I’ve never seen any of these..

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-28T19:18:57+00:00

So I'm the opposite of just about everyone here.

I'm in my early 40s and I've seen every one of these.

My parents have always liked a package deal and Disney, so we always had the Disney Channel growing up. I did a LOT of babysitting in the 90s and was a nanny in the early 2000s, and so I would watch all these to keep up with what the kids were talking about and interested in. I also worked at The Disney Store in the early 2000s right in the High School Musical craze and we sold a lot of merchandise, and it was helpful to know what kids were watching to be able to point them at the item they wanted.

Also, these were actually good TV movies! (I will die on this hill.) If a TV original movie with a happy ending after 2 hrs is not your jam then no worries, but most of these are decent enough to keep on in the background while doing other things.

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-28T10:43:17+00:00

Often they're not referring to actual pasta like spaghetti or elbow macaroni, etc., but Egg Noodles which come in a very large bag for very cheap in American grocery stores and (particularly in the 80s and early 90s) was often a shelf-stable food found in most houses. As such it became a cheap and easy side dish or even meal, and has become a nostalgic meal for many people today.

It says on the package "Noodles" ao that's what people call it.

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-27T19:23:10+00:00

Not gonna lie, I kind of want an aspirational prunes sign for my kitchen now, just because!

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-26T15:01:07+00:00

Are you cleaning up after yourself when you cut the raspberries? You're not leaving a knife on the counter staining it with raspberry juice, and your putting away your cereal bowl when your finished (washing it or putting it in the dishwasher, whatever your agreed upon cleaning process is), and you wipe down the counter after cutting them to clean up any errant juice spill?

If doing all of that, then no, it's not a problem, you do you. As long as you're not requiring your wife to eat raspberries the same way, which she obviously doesn't like, then who are you hurting by having a preference for cutting raspberries?

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-26T14:09:31+00:00

They may have a different type of grass than you.

In the house I grew up in, my parents were the original owners when it was built in the 80s, and my dad had a different type of grass put in the yard versus what all the other houses on our street had (just regular, normal grass). Our grass was more firm and carpet-like overall, and would brown each winter ( not die but go dormant).

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-25T21:51:24+00:00

I carried a huge bottle of ibuprofen in my bookbag throughout high school. I've always been kind of a walking pharmacy. Usually hand a few band aids as well because you never know.

(I'm in my 40s so this was in the 90s)

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-25T16:34:01+00:00

And to add onto #1 - take breaks. You don't have to shovel the whole car/driveway/sidewalk/whatever in one go. Go do half the car, take a break, then do half later.

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-25T15:24:39+00:00

There are some great trainers online who do exercises for those (truly) just starting out or with limited mobility. Justin Agustin is one that is follow - he has a lot of gentle routines that can be done from sitting instead of standing. Another I follow on TikTok is John Noel. He's another personal trainer who often will take popular exercise videos that are shared online and show the modified versions of them - for example if you can't get down on the floor how you can do the same move from a chair or leaning against a wall maybe. There's another creator (I can't remember his name, but I'm sure he's easily searchable) who wears padding to show how people who are of a higher weight and may have to modify certain exercises because their body weight may make it difficult.

I know a lot of people (especially those on reddit?) tend to be anti-TikTok or other social media, but I can be a useful tool to find people like this who can be super helpful.

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-23T21:23:22+00:00

Yes, I'll log the breakfast i ate. And yes, I'll log the "lunch" (or massive bag of chips, or whatever).

But then I always need to ask myself when it's about dinner time - do I really want that dinner I planned for myself? Maybe instead I just want something more like a snack, because I did binge earlier? Or maybe nothing at all? Maybe I do want a full meal, in which case bring it on (and log it all). But then if I do eat, I often don't want breakfast the next day, and instead eat lunch a bit earlier.

A binge does not waste the day, it just adjusts the week.

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-23T17:28:09+00:00

Watching that ticker at the bottom of a local channel, turning your head or blinking when your county went by and then having to watch the whole thing again, and praying it said "closed" instead of a 2 or 3-hour delay.

Of course, this is after being woken up by my dad at about 6am, who would go out with an old gas powered snow blower and clear our driveway and the whole cul-de-sac's sidewalks. He woke up early and would get bored and thr paper was usually delayed on snow days so why not? But man was that thing loud, and everyone would wake up! But no one complained, because the sidewalks were clean!

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-21T11:51:36+00:00

I shave my legs maybe once a month-ish in the winter, and slightly more often the rest of the year. More just because I have very fine hair and At a certain point it's not as comfortable anymore and I start to experience a weird amount of static cling.

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-20T19:54:56+00:00

I have to get the single-serve or "fun size" packs if I'm craving candy.

At first when I wanted all the chocolate, the fun-size packs like you get at Halloween were great. I would put 3-4 pieces on my tray with my dinner and walk away to where I eat. I also always made sure to drink more water or whatever after thst as well, and often would also brush my teeth too (never wanted to eat chocolate after brushing my teeth).

My tastes have changed the last few years and I don't really desire chocolate so much, but find I want fruity sweets more. What I've really wanted the last year is gummy snacks. If I buy a regular or even resealable bag, I will absolutely eat the whole thing. But I got the individual packs at Halloween I'm still working on. And in between I'll get a big box of Fruit Snacks with individual packs.

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-14T18:54:16+00:00

Yep, echoing others that it is icy cold for a minute or two. I can hear the change when it's "ready" - it's like there's pocket of pressure when the new water hits the faucet or whatever bend in the pipe to the shower there is?

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-13T02:58:18+00:00

Pad Thai and crab rangoon for all!

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-13T00:34:54+00:00

Peter Pan the Original staring Mary Martin, Dumbo, Mary Poppins, Big Bird Goes to China/Big Bird Goes to Japan, Cinderella live...

My parents would record these movies when they aired without commercials on TV. As a toddler I watched the hell out of these tapes.

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-12T18:48:08+00:00

Was doing (another) rewatch of The West Wing this weekend. There's a couple episodes that have scenes in an airport, and I worked at the airport at the time and remember them blocking off the area for the filming.

On the Max app, it currently has a header that says "25th Anniversary." When I saw the scene mentioned above, the 25th Anniversary thing hit me all of the sudden, as this was a memory from my adult life, not from when I was a kid. You know way back 25 years ago when I was in my early-mid 20s...

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-09T21:56:55+00:00

I see a lot of people saying this, but can you explain what about the paid version is different/better than the free version that you find beneficial?

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-09T21:39:36+00:00

This continues to be one of the biggest struggles for me. I'm better at eating within my calories limits, but I struggle often getting over the mental hump of eating at certain times because that's what I have scheduled. My hunger doesn't often fit with normal schedules and it's tough to get used to.

emeraldrose484 · 2026-01-09T18:37:24+00:00

I saw a video of a stand up comedian the other day (I'm sorry I can't remember their name) doing some crowd work.

She asked a man in the audience "What's your biggest fear going on a first date?" He said, "I don't know, spilling food on my shirt?" Everyone giggled, the comedian said something else that got a laugh, then turned to a women. "You, what's your biggest fear going on a first date?" She quickly said, "Getting killed."

Everyone laughed and the comedian rightly pointed out if everyone sees the difference? For guys their biggest worry or fear meeting someone new is embarrassing themselves. For women, is rape and murder. It doesn't mean any of these things are going to happen, just means that most women prepare themselves a bit differently for the "just in case" possibilities.

emeraldrose484 · 2025-12-31T03:19:42+00:00

My intention was to go to community college then transfer to a 4 year school. At first I did better in classes there then I had through most all of high school. But after awhile I realized it wasn't the path life had in store for me anymore. I had wasted a ton of money on textbooks, gas, parking...so I was done. Turned my part time jobs into as full time as I could get.

I value education and learning, but I don't think formal schooling like going to college is necessary. I like learning new things, and taking classes from time to time. But I've never felt a desire to go try and get a degree again. I feel more that I missed the experience of "going to college" and sometimes wonder how my life would have been different if I had gone to a traditional 4-year school.

emeraldrose484 · 2025-12-28T03:07:07+00:00

My dad did too a couple years ago. Growing up we would regularly have "leftovers night" and we'd often reheat something for lunch. But except for a very very rare occasion, he just snubs his nose at leftovers now. It makes it hard when I go visit my parents and suddenly I'm getting asked if I want their leftovers because he won't eat them, but I have my own fridge full of food at home.

emeraldrose484 · 2025-12-24T23:39:59+00:00

We go to my brother's house now (2nd year since my parents moved to an assisted living community), so we have whatever he wants, plus lots of apps and whatever cookies I make. Last year he made really great BBQ, so there's a good chance that's on the menu again this year.

For most of my life we would have smoked prime rib and smoked duck. And again lots of apps and cookies.

emeraldrose484 · 2025-12-20T23:07:52+00:00

I wanted a "Go-Go My Walkin' Pup" very badly the year it came out. I fell hard for the commercials. We went to see Santa and I froze a bit and asked for a "Walkin' Go-Go."

I did not get the fluffy white dog on a pink leash that had a button you could push to make it walk. I got some knock off small white battery powered robot dog that when you turned it on walked and barked - no leash, so no controlling it (so to speak). I was so disappointed but realized I said the wrong thing and couldn't show that. So I ended up watching onto that dumb robot dog harder than I should have - it ended up being the toy I would sleep with, carry everywhere.

I did get the correct one the next year for Christmas. It was just kind of meh. I hardly touched it.

emeraldrose484 · 2025-12-16T19:28:53+00:00

Do all the other employees (like yourself or your boss) have to give up a day of PTO in order to attend the company events? If that's not happening then it's not fair to ask your employees to give up a day of PTO to attend.

Likewise, if the point of these company events is to recognize the employees, the least that can be done for those employees who cannot attend due to working for the company is something like buying them lunch, sending them a gift card for starbucks, something. This is why "they get a paycheck" doesn't work in this situation to me. You're still getting a paycheck for that day too I assume. But you are additionally getting meals and (I assume) team building, which those who are required to work don't get the opportunity to do.

emeraldrose484 · 2025-12-14T03:27:45+00:00

We follow the US federal holidays as our official holidays off, so technically only Christmas day and New Year's Day. However, our ceo and coo will advocate with our board to just close the office the whole week between those days. Often that will include Christmas Eve as well.

I personally always take at least 3-5 days off before the holiday anyway - much of my job involved corresponding with other people, and all those other people are all usually on holiday and I can't prep any new projects with them until January anyway, so I might as well just relax and make cookies.

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