How DARE you degrade my secret boyfriend Steve like that?!

The engagement ring ban makes sense. Have y'all ever seen how much bacteria rings (especially pronged rings, with all their nooks and crannies) collect? Same goes for acrylic nails, and Starbucks employees aren't allowed those either. It's a bit of a bummer, but food safety is food safety.

No. Not over reacting. It sounds like your mom does pick at your hair, which is so not cool at any age. Do you live near a hair school and/or a LUSH? Hair school = affordable and they're being taught to listen to exactly what you want, and LUSH has some really great options for taking care of curly hair. I'm sorry…

So, as a person who was created on by spouse with spouse's co-worker (just so you know the angle I'm coming from): trust your gut. Maybe they really ARE just friends, but something made you check his phone, so there's something about that friendship that crosses the line. And here's the thing - even if (if!) You're…

Here's the thing thou: So what if they work in finance? If you're happy with where your life is, you win everything. Who cares if they think "hum drum" when you feel happy?

Yes! I have a "disability" which is basically that abstract concepts like most math and concepts like imagining what the inside of some thing you've never seen before don't work in my brain. It makes math RIDICULOUSLY hard (like, tears during tests hard) but my local community college had a great alternative learning…

Technically (on the authority of my daughter who is four and KNOWS her ponies like the back of Rainbow Dash's hoof) Taylor Swift is an alicorn.

His children's book, The Faggiest Vampire, is the reason the world keeps turning. I'll continue to read it after my kid is grown.

I still stand by Clitoris Leechman being the all time best name for a riot girl throwback band. Like, Bikini Kill meets The Cramps.

EW. I'm so sorry you've had to deal with that. I hate people who feel entitleded to treat you as "less" just because you work in retail, whether that means speaking down to you or invading your person. Thankfully I work for a company that would most likely stand behind me if I were to smack someone for touching me.…

It's crossed my mind many times, but we have a child & live in a pretty expensive part of the country so at this point sorting a one-income household is complex, to say the least.

woot woot! Let me know what you think!

Coming from a (now grown) child who was raised in a similar situation: signing away parental rights is not a great option unless said parent who is signing away parental rights is unfit to be a parent. Even if you only get to see that parent once a week, knowing that they fought/fight to see you means the world (even…

I am a retail manager heading into holiday season, which I'm actually quite excited about. However, it does mean long hours, loads of new people to train, year round staff to wrangle... basically, the next three weeks are intense.

I second what collierLA said about the Sally Hansen miracle top/base coats. I use them religiously and the manicurist I go to has given up on trying to take it off with acetone - it's the grinder for me! (If you don't get acrylics, the polish actually comes of decently easily.)

oooooo pick me pick me! If you haven't heard Ghostpoet's "Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam" you should definitely give it a listen, as well as pretty much anything by Scroobius Pip.

Pretty much restating what had already been said, but just make sure that the steps you take fall within the happy world of your state's Labour laws. I manage people in California and there are some tricky , tiny details that, if missed, can cause gigantic headaches down the road.

oooooo me! Me me me! Could not give two poops about baseball and these play offs are seriously messing with the finances at my shop. I did get to hang out in the Gotham Club once though, and they had damn fine food & liquor. But yeah, super mad they won tonight. JUST LOSE ALREADY SO I CAN SCHEDULE MY STAFF AGAIN.

Late to this party, but any night involving LUSH goodies is the clear winner!

Ahhhh! Late to the game, but the annual spooky stories seems like a good place to end my recent hiatus from posting.