Given what I remember about your history with your dh, I would say something along the lines of, "I'm thinking of buying myself a ring in remembrance of our anniversary. Unless, of course, you have some objection." Said with as much equanimity as can be managed. If I am reading the situation right, a direct statement of hurt feelings might send a "needy" message, while calmly attempting to rectify the situation might communicate strength, which would garner more respect.

I find it takes filling it almost full—say with 3-4 cloves—cut in half, at least. Then expect leftover stuff that doesn’t get pressed. If I want only 1clove, I do it by hand. It becomes worth using the press when doing 3 or more.

Young children can function at much lower bg's than adults. Dd could tell me, at bg 28, that she might need to have her sugar checked now, rather than later. Glucometers have a tolerance of 15% or 15 mg/dL in over 95% of trials. And of course they are used by babies and children. How on earth do you treat a Type 1 diabetic child if you don’t have any idea what their bg is?!? You are certainly not taking them to a lab 4-8 times a day for an absolutely accurate bg!

Sportsman Guide has a folding chair with back support. Way more supportive and comfortable than typical.

That stinks! Hope it isn't too bad and you recover soon.

I wear these all the time: I am 5' 9" with average proportions height wise and the regular length is fine.

I had one almost like that. It did help to restrict amount, so I am afraid I can't help with further suggestions.

If you don't mind popular Ava Mia Oops, no Ava

Maybe they like you so much because you write fabulous answers! I do wish you luck. Hope you don't have to do it again anytime soon.

And SpyCar seems to think the comment about wishing the perpetrator could experience an "eye for and eye" was part of the sentencing when it was clearly not. Don't know how to deal with that.

The goal is this: when someone is harmed, do something to ameliorate it! When someone is systematically harming someone, do something to stop it! I don't quite get the problem here.

No, vengeance is not the goal. The goal is to rectify wrongs. Where is the wrong here?

SpyCar: You are on the wrong side of this. Despite your professed assertions to the contrary, First, align yourself with the downtrodden and abused, THEN make suggestions to fine tune semantics. Coming out guns blasting at a judge who FINALLY aligns with victims is tone deaf at best. Until you have experienced what it is to be be disbelieved, discredited, discarded merely because of a chromosome, you have NO right to claim APOCALYPSE! (SOCIETY IN DANGER) minority judge actually SAID what many people think! If your true goal is justice, then you would have first acknowledged the real, true, ongoing issue of females being disbelieved, discredited and discarded. If you have been a victim of sexual abuse, I am truly sorry. It is, as you might know, an ongoing effort to recover worth, efficacy, value. To start with the presumption of belief, that what has damaged you will be accepted as fact, is actually a privilege in our society. A privilege not shared by the slim majority. To rail against a judge who has done so much to rectify an ongoing wrong, even though imperfectly, is inconceivable, if ones goal is actual fairness.

Right.... sexism works both ways because women have had, historically, the same voice as men. Women have had equal access to positions of power to balance the injustices done TO them as have been perpetrated BY them. OMG

Abuser 101: become the victim

Beautiful! Congratulations!

I'm so sorry! Hugs and sleep... I cannot function without sleep.

Breakfast will be a handful of Brazil nuts. Typical for a not working day. Work days I add a couple of eggs or some fish or ham or something protein. Brazil nuts because they are very high in selenium and while not technically deficient, my body does a very poor job of converting thyroid hormone which needs selenium.

I just looked up my order from September. $13.99 for organic. I wonder why I always remember paying less than I did? Wishful thinking?😅

The raw honey is more than the amount I paid for the berries. Still way cheaper than buying the syrup.

I wonder if the current flu season is driving prices up.

I do. A pound from Amazon for about $12 I think. I have made 3 batches and still have over half the berries left. ETA. The brand I bought is currently not availableðŸ™

I have Hashimoto's and I take elderberry. What are the symptoms of a cytokines storm?

Yes, the fume free Easy Off.

Oven cleaner. The low odor kind or you will wish you had lol. Seriously, that is what worked on a shower that had every other imaginable cleaner used on it and still was discolored.