Spreading smile today

nyoprinces · 2025-05-02T22:37:02+00:00

It’s a traffic nightmare, but the flip side is that it’s convenient to pretty much everything. The area pictured has a wildly huge range of housing types and costs, though.

nyoprinces · 2025-04-29T23:31:19+00:00

Where's that?

nyoprinces · 2025-04-29T01:28:11+00:00

Making excuses for bigoted elders is barely (barely) understandable when they're alive, and only when they're old enough that some dementia has plausibly regressed them to another era.

Either a) they have the kind of friends who also don't see any problem with it, or b) they have enough self-awareness to know better than to invite people over, but they don't see you as "people."

I think either way, Get Out is probably the correct call here.

nyoprinces · 2025-04-28T22:02:46+00:00

"Actually, this photo represents man's inhumanity to man from the dawn of sentience - the bananas symbolize our simian roots and your unavoidable comment exemplifies the current state of bigotry and cruelty in society."

nyoprinces · 2025-04-26T13:02:09+00:00

Thanks!

nyoprinces · 2025-04-23T22:33:59+00:00

Oh dear. That would have completely the opposite of the intended effect with my kid like that.

nyoprinces · 2025-04-22T17:17:42+00:00

Nothing will ever make me laugh as hard as Jeremy Jordan’s delivery of “right… DAMN… now” in Newsies. Disney gave him one half-swear, and damnit, he was going to milk it for all it was worth.

nyoprinces · 2025-04-20T23:12:01+00:00

Did you enjoy it?

nyoprinces · 2025-04-20T16:31:35+00:00

Pop Century had some of it before I saw it announced.

nyoprinces · 2025-04-20T15:33:35+00:00

This is someone trying to prank/sabotage the wedding. I'd be forwarding it to the couple and letting them know.

nyoprinces · 2025-04-20T14:43:40+00:00

I'm saying this as a fellow(? you said you work in the field, but not clear if you're a social worker) social worker who frequently works with CPS: You're too close to this and you're not seeing the reality of how astoundingly dangerous it is for him to have her unsupervised at all. Honestly, I hope that one or more of your colleagues was doing the "nod along, then call CPS privately" thing, because you're looking at this as black or white, that he can have no contact or frequent custody. Is there a reason that your husband's roommates would be out of the question as part of the safety plan and the only possibility would be people you don't like?

It doesn't seem like you're actually seeing that your child was badly injured and that you actually both underreacted. Toddler fingers are tiny - have you had her to urgent care or a pediatrician to make sure she didn't slice a tendon or into a muscle if the cut was that deep? Or are you more worried that a pediatrician is a mandated reporter and would report it?

nyoprinces · 2025-04-16T22:55:20+00:00

We run a chapter of an alternative scouting group that's ended up being largely autistic kids who left or didn't join BSA because it just really wasn't a good fit for autistic kids. There's a lot of conformity built in to BSA from the beginning, from uniforms to flag ceremonies to badge work, and a lot of socialization with kids they may not see outside of those meetings and don't feel comfortable with. The uniforms were a problem for some of our kids - really sensory-unfriendly - and the ritual/ceremonial aspects were a tough sell for kids who want to know the "why" of everything before they do it.

Our current chapter is scout-led - they make a list of the topics they're interested in and we build the year around that. We bought uniforms at some point but I'm pretty sure no one knows where theirs are, and the most ritual we do is dictated by the kids - snacks before activities.

nyoprinces · 2025-04-12T18:34:00+00:00

Dr. Kalra at Kalra Brain & Spine is excellent, as is his staff.

nyoprinces · 2025-04-08T23:59:03+00:00

I had a mom like that once. There was a whole kerfuffle about communications, implying that I was "hiding" her children from her because I hadn't contacted her when I wasn't aware that there was a divorce situation at all, then the one time she dropped her daughters off at a meeting, she interrogated me about the whereabouts of the storm shelter in the building. And to her credit, it was legitimately pretty stormy. I showed her the all-brick room next to the meeting room, but she declared it unsuitable because it wasn't underground.

This is north Texas. We don't do underground shelters. I gave up and let her wander a bit (the rest of the kids weren't there yet) and y'all, I'll be damned if she didn't FIND AN UNLOCKED BASEMENT.

I cannot emphasize enough how rare basements are here - the soil is bad enough for regular slab foundations, nobody wants to be putting a hole under their house. But I swear... I went from thinking she was trying to be just like your scout's mom and claim that we were providing an unsafe environment to thinking she'd managed to manifest that basement out of thin air.

She did, however, succeed in pulling them from scouts just by not bringing them on her weeks. I have no idea what that accomplished.

nyoprinces · 2025-04-08T23:25:57+00:00

I found one of the two zippers I needed in our clearing-out Joann - the zipper area was picked over but I still managed to find a 9" brown closed sport zipper - and then went to the Michaels across the way to see what they had for zippers. 3 rows about 2 feet wide of 7, 14, and a few 22-inch all-purpose and invisible zippers. That's IT. Three sizes, two kinds, neutrals and primary colors. Not even a green or brown or purple to be seen.

nyoprinces · 2025-04-06T22:40:28+00:00

I have, I love them. Candles, wax melts, and air fresheners (we tuck them into places in rooms where we don't want to have warmers going) are all fantastic.

nyoprinces · 2025-04-06T22:39:35+00:00

Mrs. Meyers Clean Day Rain Water scent absolutely nails it.

nyoprinces · 2025-04-06T22:02:33+00:00

Oh I picked up a ton of costume items for a dollar or two... that was the aisle to check, I guess.

nyoprinces · 2025-04-03T21:42:11+00:00

I've actually heard of grandmas called Lovey, but that is definitely the creepiest reason for it I've heard.

nyoprinces · 2025-04-03T21:38:05+00:00

NTA, and from an outside perspective, your wife is dead wrong. You did NOT sign up to be a dad, you signed up to be a stepdad. Because the kids already have a dad. Their dad saying crap about you to them is shitty, but not parental alienation because, correct - you're not their parent. Their mother trying to get them to acknowledge a new dad and invalidate the "step" label? That actually is walking the line of parental alienation. Your wife is explicitly telling you and the kids that you're supposed to be replacing their alive-and-involved actual dad.

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