I’ve never cared for peanut M&Ms. Peanuts without salt - yes, even when covered in chocolate - are nasty to me.
Peanut Butter is my current go-to flavor, and I like a bunch of others. The “other” I chose refers to Crispy, with crisped rice in the middle.
When we had our new house built last year, we didn’t even include a bathtub. We upgraded to the big two-headed walk-in and we love it. I hate taking a shower while standing in a bathtub, and we didn’t want to make our guests do that, so the guest bathroom has a walk-in shower as well. And it looks so much nicer than a tub when not in use.
I prefer to take a bath, and then to rinse off in the shower, without having to walk across the bathroom inbetween.
Which just goes to show that you can’t please everybody; so as it’s your house, you get to please yourself. But you may or may not be also pleasing your guests.
When my gf remodeled her master bathroom, she got rid of the bathtub, replacing it with a huge shower. The contractor initially tried talking her out of it (resale value) but we have a guest bathroom that has a bathtub/shower.
Our construction manager said he’s seen other homeowners going the no-tub route. Screw resale value; we hope to live here for the rest of our lives anyway.
I paid a contractor a lot of money to upgrade the tub in the en suite bathroom to a larger tub i can actually soak in.
I already have very flexible hours (and fewer than 40) and I’ve been there forever and have more vacation days than i can actually take (assuming i intend to get my work done.) I’m retiring in January mostly because they are making us go back to the office where we have “hotelling”. So no one has their own space, and you have to remember to book a seat every day. I can never relax and feel “at home”, i can’t leave a box of tissues on the desk, i just feel stressed every time i go in.
So for me, “your own office with a window” was a no-brainer. If i had that, i wouldn’t be retiring, as i usually like the work.
The M&M’s poll made me realize I only really like the original and peanut versions. I thought I’d like caramel and mint and almond, but they just don’t have the right shape or texture (for some reason, I find the size and shape of the caramel ones particularly off-putting). I really like other chocolate-covered nut and/or caramel confections, but I like M&M’s to just be M&M’s.
For the business of getting clean, I vastly prefer a shower, and because I have trouble getting to sleep if I don’t feel clean and if my feet aren’t warm (my feet are almost always cold), I take that shower at night. This also means my sheets stay cleaner. We’re having our main upstairs bathroom remodeled, and after long discussions with the contractor, we went with just a shower. After polling the family, I realized none of us have actually taken a bath in over a decade. We prioritized shower safety over resale value - I’m not convinced a tub would really add that much anyway. Having said that, I do love a hot tub or hot springs for relaxing in, and we’re considering putting one in the en suite bathroom when we get that one redone. As for temperature, I prefer water as hot as I can stand it, but I’ve reluctantly come to accept that it’s really bad for my dry skin as well as the environment, so I’ve dialed it back a notch. If we go to a hot spring, though, you’ll generally find me on the hot side.
I’ve also never seen A Few Good Men aside from the famous clip from the courtroom scene, so I can’t say what I think of the verdicts.
I’d be fine with watching a short movie (if I went to theaters anymore), but I’m enough of a cheapskate that I’d feel like they should have a double feature. It would solve the problem of having to bolt to the bathroom in the middle of the movie, though (I missed the actual sinking of the Titanic in the theater).
As someone with delayed-phase sleep disorder, I’d definitely choose the up-to-you-40-hours schedule as my preferred benefit. I could get LOTS of stuff done good and well, if only if it were the hours I were awake and feeling alert.
I think $3,500 student-loan repayment per year is so little that it amounts to very little benefit.
“If your blood does not clot normally, you can not donate since you may have excessive bleeding where the needle was placed. For the same reason, do not donate if you are taking any ‘blood thinner’”
Bleeding isn’t a problem – clotting seems to work just as it did before I started on the warfarin. When I go in for a blood draw they put a piece of gauze on the wound and use a band-aid to hold it in place; when I take it off fifteen or twenty minutes later, the only way to tell I was bleeding is the spot of blood on the gauze. And the kittens are constantly poking holes in my legs.
we have a pretty big tub that one could soak in. However, we find ourselves usually using the hot tub on the deck for soaking. A bet we use the bathtub around 2 times per year and the hot tub 2 to 3 times per week.
We have a sunken Jacuzzi tub in our en suite bathroom (very 70’s! It’s even brown!), and we used it a lot when we first moved in 20 years ago. Once I started pushing 50, though, the process of climbing out of a wet porcelain pit while damp started seeming a little too dangerous, and it’s been idle for at least a decade. We even have a water heater that might be large enough to feed it now!
Re: Very short movies. I’d probably be more likely to see them in a theater if they packaged a few of them together as a double or triple feature.
M&Ms. I don’t think I was even aware all those varieties existed, let alone tried them all. I usually just stick to the original milk chocolate and peanut versions, although almond is also good. I feel like I want to like caramel, but I’m kind of “meh” towards them. Probably because they use cheap, low quality caramel (Yes, I know, what do you expect from a cheap, mass produced candy?).
A Few Good Men. I don’t remember the movie well enough to have an opinion.
Workplace benefits: I pretty much already get the “work whichever 40 hours you want”, within reason at least; they want your work hours to have at least some overlap with everyone else’s so your coworkers can actually talk to you if they need to. So I picked the extra vacation, as long as I don’t get flak for actually using it.
I know that seems low on the face of it, but I looked it up and apparently the maximum a company can offer is only up to $5,250/year, and of companies I could find that actually do offer this, most of them were offering only about $1,000 - 1,500/year, some of them were as low as $50/month, and many of them had a lifetime cap under $10k (!), so I figured $3,500/year is quite generous in comparison.
I just have to say I am shocked Bubba didn’t mention shrimp and grits. I also like shrimp tacos, but Bubba probably wouldn’t have heard of shrimp tacos in the 1960s, so I can forgive him for leaving them off his list.
LOVE shrimp in all forms but I get itchy sometimes when I have it so while I probably shouldn’t, if I have them in front of me I’ll still have one or two.
Damn. I started bloodthinners a little over a year ago. Guess I can’t donate blood anymore. I’ve noticed a bit of “extra” bleeding. Once a sliver of glass that the vacuum cleaner didn’t pick up stabbed me in the heel, and it took about twice as long to stop the bleeding as usual. Other than that it hasn’t been that bad.