Just in case you were wondering as to the actual spelling, it's "pinochle." Aaaaaand there's the extent of what I know about pinochle.

This broke my heart. This was me, except I didn't cut. I ate. My family was falling apart at the seams, and so was I. It took me forever to learn to swim and not just tread water.

"So maybe that's why none of the grownups in my life offered me the kind of help I needed."

My mother insisting that "these are the best years of your life" in regards to the high school/teenage years made me seriously contemplate suicide. I figured if life only got worse, what was the point? I also suffer from depression but it is in check now and I am enjoying the best years of my life in my 40s.

Your story resonates so much. I was a fat socially awkward kid who liked grownups better than children, and was teased and ostracized. I first asked my parents if I could see a counselor when I was 9. We were living abroad at the time, they promised it would happen when we got home, but nothing more was said. I had a…

I think the man he was with in the first news broadcast is his grandpa. Perhaps he spends quite a bit of time with him and has taken on his delivery. One of my brothers did this with our grandpa and (apparently—I wasn't born yet) it was hilarious. He even deepened his voice, walked around with an unlit corncob pipe in…

I used to babysit a kid who overused actually. She clearly didn't know what it meant but even better, she mispronounced it as "actionly". I highly recommend you slip at least one "actionly" into your conversations today.

Who wants to see charming Peter Quill, puppy dog-like Groot, and smartass Rocket when you can have mopey Batman, mopey Superman, and Wonder Xena?

It does suck when people judge you for getting enough sleep, or try to use their own sleep deprivation as some kind of moral high ground to guild you into sleeping less. I'm not sure why being well rested is such a sin. It's rather short-sighted and stupid of our culture to idolize sleep deprivation, really.

The above numbers are just averages - and as we know people vary greatly.

To me, that look says, "Smolder, damn it. Are they smoldering, yet? Shit, I forgot to blink."

Eat or don't eat what you want, but her glazed-eyes-mouth-breathing-red-carpet-movie-star face mostly just reads to me as "My blood sugar is low." *shrug*

Anytime my friends are watching Buffy and Dawn starts talking, someone yells, "Shut up, Dawn!"

Obvious answer is obvious.

She better hope that kid doesn't have a blowout all over that couture. I even put towels down before my fully clothed kid nursed because she would poop UP HER BACK. The first time it happened, it was so loud and messy that I thought I broke her.

At 27, I feel like I shouldn't still want to go to bed ~11:30 and wake up around 10am. WHY AM I WEIRD? I still need a ton of sleep...

As I was watching the episode, I was thinking about how this is not just how people react to huge crises and massive losses, but in a sense is an exaggerated way of how everyone reacts to personal loss and tragedy. Its like they took personal reactions to loss, expanded them, and applied it to the whole world. Hence…

I have to say, this show is kinda of helping me deal with the death of my dad.

Tossing this out there, but I would REALLY like to see a flashback episode about Wayne so we can see what he was before, although I can also see a valid argument for not explaining him either. Wayne may genuinely believe he has this power. But Wayne is also an awful person with some highly undesirable qualities. I…

Hey, I've got an idea, show - why don't we ditch the shitty sheriff family and the mopey teenagers who just want to feel something, man, and make Nora and her brother the official MVPs of the show? Why don't we just invent a time machine, go back in time to the pre-production phase and tell Lindeloff that? Please?
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