u/The_Truth_Fairy

Don't say Ggiata, they use honey buffalo for some reason.. and ranch and told me they don't do substitutions on their wraps.

I'm on the West Side but willing to drive!

So for various health reasons I won't get into, I need to use floss picks or I won't be able to floss at all. I have been using them for years and it's helped with my oral health tremendously.

My dentist recently recommended I try expandable floss. After a lot of searching I found a floss pick that lets you insert your own floss and thread it down as it's used.

The expandable floss was noticably better! I love it!

The problem is I'm very petite and the pick I got is really bulky and awkward to use. It also loosens constantly so I have to physically hold down the string to keep it taut, which is difficult because of the aforementioned health issues.

Does anyone know of a good option for me? I've seen Qwik suggested, but it looks like you have to use their floss which reviews indicate isn't great.

Any advice appreciated!

I have a two year old girl that's mostly well-trained and well-behaved (she's smart with a stubborn streak but no major behavioral issues).

I give her a high-value treat at bedtime when she goes in her crate. At one point she started growling as I would reach in to drop the treat, which was strange. So I started withdrawing my hand if she did that and would only reach and drop the treat if she was quiet. She stopped growling and I thought that was the end of it.

Separately, we've been working on her barking at outside noises and I have a different high-value treat for only when outside noise is crazy but she's staying quiet. Usually, when she gets the treat, she goes to her little snack spot across the couch and eats it.

Today, she took the treat and came and sat next to me to eat, which I thought was nice. Absentmindedly, I went to pet her like I always do when she sits there and she bit me!! She's never bit me before! I pushed her away and told her NO very sternly. She grabbed her treat and ran to her usual snack spot and finished eating it.

Is there anything more I need to do now?

Do I need to start some type of resource guarding training?

Or should I just be more aware and not touch when she's eating?

Should I stop giving her these treats since she's so aggressive about them?

I feel very confused and disoriented by what happened but maybe I should have been more aware because of the crate growling..? I'm not sure what (if anything) I need to be doing to address this..

So for various health reasons I won't get into, I need to use floss picks or I won't be able to floss at all. I have been using them for years and it's helped with my oral health tremendously.

My dentist recently recommended I try expandable floss. After a lot of searching I found a floss pick that lets you insert your own floss and thread it down as it's used.

The expandable floss was noticably better! I love it!

The problem is I'm very petite and the pick I got is really bulky and awkward to use. It also loosens constantly so I have to physically hold down the string to keep it taut, which is difficult because of the aforementioned health issues.

Does anyone know of a good option for me? I've seen Qwik suggested, but it looks like you have to use their floss which reviews indicate isn't great.

Any advice appreciated!

I've been looking for advice to stop territorial barking, but a lot of it is stuff like the "thank you" method that is geared towards dogs that bark to warn or get their owner's attention.

Mine never barks to get my attention and she doesn't bark after me when I leave or seek me out or anything. She only barks when there's noise outside the home or people on our block she doesn't recognize or in settings when we have an established space and someone approaches it (eg we are at a table outside at a cafe and the waiter approaches). In these moments she doesn't even seem to register that I exist lol

She knows the quiet command and knows she gets a treat if there's a noise and she DOESN'T react so it's been getting slightly better, but obviously she hears things I can't so it's not going quickly and also in the cafe context she's actually been getting worse as she used to be less confident in unfamiliar spaces but she's getting more used to it and thus more territorial.

Any advice?

I'm sharing this because I see a lot of advice like "JUST DO THE WORK" or "JUST TREAT IT LIKE A JOB" and not only has my studying historically always been chaotic and inconsistent, when you're working full time, studying is just not going to be something you can put 100% effort into, because you're human.

My last bar exam was in 2013, 13 years ago. It was the NY Bar, back when the NY Bar was considered just as difficult as CA. I had sworn to never take another bar exam again because that experience was one of the worst of my life. Somehow passed my first try but I had no schedule, there were days I couldn't get out of bed because I would start having panic attacks and couldn't breathe (never had one before the bar), and just did as much as I could and somehow it was enough.

I don't work in an area covered on the exam and hadn't touched those topics in over a decade - or EVER for a few subjects. Everyone told me "it will all come back to you, don't worry!" So I really tried not to worry too much. It absolutely did NOT come back to me. I was learning from scratch AND had forgotten how to study, which is its own skill.

I signed up for Themis because I like having a course and they have an Attorney Exam specific one.

BEGINNING OF OCTOBER: Themis opened their "Early Start" course. I intended to watch through all the videos to get a foundation. I started with the first one listed: CivPro. I got halfway through SMJ and panicked and stopped. I rewatched the video, thinking maybe it would make sense a second time through? It did not. I backed away from my laptop and decided to just start when the regular course started.

MID-NOVEMBER: The regular course began. I diligently stuck to the Themis schedule as best I could, working evenings and on weekends.

BEGINNING OF DECEMBER: I realized I wasn't retaining anything?? Every practice essay I just blank stared at until resigning myself to going open book!! I did not feel like I knew anything at all. My Themis graded essay had really helpful notes like "you make a lot of typos" and "you explained this wrong" 🙄 I bought Mary Basic's Essay Book on the advice of this sub.

MID-DECEMBER: I REMEMBERED SOMETHING ABOUT MYSELF!! It had been so long since I'd had to study I had forgotten the HACK I'D DISCOVERED FOR MY OWN BRAIN LONG AGO: FLASHCARDS!!! I abandoned Themis. I started going through Mary Basic's outlines, making handwritten flashcards as I went.

JANUARY: ....still making flashcards. Did they always used to take this long?? But I knew they worked for me. They had to work?! So I kept making flashcards.

END OF JANUARY: STILL MAKING FLASHCARDS 😭😭😭 unclear if the process was helping me learn anything? But I did make sure I understood everything I was putting on the cards, even if I couldn't regurgitate any of that information at this point. I also decided to buy the SmartBarPrep outlines so if I ran out of time at least I could focus on the highest tested issues and at least know those?

FEBRUARY: Finished the flashcards in the first week. Then I had two weeks off work to...... Actually begin studying? 😵‍💫

TWO WEEKS LEADING TO THE BAR: I made myself a schedule: Mon-Sat review 4 flashcard sets per day and take the corresponding essays, Sunday do 2 PTs and an extra PR flashcard/essay session. Cross-reference everything against the CA Bar model answers. In reality, I ended up getting through 1-2 subjects a day because REVIEWING flashcards ALSO takes me forever, apparently. I wouldn't move on from a card until I could explain it back from memory (in my own words) so it just took forever. But I added checking my SmartBarPrep outline to make sure the highly tested issues for each subject were drilled in. If I felt lost on a subject I would watch the Themis essay lecture on that topic at 2x speed and that was actually helpful. IDE-DON IS THE ONLY WORTHWHILE THING ABOUT THEMIS.

THREE DAYS BEFORE THE EXAM: Looked up the predicted Feb 26 subjects and focused on reviewing those flashcards. At this point I had noticed a big jump in the quality of my essays as I got into the rhythm of answering in the stupid bar-preferred format, so I was feeling cautiously optimistic.

EXAM DAY: I failed. I most definitely failed. I MUST have failed!! My essays were all so short!! I did the PT first in the PM and TOOK LONGER THAN 90 MINUTES which had NEVER HAPPENED when I practiced!!? I didn't understand wtf they were even getting at with half the facts on that PR question?? In CivPro on the PJ question I only did traditional and said well he consented and moved on!! On Community Property I said "well his business could be analyzed under van camp or pereira so... Whatever the result of that is will determine" and moved on because I didn't have time to try to remember the actual equations and wasn't sure they gave enough info to do them and.. what did they want us to write?? WHAT DID I MISS?! I wasted all that time and money just to do this BS all over again??? 😭😭😭😭😭😭

EXAM RESULTS: I passed.......... 🤷🏻‍♀️

I have a bunch of different saved lists that I use for various things, but when I'm driving, there is one list I use twice every single weekday because it contains a stop I have to make between work and home both ways.

Google Maps in Carplay used to show it at the top of my Saved lists, then one day it dropped towards the bottom seemingly for no reason and it's just an annoying extra step to have to scroll down and find it every time.

Of course the order of the lists in Carplay don't correspond at all to the order I have them in on the Google Maps app.

Anyone know a way to get it back to the top?

To note: yes I know the way without maps, but there are often construction projects or accidents that reroute traffic so I like to have the suggested route