See, my mom has offered me the money for #2 (as well as permission to install it since I live with her) but it would require major renovation and I’m terrified of having strangers in my living space. Also I’d have to clean out the bathroom and ugh. So I just keep using the tiny bathtub in the tiny guest bathroom and…

When my family was in the market for our house 20+ years ago, our other option had a secret passageway in it. I BEGGED for that house, but it was too expensive. So instead of a house with a secret passage, I have a recurring dream about living in a house with a secret passage. Sometimes it opens up to a whole new…

If this is cancelled as swiftly as the Pete Holmes show was, I will cry/rage (even more than I did when Pete Holmes got canned).

Who puts a photograph of someone in the bathroom? I don’t care if they’re long dead, I would still be embarrassed to poop in front of them. I have to cover the faces of people in magazines when I go. WHAT IF MAGIC IS REAL AND THEY CAN SEE ME? AND THEN SOME DAY I MEET THEM AND THEY’RE LIKE “OH GOD IT'S YOU."

Or it’s because they have genuine food aversions. I was forced to try new things as a kid (usually not even forced — I enjoy trying new things, I just end up hating most of them) and I’m still a picky eater as an adult. In fact I try most of my no-go foods a few times a year in the hopes that they will no longer make…

I suspect the kids who do this “for a living” (ie more often than a couple days a year like the girl in this article) get paid more. I did some casual modeling as a child in the early 90’s — a national ad campaign for a company my dad worked for, some spokesmodel type live stuff — and the most I got paid was a $50…

Also, THOSE DIMPLES.

This was my entire high school experience. I ended up having to become that “ew gross don’t call me a feminist, honestly I kinda hate women” girl just to survive. It took a long time to purge all the horrifying misogyny I'd internalized.

I am one of those people :( Graduated & went to an Ivy for a couple years before dropping out (well, technically I took medical leave and just never went back). Worked a few menial jobs for health insurance, finally found a career path I loved working with children, and then I had to go on disability for mental &…

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who has this problem. Last year, someone asked me my age and without thinking I answered “23.” I was actually 30. I couldn’t even correct myself because what was I gonna say, “oh sorry I forgot about my last 7 birthdays”?

Ugh, doctors suck sometimes. Crossing my fingers that you’re able to find a better one soon!

Thank you (and everyone who’s responded, it still feels a bit too overwhelming to try to reply individually) so much for the support <3 my mom’s here now so she got some food, water & Tylenol in me and now I’m taking an Epsom salt bath so I can head to bed early tonight. Just have to get through tomorrow too and then…

Thank you for the kitten and the kind words <3 I went to look for my jewelry downstairs and thankfully found it there, although not before falling down the staircase and wrenching my shoulder. So I’m sore but calming down a little at least. Going to take your advice and just stop looking for the serum so I don’t hurt…

So I’ve been without antidepressants for a week because my doctor is apparently incapable of refilling it on time and I’ve officially lost what little sanity I had. This morning I discovered a $50 bottle of rosacea treatment serum is missing from my bathroom, but I put off the OCD flare I knew that would cause until…

When I was a kid, my gerbil escaped from his cage and we came home from dinner one night to find him hiding from our cat under a bureau (which thankfully sat too low to the ground for more than a rodent and/or a cat’s paw to fit). It was TERRIFYING. Like I’m 31 now and just remembering it is raising my heart rate.

Then stay out of my freezer!

This is very helpful! I’d thought about doing some combo of pink and blue/purple dye to get something mauve-esque but I was afraid my knowledge of color theory would be just enough to feel confident while actually screwing it up. Totally trying your dye gradient suggestion too, if it works I will be endlessly grateful!

“I believe the federal government shouldn’t be allowed to impose its beliefs upon individual states. But if that’s not possible, then I believe the federal government should be required to impose MY beliefs upon individual states.”

This is great and all but WHAT DYE IS THAT IN YOUR HAIR? I have been scouring Sally Beauty Supply for something like that to no avail. Also, how do you get it on just the tips of your hair when it's that short? I've been growing out my hair from pixie length for a year just so I can dye the tips a mauvey kind of color…

Congratulations! I auditioned for the Sound of Music a zillion years ago but ended up running the light board instead, which was pretty fun too.