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tigerfive
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re: “Best” or “nicest” 3 row suv around 30k
Posted by tigerfive on 6/14/25 at 2:41 pm
I bought one of the first Carnivals when they came out, in May 2021. I still love it. It's huge! People don't automatically see mini van when they look at it either. It's affordable, and gave me everything I needed in a vehicle. I was actually trying to find a Telluride when I saw the new Carnival on the lot. Decided to test drive it because there weren't any Tellurides available in Norcal at the time. I was sold after the first mile.
I don't have kids so I took the middle seats out and fold the back seats flat, and have more cargo room than a full size truck bed. With the seats up, I still have a huge trunk area. I can't tell you how many trees I've brought home in the van since I moved to TX. At least 60.
I don't have kids so I took the middle seats out and fold the back seats flat, and have more cargo room than a full size truck bed. With the seats up, I still have a huge trunk area. I can't tell you how many trees I've brought home in the van since I moved to TX. At least 60.
re: U.S. counties with the highest and lowest rates of excessive drinking
Posted by tigerfive on 5/31/25 at 11:26 am
Lol, my home county is one of the 2 red counties in CA. The newest motto of the Santa Rosa GoLocal tourism board when I left was "Wine Country, Beer City". I have a growler with the motto emblazoned on it. I think I drink more here in TX but I switched to lighter beers because it's hotter here and they get warm if I nurse them.
Trying to figure out how Sonoma made the list and Napa didn't. There's a ton of Boomer wine drunks in Napa.
Trying to figure out how Sonoma made the list and Napa didn't. There's a ton of Boomer wine drunks in Napa.
re: crawfish bros, what is going on with this boil?
Posted by tigerfive on 5/10/25 at 1:20 pm
Jarred minced garlic is disgusting. I couldn't watch the rest after that.
re: Most shocking restaurant/store names near you
Posted by tigerfive on 5/4/25 at 7:47 pm
We have Bun Sluts and the Velvet Taco in Houston/Katy.
re: Would you give up central AC if it meant the south gets depopulated?
Posted by tigerfive on 4/30/25 at 1:13 am
I never realized what a privilege it was to grow up in Sonoma County, a place where I could get by with no AC, for 43 years. Until I moved to Houston I didn't need whole house AC. I had a box fan window AC when I lived in a converted dairy barn studio in elevation on Sonoma Mountain for 6 years , but when I bought my 130yo house in Santa Rosa , AC was still a rare upgrade for the area. I could live there now through fall without AC and only have a few nights of discomfort. Meanwhile here in Houston we've been running AC for two weeks already. Both Houston and SR are now zoned 9B but I can't leave citrus in pots here. It's no issue there. However. I will happily pay all the AC bills to enjoy a climate that doesn't drop 40 degrees every night even in summer, but my TX native husband loves the novelty of the cool nights when we visit there. I really love the humidity, warm evenings and nights in Texas, AC bills whatever, I keep my house at 77 to avoid shock, lol.
re: Let's talk pet peeves you have about your spouse
Posted by tigerfive on 4/6/25 at 12:52 am
If he has a medication or supplement that says "take with food" he takes it literally, even if he had breakfast 20 minutes ago. Has to eat something else so he can take his pills... Except the morning of our wedding day, I'm sitting on the second story back porch of our airbnb talking over the plan for the ceremony, vows etc and he starts projectile puking over the railing. I thought it was nerves, but he tells me he took Zinc on an empty stomach. Then his kids and my sister showed up when he was hosing off the patio, and we never got back to the ceremony plan. So we completely winged it with the help of 1 Corinthians 13, the English Book of Common Prayer and the Lord's Prayer in closing. (No officiant, we self- certified in Colorado.) It was messy and neither of us is super religious. Of all the days he could have picked to not annoy me with his food medicine combo, it had to be our wedding day.
re: Patients scramble as cheaper obesity drug alternatives disappear
Posted by tigerfive on 3/20/25 at 12:50 am
Royal ResearchLabs is legit but they keep changing their name. I think there were a bunch in the peptide thread, and there was a Google sheet someone made that listed prices. I think that's how I ended up with RR. I haven't taken any of them yet because I have a needle phobia so I can't attest to more than receiving them in a timely manner.
re: Patients scramble as cheaper obesity drug alternatives disappear
Posted by tigerfive on 3/20/25 at 12:43 am
You can buy it on Amazon but the seller usually includes a bottle with your peptide order.
re: Patients scramble as cheaper obesity drug alternatives disappear
Posted by tigerfive on 3/19/25 at 5:28 pm
You can buy it from a research lab supply and compound it yourself. (Add bacteriostatic water to the dried peptide powder in the vial) for a fraction of the cost.
re: Kat Timpf - Diagnosed With Breast Cancer
Posted by tigerfive on 3/1/25 at 5:57 am
Biopsy spread the BC in my aunt's case. I have fibrocystic dense breast tissue and my Dr said mammogram are basically useless for me. Ultrasound instead but they would prefer I get an MRI every couple years.
re: Should I try Zyn pouches?
Posted by tigerfive on 2/20/25 at 2:31 pm
Patches are better, they don't irritate your gums or taste bad.
re: Tell me an interesting random fact about your home state.
Posted by tigerfive on 2/17/25 at 11:16 am
Northern California is responsible for the majority of dank cannabis strains being developed. You're welcome.
It's also got really huge redwood trees the further north you go.
It's also got really huge redwood trees the further north you go.
re: Who all hates the cool hipster baby names?
Posted by tigerfive on 2/6/25 at 4:24 pm
One of those is my middle name. Ugh
re: How much would you spend on your pet before you draw the line?
Posted by tigerfive on 2/5/25 at 4:30 am
I hope your dog is OK. I paid about $10k for a feral cat we called Daddy Kitty who fathered kittens with a stray cat I took in two years ago and then hung around to watch them grow up (I kept them because it was my fault she didn't get spayed in time and I didn't want to make the kittens someone else's problem.) .He must have gotten trapped in a garage or something because be disappeared for 6 weeks and came back emaciated. He was also covered in mange. We trapped him to get him medical care. The vet didn't notice his sodium levels were crazy high/dehydrated from no water in weeks (yes cats will survive that initially) and gave him fluids when they did the neuter. It should have been left up to him to drink water gradually so the fluid didn't all go to his brain and cause edema, but that's what happened, he crashed overnight and we took him to VEG emergency, they gave him a couple hours of critical care and we were going to put him down because he was still not responding but breathing and everything, but then he tried to stand up and that made me want to give him the chance to recover because he was trying so hard to stay alive. VEG referred us to Blue Pearl in Spring where they have basically ICU for animals and he was there for 30 hours with his own round the clock nurse. He started having seizures and we had to make the difficult decision to end his suffering. I had no regrets, until...
3 weeks later my husband of 4 months had a heart attack and two days ago he had quadruple bypass surgery. In hindsight I probably should have had Daddy Kitty put to sleep at VEG and capped the cost at $2k. Apparently hubby's insurance didn't cover everything and they charged us another almost $4k before they admitted him for surgery. He's doing OK.
I've always been good about earning money but never very good at saving it because there will always be a daddy kitty or something that I care more about than money. I think $10k is my hard limit though.
3 weeks later my husband of 4 months had a heart attack and two days ago he had quadruple bypass surgery. In hindsight I probably should have had Daddy Kitty put to sleep at VEG and capped the cost at $2k. Apparently hubby's insurance didn't cover everything and they charged us another almost $4k before they admitted him for surgery. He's doing OK.
I've always been good about earning money but never very good at saving it because there will always be a daddy kitty or something that I care more about than money. I think $10k is my hard limit though.
re: Weather reports. Post what’s happening in your area.
Posted by tigerfive on 1/21/25 at 2:12 am
Lol, it's snowing in Katy.
re: Has anyone else done zero snow storm prep?
Posted by tigerfive on 1/19/25 at 10:54 pm
We had the best intentions for storm prep this weekend, but yesterday morning instead of waking up and doing chores, my husband said he really didn't feel good and maybe we should go to urgent care and then he said no, maybe the Emergency room, so I threw on clothes and drove him to the hospital, dropped him off at the ER entrance and went to find parking. Got inside, scanned the waiting room, no hubby. They already had him stripping down in a room, EKG done, and rushed him upstairs to the cath lab,, this is a heart attack. He's only 51 btw, I'm 46. It's his 2nd heart attack, genetic vascular disease. I haven't slept more than 15 minutes since, but he was discharged after 24 hours in ICU (they unblocked his stent when they went in with the cath) and since we got home, all I've been able to manage with snow prep is to turn on the pool pump to 24/7, bring the blasted citrus pots inside, and get empty buckets and a bath tub filled for when I shut off the water at the main tonight. I can't deal with freezing pipes and I also can't deal with finding all the hose bibs and covering them tonight, so no water is the best option. I just really hope Centerpoint can keep their sh*t together for the next 3 days with gas and power. I don't want to go stay at the in-laws if I can help it, but his mom will insist if we lose power.
re: Anyone here have cough syncope?
Posted by tigerfive on 1/17/25 at 6:47 pm
My husband takes that and got the dry cough. It is annoying!
re: Does anybody here actually eat canned fish?
Posted by tigerfive on 1/12/25 at 7:43 pm
Are you watching Matthew Carlson's Canned Fish Files? My husband and I watch him all the time. I thought I had quite the sardine collection, but he finds brands I've never seen in stores. We eat them more in the summer when it's too hot to cook, make a cold smorgasbord thing with a couple tins as the protein. Also my husband likes to scramble them in eggs, pretty good.
re: Natural Disasters- What Can't You Handle?
Posted by tigerfive on 12/8/24 at 6:24 pm
Agree about tsunamis. I don't think I could outrun one.
Earthquakes are kind of fun. Like a mild roller coaster. Been through several. My sibling lives a few miles inland from the recent Humboldt quake and they didn't have any damage, surprisingly. I had a few ceiling cracks after a big shaker in 2014 near Napa, but my house made it through the 1906 earthquake that took out most of the town so a little shaking won't hurt it.
Flooding affected two of my cousins in Houston and it was very hard on them and their families but they were able to salvage some things and still had a house to remediate. But 7 years after Harvey, the cousin in Bear Creek still has yet to recover any gov't payment for the terrible decision to flood their neighborhood.
Wildfires, I moved to SE TX partly to get away from them. Hate them for the amount of destruction they cause. And weeks of breathing the smoke is miserable. But I could probably survive after everything I learned in the aftermath of so many big fires in norcal.
Hurricanes are scary and also exciting. I watched my fence blow half down in Hurricane Beryl and then go back up and right itself when the wind changed direction. I'd probably hate them more if I had lost power for over a week like my family members did just a few miles away.
Volcano eruptions frightened me as a child. There was a TV special about the Mt St Helens disaster that talked about a man who was too close to escape to safety. I was so sad for him. I have family living near Scapoose OR and they can see the volcano from their yard. That's a little too close for me.
Earthquakes are kind of fun. Like a mild roller coaster. Been through several. My sibling lives a few miles inland from the recent Humboldt quake and they didn't have any damage, surprisingly. I had a few ceiling cracks after a big shaker in 2014 near Napa, but my house made it through the 1906 earthquake that took out most of the town so a little shaking won't hurt it.
Flooding affected two of my cousins in Houston and it was very hard on them and their families but they were able to salvage some things and still had a house to remediate. But 7 years after Harvey, the cousin in Bear Creek still has yet to recover any gov't payment for the terrible decision to flood their neighborhood.
Wildfires, I moved to SE TX partly to get away from them. Hate them for the amount of destruction they cause. And weeks of breathing the smoke is miserable. But I could probably survive after everything I learned in the aftermath of so many big fires in norcal.
Hurricanes are scary and also exciting. I watched my fence blow half down in Hurricane Beryl and then go back up and right itself when the wind changed direction. I'd probably hate them more if I had lost power for over a week like my family members did just a few miles away.
Volcano eruptions frightened me as a child. There was a TV special about the Mt St Helens disaster that talked about a man who was too close to escape to safety. I was so sad for him. I have family living near Scapoose OR and they can see the volcano from their yard. That's a little too close for me.
re: Charlie Brown fights back. The indoctrination is at another level.
Posted by tigerfive on 12/8/24 at 6:01 pm
I grew up in the city where Charles Schulz lived and there are still Peanuts statues all over town. My hubby gave me a stuffed Snoopy after we got married and now it lives on my side of the bed. (I'm always on his side.)
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