Not kidding, I feel like this is a reasonable response to hiking. I despise hiking - though will happily walk on flat surfaces forever - and was once dragged up and down two separate Adirondack mountains in a very long day. If I had not been with a group of friends I would have laid down on that fucking trail and…

I have threatened murder and possibly meant it in the moment when I have been sleep deprived. It's terrible.

OMG that is horrifying. Also, this stuck out to me because of my - not child - but husband. He's on the spectrum and does not eat anything. It's always sort of gratifying, in a horrible way, to know that other people experience the same thing. It's hard on him and not particularly easy to live with.

I once sat down on the floor in my kitchen and sobbed because I was struggling with a very fancy cake I was decorating. It might not actually be the only time my husband has found me crying in the kitchen over food, honestly. Food can be weirdly disastrous.

I uh, have a bit of an issue with anxiety, for which I am now medicated. I am, apparently, still a bit high-strung, as one might say. I have had a vast and possibly embarrassing number of meltdowns, although I tend to keep them no more public than around my husband (poor man). Highlights include a winter evening in my…

Interesting! I sort of thing it is, and it's one of the things anti-CC people FREAK OUT about - like they cannot comprehend how it works and it's warping kids in schools. It's not how I learned how to do math but it makes sense!

I think this is how Common Core teaches addition, right?

I know a very intelligent woman who has brain damage from a car accident. She is a teacher, has a wonderful family, is fit, and is artistically capable. She just has some odd issues with language sometimes.

I bet it's not the first time the interviewer, at least, has heard that! But what an odd experience.

That makes a lot of sense, I suppose.

Every time I mention proposal on here this comes up, usually with the words "fairy tale," and I feel like that is a complete misunderstanding of the situation we - and lots of other people - experienced. My relationship is not a fairy tale and I did not expect a fairy tale proposal. It mattered to my husband that we…

Yeah apparently mine was waiting until we had all our debts paid off (he paid of his freaking mortgage by the age of 30, he is a little intense about money). For one thing, we would still be waiting, for another I DIDN'T KNOW THIS. I freaked out about marriage so often my husband stopped talking about marriage at all…

YES men are weird. Like, I was ok with the ceremony of it all and sort of liked it, but I sort of wonder if guys who want to do this realize how much it SUCKS. Sure, I could have proposed to him, as has been pointed out to me A LOT here. But that's not how we wanted to do it, and it's not like I can unilaterally…

You know, I mentioned in another comment that we had decided together that he was going to do a proposal because EVERY TIME I mention it on Jezebel someone gets on my case for this exact reason. We did what worked for us, after lengthy discussions about getting married, what we both wanted, what felt important to us,…

I am also a library-science cat loving feminist and am also getting a lot of plus-size clothing ads. I am not actually plus size. Tall, and not super thin, but still actually unable to shop at plus-size stores.

Elope. I wish I had - my wedding was beautiful but I still sort of think if we had used that money for a great trip I would have been happier. All I wanted was a dress and my man.

We did the cake cutting and the first dance immediately after and someone took the piece of cake I had started eating and presumably threw it out! I immediately hunted down more cake, because no one is going to get between me and food.

I considered killing my own mother because she was demanding pictures and keeping me from food. I am the queen of hangry.

During our pictures I realized that I was VERY hungry and VERY thirsty, and while everyone was inside eating our carefully-planned appetizers, I was languishing outside in the heat while my mother demanded yet another set of pictures. I nearly became the raging bitch bride at my own mother until someone brought me a…

I must have neglected my duties to my guests or something, because I sat down and ATE. My chair was in the back of a table with my family and new husband, and while I was visible I was actually also very stuck. There was no reason for me to move, and our food was GREAT.