Whatever, I'm just glad it gave you an excuse to post that gif of the Coz, because it made my morning.

I find needy boyishness incredibly unsexy, always have. DEEPLY unsexy. And you lose adult-points (strictly in my book) if you don't know how to be an independent adult who can shop, clean up after yourself, change 50% of the diapers, not be a baby when sick, etc.

Hmm. Where do you stand on 'jorts'?

Gotcha. I've been researching for about a year, and dammit if the more I learn the less confident and more confused I become. SO many factors to weigh, esp when adding a new sibling.

*commiserating sigh* Your sitch is pretty much where we are — would you mind sharing any resources you've found particularly helpful while on your "to adopt or not to adopt" journey?

UNPOSSIBLE!

Oy, yeah, the daughter thing is a game changer. You're a good mom to put her first. If in fact your folks won't come through for you, do you have any ideas on what other options you could pursue, without pissing them off?

You are *not* whining, and I think your complaints (and hurt) are both incredibly justified here. I wish there was a way to make your parents suddenly NOT be controlling and judgmental assholes (forgive me), because from your self-description they should be nothing but proud. You're incredibly hard working! You…

It's their money, they can spend it as they like...

The only time that sort of platonic, not-overtly-offensive comment annoyed me was when a guy friend made comments about my shoulders. I'd been training in martial arts/boxing and wight lifting fairly intensively for about a year and I guess my body type tends to bulk up a bit. It had been a really hard year and I'd…

Congrats on your genetics — gramma looks fit and feisty for 93, we should all be so lucky!

Love the build on this one, and the lyrics.

I appreciate the passionate recs, thanks! Off to Amazon...

Oh, hell. Even just the table of contents is already entertaining! Mars bar and sliced apple sandwiches??

Is that related to the ... I don't know what you'd call it, a squat little magazine of recipes they used to have in the checkout aisle that i think had that Everyday Food title? I looooved that one, full of easy, healthy stuff.

I've heard of that one, thanks for the reminder!

Oof, that looks amazing. Thanks for the link...

Totally get that. My husband's grandmother is 97, a Texan by way of Alabama. I'm obsessed with sneaking off into a corner with her old cookbooks whenever we visit (southern cooking is new to me). Last Christmas I made a few side dishes on the fly from one of her dog-eared 1950s books, worked like a charm. NOT…

Favorite Cookbook Recommendation Thread!!!

Hey, fellow spondy! I've actually been relatively fortunate with my diagnosis, three different docs have called it some variety of spondyloarthropathy over the past decades (first "inflammatory back disease", then AS, then undiff/psoriatic, etc etc.) I suspect that I "lucked out" by having the gene so they have…