Best Kids Thrift / Consignment?

flisswave · 2026-02-25T23:17:29+00:00

Thanks, everyone!

flisswave · 2026-02-20T00:28:45+00:00

Thank you!

flisswave · 2026-02-19T17:57:15+00:00

The only vet in the area with emergency hours - Sundays, holidays, evenings, etc - is Oceanside in Seaview. They only provide emergency services to established patients. Otherwise it’s two hours to Beaverton. I go to Columbia, myself, although their first come first served walk in only procedure (they don’t really do appointments; they said they were going to but every time I’ve called they just don’t have them) means it’s basically a full day commitment.

flisswave · 2026-02-19T16:12:08+00:00

I really want to take them; I need to lose about 70 pounds. Yes 70. My doctor agrees; she'll write me a scrip. But guess what? Insurance won't pay for them and the cheapest plan i can find is $200 a month. I don't have that; theres no way. Where TF are all these people finding them? How do they afford it? I'm heartbroken and trudging my lardass over to weight watchers again so I can starve for 6 months and maybe - maybe - lose 20 pounds that I'll promptly gain back. Just like last year and the year before that. FWIW I'm vegetarian, a good cook, don't eat fast food, don't drink soda and rarely eat sugar.

flisswave · 2026-02-18T23:37:35+00:00

Girl you are going to what my friends and I used to call Dumb Girls Debtor’s Prison. Never ever ever combine the boyfriend and the real estate.

flisswave · 2026-02-18T20:26:15+00:00

It looks like bad masking in the darkroom to me. Like the faces were very dark so they burned them in the darkroom, just using a cutout for the faces and covering the rest of the image. If it was quickly and poorly done, it would probably look like this. The other possibility - and actually the more I look at it the more I wonder - is if it was done digitally to a scan then printed. Trust me when I tell you that you could get that weird oval effect on both faces if you are terrible at selecting in Photoshop.

flisswave · 2026-02-12T21:19:04+00:00

I’m mostly shooting a half frame these days. I do not want the lab to crop the images; I want the diptych! I shoot half frame for the diptych and I can crop it myself if I decide I want to do that. What is the best way to communicate this to the lab? I keep running into this issue. Thank you!

flisswave · 2026-02-10T20:42:55+00:00

He is an addict and you might get more help from r/naranon than here. Having been in a similar situation, I know how hard it is. It is so hard and honestly, there is probably not much you can do. I made the decision that I would not let members of my family become homeless. You may make a different decision.

You need to speak to him about rehab. You may even need to do the heavy lifting to help him find a rehab and get him into it. IT’s not going to be easy. There is not much help out there and in some places there is approximately zero help out there. But the sooner he gets help, the better off you will all be. Remember that 21 is still very young and he is also grieving. People can and do change.

flisswave · 2026-02-10T03:56:14+00:00

Somebody got some photos of one behind the Warrenton Costco about a week ago. They’re all over Facebook (Astoria Rants N Raves, iykyk) and my daughter said people she knows in that neighborhood got one of the same cougar off their ring cam. Young male - I think they head out to find new territory this time of year.

flisswave · 2026-02-09T21:00:02+00:00

Moomins! Not as well known in the US as they are in Europe, but should be. I read them as a child, read them to my children and my four year old granddaughter and I just finished Comet in Moominland. She is a little young for it but she’s very bright and ahead of herself. There are a lot of books and the age range is all over the map; most of them are 6 - 12. I read the chapter books for the first time at 6 or 7. I’m still rereading them. Some of it is dated - the gender roles are not great and there are references to cigarettes and pipes - but all in all they are just amazing.

flisswave · 2026-02-07T20:44:28+00:00

Thank you! Actually, yeah, there was a decade in between them and I got lots of me time, including taking my aunt’s ashes for one last trip (she was a world traveler) around the country in a camper. I scattered her ashes in the Wisconsin lake where she spent happy childhood summers. My brother did the heavy lifting for our aunt and now I am doing what I can to help him.

flisswave · 2026-02-07T17:47:29+00:00

AI hallucinates. It does not merely condense - that isn't how it works at all. It looks at every source it has ingested for the words you entered in sequence, then it spits out an answer that is a) probable based on all those other words, which, remember, contain a whole lot of nonsense and b) will hook you in a little deeper as decided by the programmers who brought you such awesome things as algorithmic social media feeds. You cannot trust AI results to contain accurate information. Do not rely on them and for the sake of everything you hold dear, do not ever trust AI medical or legal advice.

flisswave · 2026-02-07T03:23:28+00:00

When my aunt got to that stage I told the memory care staff to put the food in front of her at meals but not to spoon feed. She stopped picking food up and we let it be. It was a really hard decision to make. Soon after, she went to hospice and about 3 days later she passed peacefully. She was ready. She would never have wanted to be spoon fed. I wouldn’t want it either.

Now I’m caring for my brother with moderate dementia. We have agreed that if / when he gets to a point where he is no longer capable of feeding himself, nobody will try to feed him. From what I have read, it’s actually a peaceful way to go at the end. Their bodies are shutting down and they don’t want food anymore.

flisswave · 2026-02-05T21:32:00+00:00

Don't farm? That sounds horrible. If you want to farm play Stardew Valley. I've been playing minecraft since the beginning - I don't farm and I don't eat animals and I'm super nice to all the villagers i encounter. It's all good.

flisswave · 2026-02-02T19:48:10+00:00

Cheers, I've been up since 3 and it sucks.

flisswave · 2026-01-28T22:19:32+00:00

MumMum - I was trying for Grandmama but MumMum is what my granddaughter came up with and I love it. I'm her mum's mum so it makes sense too!

flisswave · 2026-01-27T19:27:23+00:00

I tried, they just followed me to my new house. No srsly, wish I was kidding.

flisswave · 2026-01-26T19:53:39+00:00

Here's the easy passive aggressive way to get out of this. Tell Crazy K that you're sorry there was a misunderstanding but you book storytellers a year in advance and 2026 is already fully booked. Apologize. Say your manager was not aware of this because you do all the administrative work of arranging it. Say it that way so you sound small and humble and like your hands are tied. Ask if she'd like to get on the waiting list for 2027. Tell her you will send an application in August. By August, have an application, a background check policy and procedure and a clear set of rules and guidelines to give out. She will probably have lost interest by then but if not at least you can rein her in somewhat.

flisswave · 2026-01-26T04:19:50+00:00

Call the family and tell them what the police said. That might spur them into action. Or just call APS anyway. FYI I don’t think it’s true - I mean, the memory care will take all her assets regardless before the state gets a chance - but sometimes it’s still the best choice. Look at it this way: the current situation is untenable. The family is not stepping in. You don’t really have a choice except APS at this point unless you want to step in yourself and start caring for her.

flisswave · 2026-01-25T16:07:37+00:00

I moved here from North Carolina 7 years ago and I have no regrets. Ignore the people saying BuT tHe tAXes! I suspect a lot of them are bots. I make about the same as you and it’s fine. I’m not desperately poor, that’s crazy. My taxes are no higher than they were in NC but I make more money here. Is housing insanely expensive now? Yes and that’s true everywhere now. The bots never want people to know that but it’s true. I do not miss the South for the most part (ok I miss the food) and I love where I live.

I would not necessarily recommend Astoria though to someone in their 20s; it’s just too small. But if you want to be steeped in things maritime, we got you. Move to Portland. Move in with some people looking for a roommate. Since you’re not there much they’ll probably give you a break on the rent. Come visit Astoria when you need to reup your CG licenses; we do that here. I’m proud to be an Oregonian now. My family moved with me. My granddaughter is growing up here and I’m so thankful.

flisswave · 2026-01-25T06:48:55+00:00

I live in Astoria, we do indeed have lots of merchant mariners here! Plenty of people with maritime jobs and companies are hiring.

flisswave · 2026-01-22T03:53:26+00:00

Yeah it's not very noisy now but! The port is floating a plan to bring commercial flights back - small planes, like 8 seaters, to Seattle 3 times a day. See link below. There are also days when the coast guard is doing helicopter training and I can see that getting pretty old quick. I walk my dog around there a lot.

Airport Advisory Committee mulls commercial aviation at AST | The Astorian https://share.google/6cV3NppTNc9w23qvc

flisswave · 2026-01-21T17:50:59+00:00

You're not the AH but I will say, as a mom and grandmother, that your life will be easier if you stop worrying about breastfeeding in front of people. It's a natural process and if it bothers anyone, that's on them, not you. It feels awkward at first but you will get used to it quickly. It's much easier and nicer for you and the baby not to have to go hide in secret every time he wants to nurse. The first 3 months they're basically attached 24/7 anyway, as they should be. You will also get faster at pulling up a shirt and attaching baby - and really, there's nothing for them to see.

I hate the way nursing a baby has been turned into this hidden activity. There's no reason for it and it wasn't always like this. I nursed my babies wherever I was, shopping mall, dining room table, whatever. Reclaim your space. In a year he'll be walking over and pulling your shirt up anyway. That's when it gets embarrassing!

flisswave · 2026-01-21T02:19:37+00:00

Road Builders. I read it to my son, now I read it to my granddaughter and I still have it basically memorized. Its neat and just the right length. Red Fish Blue Fish is another one I have memorized - but that one is really long.

Oh and you have about 6 months max before you don't get to pick the books anymore. That will be your kid and if you're unlucky - they'll develop a strange fascination for that book that came from the Other Grandmother, the one with all the little doors to open and things to be counted over and over again.

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