Yeah, for sure. I sound a bit grumpy and bitter when I speak about it, I realize now, but my boyfriend and I were really broken up by the loss of our furbaby. I still think about him (the cat) from time to time and imagine that he´s healthy and happy in the Great Outdoors, but I know he´s probably gone.

I´m so glad everything worked out well for your precious dog. My brother was nowhere near as kind.

After university, I was moving out of my apartment and needed a place to keep my two cats until I could secure a place to stay in my new chosen town. Being so close to Christmas, I hadn´t had a chance to really look for…

I feel you. I had a similar experience in which I had gotten out of my only LTR at the time, was in my late 20s, and went hog wild making up for lost time during a year-long teaching engagement in Asia.

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I named my cat Schroedinger, after the scientist, until we found out that she was actually a girl. Then I named her Branda Klóheiður instead (Stripey Bright-Claw in Icelandic. I have no idea why everyone thought that fit better, but they did.)

Not funny if you´re a human, either!

Grilla (the Christmas Hag Lady) comes to get you if you´ve been bad, but if you don´t get new clothes on Christmas, the Christmas Cat can smell you and will come eat you.

Yeah, I have those moments sometimes, like, Oops, am I being some ridiculous throwback cliche?

So were you able to start your own business? What´s that like?

Ditto, all the way. Former journalist here, and I can´t understand what they were thinking with this layout OTHER than 'Nerps on the front page, huh huh huh'...

That´s a great photo, but there´s no reason for it to be so large, particularly when the article it´s attached to is a dinky double-column. The headline isn´t…

I love the FUCK out of this. That is all.

I think you should say something. It can feel so good to communicate your feelings, to put it out there in the world rather than keeping it to yourself, especially since this is something that you´ve been carrying around.

I´ve been where you are. Don´t panic. As another commenter said, you may have HPV, which is very common and in 9 of 10 women, harmless.

I realize they only had $5 in the budget at the time this show was made, but WHY does this episode insist on using neon to signify futuristic design? Ugh. Between the horrible sets and lame plot, I could barely stand to get through this one.

THANK you! I agree. The ridiculous attempt at 'Chinese-ness' everywhere possible, including the fact that a modern Asian woman living and working in Britain wears a cheong sam every day ... ugh. UGH!

Thanks to Labarblegirl to the extra info - anybody who can make a stressful moment more hopeful gets stars in my book.

No worries. I totally understand that a lot of the ladies up in this piece want more, and have been waiting for it for a long time, and are a little pissed about how long the wait has been.

That is an awesome gift. I live in a small apartment with my husband and would love it just the same. :)

I love to get stuff like this for my Dad (my mom is picky about food). I just got one of the monthly gift deliveries from The Spicery, which is British (shipping worldwide!). I heard loads of good things about it from friends on Facebook and thought I´d give it a shot.

I want this so much right now.

My mom is a history nerd who likes books and DVDs of questionable authority (I´m looking at YOU, History Channel!) ... I wanted to give her some fun things to enjoy even though she spends a lot of time by herself (and is happy that way).