I hang out on knitting boards and blogs, which overlap a lot with parenting boards. I've curated my own list of things I never want to hear again:

Well I already have one chronic disease and a strong likelihood of developing at least one more. Oh, and my mom had breast cancer. I already know I'm going to die. I just hope I get a chance to do it Thelma and Louise style.

I'm pretty sure this has been covered on at least two episodes of SVU.

If I weren't already attached I'd jump on you in a heartbeat. I have zero desire to be a stay-at-home mom. Like my own mother I'll probably jump back into full time work as soon as possible after popping my kids out. It'd be nice not to rely on a nanny or daycare.

You are correct. I'm the youngest of three, and younger than this one by 8 years. I've had sex at her house before. Actually I think tonight I'm finally going to achieve my ultimate dream of sex on her front lawn. (It's very isolated up here.) She doesn't have a guest room per se so I'm using her oldest son's bedroom.…

I got that way last fall. I was in an unfulfilling relationship, doing things with my time I didn't enjoy, and I knew I needed to get my stuff together from grad school but didn't know where to start. It was really, really frustrating.

The molten cookies from Trader Joe's I posted about earlier are the perfect follow-up to crazy couch sex, I learned tonight. Also, getting fucked with a cat on the next cushion and two dogs watching from the rug is...interesting.

My dad threatened not to go to my oldest sister's wedding because he was upset over the cost of flowers. Mind you, my sister and brother-in-law paid for a large chunk of their wedding, as did my brother-in-law's parents. So it wasn't like my dad was footing the entire bill. But $1,000 for flowers...that did him in.*

Thanks for the tip! Her bank is usually awesome about customer service so I expect they won't raise a fuss. At worst they might call her, I guess.

Two things:

I was just about to say very nearly the same thing. There are SO MANY better colors for her and everyone else in the world.

...I hijacked my intro to psychology class for five minutes the other day to talk about how excited I am that there's a new DSM coming out. You're among friends here.

I thought Easter was when you had to give a sacrifice of hardboiled eggs to the Great Jackalope so he wouldn't leave black jelly beans in your basket.

Yeah, this particular funding source was hard to get. I really hope this means they'll think of us again before too long.

A really cool thing happened at work this week. I work for a healthcare nonprofit with member organizations statewide. This week we received a donation for over $325,000 designated to a region of the state that rarely gets extra money thrown its way. By the methodology we use to distribute funds like this, two of our…

Even people who only speak one dialect find this confusing. Glad I could help!

In American English, the outside quotes are "double" and the inside quotes are 'single.' This is reversed in British English.

That much makeup...and then baby teeth. Something about that juxtaposition hurts my heart badly.

So I hear. I prefer to be hands-off when my ladyparts are doing their thing though. I do like working out when I'm perioding. That helps a lot.

We are all individually responsible for our own shit, unless we're not mentally capable of said responsibility. Therefore it makes no sense to blame bad acts on the Church as an entity but rather on the people perpetuating the bad acts.