I have a black tile two-sided fireplace that is kind of 80s art deco fab, and I love it. There’s no mantle, just the pass-through fireplace surrounded by black tile built into the partial wall that separates my living room from my sun room, and it’s maybe my favorite thing in the house.

I like the first kitchen! Does that picture mean that stainless steel counters don’t go out of style? Because I like them. And I like the big colorful pattern for the backsplash, though not so much for the floor.

Thanks to your comment, I now know that I have absolute black in my kitchen, and I like it. Neat! I also like quartz, but I like the solid, basic color of my granite and I feel like it’s more timeless than trendier granites.

I don't love granite in general, but the place I bought this year has basic black granite counter with minimal inflection. As a minimalist who wants to avoid trendy, I really don't mind it.

I’m always like, you’re gonna regret that glass tile backsplash in 5 years!

I don’t know horse terminology, but yeah, at one point, we all did come out of the sitting position and kind of stood up a little in our stirrups because of all the jangling.

Yeah, I really don’t care about lift or separation. Like at all. I don’t care if someone thinks my boobs look bad, I just do not give a shit.

I wasn’t wearing a demi-bra, I was wearing a shelf bra. I pretty much hate bras and almost never wear them, but if I go horseback riding again, I’m putting on a sports bra.

My friends and I went horseback riding not too long ago, and the guide let us get our horses up to a good trot. Out of the three girls in the riding party, two of them had their boobs bounced clean out of their bras, myself included. I had to like quickly stuff them back in when we slowed back down to a walk.

I know they’re super Christian (but apparently not Christian enough for the loonies), but I can’t watch this show without entertaining this whole other life I have imagined for them that involves cocaine and key parties in those mid-century houses they love to redo. They’re just too wholesome to be believable, so I…

I CAN’T STAND her. She is fingernails on a chalkboard to me. I think it’s her voice? I have never made it through a full episode of her show.

Oh yeah, they wrote their own vows and gave them to the officiant to read out (the officiant was a longtime family friend and knew not to breathe a word of the traditional language). They promised to love and respect each other as partners, as equals, and to always remember that they don’t complete the other, but…

My sister just got married, and her now-husband knows her well enough to know that asking for our dad’s permission would have been a deal-breaker.

I love that when they write about guys being “bad”, the men:

It's built.

I didn’t love The Edible Woman, it felt kind of on the nose. I loved The Robber Bride, but Blind Assassin is my favorite. I also enjoyed the Maddaddam trilogy, but thought the first book in the series was the strongest.

I saw Atwood give a talk on sci-fi and she was so so so good. There are sci-fi elements in much of her work.

Read it. And also read The Blind Assasin and the Flood Trilogy and Atwood’s new book of short stories.

Woops, it was Roose Bolton, not Stannis. I get face blindness with Stannis.

Kind of related, I watched the new King Arthur movie trailer, and it prominently features Littlefinger plotting, Stannis Baratheon plotting, and what appears to be some kind of giant ... something, and everyone is fighting for power and the destined hero has long hair and is reluctant, so basically it’s Game of…