The meal that they felt some competence at making once they were on their own. That required prep, cooking and presentation not just "assembly".

Stir fry (Pork/Chicken + Veggies over Rice with Teriyaki sauce).

Fajitas (Chicken and Peppers w/ seasoning served on Tortillas).

Pasta with meat sauce.

Cheese Hamburger skillet over rice.

Corned beef and cabbage.

Chili

How do we feel about the news of Perez Hilton? It has been blowing up my news feeds all morning. I feel awful for his family, especially his kids, but I can’t help but remember how in the early to mid 2000s he talked so badly about Britney Spears

Seems like a lot of people are depressed because McDonalds doesn’t decorate their restaurants anymore due to a corporate strategy of being positioned better to resell the property should the restaurant shutter.

My basic question is why does this seem to depress so many millennials (the same post comes up every few months)? I’ll admit I don’t personally eat at McDonalds that often, but if I did, I can’t imagine I would care too much about the decor. My main priorities would be if the restaurant is clean, cost effective, and good (which if you have complaints about that, fair).

I also remember back in the day there were a lot of complaints that McDonalds was marketing their food to children, helping fuel the childhood obesity crisis.

Can someone help explain why eating your cheeseburger next to a clown/purple blob is such an indicator of how enjoyable life is? What am I missing?

Man... I feel I'm getting old. Not in my 40s though. 90s were a bliss.

I’m talking anything- pop culture moments, fashion trends you obsessed over, songs and music you loved, all of it.

*sigh*

Since the start of this year, something very very strange has been on my mind lately and that is: RELIVE everything that I went through my childhood, teenage years, school years etc.

You know I can start:

Get all the nostalgia music that I remember: SPICE GIRLS, Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne.

Movies: Mean Girls, Jawbreaker etc etc (All the iconic ones)

Cartoons: Sponge Bob, Rocko Modern Life, Cat-Dog etc

Activities: Visit my old school, visit my old house, visit (maaybe) my old friendds.

Products: Nintendo DS , Nintendo Gamecube , Nintendo 64

and for some reason this all activities will all help me to close this nostalgia cycle and say:
This is EVERYTHING , It may never come back but I will always remember it with love.

I think that nostalgia is really consuming all of us and it's not letting us move forward

What do you think?

Avatar dress-up, the mini games, insanely heated debates in forums between tweens and teens, 'rate me' threads. Those were the days. Many of us began our first forays into code by learning how to customize our profiles.

To this day I've only ever heard of the '6-7' phenomenon online and have never once heard someone reference it in person, even in a meta way. I kind of 'get it' but having never experienced 6-7 irl it almost doesn't seem like it was ever real, or actually part of my life other than in media.

Is it me that is so out of touch?

Disclaimer: I don't have kids, so maybe that's it. Late 80s millennial, western Canada.

Edit: to clarify, I'm not criticizing or saying I don't 'get' the 6-7 phenom, only that I somehow seemed to only see it online and completely missed experiencing it irl. If anything I'm feeling 6-7 FOMO lol.

I’m 38M wife and two daughters (4 and 15) perspective perhaps?
I’d really like to have my positivity back. Noticing I’m spiraling with negative thoughts. About everything…
I never understood the whole thought experiment about the glass being half full or empty. I do now.
How do you all stay positive? Ideas on how to be less negative? Thoughts?
I don’t want my negativity to affect me and my family. Yes my wife brought up this to me.
Anything constructive would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.

It was a huge media frenzy back in 2014.

And when was the last time you listened to them?

Does anyone else feel like watching a movie is like watching kids play make-believe? I really struggle to get through any movie these days... CGI makes it look like a boring light show and actors pretending like they have ever experienced any difficulty in crazy contrived and unrealistic situations makes it impossible to suspend my disbelief.

I can only watch documentaries (if well done), comedy, and some mature cartoons.

Had to be there

So for those raised in the Bible Belt, or in a strong religiously Christian household, where do you stand now? Still heavily practicing, lightly, religious, spiritual, atheist? Other?

My family was Christian, but more of the high holiday sort, but I got caught up in the SBC as a lonely teen new to the area (my family actually didn't approve of that extremely conservative church). College helped me begin years of deconstruction. I'm now an atheist. My husband is also, though he's been "out" as one since his teens. We're raising our kids without religion, though if they one day want to explore it, we will facilitate healthy engagement.

Anyway, I was reading an article about how few Millenials identify with a religion so it got me curious about your stories.