Alan Rickman is pretty much my favorite actor of all time. He can play any role. I will watch anything and everything he's in multiple times. This I've bookmarked for multiple viewings. (Even if I did figure out what was going to happen early because I do that and sometimes that really sucks.)

And now I once again have proof that I am destined to be a dirty old lady.

I had a room like that when I was that age! It was my favorite thing about my bedroom. Because I was the youngest, I got the smallest room nearest my parents while my big sisters had to share one large one. To this day I'm not entirely sure they were aware that I had a second room attached to mine. I kept my very…

Everything you said and then some. I have dealt with a couple of BPD people firsthand and am friends with someone who was married to and had children with another. I am fortunate to no longer have to associate with the former and their extreme emotional abuse, and the latter is dead, possibly from suicide. I have/had…

ABT is touring in Australia, and she's going with them, of course, so hopefully she'll be back for more SYTYCD this season. And if it's renewed, I'm sure Nigel will have her back because she is a great judge and well-loved/respected.

Glorious! I want to go live there now.

My docs told me to avoid soy for at least a decade and that I couldn't have HRT when going through the instant chemical menopause that occurred post-radiation. It's pretty unnerving to see two sets of doctors enraged at another set because of the prolonged and extreme hormone dosing I went through. Apparently the…

Wow. Makes me glad that my docs just sliced me right open and took out the whole shebang in one go. Of course, what nearly killed me, and exacerbated my uterine cancer growth, was the mega high dosages of hormones I was prescribed for years by doctors in another state before I finally got decent care. I consider…

I am ridiculously excited about this movie on so many levels, not the least of which is Louis Garrel. Amazing cast. Fabulous fashion. Whee!

I have to avoid soy, though, due to doctor recommendations post cancer because the cancer was hormonally based. It's very frustrating, but you know, cancer. Feh.

I'd have smacked a fool. That's just wrongheaded, that is. Gad.

In the last two decades, I've gotten to know more people who made/make their living as sex workers than I ever imagined possible for someone raised in the South by a minister and schoolteacher. Every last one has substance abuse issues, be they prescribed or street or as seemingly simple as booze. Most are female,…

I've been lucid dreaming since I was a teenager and first learned it was possible. I use it as a tool to keep a check on my anxiety. When I begin to have anxiety-filled dreams, I'm able to pull back from what's going on, realize it's a dream, and either stop what's happening that's causing my stress in the dream story…

Obscure Goob Trivia Time — Once upon a time during The Gilded Age, there was a woman by the name of Mamie Stuyvesant Fish. Mamie was one of the top society ladies of New York and Newport, only surpassed by the like of Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor, the founder of The 400, and one or two other very privileged…

Sacrilege!

I knew I didn't want children all the way back in kindergarten. Nothing has ever changed my mind about it. And yes, I'm pretty darned happy most of the time.

You, my dear, are a lovely soul. Thank you for sharing your story. Infinite blessings!

Thank you! It's lovely.

I admit, I use them and, um, never stopped. Why? Because it's the easiest way to do an instant nape of the neck chignon without hairpins. Granted, mine are all black, navy, or brown so they're pretty unobtrusive against my dark hair.

I do not have fibromyalgia, but I am a uterine cancer survivor who was told by too many doctors that there was nothing wrong with me when I was bleeding to death, literally, and experiencing horrific pain and cramping. I do, however, have several friends with fibro and they've been treated poorly by the medical…