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1. I got my hair cut this morning. Had to reschedule the appointment from last Monday because I had a work meeting conflict with it...and then the meeting was cancelled! Annoying, and my hair was definitely feeling longer than I usually like to let it get, but not the end of the world. Glad to have it cut again, though.

2. I got some tri-tip out of the freezer Saturday to have for dinner and it ended up being more than I thought it was once it was thawed and unwrapped, so I cut it into four small steaks and had one for dinner that day with rice and broccoli, made steak salad yesterday and today for lunch, and then had the final piece tonight in fried rice (which was very simple with only edamame in addition to the steak, and a fried egg on top). I'm glad I was able to make a variety of easy meals with it!

3. This window is one of Molly's favorite spots.

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ysobel

Back in 2018-19, Loki spent about 9 months in a cone, because he wouldn't stop killing his tail. ( cw: mention of medical saga )

And then randomly, he stopped. Since then he does still attack his tail sometimes (occasionally seeming extremely annoyed by it) but without making it bloody. I sort of get the impression he doesn't really understand that his tail is even attached to him, let alone part of him. Sometimes he shoves his tail down, stalks to a different bed, and gets upset that it followed him. Sometimes it feels like, to him, he bites the wiggly thing and then it bites him back.

But regardless, he wasn't doing serious damage.

Until last week.

We noticed a spot on the underside of his tail that he seemed to have licked bare. Then it bled a bit. So Friday was Vet Day. They shaved the area, cleaned it up, and gave him an antibiotic shot because it looked like he had just ... chomped way too hard.

So he's back in a cone. Hopefully it's just for the 10-14 days recommended by the vet. But. It's a different spot, but he does have history with, erm, tail issues.

If he continues with his tail the way he did in 2018... ( cw: mention of potential medical procedures )

Right now the dogs are banished from my bedroom so that Loki can have easier access to food/water and to litterbox. They are confused by this. Loki has been extremely clingy, jumping on my lap pretty much every time I'm in there and sleeping on me probably 80% of the night. I don't actually mind providing extra cuddles! But I think all of us will be happy when things go back to normal...

senmut

AO3 Link | Training Opportunity (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Tasha Yar, Worf
Additional Tags: Drabble, Slice of Life
Summary:

Yar shows Worf a flaw

Yar circled to the left, and Worf watched as he adjusted himself. When she lunged, he was as ready as he could be, and still she managed to foul his leg, and get him off balance. From there it was only two quick moves and he stumbled out of the circle they had made.

"You are a formidable warrior."

"So are you, but you're not accustomed to smaller, faster opponents who know how to use their body," Yar said. "So, joining my class?"

"Yes."

She smiled, then beckoned him in for another round. He took the invitation, eager to learn.

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siderea

I want a widget that doesn't exist so I might be stuck designing it for 3D printing. I have never done this before. For design software, I gather both Onshape and TinkerCAD are available for free. Anybody with experience have opinions which I should start with? I have never used any CAD program before, but am not new to drafting. OTOH my drafting experience was all about 40 years ago. Open to other suggestions available for the Mac for free.

Also, I don't have my own 3D printer, so I'll be availing myself of various public-access options. But this means the iterative design feedback loop will be irritatingly protracted. Also I might have to pay money for each go round, so I'd like to minimize that. Also I am still disabled and not able to spend a lot of time in a makerspace. But I am a complete n00b to 3D printing and have zero idea what I'm doing. Does anybody have any recommendations for good educational references online about how to design for 3D printing so your widget is more likely to come out right the first or at least third time? By which I mean both print right and also function like you wanted – I know basically nothing about working with the material(s) and how they behave and what the various options are, while the widget I want to make will be functional not ornamental and have like tolerances and affordances and stuff. So finding a way to get those clues without hands-on experience, or at least minimizing the hands-on experience would be superb.

torachan

1. Last week when I was reorganizing stuff in the shed, we went over some items and decided we no longer needed to keep them, but since it was still raining off and on, I didn't put them out at the time. Today I got them out on the curb, along with a box of ornaments we decided we no longer want, so hopefully those all get picked up soon.

2. I did some cleaning out of kitchen cupboards and fridge drawers yesterday and today. There were a lot of snacks that are expiring within the next week or so and Carla's out of town and I'm not going to eat them on my own, so I took them up to the Little Free Library that's been converted to a mini food pantry and they were already all gone the next time I took a walk.

3. Look at this sweet Chloe.

senmut

I am currently working on my

ladiesbingo card for my December posting goals.

Sinners (Annie & Mary)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffy & Dawn about Willow)
DC Comics (Dinah Lance & Selina Kyle)
Partners in Crime (Carole & Sydney)

Now, I have been the first to put fandom tags up on AO3 a lot in the distant past. But I never thought I'd be doing it again in 2025. The last time I did was 2021, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that The Jeffersons now has more than my one work. So I double checked that last fandom up there, got briefly excited because "Partners in Crime" was a tag in the TV Show fandoms.

However, it is actually for Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime, from the year before my one season detective American show. So yep, gotta disambiguate the name when I create it.

(I am trying to mentally fortify myself for the first TG dinner I am partly responsible for in ... a very long time, so no misc.exhausted.me this week)

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agonyaunt

Dear Care and Feeding,

I’m 19 and in university. I recently broke up with my boyfriend, “Jason.” He’d been acting weird for a few weeks, but when I ended things, he completely flipped out.

It escalated to the point where he slipped into my family’s home, stole our cat, “Flibble,” and tried to hold him for ransom. We did get Flibble back, and Jason is now facing charges. I just want to put this all behind me.

My parents, however, are furious. They keep telling me I should “have better judgment” and promise I’m going to get an earful this Thanksgiving about “choosing appropriate partners.” I get it, this got bad. But Jason wasn’t showing signs of being unhinged when we first started dating, and I did break up with him as soon as he started acting erratically. Still, my parents chew me out every time we talk and have started calling two or three times a week specifically to lecture me.

It’s driving me crazy. I don’t want to block them or cut them out of my life, but I also don’t want to deal with this anymore. What can I do to get them to lay off?

—Stepped In It

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agonyaunt

Dear Meghan: I have an 8-year-old daughter. She does not have a mother (my husband and I are both men). She doesn’t particularly like shopping for clothes, but she has a relative who keeps her very well stocked with jumpsuits, dresses and girly outfits of all kinds, which is the type of clothing she typically likes. In general, I let her decide for herself how to mix and match the various clothes she has each morning and will only step in if something is really inappropriate.

My mother, however, feels the need to criticize her clothing choices nearly every time she sees her. “Oh dear, you should never mix prints!” or “Why didn’t you wear a different shirt under that jumpsuit — it really doesn’t match at all!” My mother blames me for what she sees as my inability to teach a girl about girls’ fashion.

I told her that I had indeed talked about some of these rules, but I thought my daughter should also be able to make her own choices about how to dress. She then accused me of being a bad parent and suggested that I would also “give up” if faced with a child who stole or cheated on a test. Is it really so wrong to refuse to have a daily struggle because my daughter went to school with shorts that lightly clashed with her shirt?

— Grandma’s Criticisms

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Dear Meghan: My sons (5 and 6 years old, both mildly autistic) tend to wake up in the morning and as fast as they can dive into my husband’s and my bed for cuddles. They seem to get a lot of sensory satisfaction and a lot of comfort from this ritual. Their preference would be to cuddle with me or both of us for about 15 minutes until they’re all the way awake, then run off and do their own thing. I don’t mind this at all — I enjoy it somewhat, and I find that (as primary caretaker) their days and thus mine go much smoother if they have this cuddle in bed to start the day.

The problem is that my husband says it ruins his day to have his kids in his bed at all.

I have tried to be a physical barrier between him and them — doesn’t work. I’ve tried to not let them in until he’s already up and showering — doesn’t work. I’ve tried to go to their beds and cuddle them there — doesn’t work. I’m out of ideas.

What should I do?

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kaberett

Reading. ... I think, like, a page or two of Descartes (Treatise on Man), and that's it?

OH. NO. I also finished my first pass through indexing The National Trust Cookbook for EYB. That's right. That's a thing I did.

Watching. Three Whole Entire Episodes of Beddybyes, halfway through the third of which the toddler (who felt it was Very Important that we saw it) pretty much fell asleep where it was sat.

Playing. RIDICULOUS Inkulinati run for Preposterous Amounts Of Prestige.

Cooking. Medlar jelly (plain, spiced). Quince sorbet. Several bread. A batch of buttermilk pancakes. Some terrible First, Burn Your Lettuce, thereby ticking another item off the current Cook The Book project. Buttermilk pancakes.

Eating. One of the CHILLIS from the CHILLI PLANTS we brought HOME from the GREENHOUSE just after first frost (but they were fine); also A turned the small pile of peppers that broke off the sweet pepper I brought home on a bike, still green, into akuri this morning.

Exploring. Important sploshy stomp through the puddles of Barking Park. I... think that's it?

Growing. I have NOT sown any physalis or lemongrass in the electric propagator, to get them hopefully Established by the time I need it for Other Things in the new year. This is a deliberate decision. They can go in next week.

... and now it's very definitely time for bed, goodnight world. <3

senmut

Decided I wanted to be able to see everything in one list.
Leading 'A' and 'The' have been stripped from titles.
Ignore the numbering on Star Wars; it's my chrono order for them.
Marvel nor DC are organized by franchise or series, just by title.

Not quite 500 movies and TV series

10 Things I Hate About You
13th Warrior
3:10 to Yuma

Abyss Special Edition
Addams Family (90s)
Adventures in Babysitting
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
After Earth
Air Force One
Alice in Wonderland (50s)
All About Eve
American Outlaws
Anastasia
Annie (10s)
Annie (80s)
Annihilation/Arrival
Appaloosa
Aristocats
As Good As It Gets
Assault on Precinct 13
Atlantis: the Lost Empire
Australia
AvP: Alien Anthology
AvP: AvP
AvP: Predator
AvP: Predator 2
Avatar 1: the Last Airbender
Avatar 2: Legend of Korra

Baby Boom
Babylon 5 (telemovies)
Babylon A.D.
Bad Boys
Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever
Balto
Bambi
Beauty and the Beast (80s TV)
Beauty and the Beast (90s Movie)
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Big
Big Trouble in Little China
Black Sails
Bobby Z
Boiler Room
Bourne Trilogy (Damon)
Brave
Bringing Down the House
Brotherhood of Justice
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Swanson)
Buffy: the Vampire Slayer (Season 1)

Cannonball Run
Carol Burnett Show: This Time Together & Show Stoppers
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Charlie's Angels (2019)
Christmas Carol (Scott)
Chronicles of Narnia 1: Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Chronicles of Narnia 2: Prince Caspian
Chronicles of Narnia 3: Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Clan of the Cave Bear
Clash of the Titans (80s)
Clue
Coco
Con Air
Connie and Carla
Cradle 2 the Grave
Crow
Cutthroat Island

DC: Aquaman
DC: Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero
DC: Batman (Keaton)
DC: Batman (Pattinson)
DC: Batman Begins (Bale)
DC: Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
DC: Batman Returns (Keaton)
DC: Batman: Complete Third Season
DC: Batman: Gotham Knight
DC: Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
DC: Batman: the Movie (West)
DC: Birds of Prey (00s)
DC: Birds of Prey and the Fabulous Emancipation of Harley Quinn
DC: Constantine (Reeves)
DC: Justice League & Justice League Unlimited
DC: Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
DC: Justice League: the New Frontier
DC: Lois & Clark: the New Adventures of Superman (Seasons 1-2)
DC: Sandman (Season 1)
DC: Superman II: the Richard Donner Cut
DC: Superman: the Movie Expanded Edition
DC: Teen Titans
DC: Wonder Woman
DC: Wonder Woman (70s, Season 1)
Dante's Peak
Dark Crystal
Dark Shadows (90s)
Dave
Dead Poets Society
Dear God
Deep Blue Sea
Deep Impact
Descendants
Dirty Dancing
Doctor Who: Doctors Revisited (60s)
Doctor Who: Five Doctors 25th anniversary edition
Doctor Who: Dalek Collection (00s)
Doctor Who: Series 1-2 (00s)
Double Jeopardy (90s)
Down With Love
Dr Suess's How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Dragonball Z (Seasons 1-4)
Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dumbo
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Ella Enchanted
Emperor's New Groove
Entrapment
Executive Decision
Express

Fast Color
Father of the Bride: 15th Anniversary Special Edition (90s)
Father of the Bride: Part II (90s)
Ferngully: the Last Rainforest
Fifth Element
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Firefly & Serenity
First Monday in October
Flightplan
Foul Play
Forever Knight (Season 1-2)
Forever Knight: Nick Knight: Original telemovie
Fox and the Hound
Fox and the Hound II
Fraggle Rock: Down in Fraggle Rock
Frank Herbert's Dune (Sci-Fi Mini)
Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (Sci-Fi Mini)
Fried Green Tomatoes
Fugitive (90s)

G.I.Joe: A Real American Hero (80s)
GB: Ghostbusters 1&2 (80s)
GB: Real Ghostbusters Volume 1
Gentleman's Agreement
Gettysburg/Gods and Generals
Glory
Golden Girls
Good Guys Wear Black
Grease: Rockin' Rydell Edition
Great Mouse Detective
Greatest Classic Films Collection: Casablanca/Gigi/An American in Paris/Mrs. Miniver
Green Knight
Gremlins
Grumpy Old Men
Grumpier Old Men
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Gundam Wing: Operation 1-6

HL: Highlander: Immortal Edition
HL: Highlander: the Series
Hackers
Harry Potter Film Collection
Heavenly Kid
Heavy Metal
Hellboy
Her Majesty Mrs. Brown
Heroes (Season 1)
Hidden Figures
Hook
Houseboat
How to Marry a Millionaire
How to Train Your Dragon
Howl's Moving Castle

IJ 1: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
IJ 3: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Ice Age
Ice Age: the Meltdown
Identity
Importance of Being Earnest (00s)
In & Out
In the Line of Fire
Iron Giant

JB: Bond Collection: Sean Connery (volumes 1-2)
JB: Bond: Quantum of Solace
Jackie
Jane Got a Gun
Jeremiah (Season 1)
John Carter
Julia & Julia
Jumanji
Jumper
Jungle Book (60s)
Jurassic Park 1-3
Jurassic World

Karate Kid (80s)
Kate & Leopold
Kindergarten Cop
Kiss the Girls
Knight's Tale
Knockaround Guys

Labyrinth
Lady and the Tramp
Ladyhawke
Land Before Time
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Law & Order
League of Our Own (movie)
Legend
Leon: the Professional
Leverage
Life as a House
Lilo & Stitch
Lion King
Long Riders/Stagecoach
Lord of the Rings Extended Editions (1-3)
Lost Boys
Louis L'Amour Western Collection: Sacketts/Conagher/Catlow
Louis L'Amour's Quick and the Dead (Elliott)
Love Actually
Love Potion #9
Love, Simon

M*A*S*H: Martini & Medicine Collection
Mad Max: Fury Road
Maleficent
Maleficent
Mannequin
Mannequin 2: On the Move
Marvel: Avengers (10s)
Marvel: Black Panther
Marvel: Blade
Marvel: Blade II
Marvel: Captain America: First Avenger
Marvel: Captain America: the Winter Soldier
Marvel: Captain Marvel
Marvel: Daredevil (00s)
Marvel: Fantastic Four (00s)
Marvel: Ghost Rider (00s)
Marvel: Incredible Hulk (pilot movie, Bixby/Ferrigno)
Marvel: Incredible Hulk Returns (Bixby/Ferrigno)
Marvel: Trial of the Incredible Hulk (Bixby/Ferrigno)
Marvel: Wrath of the Incredible Hulk (Bixby/Ferrigno)
Marvel: Iron Man
Marvel: Iron Man 2
Marvel: Iron Man 3
Marvel: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Marvel: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Marvel: Thor
Marvel: Thor: the Dark World
Marvel: Thor: Ragnarok
Marvel: Thor: Love and Thunder
Marvel: Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers
Marvel: Thor: Tales of Asgard
Marvel: Ultimate Avengers: the Movie
Marvel: X-Men
Marvel: X-Men 1.5
Marvel: X-Men 2
Mary Poppins
Maverick
McClintock/Sagebrush Trail
Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell
Men in Black
Men in Black II
Men of Honor
Mickey's Christmas Carol
MirrorMask
Moana
Monkey Man
Monsters, Inc
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Moonlight
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Mulan (90s)
Mummy Collector's Edition
Mummy Returns Collector's Edition
Mummy: Scorpion King
Muppet Movie
Muppets (10s)
Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa
Murder, She Wrote (Season 1-2)
My Fellow Americans
My Little Pony (80s) & My Little Pony: the Movie

Nanny McPhee
Nero Wolfe (A&E Complete Series)
Newsies
Night Shift
Night at the Museum
Ninja Scroll 10th Anniversary Edition
Notorious

Ocean's 8
Ocean's Eleven/Twelve/Thirteen
Odd Couple
Oliver & Company
Oliver and Company
Operation Petticoat
Outsiders

Pacific Rim
Pacifier
Patriot
Patriot Games Special Collector's Edition
Peanuts: Charlie Brown Christmas
Peanuts: Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Peanuts: It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
Peter Pan (00s)
Philadelphia
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Point Break
PotA 1: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
PotA 2: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
PotA 3: War for the Planet of the Apes
Pretender
Pride and Prejudice (BBC)
Princess Bride
Princess Diaries Special Edition
Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Prophecy Complete Collection
Pump Up the Volume
Pure Country

Queen +: Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert
Queen: Live at Wembley Stadium
Queen: Wembley Unseen
Quigley Down Under

Record of Lodoss War
Red Shoe Diaries
Remington Steele (Season 1)
Rescuers/ Rescuers Down Under
Resident Evil Trilogy
Return to Me
Riddick Trilogy
Rise of the Guardians
Road House
Road to El Dorado
Robin Hood (70s)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Romeo Must Die
Rumble in the Bronx
Rundown
Rurouni Kenshin: Betrayal

Saint (90s)
Santa Clause
Santa Clause 2
Save the Last Dance
Scrooged
Secret of NIMH
Secretariat
Seems Like Old Times
Shadow
Shadow Riders
Shaft (Jackson)
Shape of Water
She-Ra: Princess of Power (80s, Season 1 Volume 1)
Sherlock Holmes (Downey)
Sherlock Holmes (Ronald Howard)
Short Circuit
Simple Twist of Fate
Sinners
Sister Act
Skulls
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sleeping Beauty (50s)
Sleepless in Seattle
Snow White and the Huntsman
Soldier/Tequila Sunrise
Some Like It Hot
Something to Talk About
Something's Gotta Give
Sons of Anarchy (Seasons 1-3)
Speed
Speed Race: the Movie
Square Pegs
Star Trek 01: Motion Picture
Star Trek 02: Wrath of Khan
Star Trek 03: Search for Spock
Star Trek 04: Voyage Home
Star Trek 05: Final Frontier
Star Trek 06: Undiscovered Country
Star Trek 07: Generations
Star Trek 08: First Contact
Star Trek 09: Insurrection
Star Trek 10: Nemesis
Star Trek 11: Star Trek
Star Trek 13: Beyond
Star Trek: TOS
Star Wars 01: Phantom Menace
Star Wars 02: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars 03: Clone Wars
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Seasons 1-5) (Lost Missions)
Star Wars 04: Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: Rebels (Season 2)
Star Wars 05: Solo: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars 06: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars 07: A New Hope
Star Wars 08: Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars 09: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars 10: Force Awakens
Star Wars 11: Last Jedi
Stargate SG-1 (Seasons 1-3)
Stargate Ultimate Edition
Stranger Things (Seasons 1-2)
Street Fighter II: the Animated Movie
Sword in the Stone

TF: Transformers (00s)
TF: Transformers Cybertron: Robots in Disguise: A New Beginning
TF: Transformers Energon: the Return of Megatron
TF: Transformers: Beginnings
TF: Transformers: Bumblebee
TF: Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye (80s, Seasons 1-2)
TF: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
TFatF 1 Fast and the Furious
TFatF 2 2 Fast 2 Furious
TFatF 3 Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
TFatF 4 Fast and Furious
TFatF 5 Fast Five
TFatF 6: Fast and Furious 6
TFatF 7: Furious 7
TRON
TRON: Legacy
Table Top (Seasons 1-2)
Take the Lead
Takers
Ted Lasso: Richmond Way
Teen Witch
Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator: Dark Fate
Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles
Three Men and a Baby
Three Men and a Little Lady
Three to Tango
Titan A.E.
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
Tombstone
Top Gun
True Lies
Twister

Uncle Buck
Underworld
Unlawful Entry
Up

V for Vendetta
Venom
Veronica Mars (Seasons 1-3, Reunion movie)
Victor Victoria
Volcano

Walking Tall
Wanted
Way West
West Wing
What to Do in Case of Fire
Where the Wild Things Are
Wicked! (Murney/Kassebaum)
Widows
Wild Robot
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (70s)
Wishmaster 1/Wishmaster: Evil Never Dies
Wishmaster: Prophecy Fulfilled
Wishmaster: Beyond the Gates of Hell
Witchblade
Wizard Of Oz: Collector's Edition
Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Edition
Wonder Woman (00s)
Wrinkle in Time

XXX
XXX: the Return of Xander Cage

Young Guns
Yours Mine & Ours (60s)
Yu-Gi-Oh (Volumes 2, 5-7, 10-13, 16)
Yu-Yu-Hakasho: the Saga of the Three Kings

senmut

AO3 Link | Distinctions (100 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Spock
Additional Tags: Drabble, Slice of Life
Summary:

Just a quiet shift

Spock continued monitoring his sensors, keeping only the lightest awareness of Chekov in the command seat. The junior officers often cycled their command hours during Spock's shift, at his invitation. It freed him to take advantage of the extra hours studying data, while also reassuring the captain.

After all, Kirk frequently stayed on shift or came early, never perfectly happy to relinquish the conn of his ship. In another human, that would be a worrying sign. Spock, however, understood the difference between needing to have control versus wishing to protect the crew always.

He would watch, if the distinction degraded.

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siderea

Saw this, blew my mind, thought I'd share. Behold, Lençóis Maranhenses:

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2025 Oct 28: PBS Terra [pbsterra on YT]: It Looks Like a Desert. But It Has Thousands of Lakes

When I heard in the video how big it was, I turned on satellite view in Google Maps and popped "Lençóis Maranhenses" into the search bar:

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agonyaunt

1. When I say goodbye to my mother-in-law, she frequently traps me in extended hugs. They often last longer than 15 seconds! During these hugs, she rattles off compliments that are probably well-meaning, but which I take as insults: She’s grateful that I’m a good cook for my husband, for instance, and that I keep our house so clean. My husband and I are both working professionals. We split the housework evenly, and I’m proud of that. My husband says that his mother’s comments are just her way of trying to connect with me. But is there a way to dodge her hugs? That’s when the so-called compliments begin.

DAUGHTER-IN-LAW

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2. Dear Carolyn: We are a very small family — just me, my older sister and my parents. Five years ago, my sister married into a very large family, and her in-laws host all the holidays. We’re always invited, but it’s never any fun for us. There are 20 of them together, talking and laughing, and me and my parents in the corner by ourselves.

I’ve honestly tried to join in, but they’re always talking among themselves about people I don’t know. I ask them about their lives, and they go on and on, but when it’s time for me to talk, I get either cut off or ignored. They try to be nice, but after the third or fourth attempt to answer a question, you can tell they don’t care about the answer.

So I’ve decided I’m not going for Thanksgiving or Christmas this year. On Thanksgiving, some of my friends are meeting up for a hike in the morning, and then there’s a pub crawl later in the evening, and that’s enough holiday for me. I can order a pizza for dinner. For Christmas, I plan to have breakfast with my parents, open gifts and then kick back for the rest of the day while they go off to my sister’s in-laws’ house.

Even though my parents agree about the in-laws, they are telling me to suck it up and go for their sake. They and my sister are really upset with me, saying I’m going to ruin their holidays, hurt my brother-in-law’s feelings and not see my niece. I say there will be so many people around that my brother-in-law and niece won’t miss me, and I’ll see them both on Black Friday and then again on Christmas Eve, so it’s not like I’m missing out entirely.

Am I being selfish like they say? Don’t I have a right to enjoy my holidays, or do I have to suffer in silence?
— Anonymous

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3. Dear Annie: My son got married about eight months ago, and while I truly do love his new wife, I admit I'm scratching my head over a few things. Maybe it's the times changing, or maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but it feels like I got a fourth child instead of a daughter-in-law.

When they come over for dinner, I do what I've always done: make a nice meal, fix everyone a plate and pass the rolls. I'll serve my husband, my boys and even the dog if he looks hungry enough. But my new daughter-in-law? She piles food on her own plate, sits down and tells my son to get it himself. My jaw nearly hit the mashed potatoes. He works all day to provide for her, and the least she could do is hand him a pork chop! Instead, I find myself jumping up to fix his plate while she's scrolling through her phone.

And the laundry, don't even get me started. Because they don't have a washer and dryer, she brings her clothes over, and somehow, I end up doing them. It's like my son got married, and I gained another load of towels.

Should I speak up, or just keep folding her laundry and praying she buys a washing machine? -- Lost For Words in Georgia

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4. Dear Annie: Hoping you can offer some advice! My son has been married for six years to a beautiful girl who rarely speaks to us and acts as though we don't exist. Her distance has gotten much worse over time, and we have no idea why. We love her and are just as kind to her as we are to our other kids and their wives. My husband and I are so sad. This has broken our hearts.

We haven't said anything because we don't want to upset our son, but lately even he appears unhappy with her attitude toward us. When we've referred to her as our daughter -- as we do our other daughter-in-law, who loves the title -- she'll say, "No, thank you. I already have a mom and dad." We've always felt as parents ourselves that you can NEVER have too many people to love your child, so we were quite hurt by that.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. She's so cold and distant toward us that even our friends and family have noticed and commented. We are good people, we stay out of our kids' business and we keep our opinions to ourselves. Our motto is, "If you want our thoughts, you'll have to ask for them." We don't meddle or cause waves ever, yet she continues to find ways to fault us for things. It's completely unsubstantiated, but it persists!

It's to the point I have so much anxiety that I've considered seeking out a therapist. This DIL is so unapproachable, so to avoid conflict, we just sweep EVERYTHING under the rug to avoid causing our sweet son any grief.

Please let us know if you have any advice. Our hearts are broken! -- Boy Momma

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