Remember alcohol is itself a central nervous system depressant. I do drink in moderation (2-3 a week) but everyday is a bad idea, even outside of any harm to your liver or whatever, because it can make you depressed and downers of all sorts (including Benadryl) accumulate damage over time that can contribute heavily to dementia risk.

If you are worried about it, that seems a clear enough signal, you don’t have to label yourself as anything, cut down if you can. Going to the gym or yoga class after work can provide the same wind down in a healthier way. I do understand wanting a separation - it is so nice to come home, sit on the porch with a drink, to separate work from home life, but most days I go to yoga instead.

None is better than some, some is better than a lot.

Rudeness to cashiers, wait staff, housekeepers, children or elderly people. If you are mean or rude to these people I assume you think you matter more based on social standing, and can’t be bothered to even be polite. At that point I don’t care if you are nice to me.

No, probably not, and I live in a mid-sized city, so between metro and suburban I guess. Again, I do think it would be safe and overwhelming percentage of the time just wouldn’t FEEL safe.

I am older, and wanted to say there have been a few random guys who were enormously sexually attractive to me but not on their looks or personality or anything, and I always figured it was just some sort of biological compatibility, that my body recognized they would make healthy babies or something like that.

This sounds similar to what you have going on here, and it’s safe to ignore it. It is puzzling, that feeling, but no way does it mean you’d get along well with someone.

At the big cat rescue here they figured out that cats love Calvin Klein Obsession For Men perfume.

And once my ex stood with the cat on the kitchen counter and opened, one by one, every spice jar in the kitchen and let him sniff it. Then closed and replaced it. The cat just sat there sniffing them. So I’d say yes. Not as food, but certainly as smells.

Home laptop, power button. Work computer, CTRL-ALT twice brings the login screen.

What sort of help? Get something for me while I wrangle the kid? Sure. Also blocking if they are running off and turning them in the right direction, sure.

No I wouldn’t have handed off a baby to a random dude, even though I’m sure that 95% of the time it would be safe to.

A Crow Strike sounds both glorious and terrifying.

I miss the non-sexual nudes threads, Normalnudes and NakedProgress. I miss the nice places like ABraThatFits. I miss having enough of a user base to have a city specific subreddit.

I don’t miss having to take down tens of posts every day in the aforementioned nonsexual nudes threads as a mod helper, because nobody could follow the rules, so to keep it a place for real people it took a lot of culling of mean comments and isolated boner pics and ladies promoting onlyfans.

I thought I’d miss the busy R/Cocktails but love maintaining the small one here and in nearly a year have had only two reported posts, it’s just so much nicer here.

And when I’ve ventured back, it’s worse even than it was. So many ads.

Mine was easy too, no hot flashes or anything, don’t even know when it happened since I had the IUD. but got the MHT, low dose estrogen & progesterone, because I was getting bladder infections and worried about osteoporosis (family history) realized I did have some symptoms because my balance came back (standing in one foot balance not like mental balance) and my thinking cleared up some, I was foggy but just figured it was normal. I freaking love this routine except for the fact that it’s made me medium sized rather than slender, which is a mindfuck - I feel really good otherwise, both in body and mind. And the weight gain increased my bone mass so I can’t even lose it.

I think it’s 50% of women get symptoms like hot flashes - that’s a big chunk but certainly not everyone.

Not a typo, actually. She’s my ex mother outlaw because I never married my ex, her other title is “my kids grandma”. She is great, though has the oddball conservative ideas you’d expect for an old person. Like the yogaphobia.

The Republican position is that race should not be a factor in hiring decisions

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! The party of cronyism and nepotism, the least diverse political party? Really?

I got away with so many things like this at my previous job because nobody dreamed I would do it so never, ever was I suspected (older white lady and in a comedy routine I would be the straight person). Accounting often works late though. So I’d move a tyrannosaur toy around, change the after hours sign to say things like “after 5 please dance”, put funny things on the printer glass. Others were always suspected. I never even blinked and they never knew who.

Yeah I realized after writing that, it’s a little flippant. My favorite yoga teacher once described American yoga as an unholy mashup of British calisthenics and ancient Indian spiritual and contemplative practices, and that sounds about right. I do know it’s orientalist, and that’s problematic, but goodness it is a great physical practice, the way we do it here.

My ex-mother outlaw wouldn’t do yoga because she thought it was a religion or witchcraft or something and she was a mainline Baptist so yeah, yoga.

What is a CMO? Chief Medical Officer? Completely Moronic Outburster? Certainly not Chief Morale Officer?, with those views.

You forgot accountant

“What do you need it to be?”

It hurts. Some Gynecologists will offer anaesthesia, mine is more a “suck it up buttercup” lady but does tell the nurse to hold your hand. The worst part was definitely the depth sounding. Once that’s done, it goes in, some cramping, and as I noted, the first one I had the light spotting for nearly a year. I had already had kids, but my daughters reported similar experiences. They didn’t have the year of spotting but a couple months of spotting then nothing.

One or two days of pain for six years of no periods and no pregnancies is a good deal I think. If you don’t have sex with men I still think it’s a good enough tradeoff for no periods. I left the last one in until my doctor was sure I was through menopause, that made it so easy.

Birth control pills made my migraines so much worse, and raised my blood pressure. The hormonal IUD did neither of those.

At our last office, the accounts receivable department decorated for Halloween and put a stuffed dummy I a chair in the hall. Then ON Halloween, put their chubby intern in the chair in the outfit instead. Scared the heck out of most of upper management. Very good day at work.

At the job before that, on April fools day, I got each of the ladies working in my department (including me) to go separately into the boss’s office and tell him we were pregnant, giving the same month as when we were due. He didn’t figure it out until #4.

No - using the pill continuously works as well as taking the week off.