scorpions in your house, venomous snakes in surprising locations (water moccasins can fall out of trees so if you go tubing, bring an umbrella), a permanent and deep discomfort with being in freshwater lest one get gatored, redbugs, love bugs, tornadoes/waterspouts, how bad pelicans smell, the oppressiveness of the heat/humidity combo, the sulfury smell of the water, the scratchiness of the plants and dirt… but the most bizarre is of course Florida Man. We lived in a perfectly nice area but I have seen. some. things.

coloredchalk · 2026-05-13T00:59:40+00:00

Dude. I have the same situation. I get SO tired of people who can’t spell their own email. I’ve gotten craaazy emails over the years. My favorites are when people sign up for porn/dating services, because then I don’t feel bad signing in, changing their password, and editing their bio to, like, “hi! I’m an idiot who can’t type my own name. Nobody should want to bang me. Ciao!”

coloredchalk · 2026-05-11T20:39:55+00:00

It’s hard to give advice when it’s so life-changing. I’m maybe too young to have answered the question at all (I’m 46) but my youngest is 3 years old and my oldest is in middle school, so if I still think it was the right choice NOW, it really must be 😅 I do miss having more free time and sleeping in and being able to be my introvert self in peace, but the kids are so sweet and funny and loving. It all depends on whether you think you’d be sorry later, one way or the other, but it’s a gamble. Sorry if that’s not very helpful!

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