Absolutely

Aww, kids are the same throughout history. Thanks for the link!

This one for me too. I remember watching some movie when I was younger and it had two people talking over a video screen and I thought that when that happens I’ll be actually living in the sci-fi future. Fast forward many years and I’m driving with my husband, regular old day, and as I’m looking out the window I see a girl face timing with somone at the bus stop. And it hits me, I’M HERE, I’M IN THE SCI-FI FUTURE. And that was 15 years ago. It’s missing a bunch of the other cool sci-fi shit, but it’s nailing the dystopian aspect’s full on.

We just had ramen for dinner last night! It depends on whats in the fridge but for veg we do grated carrot, broccoil, and shredded cabbage almost always. Last night we pan fried sliced tofu with some sesame oil and soy, excellent for sandwiches the next day too. A nice seared steak thinly sliced is a treat in a heavier flavoured ramen. If I see one marked down heavily I’ll throw it in the freezer for this. My new thing I’ve been doing is dice up some mushrooms, some lightly smashed cashews, sesame seeds, frozen corn, and some chili crisp and fry it in a pan with some sesame oil. Makes a nice topping, kinda like on tantamen ramen.

Edit: Oh! I forgot my favorite treat. A slice of american cheese. Like the singles. I don’t do it all the time, but man, it melts into the broth and is SO GOOD. It’s a Korean comfort food I read about, though they poach an egg in there too.

Thank you for the rec on callisthenics! I will look into this.

My favourite sport is sailing, raced for many years. I’ve never been a fan of team sports but racing is different. Might be the possibility of death lol. I love swimming, raced competitively as a kid, but can’t handle the chemicals at the pools and the cold of the ocean so don’t do that very often. Climbing and bouldering are the next favourite, my husband and I climbed a lot before my daughter was born. She, with my husband, is getting into it now so I went with them and wrenched my shoulder quite badly so haven’t been able to get back.

I know I need to incorporate movement and strength training into my life more (would definitely help with not getting injured!). A comment below mentioned callisthenics so I’m going to look into that. Also yoga!

West coast of Canada and in my daughters high school they have French, Spanish, and Hul’q’umi’num, which is the local First Nations language. Which I think is pretty freaking cool. Shes taking French though, since as she says, we are a bilingual country.

I lived overseas growing up so my choices were french, Spanish, and Arabic. I could have been fluent in Arabic! But nooooo, I took spanish. Think I speak spanish at all?

Absolutely this! I just lucked out on a secondhand Thinkpad E14 for $400. It’s basically the same as my X1 except I can add more ram if I want. My husband gave me the side eye when I grabbed it but I just said it’s only going to get worse, having a spare laptop is imperative. Which reminds me, I need to get some ram for it while I can…

I have the same keychain from when I was 15, so over 30 years. My buddy had a party at his house and someone left their keys. After about two weeks and no one claiming them I switched my crappy keychain for it and left the keys with him. It’s a fork that the tines have been made into curls, lays flat though. It makes me happy to look at.

I had a friend named Violet that went by Vi, pronounced like vie. That might work for you? Aside from that I quite like Nika. I don’t think anyone would associate that with a slur.

Yeah nicknames are kinda picked for you, but I think you should always be allowed to say “my name is Veronika, but I go by ….”.

A perm. I wanted one so bad back in the 80s. Luckily my hairdresser, who was my whole family’s hairdresser and a friend too, refused. She was a tiny Thai lady who was a force of nature, had a little half basement salon in DC. We would all go and get our hair cut together, I think mostly because there was a pub nearby my dad could go have drinks at while he waited for us.

I’m sure that her reasoning was sound in that it would destroy my hair, but I also think both her and my mom knew how terrible it would look since I’m lazy af and wouldn’t style it. Over the years I’ve only ever dyed my hair a handful of times, never curled or straightened it, no product as I can’t stand the feeling of it. I think it’s helped keep it healthy and now as I’m hitting later 40s and finally know how to really care for it (and have a hairdresser that understands my curls), it’s FABULOUS. Very little grey, big curls and ringlets. It’s the hair I’ve always wanted. Still don’t do shit to it lol. Lazy ftw!

I am on a 6834 game win streak in spider solitaire. This wasn’t all this year, but this is where I am now. Out of 9215 games I’ve lost 3 times, twice at the beginning when I didn’t realize you could undo the whole game and start again, and one when my phone glitched. It’s a small easily achievable goal when my life/brain is too much. I don’t think I’ll make 10k games before new years, but that’s ok. Shout out to Digital Smoke for making a solitaire app that doesn’t track you.

I love Inkscape, it’s so intuitive! I didn’t even need to read the docs. And now that Affinity is coming to Linux I’m hoping I can switch my work to these options.

Oooh, I like this one!

20 years this Christmas, married for 15. Still my favourite person to putter around with.

My husband has a collection of obsolete technology. The oldest thing he’s got in there is a VT100 terminal.

So first off, hells yes to Harvey Birdman! That was my husband and I’s you want to hang out and watch something show when we were first dating. Sealab 2021, Space Ghost, Adventure Time, Aeon Flux, and Futurama all have a special place too.

Let me give you this good advice, I’m not using it.

Same! They make me giggle.

Thanks, that was my question. I use betterbird and wasn’t sure if this had anything to do with it.