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The transcript for the podcast she was on is up now, here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/768062/5316610

Posted as one long unedited paragraph. It mostly reads like this:

>right before we started talking, I was cleaning out the pantry and rearranging things and trying to make it clean. And one of our dear little friends we have a little quarantine bubble with our dear friends and their kids. Their three year old daughter had built some magnetized train and was bank It against my leg saying this is the fork train. And it only goes faster for farts on people, you know, go. So I'm putting rice into jars and throwing away old potatoes.

I couldn't make it through. ~~There was one story about Shauna missing a phone call and having a "breakdown:"~~

~~>this afternoon. I just and I had a call scheduled I had it on my calendar. I had rearranged my entire day for this call. 20 minutes later, I looked down at my phone and she said something about a link and I'm like, What link? Because I missed the call because I was trying to explain what Wikipedia was to my five year old trying to keep them from looking at butts on YouTube and trying to make done. Yep, absolutely. And I realized that I missed the call and I lost it. I like threw everything down on my desk, and I I burst into tears. And I stormed out of the house. I sat on the deck and cry for like an hour here. Yeah. Because I'm like I saw At the mom thing, because I'm not paying attention to them. I'm just trying to keep them from finding, you know, inappropriate bites on the internet while I'm trying to do my work, and then I can't even do that.~~

~~Shauna, this is not a relatable problem. If you want to stop your kids from "looking at butts on YouTube," install SafeSearch, use ScreenTime, ask your ISP and/or install parental controls.~~

Editing because I misread the transcript!

Shauna's stupid motherfucking book isn't even the most popular book with the title Enough!

This book, published in April 2018 (fully 18 months before Shauna's) is currently #26,299 on the Amazon bestseller's list while Shauna's is languishing at #468,354

Editing to add missing book link: https://www.amazon.com/Enough-Silencing-Lies-Steal-Confidence/dp/0736973540/ref=rtpb_3/134-0075225-5663247?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0736973540&pd_rd_r=587f8e14-3c56-42a5-820d-79c86c91fdd5&pd_rd_w=Wk3aa&pd_rd_wg=HK8AD&pf_rd_p=4974...

Janome has great quality machines and something like this would be perfect for a beginner: it's very basic and easy to learn on, and still relatively low investment.

I can think of exactly one thoroughly enjoyable book that is centered around the author's "journey" with recipes tossed in: On Rue Tatin by Susan Loomis. Of course that's because she has an interesting story to tell, is an accomplished writer, and her recipes don't suck.

Have you read As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child & Avis DeVoto? Not to be all bossy like Shauna but if you haven't, then do yourself a favor and read it.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004BXA3BI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_RdGmFbD7NVDPC

Elissa Washuta is a very interesting writer. Her book My Body Is a Book of Rules does some of what Shauna was trying to do with Enoigh, but more successfully. She has a book of essays coming out next month that may be her breakthrough book.

Shauna made me realize I deserve way more credit than previously ascertained: I recently gave this book as a birthday gift to my landlady's 10-year-old son (quarter-Chinese, the rest white) because the kid is football-mad and I thought it's super-cool that a former NFL player became a NASA astronaut. (Plus cute cover with dogs!)

I wasn't looking for "uplifting story of racial minority man who doesn't look like him."

Ok, so I just went and read about 15 reviews on Amazon (author, btw, is Danny Dreyer).

Surprisingly, not one of these reviews even mentioned the gut. I know! It's very confusing! The closest I could find is this:

>I read about this book many places and am glad I got it. It introduced me to the idea of running with a central column leaving the arms and legs loose - using the image of a cheetah who moves his core body forward using his legs lightly. It is based on the principles of Tai Chi. There is breath work that I have read elsewhere however seeing the date of this publication, he said it first. Really worth reading since it is so different than most of the running books around with ideas geometrically opposed. Rather the strength and force, lightness. Worth reading whether you agree or not just to think about the ideas. It helps me with my running by reducing my "perceived effort level".

see also DFP's comments re: the difference between the "gut" and the "core"

https://www.amazon.com/ChiRunning-Revolutionary-Approach-Effortless-Injury-Free/dp/1416549447

My best guess is he can see the specific referring Reddit page. We do have her site linked at the top of each discussion so any time someone who is browsing unprotected clicks one of those it'll generate referral records.

It looks like he's using Hotjar as one analytics tool on YCHMJ.com. I don't have personal experience with this tool but it appears to be kind of intense, including offering screen recording of user interactions with the site to understand points of friction with the user experience (big LOL for this dumpster fire).

Yes! And they make those crayon pencils with all the colors (https://www.amazon.com/Interchangable-Crayon-Pack-30-C/dp/B00BJ3IB12 ).

Damn, I loved those crayon pencils (and the regular pencils with the pop out lead).

The mud was really unlucky timing for them. It rained quite a bit more Saturday, Sunday, and Monday (with close to 3 inches falling on Monday 2/28 alone) than what we normally get over the entire month of February.

Did she buy the portrait of herself though? It's marked sold on the artist's site but did Shauna say that she bought it? It could have been any one of a number of her fanpoodles who bought it, or maybe someone like DFtita or DFkayaklady.

Or wait---does shutterstock pay for images? https://www.shutterstock.com/search/narcissist

It's this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SPZ93V5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1 FLAYPAL Fireproof and Waterproof Document Bag with Lock and Interior Zipper Pouch. I put the various types of documents in zippered pouches before throwing them in there so that they're easier to find if we need one, like all birth certificates together and so on.

I didn’t feel this warranted a comment in the main thread but I saw this at the bookstore tonight & couldn’t stop snickering

https://www.amazon.com/Grow-Curious-Journal-Cultivate-Wonder/dp/1797209868

If you eat in your car (I do! Long commute!) get those 'as seen on TV' dropstops! They have kept the space between my seats and the center console food-free for years now. And that was my biggest barrier to a clean car for a while, all the stuff that would fall in that space.

I would agree, but I’ve seen too many articles in home decor magazines and books and blogs about bed making. There’s even a whole book.

More proof that she has no real friends. When I started complaining about mustache/hair issues to friends, they turned me on to the "eyebrow trimmer" AKA the Schick hydro razor or similar, and now I always have two or three in my car, a few in my work bag and a gazillion floating around all our bathrooms for hair emergencies. Because razors go dull and you don't want to scrape your face with the same thing you're using on your pubic hair and legs and underarms. You want something super sharp and clean.

It's gross that she crossed that boundary and never outright asked for advice, or prepared in advance for stubble that happens literally every single day of her life, dependably, by a certain time of night.

I mean if she had her period, wouldn't she bring a few tampons in her pocket to change over when she knew she'd be out late? Don't answer that.....

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/7585768-the-anti-vaccine-movement Looking forward to this, thanks DFOBB. I was just thinking about the covid vaccine and how it might roll out here once more folks my age are eligible - and not just those who might be tempted to jump the line with "other conditions" like our girl. Our elders are getting vaccinated at a good rate, we generally have an older population. But now all of these anti-vaxx assholes who've been playing fast and loose with their kids'and other kids health are going to have to walk the talk themselves. (I suspect this is off topic, btw, and we should probably move it over)

These are helpful distinctions. I was recently talking to a friend who just read The Power of Fun. It's basically what Shauna wishes she wrote. My friend, who is unfamiliar with Shauna, summarized the book as "get off the phone and be more playful." She also said her New Year's resolution is to have more fun, so I asked her to explain how you decide to have more fun, genuine fun and not fake fun. In my mind, I was comparing this to Shauna's fake joyfulness. Anyway, friend said that you have to create conditions to have fun, like knowing what you find fun, making sure you have pockets of time available in case an opportunity arises to do something fun, then you can actually do it. I don't know if the book is actually any good, but the author is apparently a science journalist. Check out the description. It's totally what Shauna is trying to sell.

I thought this was very interesting:

Narcissist masquerading as a sensitive introvert.

Yes, many rich hippies are the definition of "nice racism".

I read an amazing book about the social history of housekeeping a long time ago (called 'Biting the Dust') and one of the stories really stuck with me. A woman in Ireland(?), where the local custom was to "chalk" your steps every morning with lime, decided to stop chalking her front steps – it had to be done every morning, it got messed up when anyone stepped on it, etc. – only to find her mother driving over at 5 a.m. to chalk her steps for her: "What will the neighbours think?!"

Shauna has been shifting how she describes her book to frame it as directly addressing whatever she feels like. She didn't have her C-PTSD diagnosis when she wrote it and so all this language she uses now about trauma isn't even in it. "Traumatic childhood" is in the publisher's description of the book, but the word "trauma" barely appears if at all in the book itself (keep me honest here /u/fanfarefellowship because I think you checked this before). A lot of it is about her "not good enough" feelings about her body and weight, for example, and iirc she ties this to her childhood only in passing in mentioning eating her feelings during tense family moments (like when her mother stormed out and returned to find Shauna eating a sundae, accusing her of not even missing her, something like that). Shauna uses the pages of her book to incoherently rant about diet culture in general and crow about how healthy she is at her weight instead of exploring this.

Ooh! Geena Davis is so beautiful.

I look so much like the actress Erin Gray from Buck Rogers that I once used this as my profile picture on Facebook and people thought it was me. In 5th grade, I all of sudden became popular with boys due to the resemblance. I also get told I look like Sheryl Crow.

https://www.amazon.com/Erin-Grey-Rogers-Century-Aluminum/dp/B01IF5EXWC

I don’t remember “Harriet The Spy” well...but someone just sent her a biography of author Louise Fitzhugh. It’s called Sometimes You Have to Lie....looks like a good book!

https://www.amazon.com/Sometimes-You-Have-Lie-Fitzhugh/dp/1580057691/ref=nodl_

OMG. My love for Eileen West nightgowns is incompatible with their price, but 1 for U “nap dresses” are the perfect, more affordable option! Bless/damn you for that link!

What kind of frame are you looking for? Platform, or one for mattress and box springs? With/without a headboard? I got this one for my son's bed (he has a queen pillowtop, wanted a platform rather than box springs) and it's been a sturdy beast! But it is just the platform part, no headboard. I have had my eye on that same brand and style but with a headboard for my own room because the one in my son's room is so solid.

Omg those are so cute!

I bought a special set of hollow core drill bits that work with ceramics. The key is to wet down the surface. I usually turn the pot upside down and theres enough of a dent to hold a little puddle of water. Or you can spray with a spray bottle to keep it wet. I was trying to find the how to I used but basically you start drilling at an angle until the bit makes a little groove. Then while drilling, slowly keep angling until all of the "circle" is making contact where you want the hole. Then just drill away! My corded drill works better than the cordless for this.

Here's the drill bits on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07L9NLPYP/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_hn3.EbW5EPDXW

I have not tried doing this with glass yet. Just glazed and unglazed ceramics and terracotta.

Here's a couple examples and a bonus butterfly. http://imgur.com/gallery/JRsBrly