I'd give anything for your figure issues (for a butt, actually). I have VERY broad shoulders and back and thick arms, and a completely flat ass. Anyway, yes - thank goddess for J Jill, grranimals for grownups, basically.

I have a whole Mitford (by / about) library. They're endlessly fascinating. Tidbit (because I'm so obsessed): there was a stage show about them called "The Mitford Girls" that alternated snippets of dialogue from books about them with music from the period. One of the sisters mercilessly referred to the show as "La…

She was conceived in the town of Swastika, Ontario. Can't make this stuff up.

Prolly to the Island of Lost Dryer Socks... along with that lovely frizzy hair...

This vid is on my "favorites" list. I watch it all the time. It cheers me up.

Instead of beatings as hazing rituals, administer a questionnaire designed to weed out sexual predators? Just a thought.

//swallows last bit of Luna bar lunch, chased with a protein shake

Many good suggestions already posted, I'll add this — if you had the good sense to kick him to the curb, then you've got a lot of strength and smarts, girl. Think of yourself as an empress who dismissed a piece of filth out of your way with flick of your graceful, bejeweled hand.

"Abusers don't necessarily make children different, but rather, they are diabolically gifted at detecting difference, often before the child can see it in him or herself."

The collaboration/friendship between Gaga and Tony Bennett delights me.

Odd, your comment made me realize mine was phrased with the horror/suspense drama genre in mind. I think it was that low keening sound just before the silence fell.

Wouldn't it be funny if they ordered fresh fish for their 1st anniversary dinner and the ring was inside the fish? Yeah, that would be hilarious.

It's so frustrating seeing them work their charm and knowing what lies behind it!

My mother was so loved by everyone (FFS, she made friends with the receptionist at my place of work and would send me off with little packages of baked goods - "this is for Sherrie."). She wanted to be loved, she craved the adulation of people thinking she was such a model of charity and sweet behavior. (This is…

Why... thank you, that was very nice of you to say.

My father was physically abusive and both parents were abusive and very emotionally manipulative. It affected my self-confidence and seemed to catch up with me mostly in the workplace. I left my last job — and it was a high-paying one, too — because my boss was abusive (we actually started out as friends; the…

Was in a hotel in Poland where the water outflow was in the front of the toilet and in back was this wee platform so you could examine what came out before you flushed it away. I was so grossed out I self-constipated for 24 hours.

Good for you, but Police Have a Much Bigger Domestic Abuse Problem Than the NFL.

You're mis-reading my comment and/or I didn't express it best. I'm not blaming football for DV. Of course it begins at home, then it becomes an NFL problem. (I was abused as a child but I don't go around smacking people with belts and wooden objects.) I'm saying the NFL (and the NBA for that matter) have been lax…

Yes, you did say it better than I did.