Hell yeah V-Tech. Pretty sure I had one of those blue phones in my room when I became a teenager. Or it might have been in my dorm, can’t remember.

The advice I’ve heard for Parks and Rec is to straight up skip season 1. If you ever try again, I’d say you won’t miss anything crucial by going in cold in season 2.

Old boy might feel extra protective of his treats. You may want to take them out of the equation during interactions. Otherwise, just take it slow and steady, keep up the supervision for a while, and let them do their thing if no one is getting hurt.

I introduced two kittens to a 9yo cat several years ago. Our old lady is also a very sweet cat. To the kittens, she kind of acted (and still acts to some extent) like an auntie who isn’t afraid to tell them what’s what with a hiss or a bap, but it’s never very mean. Nowadays one of them will give it back to her, too. They don’t cuddle, but they all get along fine now and both “kittens” (they are almost 6 now) clearly like the old lady and will often sit near her. I think you have to give your old man a chance to make sure kitten knows that he’s in charge, and the way they do that is by asserting their dominance with a his or a bap. No claws is a great sign.

For what it’s worth, we also had to let our cats make sure the dog also knows who is in charge, lol. And she definitely knows!

As a kid I remember commercials for a local injury lawyer during daytime tv in the summer. His commercials were very memorable, just in the way he passionately talked. Now I see billboards for him and his son, and recently he was a sponsor at a college basketball event I attended. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug because I’m actually rather fond of him, in a stupid way.

In my area, he’s the only lawyer I see on billboards, or at least that I notice. When I visited Vegas, there were so many. (In my area, billboards are all nonsensical and if you look up what it’s supposed to be for, it’s always AI. Can you guess where I live? Sigh.)

For real. As a kid, I was enamored with the idea of Nessie, so when I went as an adult a couple of years ago, I just figured it wouldn’t live up to my childhood ideal. Little did I know that the area around Loch Ness is totally gorgeous. I loved every bit of it and would go back in a heartbeat to spend more time there.

Always sharing your menstrual product stash with any girl in need.

Space station commander… and later captain, but we’re not there yet. (Hubby’s first watch, my second.)

Also both brought blasters to an awards ceremony

Also texting existed but was like 10c per text and would easily rack up huge phone bill charges. We used IM programs on the computer instead. No one relied on their cell phones to actually communicate outside of an emergency because they sucked and were expensive.

My husband and son get the worst, most painful full-body hiccups so when I heard about the straw I thought, why not? It does work. However, it’s stupid expensive for a plastic straw so it stays at home all the time and sometimes they get hiccups when we’re out. We’ve found that jamming a regular straw flat against the bottom of a cup and then sucking really hard will pretty much work. The trick is making it hard to suck the liquid up the straw, so that your diaphragm is really working for it, and it’ll help reset things.

That’s a great teacher.

Is that why it’s happening? I’ve been noticing it too but I didn’t know what was causing it. Guess this comment is a test.

My kid last year in 5th grade (or maybe even the year before?) and his classmates figured out they could use shared Google Docs on their school accounts to have chats with each other, during school. The parent side of me rolled my eyes but the 80s kid in me was legitimately proud. Did I narc on them? Hell no.

The one hilarious thing is that all sorts of new social issues arise with this kind of workaround. Document names get changed, someone deletes something that someone else thinks is important, etc., and they have to work it out. So it’s a learning experience, for sure!

Mine are probably lasting about as long as previous non-EV cars, but I’m also terrible about getting them rotated when it’s not combined with an oil change.

My in-laws read just fine and are still off the deep end. It’s also about what they choose to read.

That we should monetize our hobbies.

It’s so interesting, I’m a west coaster and I get the impression that the expectations are much higher elsewhere in the US. Sometimes I feel extra made-up when I wear eyeliner with my mascara.

Similarly, everyone should shut up about other people having kids. Some people want kids but have trouble and saying anything at all about it to them is salt in a wound.

One of my favorite gifs of all time, never fails to give me a chuckle