I appreciate the hell out of a Moira who remembers that she’s meant to be healing. So huge props to you.

$50 a year.

Scrolling through the scenery of Zsa Zsa’s life felt so intimate. She clearly loved all these treasures and took great care of them. I feel kind of sad and wistful now.

Your friends are snobs.

Credit Karma. They also offer free tax prep.

Like some others have said, CeraVe is incredibly high quality for the price point. They use large amounts of proven active ingredients- no buzzwords, no hand-waving.

I enjoyed the Japanese couple who skated to the Yuri on Ice theme song. Life imitates art imitates life.

Pretty sure the answer is compression - carriers try to make voice data as small as possible to save bandwidth over mobile networks. In fact, they compress it so much that what you hear when you talk to your friend bears almost no resemblance to the actual sound of their voice. It’s only thanks to their…

I mean, Calorie Mates are a thing people seem to like, so, yeah, I bet this will probably sell.

I have heard that they use poor grammar on purpose to winnow out people who are too savvy to go all the way with their scam. Folks who hear alarm bells when they read terrible English are folks that the scammers don’t want to waste their time on.

Who are you looking for an apology from? Your high school bully? Society at large?

I find it odd that the court can sentence someone to x years in a mental institution. If we agree that their presence there is meant to be therapeutic, rather than punitive, shouldn’t they just be there until medical professionals deem them ‘healthy’ and the confinement no longer necessary? Maybe I’m misunderstanding…

“And the money wasn’t really a gift at all—it was a transaction. He was attempting to buy my time, to buy my attention, and the ability to involve me in his fantasies.”

How so?

That dog is gorgeous, any particular breed?

Arabian Nights had me cry-laughing.

Do you say that because of the weight?

Yay, I’m useful! Is that enough to pull me out of the grays?

The hardest part of adjusting to life in Seattle is the darkness. Winter is mild here, even the rain never really pours. But in winter it’s pretty much full nighttime around 4 pm and doesn’t get really light until around 9 am. It doesn’t sound like much but it really gets to you after a while. The urge to hibernate…

I kinda just feel honored that someone is still reading this story a year later.