Stop and think for a minute. That person who’s on subsidized housing and paying $300 per month is similar to someone paying market value when you consider it as a fraction of their income. My aunt’s on SSDI after a car accident left her with a closed head injury. She gets $700 per month. For everything. She has…
So very, very true! Kidlet never skipped a day of school (and swears he won’t, even now in college) because I told him, on his first day of junior high, that if he ever skipped, I WOULD find out and then I would show up at his school in the shortest, tightest, miniskirt and loudest, cheapest top I could find at the…
Per my mom: ‘I’ve got a better idea. The idiots who wrote this new thing? Shoot ‘em.’
I think I have the secret twin to your dog! My dog does the exact same thing - lunging and barking like crazy at the sight of another dog, all the while his whole body is wriggling with excitement. Thing is, he’s a mastiff/lab mix, so he’s 75lbs, which in most people’s eyes translates to HELLBEAST OF DEATH. We’re…
Hmmm... would I rather deal with neighbors screaming for their animals or the FOUR yard dogs in the backyard that buts up against my apartment complex that bark at anything and everything? This includes, but is not limited to: people taking out the trash, cars turning around in the parking lot, people walking out of…
I was with my last guy for ten years before he decided that he wanted kids. There were other factors involved in our breakup, but the kids issue alone would have been enough. I have a 19-year-old and I’m not about to start over, not for anybody. And while I adore my kid, I’ll be the first to say that I got lucky. He’s…
For what it’s worth, I have both a Mother and a Mom. Mother is the woman who gave birth to me, who I spent the first sixteen years of my life with, and who emotionally and physically abused me for years. Mom is my ex-mother-in-law, who said, “I’m keeping her,” the first night she met me. She stood by me through the…
It absolutely is. Just like there are ortho surgeons and cardiac surgeons, peds surgeons specialize in surgery on kids. It was a peds surgeon who put in a shunt to draw fluid off when my son had a brain bleed as a preemie, and I’m forever grateful to them. There’s additional training needed for peds surgery, just like…
I’m even sorrier that you and everyone else has to deal with all the shit that toxic White Supremacy culture has inflicted on untold millions throughout history.
Dammit, WHY do you always wait until I’ve already put in my order to ask about splitting something?!?
Maybe he marks the rise of a new genus? Dives mentula, or some such? (Since he’d want absolutely nothing to do with being called ‘homo’ anything, and I’m not about to label him a human, in any case)
What do you expect? They’re so excited that they might FINALLY get a belly rub that they don’t care who it comes from or what they have to do to get it. Seriously, my dog’s embarrassed on their behalf when it comes to their pandering, and he’s a particularly shameless beggar of belly rubs. (Of course, since he, unlike…
Absolutely! As long as you’re honest with them when the topic comes up, then date away! I’m trying out online dating right now, and like you, I’m not working and have some baggage (we all do after about 30-35, really). And I was nervous when the ‘what do you do’ question came up recently, because it meant not only…
Ohhhhh, believe me, I’m not writing it off as a possibility for the future! Especially since his reaction when I mentioned that I was medically retired wasn’t ‘what’s wrong with you’ but was first, ‘I hope they can address your pain because I hate to think of you having to deal with that’ and second, ‘are you okay…
The third option is going nuclear and pulling the U.S. out of all global climate diplomacy, which is a fool’s errand.
Lots of one-line responses to a recent profile I put up, but there’s one very good. He’s smart enough to give me a run for my money, he’s a total sweetheart, and he’s very open and a big believer in communication, which is a must for me. There’s only one rub - he’s from Hawaii, while I’m in Washington state, so right…
Oh yeah, absolutely! Kidlet was flirting with the next table for breadsticks when we took him to Olive Garden at 8 months old - and successfully, too!
Very true. I’m essentially limited to 2-3 hours MAX sitting time before I have to go lay down. But hey, I should go back to work and then wonder why I can’t find an employer who’ll approve that kind of schedule and/or put a cot somewhere in a break room for me, right? Seriously, fuck all these assholes.
Exactly! I was approved on my first application, which means my doctors keep good records and the government reviewed and agreed I was eligible for disability. But - and I realize this might come as a shock to many people = those of us who have to rely on that program would, overall, RATHER BE WORKING!! For the money,…