Is that a tortoise shell? Because I happen to have one too. Some of you may have seen me post pictures of my Nala before, but I’m sharing another one.

Also, needs more back brace.

Thank you. I’m not used to doing the let down. I appreciate the advice.

We’ve only been together about 9 months. I’m 26 and this is my first serious, real relationship. This will sound ugly or arrogant, but I worry we aren’t an intellectual match. We care about different things (she didn’t know about Time’s Up??) and I feel like we’re coming from entirely different worlds. I feel…

I’ve always assumed that “bear arms” was a simple misspelling. Since many of the framers were from the South, they simply wanted to make sure that Congress would never infringe their rights to bare arms in the summer.

My boy cat and I were really bonded and he looooooooved me. I had to put him down a month ago and I’m only just coming out of a deep depression over it.

I almost got rid of a bunch of nice china and linen that’s been on the closet shelf for ten years (since our wedding) because we can’t do anything with it and the cats would destroy it if we tried to display it anywhere. But I just couldn’t do it! They were gifts from relatives!

I quit KonMari before I started when I read she recommended tearing out the pages of books you like and tossing the rest. To quote Lit Hub: what kind of psychopath does that?

I was going to try KonMari or at least a modified version of it. I know the method says to do it by objects category, like all of your clothes or books instead of by room. I was able to go thru stuff in our catch all type room and got rid of so much. I’m married with a kid so yeah I don’t get to make decisions for…

I went on a hike today!

She had been my rock through everything I have ever had to go through but the last few months she has been slowing down, showing a lot of signs of arthritis.

Last weekend, Big Foot had another, out of the blue seizure which once again demonstrated how useless her brother is during a crisis. (Not that a seizure is a crisis, but come on) He literally stood over me shouting “shouldn’t you be doing something? Help her! Help her!” I asked him if he would like for me to crack…

Whee, penguins! Hi all, here’s my sitch. I went out with this guy (The Grammarian) six or seven times, and I decided he’d begged enough (kidding!) and I would have sex with him. So he comes over to Pumpkinandy’s Wine and Cat Palace (for the first time) and we’re drinking really nice red wine and talking and kind of…

How to change your life thread:

Weekly Achievement Thread! What have you done this week that you’re proud of? Share so we can celebrate with you, and tell you what a badass you are.

I don’t mean this negatively towards you, as you’re specifically aggregating, but it’s gross how Bella Thorn is just lumped in with the entertainment news. Sure, her publicists know entertainment press, but it would be nice if the interviewer was someone serious. If she’s willing to be this brave, she deserves someone…

Snappy kids are my favorite. They get my humor and often say what I want to, but can’t. Not mean stuff but they can be blunt in a funny way. Most teachers who really enjoy teaching middle school will enjoy your daughter unless they are the subject of her wrath! That can be rough.

As a middle school teacher, I am very aware of teenagers’ abilities to roast adults with extreme wit. It is awesome seeing these unwitting adults get their asses handed to them. That age group is underestimated by adults.

Warning to adults everywhere. These kids are really smart and really good at the social media, stop screwing with them.

Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is very, very funny and for a book written 200 years ago you don’t need marginal notes to understand the Regency vocabulary.