As a mom of a kid on the autism spectrum it just makes me sick to my stomach. I mean, it’s not easy having a kid on the spectrum. But I’m glad he’s here. And honestly it would be a lot easier if other people weren’t such assholes about inviting him and including him (and including me as well). People are terrible. 

My parents told me we couldn’t get cable growing up because the workers hadn’t put cables on our side of the street yet. She said they ran out of cables. I didn’t think anything of it. In college we moved and we got cable at the new house. I was telling a friend “Yeah, I’m excited we’re getting cable, we couldn’t get…

I see what you’re saying and I think it’s a valid question. I went to a very sheltered grade school and high school. Very white. Very privileged. I had some very terrible friends and I adopted some very terrible opinions and thought some very horrible things were hilarious. I went to college and opened my mind and…

Or high waisted granny panties that completely cover the incision. I also highly recommend a waist cincher for post partum. Not for stupid “Oh I have to be skinny again!” reasons but for me, personally, after the c-section, it felt so good. I didn’t use one for my first and I did for my second and I felt a lot less…

Yeah, that’s my issue. I don’t disagree with the general sentiment of what she’s saying. It’s just very “I have been doing this for three years and I have it figured out!” 

She has been on a complaint tangent lately. I know the princess thing is a hill that a lot of moms are wiling to die on. Just between this and the post-birth photo rant she did, I’m just giving her the side eye. She’s veering into judgey mom territory lately. Great that she wants to raise her little girl to see the…

Yeah, I mean, I agree that most of these stories are totally problematic. But also that most kids just like the songs and the dresses. Her kid is three so she’s maybe a little too little for conversations putting it all in context but the “banning” seems so extreme. My mom banned barbies for a large chunk of my…

In one week I have gone from not having an opinion on Keira Knightly to deciding that she sounds like she’d be exhausting to hang out with.

Ah, that makes sense. OK. Thanks. 

I’m a legal dummy but how was there insufficient evidence for this? Wouldn’t there be the film of them in the shower? Would that be evidence?

Thank you. I realize a lot of adulthood can be described as “a difficult time” but it is interesting to see how even a tiny amount of effort in hard times can be helpful. It’s certainly affected how I approach people who are going through tough times. 

The friends who checked in on me and asked questions about the process and how I was doing were the most helpful. I had a few who if I said something like “It’s been more than a month and I’m still bleeding” would be like “oh that’s horrible. We don’t have to talk about it.” and it was less about it being…

I really liked Midnight in Paris but the flashback parts - I hated all of the moderny parts with Owen Wilson whining about being a grown-up and having deadlines.

Yes, this all seemed to be a pretty clever amount of PR for yet another home show that people wouldn’t have paid much attention to otherwise. 

I mean, she can’t be any worse than Trump so I’m OK with her being supreme global leader of us all. 

Yes! I used to work near that one and I can’t ever recall a day that there wasn’t a parade of assholes with graphic signs outside. 

Plus, let’s face it, at a global company of that size, there’s a policy on working remotely. I worked for a huge global company for 3 years and people worked remotely all the time and traveled all the time. There was never one week where everyone on your team was actually in the building at the same time. I would…

I do a modified version of this which also helps me put dinner together. No YouTube or computer until after dinner. But they can watch cartoons or play on their handheld devices. It gives me a chance to cook dinner without worrying what they’re up to, it gives them a chance to mindlessly decompress but I also keep the…

They met before his mom died. I really do think he had some sort of a mental breakdown when his mother passed away because he’s been really off since then. So I don’t know if she didn’t realize how badly he was doing when they reconnected but I think there might have been actual feelings there. Now I think it has…

I am going to give it a few more tries since pilots are often rushed and hammy. But it wasn’t super funny and the laugh track was abysmal. But I loved the original so much . . .