The husband, I think, finally realizes that things typically work out when I have free reign; pink isn’t so terrible, dark colors can help define a space, dark colors in a small room don’t necessarily make it feel smaller, etc.

My kitchen is a pretty peachy pink and it makes my MIL want to vom. I love my kitchen so much. Also, Ikea kitchens? Kind of amazing for the money...

After we bought our house, I was appalled when my husband was like, “Let’s take down these walls...” What happened to maintaining the integrity of the house? What happened to not wanting to cram a modern house into a 1930s frame?? We’d had this discussion along with one about how we didn’t want a Home Depot reno with…

HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT. My MIL believes in forced sterilization, but believes life begins at conception. When she told me this last summer, when I was five months pregnant, thinking that I “would understand in [my] condition,” I exclaimed, in front of my husband, that I would abort my pregnancy the next day if that…

High-five! I was just thinking about this today. We are many, many years from having this discussion with our son...who is an infant...or toddler? (He’s toddling around...sure.) My parents never spoke to me about sex aside from telling me to not have it and then my mother asked me once if I was still a virgin at some…

It hasn’t been a year and I’m still angry that at two weeks postpartum my unadulterated, new mom-bliss was marred by this ugly shit storm of an election. (Election day was glorious until the returns came in...) Also, thank goodness we had this kid, because he is like Xanax in human form.

This...is soooo depressing.

Wait...is this an actual quote?

You’re forgetting “#bluelivesmatter”....oh, wait, maybe you didn’t because it’s too fucking stupid to mention!

I can’t be trusted around a bag of fun sized Kit-Kats...

I’m all for giving police departments Union Soldier statues!

I was on a fucking COOKING website and was reminded of this.

Things that I mean in my previous comments: Addiction is a terrible disease that is indiscriminate. The problem that I have is the media coverage. Every opioid-addicted white person is painted in this incredibly sympathetic light that is completely lacking when describing any person of color doing pretty much…

This is kind of mean to 10-year-olds...

OMG! She was totes adorable in The Man from U.C.L.E.!

To clarify, addiction is a disease. Period. It doesn’t just show up in one race or gender. Addiction, unlike people, doesn’t discriminate.

THIS! Fucking-forever THIS! Some news outlet in Cincinnati did a 24 hours in the crisis story and every single person they followed was some poor, down on their luck, but they just wanna get it together white person. Suddenly addiction is a disease that strikes middle American white people rather than simply a…

Wow. This is disappointing.

Well...for the most part, inner loop people are generally more liberal. Houston, in general, is fairly progressive. I’ve been shitting on my home state for a minute, primarily because it has zero respect for my autonomy as a human woman. I get it. There are a fuck ton of bigots there, but a lot of people I love are…