I’m going to start by requesting work from home days.... If I don’t get them you better believe I will be starting to look elsewhere.

Ugh, we just finished up a remodel and of course they went with an open office plan. OF COURSE. It is HELL for my ADD self. So, so loud. So, so bright. So, so distracting. So, so many faces constantly peering at each other. Serious question, is there like a noise cancelling personal privacy bubble I can buy…

We get PTO - 152 hours per year to use in any way you want. You get an additional 40 hours per year at year 4 with the company and another 40 hours at year 7. I’m lucky because I can work from home so unless I’m truly, horrendously sick I usually just WFH instead of using my PTO.

Oh god if I found her I would die. I would just drop dead from the overwhelming fuzzy cuteness. And I know it’s not cool, but I’m not sure if I would have enough self control to keep myself from snuggling her like there was no tomorrow. Even if she ended up clawing my face off.

We have a king but it’s still not enough room! SO snores like crazy and gets up at 4:30AM for work. Apparently this is me at night:

Mmmmmmmm.... Flying pig bacon.....

Ugh, as the daughter of a teacher I can feel for your mom. My mom was a special ed teacher for many, many years. Before that she taught Head Start in rural WA, before that taught on the rez in AZ, and before that started her career working in inner city Detroit in the 1960’s (your mom and mine can keep each other…

Awesome! I had a full on Kurt Cobain tribute bedroom at one point, complete with DOB and death dates hand cut out of poster board, along with some kind of memorial message that I can’t remember. It makes me cringe with embarrassment for myself. My parents must have been doing some serious eye rolling behind my back.

In a former, slightly weirder life (though NOT on this level by a long shot) I knew several girls who would go up and dance in Alaska and make similar sums. They kept their regular jobs down here, which in comparison netted them super chump change. The women I knew were quite savvy financially. They lived off of their…

As a lifelong farm girl... Yes, totally true. Still not tears in the sense that this person meant it.

This. And cows don’t cry. No amount of anthropomorphizing will make that true.

Thank you for this. As a horse girl I too have an impossible time keeping my nails looking anything other than chippy and grimy. I’d love a good option, and two weeks would be 13 1/2 days longer than a manicure would normally last me... But for the price and hassle of having to drag myself to a salon I think I’ll…

Ugh, they’re remodeling my building next month and I have this fear that they’re going to move more toward open concept... They did another building and I’m sure we’re getting the same setup where we still have cubes but they’re all low walled so you’re pretty much starting right at the person next door to you. I…

I have to laugh because I am not a parent... But I own/ride/compete in the horse world and frequent a couple of horse boards. Replace the kid terms with horse terms and it’d be completely accurate about those boards as well. I think it’s a function of getting passionate people together on the interwebs.

I was out of town over the weekend and got home late-ish on Sunday and my boyfriend was wonderful enough to make perfectly cooked steak with sauteed mushrooms and roasted red potatoes for my return.

Wait what? That’s the most insane idea I’ve ever heard. Gah, I can’t even.

Imagine if every inmate received that education instead of just the 10% who are accepted into the program.

I’m not sure what’s worse... That or my cube neighbor, who flosses his teeth at his desk. He flossed four times throughout the day yesterday. It’s so, so disgusting.

True story. I was a working student at a breeding operation where we had 8 stallions - mostly Lusitanos and a few Andalusians. All of them, save one, were absolute saints. That was one of the most fun times in my life and I had the amazing opportunity to ride with a trainer who ended up going back to Portugal and was…

What bothers me is that she is standing on that nice saddle. There is no amount of money that would get me to allow her to stand on my dressage saddle like that!