Barbara Bui perfume.

The salad Panera used to have with salmon, oranges, olives.

Stick shift Honda Accord

I do drive, but also walk a lot and yes, I hit the hood of the car if crossing the street and someone starts to turn without looking the way they are going. Smack the hood, they stop, I cross. Can't even count the number of times I've done that.

As far as dealing with the anger, I would say your response was appropriate and it's much better you didn't smash her mirror.

I would hate this superpower. Having grown up with brothers, I learned to breathe defensively without smelling, but it's also so nice to be able to use scented products and perfume without it hurting.

Yeah I can't. I think in words, in English, very occasionally Spanish, but always language, words words words.

A person again, female again, in a developed country again. I would do this again. Please.

I make home-fermented ginger beer and no shit, Lemmy Shitposters, I can tell when it's done by listening to it, it hisses. My husband laughs at me because I will lean down with my ear to the pitcher, but it's the easiest way to tell.

An Eclipse. Definitely my kind of drink.

2oz Tequila

3/4oz Aperol

3/4oz Cherry Heering

3/4oz lemon

Mezcal rinse

Put mezcal in a coupe and park it in the freezer.

Measure everything else & shake with ice; retrieve the coupe and decide there is no way you are gonna pour any mezcal down the drain. Swirl and leave it all in there. Pour drink into glass.

Pregnancy can accelerate some sorts of cancer too - it's obviously your/her call but I would be very worried about the potential harm to your wife, more than the risk of infertility. ( ETA: I know not one, but two single fathers who lost their wives because of cancer that accelerated during pregnancy and the women would not abort to get treated and died soon after giving birth.)

Sorry you are going through this, and I hope it's resolved easily and your fears are not realized.

I saw them before they exploded into fame, and absolutely couldn't imagine that music becoming popular. There were like 30 people at the show, they were touring in a little van, all the way to Florida! My little brother's friend had given me a tape with a bunch of grunge bands on it, Tad and Mudhoney and Nirvana among them so when they came to play here I went.

Was absolutely dumbfounded when they started getting radio play, it was so different from everything else being played on the radio.

I think I'm probably older than most of you - it's hard to overstate how weird and countercultural this music sounded before it became the norm.

Anytime we get a duck I spend a long time skinning it and rendering the fat, because holy crap it is so good, and the de-fatted duck meat is easier to work with anyway. I do also render lard if we have pig, and other than that keep butter, olive oil and avocado oil on hand. Not really for health, any of that, it's to have good food but I do think less processed is likely healthier.

Chicken fat, schmaltz, is good for cooking too - put 4 salted, skin on, bone in chicken thighs in a cold iron skillet skin side down, turn on the stove and let them cook until the skin is brown, flip and finish, remove, then into the hot pan chopped greens, saute them in the chicken fat with a little white wine, so good.

Beef tallow is not delicious, though. It just doesn't taste good.

When I split from my ex, who had become abusive, my second to oldest daughter said she wouldn't even go to his funeral if he died.

It's been ten years, and in the intervening time, he's quit drinking and become more reasonable, and she will talk to him occasionally.

So my question is, do you have reason to think he's changed? If not, I'd say change your phone number or block him. But people can change. If you think he's changed, then yes it might be good for both of you.

I love them, they are so engaging and the different cultures are distinct in understandable ways, the plot hangs together, they are good books. Not like hard sci fi but effortless placement of a dramatic story in a different universe.