WHERE?!?! Want!!! Those are incredible!

Are pets each their own category? Because then it's Dog 1, Dog 2, Cat 1, Cat 2. Otherwise, probably pets, selfies, landscapes, unusually impressive food I made.

Reconfiguring my end goal completely changed my perception of exercise. I realized that working out 2-3 times a week had an incredible effect on my depression, and once I started thinking of it as "Mental Health Self-care" rather than "Unpleasant Attractiveness Chore" I started looking forward to it! I also…

My heeler is obsessed with our older cat. He follows her around the house for hours, whining at her from a foot away. If I yell at him, he whines quietly. If the cat isn't moving, he stares at her from and whines. If she runs from him, PANIC! and he barks until she hides under the bed, and then whines at the bed.

I want to make out with Adrian Brody at the airport. That beautiful nose....

Mine bothers me out of concern. Thirty seconds into yoga I'll open my eyes and stare directly into the liquid brown gaze of my pittie from about two inches away. She invariably decides to reassuringly lick me on the mouth while I'm doing something precarious, and then acts wounded when I yell at her. If I start doing…

You're joking, but a facebook acquaintance (who I don't hate read, exactly, but more like fremdschämen-follow) put up a post asking for "both sides of the vaccine controversy" and one response was pretty much, "I, white hippie lady, should be free not to vaccinate my kids! It's IMMIGRANTS with IMMIGRANT DISEASES who…

Her tattoos are so sweet. There are some warrior mummies from the same plateau that had some bad ass full sleeves.

That's my mom in a nutshell - the wedding was something I was doing to her, to inflict stress and anxiety upon her and to also blow "her" money (she doesn't work) on a party for my friends. I spent 90% of the planning putting on a good face because she really is mentally ill to be dealing with that much paranoia and…

Oh yeah, it was a lovely day and I was thrilled with how it went off. We had a fun party and the food & setting was great. It's just in retrospect I realize I was too burnt out to fight for some things that I thought didn't matter to me at the time, but now I'm sad about missing out on. I definitely spent a lot of my…

I feel you on being so worn down you just give in. I planned my entire wedding from across the country with no help - Mr Parade wasn't interested (and he's since apologized for being useless) and my mom is anxious, disorganized, and manic, so she just couldn't help in a constructive way. My parents offered to pay for…

My mom was so guilty of this. Despite my insistence that I wanted a simple, tea-length gown because we're just going to city hall and having a private dinner, for chrissakes, I was forced into a lot of poofy things. Including one that made me look like I was standing in a giant wad of crumpled tissue. And then she…

You know, every other time I have laid eyes on Jennifer Aniston I've found her style bland and vaguely upsetting, but she actually looks really nice in that weird bronzey green brown color. I kind of dig it.

You're right, I totally need a giant glowing sign over my desk that says "Medical School! OB/GYN! A LIFETIME OF PROFESSIONAL BABY CATCHING!" Thanks for reminding me that I should keep the end in sight - it's so easy to get bogged down in the moment.

Thank you for responding! It's really great to hear from someone who's been in the same position, I feel like everyone either thinks I'm insane for putting myself through this & doesn't get why I think medical school will be worth it, or doesn't understand why I need to do it in the first place (my parents are…

Do what you've got to do. There's no shame in going slow and making accommodations for yourself. Good luck!

Oh I know - I worked in a research lab in a hospital alongside a bunch of doctors and even the ones who started medical school as soon as they finished college were in their 30s before they finished fellowship. At least older students are become more common, so I'm not going to be that weird to be starting at 27. As…

I'll be able to move back home, and depending on where I get in for the grad school-proper portion of the program I might be able to stay there (fingers crossed!). I tentatively maybe have my old job back for that time, but it's not 100% and it's a weird amount of time to be looking for work.

I'm sure you could do it! You're not the same person you were when you left. My husband finished undergrad at 26, waited a few years, and is finishing his PhD at 32, so you'll be in good company if you do go back!

The problem is that this program is pretty much a hoop I have to jump through (a post-bacc program) that tracks into what I really 100% want to do (medical school). My background is in science and I worked as a researcher for two years before going back to school, which was long enough to realize that a) I'm…