This happened to me with Silver Linings Playbook. The trailers made it look like a charming romantic dramedy perfect for a 3rd-ish date with my new beau. Instead, my date (now husband) who grew up outside Philly with a somewhat abusive dad, a doormat mom, and a diagnosis of bipolar I, which he was managing through…

Scallywag feels discriminated against in that headline! But I still have to show off his rocket costume!

It was hilarious! In exchange, he had to do the packing and moving part because I’m exhausted!

Even if my house does not appreciate in value, it’s still cool because my mortgage on my 2000 sq ft, 3 bed/2 bath with a yard house is EXACTLY equal to the rent I was paying last year for a 400 sq ft 1 bedroom apartment with a jackass downstairs who would blow an air horn when he thought we were too loud. Same city,…

Living the dream!

My mortgage officer asked my husband “Who are you?” at our closing because they never even communicated once during the process. I did the entire home buying process for us. My husband admitted that he would never have bought a house without me, whereas I was ready to buy my own house where he could live if he didn’t…

Are you my bff? That happened to me in high school too!

I’m an adult and I have that same problem! Sometimes I get too hangry to reason! Or so hangry that I can’t decide what I want to eat and I’d rather just starve to death than bear the indignity of cooking or deciding what to buy. Regular small meals has been a lifesaver.

That’s cute that you think 700 poop bags will last more than a year! LOL

That’s cute that you think 700 poop bags will last more than a year! LOL

When I moved out, my roommate’s puppy (who I’d helped raise) was so mad at me! The first time I came back to visit, she refused to come near me and hid under the coffee table with her back to me. I felt like a MONSTER.

Oh my god! That’s my husband! Why can’t they just be honest? I would be so much happier taking the trash out myself than missing pickup because he didn’t want to disappoint me to my face and then didn’t follow through. It’s so much more disappointing to raise expectations and fail to meet them.

They are SO CUTE!

My velcro puppy doesn’t even give me a minute. He can be dead asleep on the floor, but if I get up he gets up and leads me down the hall to whatever room he thinks I’m walking toward.

I had the opposite reaction! I read the whole thing in two days because I was so fascinated with the horrible characters. ALL of them are so terrible.

As a pear-shaped lady with small feet, trying to squat without either falling over backward or leaning my whole little torso forward has been the bane of my gym existence. I’m gonna try out the wider stance idea next time I brave the gym.

That’s how I feel about my husband! He’s a perfectly formed, miniature human. LOL. I don’t think the universe can achieve that kind of detailed precision with a larger canvas. ;)

The major difference I see is that she is identifying as a marginalized person for her own financial or status benefit. It’s an external motivator— she wants to be a black leader, head of a black organization, teach black history courses, make black art. It helps in those arenas to be black. (historically, when people…

This. I think I have pretty active visuals during fiction reading, so every season has felt like re-watching something I’ve already seen. So looking forward to the new material!

SAME. My Etsy paper bouquet will be buried with me!

Is it wrong that this is how I feel about my dog? I think the reason he’s so chill and independent is because he knows he can always crawl in my lap if there’s a scary noise or he’s hungry.