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I forgot what my FIRST handle was on TwoP, but that one was banned. Circa 2005 or so because I was too opinionated on one of the boards. Came back a few years later and moved here when they shut. I was active on a miscellaneous board about diversity, SATC, Gilmore Girls and likely Desperate Housewives as well.
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14 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
I can relate. Sometimes it seems we're all living on borrowed time. In another era, I would have died in childbirth instead of having an emergency c-section 45 years ago.
When I was being treated for what should have been a terminal cancer diagnosis 8 years ago, walking on the beach of Lake Michigan made surviving worthwhile.
Now I can't walk very far or very long, but even brief stops by the shore of Lake Ontario lift my spirits. I keep checking realtor.com for a home with a view that I could afford.
Tomorrow I'm schlepping off to a doctor for an injury from a fall a year ago that still hurts a little. It seems like a waste of time. But maybe it will be one of those doctors that has a healing vibe. If he's a jerk, I won't bother again.
Breached baby? I was breached. My mom was supposed to have a c-section but I decided to appear on Labour Day weekend, so the doctor who was supposed to deliver was away. That wasn't when I was SUPPOSED to appear. But hey, most of us decide to show up at a different day anyway. The subbing doctor was younger and said he could get me out without a c-section. And yeah, in another era, my mom wouldn't have survived either. And I might not have. Also happened (almost) 45 years ago.
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18 minutes ago, Quof said:
Grocery shopping has become horrible enough, as I try to balance cost vs convenience vs quality at the different grocery stores in my neighbourhood. A national chain in Canada (all Canucks will know which one I mean), installed multiple self serve checkouts while leaving only 1 staffed checkout, maybe 2 at absolute peak times. Now they have realized that facilitated theft, so they have installed locked gates, plexiglass barriers, locking cart wheels, receipt checks and security guards. That wasn't enough, so they moved to limit the number of items at self serve checkouts, presumably because a full cart made it easier to hide unpaid items. The kicker is that the signs say "25 items or less". It's "fewer", you morons. Fewer.
If it's what I think it is, then it depends on the store. The one near me is a small, independently owned franchise of said chain and doesn't have close to the kind of security other people mention. Locking cart wheels isn't unusual for downtown Toronto - Whole Foods has had it as long as I could remember. And the first WF came to town 20 years ago!
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Had a follow-up mammo today because they thought they saw something on one of my breasts post-MRI. The mammo was immediately followed with a breast u/s. Thank goodness things were normal (so I'm proceeding with my usual mammograms later this year). Things are getting really stressful for me, health-wise. I'm having surgery next month to remove something that is related to my genetic condition which could require a two month recovery process for full recovery. I've been to nothing but medical appointments since March.
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1 hour ago, Cloud9Shopper said:
The director at my mom’s church is very nice but can also get almost too focused on the pageantry and all the “special” church days, and the photos for social media. Last year after an event they insisted on a picture and then said wait it’s too blurry! The priest said “OK that’s enough!” and started walking away. 🤣I like the way he thinks. Take one picture and be done with it.
They had their first communion Mass this past Sunday and it was ridiculous to see how many parents and relatives had their phones out during readings and during the start of the communion prayers to take pictures of their precious (who they probably won’t bring back to church until confirmation). Plus there was a professional photographer. For first communion. Where I live some parents even take their daughters to New York for first communion dresses. I know this dates me a lot but it feels like nothing is sacred anymore, even in church. It seems like most of the time it’s more about how many instrumentalists accompany the choir and the perfect group picture and how many pictures you can take for Facebook. I’ve been to events where they don’t even put down the camera when people are eating. Enough already!
Parents buying their daughters fancy communion dresses was the very reason why they put us all in ugly white choir gowns for ours. And this was in 1987.
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16 hours ago, Browncoat said:
Plus ordinary soap has antibacterial properties already. No need to add extra chemicals.
It wasn't anti-bacterial soap I had issues with. It was that specific brand of HAND SOAP. I guess they use different ingredients for their shower gel. I had issues with some of their shampoos as well (gave me bad dandruff).
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This should probably go on the family thread, but to me, it's more of a happy thing (while the family forum is more about complaining - LOL). I found my own baby book, the one my parents bought when I was born. Like most families, it was never completely filled out until I started school. But anyway, I asked my dad to phonetically sound out my great grandparents' names (as well as my paternal grandmother's, since I never knew it either. I only knew her maiden name). Happy I was able to do that. None of my great-grandfathers' names were written down for some reason. I also don't have my paternal grandmother's mother's name. Even my dad doesn't know much about her.
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Bought an oven-ready lasagna for dinner tonight. It was vegetarian and yes, both my husband and son inhaled it. They - especially my husband - don't really like vegetables that much (my son is improving A LOT on the vegetable front. I packed carrot sticks last week and he ate all of it (they aren't allowed to trade food at school due to allergies)). Still a carbs and cheese kind of guy, but I don't see that disappearing.
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For months during the fall and winter, my hands were peeling and were chronically dry. Even the prescription cream I got wasn't working. I thought about it, switched soaps and BINGO, things began to get better! Funny thing is this: My shower gel is from the same brand as the hand soap and it hasn't affected me. Must be something specifically in the foaming soap that was giving me issues!
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Have fun, @Anduin!
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I've wondered about some posters too. There's one who used to be around here a lot, but she disappeared some time in the new year. I hope she's okay.
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19 minutes ago, kristen111 said:
I’ll NEVER forget this. We envited my husbands Aunts an uncles for a bbq. It poured rain the whole day. Husband bbq in the garage and we ate in the dining room. I made coleslaw, potato salad and other side dishes. One Aunt was ripping the skin off the chicken. She didn’t eat any salads as they had mayo in them. She ate nothing. Then, she asked me why I didn’t work to help my husband out. I was over 30 yrs old with 3 little kids. What a Bitch. I went out of my way to entertain them and that’s what I got? Some people don’t know when to zip it. Thy are mean spirited. WTF? My husbands two sisters never had anyone over to eat. They were smart. Me, the schmuck tried to make it nice, but got burned.
There are Auntie Karens in all cultures. With apologies to people who have Aunt Karens they absolutely love.
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Finally reading the books (okay, I’m listening to the audiobook) and can only picture the actors in the roles rather than using my imagination. I can’t be alone in this right?
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On 4/16/2024 at 7:02 PM, annzeepark914 said:
Is there such a beverage as an orange creamsickle? Without alcohol in it? I'm looking for something similar to Starbucks Pink Drink, but is a creamy orange creation. It would taste like a liquid version of those Creamsickles I loved as a kid. I've been searching but everything has lemon-lime soda in it 🧐.
Maybe an ice cream float with orange pop/soda? Or blend orange juice and vanilla ice cream together? Or do you want something that isn't thick?
This creamsicle mocktail recipe notes that either lemon/lime soda OR orange can be used.
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52 minutes ago, kristen111 said:
Yes, it was a different world back then. Does anyone here ever think they would have done certain things differently back then knowing what we know now? My two married daughters don’t do a quarter of what I did in the day entertaining, cooking, etc. for relatives and friends. Not that I’m sorry, but I really knocked myself out at a young age with three little kids. Oh well .. water under the bridge.
The craziness and stress was one of the reasons why my parents never entertained at home when I was younger. They'd do it once in a while, usually in the summer, having people over for a barbecue. And of course, my birthday parties (though it wasn't every year. Some years, my parties were held at Pizza Hut, McDonald's or Chuck E. Cheese). Otherwise, we'd just go out. Prix fixe menus at Chinese restaurants were fairly reasonable - even at the nice ones back in the 80s and 90s (not so much today!!), and we'd do Thanksgiving and Christmas there.
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1 hour ago, EtheltoTillie said:
CBS on Sunday nights is always a problem. They always run late in football season, and here they ran late for golf. It's a first where they cut off the program for the 11 o'clock news instead of letting everything run over. I usually set my DVR to run longer on those nights. I guess that would not have worked. I did record the Billy Joel concert and the local news afterward. I guess I will have to catch the concert on the rerun.
I'd record the rerun and then delete the first recording.
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On 4/13/2024 at 4:08 PM, carrps said:
I remember Margaret Cho -- and I don't remember which one of these shows she was on -- but Koren "clans" keep historical books that go back thousands of years. If you know your family name, you can go to "your" book and find thousands and thousands of relatives.
Same with China. And you can only trace the male line. Unless you want to go through a billion books to find out about the women.
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1 hour ago, JustHereForFood said:
Reading and if there's electricity just no internet: watching DVDs or listening to CDs.
Or just thinking 🙂. I have a huge imagination and can keep myself entertained for hours just making up fanfiction about my favorite shows in my head (without the need to write it down), or just having a stream of thoughts. No worries of getting bored for me.
This reminds me of the day we lost our internet. Our internet runs everything - our cable, our landline and we didn't even have data for our cell phones. Basically, all we had was electricity. And the entire family had Covid so we couldn't go out. We read, I went on the exercise bike (since I couldn't do any of my workout videos) and listened to music on my old boom box from 1991.
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22 hours ago, Yeah No said:
Yes and I think at least one other person of Asian descent, a woman I think, but I forget who. I think I knew her but for some reason I'm forgetting her name right now.
Women of Asian heritage who've been on the show so far: Lisa Ling, Ann Curry and Jamie Chung.
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My current peeve is with Facebook, which has way, way, too many recommended pages and posts as of late. It's to the point that I took the app off my phone (well, it's technically hidden since I didn't outright delete it). I found that I was just mindlessly scrolling for zero reason and it was taking too much time out of my day.
Peeve 2: Substack support! I'm trying to edit the wordmark I uploaded on my site, but the ability to do so has disappeared. I logged in and back out, tried different browsers, even logged myself out of Chrome and did it as a guest. Nope, nothing. It's a glitch on their end and they're of no help. Their chatbot is quite intelligent, but there's no support email address to contact.
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12 hours ago, iMonrey said:
This show doesn't really trace anything beyond American history though. They will go back to the first generation that came to America, and explore what conditions were like in the country of origin, but they seldom go back further than that.
Didn’t they tell David Chang (did you hear about his controversy? Let’s not get into that here) they were able to trace back thousands of years in Korea?
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I hope they'd do this again. I don't know how far they can trace back, but my last name at birth (i.e. my maiden name) has aristocratic roots. I have a kinship book, but it doesn't go THAT far back. Don't know if you can even trace back like 3,000 years.
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3 hours ago, isalicat said:
Why can't you end eating with your parents several times a week? Do you know anyone else who does this? If it is stressing you out, they are interfering with your parenting decisions and influencing your son to think wrongly about what he can and cannot eat (and anyone with any teeth can eat carrots, for God's sake!), then just tell them its not working out to continue this situation and scale back to one or zero dinners a week with them. Seriously - you are going to teach your child that being a grown up includes being bullied by one's parents in addition to possibly gestating food disorders down the line for him with the tension around food at your dinner table. Protect yourself and your OWN family (son, husband) first. You don't need this - life is full of obstacles we can't anticipate, so why endure that which we can change?
It's hard for me to set boundaries with them. They feel that they will help encourage my son to eat more (they think he's too skinny, but that's just how he's built. He's a bony kid. And just because he's a bony kid at 5 1/2 doesn't mean he will when he's 15. I don't know why they forget that). If I told them they can't come more than once or twice a week, then they'll say that I'm disrespectful. They have help cooking their meals. I'm in the middle of putting together a recipe binder for her and since I'm involved with communicating with her as well, I'm going to be telling her which recipes to make each week once the binder is done. In the mean time, I just have to deal.
p.s. my dad claims that I'm anxious because I don't eat like he does/his idea of "balanced." He also thinks I need to put on weight prior to my surgery (all my doctors tell me I should just be my normal). Truthfully, my mom gives me more stress than my dad. She's turning into my grandmother, who was the Queen of Fake News when she was in her 70s. Now I'm worried I'd be that way 30 years from now.
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My parents STILL don't understand (and are extremely critical) of how I eat. They kept on telling me that my son's baby teeth aren't ready for raw carrots, but in reality, he gets baby carrots at school as part of his school meal plan (seriously, this kid will eat them plain, no hummus or (blech!) ranch). He eats them. I've seen him eat them. I know that he doesn't eat it as much when my parents are around, probably because he's so influenced (fearful, maybe?) by the grands when they're here. To them, I eat like a foreigner (or "hip white girl"). Well, I KIND OF AM a foreigner. I mean, I was born in Canada. To an immigrant family, yes, and yes, their cuisine very much influences my home cooking, but I'm not them. Anyone else have this experience. It's to the point that they stress me out, but I can't end our several times a week family dinners (they live in the same building and will eat with us). They want my son to eat the food they bring and not my stuff. I swear they think it's puke.
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It's weird. If someone said they were 58, I'd say that they're old. But then I realize that I'll be 45 in September! 20 years ago, 45 was ANCIENT.