Duranie

This is my retirement plan. When the time comes, I'll hide in the vast caves and eat cheese the rest of my existence.

Not sure of the ages of your children, but as a 52yo who grew up in the States, I averaged 2-3 hours of homework a night in grade school. They'd tell us "oh, it's only about 15-20 minutes per class" which doesn't sound terrible, except that it was more like 20-30 minutes of work x 4-6 classes. By 7th grade I burned out and realized that the world didn't end if I started skipping homework, and my test grades remained about the same. I just had to live with the stifling anxiety over getting in trouble for not getting my homework done.

Thankfully by the time my kids came along schools started pulling back on the volumes of unnecessary homework. I also never pressured them to get every assignment done, but instead asked them if they understood what they were doing. As adults having completed further educational programs, they did just fine. I'm glad that as time goes on, kids are getting more of a chance to be kids.

Speaking of creepy titles, I actually get paid to touch people to death.

(I'm a hospice massage therapist 😛.)

As close as you can get to "eat soon". It'll have a decent air pocket developed and the membrane adhering to the shell will be weaker.

It depends? I know some people who have low tolerance to anything scary/horror or even intensely suspenseful and would lose sleep over some of the things I go to sleep listening to. I don't truly scare easily, but there are some stories that under the right circumstances will creep me out enough to want some eye bleach before going to bed in the house alone. My favorite is when I have my earbuds set to noise cancelling and I really get into a story and think that someone else in the house is gone or sleeping, then I see them and scare the shit out of myself lol.

Not my choice for chopping wood, but even this one as is could fuck someone up with a good swing.

Umm, have you checked the ingredients on the conversation hearts recently? They're the same thing, just produced in different shapes. Unless you're finding an off brand that makes theirs differently?

It's delicious with dill, never tried sweet but that's an idea. Like, bread and butter pickles or just sweet?

My brain initially thought that you weren't acoustic.

Not sure what to do with that, so I'm awkwardly sharing.

About a year and a half ago I spent around $1100 on extensive dental work for my adopted cat. I told him that was his big expense, please don't put me in the position to make a hard decision again in the future because I can't keep doing that. Little fucker is worth it though.

Brian is an interesting name for a woman. Then again, my brother Steven married a man named Stephen.

Yep - if it's an expense I have to pay monthly anyway and might as well use one card for my expenses then pay it off every month and reap the rewards points/cash back.