Believe it or not it's been pretty good - aside from pregnancy protection. That whole situation was a bit shitty and I almost lost my job but given the climate I'm actually pretty happy. I would be lying if I said it were perfect but no job is and it's come damn close to being that.

Gotta repeat what I responded to someone else on this thread; I'm a female firefighter who has worked with men for over 13 years and they forget I'm there - I'm 'just one of the guys'. Trust me when I tell you that they have - many, many, many times - broken women down into pieces like that.

I work with men. I have for 13 years. They forget I'm there and just talk like normal. Trust me, they absolutely do cut women into pieces of meat. More than that - I've been sent penis pics. So yeah - just because you haven't seen it or done it doesn't somehow magically make it so for your entire gender.

You have to see the Duchess of Windsor in her wedding portrait done by Cecil Weaton wearing that very gown - I posted the pic for you! :)

This is one of my all time favorite photographs EVER and this dress makes it! I've had a link to this dress on my facebook for the last year and every so often I just stare at the perfection.

My mother in law hates me...so you can imagine how odd I found it to come home this afternoon to a lovely orchid (my fave!) and a mother's day card from her. Odd and sweet and maybe she's trying to reach out and it really makes the week I had even better.

Spanish wine - yum!

Awe thanks...and yes. I think the ride is the reason for the joy. Perhaps if I'd had things the way I'd wanted my life might have been less full of joy in this universe. ;)

Agreed and agreed. Maria Bello was fantastic in that role and like an idiot I kept waiting for the next episode and wondering wth...? until I finally figured out it had been cancelled. Yet New Girl stays on with it's really crappy writing and excruciatingly annoying characters.

I never really wanted children truth be told. I'd promised myself that even if I did break that invisible barrier in my soul I would never, ever, have more than one. But, just like marriage - which I'd also never wanted nor planned to do - I sort of...fell, for lack of a better word, into being a wife and mother; of…

Am I the only one who is getting turned on by a room? Yeah, I probably am :) I want to know if it's as fun as it looks so feel free to post a report when you finish your game!

"I'm a baaAaAAdd girl...ohhh yeah..."

For someone like myself - an incredibly socially awkward person, nervous in the extreme who covers that up by talking incessantly and telling snarky jokes and who *always* goes home with a migraine from the effort of not tripping over my shoe and landing face first in the cake - these things are torture.

Am I the only one who wants to know where they heck they were bowling at?!

That movie has been in my top five movies since it first came out and is one I always recommend to others.

The first time it happened I stopped eating and sort of looked around to see where the hidden cameras were! I was sort of shocked that this little old lady had casually brought her tray of food and sat down at my two seater table - given that we were the ONLY two people in the restaurant!! It didn't take long before…

She had a written and verbal contract and wore a body suit. I'm thinking that's about all the pre-pre cautionary measures one can take in such a situation. As a fashion photographer I've had models (including one who's graced the cover of Italian Vogue twice) tell me that they weren't comfortable with nudes or implied…

When I lived in Germany I was single and I loved to travel. Often I would find myself in a restaurant or beer garden alone for a meal. Though, never for long. Because as I found out the hard way it's a custom for people to come up and sit down at a table with you as long as there's an empty seat.

Love this!! I'm so happy to see something here on TS I could cry :) (Not really - I'm too happy about it to cry lol)

This is the closest to my own relationship with my eldest (of four) that we have. While she often jokingly tells people that I'm her best friend and once decried that she couldn't take me to college as I'm the only one who understands her - there are some limits. I'm a mom first, and a friend second.