Cheap, dollar store non-clumping kitty litter is one of your best friends in these kinds of situations. It will add center weight to the car(throw a few bags of it in the rear passenger foot wells, NOT the trunk), and if you get stuck and your wheels start spinning, break a bag open and toss some of it under the…

This is seriously horrifying and not at all ok. How completely disconnected from reality do you have to be to think that this was a good idea??

I tried on my own for a couple of weeks, going to the dealerships, test driving used cars I could afford and then going to the library every night to check out the consumer reports and any other info I could get on my test drives. The amount of times I was called “Honey” and “Dear” was maddening, but I was desperate…

I guess. My cat seems to be in remission now but it’s going to come back and get her in the end, and I promise you that taking a blood glucose reading from a cat is 100% awful. Why no one told me that fancy feast classic food was one of the best things I could have fed her is beyond me.

I tried getting a car all by myself and after a week of being treated like a dumb, clueless woman I’d had enough and took my dad along. It was so much easier with him that I’ve given up on the idea of ever car shopping sans man.

My teenage sister and I went camping last summer and in one night, raccoons invaded out site and started tossing our shit around. While we were listening to them it dawned on me that I was the adult that was supposed to go out there and get the little creeps to shove off or I was going to spend the next morning…

And cat food. They can’t process the carbohydrates and end up with diabetes, which my dumb self learned the hard way.

The messed up part with the rural areas, at least where I live, is that the farms produce food which we rarely see. Sometimes a farmer will have a roadside stand, but for the most part it is shipped out to supermarkets or driven into the suburbs or city to be sold at their farmers markets. We get whatever sad wilted…

EXACTLY. I live in a rural village where the Walmart ten miles away in the neighboring town is the only place outside of a gas station to get anything. The nearest actual grocery store is 40 minutes away. I don’t love shopping at Walmart, but it’s my only option if I don’t want a grocery run to be a minimum two hour…

Ooooh, don’t forget, “you’re rather blunt.” That’s my favorite.

I work in tech. Sometimes I have to make calls to manufacturers to get something fixed or replaced that is broken. Conversations usually start with my being patronizingly asked if I rebooted or restarted whatever it is that’s giving me the finger, and then generally turns into me feeling like they want to ask me if…

She is such an ageless goddess.

I’m not a martyr, but I can’t afford to lose the time. No one in our office can. We all eat at our desks while working, and often “lunch” doesn’t happen until 4 or so, when people stop coming in and bugging us. That whole “always available” bullshit is bullshit.

Jamie Dornan is constantly needlepointing when alone.

In some areas, it takes longer than 3 days to adopt a dog from a shelter.

I think this is a completely valid and reasonable point to make. Planned Parenthood does a lot of good for a lot of people and all of that should be noted.

At one point in time, OB’s could give out free samples of birth control pills. When I would come home from college for my annual, my doc would load up a paper sack with months of samples and tell me to come back when they ran out. She would say,“You don’t need to go broke paying for this.” It was one of the kindest…

My mother used to stand on the front porch and bellow our names when it was time to come back for supper. We could hear her in our fort, located half a mile away in the woods. We had a tendency to ignore her, so she would eventually get my father after us. He didn't bother yelling, he just blew on this conch shell…

I’m so terrified of my phone dropping out of my pocket and into the toilet at work that I stuff it in my bra. I don't know why I felt compelled to announce that, but I did.

I dunno, I thought the talk given by Dr. Taylor was pretty incredible, though I would argue that it’s not exactly a typical TED.