My current takeaways:
@ChoatieMom lives in Arizona? For whatever reason, I pictured you in upstate-New-York-Western-Mass-ish. (Fun fact: I just moved my oldest daughter to Arizona a few days ago – in fact DH is driving there right now to build her a bed and settle her in.)
And: people who know how to post photos have all the fun because I can’t figure it out.
Also: @DroidsLookingFor - Thanksgiving is back ON for next year.
@Calliemomofgirls: We lived in the Boston area for ten years but moved to AZ in '99, so we’ve been in the desert a while. Good luck to your daughter. I hope she likes it here.
The ability to post pictures is based on CC status. If you had at least Senior Member status before the cutover, you should see a bar with an up-arrow in the icon list at the top of a reply box. Click on that and follow the prompts. If you don’t see that icon, you will earn it when your post-level satisfies that threshold.
@ChoatieMom
I thought I was a senior member but I don’t see the icon. Is it to the far right? (Empty space for me).
Atop my reply box, I see the following icons in this order:
Quote balloon
B (bold)
I (italic)
Link
” (Double quote)
Slash surrounded by brackets
Up arrow (upload pic)
Bullet list
Number list
Smile
Calendar
Cog
Ah, the difference is the device then. Are you using a phone? I’m on a desktop.
Ok found it lower right. (iPhone)
But I selected a photo and then when I hit reply I got an error message “sorry you can’t embed media in a post.”
I checked your profile and it looks like you’re just an ordinary member like me ): When I try to upload photos I get the same message.
@mondaydevil we are nothing near ordinary in my heart.
No, both of you are far from ordinary!
@gardenstategal Thanks for the love. As I sit here with my puppy on my lap, me going down rabbit holes of BS conversations of the past, I have to wonder if I am a “member” what could it possibly take to be a “senior member” because I already feel like way too much of my life is probably spent on CC. But weirdly, and to my surprise, I actually CARE about these people who share their lives here, so I check in with my coffee and inevitably get sucked into a thread stream I hadn’t read before.
Also: I am wondering if the new photo upload feature is what is making CC give me the frequent error message “this webpage is using significant energy.”
One last thing: did you all see that old private messages were imported? The interface is hilarious. (As in: not remotely reasonable. “Conversation 47259833”)
Wait! Private messages from the old system have been imported? That will make me happy because I had contact information in those messages I feared was lost forever. I must go see!!
And here is a picture of what my week has done to me…
@buuzn03 Yes! But enjoy trying to find any specific message threads with the interface.
Puppies are the BEST. (I would post a photo but I can’t.)
First off, puppies ARE the best.
Second, I would post a pic of mine, but I am also an ordinary member. Sigh.
I think it is based purely on number of posts. Don’t know how many a person needs tho. And I think they are a power drain.
I’m hoping it is based on posts/years on forum instead of age. I must say “senior member” makes me feel like I have one foot in the grave. 
Can someone bring me my teeth???
I miss our cat.
We lost him to kidney disease after 14 wonderful years. DH will not consider another pet as he wants to remain unencumbered in retirement. 
@ChoatieMom , cats are SO encumbering…
If you lived closer, I might think DH had 2 families and that you were the other one!
@Calliemomofgirls you HAVE to be a senior member because I am which makes no sense comparatively.
