I’m not the best at this, but here goes nuttin’ :o)

Same. And I’m immensely glad you made it out.

I haven’t enjoyed teen week either. On top of all of the normal teenage crap, I was dealing with a step-father who was clumsily trying to “groom” me and when his ineptitude or impatience (I don’t know which.) caused him to grossly underestimate my ability to defend myself, I ended up being rejected by my mother and…

I have mostly skipped the teen week posts. My teen years were fine for the most part, I just wasn’t interested.

Yes yes and yes.

Seriously, I have been skipping all the stupid Teen Week posts. I mean, who out there actually WANTS to re-live their teen years? I even egotistically feel I was older than my years while I was a teen, and looking back from my mid-30s, even I know I still didn’t know shit and did not have the capacity to deal with a…

I got the coolest birthday present yesterday. Someone turned the opening scene of my story into a comic! The entire five panels are here.

I’ve had a fucking week. I started a new job Monday that I wasn’t very sure about and now after 5 days of cumbaya meetings that didn’t apply to my department I finally got hard info on my *actual* position and, shock shock shock, it’s every bit as gruelling emotionally as I’d suspected, and SURPRISE! none of the …

You are a brave woman. I had to get a sigmoidoscopy when I was much younger, and not only was it a horror show (vomiting blood from the darned stuff, severe pain during the procedure, severe gas pains afterwards, and then an an attack of C. Difficile colitis afterwards from an (apparently) unsterilized sigmoidoscope. …

Thank you for doing this.

I moved into my new house yesterday!

The official Star Trek Instagram page shared the picture of the cake I made for my dad’s retirement party. The cake could have been better if I had more time but I still feel famous!

I emailed Jezebel hoping they would post this story. Since I haven’t seen it yet, I thought I would share it here because it’s important.

I acknowledge Tommy as the greatest NFL quarterback of all time. But he can go fuck himself! Brady’s status as an American was irreparably damaged by his support of Donnie Dumbshit.  

There’s an excellent article in the WaPo today by a former CIA field officer explaining how everything we know so far about this meeting suggests it was a textbook attempt by Russian intelligence to feel out the Trump campaign’s receptiveness to working with them. The way they went about this is exactly how they’ve…

I’m a huge fan of living below my means (to be clear I don’t allows or even often succeed at doing this, but I try). So much less stress, and I love the feeling that I could try a different job if I wanted to.

“Great evening with President @EmmanuelMacron & Mrs. Macron. Went to Eiffel Tower for dinner. Relationship with France stronger than ever.”

Time and money for other things, yes! My husband and I waffle between wanting to work with what we’ve got or shop for something bigger in a couple of years. But our mortgage would increase so much if we upgraded. In the last couple of years we’ve finally “made it” in that we’re no longer underemployed and living…

But lots of cultures live in much smaller homes than we do. We only need enormous house to fill with useless crap. I have seen a few tiny homes that are pushing it but most are really just fine for a couple, or small family and they still much larger then apartments in Tokyo or Paris. They are actually coffin sized.…

We purchased a small home, 1200 sq. feet including the garage and we love it. It’s affordable enough that we are not house poor and we can survive on one salary.