Yay, I love hearing that! I’m not one for gambling (the casinos are getting enough of my money with us staying there) and we’re largely planning on spending time hanging by the pool and wandering up and down the Strip since I rented a ridey-cart for the time we’re there. We got a really good deal at the Flamingo, and…

You’re not a horrible person for taking care of yourself. That’s what this is really about, making sure that your needs are a priority. They should be - you’re the only one that knows what you need, what you can and can’t put up with, and what this situation is doing to you. There’s absolutely no shame in standing up…

Ahhh, got it. I’m unfortunately familiar with the ways disability can interfere with your life (exercise is something I’ve only been able to dream of for three months now). But intimacy IS achievable in other ways than sex. Maybe try scheduling a date night a few times a week? If you’re up to going out, great, but…

Your choice, of course, but I definitely wouldn’t. ‘We don’t fuck the fuckboys’ has long been a motto among me and my friends. There are plenty of sexy as hell guys who aren’t absolute MAGA-morons to sleep with. Rewarding the attitudes of the Trump boys with sex (and in my experience they tend to view all sex as…

I’m going on vacation! Kidlet and I got some cheapie air tickets to Vegas, and we’re heading out in late August after his summer school session wraps. I feel at once elated and horribly, horribly guilty about taking some of our precious ‘life raft’ savings and spending it on something so frivolous, but this past year…

Well, if it’s frustrating for you, then it sounds like it’s not okay. I’d suggest looking at what it is that you’re missing from sex - the intimacy, the skin to skin contact, the physical pleasure, then trying to find a way that works for both of you that you can still have that. For example, if it’s the physical…

This. My mom served and she haaaaates 45* with a fiery passion. She’s said more than once that she doesn’t look for the military to support him in the event of an attempted coup, and that she hopes that either an active service member or veteran will step up and remember that they all took an oath to defend the…

I got an invitation for the AARP recently, along with a ‘special’ offer for a 5-year membership. In my case, I chalked it up to having been put on disability within the past year, but I’m seriously considering joining for the discounts, even if I am only 41. After all, if they extended the invitation, they can’t take…

It was my dad’s favorite ‘knock it off right the hell now or you will regret this as soon as we get home’ expression when I was growing up. He’s from rural MS, and it usually came out sounding like, ‘I’m’on snatch a knot in ya neck’.

My dad, who grew up in rural MS, uses this phrase, along with other choice gems such as ‘if it looks like a duck and it walks like a duck and it talks like a duck, chances are... it’s a duck’ (his way of saying the guy I was dating was a jerk), ‘if you’re gonna be a lightnin’ rod, don’t bitch when the lightnin’ hits…

When I was 37, I had chest pain worse than I’ve ever known. A trip to urgent care told me it was chest wall pain, just like I’ve had since I was 19, only a little bit worse than usual. But I was seriously scared it was the start of something bad, since heart problems run in the family. On the way home and still in…

IT’S THE BEARS, DAMMIT! The bears keep attacking our schools and eating all of the maps. THAT’S why we need AK’s and missile launchers in all of our schools - for THE BEARS!

Y’know, I always felt that way, that there could never be another, but then the CW went and cast a pretty damn worthy follow-up...

Per Kidlet: ‘Simple. They fall on their knees to worship her, tilt their head back, and - voila! They look up.’ (That last bit said in a VERY sarcastic tone, even for him)

It’s been a hell of a week. Monday afternoon Kidlet came home from school sick as a dog. His school had a VR machine there, and he’d tried it out. Come to find out, he gets motion sickness with it (strange, cause he’s never gotten carsick or airsick) and once he started vomiting, he couldn’t stop. He threw up SEVEN…

I’m so sorry this weekend’s sucking for you. I know dealing with teenagers can be awful (even more so for parents like you who have the extra baggage of emotional issues to handle.) I checked in with Mom, who’s raised a super-hyperactive boy who often badgered and emotionally manipulated her to get his way, to see if…

Ouch, I’m so sorry to hear about the dry socket! I’ve had two of them and they rank right up there with the pain of labor, but as someone else said, they aren’t caused by not having antibiotics. Sometimes it’s because aftercare instructions weren’t followed (in my case, one was because I drank soda that day) and…

I definitely think a bright orange would be regrettable. Maybe do one wall in a sort of burnt sienna color, then have the colored wall with painting as an accent wall? With bright colors, you have to ask if you want to live with it every day, as well as how it will fade. Then there’s the fact that a bright wall will…

WOOOHOOOO, YAY CATALINA! This is wonderful news - so glad to hear she’s doing so well! And that idea of a due date party sounds like a great way to celebrate. Keep us posted - those cutie pics and updates are a treat!

And then if they die again, does that count double or do you incur some sort of multi-death penalty for it?