I do a bullet journal but not using any of the original bullet journal stuff 😁 For weekly planning -- I write out the days across 2 pages to show all required places/times -- and then down at the bottom of the page I put any repeating or to-do's. I fiddle with the layout all the time but I don't do any fancy stuff. Plus for monthly I write days down side -- similar to that one @73349 posted as Franken type -- but I usually only put a couple months at a time and I just start wherever i'm at instead of having the months all pretty across the top (and I found that idea somewhere online but so long ago I cant cite whose idea it was). ETA: I see that Franken one has you put the actual things to do on next page, no on the calendar -- whoever I got my idea from just had it written right next to date. I do write notes when reading non-fiction in my bullet journal but I don't do any indexing. Been wondering if there isn't some way to move all that note taking online and make it searchable (have only looked slightly at things like Notion and Obsidian )

I do band assisted pull-ups all the time (although at my current weight I need two bands) BUT my pull-up bar is in the doorway so I can still put my feet on the floor while in the bands fwiw one thing I do to work on just hanging is put my feet on a stool -a tall one, like you would sit on, not a step stool - it takes a lot of my weight off (and I’ve used it occasionally to get the bands off too) Also have gymnastics rings on the pull up bar but I only use them to do rows- if I had a taller bar I would definitely be trying to do pull ups on them (and dreaming of doing fancier things 😂)

I think your younger is in early high school or late middle school? IME that is the worst time for friendships not the easy one it's often thought. All 3 of mine lost long term close friendships in middle school (not due to moving or trauma or anything -- just kids changing as they hit puberty). Only the first just moved on easily and has maintained high school friendships after high school. The 2nd found a "group" to hang with eventually but kept touch with none of them after, and the 3rd is in early high school now and struggling. No advice-- only saying this because for me, knowing it isn't necessarily the trauma would help.

Well, this thread got me trying out my pushup level 😁 -- and although I could do a few on my bottom step, when I tried to switch to the floor I was getting stuck right at the point where my upper arms were parallel to the floor and couldn't even squeeze out one 😢 I was thinking, I wish there was a band assisted way to help with pushups the way there is for pullups -- and google granted my wish (after a bit of playing around with search terms haha). You can either use a band attached to something else (longer style band) and wrap it at your chest or hips, or wrap the band around your arms (either longer style or shorter style band) and either way will give you a bit of help at the bottom part of the pushup. Here is a video from youtube showing both ideas (+ there are lot of shortie versions if you search on "band assisted pushup") youtube video that shows both ideas

Doing full pushups on stairs, moving down a stair as you get stronger, are the best way to build the strength for full pushups on ground imo i also never could transition from half to full before I saw that idea. (also found that keeping arms at 45 degree angle instead close to body or completely out, like most people do/recommend, was a game changer for my shoulders!)

My parents spanked us (with hand, belt and yardstick) but they never spanked my 5 year younger brother- which I believe is because the acceptance of spanking was changing during those years.

My mom was known as very strict- for example when she said I could get my ears pierced at 18 my bff’s parents also relented and let her get her ears pierced, saying specifically that if my mom was letting me do it then they knew it must be ok - however she was not all that strict in my adult opinion, looking back ( she had an extremely strict upbringing and was trying to be less strict- and I wasn’t socially adept enough to understand when things were negotiable) (the earring thing is weird to me now but a big deal when I was in high school in the 70’s)

I completely disagree with the idea that school was harder "in the past" and easier "now". I graduated in 1980, so 40+ years ago -- my high school had NO honors or AP courses. There was no advanced math. And even so long ago, all required for graduation courses were dumbed down so that everyone could graduate. They were so easy that one of my classmates took the full senior year english and civics (the only 2 senior level required classes) in SUMMER school-- a full year of 2 classes in less than 3 months --so she could graduate early and head off to college. And even looking at non-required for graduation classes -- what few classes there we had were pretty much equal to my kids HS's regular classes -- and not as hard as honors classes much less AP. I do agree there is more push to standardize teaching now and less focus on "the basics"-- in my HS education I had a couple teachers who were really focused on "basics" and pounding them into us & that was helpful to me -- and I think that doesn't happen as much now with the standardization -- there is a lot of expectation that "you should have already learned that" and less going over "the basics" again and again. But I also think that is luck of the draw as well. There was no guarantee at my school that you would get one of those particular teachers, for example.

We sometimes run dishwasher twice a day and sometimes once and sometimes not at all. The person who loads during the day is not the person who loads at night. It was causing pretty much daily problems- which (homemade) magnet works perfectly to fix. only downside is dh refuses to use magnet (but he only loads maybe once a month & usually I’m the one unloading after and can figure it out)

You take the red pill - because actually we are all just batteries in a computer simulation 😁

I would tear it down 😄 However, we put a big ‘window’ in our wall (load bearing) and that also opened it up considerably

You poked the bear and he got all wigged out- and then you kept poking. Clearly the emojis didn’t work and yet you didn’t change the way you presented your humor. Saying we just don’t get your humor doesn’t fix that (as I also keep telling my daughter). Anyway I don’t agree emoji are the key - ime poking fun, dry humor and sarcasm are generally not leavened enough by emojis and need something more explicit (unless the reference to poking fun is clear to everyone - which is clearly cultural and may explain why you think only Americans get away with poking fun at Americans)

Probably because what you are calling ridiculing comes across to Americans as purposefully baiting (trolling) without any of the sense of poking fun/joking/ridiculing that you think you are showing. Americans can tell when other Americans are just making fun -- but your 'making fun of' doesn't show us any of the cultural signs that would mean it is all in fun. As I have had to tell my younger daughter recently- if the other person doesn't think her 'jokes' are funny and gets upset rather than laughing -- then what she's doing is not actually the "joking around" she thinks it is. Not really different whether it's due to social cluelessness or culture clash IMO, especially when doubling down on a joke after seeing that people didn't take it as humorous.

I've taken Meyers Briggs tests at college, at work, at church. I wouldn't say anyone I know commonly discusses it -- but if the subject comes up which IME it does occasionally (even if not commonly), everyone knows their type (or types for those of us who test into multiple). I personally wouldn't like an employer who considered this key info that needed to be used and discussed on an ongoing basis though -- but that probably has to do with the fact that my type changes depending on the specific test.

One of my friends had their dining room table in what was really a very big entry way -- because it was normally used more as a pass through they got one of those old fashioned dining room tables that dropped all the way down. Of course this also only really works if you use the dining table more occasionally (I loved the idea so much I got a table like it when we moved to our current house -- but we used our table every day, and I wasn't willing to drop it down and put it up every day so ended up switching to a more normal table).