I loved my Addy doll so, so, so much. I got her for myself by saving birthday money and allowances, but when I was 10 my parents got me a ton of her accessories for Christmas — the bed, her desk, new outfits, her cookbook, and the last 3 books. It was so awesome.

I found out when I was 24 that my mom had thrown away my…

Nobody should shame you for not eating fish when we’re on track to have no fish left in the ocean in just 35 years.

Same here on booze. I’ll have a glass of wine every now and then, and half the time I’ll forget to finish it. It’s just not good to me and not worth the expense! (But sweets and I are good friends so I can’t quite relate to the rest of this thread)

Your son is ADORABLE.

But now you’ve set a precedent. People will expect photocards forever now. (This is also true of letters. NEVER DO A CHRISTMAS LETTER UNLESS YOU WANT TO WRITE ONE EVERY YEAR UNTIL YOU’RE DEAD. I skipped the letter the year my daughter was born cuz she was just 10 weeks old when I did the cards, so…

Our Christmas card photo is a selfie of our family... which I took the day we ordered the cards because I realized I didn’t have any photos of the three of us. I’m not paying someone $500 to take us to a vacant lot “nature area” only to spend the first half of the session convincing my daughter she doesn’t have to…

Congratulations!!! Wishing you a quick recovery and lots of naps.

That’s basically how I looked at it. I thought that since I ran half-marathons right before I got pregnant, the birth marathon would be easier.

It wasn’t any easier.

Uhhhm... I kinda wish you could remove the dream from your mind closet and put it in mine. Except replace “best friend” with “casual buddy who is way adorable”

Fuckin’ A. Humans are so awful and yet Dolly is so so good.

I think it mostly evened out because poor folks weren’t buying their fruits/veggies/meats, they grew them.

I live in Southeast Tenn and so many folks here love shitting on Gatlinburg/Sevierville/Pigeon Forge because they think they’re too down-to-earth to enjoy the crazy touristiness. Those people are wrong and terrible. Gatilinburg and Dollywood are amazing.

The only good libertarian is Ron Swanson. And he’s fictional.

I just think that choosing to focus on a semantic argument rather than what’s actually going on here makes one look callous, and wanted to bring your attention to that so you would focus on the bigger issue.

And when did I ever say gun control is the answer? I’ve been arguing that as long as we live in this racist,…

No, he’s pro-choice — he’s a libertarian. :(

You do realize that even ONE person murdered at a time is too many, right?

And let’s be honest. Any gun control laws will be applied at the whims of law enforcement and the judicical system, and will therefore disproportionately be used against minorities (Tamir Rice was killed in an Open Carry state!). White folks (who do most of the mass murdering) will keep their guns without…

A friend’s husband actually used that argument with me. He said he doesn’t care about people who are murdered, he only cares that he gets to keep his guns. He literally thinks that his desire to visit a shooting range trumps my daughter’s LIFE (if it came to that, she is alive and well).

So instead of grisly deaths we’ll have... grizzly deaths?

If you don’t work during college... then what do you put on your resume? I always worked by choice.

Also, love the Kinja handle!

Oh my god. That’s awful, and I’m so sorry. Please accept my internet stranger hugs.