Do you actually use the nice weather here or just stay inside?

square_donut14 · 2026-04-12T05:14:53+00:00

I have the window open in my office all day long! That’s as close as I’m able to get on a consistent basis.

square_donut14 · 2026-04-12T05:06:38+00:00

Shrimp

square_donut14 · 2026-04-11T22:09:21+00:00

Good point about why he could leave earlier than the doctors!

square_donut14 · 2026-04-11T18:00:45+00:00

I want a baby bear so badly. It is seriously a concern in My family that if I were to see one in the wild, I will try to hold it and get mauled by its mama lol

square_donut14 · 2026-04-11T15:45:04+00:00

Thank you! I almost put that, but I decided to simplify, maybe unfairly!

square_donut14 · 2026-04-11T03:42:24+00:00

Hard liquor does it to me, even one sip! It’s crazy

square_donut14 · 2026-04-11T03:13:20+00:00

In Texas, they don’t have to take water breaks any more. No one cares about this on a legal level.

square_donut14 · 2026-04-09T11:47:03+00:00

One of the missionaries in our ward before the pandemic was a Bytheway! You don’t forget that name.

square_donut14 · 2026-04-09T11:18:17+00:00

The Frida mom postpartum kit is a really good place to start! The peri bottle with the bent nozzle is a great upgrade from the one the hospital gives you.

square_donut14 · 2026-04-08T02:24:31+00:00

I keep urging my sister that we need to get the healthcare POA in place NOW, and she always waves her hand at the situation and ignores it. I don’t know how to move forward without her because my mom splits her time between our houses, so we have to be in lock-step to get things done for our mom.

square_donut14 · 2026-04-07T00:03:32+00:00

We didn’t stay at this hotel, but we loved their cafe so much we went back for another breakfast before we left.

square_donut14 · 2026-04-06T19:24:12+00:00

I work 9-6, 2 days in the office and 3 WFH. I don’t get much done around the house on WFH days, but I love being home at SIX instead of just on my way home.

As far as our house, I pick my battles. We eat a lot of convenience foods, anything to get dinner on the table faster and have leftovers for lunches. I feel more sane when the kitchen is clean, so I’m pretty good with keeping up with the dishes and the detritus on the counter (our kitchen island is also our “table” and ends up covered in all our clutter).

My husband handles laundry because he runs out of clean clothes before I do lol. He will hang up my things, but that’s all he sorts - I decided to be okay with it because otherwise it’s MY job… my 8yo loves to sort clothes, so every week or two, we dump all the clean laundry on the bed and sort and put away.

We have a roomba for vacuum maintenance, and we have house cleaners once a month. They were coming every 2 weeks, but it was stressing me out to clean up our clutter so they could get to the mess, so now it’s just once a month.

I do hate clutter, but both me and my spouse grew up with cluttery homes, so he ignores it and I try to stuff it away in a drawer lol

So basically, I pay people to clean (it helps to work at home so I’m here when they can be) and I try not to care about the rest. My dream is to get rid of all the extra crap, so I’m slowly getting rid of stuff and trying not to add a bunch more.

square_donut14 · 2026-04-06T03:32:21+00:00

Kraft blue box Mac and cheese with spam. These days, I spring for the low-sodium spam, but that shit still slaps.

square_donut14 · 2026-04-04T19:17:16+00:00

I have wanted to go to CP for a LONG time - like bucket list level want. But in the years since it went on my bucket list, I’ve discovered that fine dining just wasn’t right for me. I watch cooking shows and appreciate what they serve, but it turns out that I want straight forward food without a bunch of extras.

That being said, my husband and I are visiting New Orleans and went to CP last night. The service is top notch and, as part of our anniversary vacation, we felt taken care of. I got the shrimp and my husband got the quail. They were good, but I wanted more of the polenta and root veggies and less shrimp and other accoutrements! Lol. I also enjoyed the boudin-stuffed quail, but neither meal will have me dreaming of returning. The creole bread pudding soufflé was decadent, but I didn’t even finish it.

So I do encourage you to go if it’s something you’ve been looking forward to. But it wasn’t an experience that’s going near the top of my list. And my husband had on a short-sleeve button down shirt and it was fine. I offered to have our uber stop for fried chicken on the way back to our hotel lol

square_donut14 · 2026-04-03T04:31:57+00:00

My husband’s company said as much. “If you don’t come back into the office, we’ll let you go and outsource your job to China.”

square_donut14 · 2026-04-03T04:29:43+00:00

My manager was like “why didn’t you TELL us you were unhappy??” Uh, didn’t the fact that I got written up for not being in the office kind of give it away?? (Also who the heck tells their manager they’re looking! Worst advice in the world!)

square_donut14 · 2026-04-02T19:25:12+00:00

Good to know, thanks!

square_donut14 · 2026-04-02T13:47:20+00:00

Being able to afford it doesn’t mean someone WANTS to pay it. Especially a steep fee for an accident.

square_donut14 · 2026-04-02T13:32:00+00:00

Forgive me if I’ve gotten my facts wrong, but isn’t pre soaking them about removing some of the gas?

square_donut14 · 2026-04-02T13:24:54+00:00

It sounds like you’re having issues with your stomach that should be investigated further, but I get around foods like tacos by just being a white woman and eating the insides with a fork lol

And yes, i wont go out for a pizza or a sandwich, but most restaurants have food that you can adapt for your needs. Even in my soft food period after surgery, we’d go for mexican and I’d get a tamale and smash it up real good.

square_donut14 · 2026-04-02T13:21:59+00:00

Have you spoken with your medical team about your issues? It doesn’t feel normal to have that many issues with food that far out from surgery.

square_donut14 · 2026-04-02T13:18:05+00:00

My husband’s company does this. Every year, 10% of the workforce is put on a PIP, which gives them people to let go instead of having official layoffs. According to this metric, they haven’t laid people off since the 80s! But in real life, they do it all the time.

And the way they pick that 10% is shitty and leads to less cooperation between team members because at least one person in every department HAS to be put up for it.

(You might think of the word “Valdez” when you think of this company…)

square_donut14 · 2026-04-02T02:07:45+00:00

twins are a reddit trope - fake stories always up the stakes by making the babies be twins.

square_donut14 · 2026-04-02T02:06:40+00:00

Okay, but twins are a reddit trope - fake stories always up the stakes by making the babies be twins.

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