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I am curious about whether it is a gender thing or not 🙃.

No splinter wood, I want smooth wood, any suggestions?

Artifical Christmas trees are expensive just to sit in the attic for 11 months of the year, so why not get your monies worth by adapting them to other events throughout the year. With careful planning you can have a showpiece all the year round to delight friends and family.

But for those of you who only want use it twice a year, which of these tree types would you go for?

(Disclaimer. This question is for entertainment purposes only and PP does not take any responsibility for marital break ups)

I don't.

Like misplacing them then completely forgetting where you put them. If so what is the most common item that you lose?

I don't even know how I managed to lose 3 new lighters in my own place... In fact sometimes I think it is a miracle that I manage to survive while being so scatterbrained.

• I was an early bloomer so I was about 10. Yes you heard me, 10.
  I already looked like a teenager at 10, like 14. People thought I looked older than I really did. Plus I grew from 5’2 to 5’7”. I was two months away from turning 11. It sucked being a foot taller than everyone and classmates were intimidated by me. A lot of people thought I was going to be 6ft or even over 6 feet.
  I grew to 6’1” by the time I was 14. Looking older than everyone and teachers expected more from me because I looked older.

To be perfectly honest the guy creeps me out and is often kinda inappropriate in how he talks to me when he meets me in the store. I also have seen the way he leers at other young women in their teens and twenties, he's around 50 something. He was going past my house, he lives maybe 10 houses away. I saw him out walking when I collected the mail from the post box and walked back into my home and he followed right behind me and as I tried to close the door he put his hand on it stopping me, he apologised and asked if he could come in and use the bathroom. Warning bells went off in my head, I told him no and he tried to push his way in as though he was entitled to enter my home but I told him if he didn't piss off I'd call the police and he left calling me a bitch. I called my husband who drove home and went straight to his door and he called the police. We've a door bell cam so the police who were sympathetic and suspicious of him didn't press charges. Some in the neighbourhood say it was unneighbourly and they've let him use theirs in the past no problem while others say I did right. I was raised to better be safe that sorry in these things.

So I’m living in Greece for grad school and thought it would be good to adopt a kitty while I was here. So far, it’s been a fantastic decision. But it’s been almost a week now and I still can’t settle on a name. I’m hoping to have one chosen by November first since that’s when she’s getting her vaccinations and microchip. With my last cat, when faced with naming her I wrote my options on scraps of paper, balled them up and tossed them across the floor; the one the cat ran after to play with was the one I chose for the name. This time, I guess it’s because she’s still very little, my kitten hasn’t been interested in that method. I figured since I’m in Greece (and a classical archaeology student) I should chose something theme appropriate. I’m stuck between three

-Sparta (So when people ask her name I can say “This. Is. SPARTA!” Like in 300. Fun, but I worry it may not suit her as and so far she’s been super sweet and it’s a little masculine)

-Callisto (which in Greek means “Most Beautiful” but by extension may seem a little pretentious and may be a little difficult for both her and other people to learn [when discussing names with my parents separately both accidentally and repeatedly said CallistA])

-Circe (The witch in the Odyssey that turns Odysseus’s men into animals but on the flip side, is a different spelling for Cersei of Game of Thrones. Enough said.)

I’m also open to other suggestions but I’d like to stay on theme. I’ve already decided against both Calliope (the muse of epic poetry) and Hecate (the goddess of witchcraft)

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What do you think?

Hurricane Milton is in the news but when you hear the word Milton what springs to mind?