The disconnect between what you know and what you feel is the hardest part. I have lived with bipolar (with crashing, crushing depressive lows) for almost 30 years now and, though even today I have suicidal ideation and longing, I hang onto what I know and just remember that I’ll feel it sooner or later. Take walks,…

Try L’Artisan fragrances. Or natural oils. I have the same problem. I can wear Le Labo’s Rose 31 and Bergamotte. I have also tried Santal and I was okay.

Pretty interesting, informative comment. Thanks. I’d ungrey you, but...

Counterpoint taken (joyfully).

I was just commiserating with my father-in-law about how people just aren’t allowed to be “generalists” anymore. My initial uni major was Interdisciplinary Studies. I am curious about EVERYTHING. It wasn’t until I realised I’d be unemployable that I forced myself to choose a more specialised major. Sad.

THANK YOU. What is up with the abuse of the term “woke” in pop culture right now? People, it means something. In fact, it is powerful. It is burning my biscuits to see “woke bae” and whatnot all over the place, like it’s a joke or something funny. I’m all grey and, as such, have no right to a rant, but this shit is…

Why aren’t we hearing about this? Was there follow up? That’s pretty horrific.

Bahahaha! I loved that song.

They sure helped me. My evangelical mama told me when I was young that she would never help me get on BC. When I needed it at 17, I drove to the nearest PP, had a screening and got free BC. When I started college, I used the PP in my college town, to keep my parents from seeing the charge on their insurance. I am…

Wait. How’d you get my baby pictures?

Oh wow. That is pure badness. It’s really detailed and premeditated. When I was about 4, my brother told me I was a baby Sasquatch that Dad found while he was out hunting in the woods. He and Mama decided to adopt me so they shaved me and dressed me up like a human. I believed him for at least a few months until my…

Starred for crustensteins. I make the grossest looking, most delicious pies. I wonder if it’s an ADD thing - like I just can’t put in that much focus to one area of dessert. I finally have meds. Perhaps I’ll try pie-making with Ritalin to test my (wholly unscientific) theory.

Yay to great dads! My dad took me to the great scifi movies and also a good chunk of the action/westerns. I am a HUGE fan of westerns now. I called him just last week to tell him to have a look at the Revenant trailer and then practically cried when I realised I can’t go with him to see it (I live overseas). He’s…

I was in kindergarten when The Empire Strikes Back came out and we played Star Wars on the playground every day. Boys and girls. Sure, there were some girls who didn’t like it, found it boring or whatever, but lots of us collected the McDonalds toys, role-played and just generally had a rad time. Five years later, the…

Isn’t it all just bizarre? My mother in law, who is first generation Italian American, still talks with shame about the way her Irish-American in-laws treated her (She was married in the 60s!). Apparently it was considered a grave step down for their son to marry her. When my husband and I were planning our wedding,…

I had to explain to my dad, after several years of being married, that it is not acceptable to refer to my husband (whom he adores) as EYE-talian. This, in current-day rural Ohio.

Thank you for your empathy. It sucked. I couldn’t pick up my baby for a few weeks. I had a C-section and somehow the OB/GYN missed some placenta, which became the catalyst for infection (that an an open cervix, I assume). It was horrorshow. You’re right in that I didn’t even know you could get PID from non-STI routes…

I’m sorry that you’re going through this. I don’t think they knew as much about PID and infertility even 10 years ago. But I have known women who had PID and still maintained their fertility, so it is definitely possible, if not optimal.

I got PID as a result of retained placenta after I had my son and, according to my doctors, it drastically increased my odds of infertility (I am not testing fate, or my uterus on this matter, so we’ll never know for certain in my case).

Too late to edit. ESOTSM (not P - Pineapple, Pie, Pants...oh dear)