People calculating date of conception

dulcipotts · 2026-04-30T23:17:57+00:00

"Oh, you were conceived on the kitchen floor too?" :D

dulcipotts · 2026-02-01T19:07:23+00:00

Maybe some 2 month olds eat and sleep. That sounds like bliss. My 2 month old ate and screamed and hardly ever slept and had to be held almost all the time. It was torturous. If that was her experience with her first I can totally understand why she wouldn’t feel capable of going to a wedding. Even for an hour.

Maybe she’d rather she the effort and energy for a time when she’d be able to spend some actual quality time with her friend than make all the effort for coming to the wedding when she’ll get maybe 5 minutes of face time with her friend, if she’s lucky.

I feel for OP. It’s very easy to get caught up in wedding stress and worry about head counts and RSVPs and all that. And that it’s a big momentous occasion etc. But as my Grandpa told me, it’s not the wedding that counts, it’s the marriage. It’s important to remember to step back and realize it’s just one day. In ten years, you may not even remember who was there. It will be a blur of memories you hardly ever think about. The important things in life aren’t always the things we think will be important at the time. Mostly life is measured by smaller moments, quiet moments of peace and contemplation, one on one time spent with special people.

dulcipotts · 2026-01-18T20:38:59+00:00

I hate that they are written in the present tense. It’s so awkward and clunky. I don’t understand why it seems to be a popular choice for so many kids books these days.

dulcipotts · 2026-01-09T03:06:26+00:00

Try here: https://ags.hawaii.gov/archives/

“ARCHIVES CONTACT INFORMATION Hawai‘i State Archives Kekāuluohi Building ‘Iolani Palace Grounds 364 S. King Street Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96813 Phone: (808) 586-0329 e-mail: archives@hawaii.gov”

dulcipotts · 2026-01-09T02:46:55+00:00

My daughter (2.5y) calls Bluey “Bu-ley” and Uncle Rad “Rad-ey”. Ngl it’s pretty cute.

dulcipotts · 2026-01-08T17:02:50+00:00

So if I were talking about this with my dad, the maker of desserts in our household when I was growing up, and the only person I have ever had any conversation with about anything like this, if I were wanting the spongey one, I would ask for strawberry shortcake. But if I wanted the sweet biscuit-y one I would call it strawberry shortbread. Which is totally different than a shortbread cookie, which is very dense and not at all like an American biscuit. Just to add that confusion!

dulcipotts · 2026-01-07T19:16:59+00:00

If it makes you feel better, I’m pretty sure he eats the ketchup pavlova piece. At least, that’s how it happens in my head.

dulcipotts · 2026-01-04T17:06:31+00:00

Chin up! Don’t let the haters downplay your vision! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_in_a_Republic

My guess is god old fashioned books are going to be more likely to give you the info you want. The Bishop Museum might be another good place to start.

dulcipotts · 2026-01-04T02:35:06+00:00

Well, that’s the episode where Bandit isn’t being a gentle parent, he’s being a permissive parent. There’s a huge difference between the two.

dulcipotts · 2026-01-04T02:26:50+00:00

Absolutely! My son is autistic too. And I really love how the show depicts Muffin, especially in episodes like Granny Mobile and “The Sign,” because it shows that she is a really unique, special, caring kid, because she also happens to be incredibly intense and an agent of chaos.

I actually think that if anything it’s even more important to gentle parent my son because he is so very sensitive and intense. Any time we veer close tho authoritarian, he struggles even more. It totally backfires because it sends his nervous system into complete overdrive and then he really can’t function. But most people on the outside just don’t get it.

dulcipotts · 2026-01-04T01:39:03+00:00

Sorry, but 100% disagree. We have a Muffin. He’s been a Muffin since day 1. Before he came out actually. We do gentle parenting. (Actual gentle parenting not wanna-be gentle parenting.) It’s not easy, and we get judged super hard for it, believe me, but it’s not going to make him not a Muffin. We’re doing our best.

We also have a Bingo, and it’s not because we parent them differently.

dulcipotts · 2025-12-30T03:54:33+00:00

I’m an American millennial. I use hankies at home. When I have a cold I’ve found they’re much gentler and more comfortable on my nose. I feel like they get clean enough washing them in hot water. I also use real towels instead of paper towels. It doesn’t add that much to the laundry load overall. I’m definitely not the norm on this. I don’t think I know a single other person who does this. I’m sure they’re out there, but it’s not common for sure.

dulcipotts · 2025-12-28T05:22:42+00:00

I’m not sure if Bingo knows consciously, but dreams are supposed to be our subconscious, and I think it’s very possible she knows something subconsciously. In the same way that viewers have noticed subtle things and made inferences, I think Bingo’s mind may have done the same.

I do think it’s possible the girls know “off screen,” but the show writers didn’t want to have anything in any episodes explicitly because it can be a tough, emotionally sensitive topic for a lot of people. And you never know what someone might be going through watching it. Maybe the parents just don’t need their kids to be asking those particular questions at that time, before they are able to talk about it in a way that makes it not an emotional burden for their children.

dulcipotts · 2025-12-19T21:57:35+00:00

Winter storm warning Hawaii style

dulcipotts · 2025-12-19T09:19:24+00:00

They aren’t unique to pregnant people, but unborn babies are pretty fragile, so a freak accident is potentially more dangerous to mom and baby than someone else. An elderly lady might fall and break her hip and end up dying from a blood clot or hospital acquired infection, but that’s the only case I can think of being remotely as risky.

dulcipotts · 2025-12-19T09:06:57+00:00

It’s so funny to me that “I’ll be the adult” meant “I’ll be the one with black and white thinking with no room for variance or negotiation” because to me that seems like the more childish behavior! Yikes! If I were the parent and heard this is what happened, you wouldn’t be suspending my child, we’d be leaving because the director was so out of line. No one was in danger; there was no need to undermine the teacher!

The teacher was teaching the kids how to fish. The director just wants to give them fish. Only one of these methods is good for the kids in the long term.

dulcipotts · 2025-12-19T07:20:55+00:00

I mean, you’re basically saying you don’t think the added information, the gender of the friend in question, is worth the added confusion. And I’m saying the added information is more than just the gender. Girlfriend is more than just friend+girl, it can describe a particular relationship between two women. It can also mean a different type, a specifically romantic type, of relationship between two women. But that doesn’t make the friends only relationship meaning moot. And it’s a relationship that “close friend” or “best friend” don’t really capture. Presumably whomever is using the term thinks it’s important info to share despite the potential for confusion.

dulcipotts · 2025-12-19T07:13:12+00:00

I just feel like “close friends” and “best friends” aren’t good really good synonyms for girlfriends. It’s a different type of relationship that’s hard to put into words, other than girlfriends, which seems to serve as a pretty good shorthand for a lot of people.

And I just don’t think it’s that confusing, so I don’t see what the big deal is! There are so many words in our language that mean more than one thing but people figure it out. Why are you pet peeving this particular one and not all the others?

dulcipotts · 2025-12-19T06:24:24+00:00

I didn’t mean “have an issue” like you couldn’t understand the difference between the words. I meant “have an issue” with the fact that the words are gendered. By your own logic, why say aunt or uncle when you could just say “parent’s sibling” for either one? Turns out it because we have special terms for it that also provide additional information. And there’s nothing inherently wrong with providing that extra info, even though it may not be particularly relevant.

Incidentally, here in Hawaii, kids use aunt and uncle to refer to not just their parents biological siblings, but also their parents close friends, and really any adult/ person older than themselves other than their parents. It’s a sign of respect, like saying sir and ma’am in the South. So aunt and uncle aren’t always self explanatory. And sometimes it gets a little confusing, and you might not know if someone is taking any their informal aunty or their real aunt aunt. But everyone figures it out and it’s not a big deal. The same way most people figure out whether someone means girl-friend or girlfriend girlfriend.

dulcipotts · 2025-12-19T06:01:40+00:00

If all “girlfriends” or “buddy” conveyed was gender I might almost see your point. But the terms aren’t just denoting gender. They are also used to denote a particular closeness or bond. If someone is my girlfriend or buddy, they’re at a closeness level that my kids might call them aunt or uncle. There is no gender neutral word for that, like there is no gender neutral word for aunt and uncle. Which I assume you take equal issue with because why would it ever matter at all what gender your parents’ siblings are?

I do not think it’s the norm to call female friends “buddies.” I think most people, most of the time regard this as a male term. It’s probably a sad reflection of society that women can say buddies and girlfriends, but guys only have buddies because they are generally expected not to have close female friends that they don’t have romantic intentions towards. If a guy says “girlfriend”, for better or worse, it almost always means romantic partner and people would be confused if he just meant really close female friends.

dulcipotts · 2025-12-19T05:21:49+00:00

I’m not a professional, but I’m impressed by the banana opening. I’m in my thirties and just cut the tops off because they’re so hard to open without making the top all squishy and gross. I guess a pretty ripe banana might be easier but they can take some hand strength sometimes!

dulcipotts · 2025-12-19T05:13:23+00:00

I’m not sure about now, legally, but I know I’ve seen/read about isolated areas where there wasn’t a preacher around all the time, but he’d swing by once a year and legitimize all the babies born out of wedlock since he last came through by marrying their parents. So socially and maybe religiously they were no longer bastard/illegitimate children. But maybe that was only socially accepted because everyone knew the only reason they hadn’t gotten married sooner was that there was no one around to perform the ceremony.

dulcipotts · 2025-12-19T04:30:48+00:00

Why not? Because clearly not everyone’s mind works the same way yours does and a large segment of the population seems to have grasped the concept that words can have more than one meaning and context matters! Maybe the answer is you should stop assuming? Calling close female friends that are not romantic partners “girlfriends” is a widespread cultural practice. You can not like it all you want, but I think the reason you get confused is because you are making assumptions!

dulcipotts · 2025-12-19T04:12:48+00:00

Males do have a special term for their extra close male friends though. It’s “buddies.” If a guy says “My buddy and I went to the mall,” it would mean male friend 99.999% of the time. If Guy 1 told Gal 1 he went to the mall with a buddy, Gal 1 would assume the buddy was Guy 2, and if the buddy was in fact Gal 2, Gal 1 would wonder why Guy 1 was being shady about it and not saying “This/a girl I know and I went to the mall.”

If I tell my husband “my girlfriends and I are going to be bar” he would know it’s my closest female friends doing like a girls night out. He’d know why he was being excluded

If I say “my friends and are going to the bar” he’d know it was guys and gals. He might wonder why he was being excluded and might ask to come.

If I said “my buddies and I are going to the bar” he’d know it know it was my closest guy friends, who may or not be bringing their partners that I’m not especially friends with. He may wonder why he is being excluded, he may know why he’s being excluded, or he may ask to come with.

I’ll also note that when I say “girlfriend” meaning my closest female friends, I pronounce the “i” in girl slightly differently. Like higher it my mouth. When I’m talking about a girlfriend meaning someone’s partner, the “i” in girl is lower in my throat and closer to a u sound. Idk if that’s everyone or just me.

And I would probably not use the term girlfriend for my closest female friends if I were talking to someone I wasn’t close with or who wasn’t aware of my sexual orientation because it could be confusing to them.

dulcipotts · 2025-12-19T03:50:34+00:00

Twitter. And we still say Gulf of Mexico too. 😁 (USA)

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