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  1. She does supplement b12, iron, d and magnesium.
  2. Thanks for checking. Yes and no; she seems to be over experiencing the immediate fatigue with eating. But she has spent more time being ill, or experiencing symptoms of some sort, than not since September. Now she has stomach pains after eating, which is the return of a symptom from a couple months ago that had cleared up. 🤷🏻‍♀️
  3. Tell the one in the wrong that they need to make amends. Or, they are welcome to find other living arrangements for the summer.
  4. My mom heated up and stayed that way for about 2 decades. Just in the last year or two, she will mention feeling cool when the rest of us do. I get the flashes. Mostly hot, but sometimes they are followed by a cold chill. So much fun. As far as feet go, I've never fit into women's "cute" styles ever in my life due to wide toes and mountainous arches. For the past dozen+ years I have almost exclusively purchased wide toe box, zero drop, "barefoot"ish, style shoes & boots. So far they still fit, possibly because they already have some leeway in the fit.
  5. Thanks ladies. Unfortunately, today is her last day of reading week, so she won't get as much rest as we'd like for her to get. She is also 1800 mi/2900 km away, living in the dorms at university, so not nearby for us to help in any meaningful way. Amazon Prime shipping takes a week or more, so she'd have to attend a medical facility to test or monitor O2 or sugar levels, IF they would do it. She does not normally have blood sugar issues. Fatigue is not outside her realm of "normal". However, extreme sleepiness fatigue that hits like a brick within moments of eating is new. Hopefully it's just a symptom that will be gone in a few days. She may have to try to fast until after classes are done for the day this week.
  6. DD tested + Thursday and - today. Yesterday and today as soon as she eats, she gets fatigue so extreme she pretty much passes out from exhaustion. After having a 60-90 minute nap she wakes up and feels fine. Any ideas what might be going on with that?
  7. A metaphor for coming from a can? Being put there by a man? In a factory downtown? 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️
  8. She was responding perfectly fine. She answers calls when she is available to talk, and doesn't when she is not available to talk. That is how the world works. In most healthy relationships it is unspoken yet understood. Saraha has no desire to change the way phone communication with her mother works. The way it works now was a hard-fought-battle to build those boundaries. Just because her mother has decided to test the boundary does not mean Saraha needs to capitulate to her demands to set a schedule or change anything. She'll answer when she has the spoons and ignore when she doesn't.
  9. You really are having your own conversation here, aren't you? First everyone hates business, and now we're restricting who houses are sold to? No. The discussion is using zoned property for the type of usage it was zoned for. Residential properties are ... residential. Not commercial. Not to be used for high-turnover business purposes. If corporations want to buy the house for LTR, then it is what it is. It's not an individual family owning, but at least it is long-term housing designed and zoned for that purpose. @DawnM, I see someone upthread answered your question, but I just want to confirm that is what I meant. People who educate specifically about how to get financially independent and possibly retire early.
  10. IF that was what she really saying, she would have listened the several times that Saraha tried to insert her own responses into the conversation. But that is not what happened. Her mom was not asking "can we try that?" and does not care whether Saraha "has a moment to talk" because she was not asking anything; she was issuing a proclamation about how Saraha is supposed to arrange her Sunday evening schedule from now on. What she really said was "you not being at my beck and call is not working for me, so I've given this a lot of thought and this is how I am taking control whether Sunday evenings works for you or not."
  11. Call her back one day this week that is not Sunday and tell her you do not agree to her edict, so don't sit around waiting for a phone call on Sunday that may or may not happen. Then continue to answer or ignore calls as your time & energy allows. She's trying to wrestle some control over a situation that you have not allowed her to control for a couple years now (yay you!). You already have your boundaries set on this, she's just trying to push on them to see how firm they are. Smile and wave at her over the fence and carry on with your day. Hugs. I hope you are able to sleep soon.
  12. Ha! I love the frog headband. 😁
  13. Let's stay away from strawmen. I specifically mention, in this very thread, two business types that I prefer to STRs. Hotels and corporate managed rentals, operating as an actual businesses with laws, taxes, and regulations. I said STRs, specifically, are problematic. Not business, in general.
  14. I've lived in a hotel suite for 6 weeks with my family during a move. I could cook my own food, and get included breakfast. There was laundry facilities for me to use, and also housekeeping for the bedding/bathrooms/deeper cleaning. If you choose to travel for work, you choose certain trade-offs like living in a hotel and making it work. 🤷🏻‍♀️ We have slumlords here, too. 🤷🏻‍♀️They choose excess profit and buying more property over maintenance. I've lived in a lot of long-term-rentals over the years. The "big bad corporate" apartment buildings were always the easiest to deal with and get maintenance done in a timely manner. They were a business. The individual landlords... well, we moved out at the end of the leases because maintenance just did not happen. However, I do believe there is a place for LTRs. STRs, not so much. Those already existed-they are called hotels or room and board. Want a STR - rent out the spare room in your house.
  15. I know you would prefer that. You already said it. But you called it a home. I called BS. 🤷🏻‍♀️
  16. Let's not confuse primary residence homes with corporate, money-making houses/apartments/townhomes, etc. Whether the owner is an indiviual or an actual corporation doesn't change the fact that their "extra houses/apartments" could be used as a home by someone, instead of a vacation rental. @SKL, I should have been more clear with my language. I was comparing housing vs. hotels. Not necessarily just single family houses with yards, etc. I mean any building zoned as residential - houses, condos, townhomes, apartments, etc. Commercial hotels have their own zoning, tax structures, and various laws they must follow re: fire safety/signage/health standards, etc. There can even be random inspections by various governing agencies to hold them accountable to these standards.
  17. In the Kellogg's thread, it was mentioned that someone used VRBO vs. hotels. It was implied as a "better alternative" to corporate hotels profiting from their stay. Can we discuss the negative effect VRBO/AirBnB has on the housing situation; effectively raising prices/shorting available stock, contributing to pricing the younger generations out of home-ownership because ALL housing is now potentially "a lucrative side hustle?". Also related: the growing trend of the "financial/ early retirement educators" hawking housing rental ownership is the key to financial indepence. At what size does a company become "greedy"? Is there a size/income threshold? Or is it how the corporation is structured? What if it's an individual owner operating under a huge publicly traded corporate umbrella? Should there be more regulations in place to protect single family housing from corporate ownership? Or is it up to each individual town/city/county to try to regulate that beast?
  18. Blind spots are one of the first things I look at in car shopping/test drive situation. Sometimes I don't even drive, I just sit in the driver's seat, then nope out. They are getting ridiculous b/c of side curtain airbags current design, but I don't think the added "safety" is worth the added risk in most of them.
  19. Thinking of you, hoping for some calm and boring for you all.
  20. Very scary! I'm glad your bladder woke you up and you are all on the mend now. Some family friends had a similar experience last winter and lived (it was a matter of minutes) to tell the tale. We have smoke/CO detectors in every bedroom and in the hall outside of the bedrooms on both floors.
  21. DH and I have only had a few fights in our 23 years, but they were not over "little" things. I am very much a "water off a duck's back" personality type, so if I'm going to expend the energy to argue/fight, it is about something pretty serious. That said, there are certain topics of conversation that I also will not really engage in with him, or will only engage when I feel like I'm totally in a "water off the back" headspace where I can employ a mostly Socratic discussion where I just mostly ask questions and just let him be 'wrong'.
  22. Aww, it's always so sad to lose a fur family member. Sending your DD love and light.
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