LouisianaLady

Always found this fascinating.

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Raccoons dip food in water not to clean it, but to enhance their sense of touch, using their incredibly sensitive paws to feel texture, size, and temperature, helping them identify food in murky water or low light; the water makes their paws' nerve endings more receptive, essentially "seeing" with their hands, though it does serve as a convenient cleaning byproduct.

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I personally think Mansurs has the best chargrilled oysters around, but obviously it’s a bit different atmosphere wise than Parrains.

The bar are tables are fine though. I’ve gone plenty casual numerous times.

Goodles mac and cheese with a Great Value pouch of chicken and Frank's Red Hot mixed in. Diet Coke. Fancy stuff over here.

My only pet these days is my elderly cat. She's on a kick lately where she sleeps faceplanted.

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My last one got wild on Zoom...we played Family Feud and everyone had DoorDash delivered.

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:lol: Ours is a Zoom party as well. Nobody lives in the same state. We do Secret Santa, which I need to get in the darn mail ASAP.

It's fun, but I hate opening gifts on camera.

I don't know that I'd ever have considered it date vibes, but I agree it has changed a lot. They got rid of the grill for grilling oysters, which seemed to be a big draw.

As mentioned, they had the best (and one of the only) turtle soup around. Bummer when it was removed. I used to go just for that.

We go from time to time on Sunday for brunch, but only sit in the bar area. Seems to be a lot of large families post-church waiting for a table in the actual restaurant.

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cava was better when it was Zoe's

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I miss Zoe's so much.

I liked Cava the one time I had it, but every time I mock-order online I'm confused how you're supposed to eat it.

3 dips + 2 dressings would be strange all mixed together right? Do they put them all on the side?

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You can go cheap as hell on a LOT of stuff and they love it all the same.

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While I agree with your overall point, lord this does not apply to middle/HS aged girls.

It was WORLD ENDING that my parents always got me the cheap knockoff version of whatever was trending at the time. It made me look more loser than if I just didn't have the item at all. :lol:

Now that I'm an adult, I laugh about it, but I remember it being such a huge deal to me as a girl in a hardcore clique-ish school with mean girls.

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I wish more people understood this, parents can do everything right to set their kids up for success but they're still individuals who can make up their own mind to be shitty.

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Oh, absolutely. Without going into too much detail, I know folks whose children who have died of heroin overdoses and came from outstanding parents whose other children are very successful.

I'm not as concerned with that as I would be concerned that I have a child with special needs I'm not equipped to handle. In the past 5 years, three people I know have given birth to children with down's syndrome. All 3 with no family history of it. Wild.

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For me, it's more like "what will Christmas morning look like at 40/45/etc. without kids?" or "what will our beach vacations look like if they never have little kids in them?"

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I get it, but truly.. different strokes.

My husband is on-call during Christmas every year anyway, but it is slow and he's usually home. Christmas morning, we wake up and I make a big late breakfast spread (we don't normally eat breakfast in regular life). Boudin balls, sausage balls, homemade pancakes, eggs, bacon, etc. Sometimes my best friend who also does not have kids comes to join, and we fix mimosas and hang out.

Watch Christmas movies, light the fireplace if it's cold, and relax all day.

For dinner, we go all out. Last year, we had Chicken Marsala Coq au Vin (a mashup between the two), Roasted Garlic Boursin Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Broccoli, and fresh rolls. We ate in the dining room upstairs candlelit on our wedding china where we have our 2nd Christmas tree lit up and jazzy Christmas music playing.

No doubt we'd enjoy the traditional kids version of Christmas Day had kids made their way into our life, but it's a bit off base the assumption that people have nothing without that.

EDIT: And I do think some of the language around having kids vs. not having kids is unnecessarily harsh for people in the position like the above where they wanted them and medically could not. Especially when people are bringing God into it and calling you sinners.

I know that they likely would see inability as an exception, but they sure as shite don't say it. :lol: If I desperately wanted kids, that would break my heart to constantly see. Even without medical issues, what about people whose marriages failed by no fault of their own who never met someone else to marry? Or who just never met someone at all in general that was leading to marriage? What about people with serious hereditary illnesses in their genepool? Just so many situations people don't consider.

She's been corseting a lot lately. That has to hurt your innards so badly, but it looks so darn good.

Eh. The older I get, the less I'm into movies with far too much action and anxiety inducing plot lines.

I still love degenerate type stuff like Wolf of Wall Street, so it's not really about "adult content". I just have grown tired of trying to chill in the living room, and my husband is nowhere to be found while having left it on someone's face getting beaten in every 10 minutes.

I say this as someone who would rank Casino in my top 10.

Cursing doesn't bother me at all.