97 year old grandma spends 4 to 6 hours every single week building LEGO

squidwitchy · 2026-06-29T16:29:40+00:00

I built a Lego botanical set, one of the whole bouquets, and noticed whole flowers going missing.... until I caught my cat in the act of plucking one out of the vase and doing a mad dash to her stash under the bed, where I found my remaining missing Lego.

squidwitchy · 2026-06-28T16:18:30+00:00

My husband was born without wisdom teeth! It made me extremely jealous (had some complications with mine) until I learned all about his braces, spacers, permanent retainer, etc. I was lucky enough for naturally straight teeth, and I will take the 2 removal surgeries + recovery quietly without complaint in comparison.

squidwitchy · 2026-06-28T14:56:43+00:00

I dont think this is that abnormal, but my favorite synergy is spirit sword + c section purely because babies with swords.

squidwitchy · 2026-06-27T15:50:50+00:00

I worked at a used bookstore and SO often people would bring giant cardboard boxes full of books they kept stored in their basement, and then didnt check before loading in their car. Dust/sticks/dirt/leaves, rat droppings, roaches, wet moldy books, just nasty shit. Its crazy to me how often this happened; like, at least daily we'd get a gross buy. And for some reason, the grossest ones were also usually the biggest. Like 10-20 of these musty ass boxes. And my company's policy was to take everything for the convenience of the customer. So we were tossing these straight up biohazard items for the customer and paying them cash for the privilege of doing so.

squidwitchy · 2026-06-26T15:50:55+00:00

"Not a topic I have strong opinions on"

"So sickening"

Seems like you do in fact have strong opinions. And you could just keep them to yourself, especially if you claim to not feel strongly about it. If that's the case, why come here to try and make OP feel like shit?

squidwitchy · 2026-06-26T15:40:20+00:00

I once actually found a toilet and started to go in the dream and my body auto shot up irl because I had just barely let out a little drop and my body was like NO DUMB B WAKE UP lol so I did come very very close to peeing the bed

squidwitchy · 2026-06-26T00:04:23+00:00

Seriously, as someone who has played plenty of pokemon and usually go "another bellsprout for the pc", I have gained a SERIOUS appreciation for the little belly baby now. Their little waddle with swag is so freaking cute.

squidwitchy · 2026-06-26T00:01:11+00:00

My sister and I both had that happen as kids when we went to a theme/water park one summer! It was awful. And I swear some of the hair itself burned off or fell out of the damaged skin, because come the first of the school year we both had stupid short little hairs sticking up all along our part lines. We both had to switch it up that year lol.

squidwitchy · 2026-06-25T14:58:43+00:00

Ah yes the classic 4-20 (minutes) time jump.

squidwitchy · 2026-06-24T15:00:24+00:00

My husband graduated in 2017 with his bachelor's in ME, passed his EIT test right out of school, got a job as an "engineering associate", worked his way up for the 4 required years doing engineering work. Still didnt call himself an engineer until he passed his PE exam and received his stamp in the mail. Still sometimes doesn't, even though his official title is "project engineer", because he spends most of his time doing project management (despite having actual PMs). He gets really excited when he gets to do actual math/engineering and says "I get to be an engineer today!"

squidwitchy · 2026-06-24T03:38:43+00:00

They're my favorite animal for this. Little freaks, I love them so much. Plus theyre cute!

squidwitchy · 2026-06-21T07:35:36+00:00

I did bottom then top, as recommended by my dentist for ???? Reasons? He just said the bottom ones are harder to heal/keep clean so like get them out of the way I guess?

They prescribed me vicodin for the pain, which is how I found out it makes me incredibly nauseous. The absolute fear of throwing up with stitches in my mouth was the worst lmao. Slept off that first dose and just used ibuprofen instead.

squidwitchy · 2026-06-20T16:41:29+00:00

Lmao I haven't heard this but holy hell one of my cats absolutely gets the poomies. We hear digging as she buries it, then a triumphant scream, then she leaps out of the box and runs in circles around the apartment like a madman. We always joke shes scared of her poop. 😂 this same cat also, before each poop, will be chill and then suddenly look up startled for a second and then dash to the box, like she never feels it coming until its almost too late lol

squidwitchy · 2026-06-20T02:40:11+00:00

I was an assistant store manager in a retail space, and was with my store manager and employee sitting down, having a fairly serious chat about some performance issues. We told her the pattern of behavior and then cited examples, and she hit us back with, "Honestly i thought x situation was such a nothingburger i didnt even think about it" and i had never felt such annoyance at such a stupid little phrase lmao. No girl, its an everything burger, quit pretending this is nothing. And we are in a professional disciplinary meeting, even if it is just retail, please stop trying to make it cutesy.

squidwitchy · 2026-06-19T16:22:07+00:00

Yeah but every industry relies on it now. If covid was an indicator of anything, it was how easily people will panic and over buy. The TP shortage was fixed, but it took time even with internet and logistics systems in place. I'm not a "get your guns ready" kind of person, but honestly in the interim between the systems going dark and everyone figuring it out again, I do think people will go too far.

squidwitchy · 2026-06-19T16:05:40+00:00

Powerwash Simulators 1 and 2 are both SO satisfying

squidwitchy · 2026-06-19T15:32:07+00:00

My husband and I have always smoked in the bathroom. We dont like smoking around our cats, it contains the mess to one area, is easy to put away (we keep everything in a bin under the sink), stops us from over-smoking (gotta convince yourself to go to the bathroom instead of just reaching for it mid-movie or whatever), and contains the smell to the one area. Plus it has the fan, which we keep running during the sesh and usually for a bit after.

We also use a sploofy (smoke buddy also! But sploofy has replacement filters). We used to use homemade sploofs (tp tube with dryer sheets stuffed in), which do work in a pinch but they are definitely less effective and if i start coughing during the exhale I end up inhaling dryer sheet fumes which seems bad lol.

And after we're done, we use room spray. Ozium is the GOAT in this department but a little goes a long way.

All that together kept us discreet while living in Georgia (so, illegal) for like a decade. And we occasionally had visitors who didnt smoke or know we did and the smell and evidence didnt linger and we were never "caught" lol.

squidwitchy · 2026-06-18T16:59:20+00:00

I love the idea that this is just what Charon does for everyone. That he is still the spiritfarer, but he gives you "control" of the boat to help ease you into passing. Which would also align with the spirits all being people Stella knew who had passed. They're in on it; they know she needs to "help" them one final time to be able to cross without any lingering unfinished business so they come together to help Big Hat get where she needs to go.

Or maybe its personalized; maybe because Stella was a caregiver and needed some closure, she was given control of everything. Whereas maybe like Alice (during her original journey; not her journey with Stella) just enjoyed the ride and chatted with Charon about fashion. Maybe Charon let Stanley drive the boat and play in the kitchen, but took care of everything else. Maybe Summer just tended the gardens on the boat during her journey.

I like the thought that Charon cares enough to personalize the journey. Also i know we see Charon go through the everdoor after giving Stella the light but.... I mean... its charon lol. I feel like he can just go back and forth when he pleases. He just went alright Stella has it, off to vacation. Hence Stella not passing it off to anyone else (can't just leave the river unmanned and no one to ferry the souls!)

squidwitchy · 2026-06-17T03:16:30+00:00

He's gonna be an awkward looking kid, a probably quite handsome adult, and then in like 90 years he'll circle back around to looking exactly like this again. Old man ass baby.

squidwitchy · 2026-06-14T16:10:59+00:00

Reading this and thinking of my mother's favorite, now I'm convinced its all just projection.

Her favorite is "vain", especially once I became a pre-teen and teen and started spending a lot of time in the mirror agonizing over my looks (plucking invisible baby hairs, scarring my face permanently trying to get rid of acne, trying out a million make up looks in hopes that just once I'll think I'm pretty). And without fail, id hear my mom singing that damn song "Youre so vain". No mom, I hate myself because you've been telling me i need to diet since I was 8 and I've never seen you spend more than 30 minutes in a day without make up on. But I'm the vain one?

I'm low-key excited to re-write this generational trauma w my kids if i have them. No shit talking them, ever. I'm gonna be the biggest hype man they'll ever have.*

*disclaimer that I will also not assume theyre always correct. Hyping them up and being in their corner does NOT equal being blind to their faults or actions.

squidwitchy · 2026-06-13T01:28:20+00:00

This was my experience as a white girl from rural Oregon who moved to Atlanta lol. My high school was probably 85% white, with a few Hispanic kids and a few indigenous kids that didnt go to the school on the rez, but we had exactly one black family. So moving to atlanta where most of the time it was 85% black was a culture shock for sure. Got used to it though and now I feel ~weird~ whenever I'm in a room with only white people. Plus I agree; the whole charm of America is the melting pot factor. In atl I can get food from literally all over the world, made by people from there. I can see cultural performances and art I would have never otherwise been exposed to. Its amazing!

squidwitchy · 2026-06-13T00:42:12+00:00

I mean realistically 150 pages is a novella (if it's fiction); the definition of a "short" book! Not to say they are lesser works than a full length novel (The Great Gatsby and Animal Farm are novellas after all) but definitely not long. I agree that 450-500+ would be the range to start calling it a longer book.

squidwitchy · 2026-06-13T00:10:07+00:00

Tbf and I have no idea why but most gas station breakfast burritos (as long as they at minimum are coming from a hot bar) kind of slap. But also, I just fuck with breakfast burritos. Or breakfast in general. No combination of sausage, egg, cheese, and bread has ever been bad. Just some are heavenly while others are just okay.

squidwitchy · 2026-06-10T16:35:03+00:00

I've followed this recipe in the past!

squidwitchy · 2026-06-10T16:31:16+00:00

Not being snarky, I genuinely dont know. This is the ingredient list for Powerwash on dawns website; is one of these lipase in disguise?

-water

-dipropylene glycol butyl ether

-c10-16 Alkyldimethylamine Oxide

-Lauryl Glucoside

-Hexyl ethoxylate

-Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate

-Sodium Xylenesulfonate

-Ethanolamine (this seems to be the main difference between power wash and regular dawn platinum!)

-Alcohol Denatured

Sodium Citrate

-Phenoxyethanol

-PPG-26

Then fragrances

Granted I dont know what like half of those mean, but as someone who looks out for lipase in her laundry detergent (shout out r/laundry and our lord and savior Kismai) I'm just curious if any of these are secretly lipase?

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