Steel cut oats work well with veg. They can be a little sticky, go easy on the water because vegetables release water, and don’t really stir, treat them more like brown rice rather than porridge. (I don’t have a rice cooker so I do mine at half power in the microwave so I don’t have to worry about burning the bottom.) And add a little butter/marge at the end.

Something your therapist would not have to report is if you asked for her help to create an escape plan.

You’ve said the therapy is helping you hold a mindset that doesn’t just accept your situation. So you don’t have to go into more detail right now about why it’s so bad.

You can just make your therapy plan:

Step 1 “Persuade my therapist to help me get myself into a safe and sustainable living situation away from my immediate family”

with the promise that then you’ll do

Step 2: “Tell my therapist everything she needs to send in the authorities, in order to protect others in the family and community.”

She may be able to connect you to support services you couldn’t access on your own. Both because of her professional authority and because she’s not stuck in the house with him watching, like you are.

I’m wishing you all the lucky breaks, OP.

Yes, school districts do vary.

I think they’re saying it’s worse than America in this one way

Not in our district, school buses are free in public school. Private school would probably have a fee paid along with tuition.

But this Milan situation is apparently a city bus, and he pays cash rather than having a bus pass like our kids can get for Metro buses. (Although 11 is a little young imho, my kids didn’t get one until middle school. )

This was just his regular ride home from school, too. Not a special Olympics shuttle bus

“What’s this about cooking unicorns???”

You could also become very necessary in the event it all goes wahoonie-shaped.

Sometimes you just have to book a doctor’s appointment to break your kid’s fever and make the slapped cheeks appear.

I taught 3rd grade in the US, where kids are expected to have their printing correct and start to learn cursive. I’d say your writing is very neat and readable. It has some differences that most US adults develop when they’ve gotten used to cursive and then need to use printing. So nobody is going to have any trouble with reading this.

For instance, when little kids print, or US teachers teach it, the straight line on their e is horizontal. The stems on their a and m are straight and well-defined. Their v has a sharp point. Their f is tall, with a strong top hook and nothing below the sitting line. Their y and x made from two straight diagonal lines. And there’s no slant. But after writing in cursive for awhile, many adults form their printing similarly to you.

The only thing I’d suggest you change is to make the top part of the f stronger and more hooked. That’s the one letter that might cause confusion, even though your t has a tail to differentiate it. Your assignment doesn’t include a q, but I suggest you be sure to curve or point its tail below the line in the opposite direction from the tail on your g.

All in all, well done.

Having reread it a few times I think it’s a typo for car. Although such a misadventure could easily cause a person to be late returning to the vet to pick up their cat, having gone to get gas while a procedure was in progress.

However, here’s the first “Maru and boxes” video, because you deserve a little nostalgic joy. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xdhLQCYQ-nQ

Sadly, Maru died last September but he had a long and happy life with lots of love.

Yes I think Jumbie mistyped, “anti-immigration” is correct for the right-wingers, or as I call them the Wrong Wing.

The only way they could be called “pro-Immigration” is if you’re using “Immigration” as a short name for ICE and US Border Patrol and Dept of Homeland Security together in general. As we in Los Angeles sometimes call them “la migra”. Because although they have different jurisdictions, undocumented people have to run/hide from all of them.

Isn’t the water used for cooling? If so, discharged warmed water can adversely affect local wildlife, including the fish people fish for and the animals people hunt.

Checking my location is a less distracting way for my husband to know if I’m safely on my way home than texting or calling me while I’m driving. She might have thought his phone had been stolen because he hadn’t planned on getting wings.

Someone had to stay with the kids

Sending hexes and curses to every cancer cell in your body.

Leave our mod alone, you nasty things, nobody wants you here! You fucking useless deformed parasites! Shrivel up and die! And don’t take any of the good cells with you, you don’t deserve them!

If you want people to skip reading a certain piece of information, make it the title.

Well from 1955 to 1975 a lot of young men were in Vietnam learning that shooting goes both ways, not sure if it had an effect but maybe

A plant for the aunt sounds perfect. If the partner is a woman, a different plant for her too, yes it’s normative but as a woman myself I like a plant. For the guys a big bottle of fancy beer is often appreciated, unless they don’t/shouldn’t drink. One I’m liking these days is La Fin Du Monde because it feels like we’re living in the end of the world. It’s 750 ML, so wine-sized, but beer. About $12 at BevMo in my area.

This makes a lot of sense and adds valuable context!

Also, if Kate has to maintain control under tension while being called lazy, I think she and I could be best friends.