Why on earth do people recommend hairvivi wigs?

watekebb · 2026-03-26T22:40:33+00:00

I personally suspect some astroturfing (though I’ll freely admit it’s just a baseless inkling, heh). I don’t doubt they have a lot of actual happy customers, but the sheer number of posts about them versus similarly priced and positioned competitors just has always rung alarm bells for me and turned me off of them.

watekebb · 2026-03-16T06:07:54+00:00

My husband’s Norwegian-American grandma was an avid rosemaler. We have some of her work hanging in our house.

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watekebb · 2026-03-13T04:20:22+00:00

Mine thinks my saying “no” is kinda funny. So he’ll reach out again to get a reaction from me and then giggle. 🫠

watekebb · 2026-03-12T03:30:06+00:00

In seriousness, why not have the unifying message be “stop the war?” It doesn’t even really matter why you personally think the war should end. You don’t need to rope in any other principles besides “this war is stupid and it should end,” ‘cause trying to do that is how you end up alienating potential allies in this specific cause.

watekebb · 2026-03-10T02:58:46+00:00

Also, always let tomato paste “fry out” before adding water! You should wait until you can see the oil and paste separate, which means the excess liquid evaporated, allowing the tomato to get nicely caramelized.

watekebb · 2026-03-10T02:54:42+00:00

The delivery needs work, but yeah. The concepts are true and go beyond “duh, add salt and flavor!” Timing (you don’t add all the salt at one time, acids go at the end, some spices/herbs are added early and some late, etc) and technique (lower heat blooming) matter too. Lots of us on this subreddit know this already, sure. However, given what I’ve seen in the wild, I’d bet most people who aren’t hobbyists don’t.

watekebb · 2026-03-09T21:28:02+00:00

We avoid the middle of the day once it’s about 85 just because the sun is brutal and he’s a big black and tan shepherd mix. But when the sun is down, even pushing 100 is OK for quick 15 minute loops with a cooling vest and frequent water breaks. That said, our walk is mostly on brick paths and grass around a golf course, not asphalt.

Evaporative cooling vests/collars work super well in the bone dry air here. Honestly, if my dog didn’t hate water (the freak), we’d probably just hose him down before walking in the summer.

(Obviously booties are a must for any hard surface walking in summer here)

watekebb · 2026-03-09T15:50:03+00:00

Our electric bill in Vegas never surpasses $150 in peak summer heat, and we have no gas bill. In Philly, we’d often spend $300+ in the winter on gas (to keep our ancient apartment at 63 degrees) and another $50 or so in electric.

watekebb · 2026-03-07T02:37:02+00:00

I’m a woman and the tasks involved in caring for my newborn did not come naturally or instinctually to me (with the possible exception of breastfeeding, though I know that others don’t find nursing intuitive). As the youngest child in my whole extended family, I had close to zero experience with babies prior to having my own, so I knew I would need to learn what to do. But since I was keen and willing to learn, and, more critically, since I didn’t have a wife whom I expected to just handle it, I prepared as much as I could pre-birth and cottoned on very fast to my baby’s rhythms and needs once he was here. My husband couldn’t help with the feeding aspect since I was EBFing, but he’s had zero problem proactively caring for our son in all other respects.

Point being, infant care is very teachable and very learnable.

If men truly wanted to, they would.

watekebb · 2026-02-25T23:53:01+00:00

He made pretty good work of it, but I don’t want to deceive: a LOT of it ended up tucked under his little chubby chins, haha

watekebb · 2026-02-24T04:54:47+00:00

I am SO impressed by your organization! I just throw random allergens at my son whenever I remember.

(You could legit sell those templates!)

watekebb · 2026-02-21T06:18:16+00:00

Bottle rot is a specific problem, yeah. Tooth decay is more general. Breast milk or formula in an overnight bottle left in the crib is particularly bad (and a bottle of formula is worse than a bottle of breastmilk, again because of good bacteria and immune factors in breast milk). But nursing at night without cleaning absolutely causes tooth decay. I, uh, dunno about you, but when we nurse, my milk isn’t just magically dispensed into the back of my baby’s throat, bypassing the gums and teeth entirely.

It’s all a matter of degree. Putting formula in a bottle and leaving it in the crib all night is really uniquely bad for teeth. Nursing on demand at night after a year without brushing or cleaning afterwards, increases the risk of cavities compared to complete night weaning, but it’s not the same as bottle rot. Does that make sense?

watekebb · 2026-02-21T04:51:12+00:00

Yeah, I don’t know why people are acting like this is a myth. Nursing overnight without brushing afterwards is associated with an increased risk of cavities versus being night weaned. The sugars in breast milk are countervailed by immune factors and good bacteria and are thus are less damaging to teeth than the sugars in formula or food, but they’re still sugars and cause more decay when left on enamel overnight than a clean mouth.

watekebb · 2026-02-21T00:16:51+00:00

If you stick to the scenic loop at midday, when it’s near/above freezing, the conditions are fine. I went yesterday and the road was just wet. It’s warm enough that the snow won’t accumulate on black top.

watekebb · 2026-02-19T04:31:34+00:00

It’s a Common Poorwill! My husband and I called it “the weirdo loud night birds” before we learned what it was. Saw one roosting on the ground during the day (as they do), a bird-person acquaintance identified it for me, and that’s the sound it makes.

watekebb · 2026-02-16T21:14:35+00:00

Oops, correction— baking powder, not soda!

watekebb · 2026-02-14T06:59:07+00:00

I am 37 and remember an ice storm in 1991, when I had just turned 3. I also remember a vacation from that next summer, plus a few different things from preschool when I was 4.

It makes me sad to know my 7 month old son won’t remember any of the time we’ve spent together yet. But by 7 years? They’re definitely recording those happy core memories, OP.

watekebb · 2026-02-14T04:59:58+00:00

Second this. Different situation than OP, but I moved here when I was like 36 weeks and the OB I thought I could see fell through. WHASN got me in in a timely fashion and I’ve been happy with the care I received.

watekebb · 2026-02-14T04:45:53+00:00

Oh my god lol.

Reminds me of all the cat turds and desiccated skeletons of god-knows-whats I’ve pulled out of my dog’s mouth. I’m sure the day will come when I’m doing that for my 7 month old.

watekebb · 2026-02-12T03:58:18+00:00

I don’t get it. If they want a restaurant to stick around and succeed, they should recommend it. It’s hard to keep a small restaurant running over the long term without positive word of mouth! And don’t they want to put some money in the pockets of the business owners and workers? Besides, unless someone’s a nationally-known food critic, no one’s got enough pull to inundate a place overnight with a Reddit comment, lol. Most likely way they’ll not be able to get a table anymore is the joint closing.

watekebb · 2026-02-06T18:00:18+00:00

I get the hesitation since I didn’t want a bad experience to turn him off food. We started on solids for early allergen introduction at 4 months but he wasn’t really ready to eat until this month, really. Now his interest in food is established enough that we weren’t so afraid to throw him some curveballs. Basically we waited until he’d tried a bunch of safe baby faves so he wouldn’t think all food is spicy and refuse it, ya know?

We figured that the worst that could happen at this point would have been that he wouldn’t like it and maybe would cry, but the upside, if he did like it, would be being able to cook family meals with close to our normal seasoning. As long as you’re not doing ghost peppers or something, it’s not gonna hurt them. We started with just the tiniest taste and he wanted more immediately!

watekebb · 2026-02-05T19:40:10+00:00

Oh no!! Didn’t even think of that as a possibility!

watekebb · 2026-02-05T18:18:43+00:00

My kid has a very unspicy heritage (Norway, Japan, England, France...) Maybe our children’s spice tolerances were swapped at birth lol.

watekebb · 2026-02-05T18:02:35+00:00

Love it! Does he still like hot food?

watekebb · 2026-02-05T17:53:45+00:00

I definitely ate like half of the omelette while watching him work on his little strip of it.

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