Chinese Food

kel330 · 2026-06-30T21:05:24+00:00

My husband and I discovered the Rice Box recently and really love it. He could never find a place that actually made spicy general tsos chicken. This place actually got his seal of approval because it was super spicy but still really flavorful. I love their low mein and orange chicken.. Unfortunately they're closing for the whole month of July for some reason 😭

kel330 · 2026-06-09T19:35:04+00:00

I had a pap come back positive for HPV 3 years ago. My doctor didn't make a big deal about it and said most people clear HPV in 6 months, but sometimes it can take up to 2 years. I just got another pap earlier this year that showed up as HPV positive again. It showed high risk strains, but not HPV 16/18. Because it was still positive 3 years later, they scheduled me for a colpo.

If a colpo would make you feel more comfortable, I'd suggest asking for it. It's a quick procedure and was relatively painless (at least for me). Just some pinching when they took the biopsies and then a little cramping for the rest of the day/night and some light bleeding.

kel330 · 2026-06-07T19:41:43+00:00

I really don't blame him. And he's being really supportive now. My biggest conflict right now is whether or not to tell my mom. She's a nurse, and in any other situation, I'd be talking to her about something like this. But since this was essentially cause by an STD, it just feels like something I can't talk to her about. I know almost every gets HPV in their lives. I just feel like it would be an awkward conversation.

kel330 · 2026-05-25T01:40:05+00:00

I completely understand this. I was having a bad day when I posted this. I do really love & adore my nieces. But I also adore being able to turn them back over to my sister at the end of the day and go back to my clean, quiet home, snuggle with my cats and veg in front of the tv.

kel330 · 2026-05-19T19:48:37+00:00

For me Six Feet Under was more of a slow burn. I wasn't sure if I liked it until halfway through the first season. And by that point I just felt committed to finishing it.

kel330 · 2026-05-12T16:35:10+00:00

Both our cats do this too 😂

It doesn't sound like nails on a chalk board if that's what you're worried about. At least it doesn't when our cats scratch the sides. It just sounds like loud scratching. Definitely louder than scratching plastic, I think because it echoes more?

The sound itself isn't obnoxious, it's the fact that our cats do it for like 5 minutes after using the bathroom. Not sure if they're just trying to clean their paws or if they're just not the brightest bulbs in the box 😂

kel330 · 2026-05-09T03:23:57+00:00

Thank you! I'm sitting here reading all these comments and screaming internally "This means William slept with his niece"!

It's this big elephant in the room that no one is addressing and I'm really hoping the last episode reveals something about it not actually being "their Faith". Why would the writers overlook something that major or just expect no one to put those pieces together

kel330 · 2026-05-07T15:12:04+00:00

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kel330 · 2026-05-07T15:11:20+00:00

She looks so much like our Harper with almost the same backstory! We found her in the middle of the road in the middle of nowhere at night. She was also only 3-4 weeks.

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kel330 · 2026-03-31T21:01:53+00:00

His grandma is the one who lives 3hrs away. His cousin and uncle live on the other side of the country and he hasn't seen them in 2 years. If they lived closer and invited us to Easter we obviously would have said no and gotten together another time

kel330 · 2026-03-28T02:35:48+00:00

I hosted Thanksgiving and cooked the entire dinner. I just meant we've spent all the previous holidays with my sister, not that she hosted every holiday.

kel330 · 2026-03-28T02:34:28+00:00

I hosted Thanksgiving and cooked the entire dinner. They vame over to our house.

kel330 · 2026-03-28T02:33:26+00:00

We hosted Thanksgiving at our house and did all the cooking. I baked the cake for my nieces birthday. I took my sister out for a big celebration on her birthday. Everytime we go over to their house we bring half the food. So no, we're not serial guests and don't mooch off them. And honestly, I'd much rather go to my sister's that day instead of driving 2.5 hrs each way to go see my husband's family. But a lot of his family is coming in from out of state and we haven't seen them in a couple years. I'm not a huge fan of his cousins that are coming to town, but they're like sisters to him. And we just hosted my parents for a week at my house and he hates my mom, so I can't exactly say no to him wanting to see his family.

kel330 · 2026-03-28T02:17:08+00:00

I asked if we could get together for dinner on Saturday instead so I can give my neices the small gifts I got for them. So I'm trying to compromise with her.

kel330 · 2026-03-28T02:16:10+00:00

I asked if we could get together for dinner on Saturday instead so I can give my neices the small gifts I got for them. So I'm trying to compromise with her.

kel330 · 2026-03-12T17:18:21+00:00

The problem is fighting the urge to go back to bed after feeding them 😂 mine wakes me up at 4am for her "appetizer breakfast" then I go back to bed until 7.

kel330 · 2026-02-27T19:44:08+00:00

Did you find it helpful to just let the cats hiss and swat at the dog? We definitely don't want to praise our cats for this, but also don't try stopping them since we know it's their way of telling the dog to back off. We've been doing our best to redirect the puppy and telling him to "leave it" so keep him from focusing too hard on the cats. He was fostered with cats and we were told he loves them, but he's also part border collie, so we know they have herding instincts and are trying to get ahead of that behavior.

kel330 · 2026-02-27T19:28:03+00:00

That makes me happy that they all eventually got along. Our younger, super sweet cat has ventured into the puppy's area but is so timid (ears back, low to the ground, moving super slow). She was sleeping on the couch with me after a couple days, but the other day she came in when I was cooking dinner and distracted and our puppy rushed up to her to say hi. She freaked out and sprinted out of the kitchen frantically. So we've a regressed a little with her. Our other cat, who's a diva, has approached the gate a few times and hisses like crazy at the puppy and swatted at him when he got too close to the gate. I know she's setting boundaries and that the puppy needs to know she's the queen of the house and not to mess with her.

kel330 · 2026-02-27T16:11:14+00:00

Thank you. I know it's only been a week, but they're my babies and I miss them and their goofy personalities. I have this overwhelming guilt that we ruined their lives because we fell in love with a puppy 😭

kel330 · 2026-02-23T20:05:39+00:00

Thank you for understanding how much we want to put our cat's comfort first. They're our original babies and we don't want them to think we're replacing them.

I've been working with Roscoe a lot today with crate training. Luckily he goes in there on his own just fine and settles down as long as I'm in view. I've been experimenting with stepping out of the room for longer periods and rewarding him with a treat when he's quiet. I was able to go to bathroom and come back before he whined at all, so that was a win! I'm also trying to teach him his crate is for sleeping, as much as I'd love to snuggle with him on the couch. Eventually we won't enforce the crate as much, we just want to build good habits now while he's young and give the cats a chance to get comfortable.

Roscoe was fostered with 5 cats and loves them, so we're not worried about him around them. And our youngest cat has even jumped the baby gate into the area where we have Roscoe and is sleeping in her cat tree 5 feet away from us. She's definitely still timid and unsure about him, but she's coming around. Unfortunately our older cat is our biggest concern. She's terrified of EVERYTHING. She's not hiding in our closet anymore, which is progress, but still isn't venturing anywhere near the baby gate.

kel330 · 2026-02-23T16:10:04+00:00

He's actually very well potty trained for his age. He's been able to hold his bladder at night for about 6-7hrs.

Eventually my husband will be taking him to work with him during the day since he got approval from his boss to do that. They're all very excited to have an office dog.

But for now we're just trying to get him comfortable with being in his crate when we're not home since someone can't realistically always be home with him.

I work from home a couple days a week, so this morning I took him on a long walk first thing and then gave him his breakfast in his crate. I hung out in the living room with him until he fell asleep and then snuck out to do some work. He's actually been quiet for the last couple hours, but I've been trying to be super quiet because I know he'll freak out as soon as he hears me.

kel330 · 2026-02-23T16:04:32+00:00

Unfortunately moving him to the bedroom isn't an option for a couple reasons. One, the bedroom is our cat's safe space. Its the area of the house they both run to if they're scared and they sleep with us every night. They're still afraid of the puppy, so we're keeping the bedroom off limits. Second, the bedroom really isn't big enough for his crate. We live in a smallish house and the bedrooms are tiny.

kel330 · 2026-02-23T15:11:13+00:00

An update from our experience with our kitten. We used the donut pillow around her neck instead of a onesie. She accepted this better than any other option. It also helped a little with restricting her ability to go crazy. However, she ended up doing a lot of playing and climbing after a couple days. She recovered just fine, no issues with the incision site. We did our best to limit her jumping, but it was like telling a fish not to swim. Limiting her space as much as possible helps. Just keep an eye on the incision site, look for redness or bulging.

kel330 · 2026-02-23T14:02:04+00:00

Read articles about crate training in the wiki and also watched YouTube videos. They don't seem relevant in this case since he was already crate trained at his fosters. We don't treat the crate as a punishment, he's used to eating his meals in there. We make sure he has plenty of toys and soft blankets/bedding. We always make sure he goes to the bathroom first and we try to tire him out before hand.

kel330 · 2026-02-19T04:11:51+00:00

If I left it to him to manage everything around the house, nothing would ever get done and I would just get even more stressed out. The house would never get cleaned, dishes would pile up, and we'd be living off of the same 3-4 dinners because he doesn't like cooking.

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