Hedgies are fun. Don't over feed them with mealworms. Overall I've found them to be easy keepers. Just do your research on how to care for them. I had one a long time ago. Be prepared they are prickly. I say this because despite it being obvious the number of people who are surprised by their prickliness is astonishing...
I love hedgies outside of being their vet. You almost can't do anything without full anesthesia. I've only had one or two that didn't automatically curl up for the entire exam, lol.
This often doesn't work unless the water is deep enough, to the point where they feel like they need to start swimming, which is pretty stressful for them. It's not a humane way of approaching the situation when there's a better option (sedation/anesthesia). It's the exact same as people holding tortoises underwater to get them to come out of their shells for exams - you're using the threat/fear of drowning to facilitate a physical exam.
It's crazy. Another cousin that got married several years ago had a $50 garlic chopper/peeler tool on hers?? Does it really have to come from Williams Sonoma or Sur la Table?
Putting on my old lady hat here - I blame social media for a lot of things, this included. Society has rapidly gotten more materialistic, and people are drinking from a firehose of in-your-face consumerism. Everything is tagged with the term 'luxury' and everyone wants what everyone else has. You can buy anything you want without even having to leave the TikTok app now. And I'm guilty myself - 2025 is definitely a de-stashing year for me (I'm a recovering skincare junkie).
Bro my inlaws do NOT understand this. They are constantly getting us crap. Then I have to constantly get rid of it. It's exhausting. There are times I want to throw literally like everything away except my main furniture 😅
Lol didn't we have this same conversation recently?
Another person who didn't get to celebrate the big 3-0 😢 How big do you want to make it?
I'm very torn. On one hand of course I'd love to go out of the country but baby doesn't have a passport yet but should by the time bday rolls around. On the other hand staying in the states would be easier for a multitude of reasons.
If you want more activity/sight seeing, Chicago, NYC, DC come to mind (I'm sure there's more). For relaxing/beach, I always suggest Tampa/Clearwater. Partially because I lived there so am really familiar, but also because it is a nicer area. I don't know how recovered they are post-hurricanes, but it might also make for less tourists...
Honestly, if we take a trip this summer it'll be to somewhere up north like Maine or Michigan to escape the heat and avoid the issues with hurricanes. If you come to NC/SC in July (lived in NC for 5 years), it's hurricane season and we all know what the government is doing right now, so I'd just be aware of the weather on your own. The beaches aren't thaaaat great unless you go to the Outer Banks, but that's $$$ in peak season.
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Hubs loves the lake to land ratio in Michigan, so we're considering it for a short weekend trip from the hellscape that is a Texas summer.
Tossing my anonymity out the window here
MI in July is not a heat/hellscape-free zone unless you are talking UP/very north southern MI. Right now it's still 40s-60s with a few days in the 70s/80s thus far, but late summer is not fun. I've spent time in Illinois, Atlanta, Pensacola, Tampa, Orlando, and Southern MI. Atlanta/Orlando were miserable, Tampa and Pcola are hot but comparable to Michigan in July/August imo. Honestly anywhere in the Midwest is a stagnant, humid armpit from late June - September. You get all the heat/humidity without the breeze. Worth noting that Florida weather, sans hurricanes, is far more predictable than midwest weather.
You’re not wrong 😂😂😂
Also not wrong on this 😂😂😂
Soooo expensy!! We went up there once when I was a kid. My husband and I looked to stay on the island for a long weekend and it was an immediate no
Go on a cruise, can visit many different places at once if you can get baby a passport soon. Or can do an Alaska cruise without a passport as long as you depart from Seattle and return to Seattle, you'll still stop in Canada but don't need a passport as long as your starting and ending ports are in the US. You will need everyone who is traveling birth certificates though. Some excursions Alaska cruise excursions require passports so just avoid those.
I think some cruise lines require baby to be a certain age but def look into it, mixy! I love cruises and that you can relax and food is all included.
Story time! My friend and her husband and her parents went on a 7 day cruise out of Galveston in August 2017. We are like 10 hours from Galveston, but they drove down because we live three hours from an airport and by the time you have a layover in Atlanta or wherever, it’s almost faster to drive. A couple days before they were supposed to be back Hurricane Harvey went from a nothingburger into a major issue and they couldn’t make it back to port before the hurricane. I think they spent an extra day or two at sea then cruise line decided to take them all to New Orleans for a day or two because they didn’t have enough supplies to keep everyone on board and the port at Galveston was closed because of Harvey. They resupplied and changed out the entertainment employees, and their week long cruise turned into a 14 day ever ending trip. And they couldn’t just easily fly from New Orleans to home because their vehicle was in Galveston so they’d still need to get that somehow. Luckily their car didn’t flood in whatever parking lot it was in, they didn’t know if it had or not. It was a cruise they’ll remember! Her FB photo album is titled “the cruise that never ends”.
How's hawaii July vs end of Dec/1st of January do you know?
My treat yourself ability is about to go from a resident salary to a specialist salary without rent or a mortgage (since I'm moving back home). it's gonna be... hehehe.
Man oh man do I miss my 3 day weeks.
The amount of decompressing one can do with 3 day weeks is so helpful. I have been doing 5 day weeks since summer of 2022 and I still have not adjusted back mentally. 2 day weekends never feels like enough, even beyond the normal 'I wish my weekend was longer' feeling.
