I started doing puzzles a year prior to Covid due to a bad relationship. Can you imagine how angry I was that puzzle prices like doubled a year later?!
First trimester was legitimately one of the most exhausting things I've ever been through, and it's particularly tough bc you don't have the visible marker of the big belly. Try to just be there for her as much as you can
I am enjoying a series called The Laundry Files. The first book being The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross. It's kinda a scifi/cthulu/spy novel. Each book runs about 8 hours on regular speed.
As a parent of a kid with airborne anaphylaxis—- yes, that’s likely exactly what she does. We can’t take our kid to many Asian restaurants because of the high risk of peanuts, and the language barrier means we often don’t know if peanut oil is used. We’ve had a close call ending up at a hospital so we don’t risk it anymore.
Or like - PARTICULARLY don't buy them things that are the end result of said hobbies. I do ceramics. I don't need your commercial mugs and bowls, thank you very much.
Afternoon tea is tea and cake and/or biscuits had in households on any normal day (in my experience mostly by older people). High tea is an event, far more fussy with petite bits of prettiness and not something most people would do regularly at home for themselves. I can point to 4 generations using the terms this way in my country, by people with English heritage or origins.
... it's almost like the languages diverged after being used in different contexts by different people. Like Brazilian Portuguese/ Portuguese, Quebecois / French or most pointedly, Dutch / Afrikaans. Still mutually intelligible, but with differing accents and vocabularies. Insisting on the country of origin's usage as the only "proper" approach is retrograde neo-colonialism.
It's an opt-out system in the country i live in, which i think is great. Also, I'm not doing anything with them. Might as well save a life.
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
You read Madame Bovary in school? What age?!
I read it junior year I think
me too. I grew up eating sardines in tomato sauce on toast. I don't care how that sounds.
Delicious?
I started doing puzzles a year prior to Covid due to a bad relationship. Can you imagine how angry I was that puzzle prices like doubled a year later?!
I found some local puzzle swap groups on Facebook. May be worth looking into for wherever you're located
Cat tax:
sweet pumpkin boy!
Dry erase stickers on the front so you can label contents and quantities
Cat chins and cat noses.
Delonghi Dedica. Nice and small, cute, makes great coffee.
Oh nooooo I'll just prepay 5 months of daycare and then use the money I would have put into that for fun and savings. What hardship.
First trimester was legitimately one of the most exhausting things I've ever been through, and it's particularly tough bc you don't have the visible marker of the big belly. Try to just be there for her as much as you can
Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. There are necromancers, dark magic, death cults, and a lot of reanimated dead things.
Yesssss I came here looking for Gideon.
Using a credit card instead of a debit card is an easy solution to your problem.
Spending within your means is an easy solution to your problem.
Anna Karenina
I am enjoying a series called The Laundry Files. The first book being The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross. It's kinda a scifi/cthulu/spy novel. Each book runs about 8 hours on regular speed.
Sooo fun!
No booze
I'm and have a large circle of friends across the globe. I have maybe 4/5 i speak to daily.
As a parent of a kid with airborne anaphylaxis—- yes, that’s likely exactly what she does. We can’t take our kid to many Asian restaurants because of the high risk of peanuts, and the language barrier means we often don’t know if peanut oil is used. We’ve had a close call ending up at a hospital so we don’t risk it anymore.
Yeah, a friend of mine loves traveling but has a terrible peanut allergy... so simply unfortunately will probably never visit Southeast Asia.
Omg same!! I have no time for people's BS anymore. So proud of myself. I hope it sticks
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
I loooooove Mary roach
Or like - PARTICULARLY don't buy them things that are the end result of said hobbies. I do ceramics. I don't need your commercial mugs and bowls, thank you very much.
RUDE 🤣
Pomegranate seeds! Mmm
Afternoon tea is tea and cake and/or biscuits had in households on any normal day (in my experience mostly by older people). High tea is an event, far more fussy with petite bits of prettiness and not something most people would do regularly at home for themselves. I can point to 4 generations using the terms this way in my country, by people with English heritage or origins.
... it's almost like the languages diverged after being used in different contexts by different people. Like Brazilian Portuguese/ Portuguese, Quebecois / French or most pointedly, Dutch / Afrikaans. Still mutually intelligible, but with differing accents and vocabularies. Insisting on the country of origin's usage as the only "proper" approach is retrograde neo-colonialism.
Adding to this, are you planning on going shopping with her for the new wardrobe?
Or arrange a day with one of her girlfriends. I hate shopping with my husband
Kebab!!