I am a very, very greasy individual, and when I started oil cleaning/oil moisturizing is when everything changed. I am probably 1/4—no, maybe 1/8!—of the oil producing machine I was as a teenager. I’d recommend giving it a shot!

I was godawful to my skin as a teen—no sunscreen, no moisturizer, astringent several times a day, picked all my zits and blackheads, etc—and in my mid-20s my skin looked exhausted even though I had a better routine. Blotchy, uneven, red.

Solid deodorant also works great to prevent razor burn from shaving the bikini line. I don’t remember where I heard that but I haven’t had razor burn since.

My family is naturally greasy, so as an embarrassed teenager I used to apply alllllll the astringent until my skin no longer had any hint of oil. I realize now this just exacerbated the problem, and I am still mad at my foolish young self for enduring that much pain just to make the oil worse.

Can verify. Every Sunday I take a bath and pamper myself for the week ahead, and I always do a coconut oil and brown sugar scrub. Coconut oil shouldn’t go on your face, but I can verify it is a great body scrub.

I used to do this. However, I admit that part of the reason I did this for so long is because I felt like a badass for being able to endure that incredible itching for several minutes.

Seriously. Every time I see that photo of him with baby!Superman I just can’t help but gawk at POTUS.

I rewatched “Pacific Rim” this weekend. Don’t know if you’ve seen it, but horrible monsters appear from the depths of the ocean, and appear to be coming more and more frequently. One mathematician postulates that soon there will be a “double event” and shortly thereafter, a “triple event”.

If I may be a bit light here:

This is a bit OT, but: My mother has been a nurse at a cardiology office since I was a tot (I’m nearly 30), and she has always been very honest and open when celebrities or people we know have a heart condition. She wants to give the truth as not to sugarcoat something so horrible.

I was just wondering if that was legal, if we could help them pay for these fees or if that was some sort of illegal fundraising effort.

This was completely unexpected but absolutely perfect. My throat hurts from laughing so hard.

Glad I’m not the only one with this mindset. Picturing it with fresh cranberries and soda...Mmmm...

It did get a bit basic at the end, and almost anti-climatic after some of the early set up, but after I finished the season finale it became obvious to me that this itself was set up, as I knew that the comics were about that motley crew going out to find God. Whole season of set up.

I don’t have access to regular channels either (apparently it has something to do with my proximity to a hospital?). I watched it on my Roku box with the Sling app.

I am, cross my heart, in the middle of 10+ shows and I keep starting more. I keep telling myself after I’m done with the OA (another show I started when I have so much on my plate!) I need to jump back into Luke Cage or the Fall and just freakin’ finish it already.

Not enough love out there for Preacher.

Many of Sufjan’s Christmas songs are my favorite Christmas songs.

Yeah, my brother is a big cat fan. He currently doesn’t have one himself because his landlord doesn’t allow it, but he and my parents’ current cat are basically bonded. His super congested/super sneezy/super in-need-of-a-daily-inhaler self doesn’t care; he cuddles and nuzzles that cat all the time.

I have seen a tooooon of episodes of this show (confession: it’s my favorite HGTV show) and I have never seen anything quite like this. The worst episode I saw is where they bought a house in good shape, someone broke in and trashed it after they bought it, then a couple weeks into the already expensive project…