What worries me more is the horrible photoshopping on the one in her bathing suit. If social media was all your life was about, wouldn’t you have someone on call 24/7 to do decent photoshopping for you? Geez. Looks like it was done during a turbulent storm at sea.

Ha! Yes! First baby Arlo was so adorable, then those awful cluckers were so mean to him! And yeah, his little bruises when he washed up on shore.. ugh, poor lambkin!

Hachi makes me cry like a baby, and The Good Dinosaur. No dogs in it, except for a human who kinda is a dog? It’s a cartoon, Pixar, but wasn’t promoted well, so a lot of people haven’t seen it. And it’s SAD in parts, so it didn’t play well with kids. BUT OMG, ARLO. (Give it a shot, you’ll know what I mean.)

I can’t believe it when I find out people haven’t seen it, either, especially dog lovers! I do my best to share the Hachiko story whenever I can, and suggest people see the movie.

SOOO AMAZING! I really want to go to Tokyo someday to see the statue of Hachiko. Learning about Akita behavior through that movie was awesome, since I’d recently adopted a half black Lab/half Akita at the time. And trust me, the stuff they said about how Akitas are one-person dogs, and won’t play unless they want to?…

Every time I see your handle I start to sniffle. You ever see the movie Hachi? Aw, man.

Correct, never, because I chose to pay. If I didn’t pay my car insurance but continued to drive, I was in effect being covered for free, because I hadn’t paid. All those people who paid for their insurance, and therefore were being kept in line by the costs and penalties of that insurance, made me able to drive more…

Car insurance is required for everyone, because the people who pay for it cover the costs of the damage caused by the people who illegally don’t have it. That’s how insurance works.

I have had TERRIBLE luck buying sheets from amazon. A lot of the sellers lie about the content or thread count. Plus, sheets are one of those things you really have to feel.

I have had TERRIBLE luck buying sheets from amazon. A lot of the sellers lie about the content or thread count.…

Worst thing to step in? When we were young, my sister once stepped into vomited-up hot dog canine barf. In her bare feet. At a campground, where the public toilets were like forever away, and my parents didn’t want to walk her all the way down there. (From hindsight as an adult, they must have been drinking, because…

I was told by a Baptist friend in high school that she was SO SORRY I was going to hell because I’m Catholic.

FWIW, the non-Bieber version of Despacito is great, and SO MUCH BETTER than the version with him in it.

What really got me was that after losing the “race,” Phelps immediately started saying how the water was SO cold, and swimmers like him aren’t trained to swim in that kind of cold, blah blah.

Same.

And here I’d have bet my spirit animal was a dog.

I have a friend whose husband will not eat any kind of adult food. He eats chicken tenders (dry), a fried chicken sandwich (cheese only), french fries, a hot dog (plain), or an unseasoned steak, and basically that’s it. Not even mashed potatoes, or a baked potato, or au gratin potatoes. Nothing. It’s unbelievable to…

I’ve been vaguely considering moving to NYC from the midwest to work out of my company’s main office, since this is the first time in my life I’m able to do so, and it would help nudge my career to be ‘local.’ But this is the kind of thing that freaks me out as far as my adaptability. I can’t imagine having to accept…

That’s great to know, thanks! I mean, I’m not WEIRD or anything, so I don’t know why I have this concern. I’m told I’m attractive, I have a good job, I have my shit together, I have good hygiene. lol. I guess it’s just one of the many frustrating symptoms of having a touch of social anxiety.

Thanks! Yeah, my extreme shyness sort of precludes me from even just doing the generally accepted “we should grab dinner sometime.” We don’t work directly with each other, just occasionally have a meeting that we both attend, and that kind of thing. It’s just that if the choice is between having a private crush and…

Yeah, no way. I’m way to shy (ugh) to even make my interest obvious. It’s the worst to be shy as an adult! And my friend knows me well enough, at least, that if she was weirdo or gross about it, I’d be FURIOUS. She’d probably be more likely to do something like just mentioning that I seem to really enjoy the video…