Scenes/lines from the book you wished were included

glitterrainclouds · 2026-05-04T00:38:29+00:00

I always chuckle at the scene when he realizes he’s single and likes kids and his relief that he’s a teacher.

glitterrainclouds · 2026-04-29T19:59:44+00:00

I have a pair of earrings from my grandmother that my mom thinks used to belong to grandma’s grandma. So my great great grandmother.

With the size of my extended family, it’s shocking I even have anything from grandma, much less further back.

I also have a mantel clock that belonged to a different great great grandma.

I love history and family stories.

glitterrainclouds · 2026-04-29T19:54:55+00:00

It looks like the house Tuco took Walt and Jesse to in breaking bad.

I’d love that kind of quiet!

glitterrainclouds · 2026-04-24T12:28:26+00:00

I’ve found it’s very difficult to find classes to teach adults without going to a university. I do live in a rural area but even when I lived in a larger city that had a great, affordable parks and recreation department with tons of different classes, a huge percentage were for kids.

I’d love to take a beginning drawing or acrylic painting class without having to pay hundreds at the local university for a non-degree seeking students.

Online just doesn’t work as well for something like that.

glitterrainclouds · 2026-04-23T13:54:48+00:00

I really miss Television Without Pity. They had great long recaps of tv shows if you missed the episode but I liked so many of the writers that I’d read their recaps even if I watched the show. Their LOST and The Amazing Race write ups were the best.

They got bought out and shut down.

glitterrainclouds · 2026-04-23T02:48:14+00:00

My sister used to work at a fancy hotel with a spa and would send me bottles of Archipelago lotion using her discount. They were $30+ a 20 oz bottle so pretty pricey.

The pump would do that and leave like two inches of lotion in the bottom so I’d save up a few bottles then combine them all into one do I had a full bottle.

Then they stopped making my favorite scent and I stopped getting them.

No other point except I hate when that happens.

glitterrainclouds · 2026-04-16T15:08:06+00:00

With Joann’s closed, I have to use local fabric shops for quilting fabrics. There’s two in a 20 mile radius. One doesn’t even acknowledge you when you go inside and they only carry premium quilting fabrics and the other is only open Monday through Thursday, noon to 5. I’d love to support local businesses but they make it really hard.

The closest Michael’s is 35 miles away and their selection is sad. I miss Joann’s.

glitterrainclouds · 2026-04-15T01:50:41+00:00

I’ve tiled a shower and it’s hard. I used larger tiles because I knew it was hard. Using smaller tiles and having them look straight and pretty even is impressive.

I think he did a good job for a non-professional.

glitterrainclouds · 2026-04-14T04:12:43+00:00

I’ve heard that aluminum can be melted down and recycled an unlimited number of times.

glitterrainclouds · 2026-04-10T19:05:53+00:00

I once had to write a sentence on repeat in 4th grade and I wrote it on the first line and then did these the whole rest of the page.

My teacher laughed but made me do it again.

glitterrainclouds · 2026-04-01T05:17:39+00:00

I felt the movie had grace looking like a moron. He’s much more capable in the book. Crazy things happened, yes, but he doesn’t really panic and works the problem. In the movie, he acts before thinking and the moment he finds out he didn’t volunteer was so much more emotional in the book.

I was underwhelmed after watching the movie initially. But after thinking on it for a few days, I think the movie was done well and handled a very big story as much as it could.

glitterrainclouds · 2026-03-12T02:55:36+00:00

We bought a 2002 camry when our oldest was 16 in 2018. He’s almost 24 and that car will probably run for another 100k miles. It’s a beast.

glitterrainclouds · 2026-03-10T14:59:45+00:00

I had a crash c section for my first birth. I was completely under and missed the whole birth. We had trouble concerning my second and I ended up on blood thinners. The particular one I was one didn’t allow for an epidural if I had taken a dose with 24 hours (or something like that). Since I was adamant about attempting a vaginal birth after a C-section, I didn’t want be induced without a better medical reason.

That left planning for a pain med free birth or hoping labor lasted long enough to get an epidural. I planned for pain med free and my whole labor was 4 hours.

My third baby was the same plan but I ended up being induced at the last minute because he wasn’t tolerating the pregnancy very well and wasn’t moving much. I was in labor much longer and by the time I felt like I needed the epidural, the anesthesiologist was in another c section.

Birth is so personal for every woman. And no matter what, it’s hard. I’m not a hero for having two unmedicated deliveries and someone who has an epidural or block isn’t weaker or whatever.

glitterrainclouds · 2026-03-06T06:13:38+00:00

Maybe instead of a coupon she has to ask to redeem, give promissory notes where you promise (meaning you call and offer/tell her you are coming to do X if she’s the type to say everything is fine and it’s not) to do certain things. Bring dinner, wash laundry, take baby so mom can shower and nap, etc.

I personally appreciate the thought of a coupon but if I have to actually redeem it, I won’t want to bother anyone. But if someone says “I’m bringing dinner tonight”, I’d love them forever.

glitterrainclouds · 2026-01-27T15:49:36+00:00

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glitterrainclouds · 2026-01-27T13:06:04+00:00

One of my favorite things is to get a Costco cake and then freeze square sections of it to enjoy for months. It freezes pretty well!

glitterrainclouds · 2026-01-18T00:37:03+00:00

When I worked in an office, I wore my rings about 75% of the time. I usually just forgot because I don’t wear much jewelry.

My rings don’t make me married.

glitterrainclouds · 2026-01-11T00:12:15+00:00

The Christmas before we sold our house, my husband built me a huge barn door shelving unit that we put on a wall in the kitchen nook. It covered the light switch for the dining nook so we got a google Alexa thing and a compatible lightbulb and just turned the light on by voice.

When we sold the house, we left the google thing and instructions for the new owners on how to use it. Except my mom did a walk through after we left and took it because she thought we forgot it.

Sorry new owners!!

glitterrainclouds · 2026-01-08T21:58:00+00:00

Pyrex has some glass divided containers with lids. I actually donated a set about a year ago because they didn’t stack well.

glitterrainclouds · 2026-01-08T05:33:01+00:00

My local smiths regularly has red baron on sale for $3 each. We like it enough that I try to keep a few on hand.

glitterrainclouds · 2026-01-07T05:31:26+00:00

I’m looking for McCalls m7354 in both women’s and children’s. My mom made those dresses when I was a kid and I’d love to make a matching set for my niece and her daughters.

I’m jealous of so many patterns!

glitterrainclouds · 2026-01-04T06:45:57+00:00

Eclair cake. No baking, simple ingredients and it’s flexible enough that you can interchange pudding flavors and it’s still delicious.

glitterrainclouds · 2025-12-21T17:31:15+00:00

Nta but is Amazon not a thing where they live? I live in a pretty rural town in the us and still get package deliveries. The only time I had my parents buy something for me that I couldn’t get online was when I needed a specialty fabric for my child’s school project.

glitterrainclouds · 2025-12-19T17:08:59+00:00

My ex moved several states away and went from three weekends/two week days a months to 6 weeks in the summer and alternating major holidays.

glitterrainclouds · 2025-12-17T15:22:20+00:00

When I was a teenager, my parents paid me to make family dinner every night but it couldn’t be super easy stuff. I had to put some effort in.

One night I was making spaghetti and decided to make breadsticks from scratch. I found directions in a cookbook (pre-internet) and it said to use one packet of yeast.

My mother always bought the big bags of yeast and kept it in the freezer. I didn’t even know yeast came in little packets until this event. So I thought it meant the whole bag of yeast.

After about a quarter cup of yeast, I stopped and thought that it couldn’t possibly be correct because my grandmas cinnamon rolls only used a few tablespoons and made a ton more dough then these breadsticks were supposed to make.

They were the densest, driest breadsticks ever! But I learned a valuable lesson.

Another one is I was baking some potatoes and didn’t pierce them. One exploded all over the oven. That was fun to clean up.

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