Apparently it will be a novella in the collection coming out in August!
Oh God yes far too many babies, everybody was having babies or thinking of having babies except the ones who'd recently adopted other kids. Too many kids! I'm a little sick of the wolves and the leopards tbh... More Arrows, more Forgotten, more humans, more sea-changelings!! Fortunately that seems to be where the next arc is headed.
Please do yell! I also love her and I haven't talked to anyone else who's read the latest book, would love to hear your thoughts!
I think the key is you can't add it to a sentence that is already a question... you take a declarative statement and add the "eh" at the end to turn it into a question, as in, "It's raining priddy hard out there, eh?"
TRUE STORY, one time I hit my head against the corner of an open cabinet door so hard that it temporarily left a little indent in my head. The doctor said it was "scalp trauma" and I had weird pain/numbness along my scalp for a few weeks afterward, which let me tell you, is UNNERVING. Needless to say it now makes me extremely anxious to see people leave cupboard doors open. BUT habitual cupboard-leave-openers seem to have a REALLY hard time changing their ways no matter how sympathetic they are to my trauma! Even my mom forgets when I go visit her and leaves a trail of open drawers and cupboards in her wake as she cooks.
My dad used to put a bit of bread in the bottom of a jam jar and poke it around with his spoon until it got the last dregs of the jam (then fish it out & eat). Didn't figure out this was weird until uni.
Also, you know, putting a little bit of milk into the ranch dressing bottle and shaking it up to make SURE you get the last of it out. Or tomato juice in the ketchup bottle or coffee in the maple syrup bottle or vinegar in the steak sauce bottle. Apparently this is...not a thing everyone does?
Don't feel bad, Nicole! I recently learned that if you live in downtown Toronto and have two or more kids below school age, it's actually cheaper to hire a full-time nanny or for one partner to stay at home than it is to put them in daycare. Toronto!
I used to eat cereal for breakfast lots until I realized that I Am a Grown-Up and I can eat in my comfy chair instead of at the kitchen table if I want to. Downside of comfy chair breakfast is that when I eat cereal milk tends to spill onto my Nice Work Clothes. So now I eat less drippy things for breakfast - does this make me a lazy millennial?
So being in Canada I think for us there's also the confounding factor of, like, having many of the pregnancy and birth-related medical costs being covered by public healthcare (not to mention a legit mat leave policy and baby bonuses/child tax credits/whatever the thing of the day is). When I was a teenager I was like "Well, if there isn't a risk to the mother's health, and it's not related to trauma like a sexual assault, what reason IS there to go for abortion instead of adoption?" (Not going to lie, there is also an element of privilege in that. I was also a teenager and didn't know a lot about the effects on the mother's health other than, like, the "This baby will kill you if you carry it to term!" type drama from TV shows. Also I didn't know that pregnancy-related discrimination was a thing.) It was MIND-BLOWING when I was seventeen and (a) learned that the US did not have public healthcare and (b) realized a hospital would CHARGE YOU MONEY ??? to give birth to a baby ??? that was going to come out ANYWAY ??????? My views had already started to change by then but I think that put me a lot more firmly in the pro-choice camp. I just could not get over it.
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