I had been planning to make a triumphant post about deciding to leave my job. I appreciated the advice and shared experience from all of you, especially RN who was the lone dissent vote. I split the difference when my work agreed to let me take a couple months leave before making a final decision (which will almost…
I’m struggling at work. I’m so burned out and have been for a long time. Or, as our recent employee survey would call it, I’m “fully disengaged”. I can’t focus even on things that used to interest me. I’ve been at this place for far too long and I need a change, but I feel like I don’t even have the energy to start a…
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For Mother’s Day I got the gift of my baby’s first cold. I guess I should be grateful that it took almost nine months for us to hit this milestone, but after a sleepless night, I do not feel very grateful. Although maybe just a little grateful that I am at work while my husband attempts to work from home with a…
I want to move, but I don’t know where. We currently own a home in a very white working class suburb of Boston who voted 70% Trump, and I don’t want to put my son into the not-great school system here. (A school system with a racially insensitive mascot, to boot.)
The comments section is rough on that Simpsons Apu article from yesterday.
We had to put down one of our cats over the weekend, and it happened very suddenly. I alternate between forgetting that she’s gone, being depressed when I remember, and accepting the fact that it happened probably in the best way it possibly could have. She was 12, and she had a few health scares over the last few…
Sorry for two posts in quick succession, but I want CLT to weigh in on a debate that’s raging over at Jezebel about LL Bean’s policy change. People are sad that they had to change their 100% lifetime satisfaction guarantee due to “abuses” of the system (which include things like people using it to replace clothes kids…
Is it performance art, trolling, or just someone who’s never been exposed to the idea of punctuation or discrete thoughts?
A baby formula company invited me to participate in this program where I can win discounts on formula or amazon gift cards. I have to do some stuff like rate their ads, and share stories and such (probably for marketing use). One of the the things I can do to earn points is create a meme from a baby picture. I am…
That’s basically all I wanted to say. I’m happy about it and it’s not like I can brag about it to anyone in my real life who would care.
Just read the sad news about Dolores O’Riordan. Planning to listen to The Cranberries for the rest of the day. Post your favorites here if you like.
Hey all. I haven’t been around much in the last couple months due to the lildamnhero eating up basically all my free time. Ironically, now that I’ve returned to work, I may actually have more down time and be around here more, as it’s more common for me to have lulls at work than at home. And something has been…
And it is simultaneously the most wonderful and exhausting and frustrating and awe-inspiring and fucking overwhelming thing I have ever done. FYI for any of you contemplating motherhood, you may want to skip this post because it’s a lot of venting.
I haven’t completed the new season yet, but I’m almost there. And holy shit, the last few episodes I’ve watched have been gut-wrenching. SPOILERS AHEAD through episode 11.
I don’t know if I’m more crotchety and sensitive to it now, or if there are legitimately more stupid people on Kinja these days, but the amount of people with broken sarcasm/satire detectors just seems through the roof. From this post.
Did you guys see the recent speech from the mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu? It was pretty good. New Orleans has been removing its confederate monuments, and he spoke at the removal of the last one on why it was the right thing to do (and it still baffles me that there are people who dispute that).
I’m excited about the new Twin Peaks, so of course I read the piece on The Muse where they rewatched Fire Walk with Me and talked about it. I did not expect the amount of eyerolling that was pulled out of me when reading Rich’s thoughts on the matter.
Just a fun (ok not actually fun) tidbit based on the recent drama on Survivor.
Been thinking a lot about names and their potential to influence identity. A question came up between me and bearddamnheroes and I wouldn’t mind soliciting some opinions on the subject. It’s become common to give girls traditionally male names, but the inverse isn’t true, for obvious sexist reasons.
