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If you are hosting an event where there are a lot of people, you don't have to have the speakers all the fucking way up!

Just had a nurse say she was living life on the edge by shopping in the Old Navy clearance section.

Does anybody else get dizzy or have symptoms flare when saying prayers?

At my family Christmas lunch, we all said a prayer before we ate, and it made me so dizzy and nauseous that I couldn't eat much.

I am willing to make my tummy hurt for some good eggnog.

Potsies listen up

PRESERVE YOUR OWN GARLIC

Chop up fresh garlic and put it in a jar with olive oil and a shit ton of salt (the garlic will help to mask some of it so you can add more) And stick it in the fridge for at least a week before cooking with it.

I had some that was preserved for around a year and it was so good.

Anybody else have a sensory problem with wearing a winter coat indoors?

Like, I can't wear a coat in a freezing car because it is too much coat.

Have I told y’all about my husband’s Fork Theory?  If I did already, pretend I didn’t, I’m an old.

So the Spoon Theory is a fundamental metaphor used often in the chronic pain/chronic illness communities to explain to non-spoonies why life is harder for them. It’s super useful and we use that all the time. But it has a corollary.  You know the phrase, “Stick a fork in me, I’m done,” right? Well, Fork Theory is that one has a Fork Limit, that is, you can probably cope okay with one fork stuck in you, maybe two or three, but at some point you will lose your shit if one more fork happens.  A fork could range from being hungry or having to pee to getting a new bill or a new diagnosis of illness. There are lots of different sizes of forks, and volume vs. quantity means that the fork limit is not absolute. I might be able to deal with 20 tiny little escargot fork annoyances, such as a hangnail or slightly suboptimal pants, but not even one “you poked my trigger on purpose because you think it’s fun to see me melt down” pitchfork.

This is super relevant for neurodivergent folk. Like, you might be able to deal with your feet being cold or a tag, but not both. Hubby describes the situation as “It may seem weird that I just get up and leave the conversation to go to the bathroom, but you just dumped a new financial burden on me and I already had to pee, and going to the bathroom is the fork I can get rid of the fastest.”

Classy badass women with family issues wear red leather jackets. It's canon.

I can die now.

Jordan Fisher said hey to me and winked.

Forget 'who was your sexual awakening?'

What character made you comfortable coming out?