i have the worst fucking cramps!!!!!! and because it’s the first day of my period i’m allowing myself a cheat day on my diet (which as of today ive lost 12 pounds)

I love belting out anything by The Who.

Yup. I agree.

Amen to all of that.

Having kids is hard. It’s hard on your body, sometimes it’s hard to figure out who you are afterwards and it’s hard on a marriage. It never shocks me when people who recently had a kid split up.

Dude, I’m fucking done with Sanders. I gave him a ton of money and I wish I could ask for it back. This fundraiser was done specifically to raise money for downballot candidates—the kind of congresspeople Sanders would actually need to fuel his imaginary revolution.

Whoa, I first thought that photo of Ellie was Scarlett Johanssen as Courtney Love.

My husband and I would hardly ever argue if one of us was dead.

Ted Cruz is awful. Friends and I went to one of his town halls, and we were horrified by what passes for his policies (mainly, abolishing the IRS and submitting tax returns on a postcard — we were wondering to whom we would mail the postcard) and by his absolutely horrid use of a little boy, who was urged onto the…

Really Kirstie?

How much do you guys wanna pay me to write a Jonathan Franzen novel? It’s about a dissatisfied upper-middle-class white genius who doesn’t feel challenged by his wife. But it’s really about, like, America.

Where were all of you when I had to read Freedom for my stupid book club and everyone loved it??

Imagine how much money she'd get if she made potato salad for Jonathan Franzen?

I shouldha thought of that.

Totally! Email is jnoauthor@gmail.com - even if I am the MOST SUCCESSFUL EDITOR OF ALL TIME by then lol, I will honor the free edit commitment.

We were married for 20 yrs and fit in so many ways. But he became depressed, very unhappy, miserable, paranoid and just wanted to be alone. I was miserable as well but never would have left him that way...but he asked me to go. I moved into a little 1bdrm that I love, have my older cat and lovely puppy, so contented.

I ran my first half-marathon today, and totally crushed it. Beat my goal time by seven minutes, and felt great afterwards. Just needed to brag about it a little bit :)

Just arrived in Joshua Tree! I want to live in this house forever, it is so wonderful.

Jezzies. Eating Ghiradelli choc chip cookies and catching up with Season 2 of Empire. It's time for a new/ slightly used car. The Toyota RAV4 is 10 years old. 136,000 miles and engine is burning oil. Car suggestions?