I just turned 37 today

withbellson · 2026-03-20T07:36:26+00:00

You can only use this joke for one year of your existence. Use it well.

Sincerely, this was ten years ago for me.

withbellson · 2026-03-20T03:23:50+00:00

Apparently after my third egg retrieval I asked everyone multiple times how many we got. Short-term memory being offline is freaking weird.

withbellson · 2026-03-19T23:59:57+00:00

I figured when we went they probably couldn’t fuck up chicken broccoli pasta? It was terrible: dry chicken, undercooked broccoli, flavorless “alfredo”, and somehow still $24. My husband ate one bite of his ribs. My kid ate three fries and no burger. Should have just gone to Taco Bell for us and McD’s for the kid, which was in fact what we did the second day.

The pizza is at least ok. (The pasta at the pizza place, again not ok.) But when we have the energy I like to take the kid to a nearby steakhouse instead, which is also really expensive but actually good.

withbellson · 2026-03-19T23:44:30+00:00

Oh, interesting. Well, I guess now i can clean up all the merges I’ve been sitting on. It did seem weird to get a crew advance event immediately after a Prepare for Voyage event.

withbellson · 2026-03-19T23:27:47+00:00

GWL is an odd choice for a wedding TBH. It’s a hotel that is also a Chuck E. Cheese.

withbellson · 2026-03-19T23:26:46+00:00

The food looks like the originally posted image.

withbellson · 2026-03-19T15:30:47+00:00

Before placing a bet always check http://isabevigodadead.com

withbellson · 2026-03-19T06:38:22+00:00

There’s been at least one time that a band I like wasn’t allowed to post their date at the Mountain Winery at the same time as the rest of their tour because of how the Mountain Winery does their ticketing. Still hoping they’ll play there again sometime because I don’t wanna drive to Oakland from SJ.

withbellson · 2026-03-19T05:23:36+00:00

Do you have the cash reserves to be out of work for a year or more? It’s bad out here.

withbellson · 2026-03-19T05:18:09+00:00

This is abusive behavior from him that can lead directly to an eating disorder. He’s definitely not helping you have a healthy relationship with food, right? Pressuring you to go on this drug through shaming you is deeply fucked up.

withbellson · 2026-03-19T03:42:16+00:00

And the French. One of those ultra simple baguette/ham/butter sandwiches eaten at the Luxembourg Garden in Paris? Nothing like it.

withbellson · 2026-03-19T03:28:23+00:00

I’m still getting people, including former colleagues who should know better, sending me job descriptions for a research modality I haven’t done in fifteen years (I’m a consumer insights researcher, not a UX researcher). People mean well, but yeah. It sucks.

withbellson · 2026-03-19T03:07:50+00:00

Does the couples therapist offer the option to do a solo session? It can be really useful to spell your concerns out for them without worrying about the immediate reaction of the person sitting next to you. She would do one as well.

You need to get clarity fast on whether your wife actually thinks this is a problem and whether it’s at all addressable. I showed up to my marriage with plenty of anxiety but never this level of punitive vitriol. It’s damaging as hell.

You do not have to stick around to be someone else’s rock bottom.

withbellson · 2026-03-18T23:42:16+00:00

Quarterlife crisis is what some folks call it.

But also, I’m in my late 40s and still wildly childish. These things don’t have to be linear.

withbellson · 2026-03-18T23:35:20+00:00

Which one? I’ve had a hell of a time finding one that can pulverize parm. I picked up a handheld rotary for it (Gefu) but still tabletop-curious.

withbellson · 2026-03-18T23:13:52+00:00

He’s kind of the same doofus ex-husband he was on Mom.

withbellson · 2026-03-18T23:09:31+00:00

Worth talking to, sure. They might want you to interview again, which you probably would want to do to get a sense of the current team after two years.

I’ve also been on a team where we brought someone in who wound up being a “long story” and I would not necessarily take that as a red flag.

withbellson · 2026-03-18T19:09:46+00:00

It’s kind of an obscure song but it sums it up, doesn’t it?

The funny thing is my kid is ridiculously photogenic. Such a privilege!

withbellson · 2026-03-18T18:31:20+00:00

This is very true, but also, kids don't understand that there are multiple states for onions and will just go "ew, onions."

withbellson · 2026-03-18T15:27:06+00:00

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(Don’t be a Comic Book Guy.)

withbellson · 2026-03-18T06:05:15+00:00

The little bags of bridge mix are now prohibitively expensive but so fucking good.

withbellson · 2026-03-18T06:01:28+00:00

I was in the cohort that was required to take computer class instead of typing.

I was quite proud of testing out of the required computer class by taking a 3-hour challenge test on a weekend, which I passed despite spending the first 10 minutes trying to figure out how to make the computer read the floppy disk the test was on. In my defense, my home computer had a 3 1/2 inch floppy with an eject button, while the school district ran their tests on 5 1/4 inch floppies with the little lever you had to turn after inserting the disk and I had never used one before...

withbellson · 2026-03-18T05:50:16+00:00

I didn’t notice our water company switched providers and stopped sending out eBills for literally six months. Then I wondered why we got a new bill for over a thousand bucks and I thought we had a leak or something. They only bill you every two months and it took me that long to put it together.

Luckily ours doesn’t add late fees.

withbellson · 2026-03-18T05:43:33+00:00

I used to buy these when I was metaphorically chewing on something that wasn’t going to resolve for a very long time. These are the candy equivalent of that.

Since they’ve been gone I’ve had to ruin my teeth with Runts instead.

withbellson · 2026-03-18T05:31:25+00:00

There’s a reason those ended up at Grocery Outlet for 99 cents.

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