u/Flora48

This is more of a nutrition concern I suppose, but while I’m prioritizing protein (I am getting 100-130+ grams a day typically) I’ve noticed that many foods that are high in protein are also high in saturated fat.

Nuts, dairy, meats, etc.

I’ve switched to the silk protein soy milk to eliminate saturated fat from milk while getting even more protein than I would from cow milk.

But really, how do you keep your saturated fat at minimum numbers while eating protein foods? Even a small container of cottage cheese has 5 grams of sat fat. I just don’t want heart problems later on from eating too much of it.

I’ve noticed now that I’m conscious of it I can keep it down to 14 grams or less a day, but if I want more variety of high protein foods that 14 or less isn’t gonna happen. Unless I’m just overthinking it.

I’ve not completed it yet, but ok it’s so not actually set in the 90’s, (ie “nobody checks email anymore” uhh email was the new crazy technology in the 90’s everyone was always on their email). It’s like they’re pretending they’re pretending it’s the 90’s it’s really really odd and takes me too out of it.

Elle is learning all the lessons she learned in legally blonde… but like before legally blonde so what why how does she learn all these lessons yet again after going through college as a ditzy blonde sorority girl? She has no recollection of being torn from LA and spit into Seattle and rejected / finding her place / proving herself?

And why is her mom so involved in her life, I thought her mom was a rich wine/xanax mom that paid 0 attention to her child - not necessarily in a bad way as clearly Elle was still taken care of via money, but definitely not the kind of mom who’s going to help their child revive their high school, talk to them every single day, have heart to heart discussions etc.

This show makes no sense in connection with the movie, I don’t get why it was made at all this way. I was expecting more of a mean girls type of thing where maybe Elle and her friends (in LA) learn to accept the outsider new kid from Seattle, or something like that, which wouldn’t totally disrupt the sensical timeline of events from before college to after college.

Last year I was self employed at around 50k/year.

When they year switched my insurance already went up a lot (I was on a silver plan) so had to switch to a bronze plan.

I got a job this year W2, and then got a raise, and so now income is about $93,000 gross.

I entered that into the marketplace today as I don’t want to be hit with having to pay back later on my taxes.

Insurance premium for the same bronze plan went from $130/month to $1,300/month.

It’s just me and two kids.

I can’t afford it, did I do something wrong, what can I do?

Editing to add that my job does not offer health insurance, only dental and vision, I’m 36, in GA.

If the other parent (20%) doesn’t bother to know the kids school holiday schedule does the main parent have to force feed it to them?

We have a shared Google Calendar that HE made and put me on, but I’m the only one who ever adds anything to it.

We have that little schedule where on odd years he gets this holiday and even years I get it etc, but he doesn’t even know when the holidays are. Is it my job to still be his wife and tell him when everything is and keep the calendar?

All the info is readily available online with a Google search, it seems unfair I have to tell him when his time is because he can’t be assed to care.

Yes I’d rather just not tell him and if he misses whatever school breaks he has because he can’t lift a finger, well that sucks to suck. But is that allowed?

My kids have been playing volleyball at the city rec team for a couple years now. The older one will be in 7th grade now and can try out to play for her middle school (they only do grades 7-8).

The high school also has a junior team for grades 2-8 which doesn’t require tryouts.

The two teams are completely unrelated to each other.

I’m confused as a non sporty parent why there are these two options and what they each mean or are for?

Is the junior team used for if you don’t make it onto your middle school team? Or do kids do both? Or is one more recreation while the other is more competitive? Thanks if anyone knows about this.

I don’t even know what I’m looking for here, but I just have no clue what to do.

I have a small mutt who is 17.5 years old and I never expected her to live this long, but she is.

I live in a condo community and I take her outside a lot, like every 2-4 hours because she’s old and accident prone.

Sometimes I just stand with her in the grass for a while, but sometimes I actually walk her. She usually doesn’t go potty until after she’s walked around.

Every time I walk her, without fail, neighbors scold me saying that I shouldn’t be walking her. Well just now someone literally yelled at me and said my dog can’t walk.

I don’t understand it, because yes she’s old and walks slow usually (sometimes she has a pep in her step), but she CAN and does walk.

Are you supposed to not walk your dog anymore when they’re old? I can’t imagine, because like I said she often won’t potty until the end of her walk?? Do people just keep old dogs inside? Am I wrong, what should I do?

ETA: this dog also has sundowners all day and all night, she walks around my home 24/7 LITERALLY unless she’s napping or eating.

ETA 2: I did respond to her with “she can walk, she’s fine” and the woman’s jaw dropped as she gave me this nasty look.

Thank you for everyone who left lovely comments, I’m just starting to think that I’m the crazy one for walking my dog, or maybe for keeping her alive, because so many neighbors have commented at me (always a single demographic of neighbors though, which also makes me wonder).

I just don’t think I can bring myself to put down a dog who is still enjoying eating and still wags her tail and can get up and down and what not.

I’m have a 12 and 9 year old and want to move somewhere further out that’s cheaper. Right now the kids share a room, moving further out would give them a bigger house, their own rooms, nice yard, etc.

12 year old really doesn’t want to change schools, but she also doesn’t want to share a room anymore with her sister.

If you had to choose between continuing to live in a too small house and stay at your school or move to a bigger house and new school, what would your preference be?

In the northern suburbs of Atlanta, selling my condo this coming fall or winter so we can move to a bigger single family home.

There are 6!!! Condos in my tiny neighborhood for sale right now that have been sitting anywhere from 2 weeks to 3 months.

Am I doomed? The HOA fees are high, but every condo community here is the same amount so I can’t imagine that’s the reason condos are sitting.

Tell me if I have any pushback here:

Condo situation.

A bunch of the units have rotted porches, walls, and doors. They’re going around redoing a bunch of the porches and walls, but of course we are responsible for new doors.

I have to get 2 new doors for my porch. At first it was 1, now they’ve sprung on me another.

Spoke to old tenant who lived in my condo before me the other day randomly and they said they redid the porch when they were living there, about 5-6 years ago.

Contractor working on the porch said the same thing, and that the porch was redone wrong.

Contractor for the doors just came by. Said the doors and porch keep rotting because of how the gutters are set up, too much water pouring in. Whenever it rains here it is like a waterfall down to my porch, so this makes sense.

So my doors are rotted and I have to pay for them because the HOA won’t fix the gutters, and they want to keep doing this every 5 years instead of fix the gutters.

Is there any pushback I have here or is this just my life?

One of my kids does dance, this is the second year she’s done it now, he’s missed recitals both years now.

Both times my child goes looking around for him after the recital (because of course he doesn’t say he isn’t coming until after the fact) and doesn’t find him. It’s sad to see.

Anyway this year was a bit different, the day after the recital he texted our other child (not the dancer) and asked why they didn’t come say hi to him after the recital… he’s pretending he was there… but we all know he wasn’t there.

What would you do in this situation? What do I tell my kids? This is really weird, he’s always been a chronic liar, but this one is just more out there. And I don’t even think it’s like a big deal to miss the dance recital tbh if you just have other things you have to do why lie about it instead of ask for a video?

I have an extra cusp on my very back right top molar on the cheek side.

In general all my teeth have extremely deep grooves, a feature that was unfortunately passed on to my kids as well.

The extra cusp though as far as I’ve read is very rare on a) the cheek side and b) the very last molar is basically unheard of

I also had all 4 wisdom teeth (removed before they ever came in).

What kind of genetics or ethnicity is this more seen in? I understand it’s very rare at all, but like I’m passing this on so it must be some kind of dominant genes. Maybe I have high Neanderthal or other caveman?

I’m mad because I bet I’ll need crowns on all my molars at some point, I already have on one very last bottom, and I can tell that extra cusp tooth will be next cause it looks crazy.

Editing to add: I also grind my teeth and I had a top guard made a few years back, but every time I wear it I wake up with my jaw completely dislocated. I am having a bottom one made now to see if that will work. If not I’m screwed.

My 11 yo was just diagnosed. The bottom threshold is 28 and she scored 29, so just over that border. She’s I guess basically the lowest level of autism possible.

Is ABA worth it for such a low level? I’d say her main things that would need addressing are emotional outbursts, eye contact, executive dysfunction, not doing anything she doesn’t want to do (so stubborn), and general lack of ability/interest to carry on a two sided conversation.

She really doesn’t want to do therapy at all, so if I’m dragging her to therapy it has to really be worth that fight.