“What’s with you today?”

+1 for the Empire Records reference. Damn the man! Save the Empire!

I...fully support a kid not getting an iPhone till after they’re 15

Red Rocks is great. My Dad took me there to see the Who when I was little and my Mom took me to see Ani Difranco there for my birthday one year.

I’m on Team Grow-Up-and-Figure-Out-How-to-Co-Parent. I am not impressed with the behavior of either adult in this situation.

Harness fire and chill..

Scrimshaw and chill

etchings and chill

I am flying 100% solo tonight. Just me and a pizza.

I adored the Lillian Vernon catalogue as a child. When that thing showed up in the mailbox, it was a happy day, and I would pore over it for hours. I had forgotten about it until I heard that she died.

Pictured: the Olsen twins laughing

Sorry, the lock on the cage somehow came lose. We’ll tighten the restraints this time. EVERYONE GET IN THE VAN.

Yeah, it took me about ten years to figure out that when my mom took my deranged, aggressive cat back to the shelter so that the shelter could find a family with lots of energetic boys to play with him, she was actually taking him back to the shelter...where they would almost certainly put him down because he was…

I’m in.

Shout out to all my fellow Jezzies who read “inexpensive Yankee candles” and thought about how you only get Yankee candles when they're on the clearance endcap at TJ Maxx.

Trader Joes: Sriracha roasted garlic BBQ sauce = YUM! (Just saying)

You’re on to something with the asshole commenters of late. I’m all for a spirited debate, but the purposely argumentative commenters stress me out.

Yes! It has occurred to me that some snark is brewing all the time here. And I too comment less. But when it’s good it’s good and if all us good guys go away then only the shit remains. Stay on here and we can all band together when something is unnecessarily brutal. Anyway I always love your commenting!…

I finally quit sleeping in ratty old t-shirts for two reasons: (1) I discovered I loved bamboo or really nice cotton nightdresses and (2) I saw news video from a house fire and the woman was in the ugliest, rattiest sleepwear and I was like “Nope. If I’m on local news, Imma look halfway decent.”

uhg, i know. i just had a dream LAST NIGHT that I had to rent a castle in Rome with my ex husband in order to stay with my now-boyfriend every other week. it was awkward, even in my dream.