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  • Probably. But when you're the mom, and dad's quadriplegic, and you can't afford not to cook, you get it done every day whether you like it or not.

    Kids do grow and learn and help which is great, and move out which is also great although they're always welcome and loved.

    And now I have to puree everything for him and avoid carbs for me, so something like OP's curry meal would have to be riceless, and my portion would have to sit until I could get his pureed. Which I've discovered also blandifies things, so I need to reseason it as well. Then get the eating situation all set up, and finally reheat the food. Which will be fine, but lack that fresh immediate punch.

  • Agreed, but I'll admit that even after decades of cooking dinners I still haven't gotten the timing quite precise enough to get everything done perfectly at the same moment.

    And if I do, inevitably something unrelated delays the actual serving of dinner, so it has to sit around and either get cold or become drab.

  • Vegetable curry is a thing.

    Since they didn't have to wait for meat to cook through, they were also able to barely cook the veggies, leaving them vibrant and bitey.

    Obviously over the course of the day you need a balance of protein but it doesn't have to be in every dish. The rice and seeds here are a good start.

  • Trans people are also a historically oppressed and marginalized group, so much so that history has hidden a lot of them. That oppression has also been rooted in misogyny. So any attempt to uproot misogyny which ignores this fact is doomed to fail.

  • Meanwhile in my town the local bookstore died because a real estate developer bought the building and jacked up the rent 400% in order to force him out, then cancelled leases on the smaller businesses and made plans to destroy the building as part of a big vapid project. Local residents couldn't stop it happening but blocked demolition and it's been sitting empty and neglected so long the developer died. At this point it probably can't be restored either. A fucking shame.

  • All good points, and reasons you might be better off going to Disneyland in California, which is 500 acres including California Adventure. So you can "do Disney" in one long day, especially if you have little kids who don't like the really scary rides, or you're all too old for Small World. Then you have all the other Southern California stuff left, including several other theme parks.

    Edit to add: at Disneyland, there's an official colony of cats!

  • That really sucks. If you can reach a human (it's worth trying an actual phone call!) and tell them how hard up you are, you might be able to break it down into small payments, ask if you can make it $10/month.

  • Also, many of the young people who live in the Anaheim area work the Disney parks as their summer jobs. Not sure how that fits into the hierarchy. And of course the people who make Disney movies get free entry if they reserve it ahead.

  • 'Scuse you, she's busy stalking birds right now! Don't remind her she's actually indoors, that's like your mom interrupting your video game!

    When you get up, grab a wand toy and waggle it for her to pounce at awhile and then give her a crunchy treat, like it's the bones of that chickadee out there.