My deepest condolences to you and your family. I lost my Mom to Alzheimers complications a couple of years ago (in year 5 too if I remember correctly). I still have a tough time watching any entertainment that features dementia characters. It’s like a caretakers ptsd for me. My Mom loved watching The Notebook though,…

I remember Earth shoes being comfortable on the feet and murder for my janky low back. Same goes for Birkenstocks. Something about the lower heel to toe angle just never worked for me. Around the same time as Earth shoes, Wallabees were popular as well. Same kind of comfy shoebox esthetic, but the heel was a slight…

I wouldn’t feel as antsy about this reno if Bob Vila had purchased the property.

I am over sixty now, but still vividly remember seeing my deflated sponge belly for the first time after giving birth at 24 years old. It was shocking to me. When my Mom came to visit me I lifted my gown and asked “What the hell!? Is this normal? Why didn’t you warn me!” Yea, I don’t have a problem with unphotoshopped…

It’s difficult to find credibility for ‘trimming the fat’ when you look at a figure of 28.7 million compensation for one guy, but I’m sure Kotick has his justifications all lined up like little ducks.

The ‘plan coming together quickly after her death last year’ with Brian Grazer leading the charge fills me with foreboding. That means a lot is riding on the shoulders of Suzan-Lori Parks. Good luck with it.

I have much love for The Pasta Grannies. Great show, awesome Nonnas. I have learned a lot watching them.

I have played so many loved by me rpg’s and mmo’s over the decades that they seem to have each sort of dlc’d their way into one continuous game when I dream. I am that huge gamer dork who loves all the questing, harvesting, fishing. My gaming dream incorporates all of it; favorite landscapes, characters, quests. It’s i…

They all really taste shite. Doesn’t matter what the bar is targeted for in a dietary sense, they all taste like styrofoam was tossed in shite flavored msg and glued with carbonized cacao.

I just listened to an Under The Influence podcast today about accidental brands that talked about Ayds going out of business because the name association with Aids was too much to overcome. I vaguely remember the diet candies removing from the market but never made the connection at the time. Oddly enough, I worked…

Is it horrible that I can’t help thinking ‘next up, college and the inevitable frat party rape trial’? This kid gives me the same heebee jeebies that Brock Turner did.

My Mom was a depression era baby and those kids learned early that you never, ever throw a thing away because you might need it some time. When she passed away and my sister and I were decluttering her condo we found no less than 8 tubs of Imperial Margarine stacked up in the deep freeze, packages of Oxo boullion…

I am old, and I still sleep like shit when the hubs is away for business. I will game/watch tv/read until I absolutely drop at some point around 4 am. Not scared, house noises don’t startle me, perfectly happy to have the house to myself the rest of the day (hello clean kitchen). But sleep, that fickle bitch, eludes…

Honestly, the escapism factor is what I watch Mrs. Maisel for...and then the actors suck me in. Love this show despite the ra-ta-tat-tat cadence of Amy S-P all over it.

Builders tea, amiright?

Just dropping into this thread to say that the Uncover podcast, Escaping Nxivm is a chilling, fascinating listen. I’m watching the news surrounding the trials with avid interest to see how it ends. I’m not surprised that precedent by Scientology litigation was cited.

I remember when Emma Freud let that news out, and I was so noooooo! I always interpreted as Alan’s character being confused by the secretary’s attention and kind of blundering about.

I’m not sure how many books I read, but once they hit the ground in the States I gave up. She took what was an interesting premise and went straight ahead bodice ripper with it instead, retreading the same ‘dangers’ in every book.

My Great Aunt used to have an aluminum tree in the late 60's, and she would have me come over to her bachelorette apartment downtown for the weekend to help assemble and decorate it. Every year she chose a different color scheme for the balls: all red, all blue, including same colored light strings. That whole…

I was telling someone about this and her response was ‘well sometimes people just don’t know what to say’. True, but how the hell hard is it to just tell your friend “I am so sorry you are going through this”? Seriously. My daughter feels like friends who are trying to conceive now are avoiding them so that their bad…