Short version: Just last month, I had to abandon my shit-smeared underpants in a Target bathroom as my toddler looked on.

Long version: I recently started taking a medication that tends to mess with my GI tract — I poop more often and when I gotta go, I GOTTA GO.

I took my 3-year-old daughter to Target a few weeks ago…

Uhm, AIDS patients are absolutely divided into those two camps, at least among people who were teens/adults in the 80s and early 90s. The stigma created in the 80s has still not completely disappeared.

Not to mention that a baby being two-thirds born would mean that the mother would have been in labor for what... 6 weeks? Like, fully dilated and pushing a little bit each day? And what about the amniotic sac??

As a person who went from no centimeters dilated to a baby in roughly 14 hours, I am very very confused…

Where are there grocery stores that sell hard liquor?

What does she mean by “draining the swamp”??? OUR WETLANDS ARE PRECIOUS YOU MONSTERS!

Perfect gifs are perfect.

I sometimes remember “Look At Me” at night and run around the house locking all the doors and checking the windows... So. Fucking. Scary.

OH DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN AND SATAN IN HELL, NO!!!!

Holy shit

Coconut is a laxative in large quantities though....

I agree. Her memoir confirmed that for me.

Ehhhh I read her memoir too and was unimpressed. I love Sleater-Kinney (have since I was 17), I love her songwriting, I LOOOOVE her guitar playing, but I don’t really like her. Carrie’s memoir was mostly about her feelings about the bad things the people around her went through and some fairly inconsequential things…

This is the only reasonable thread about this story and I really appreciate your comments. Thank you!!

You’re a delight

Yay! Mani thread! This isn’t what I have on right now, but I did this look for a wedding last Saturday:

That’s awesome! I’m getting my MEd in special education and I would love to reach that point!

This is AMAZING. I’ve never done a chalkboard anything for my daughter but I might have to do something like this someday.

I honestly think everything in that photo except that purple dress is HIDEOUS. WTF is with that weird pink thing over the black pants? That bright teal skirt is ridiculous.

Literally all I want are the same clothes every store sells but in my size. That’s it. I want the same options as everyone else so I can have…

Oh, shit. A friend of mine in college was raised in that cult. He also despised his name and wanted to change it. I'm really glad your mom was able to leave and rebuild.

Oh my god, that’s awful. I’m so sorry that happened to your neighbors (and you). Are you okay?

I am super glad you’ve found more than just a neighborhood, but a whole community that loves your family.