Kate is awesome! I haven’t looked at houses the same way since I started visiting her site. I love it.

Oh my god, that apartment is a travesty. There is absolutely no consistent theme or style, no cohesive sense of design even within a single room, let alone moving throughout the house. That dining room! What the actual fuck is happening in that dining room. This is like the McMansion of interior design.

1. That is a cute dog.

Right. Not to mention, even if you DID have those complex skills - say, you’re a nurse who’d worked in critical care and geriatrics - you would never be able to afford and probably wouldn’t be able to access, anyway, the sophisticated equipment needed to appropriately monitor your parent. Even shit as simple as the…

Full-time caregiving is a profession (most often unpaid) requiring a specific set of skills and not suited to all personality types. For incredibly obvious reasons, not everyone can be a soldier. Or a mathematician. Or a stage performer. Or a doctor or a lawyer or an accountant or a teacher, etc. It would be absurd to…

In season two (?) of Kimmy Schmidt, Kimmy’s having one of her excited monologues at Titus about the new adult thing she gets to try: voting. Titus is zero percent interested, and Kimmy can’t understand why. Democracy! Civic duty! Being the change you wish to see! I don’t remember the exact words of his response, but…

But seriously, I am continually surprised by how deeply this messaging is embedded in my head. I clicked on a swimsuit ad on FB once, and now it’s all FB shows me in my news feed - a lot of self-proclaimed suits for “real” bodies, etc. I see pics where there’s a bit of that bulge you get under your bra strap…

unless the rag is mis-gendering the individual and using their pre-transition gender pronoun. which, you know, seems more likely to me given the quality of “journalism.”

Precisely.

I remember this happened about 7 or 8 years ago, and the women at work were all talking about it while they ate lunch and watched The View. I made some comment to the effect of it being a tragedy and that we should look to the car manufacturers for responsibility because the technology to fix the issue is available…

Jack Lemmon’s dad in Grumpy Old Men. Bacon for breakfast! And for lunch? Bacon! And I usually drink my dinner.

Maya Rudolf is absolute perfection in this show. She gives me life.

probably, but that was kind of my point - the only variable that seems to really matter is how hard someone has lived, regardless of sex or ethnicity or other standard demographics. 

I mean, if Liv Tyler is the benchmark for looking 42, many of my friends in their early-mid 40s have significantly more signs of aging (a fair number don’t, tho!). Where I see the line breakdown is income/occupation/social life, which tend to go fairly hand-in-hand. My friends who have had harder lives, had to work…

guess all my friends are aging pretty badly, then! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

does she, tho?

hard pass.

It’s like cartoon villains come to life.

omg, that’s freaking adorable!!

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