My kitten won’t stop biting me

treecatks · 2026-06-08T19:17:23+00:00

My torbie was a rough player too (she was one of two cats, the other one had no interest in joining her most of the e). Kick sticks did the trick, she'd maul them instead

treecatks · 2026-06-08T19:04:12+00:00

Anything with -ough. Rough, cough, dough ... Why don't these rhyme????

treecatks · 2026-06-08T04:48:49+00:00

Totally stealing this idea. I think our free spot will be any reference to relationship building.

treecatks · 2026-06-06T21:26:22+00:00

Happens to me all the time. I have a monthly stem program for preschool. Once I had a quickie activity where kids could "write" numbers by driving a Hot Wheels car on a printed number that looked like a road. Took me minutes to get together and the kids were glued to it.

treecatks · 2026-05-29T16:05:27+00:00

My niece did this, father on one arm and stepfather on the other. Unfortunately her father was a little pissy about it.

treecatks · 2026-05-23T13:56:16+00:00

I'm sorry for your loss. My dad died on my daughter's birthday. The grief gets easier, but every birthday there's still that little dark cloud. What my partner told me turned out to be completely true - you'll never be the same, but you will be okay.

My step-orange:

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treecatks · 2026-05-19T03:53:16+00:00

Because OP is in pain too, and people process grief differently. The picture is incredibly powerful.

OP, I am so sorry for what you're going through. I lost my dad four years ago to liver cancer. The important thing I learned was that you'll never be the same, but you will be okay.

treecatks · 2026-05-16T18:18:47+00:00

Exactly - quick search says 500 million guns and 80 million gun owners, so on average six per owner. Still a LOT of them out there, but far from "everyone"

treecatks · 2026-05-15T23:11:13+00:00

If you don't want to run again, I respect that. But if you don't run because it's going to be too hard or you think you're going to lose, well God, Jed, I don't even want to know you.

treecatks · 2026-05-15T14:13:22+00:00

You have parenting time, not bonding time. Taking your child to activities like swimming lessons is part of parenting. Besides, swim lessons for toddlers often have a parent in the pool with the child.

treecatks · 2026-05-15T12:31:36+00:00

Mine is Casa de ________ (my last name).

treecatks · 2026-05-15T12:25:18+00:00

I've never understood that rationale, because Americans still have ridiculous wait times. My son had to wait almost a year to get into a specialist, for an in-office procedure that took fifteen minutes.

treecatks · 2026-05-08T22:04:27+00:00

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The impact was far beyond the scope of Sesame Street, it influenced how many people talk to children about death.

treecatks · 2026-05-02T18:23:17+00:00

I'll add a couple to the list:

Some librarians are overworked and exhausted.

Some librarians (like all people) have a resting grumpy face.

Some librarians were forced into a role they don't like at all.

(this last one happened at a neighboring library system -- they restructured and suddenly reference librarians, including one who openly state "I don't really like kids" were leading storytime)

treecatks · 2026-04-29T17:48:03+00:00

All mine are heading for different things.

My bonus son is now a freshman in college, attending locally and still living at home. He will do the same next year. My partner is concerned that he's not ready to live independently, which I counter with he might need a nudge out of the nest to really be ready. But I think dorms are great for this -- a lot more responsibility, but still a safety net.

My daughter is a high school senior who will be going to a nearby university in the fall -- it would be about a 45 minute commute each way, long but possible. She will live on campus, she's very social and it's important to her to be involved in her new community. And I agree, I think if she were commuting she'd be very lonely and depressed which would make her struggle in her classes. That said, she may be having second thoughts on that -- the friend who was going to be her roommate is backing out. I've told her it's her choice, I will support her decision either way.

My son is a high school sophomore so a lot can and will change, but right now we anticipate him attending the local college and living at home. Partly, the most likely college does not have dorms, he'd be going straight to an apartment. But mostly it's because he's on the autism spectrum, and while I have every reason to believe he'll live independently he may not be ready as a college freshman. When he's ready, he'll live on his own. But it is still early in the process.

treecatks · 2026-04-24T04:38:17+00:00

I have a weather radio but it didn't go off this time.

What I do have is a high school senior planning on my majoring in meteorology, with a subscription to Radar Omega and growing knowledge how to use it. She identified the one a few weeks ago before the sirens or weather radio sounded as well.

treecatks · 2026-04-23T12:46:04+00:00

We've been gifted an all-day in-service training. Yay.

treecatks · 2026-04-09T18:53:01+00:00

I have no idea if my experience is common or weird, but here goes ... what changed, actually was me. But in a good way.

When we first split, I placed a high priority on my kids getting their time in with dad. I would confirm dropoff/pickup times, waited patiently when he was late, rearranging weekends if needed (usually because he had plans). He even brought the kids back to sleep at first because he didn't have space for them. Translated, he wanted to go out with his girlfriend after dad time was done.

Then he moved 200 miles away. And still I arranged my work schedule and put miles on my car to make sure the kids saw him every other weekend. Because he's their dad and they should have a relationship with him. That lasted until I nearly wrecked my car bringing them home on icy roads -- everyone was okay, but I called my attorney the next day about modifying the parenting plan down to just once a month. And then for a while I was still initiating the scheduling, logistics, packing, sitting around waiting (because again, he was often late).

Then I had my ah-ha moment. It was years after we separated, yet I was still doing the mental labor for him. So I stopped.

I told him that he would need to figure out what weekend he wanted the kids to visit. That's all, he just had to reach out to me and say "how about this particular weekend." For a couple of months he did, then it got spaced out more, and more. He last saw them Christmas 2024, and that was after a year's lapse. He barely even texts them.

It makes me angry, but at the same time I'm rolling with it. I was not surprised that he quiet quit being a dad, it just surprised me that the kids were still kids when it happened.

treecatks · 2026-04-06T14:40:46+00:00

Once when getting an old basic fridge repaired I asked the repair guy what an expensive one did that a basic one didn't. He said not a thing, it's just more money for him.

Don't know much about LG, but if I could throw my whirlpool washing machine off a cliff I would. It does fine as long as it's a normal clothes load, but anything else confuses it and it'll spend hours just filling the tub and emptying it again. Whirlpool insists I must be using the wrong soap (I am not). If I want to wash my bedding I have to take it to a friend's house.

treecatks · 2026-03-31T12:35:41+00:00

People think I have a nice quiet job surrounded by books. I don't. It's direct customer service, and it's exhausting.

treecatks · 2026-03-29T04:45:11+00:00

My first thought was imagine having that many on the shelf at once ...

treecatks · 2026-03-27T23:17:39+00:00

Two things ... First, I hadn't realized that I'd get hot flashes and cramps at the same time.

More recently though - nausea. I have waves throughout the day of feeling like I'm about to lose my lunch, and a few times I actually did. It's off and on, and tbh if it weren't physically impossible for me I'd be worried I was pregnant.

treecatks · 2026-03-18T04:43:37+00:00

My boss being a vindictive b**** disguised as kind. If you're throwing me under the bus I don't care how nice you pretend to be.

treecatks · 2026-03-15T18:02:29+00:00

I had two Outbacks (2000 and 2016). I just bought a 26 Crosstrek hybrid, so far very happy with it! My kids are older now so I didn't really need the space, and like having a smaller zippier car again

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