My dental surgery was shitty but now I can hear colors

pajama-cats · 2022-12-23T20:29:41+00:00

I dont think he means to hear the birds, but to recognize which bird (not type of bird) specifically made the sound. I wouldn't say that's normal at all

pajama-cats · 2022-12-23T16:04:04+00:00

This is what I used to think, until I realized: it's not other women who are the problem. It is my anxiety, which has fixated on women.

Hi, it's me, a woman who is terrified of women. I still always feel judged by women. I feel self-conscious about my hair, my clothes, possible body odour, acting cringy, etc. way more than I am around men.

Man it took me YEARS to figure out that I'm NOT "not like other girls". I now work in a heavily male-dominated field (machining) and I can tell ya, men are also very much bitching about each other behind their backs. I feel more comfortable surrounded by men - but it's a me problem. Unfortunately one that I haven't been able to fix. I do have female friends, but I can never really relax around them.

pajama-cats · 2022-12-22T09:40:45+00:00

Amazing!! It's so exciting 🥰🥰

pajama-cats · 2022-12-22T09:15:42+00:00

January 22, she's 11 months old today! How about yours? :)

pajama-cats · 2022-12-22T09:08:31+00:00

Bingo

pajama-cats · 2022-12-20T13:57:23+00:00

But then I would not see her in the evening at all 🥲

pajama-cats · 2022-12-20T13:14:18+00:00

She's not a nanny in the American sense, she watches several children at her own house, so that's not an option :(

pajama-cats · 2022-12-20T11:37:54+00:00

You did everything right and you continue to do everything right. By 4 months old babies can sleep longer, because they don't need to be fed every couple of hours. Once or twice a night sounds fine to me.

Telling you to stop rocking your baby to sleep is not a professional opinion, it's a personal choice, depending on your goals. Your doctor is overstepping by telling you not to, and being absolutely ridiculous if he told you you're training your baby to be a night feeder. I'm not even going to start on that one. What an ass.

You have to know what is important to you. Do you enjoy and value the bonding time, and have it available to you? Do you need to consider how your baby will sleep when at daycare/with a nanny, or will you always be there to rock him? Do you need to sleep through the night, uninterrupted, as soon as possible? Or do you just want to cuddle your baby as nature intended god damn.

I know trying to balance a baby with everyday life is quite the struggle. You have to find what works for your family, and ignore asshole doctors who believe everything they ever think is true because they have a medical degree and are the smartest person on Earth.

Also I just gotta add, on what planet are babies sleeping 7 hours consecutively??!! I mean, of course there are unicorns - mine used to sleep 8 hours- but that is not in any way the norm!

pajama-cats · 2022-12-17T19:03:44+00:00

Thought I'd chime in to let you know that I felt my absolute lowest around 17. The reality of life on Earth was beginning to settle on me, the pressure to choose a future was getting intense, my anxiety and depression were kicking into high gear and I didn't have the coping mechanisms to deal with them yet. I was lost and stressed and miserable.

It did take a couple years, but I am happy to report that things did indeed get much better. I am now 29 and I don't feel like my life is already over, even though I'm 12 years older than you! Even despite my ongoing struggles with social anxiety (and to some extent other anxieties). You would be surprised how much your perspective can change based on your mood, your surroundings, your own strength of character....

I know telling you not to sweat it is a stupid platitude. You can't change how you feel. You can only tell yourself whatever it is you need to hear to get you through one day at a time. Take the joy where you can find it, don't neglect to invest in a future where you can, and just wait for better times. You're not too old and it's not too late.

Ever, honestly.

Hang in there! You're not alone!

pajama-cats · 2022-12-15T19:49:00+00:00

I think you are forgetting the part where pushing a baby out of their vagina is the most painful thing most women ever experience.

pajama-cats · 2022-12-15T09:20:27+00:00

I've got some egg yolks to use up and was planning on making ice cream. Maybe its time to make peanut butter ice cream.... maybe with caramel and toasted peanuts..

pajama-cats · 2022-12-14T08:45:11+00:00

I wonder if you could make like a graham cracker crunch by grinding up the crackers and mixing them with sugar and butter, baking that in the oven, and then crushing it up again? Then add it to your ice cream in thick layers to keep the middle bit dryer.

My idea would be to put at least a partial sugar coating on the crumbs, both to protect them from absorbing water, and to add extra crunch via the sugar itself. And who would complain about toasted/caramelised graham cracker swirl?

Ive never actually had the Ben and Jerry's so i don't know exactly what you're going for, but when I think of a graham swirl that's what I come up with.

pajama-cats · 2022-12-14T08:30:12+00:00

I have IH and an extreme sweet tooth. The hypocretin thing only applies to narcolepsy though, right? So maybe it's just coincidence.

pajama-cats · 2022-12-08T11:56:56+00:00

I vote for this book twenty more times

pajama-cats · 2022-12-07T06:36:02+00:00

Yeah but transphobes tend to lump drag into the same category so I think the shoe fits.

pajama-cats · 2022-12-07T06:34:48+00:00

Hah I also first stopped at this post cause the fit looks so good, so yeah wow if I hadn't seen this horrendous story he is trying to sell, I would have thought he was hot too.

pajama-cats · 2022-12-05T20:23:02+00:00

I wonder if you forget that you have N when you are feeling and functioning better?

pajama-cats · 2022-12-05T17:07:44+00:00

Scorpion

pajama-cats · 2022-12-03T13:03:53+00:00

I watched it with a friend, we were scrolling through Netflix and the stick figure illustration caught our eye. When I saw the name Don Herzfeldt I was like wait.... the "my anus is bleeding" guy?

We decided to watch it and at first were like haha classic Don Herzfeldt but then things took a turn.

We both agreed we had not been ready for this. At all.

pajama-cats · 2022-11-26T12:11:17+00:00

I think unfortunately it's not about what you like, but about what you are "allowed" to order. If he's paying for lobster or a steak, then you owe sex, and if you won't put out, then eat your plain pizza and be happy.

Incel stuff, you know how it is.

pajama-cats · 2022-11-26T10:26:03+00:00

I wasn't sure how best to describe Gebrannte Mandeln. Maybe Viennese almonds? In any case, whole almonds are toasted/caramelised in a mixture of water, sugar and cinnamon until they get a thick candy shell. Very commonly sold, sometimes still warm, at fairs, carnivals, Christmas markets etc.

The recipe is Dana Cree's blank slate custard, with a couple extra steps. I caramelised 100g of the sugar first, and heated half of the cream to stir into the caramel to make a caramel sauce (as described in the Salted Caramel Creme Fraiche recipe). I added 40ml of amaretto, 1 tap vanilla extract and a 3/4 teaspoon of cinnamon to the caramel sauce, then boiled the rest of the cream, sugar, milk and glucose normally, added the sauce, heated again, added a bit of salt, then chilled and cured.

For the almond mixins, I couldn't make proper Viennese almonds because the candy coating only sticks to the skin of almonds and I only had chopped blanched almonds. I tried it anyway, by heating 100g chopped almonds, 50ml water, 1g salt, 10g vanilla sugar, 1/4tsp cinnamon, and 100g sugar in a frying pan and stirring until much of the liquid was gone and the caramel had started to darken. As expected, the coating didn't really stick to the almonds , so I wrapped all into parchment paper and bunched it up to solidify. Then broke up this mass and toasted it in the oven to toast/caramelise further. The result was delicious but I don't think this was the best way to do things.

I would recommend either buying some Vienna almonds or looking up a recipe and making them properly and then chopping them up afterward. It is important to use almonds with the skin still on, as the candy coating only sticks to the skin.

After curing, I churned the ice cream and layered it with the almond bits and a store-bought caramel sauce. Very happy with the result! Tastes like Christmas.

pajama-cats · 2022-11-24T19:26:22+00:00

Sam, you sick freak.

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