$800 was the price, alterations were $200. So $1000. More than I would have liked, but the dress was so totally me...

Thatz a really good comment. Thank you.

I look fake with red hair and wrong with brown. I was adorably blond as a kid, but in my 20's my hair gradually turned this awful mousy dirty blonde-brown color. So I'm staying blond until I go gray. And even if I were single I would not give a fuck what anyone thinks of that.

High five yo. Well done.

I'm so glad I never bought any of these pants.

Fuck that, I would have sent that letter.

That WAS a good cry. Damn. Good kid, sweet cat. Brb, weeping more.

This. Joke about that and nuh uh, not getting NEAR my cat. Ever.

Dude, I want to hug you. Well done sir.

I enjoyed this.

Yarp. Awful shit. My husband has to submit to one of these physical exams/edumacational 'wellness' sessions once a year, or pay way more for our family's health insurance. He's maybe 25 lbs overweight, and he finds this crap extremely intrusive, invasive and annoying (overweight people already know they're overweight,…

You sound like a VERY good friend, and no good deed goes unpunished. I'm sorry. :(

That was a great story.

A school play where the whole cast was planning to do meth afterwards? I wouldn't have thought the sort of people who would want to be in a school play would be the same set as the ones risking becoming methheads. Gosh.

Holy shit I would have been pissed.

No idea about American Catholic hospitals, but I have read that in El Salvador, where abortion is totally prohibited by law, they actually have to wait with the woman in the hospital until the fallopian tube ruptures before removing it. Naturally putting the woman's life at risk. Because, you see, it would kill the…

Your husband can think what he wants; you're absolutely right to be careful. Have you read Pushed or Born in the USA? The way judges are so cavalier about taking pregnant women's rights away is appalling and terrifying.

Why should she be forced to wait for it to happen naturally if it's inevitable and she is in terrible pain and wants the ordeal over with? Especially when, even with monitoring, things could go south in a hurry, risking her fertility or even her life? There is no good reason in the world.

To take that tooth analogy one step further - people have died from issues resulting from an infected, rotted tooth. There was a case I remember reading about involving a young boy who lacked any kind of dental care, I think the infection spread to the bone and caused sepsis or something? And obviously the vast vast…

That will simply force those workers who won't be able to pay their monthly bills if they miss a day of work to come in and try to pretend not to be sick. Not really helping the public health problem there.