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If you're biking to work or otherwise hunting for a water-repellent bag, it can be really tricky to find one for work because they all look a bit rugged.
That said, I think Hedgren has a ton of really minimal-looking bags that are also billed as being water repellent. I love that diagonal zipper, but they have others that look even more classic.
This backpack (also available in a pretty green) has a water-repellent exterior, “plenty of pockets,” and a laptop compartment. For $120, I think it looks like a great bet.
(Ooh: they also have a convertible bag if that's more to your taste (backpack –> hobo). Nordstrom Rack also has some totes from the brand (with diagonal zipper!) for around $70.)
Readers, if you're really worried about the weather on your commute, what bag are you carrying these days?
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- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- White House Black Market – 40% off select styles
anon.
I have a random fidget toy question. Has anyone bought Crazy Aaron’s putty for themselves or a child? Is there another option out there that’s similar and also in fun colors? VERY low stakes for your Tuesday afternoon.
Anonymous
We’ve bought them – they’re ok. kind of just overpriced playdoh. the scented ones may or may not be appealing for a neurodiverse child, just fyi.
Anonymous
+1
Anom
It can stain fabric and get caught on stuffie’s fur. You wouldn’t want a small child playing with on your sofa or your rug. Or in their bed.
Anon
I live in the East Bay in the SF Bay Area and we’re planning to start TTC in the next two months (wow, feels scary to type that out…) after a final not-kid-friendly adventure vacation. It feels totally crazy, but there’s no harm in getting on daycare waitlists now, right, even though I’m not pregnant yet? I’ve heard of friends going both ways (waiting until the positive test vs. waiting until TTC) and I can’t decide. Honestly seems like we’re going to be screwed no matter what…
Anon
Most daycares need a due date so I don’t think you can get on the list before you conceive. But definitely call ASAP once pregnant.
anon
+1
Anon
I needed a note from my doctor with a due date on it. Infant slots are in serious undersupply. And you don’t need one until your maternity leave is just about over.
Anonymous
The on-campus day care at the college where I worked only accepted waiting list applications in September. They advised everyone to get on the list when planning to TTC. Insanity.
Anon
University daycare is a different level of nuts, I think. Ours did not accept you until you were pregnant but I got on the waitlist in June 2017 when I found out I was pregnant and we got a spot in June 2019 when my daughter was 16 months old. I know people who waited more than 2 years.
Emma
Gentle suggestion to wait until you’re pregnant. It took me thirteen months to conceive and it would have stung to get a daycare call at that time. Once you have a positive pregnancy test and an approximate date you will be needing daycare should be plenty of notice.
Anon
YMMV, but a lot of women would deal with that sting rather than the serious prolonged stress of not having a spot when it’s time to go back to work…
Anonymous
Another wait till you’re pregnant vote.
You have no idea whether you will get pregnant right away, so it’s best to wait until it actually happens.
phillyanon
Echoing everyone saying to wait until you have a positive test. It could go the other way – a spot miraculously opens up when you’re 8 months pregnant and you’re stuck passing on it or paying for daycare for several months before you start to use it. It totally stinks!
Anonymous
That’s insane. You’re not pregnant you’re not trying you should not be on day care lists omg I cannot
Anon
This ungrammatical tr011 is very strange to me. It doesn’t even matter what the issue is – you can bank on snarky run-on sentences galore. I can only assume this person didn’t have the benefit of an education. So sad.
Anonymous
Huh? That post is perfectly clear and also correct.
Anon
It is neither correct in content nor in structure. It’s how a nine-year-old would speak though.
Anon
There’s some punctuation that would be added by an editor in a formal context, but this is not formal writing. Maybe the writer’s education was good enough that they learned about asyndeton in a rhetoric class?
Anon
I agree with you that it is insane. Look, OP, I know you’re trying to control pieces in a process that is so out of your control, but you need to wait on this one.
Anon
Call a few of the daycares you’re interested in and ask! I promise it’s not an insane question, they’ll let you know if they need a due date/deposit etc.
Anonymous
you’re getting a lot of guff but in NYC/Brooklyn it was as insane as I’d imagine SF to be. I do think you’ll need a due date, especially since you don’t know how long it will take to conceive, but if your local friends have had other experiences I’ll defer to them.
Curious
In Seattle the wait list accept guesstimates of due dates that you can update when you conceive. This is not as insane as several very rude posters are suggesting and in fact responds to an extremely stressful reality.
Curious
*many wait lists accept
East Bay Anon
I’m 7 months pregnant and live in the East Bay so I just went through this. My husband and I waited until I was in the second trimester to start calling places. We have a spot reserved (not waitlist but an actual spot that we paid for) when we’ll need it in January, but we were lucky (daycare happened to be opening an entire new infant classroom exactly when we needed). Many places we called didn’t have anything available for us until long after we need care, even on a waitlist. One place we really liked is booked for infant spots until summer 2025 (!!!) which means there are people on their waitlist who are not even planning to TTC for another year. Some places require a due date – call those as soon as you have one. Other places don’t require one so you can literally get on the waitlist before you even start TTC (and some people do). To the posters saying this is crazy, yes, it is, but it’s also reality if you can’t afford or don’t want a nanny and you work.
Anon
Do you mind sharing the names of some of the places you looked at?
Anon
I’m one of the posters this morning who owns guns but don’t talk about it/I wouldn’t be surprised if no one I know knows. The main reason is I enjoy target shooting and have historically preferred to keep them at the range. These days especially given that I live in a high crime area I’m starting to feel a little differently although I can’t actually imagine shooting someone even under duress. I don’t have kids so there’s no risk or wandering hands. If I did I would definitely not keep them in the house.
Anon
I am in DC and this is a very reasonable question to me. I’d call a few that have infant spots and are in a good location and see what their waitlist policies are – if they need a due date. If there is a waitlist fee, you probably don’t want to put it down at a zillion places but seems smart to t etc on the list for 2-3. It may take you a long time to get pregnant but the worst thing that happens is between now and then you get a call from a daycare and it makes me sad – but if you are trying to get pregnant and having trouble that will be but one of many triggers so I don’t think that is a reason to not explore this early
Anon
Genuinely curious, on this mornings thread several posters mentioned owning guns. I’m wondering why these posters have guns?
As a non-hunter who has never needed one for work, gun ownership has truly never crossed my mind so for the gun owners here, why did you become a gun owner?
Anon
I don’t have guns but I live in a red state so know tons of people who do… hunting and self-defense are the big reasons.
Explorette
I inherited some from my dad when he passed. I bought a revolver for myself to take backpacking for protection against wolves (more to protect my dog than me, wolves will try to kill dogs). I have a few shotguns that I use for shooting sporting clays.
Anonymous
Wow so you’re one of the Americans who randomly has an arsenal.
Anon
Aren’t all hobbies random?
Anon
Yeah but most hobbies don’t involve deadly weapons
Anon
Huh. Still not sure about your use of the word “random.” Archery has been a hobby forever. Are you also mad about random football playing given the risk of concussion? What other hobbies are random?
Anon
My hobbies don’t include objects involved in mass murders and school shootings.
Anon
Not an owner, but I have enjoyed target practice and shooting as a sport. I live in the SEUS and in more rural areas, gun clubs and shooting ranges and sporting clays are things and often done as fundraisers for local good causes. Kids often learn archery (different than guns) and then advance to rifles at summer camps when they are teens. Often, shooting is BYOG but different ranges let you borrow ones on hand (like bowling shoes). I live in a bougie area of my city, so not feeling like I need one at home for protection.
Anonymous
Imagine a world where using deadly weapons wasn’t normalized as a festive fundraiser. When kids get shot at school people like you who cavalierly participate in glorifying guns bear some of the responsibility
Anon
Save the clay pigeons!!!
Anon
Seriously?! I dont think that the sporting clays folks are where the problems are coming from.
Trish
I have never had a client who was arrested for shooting the clay pigeons.
Anon
European here and it’s weird how defensive Americans are of murder weapons.
Anon
I’m American and I think it’s weird AF too. And terrifying.
Anon
Should I get rid of my knives?
Anonymous
Pretty sure clay shooting came from Europe and still exists there. And enough people worldwide shoot as a sport for it to have multiple Olympic events.
Anonymous
I do not own one, but members of my extended family have kept them for protection against wild animals when living in rural areas.
OP
Thanks for sharing, this is a reason that makes total sense to me!
anon
I inherited a ton of guns after my dad passed, including several of the AR varietals. I grew up going to the range with my dad, was in the military, etc, so occasionally I do go to the range or a base event and its fun to bring my dads guns. A good memory, if you will.
I’m not passionate about it or tied to it, but honestly laziness is half the reason I keep them. Figuring out how to sell them to a responsible party, etc, just seems overwhelming and way harder then leaving them locked up in the gun safe.
Anonymous
It’s not hard to scrap them actually.
Anon
If you started this discussion so you could argue with people and shame them for sharing information, reconsider your actions and the audience you’re speaking to.
Anon
This is the OP and I have not commented elsewhere. Different Anons.
Anon
I have a comment in mod about the guns we inherited from my FIL. It’s really complex to figure out how to sell guns and I am also worried about selling a gun and then the person we sell it to sells it to someone who then uses it in a crime. I would feel terrible. Our guns are probably safer with us – unloaded, in a safe – than they would be with many people.
Runcible Spoon
Most reputable/responsible/professional police forces will happily take an unwanted firearm off your hands. You simply call the non-emergency line, report that you have an unwanted firearm, and request that a police officer respond to the residence and direct the officer to where the firearm is located; or alternatively (though less preferred) you drive the firearms, unloaded and locked in the trunk of your car, to a police station, enter — without the firearms — and report the situation, and they will assign a police officer to go out to your vehicle to retrieve the firearms. No need to sell unwanted inherited firearms that you didn’t expend any funds to acquire.
Anon
Your local police dept might have a buyback program
Anon
I can’t imagine there’s a responsible buyer of an AR? Like I know there must be but the sole purpose of an AR is carnage (you can’t hunt with one, you can shoot other guns at the range).
What kind of responsible gun owner would want one?
Anon
Get out more.
Anon
+1
I know very little about guns, but “the sole purpose of an AR is carnage” is just silly. That is clearly not what they are predominantly being used for!
I would have been fine with past bans not expiring (as it is, I think past bans were counterproductive). I’m surprised there aren’t stricter rules about marketing.
Anon
And yet, isn’t just about every mass shooting committed by someone with an AR…
anon
No, actually. Handguns are used in 78% of mass shootings. It’s the ones you hear about in the media that are assault rifle-style mass shootings.
Anon
I have family members who have ARs. And, I gotta say, they’re pretty fun to shoot. They have them only for recreational shooting. They would almost always have a handgun for self defense, not an AR. Sure, you can shoot other guns just like you can wear other shoes, but it is a different experience.
Anon
“Fun to shoot”. Wtf. Their whole purpose is violence. Hint is in the name ‘assault’.
Serious farmers or sports people don’t use them.
Anonymous
I think about this old article in Wired a lot – the basic idea is that the AR-15 is MADE to be super fun and customizable so it’s practically a gadget. https://www.wired.com/2013/02/ar-15/
And that’s fine! I get it! Yay gun go boom! But can’t we limit these to shooting ranges or require that land be zoned for their use?
some quotes from the article:
In the past two decades, the AR-15 has evolved into an open, modular gun platform that’s infinitely hackable and accessorizable. With only a few simple tools and no gunsmithing expertise, an AR-15 can be heavily modified, or even assembled from scratch, from widely available parts to suit the fancy and fantasy of each individual user. In this respect, the AR-15 is the world’s first “maker” gun, and this is why its appeal extends well beyond the military enthusiasts that many anti-gun types presume make up its core demographic.
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“I always tease that it’s like Legos for grown men,” Duncan elaborates, “because there’s plenty of guys that get one, two, six ARs. And they’re constantly tinkering with them — changing barrel lengths, changing optics, putting different sights on them. It’s the same reason that a guy gets into remote-controlled cars or fly tying. Because it’s a fun hobby, and it’s a distraction from reality sometimes.”
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Anon
Can’t these men get a hobby that doesn’t involve a weapon?
I understand people have guns for defense, hunting, animal control. I do not understand why anyone has one purely for fun. It’s disgusting.
Sure, I like different shoes for different occasions but if one shoe could cause a lot of damage to others, I would just forgo that shoe?
Anon
Do you feel the same way about all weapons?
I honestly don’t think it’s disgusting when people have other weapons for fun. I have a vaguely negative association of modern crossbows because of hunting debates, but if someone wants to mod and target practice with a modern crossbow, I am not disgusted.
In general, playing with weapons (even if we’re talking about kids using sticks they’re pretending are swords) seems close to a human nature universal to me.
Anon
Anon at 5:42, I am confident that I know more serious farmers and sportspeople than you do. And several of them do in fact have ARs for recreational shooting.
anon
Haha same. I know plenty of serious hunters and farmers who have ARs. They aren’t hunting with them, but they are absolutely shooting them at the range or at targets on their land.
Anon
They may be fun, but my opinion is that they have proven sufficiently destructive to our society that they are a kind of fun we should ban. The threat these weapons pose by being so available simply outweighs the pleasure some individuals get from using them as a hobby.
Anon
+ 1 to what sort of responsible gun owner would want one.
Anon
I abhor guns. After my in-the-process-of-divorcing ex shot himself, I sold all the guns I found at a gun store. I explained the circumstances and brought them to the store. The sales were smooth and effortless. I needed the cash, and I certainly wasn’t going to hang on to them. I have never touched a gun and never want to.
pugsnbourbon
+1. Go to a well-reviewed gun store in your area. It’s unlikely you ‘ll get much for them, but it’s a safe way to sell them. Source – sold two guns my wife inherited this way.
Runcible Spoon
You could also surrender them to the local police force for destruction. Especially when the firearms are inherited and therefore you did not spend any money to acquire them — no need to profit off this undesired weapon when you can safely dispose of it in a manner almost guaranteed to keep the firearms out of anyone else’s hands.
Anon
I looked them up on line for comp pricing. The store offered cash in the comp ball park. Very positive experience for a horrific situation. I just sat there, in the store, staring at all those guns. Shocked and shocking.
anon
I enjoy range shooting and taking safety and tactical classes. I am the morning poster who wanted to learn gun safety and it turned out that I enjoy target shooting. I prefer shooting my own firearm to renting each time, so I own a handgun. It is always in the safe if it’s not at the range or on its way to and from the range. I am not delusional enough to think I have the level of skill it takes to be truly effective in using it for self-defense, so I do not keep it for that reason.
Brooklynite
This makes sense to me. I went to a shooting range once and was surprisingly a lot more terrified by the whole process than I thought I would be, but I can see how it might be fun for some people. I think the folks who keep it for self defense (against other humans, not animals) are a lot more delusional/dangerous.
Anon
We shoot skeet and my husband bird hunts, so we have a shotgun for that. (I actually borrow a range gun for skeet because his beats up my shoulder.). We have a handgun for target shooting. My husband also got a tactical shotgun after a string of scary home invasions (one of which resulted in death) in our neighborhood, but since the perpetrators were finally arrested he’s considering selling it.
Anon
We have never purchased a gun; we have inherited guns from my FIL (who had a dealer’s license as he collected and sold antique and rare guns) and from both my grandfathers, who left their favorite hunting rifles to my son as he was the oldest great-grandchild and that is very much A Thing in my family culture.
The guns we own from my FIL date from the late 1700s to the mid 1970s and are old, rare, old and rare, or have some family significance. I would like to sell some of them but they’re items that have a lot of sentimental attachment for my husband.
We don’t have ammo for any of our guns. We’ve never shot the guns. We don’t hunt and neither my husband or son is interested in learning to hunt. My son has no interest in the guns at all, so I have a lot of questions about what will happen to them in the long run. Hence, my desire to sell them now, and not just have a gun safe we never open full of guns sitting in one of our closets. As it is, I will likely have to wait until my husband is gone and then I’ll either take them to a buy-back/turn in event or see if I can sell them to a dealer who will appreciate them as collectibles.
Anon
We also inherited a handful of mostly hunting riffles, all of which are kept locked up. Never shot them, and honestly probably won’t since they are so old. Why do we have them? Because they are some of the few things that were truly my FILs that DH has.
Anon
This is very eye opening as (despite what was said on this mornings thread) I really don’t think I know a single gun owner
Anon
I’m sure you do know gun owners. As a matter of fact, more and more African Americans are buying guns.
Senior Attorney
Yeah, you only think you don’t know gun owners. People are quiet about it where there’s a lot of anti-gun sentiment.
Anon
Exactly. This thread is a perfect example where someone asked the question, people answered in good faith, and now those people are being attacked.
Explorette
Which I 100% expected given the attack mentality this board sometimes has. But OP asked a genuine question and I wanted to give a genuine answer.
Anon
I admit I’m defensive about this because I have three friends who were shot in the last 3 months and their lives (and their family’s lives) will be changed forever. I cannot begin to express how much I detest guns and everything they stand for. So, if people are ashamed to bring up their gun ownership and if that maybe makes them rethink it, then good.
Anon
Honestly, if this is true and I know more gun owners than I suspect, that fact makes me very, very uncomfortable
Anon
Me too.
anon
I almost guarantee that you do.
Anon
I don’t have kids who are old enough for drop-off play dates yet, but I always thought the advice to ask the parents about guns was overkill because I didn’t think many (any?) people in my circle had guns. I now know that I will have to ask that question.
I hate it here.
Anon
You absolutely need to ask about guns. And I feel you.
Anon
Asking about guns is good (though awkward – I’ve never met anyone else who asks), but it’s also important to teach your kids about gun safety. Teach them never to touch a gun and to get an adult if they see anything that looks like a gun.
Anon
Statistically you do know a gun owner. Plenty of us have one locked in a safe in case of emergency but we don’t blab about it to our friends. It’s similar to a prenup: it’s on hand should the worst happen but we don’t mention it to most friends or think about its existence on a daily basis.
OP
OP here and this is once again genuine curiosity. When you say you have one in case of emergency, what does that mean?
My great uncle was a prepper who had guns, cans of food, and gold on hand for the “end of days” but I imagine many responsible gun owners who have guns for emergencies aren’t preppers?
Anon
We have a gun. It’s locked up with ammo separate. Our second home was burglarized and it seemed the criminals had come to the the property more than once. When we went back to inspect, my husband brought the gun, fully loaded. My aunt and uncle got a gun when their daughter was a stalking victim.
Anon
After hurricane Andrew and Katrina, I see why people who might not want a gun generally would be happy to have one, sitting in the dark with no Foote or walls on the house.
Anon
I think having a stalker / death threats is a pretty common reason (unless you have absolute faith in a restraining order, or you relocate and successfully hide your new location/identity, there are not a ton of options!).
Senior Attorney
If I lived where everybody else was armed to the teeth, and I was part of the political minority, I might well arm myself to level the playing field in case of civil unrest.
Also I have relatives who have guns that only come out of the gun safe to go to the shooting range.
Anon
Primarily because my family began spending more time in the city and crime rates are increasing, even during the day. A few of my relatives have concealed carry permits but didn’t keep guns in the house until the kids were grown. In May 2020 there were riots and looting in my normally safe neighborhood and let’s just say I was relieved to have a gun for essential errands. Of course Plan A is avoiding unsafe situations and retreating if possible.
Anon
Anon @5:27, what item do you own that is worth someone’s life?
Anonymous
My dad has some sort of handgun he bought for self-defense after a) my parents’ house was broken into and b) he had some issues with some employees (like of the criminal, got them arrested, type). (My hometown is… not safe. I know multiple people who have been robbed at gunpoint and one who was kidnapped at gunpoint (all ultimately fine). So yea). I do not own any guns, have never held a gun, and have no idea how to use one (I also no longer live in said dangerous hometown). But I’m in the South, so I know A LOT of people who own them. Some for self defense, some that live in the middle of nowhere with livestock and have them for coyotes, and a bunch of deer hunters.
Anonymous
I live in the Philly suburbs and I’m sure I have a few acquaintances who own guns for hunting (it is PA after all), and a few colleagues who are former military or law enforcement may own guns too but I really don’t think anyone owns recreational guns. But, I think I’d reconsider my friendship with them if they did. I really don’t see a reason to own a gun aside from hunting or job related reasons (and I still don’t agree with it, but I understand why).
Walnut
I don’t personally own a gun, but my family had one around growing up for rabid animal critter control. If I were to return to rural living, it’s likely I’d have one for that purpose as well.
OP
This is a reason I could see having a gun. Thanks for sharing.
Anon
My parents’ best friends were a gun family. That’s how I learned to shoot a gun, how I went to turkey shoots and won things like a box of jello for shooting a clay pigeon.
The guy also shot his thumb off, and at least once was arrested for threatening his wife with a gun during an argument. I personally know it wasn’t the only time he did that. There were bullet holes in the walls of their house.
I feel like it could have been much worse if he’d had access to the kinds of weapons you can easily get today. This all happened during the post-Reagan-shooting gun control era.
My dad was a good ol’ boy all the way through, but became anti-gun based on the friend.
The son, who is my contemporary, is a hunter with several guns, and as far as I know is far more responsible than his dad was. Thank goodness.
Anon
I own a five shot revolver that I inherited from my grandmother and that she inherited from her father, who was a sheriff. I keep it locked up to keep my kids from playing with it. I can remember target shooting with it when I was a kid, but do not have an ammunition for it now and am not even sure they still make it or that it would be safe to shoot (the thing is well over 100 years old). I keep it for sentimental reasons.
I live in the city and have no need of one now, but my family in a more rural area all have single shot hunting rifles and my father keeps one in his truck. He spends a lot of time driving back roads for his job and has needed to put several animals (mostly deer and one dog) out of their misery when they were hit by cars and left suffering on the side of the road. And they all hunt during deer season.
Anon
My husband owns a handgun that he keeps locked in a safe next to our bed. I detest guns and this was a HUGE point of consideration when we were early dating/I came very close to breaking up with him.
His reasoning: we live in a red state and he grew up rural, rural. It’s fascinating to me the mindset he and his family have. 1) “The police are 30+ minutes away. No one is going to save you. If something happens, you have to be do it yourself.” This applies to all resources- they have plans for if there’s a fire, they need to get to a hospital etc. The gun is the plan for a break in. 2) It’s his duty, as the man, to protect me and now our child. It’s a deeply held conviction he has. 3) He’s flat out concerned about break ins. When we first moved in together he actually didn’t move the gun in. Very early on we had someone try to enter our house at night (the person was drunk, he never got in the front door and passed out on our steps). The gun came to stay the next day. It never leaves our house, it’s locked and only the two of us know the code, but truly, if someone were to ever break in, enter our home and advance towards us, he would shoot them dead.
Anon
Super reasonable point of view. I’m with your husband on this one.
Anon
I hope none of your family or friends ever surprise you at home! The only person I know who has used a gun for self-defense accidentally shot his own son when the kid was sneaking in late at night (pretty common for teens, I think). Fortunately the son survived but he has some permanent disabilities.
Unless you currently live somewhere very rural, an alarm system that alerts the police to an intruder seems just as effective and much safer. You can give kids and other trusted visitors the code to disarm it.
Anon Dating Update
Just a random update because I think people sometimes enjoy them, and people often ask for stories about people succesfully dating in their late 30s. I posted the folloiwng on 12/3/2019:
“I’m sharing this here because I feel like talking about it in real life would jinx it somehow. I’m going on a date this weekend, and I’m really excited. We met in real life at an industry event. I thought they were cute and charming, but nothing came of it. Both a little shy. Then we matched on an app and starting chatting. Obviously, I’m keeping my expectations low, but I haven’t been this excited about a date since I got divorced about a year ago.”
Reader, we’re married with a baby now.
Anon
Good for you! I have given up hope for myself (38 and single) but I love stories like this. :)
Anonymous
Don’t give up. I didn’t date for 15 years but dating in my 40s has been great.
anon
Don’t give up. I met my now husband one month before I turned 38. I’m almost 45 now and we are happily married with two beautiful children. I didn’t think it would work out, and while things are not perfect, I am grateful every day that I had the good fortune to meet him when I did.
Anon
Oh girl, I met my husband at 40 and he’s the love of my life. We’re crazy about each other! I’d tell my 38 year old self how she is and how great things will get.
Senior Attorney
SO GREAT!! Thank you so much for th ewonderful update and kiss that sweet baby for me! (Also that sweet spouse!)
Anon
Live this, congrats!!
Anon
Love not live, obviously :)
Anon
Yay!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!
anon
Yay!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!
Sasha
Awesome update, thank you for sharing :)
Anon
I remember this post! Congratulations!!
Cb
Love it!
Anon
Aww, yay! Thanks for sharing!
anon
Awww I love this! Thanks for the update!
Anon
I love reading this! Thank you for the wonderful update and congratulations on the wedding and baby.
Anonymous
what are your favorite overnight oats recipes?
anon
The one from Sally’s Baking Addiction. It’s easy to customize, too.
Anonymous
Baked Oatmeal by Martha Stewart. Not overnight oats, obviously, but I think the texture is a lot better. Also, is still very easy to prepare ahead of time.
Annony
I do one cup of oats, 3 tablespoons-ish of chia seeds, cup & a half of oat milk, a splash of sweetener (agave syrup I’m trying to use up), some vanilla & cinnamon. Before eating, I add a lot of blueberries. Sometimes I add greek yogurt
Anon
Oats, chia seeds, juice to soften, fruit (berries or mango usually, but if using apples then grate them), coconut yoghurt and topped with gluten free granola or dried coconut shavings.
I make them in old jam jars so I can pop them in a handbag or eat them at home.
Happy anon
General life update–after always swearing up, down, and around that I would never move cities for a man, today I put the deposit down on a short term rental in a new city to close the distance with my boyfriend in the fall. It’ll be a trial run for a potential permanent move–who knows what the future will hold, but I’m allowing myself to be giddy and overly positive for now. We’ve know each other for years but just recently started dating, so I’m apprehensive to tell people IRL in case they all think I’m nuts. And maybe I am! But feels like a good nuts for now.
Senior Attorney
Woo hoo! Best of luck!!
Anon
Teared up when I saw the E.Jean Carroll verdict. Maybe it means nothing to the large majority of Americans, but wow, how major that she was able to stand up so courageously and that she was believed. Let’s have a small celebration of hope for the generations before and those to come that maybe things can get better.
Senior Attorney
Right? Where is Shots! Shots! Shots! when we need her?
Also: CNN, you better not go ahead with that Trump town hall like nothing has happened…
Anon
She is incredibly brave. I’m grateful to her.
payal
YES…so pleased! but why was he found liable for sexual abuse rather than rape.
payal
Ok, my previous post is in mod, but it seems it couldn’t be r@@p# because e jean couldn’t see or feel his tiny member. Hilarious if true
Anon
Hahah seriously?!? Omg