u/cookie_cat_82

I was having this discussion with my bf last night because naturally, as a girl who’s obsessed with the book/show, I’ve also subjected my bf to watching the show with me LOL as well as getting him prepped for all the season 2 scenes we’re gonna get hehe

he then asked ME what my favorite scene was, and I actually don’t think I could narrow it down to one, MAYBE a top 3. I started first by picking my favorite scenes / moments from each episode and then narrowing it down from there.

so what’s your favorite?

My boyfriend and I get a little tired of the same old chicken dishes we make for dinner, but 1.) I’m not huge on ground beef unless it’s for pasta or something of the sort and 2.) Chicken is easiest to have on hand, cheaper, etc.

What are some of your favorite, go to chicken dinner ideas?

tell me something I won’t understand until later 👀

I’m a Chobani creamer fan all the way, and I live near a Publix so they’re BOGO free for me this week. I’m trying to decide which 2 flavors to get (I would get 4 if it wasn’t gluttonous and overkill LOL simply just because I can’t decide). My go to is always cinnamon coffee cake (although I hear that this is an unpopular opinion?), so Im not sure that I can stray from that flavor this time for 1 of my 2 just because it’s always a top flavor for me

Looking at one of these for my 2nd option:

Pumpkin Spice
Sweet cream (afraid this will be too basic / underwhelming)
Caramel macchiato (never had)
Cookie butter (also never had this one, still unsure if I’m big on cookie butter flavor or not)
Ube (again, never had LOL and don’t know what to expect)
White chocolate mocha - had this once I believe, and I think I remember liking it (definitely more than the vanilla)

I’ve always wanted to play this one, 1.) because i’m a huge cat person lol and 2.) I love a cozy game like this looks, but I’ve never been able to bite the bullet and spend $25 on it.

It’s on sale on the switch shop rn for $15. Is it worth getting?

(If you can’t tell I’m an Ilya girl at heart and a lot of my vocal stims are heavily influenced by him ;)) It’s also very important to note that I ensure all of the Ilya lines are spoken in Ilya’s accent LOL

“Is lie, liar told you that” (probs my #1 line I make into conversation LOL)

“TELL PEOPLE”

“Will. you. come to my cottage this summer?” followed by “I’m coming to the cottage”

“Never in life have I blushed Russians do not do this”

it’s my SHANE HOLLANDER YEARRRRR 🎉 #24

I’m also over the moon because it puts me now just 2 years apart from Connor 😁😏 (sorry I’m an Ilya / Connor girl till I die so had to mention it)

I’m realizing now I could’ve planned myself a Heated Rivalry themed party. Guess the next chance will have to be when I’m 81 LOL

If / when you left one of your jobs, clinics, schools, etc., did you do any kind of little farewell gift for your kiddos? A little goodie bag, note, etc?

I thought about doing it but it completely slipped my mind over the weekend with how busy I got, handling all the stuff with my new job's onboarding, being sick, etc. Now I feel terrible and am wondering if I should still do something to leave behind? Or if any of you don't typically do anything like that?

I started babysitting about a year ago for a family two days a week, weekly. It worked out pretty well because their house is out by where I work but also sort of on my way home, so the days my schedule ended a little later it worked out nice to be able to just drive to their house and get in the babysitting days to make a little extra. So long as I see them a total of 8 times a month, I make $400 ($50 per day, 2 days a week).

I recently accepted a new job and it’s no longer out by where I work now / where their house is. For reference, my drive was a 40 minute drive west, and now my workplace will be right by my house, if not a few minutes east. That being said, it definitely wouldn’t be on my way home anymore. My new job is also gonna be working in a school, so I’ll be done by 3-3:30 most days, and then would have to kill some time by eating dinner, going to the gym, etc. before I had to leave again to drive the 30 minutes to their house to babysit from 6:30-8:30, and then drive 30 minutes home.

I was gonna keep up the babysitting but the more I think about it, the less worth it it seems to have to go back out and have a late evening again when I finally have a job with great hours to give me a nice work life balance. On top of that, I’ll be driving 1 hour a day, 2 hours per week round trip to babysit. The money is definitely nice to have, but it feels like a different story when it’s no longer on my way home in a sense and instead I have to go back out, out of my way to make $50 a day.

Curious what everyone’s opinion on this situation is, and also if I decide to no longer babysit, how do I phrase it to the parents without coming off badly? I feel so bad to drop them when I’ve been able to consistently sit for them every week, but I just don’t know if it’ll be worth it for me.

***side note, they do have both of their moms that now live in the same development so I wonder if it wouldn’t be that much of a problem if I left and if they considered just using their parents for babysitting anyways, but i’m also afraid to be wrong and suggest that for no reason (if for example they don’t want to subject the grandparents to a weekly babysitting schedule to be stuck to)

I’m new to owning a Nespresso and I’m about to buy pods for the first time. My first question is do you buy your pods from Nespresso? Or do you get your pods elsewhere that aren’t Nespresso but compatible for your machine? Are they cheaper that way / are Nespresso pods pretty expensive?

If you do get Nespresso brand pods, I know they come in packs of a sleeve of 10. How many do you typically buy at once? I got a coupon code from Nespresso for $20 off of $60+. I was wondering if it’s worth it to rack up my cart and still spend about $40 on pods (given that I got the $20 off and still am getting that much more worth of pods).

Just curious where everyone likes to get their pods from and how much. Thanks!