My peanut butter mixture always gets too melty and then leaks everywhere and I need to use way too much chocolate to cover it to the ratio is all messed up. What am I doing wrong?

I have been on tretinoin for a while, and now that I have increased the % at the recommendation of my derm I am flakey as hell. I am looking for a GENTLE physical exfoliant, preferably something that isn't a face wash type thing since my skin hates everything and breaks out even if the water changes 😒

I was promoted, but told I will be paid 17% less than the average for my new position. Instead they gave me a bunch of stock options, which I don't care about. They said this was because of the current economic market and didn't have the budget for it.

I am pissed. I am supposed to sit in meetings and lead projects with all these other dudes (I am a woman) and be paid less for it. On top of that my company is rubbing salt in the wound by making us all sigh a diversity and inclusion pledge. I am all for diversity and inclusion, but maybe ... ACTUALLY DO IT instead of just pledging it.

I immediately sent out my resume and applied to several jobs because fuck this. But the more I think about it the more I think about how cushy this job is and how chill my manager and team is. I get unlimited PTO that is actually unlimited, we almost never get called when on call, I get to work on whatever I want and work whatever hours I feel like, plus it's fully remote. My team has good rapport and I like working with them.

So here's what I'm thinking, if I work for 83% of the pay I work 83% of the hours. So I am thinking of bringing this up with my manager and requesting that I am given 1 day off a week since that would be 80% of my current schedule. I value time off and getting to work on what I want over money, even if they are being sexist trash. I will accept their sexism at the rate of 3 day weekends every week lmao. I don't want to fuck up things before I find another position though, so I'm not sure when to bring this up or if it's even worth trying.

I have been working with my vet on this for over 6 months now. This was my cats first blood test during his physical (new vet) and he had slightly elevated liver levels (~180 ALT). Since then we have done and bile acids test, tried prescription food, had him on liver supplements (denamarin) forever and his levels have fluctuated slightly (never back to the normal category) but we are back to where we started after all this work. His bile acids test was normal. Next step is ultrasound.

He has never been acting sick, eating normally, etc. The only reason I found out was the blood test at a checkup .

I am just worried every test will come back normal? Do I need to see a specialist? Does anyone have a cat that has been through this and you found out the secret to figuring this out? Any ideas are welcome because we are both ready to be done with this 😩

Last year my cat started developing a bunch of itchy scabs all over his body. It was recommended to start him on a completely different protein he's never had (I picked rabbit) and after forever via trial and error I figured out the culprit is poultry.

If you didn't know, chicken and turkey is in like everything ever. Even if the flavor says "beef" or "tuna" or whatever there's like a 95% chance it also contains chicken or turkey. It's also really hard to figure out exactly what is a good pet food, because a lot of them contain things that cat's don't need or are harmful for them because they are obligate carnivores.

I also didn't find many helpful resources despite chicken being one of the most common allergens for cats. I wasted so many hours finding cat food he could eat.

Finally I have compiled a list of foods I can feed him that aren't trash, with 0 poultry:

• Vital Essentials freeze dried patties - pork and rabbit

• Stella and Chewy freeze dried morsels - rabbit

• Rawz - beef and rabbit

• Fromm - beef and venison

• I and love and you - beef and rabbit

• Ziwi Peak air dried - venison and lamb

And since I have invested a ridiculous amount of my life reading about cat food at this point, if your cat isn't allergic to poultry I recommend Nulo Freestyle or Tiki cat. Rawz is also reasonably priced when you don't have to buy the weird flavors.

My muffin pan is rusty as hell (my own fault) and I failed to remove the rust even with scrub daddy and barkeepers friend. Usually I am cooking with liners, but I also make candy in them (ie marshmallows) and don't feel like putting anything sticky in a pan that dirty.

Do you have a muffin pan you really like? Preferably one that's easy to clean. What about silicone? I heard it doesn't bake easily but I wonder if it matters for something small like cupcakes