I've been perimenopausal for several years now and the worst symptom I've experienced is the sleep disruption. Last week I basically stopped sleeping, so I'm on hormones now. There's a slight relief, but at least I'm getting 6 very interrupted hours which is better than last week!

I wonder how many companies that produce boneless chicken wings actually include any wing meat.

I appreciate that there are those that seek to hold companies to truth in advertising and certain standards, but as an adult in her 50's I've never once thought that a McRib would contain rib meat. It's processed pork that's shaped like ribs. If anything, that's more accurate than chunks of chicken breast sold as boneless wings.

Because sometimes you can resolve confusion with several minutes of back and forth texting and asking for clarification, or 30 seconds on a phone call.

I do prefer texting for most basic communication. But when somebody obviously doesn't understand what I'm trying to say, and they're asking me to explain, I'd rather just rip the Band-Aid off and get the conversation over with rather than trying to suss out how many different ways they're confused about the situation and figure out how much I have to break it down for them to understand me.

Worse than that. I'm 54, but I swear "around 30 years ago" was somewhere around the early 80's when I was growing up. Math may argue, but my heart says it's true no matter how much my knees deny.

I appreciate seeing Motel Hell in the mix lol.

First thought, be careful. Curious where you're traveling to?

That said, in 2016 my niece meet a man online, they talked for at least 6 months. He flew out to meet her and our family for a few weeks around Christmas. By summer she flew out to move in with him, a month later they were married. They have 2 kids now and are as happy as 2 people can be juggling raising small kids, work, and a family business lol.

Several years ago my son bought my daughter-in-law or tortilla blanket. A couple years later we found a larger blanket of the same pattern, so that year we bought her the burrito blanket. Last year my son gave us a pepperoni pizza blanket. Given enough years, we'll have all the foods LOL.

Thank you for this! Now to figure out how to make best use of this new knowledge lol.

Depending on the ethnicity of the person you replied to, drawing attention to themselves in any form of protest may very well bring an immediate life or death situation. Us pale folk need to be stepping up, and good on those that already are.

Depends on the school. The high school my kids graduated from offered all forms of trade classes, from home maintenance to welding, cabinetry, auto, etc. They graduated in 2017, 19, & 20.

There was a moment in time several years back where there was talk of cutting back on those classes, but a large enough group of students kept enrolling in them, so the classes stayed.

I took shop class in jr high. There was a dried spray of blood on the wall behind the band saw. First day of class the shop teacher pointed it out while clarifying that the safety rules were there for a reason. At some point in the previous years the room had been repainted, but that section was left alone to leave the blood on the wall.

That was 1985. I'm guessing today it would be properly cleaned, but everyone in the class would have taken pictures to share anyway.

How about Springfield?

My parents retired to the Ozarks 30ish years ago. Beautiful area, had a house built on the side off a mountain in the middle of nowhere (Cape Fair technically, but same difference.) I just remember Springfield being the closest city if you needed anything better than what the Walmart in Branson West could provide.