I follow Beth Stern on Instagram, and I agree- she should have her own damn show. She does a hell of a lot for animal shelters, and somehow manages to home out cats that wouldn’t have a chance otherwise.

Beth Stern is an angel, she fosters cats and kittens (lots of them), and sponsors cats at Animal League that may be less adoptable for health issues. If you have time on your hands follow her instagram. she is really a great animal rescue advocate. I began fostering after following her account. I am glad she did not…

My favorite part of Bobby Finger’s rundown is that he doesn’t know who Beth Stern is, made me giggle (which was desperately needed today).

Just as a trival side note, Beth Stern is Howard Stern’s wife. Less trivial, she is very involved in animal rescue causes. Yay, Beth!

I think it can go both ways. The job I had during college (in an office) was where I made some of my very best, life-long friends. And every time we worked together it was a hilarious blast. And ever since then we’ve hung out (and hell, I introduced them to their eventual-wives!) But there are other jobs (like my last…

I’m in the same situation as you. I became very close with my team at work (the same size as yours, actually). Within the past few months, 3 of them have left, with the latest (and the one I was closest to) just this week. And I am very sad about it and I am surprised I’ve had this reaction :( Like you said, I’m sure…

That’s cool too, whatever works for you! I’ve definitely fluctuated; at some jobs it’s just small talk, and some have been almost like a unique friend group in itself, and a few in between.

I don’t understand why so many people feel they need to be real life friends with the people they work with. Every once in awhile there are some people I connect with and make the crossover, but it is pretty rare. Other than that, friendly professionalism is fine! Let’s just not be Facebook friends.

Rita Ora.

I get that we tend to think that screenfriends and realfriends are the same, but they’re actors who were supposed to make us believe they were friends; it makes complete sense that they weren’t actually close. I’ve had coworkers on the Range of Friendship, but maybe 3 ever made it to “close, personal friend” level. I…

Semi related: Wouldn’t it be great if Starbucks intermittently gave out Chanukah themed cups in-between their Xmas (or war on Xmas?) themed cups. It’d be fun to see the giant meltdown some people would have. Throw it some Kwanza for good measure too. Probably shouldn’t do that to the poor Starbucks employees who would…

Fif?! Teen?! YEARS?!?!

Here’s a gesture for those Nazis...

I’m gonna sound like a total cheeseball but: the best gift I ever got was my 30th birthday. I’d just met Mr. Bells a few months before and we’d just moved in together. I came home to sticky notes going up the stairs to our apartment reading “Happy Birthday! Here’s 30 reasons why I love you, one for each year!”

I can’t really think of the best gift I’ve been given...I’m super sucky sentimental so you could give me a shoestring and I’d probably cry from joy. But the best gift I’ve ever given (I know this because he still raves about it) if when I got my partner a set of vintage Dorothy Thorpe whiskey tumblers with a silver…

Happy birthday!!!! :)

Hmm... I haven’t received many great gifts. People have given me a lot of votive candles and stinky stuff which I can’t use (I have chemical sensitivities), in my time. Probably the best gift was a small, brown, baby bear stuffy to go with a mama bear stuffy that I had. The original baby bear was lost over the side of…

Happy birthday! I just love the anticipation, so for me the best gift is one that’s still wrapped. That said, last year I got a board game that I really like and my parents gave me tea cosy.

Well, and Teen Vogue.