well my year started with me finding out that my awful, abusive, estranged father had a fall and is now in a wheelchair (although apparently that is temporary) and my parents want to re-connect with me and my family.

I actually own that! Was purchased during my last get in shape attempt. It'll be in there I'm sure when I'm too lazy or frustrated to troll YouTube.

I read 62 books last year (64 if you count proof reading someone’s unpublished novel) so my goal for this year is to read at least 65 books.

Well, this year I finally became peaceful with the fact that I don’t have a relationship with my living family members. I am okay with it. It isn’t what I would have chosen, but of the available options, I am happier with this. I decided at a certain point that I didn’t have time for people who made me unhappy. I gave…

I am currently finishing some applications to go back to school in the fall to become a speech therapist! Come Monday I will be going to my old high school and community college to have my transcripts go out. I'm actually really excited to be going back.

Woo I made an open thread right when it started! I might even get out of the grays! Lol maybe.

I got a very nice Christmas present in the form of a promotion away from a seriously toxic boss. My resolution is to not permit myself to be mistreated in the new office.

Ben Carson’s Recipe:

Lindsay Lohan always seems like she’s high, but this makes me wonder if I am.

It sounds like you had a really nice evening.
Adulting can really suck. I am not formally in school, I am just teaching myself how to code through free online courses. I cannot find a job for years now and can’t go to college because I am broke. Apparently, adulting requires self discipline so I am working on that.
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This is probably going to be my last Social for a while. I moved to a 10-9 4 day a week schedule starting last Saturday, so unless we bring back Sunday Night socials, I’m not going to be around to comment in them until 10 PM PST, which is well past midnight for most of you. I’m going to miss this.

my dear jezebels, santa delivered my wish at last! dad is out of the coma, off the ventilator, mostly delirium-free, somewhat able to speak, and out of the icu! he has so, so many miles to go to recover to anything like his former self (and will never be the person he was five years ago, or even two), but i feel i…

Jezebel, I am having a really shitty day and need to vent. I spent most of the day in the ER with my mom because she was in horrible pain and we thought she might have some broken ribs from a fall. She’s a total badass who deals with awful chronic pain, so when she says the pain is a 23, you fucking snap to it. I…

I wondered about Sisters. I love both those ladies but that movie looks like hot garbage.

Every year I have high hopes for New Year’s, and every year I am sorely disappointed. My husband is being a lump again this year. I did make a very good dinner of slow cooked ribs and all the trimmings, which he dismissed as “ok”. Times like these make the Ashley Madison site sorely tempting.

Permanent grey here (and only my third comment), but this was perfect timing for a need to vent. So my question is, how do you deal with a completely sucky new years eve?

I was supposed to do a 5K downtown to mitigate tomorrow’s hangover. But it’s rained out. So I made a bean soup, a big salad and bread and we’re in. My husband “retired” today (he’ll likely return to work in some capacity shortly) and we had Champagne. Now I’m watching Deadly Women on YouTube and trying to figure out…

His most-popular show is literally just “oh, that thing you make really well? I can make it better. Let me come show your whole hometown how much better I, a professional chef am than you, an amateur” which leads me to 100% believe that he was the kid who was universally hated in school, not for being smart, but for…