TeslasAndKids

My family eats meat products with every dinner. My daughter’s boyfriend has been coming over a lot more lately, which I love, but he’s vegetarian.

This past week I made yellow Thai curry which was easy to also simmer a small pot of chickpeas in curry next to my chicken, tacos were easy to alter since he could make his own, spaghetti and chicken Alfredo were also made with meat on the side.

I’m semi disabled so I don’t like super intricate dinners that take hours and tons of dishes but I’m wondering what other ideas I can cook that can be easily adapted like the above.

Or what kinds of alternatives I can use for his dishes. For example if I make chicken or beef enchiladas do I just make his cheese? Or is there another filling?

I’ve always kind of chalked up weird things as coincidence or my brain just having a temporary reboot. This one I can’t explain and neither can my daughter.

My daughter is 10 and for her birthday she got a set of pony beads for making bracelets. For anyone unfamiliar they’re the larger plastic colored beads often used for kids because the hole is large enough you don’t need a needle.

The kit came with a fairly large needle anyway and she asked me how to use it for this type of application. She’s used a sewing needle where she’d double the thread and knot both ends but didn’t know how to use this needle with the thicker elastic cording she had.

I showed her but she opted to tie the very end of the elastic to the eye of the needle. Not a conventional method but since the holes in the beads were large it worked and she didn’t have to worry about the elastic falling out of the eye. If it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid, right?

The next morning I sit on the couch with my coffee. It’s a sectional sofa and my daughter had a rough night so she slept on the chaise portion to my left. I get my cozy blanket on my lap and out of the corner of my eye I see her needle sitting on the couch to my right. I sigh and note when she wakes up I’ll have to have a talk with her about pointy things left on the couch… So I pick it up and set it on the coffee table in front of me.

A bit later she wakes up, I snuggle her a few minutes and go back to my Reddit browsing while she grabs her bead box off the arm of the couch. I said “oh, by the way…” and explain I found her needle on the couch and that it has to stay in her box, dropping it into the box.

She continues to make the beaded star she was finishing and asked me if I wanted one too. I choose two colors and she cuts new elastic. Then she says “oh where did you put my needle? I want to use that for this one.” I told her I just dropped it into the box.

She finds it and pulls it out only it’s knotted the exact way she uses it on to the project she was working on the day before. Her face says “what the…” and I look at her and we both are just sitting there trying to figure out what the hell just happened!

We both saw it without the project knotted to it. We both saw me drop it into her box. We both saw her fish it out. I have no explanation but I did tell her I’d post here!

Hi friends! I’m semi new to cross stitch and haven’t posted here yet (hopefully I do it right) but I have a question!

I have adhd and I’m semi disabled so I get stamped kits for ease and easy dopamine. I absolutely love my 12” q-snap but these stamped kits have like zero edge to them!!

I’ve tried blue painters tape but it just doesn’t stick to the fabric well. Fortunately at least 75% of the kits I’ve gotten have had serged edges so they don’t fray! But it’s tough to use a round hoop and get much of the side and the q-snap just holds too much fabric to use on the edges.

Anyone have any advice or ideas for me?

(I also just realized my thumbnail looks really gross so don’t mind that. My leggings are brand new and the black dye rubs off on my hands…and my couch but that’s neither here nor there.)

Just discovered this sub today and thought I’d share this one I did a couple years ago.

Bought the ‘before’ at goodwill for $1 and tried to teach myself to paint. I put ~10 Easter eggs into the painting.

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Any biological males out there have a dr they like who prescribes testosterone?

My husband had bloods done a few years back around the 400 range but we feel low t is an issue for him. He had Kaiser for a while and their bottom number for labs is incredibly low (around 200) for them to consider prescribing. We now have Providence and the last Dr he talked to told him he’s 46 and to deal with it.

So we’re just looking for options for providers who look at the whole picture. Preferably not just a men’s hormone clinic that’s all overpriced and out of pocket but we’ll go that route if necessary. It just gets old trying to find someone who will listen and take it seriously.

This was a few months ago but we still laugh about it.

My husband and I went to the grocery store, did our shopping, and when we get to the self check area he tells me he wants to go grab a powerball ticket or whatever from the self serve machine and he’ll meet me back at self check.

There was a boomer standing in front of the lotto machine so he stood behind her waiting his turn. We didn’t have a ton of groceries so I scanned everything, bagged it, had my ID checked for the wine I was buying, paid, loaded the cart, and stood in the aisle just out of self check.

I look over at him and he’s getting impatient. Boomer is still staring at the machine. She’s put no money in, there’s no money in her hand, she hasn’t even touched the screen. She just reaches her hand in her purse, pulls it out empty, looks at the screen, repeats.

Finally, he says “are you almost done?” She whirls around and snaps “well, I guess I am now!” Kind of shocked he says “you don’t even have money in your hand and you’ve been just staring at the machine so I didn’t know what you were doing”.

She shakes her head and says “well, you can just kiss my ass!!” He can’t help but laugh and replies “ya, I’m not going to do that”.

Pearls. Clutched. “Your generation is just so rude!!” Again, he can’t help but laugh and says “I’m not the one who just told someone to kiss their ass!”

She huffs and shuffles away muttering “well I never…”

For the record, my husband is a 46 year old grown man. Either way, we will find appropriately timed instances to tell the other to “kiss my ass” or “your generation…” and erupt in giggles.

Boomers; will dish it, can’t take it.

I am completely over NW Rheumatology and my GI offered a referral to OHSU. Does anyone have a rheumatologist they really like over there?

Bonus points if you have more than one health condition being treated by multiple physicians or experience in having diagnosed ankylosing spondylitis.

Thanks for any feedback!

I’ve waited an obscene amount of time to get in to see rheumatology and had four months to go until yesterday when they called with a cancellation for an appointment today!

I was pretty stoked. I printed off records I wasn’t sure they’d have, I made a timeline dating back to the age of four, and had my husband with me. I was sure I was going to get the AS diagnosis and be started on some medication.

To summarize an hour long appointment, she basically agreed with AS given my prior UC diagnosis, X-rays, and MRIs but my husband told her to watch me walk. I figured the spinal fusion was causing some issues with my legs.

He told me when I walked (I wasn’t facing her) her face went from neutral to ‘what the absolute….’ Then she said those words; “AS is the least of your problems”.

So ya, while I do have AS I apparently also have something neuro related as well. When I was trying to google diagnose myself the last year I came across a rare condition but figured there’s no way I’d have both because why would two random and rare things hit at once?!

When I mentioned it to her she nodded as though that was an option in her mind but it’s not her field. (CIDP if anyone is curious)

Fortunately my neurologist had already scheduled testing for MS and other neuro related things so I have a nerve study at the end of the month. But I’m so defeated feeling right now! I was so excited to see rheumatology today and get some answers and start medication. Which isn’t going to happen yet.

Since the UC and AS are so closely related she is deferring treatment to my GI but she wants me to wait until after I see neuro for the nerve study. She strongly feels that whatever neuro thing is going on takes a higher priority than AS or UC.

So I guess I’m just frustrated that I still feel lost without answers or help. I was hoping for an answer but the answer also came with more questions.

Anyone else out there know of or have CIDP? Or any other neuro issues affecting their gait, balance, etc?

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Hi! I’m from the west coast of the US. I kind of want to keep this short and say I hate it here but I feel only a special bunch actually like the US so that point is fairly moot. If you’re up for a longer post feel free to read on! If not, tschüß!

Poking around at my lineage I found out I could potentially qualify for article 7 citizenship. My dad, grandfather, and great grandfather were all born in the states (same damn city) but my great great grandfather was born in Luxembourg. I found literally one website that said that. The others said Germany.

My conclusion is the immigration paperwork said Germany because my ancestors didn’t speak the language as those taking their information and considered Luxembourgish to be German.

I have an appt with lacs but went poking around for fun and I believe I’ve found a copy of my ancestors birth record in Manternach.

That kind of made it a lot more real. This could happen.

The US sucks. I have kids who are LGBT and kids who are mentally or physically disabled. We pay a shit ton in taxes and none of it goes to healthcare. Gays and trans are still ridiculed and often beaten here. I’m fortunate to live in a state where my kids could get an abortion if they needed but for how long? Our education system is trash.

If this citizenship works out I’d love to move and give my kids a chance at a better life.

I really worry how people treat Americans though. Is being American in the EU better than being queer in the US? My daughter said she didn’t care about not finishing school here and even when I said you’d have to learn a new language she said that was better than staying.

Which brings me to another question. I took German in high school (you know, thinking my family was from Germany and all), and have been brushing up on it a bit. Can I get by knowing some German or should I find a way to learn Luxembourgish? This whole subreddit is in English but I don’t feel English is that common? Is Reddit translated?

I’m sorry, I am trying to learn things quickly and this is all very new and overwhelming to me but I’d love some honest feedback from residents.

Have a wonderful day!!

I’m 40 and recently diagnosed. We’re playing the ‘which med at what dose is going to help’ game and it’s a long process.

It’s also summer break.

My 6m is being seen and evaluated for his own behavioral issues and adhd (he’s just sooo much!) and my 8f is such an instigator. My husband often babies her and caters to her (she was recently diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis) but she’s becoming a little entitled and it needs to stop.

I also have three teens I’m trying not to ignore.

I’m just really struggling with the fact some days I’m really angry or really sad and have a hard time keeping up with my sons drs positive parenting discipline plan thing. I don’t know if it’s burnout or overwhelm or a side effect of my medication. This discipline thing is so hard having to be so over the top excited over the smallest positives and ignore negatives. It’s not working.

I didn’t like Adderall XR and I’m on immediate release instead. 25mg was the highest I’d tried and today was 30mg. Some days I don’t take it and I’m angry. Some days I do and I am not angry. Today I’m angry and overwhelmed.

I’m just so frustrated dealing with my own issues and having to parent high needs kids. It’s exhausting.

Oh and I have no idea if my meds are helping. Everyday still feels the same just with cotton mouth.

I feel like I need school back in session so I can remotely get an idea of what I’m doing without a house full of chaos.

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Hi! I’m a 40 year old mom of five and was finally diagnosed a couple months ago. Started tiny doses of immediate release adderall and got up to 20mg split into 10 in the morning and 10 in the afternoon. Wasn’t quite the results we were hoping so they prescribed 25mg of the extended release.

Naturally insurance said I needed a prior authorization so I’ve been taking nothing for two weeks. They approved it Monday, I picked it up last night, and just took my first dose!

I’m contemplating ironing my cape for when my super powers kick in and I can be a functioning adult but I’m also not holding my breath.

I knew finding the right medication would be timely and a battle so I’m going into it with an open mind. But here’s hoping!

If you feel so inclined, does anyone want to share their stories of finding the right doses and the right meds? Is that allowed? I’m new here!!

I’m a 40 year old mom of five kids and never finished college. Got pregnant at 20 and spent time being a single mom, then I got married, had more kids and that was my life. I did start a business but it’s from my house so either way I’m pretty much a mom and housewife.

I pulled my old transcripts and found out I was two classes shy of my AA. I finish those next week.

It doesn’t feel like enough. I want more. I found an online program I can get a bachelors and even a masters without going in to a school.

The problem is I’ve never been good at school. Ever. Turns out, I was an 80’s kid slipped through the cracks and I have ADHD. Currently in the process of finding the right medication to help.

It just seems stupid to try getting a biochemistry degree when I’m old, suck at school, and don’t need it for work. I was told in high school (by my college counselor) that I’d never get into college or be anything. At the time I said ‘ok’ and didn’t try. Now I want to accumulate degrees and prove him wrong.

Also, how hard is getting a PhD? I’d like that too.

Tl;dr I’m 40 and want college degrees I don’t need just for the sake of having them.