The FL shelters after 2004 were supposed to provide more pet-friendly shelters because of this — people in mandatory evacuation areas stayed home with their pets.

I tend to agree. And yes, the governor, as a general rule, is a total douche, but after every one of these fucking storms, idiot people start crying, “we didn’t knoooooooooow”. I’ve been through Hugo, Fran, Floyd, and the four little (and not so little) storms that hit FL in 2004. I watched the destruction of…

Owl see if I can refrain.

She’s one of those actresses that when I see her (Margo Martindale is another), something inside me says, “this will be good; I’m glad she’s here”.

Since I’m 1 woman to 15 men in my department, I wear the big heels deliberately. Men don’t talk down as much to women they have to look up or level at. That’s my theory and I’m sticking to it.

At the Thanksgiving table this year, I’ll be grateful that Thanksgiving falls after election day. I can avoid my family like the plague until then, and it will all be over but the crying. It’s hard to look at my siblings and think, “We had the same education and upbringing and yet, you’d vote for this fascist???”

I was on a work conference in Denver and a bunch of us took an afternoon trip up to Estes Park. My head had been aching most of the day and I got a screaming migraine right around the time we ordered dinner. It hit fast, and I was sick. The ladies room in the restaurant was occupied, so I went to a public toilet not…

And yet “he saved her job” when “they” wanted to fire her. The only “they” in this story is him. HE wanted her banished. So much bullshit....so much.

Children of the Con

Double stars for Strictly Ballroom reference.

To be fair, they kinda have to make it entertaining over however many seasons this has been. The only people who watch for the technicalities are past and present ballroom folks like us, and we already have our shows (the competitions). But ohmygod yes on the things they pass off as rumba.

This smacks of the same argument against capable women in the military. If a woman is tough enough to make the team (or the platoon, or the freaking masters in Augusta, or the VP position in your company), then your comfort in letting them play is irrelevant. If men quit because they don’t like equal rules, then…

Life is hella complicated. I guessed that my dad was cheating on my mom, and with whom, but I didn’t say anything. My mom had moved out of their bedroom and never referred to him by name (“your father”) or spoke to him directly. She tried to force him to conform to her standards of husband, and it was the wrong…

I have a 12-year old son. I usually tap on the door and say, “stop playing with your wiener, I’m coming in!”. That does the trick.

Oh gosh yes. The idea of minimum wage jobs were for entry-level, stop gap jobs, and teen workers. But it was never that in reality. They have always been the bulk of service work and the work these days, as you say, is service work. People should be able to make a living wage. Unlike your dad (or granddad), you…

It’s a goddam conundrum......

Yes, yes yes....the textile mill, or the car upholstery plant, or the steel mill, or the car plant on the edge of your town will NOT be the manufacturing that magically re-opens, hiring you with just a high-school degree at $14/hour. The manufacturing we do get is mostly tech now, and those old plants would cost a…

It’s shocking as hell when family members you thought were reasonable, good people let their racist mask slip. I’m sorry for what you’re dealing with. I had to let my FIL know, in no uncertain terms, that if he ever ever ever used the n-word around us, he would never see his grandson again. Full stop. I can’t fix…

Goodness, that’s a real thing, and it actually looks quite nice.

Yvonne singing Le Marseillais in Casablanca, singing her regretful, prideful little heart out. I sob.