Why does his face remind me of Mordor?

I don’t know if there was some reason why her language was such an issue, but I use naughty words all the time when presiding over PTA meetings or dealing with our city council and I’m pretty well liked still. The only time I button up my sailor mouth is leading girl scouts. I need to keep that going long enough to…

That’s exactly the face I made.

I second!

I grew up poor to middle class. My dad had a pretty good job, but he was an alcoholic and spent all our money on himself. We ate a lot of ramen noodles. He temporarily cleaned up his act, got a better job, and we moved into a house when I was in high school. I felt rich then.

Getting out from under the thumb of insanely fundamentalist parents is hard and sometimes takes longer than until you turn 18 or move out. Shame and control impact people for a long time. I mean, I can’t stand her but I can understand her.

I probably wouldn’t have chosen the club, but it seems like the more I talk about it the more I find that this club has some fucking fantastic people in it. Now that my meds are at a good level I kind of don’t mind it. It took so many years of deep depressions and weird, spontaneous behavior before I finally got a…

I have BP 2 and it’s my savior. :)

I’m also on the sweet sweet Seroquel sleep train. Honestly it’s probably the best thing that’s ever happened to me.

Spanking is not effective, and it’s actually been studied.

I think I would, too. A bunch of the moms in my circle agreed to only gift experiences, not stuff. It’s been awesome! Instead of more toys and crap that breaks we’ve got and given stuff like froyo gift cards, movie tickets, a certificate to spend the day swimming at a friend’s house, one of those ceramic painting…

This was my experience with my first baby. I was trying SO HARD to be a good christian girl, thinking that if I was my dad would stop beating us and everything would be okay. I couldn’t believe the bullshit, but I tried and tried to accept it. I got pregnant by a youth pastor who promptly left me. I was shaking and…

Nah, I can see what she means. When I was about to marry my husband I felt an anxiety that I was going to be separated out as a married person and my relationships with my single friends would suffer. Honestly, it did. Not because we love each other less, but because they were doing things I wasn’t and I was building…

I felt awful and looked like a lumpy whale for both of my pregnancies. :/ I can empathize.

“Sometime after you stop asking and start respecting our privacy.”

Even if some of them don’t, even tech people need cash. Lots of the food trucks are cash only. ;)

My grandma also smelled like Shalimar, and that dusting thing was so, so soft. I loved touching everything on her vanity. She had little empty perfume bottles that must have belonged to her mother they were so old, and a picture of my grandpa in his WWII uniform, and that Shalimar set. My grandma disowned me 6 years…

When I worked at Starbucks in my early 20’s I wore a fake ring to ward off some of the awful customers. It didn’t work. I had a baby, I talked about her all the time, it didn’t work. I got actually for real married and it didn’t work. I got pregnant again and I was walking to the park with my preschooler and a giant…

Yeah I loved it and cried, and then was annoyed at the gender normatively and the thinness of the volcano lady.

The same kind of woman like the one that joined in with a group of men she was with in catcalling me and friends as we walked down the street- women who think if they bro down hard enough it will make them safe from being victim to that kind of behavior. It’s fucking sad and infuriating, huh?