These are unfortunately being sold online only. In our area they sold out online in like 2 days. They restocked and sold out again in a day. There is supposed to be one more restock. I placed an order during the second restock only to have it cancelled like 5 days later. It’s a huge mess.
It’s also dumb that they promoted them so much because we’ve had a lot of people ask for them. We were able to get just 1 package for us to try for ourselves from a cookie mom in another troop who ordered like the minute it opened the first time.
How are they? Worth the hype?
No.
My whole family loves the combo of chocolate and raspberry so we had high hopes. (as in it's most of our birthday cakes, dd's standard ice cream shop order, our default brownie recipe etc.) Then our troop got a box to try and frankly I don't mind that we can't sell them. Like the s'mores it's a missed opportunity (who okayed a "s'mores" cookie without any marshmallow? Have they never seen a malomar?) . If they had made the base cookie chocolate and raspberry (like the thin mint base cookie has both flavors) it could have been great. Instead it's a blah raspberryish cookie with a chocolatey coating.
Idon't see us ordering any boxes for ourselves nor hyping them to customers.
Our couch isn't long enough for any of us to sleep on (maybe the 9 year old) and we don't have a guest room /spare bed so even if we wanted to, we don't have options. lol.
I have to say, bartenders are usually much more supportive of not drinking than the average person. I just say the words "designated driver" (more as a code word than a literal description) if I'm not drinking and they usually come up with something fun and never question it.
How do people get home from any party where alcohol is served? Fuck's sake, Karen.
Honestly, I think way too many people think they are fine to drive when they aren't.
I'm actually assuming most make good decisions, so I'd plan that into my bottle count.
I kept way more champagne per person on hand for brunch in NYC or a current neighborhood/local get together (I'd get at least a case for 24 people) than for something where most people will drive themselves here from SF or the east bay (8 bottles is probably enough). The baby showers I've been to lately were an hour or further away.
I serve good drinks, but not "let's spring for a cross bridge Uber" quality.
All you city dwellers forget how easy you have it. Lol.
How are people getting home from this shower? If most will drive, I would plan for less alcohol than if most will walk, ride together, Uber, public transport, whatever.
A half bottle of wine is fine for a non driver, but your driving guests are likely to drink less.
watching the water boil, measuring out the tea, dunking the bag, carefully blowing off the steam to try a sip, etc. You have to drink it slowly
that sounds like so much work I’m stressed thinking about it 😂
lol.
Tea for me: put the kettle on, rush around the house trying to get something done, come running from a back room because it's whistling and driving everyone crazy, pour it into however many cups with whatever tea bags family members want, run around on other tasks and then remember "Oh yeah. I should drink some of that tea." which is either followed by "oops, still too hot" or "tepid is fine. what else needs to get done?"
Sure, tea can be meditative. But so can laundry if you really want it to be.
Personally, I like lychee juice for mimosa style drinks. Other than orange juice, I tend to go with less acidic options given the acidity of the bubbly. For your sister, I’d do martinellis, sparkling water. or sparkling white grape rather than a fake wine
As mentioned above - any herbal supplement strong enough to work, is also strong enough to have unintended side effects.
What helps anxiety for me: cbd, black tea instead of coffee, peppermint tea, there are some supplements that help (l-theanine) but it also has a rebound affect for me of raising tension afterward.
No danger “other than the obvious”?!?!? Isn’t “the obvious” what we live in fear of? Out of curiosity, what would be the non-obvious danger of an unattended, loaded gun left accessible to young children?
bathroom germs on the gun? Whatever they are, they pale in comparison.
DH and I are weekending in downtown San Fran and went to a casual Japanese sit down place for an early dinner. There was an 18% "service fee" on our bill and we don't remember seeing any mention of it on the menu. We assumed it was a pre-determined tip so we didn't tip. AWTAH (Are We The Assholes?)
If we messed up we'll do better next time, but please set me straight me because my go-to reaction is this is false advertising on menu pricing.
no - not assholes it’s an alternative to tipping to make wages more predictable
I’m incredibly curious as to why no one from Julia’s family is willing to take a DNA test. I understand it’s none of my business. But my curiosity persists.
They say they have already given her multiple forms of proof - her birth certificate, documentation of hospital visits, early photographs - and nothing convinces her. I can see saying enough is enough. I can also see fearing she could misuse the DNA analysis. She has already gone public with her claims despite contrary evidence.
Personally, I am not sharing my DNA information with twitter and would not trust someone who has trouble understanding reality to keep it private.
My jaw is on the ground. And the response from the district and superintendent is shocking. The district didn't notify parents about the whole "gun in the elementary bathroom" thing. And here's what the superintendent said:
“There was never a danger other than the obvious,” [Superintendent] Stuteville said in the interview.
Never a danger?! As if a presumably loaded gun left unattended around elementary students is somehowLESS dangerous than inclusive bathrooms or books that mention race (or any of the other ridiculous "culture war" non-issues that Republicans think will "protect children" more than gun control).
I bet the school library won't carry "And Tango Makes Three" or "I am Jazz" or "Introducing Teddy" because *that* would be a danger to the kids.
Today: chicken and broccoli (both roasted on sheet pans at 425 for 20 minutes, chicken topped with panko and parmesan) tomorrow: beef stew after: who knows
Do you like museums? SF Moma has modern Art and you can stroll around Yerba Buena, The Exploratorium is a hands on science museum at Pier 15, The Deyoung pairs well with the park.
Do you like the outdoors and being active? Some people like to rent a bike near there, then pedal all the way up hill to the Golden Gate Bridge, stop in Sausalito and ferry back to SF.
Where/when is the wedding?(day of week, time of day)
Yes, I used to work with many older lonely men. Several of them fell for overseas romance scams while I worked there, and I could see them similarly falling in love with this bot. For the scams they ended up paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to these "women" so maybe it's safer to fall in love with Bing Bot. Still, it's using tactics we would call abusive (ie, Love Bombing) coming from a human.
And these style bots aren't always going to be owned by bing. They will be owned by people with bank accounts to run those scams through. This one has breaks on it. That is going to be the exception. I shudder to think what influence this could have on future bullying, hate speech, teen shooters, people struggling with psychosis, and the rest of our world. It isn't creating new problems but it sure could make lives worse.
if you dress it up a little differently. You are going to get a lot of donations to help Nigerian princes or beautiful ladies looking for nice husbands. and plenty of people getting word salad pipe bomb instructions.
I'd hold on to it until the end of the week. Maybe tomorrow all the kids will be using them as book straps or whatever and then you'll know what it's for
He is starting kindergarten in the fall, right? This will be a practice run for handling big changes. And then it will end.
Also -please don't go belittling yourself for being an anxious depressed helicopter mom. We build up our kids and see the silver linings in all their challenges. You deserve the same.
It's okay to feel ambivalent about this. You can do it and you will bring your strengths to it.
Many years ago, a few months after we married, I joined an annual trip DH's friends took. He didn't come and it was a fantastic time. The dynamics were not couples centered and I ended up closer to some of them after the trip than DH was at the time. lol. (He was particularly worried that I had bonded with his ex - as if we'd wasted time talking about him. lol.) Go if this is that trip for you. Otherwise, next year go as a couple.
sonrisa when do you need shorts? I haven’t owned a pair in probably 10 years. I either wear a skort/skirt/dress, or capri black tight yoga/athletic pants.
Honestly, right now I can't remember. I would purge them tomorrow if I didn't have a strong memory of wishing I hadn't before. lol.