I work at an events company, basically, in the back office but have worked some events - I get the appeal. Hospitality is grueling work but satisfying work, your customers are right in front of you and you are making them feel better about themselves (in our particular industry), or feeding them and also just pulling off such a ridiculously difficult task, nearly everything going right, it's amazing. And when I did work at a restaurant, I also enjoyed being part of the customers' going out night, right? You are there, building that experience, also getting an experience.

My husband doesn't get it really but I do - if I had fuck you money I would open a bar, with a dinner night each week as an event.

I enjoy home cooking and hosting parties too. Hospitality really is a human sort of endeavor and it is satisfying to make people feel good and comfortable.

I still miss that music app. It was the best. Deep catalog, and because Google is creepy like that, a very good understanding of what I consider local - it would recommend shows to me for bands I'd not heard of but were playing near me (literally nearby, not just in my state, or like Spotify did, "in my country", but within 5 miles or so) and that it, in the wisdom of its algorithm knew I would like.

Why does everything get worse?

If you have cottage industry laws (where I live if you are a small producer selling locally you aren't subject to the same regulations as a bigger producer) you could also think about making soap from the goat milk, people seem to be successful with that here. Candles from beeswax too.

It's fine to make a living. As my midwife said, you need to value your own knowledge and labor fairly, as you would for someone else.

Fennel, it grows well for me and is a premium crop, and maybe Stokes Purple sweet potatoes and okra.

But really, fennel because it is reasonably well compensated and the only thing I grow the bugs ignore. Hong Tsoi is vigorous for me but doesn't cost as much.

If you have room for animals, figure out what people will pay for and raise those. I have no idea on that.

More males are conceived, but more are miscarried, more are stillbirths, more die in childhood, young adulthood and middle age, and by the time you are my age there are more women than men. I think some of that is XX conferring resistance to some genetic diseases though.

This example is imperfect because you also need to mix the dry ingredients together before the folding in. I know that but it looks like this chart assumes everyone knows it. But the idea is sound. I like it.

Hand, hand, foot, foot. I still can & I'm barely even middle aged anymore. It's mostly momentum.

I do actually randomly cartwheel, just to make sure I still can. I'm going on 60. Hopefully will be able to cartwheel for a long time more. It's a funny trick when little kids are doing it and I do one with them, too.

Nah, chili and other soup sort of foods are better chilled then reheated.

Some pizza is the same, better next day reheated. Not all of it.

Most warm food is better warm. Beans and rice, pastas, soups, potatoes, eggs, oatmeal, bread & toast, I like most meat based meals warm too (except most sandwiches). Lots of things (not rice) are better when reheated though.

Cold meals rock if they are meant to be cold. I love a salad.

Tretinoin keeps my skin clear. Retin-A cream.

Unless it's an allergy, Retin-A is the way.

Acne around mouth and chin can be hormonal too. But even in that case, the tretinoin helps.

My mom said she would never raise a kid in a small town because there is nothing to do except get in trouble. All her cousins either went to jail or got pregnant young, she figured a city has opportunities, summer jobs, libraries, rec centers, things to keep kids occupied and out of trouble.

I agree with revelrous, it's more a city/rural split. Florida is "red" now, more a warm purple but gerrymandered. Cities are pretty progressive, country is redneck, exurbs are rich conservative northerners who moved down here (the influx that moved us from purple for real to red)

My husband tries to hate on California but we have family there who love it so much they think we should move there. Chicago he thinks is a great city, we have family there too. But again, we are city folk so even though he is conservative he sees way more variety of people and is, well, cosmopolitan I guess you would say? Traveled a lot, says people are just people, all over the world.