Im IN college but with a full time job and I bought my own home last year with no help from family. I just saved up the 5% down I needed and bought a condo/townhome in my city. So it can be done.

To be fair I did it in California, in 2004. I had saved all money since I started working at 15.5 for college, but ended up getting scholarships. All that money was in savings accounts, while I worked 2 jobs in college, afraid my scholarships wouldn’t be renewed each year, but they were. So when I graduated I had a…

Wait, if nobody else knew about their engagement, who was taking all those pictures?

As someone wo came too late to this piece to have my initial-reaction comment, “Fucking VOMIT,” not get buried, I thank you for this. I really don’t understand why women who marry childhood sweethearts invariably seem to think that act is impressive and not stunted, but in any case I don’t know why they’d proudly…

Particularly the lookit-my-engagement-ring-LOOKIT photo.

This is oddly un-Jezebelian in nature.

Yeah, this boring-but-smug bullshit about waiting around for some guy and imagining the thoughts of the girls who laughed at you in middle school or whatever gets to be on the same website that has posts celebrating genius mathematicians who just died? Jezebel, please choose more wisely. This is stupidity.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

We would wrap up our nights at Ram’s Horn, the closest thing we had to a diner.

I tried to woo a girl with Silverchair patch on her bookbag by showing off my knowledge of  The Silver Chair, fourth book of the Chronicles of Narnia. I didn’t know Silverchair was a band.

I still cannot wrap my head around Waco being any sort of tourist destination. I was speaking to this Australian and after mentioning I went to college in Austin, she was like “oh! By Waco, I’ve been there.”

There’s a major difference, in my opinion, from dating someone with different political beliefs (because most of us fall on a spectrum of the Overton window, even within our respective sides of allegiance) and dating someone who is willing to overlook and defend the sheer deceptiveness and pure bumblefuckery of this…

Strictly as a matter of being practical, if it’s looking like I am gonna be in for some fun sexy times, I wouldn’t risk blowing it by getting into a political argument with someone the first couple times I see them. Of course, if I already know someone’s politics and know they align with mine (oh my god you think…

Congratulations to Julia. 10 Things I Hate About You remains one of my favourite movies to this day. The first time I watched it, I had been bullied into sex by my abusive ex the day before, and hadn’t realised it was okay to regret sex afterwards. Also Kat was my feminist hero at a time I was told because women could…

I’m in the midwest and I’m always alarmed when I travel to the coasts how courtesy just goes out the window.

I’ve lost about 67 pounds since last July. I have a lot more to go to reach my goal weight (like, 60 more pounds, boo hoo). I’ve stayed motivated by always having a goal. And I don’t mean a number on a scale, but rather a fitness goal. For instance, my current goal is running my first half marathon next October. …

Easy on the low-cal! Make sure you’re getting enough calories, you won’t lose weight if you’re under eating!

In another post I offered a simple solution: Make amends by offering a male only double feature: Brokeback Mountain and Beaches.

Why is it “millennial pink” when I’m pretty sure this is the exact shade of every bathroom that hasn’t been renovated since the 50's?

Tiffany Trump is like that girl who adds you on FB (even though she ignored you back in junior high) & has “School of Hard Knocks” under Education. The only thing stopping you from unfriending her is all the awesome drama on her wall.