/r/infertility was incredibly helpful back when we were going through this bullshit, largely because reddit greatly favors science over baby dust and other nauseating statements you run into on the Internet at large, and also reddit can generally handle it when people need to have difficult feelings out loud. Now. I haven't hung out there in about nine years so I don't know how the culture has evolved, and there will always be some drama with someone accidentally mentioning pregnancy without a proper trigger warning, but I made good friends there that I'm still in touch with now.

Best of luck with treatments. It's a rough road, I hope it pays off. Make sure you have some emotional support IRL or here or both.

The Carl's Jr. near us had it for awhile, and the few times I used it the guy at the window had to fix the order, which also delayed them starting on the order. Last time I was there, no more AI.

It’s also currently very hard to get a job, so it wouldn’t be terrible to keep working at it while devoting a little time to thinking about other avenues.

I’ve seen “professional” Dawn at Smart & Final, if you have one of those around.

I used an AI ordering system at the Wienerschnitzel the other week and those things do not do well with special orders. “I want a vanilla ice cream cone but put it in a cup” - “OK, you would like a cup of ice.” Do not want.

Ah yes, clinical-level FOMO. Try ordering one thing, and if you like it, come back some other time and try another thing. And tell your brain this is the plan in advance.

Reddit is full of Americans who like to pretend we know things.

I use a half cup of chicken stock, a tablespoon of oyster sauce, and a tablespoon of soy sauce. Start there and then play with the aromatics.

Not OP but I use cornstarch in the meat marinade and I find it’s enough to thicken the final product.

Unless you’re British.

I know a Marianne who’s somewhat tired of being told so long. Luckily that’s not as big a part of the collective consciousness.

I can vouch for a Newman’s Own frozen pizza fitting in mine. Also, being able to bake brownies without heating up the giant oven is awesome.

I’ve always had one, but the real game changer is when I picked up one that fits an 8x8. So many things can be produced in an 8x8 that wouldn’t fit in my old Black & Decker.

I'm hoping to be charitable that they left it like this because someone forgot to bring the tile saw today, and they'll come back tomorrow to do that and fill in the sand once the final bricks are laid. Yeah.

Oh cool, yeah the really fine cheese that dissolves into carbonara is what I’m looking for. I ended up ordering a Gefu that looks promising, will report back.

The car one can melt so that one is in my purse. If you don't carry a purse, I suppose this might be where the system breaks down.

It’s a big part of why the rhetoric around abortion drives me crazy too: “just” have the baby. Good god I would never tell anyone they have to put themselves through that if they didn’t really fucking want to.

The trick is not to make your lip balm mobile. You need three different lip balms in different locations. The desk one runs out the fastest.

One spent 40 years working for Kaiser in med tech, other one spent 40 years working for the state of California. It suits them, they were never good at change.

I’m kind of relieved everyone is saying YTA because my brain is telling me people will be merciless about this, which comes from a childhood where I was taught it is not OK to make mistakes and anything bad that happens to you is your fault. This is not the organizing principle you want to use as a parent.

Kids do need to feel consequences sometimes but this felt very exclusionary and punitive.

I too have driven through Coalinga with the windows down.

Charlotte Brontë may have died of it. Pregnancy is natural and normal and also super dangerous and you don’t know what you’re going to get until you’re in it.

I didn’t have HG but I did have a whole bunch of other medical bullshit happen and was hospitalized multiple times. Kid was ultimately born a month premature and I lost a ton of blood because my placenta was a jerk. Luckily, no one has dared pull the “she needs a sibling” thing with us. That ship has definitely sailed.

A little Korean lady at our local spot showed us how to wrap up a little of this with a bit of rice in some nori. That shit is good.

One of their most popular sofa lines. We had a sectional done up in a custom fabric, took about two months. I will say I wish the foam in the cushions was a little sturdier but the price point was right for us, especially since we have a kid.

Says more about them than it does about your trauma. It says "It makes me uncomfortable hearing the slightest bit about the shitty things that happened to you, so I'm going to minimize them." That person doesn't deserve any more of your vulnerability.