I think there’s certainly time for happiness and joy in the years ahead. Maybe not wealth though. And that’s fine. I can certainly be happy without being wealthy, but I’d really liked to have spent my adulthood as a wealthy person. I’m sure if I put my mind to it, I’ll get to Italy. But it would be so much easier if I…

The IUD made my periods go away for 2 years and then they came back normal and the eventually came back 2 times a month. so now I do the IUD and I take the pill to get the periods to go away. My doctor thinks this is overkill. I don’t care. Overkill those damn periods. 

Yeah, I have pretty high anxiety anyway. And one of my children is on the autism spectrum and that’s another thing. You don’t get a say in what kind of kid you have. I have often thought that if I went to a career counselor and was like “I want to be a special ed teacher” and they gave me assessments and talked to me…

I always feel like I need to preface things like this with “I love my kids and I’d give them my kidneys and lungs if they needed them” but . . . I never really gave much thought to having kids. I just had them. My parents wanted grandkids. Everyone else I knew got married and had kids. It just made sense. But if I…

I’ve read that too! I think she just thinks I’m being a little excessive about this. She’s mentioned some concern about hormone levels. But whatever. I really seriously super hate having a period. I hate the cramps and the expense and the dealing with it. 

I told my OBGYN that it’s my goal to not have another period again ever. She thinks this is silly but dammit, I have these pill packs and I will keep taking them because I am fucking done with a period. FUCKING DONE. I have had periods twice a month for most of my life unless on the pill so I feel like I have had more…

I know with some folks “childless” is something that happened and they would rather have a child. But for those who have selected childlessness I have always assumed they had way better self-awareness than most. I think a lot of people (and I’m including myself in this) have kids because it’s just a thing you do. You…

I’m 42. My youngest looked at my hands and then looked at my face recently and said “You have old hands but your face isn’t very old so you’re just medium old.”

I was never one of those people who dreaded aging but then I hit 40 and I was surprised how it hit me like a ton of bricks. I feel panicked that time is…

I love that this is about a CEO who is having a quarter-life crisis. Not that a 25 year old CEO doesn’t experience stress but you know, it’s not quite the “My job’s a joke. I’m broke. My love life’s DOA” kind of thing that the rest of us faced in our 20s. That being said, I’ll watch the shit out of this. 

I know nothing about sports at all and I live in a sportsy town. I was the hostess of a mall restaurant once and got made fun of for months and months because a guy from the pro hockey team came in and I would not seat him because he did not have his complete party with him. The other guy showed up finally--also a pro…

That’s what I do. I don’t wear underwear to bed and as soon as I get home from work I take off my work clothes and put on loungewear without underwear. 

Just write it and make sure they don’t cast Heigl. ;)

My writing skills don’t progress much further than press releases and Jezebel comments.

It would work out so well! She’d get his e-mails from rando women he’s hooking up with who are trying to find him. And she hates him and thinks he’s gross but the online directory doesn’t have his photo. So she meets this guy at a meeting and he overhears that she hates him and he decides to pretend to be his…

I only read the first one and I thought the writing was kind of bad. It always talked about her yoga pants and how she was drinking tea. 

I need to get this! My mom was obsessed with Doris Day and I saw so many of her movies but Pillow Talk was the only one that I’ve seen with Rock. I think otherwise, The Thrill of it All is a favorite Doris Day movie. But That Touch of Mink was also awesome yet horrifying in a dated way. 

Oh that one was cute! I forgot about that. I’d love to see a modernized remake of Pillow Talk though. Like how You’ve Got Mail was a remake of The Shop Around the Corner.

Under the Tuscan Sun is another great movie that’s not quite a rom com but it does not have a traditional happy ending and it’s the perfect movie to watch if you’re dealing with a break-up.

If you want to go older: Pillow Talk with Doris Day & Rock Hudson is adorable and also is one of those rare films I’d want to see remade. Instead of a party line, they could have similar e-mail addresses at a huge company.

While You Were Sleeping is one of my absolute favorites. Notting Hill is also adorable.

Happy…

I bought the Svan high chair that also turns into a chair than an adult can use. Meh? I don’t know. I just sold it this summer. My son is five. It’s been in the basement for years. The overpriced transitional high chair is kind of one of my bigger baby purchase regrets. High chairs are gross. They get gross. No matter…