None of this mulled wine nonsense! The copper mugs are for Moscow mules: ginger beer, vodka, muddled mint and lime over ice. Delicious and festive, and you won’t burn your hands.
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Same type of upbringing, but in my case, restricting sugar as a child made me crave it as an adult. I disagree - I think people either like sweet or savory tastes, and you can’t completely override personal preferences.
I get bullied all the time for liking sugar - by people who eat fucktons of salty foods. I’m good at moderation and tired of being shamed for having a sweet tooth. In my social circle, the people with the savory cravings are the ones that get all high and mighty with everyone else. It’s weirdly comforting to know…
Oh - and don’t get me started on the tops. All of the button-down shirts pull open across my bust, even the largest sizes. And the sleeveless tops have such giant armholes that you can see my entire bra through the side of my shirt. These are supposed to be work clothes, hahahahaha.
I used to be able to order all my pants from the J.Crew catalog because they were true to size. Once I’d been in the store and tried out the sizes, every time I ordered a flat front pair of pants or jeans - whether they were cropped or wide-leg - they fit my waist and hips perfectly.
I think they were going for “receptacle,” but it got messed up in spell check.
Yes. After I was promoted out of my receptionist role, the company where I worked decided that they wanted an actual human to answer the phone at all times during business hours, rather than having voice mail pick up the phone while our receptionist was out to lunch. Since the owner only wanted women to answer the…
It makes no sense! Same thing happened to a friend of mine with an abusive family member. She blocked him - even blocked all their mutual friends - and he still shows up periodically in her ‘People You May Know’ list. Major, MAJOR programming flaw, if you ask me.
Even if you block them, FB will still suggest them in the “People you may know” section - and even worse, they will suggest you to them.
RIGHT?!? I blocked my stalker SIL for a reason. I’ve blocked all of her friends and her kids and the entire extended family, so she can’t go on their phones and try to find me on FB. And she still shows up in that goddamn “People You Might Know” column.
You are right on one point though. The physical resemblance is absolutely uncanny, so much so that at first glance at the photo, I thought this was another story about Zimmerman. ((shudders))
Personally, I feel intense amounts of rage when I think about the fact that paying hundreds of dollars to literally paralyze my face is supposed to be an acceptable - even desirable - thing to do in the name of attractiveness. It never ends. According to society, no part of my body will ever be ‘good enough.’ I say do…
It’s not the ‘war on Christmas,’ it’s the war on corporate greed.
This is pretty typical of what I’ve seen with regard to private schools in the LA area. Right off the top of my head, I can think of at least three stories that are on par with this one in terms of sheer weirdness and inappropriate behavior.
Oh God. I remember those days. In retrospect, I wished I’d just given myself permission to take care of sleeping, feeding myself and the kids and taking the occasional gentle walk until my youngest turned two. B’fing didn’t burn calories for me, it made my body stockpile weight and I wasn’t able to lose it until after…
Yeah, not my experience at all. It was totally about posturing for approval and competing for attention, most of the time. I don’t know if it was the mix of students at that time or the culture of the school. I hear from alum groups that a lot of the same shit is going on today - racism and exclusion and bullying and…
I had a very different experience at my women’s college (Bryn Mawr.) I was really excited about going into an all-female environment, I hoped it would be empowering and exciting. By the time I graduated, I felt like the ‘sisterhood’ espoused by the college was a lie. Every time I achieved something, another woman was…
One of her sons plays in the same rec sports league as my kid, and I’ve seen her at a couple of the games, sitting on a blanket and cheering for her kid. We can always tell she’s there when the LA Sheriffs are patrolling the sidelines, LOL. But she looks great now and seems like she’s doing really well. Makes me…
Yeah, she did!
Yeah, it was. I particularly remember her being chased by paps while she was carrying one of her kids, and then she tripped on the hem of her jeans and almost dropped him, and everyone was like, ‘SHE’S A DANGER TO HER BABEH!’ And she didn’t lose all the weight right away...and she got ridiculed so hard because she’d…