Dumb and Angry, dump her and forget her. If she won’t stand up for you, a relationship with her is not worth the bullshit you’re going to have to deal with.

Aloes aren’t deadly. Just messy lol. I know chronic pooping can cause problems, but a cat eating some aloe here and there won’t hurt them.

I killed my rock plant. I either over watered it or the cats did by peeing in its pot...

I’m gonna try again this year. It’s warm enough I can keep it outside away from the cats.

Certain succulents, like aloes, can give your cat the shits. The gel and inner skin in the leaves are laxatives. The inner skin can be a purgative too if they eat enough.

I knew the gel was a laxative, but I never appreciated just how...thorough...it is at cleaning out intestines until I had to clean up the mess from…

The best thing I’ve done for my prickly friends is just not touch them. I had one succulent that I thought died (Jacky got knocked over, chewed on by cats and was worn to a nub), but lo and behold, I check her cup months later and there’s a sprig! I watered her, she died back...I’ve left her alone again for a couple…

You need to find some old ladies to talk to. I swear Mother Nature gave them all the green thumbs and left nothing for us youngins. My grandmother can take a damn stick and turn it into a flowering bush in a year. She’s one of those that don’t need to buy seedlings or actual plants, just take cuttings from whatever…

I was directly responding to how you said you can see why the authors might not want shittily written fanfiction posted in their honor, as it were, that’s all. My rebuttal was purely that you can’t judge shitty fanficton without judging shitty published work.

I see your point that they might not approve, but I…

You diss bad fanfic writers...have you seen some published work? Sorry, Twilight sucks, on so many levels. Dean Koontz’s later books are just shitty and preachy and plotless. Stephen King is so long winded I get bored 15 pages in. I can’t stand Tolkien either. Get to the fucking point. (I have a fairly short…

Fanfiction has been around in some form for...since we figured out how to tell stories. People love retelling stories with their own twist, love rewriting endings, killing off a character they hated, all that fun stuff. Most Disney movies are all fanfic of fairy tells...they made goreless stories to make money in the…

Gotta put Edx.org on the list. Free classes, with the option to pay for certificates and such, view archived classes or sign up when classes start and following along just like you’re in school.

I’ve not paid for anything, nor can I personally vouch for how well these courses translate to credits in college. I just go…

Love Open Culture. My husband, who is a music nerd, has enjoyed every bit of music stuff I’ve come across on there because it’s new to him.

My dream is to one day have about 500+ bucks to drop on a team of cleaners to come to my house. I need a massive deep clean and it’s not gonna be a pretty job...I do what I can, but too many days of depression leads to a serious mess, and no energy to clean up because I get depressed about the mess and...well, the…

I’ve done that, and I’ve also used short summaries, like a 10 word description of what I want to happen here instead of the whole scene.

Are these also called Bradford pear trees? We have trees like this all over my town of Gastonia. AND THEY FUCKING STINK. I hate them. Sure they’re pretty, but they’re fucking useless. A stiff breeze breaks their branches, they crowd out other trees, and the blooms last all of a week, maybe? Useless ass trees. They’re…

The biggest reason I’d be worried is my husband is allergic to a couple of fairly popular foods. Neither of us typically order a dish with those things in it, but on occasion he finds something that he might like with one allergen in it and requests it to be left out. His allergies aren’t so severe that you have to…

Uh, you do. Plenty of people get paid to go to school, to go to lectures, to take courses and all that fun stuff that applies to their field of work. And many of them get raises along with it. So...that’s getting paid to keep up with your field. My boss at my retail job got paid mileage AND a bonus on top of that to…

Teachers don’t get paid to keep up with whatever advancements that might be going on in their field of teaching. They have to pay to go to school, to drive to wherever, to buy supplies, buy their own tech required in their classrooms, etc. Their job is costing them tons of money.

Insurance is a joke. Employer heath…

My favorite is to stare them in the eye and slowly raise my eyebrow. If they’re still going on by the time my eyebrow is at maximum arch, I drop it and loose all expression in my face and just stare blankly. If my mouth is going slack, that means I’ve entered full day dream mode and you won’t get shit out of me. At…

How is it shameful to not waste food??? Are you fucking serious? Whenever I have leftovers, I take them home and eat them either later that day or take them for my work lunch. Less work for me. Or, here’s something that might shock you, I’ll give it to someone. That hungry homeless guy that’s always at the…

We have a stupid ass survey/rating thing at work. It’s printed on the receipt, take this survey, get a 3 dollar coupon. The upper crust is upset because we’ve not been getting enough surveys done...like I can force customers to take it???? The higher up assholes are going to shit talk my manager and my store because…