Best thing I've found for under-eye circles and puffiness is by Soap & Glory, called "You Won't Believe Your Eyes." They list it as skincare, not cosmetics, but it kind of functions as both. It comes in a tube with metal rollerballs for cooling application. It's a creamy lotion with a sheer iridescent…
I was so lucky - at my high school, we had a team of lovely plump nuns who made us plain but delicious home-cooked meals every day for lunch. Although my BFF did find a fingernail in her mashed potatoes once. We brought it into the kitchen and showed it around and Sister Anne said "Ooooh, I was wondering where that…
The only time in my life I legit fainted was when I called an exterminator to my house to investigate a tiny hole in the siding where I had seen a few wasps flying in and out. I stood outside beneath the wee hole while the dude climbed up a ladder and poked around a bit, shined a light in the hole, etc. He came down…
People have wildly varying levels of shame. Ex: I was in 7-11 a few days ago and the woman in front of me in line asked if she could use her SNAP card to buy Doritos Loaded. Sadly, the answer was no, and I think that sucks. But still - she had no shame, nor should you.
The owner of the little indie pet food store we frequent eats a can of Tiki Dog Food for lunch every day. I feed my dogs Tiki, and most days, their lunch looks better than mine: whole prawns on a bed of brown rice with water chestnuts? Sign me up.
Nev's temper strikes me as particularly scary because he gets rage-y with a smile on his face, so you don't know it's coming. Aggression and anger that develop with normal visual cues, I can handle, but that disarming smile - no different from his usual charming happy smile - alongside the kind of rage that causes you…
My mom still wears shoulder pads in everything (she's 70), and my sister and I affectionately mock her for it. BUT. Last summer we were all at an outdoor restaurant when I got cold, and my mom offered her white linen jacket (with shoulder pads, of course). I accepted it, and by the time I went to the ladies room a…
You stay with your pet when he or she is being euthanized. I don't care that it is "too hard" for you. You suck it up, hold your pet, give kisses, and stay until the very end. Then you go to the beach and scream for as long as it takes. You do not leave your pet behind to be euthanized alone. Period. (Also, this vet…
I used to ride the city bus to work, and every morning, about halfway through my commute, a group of physically and mentally disabled workers got on the bus and sat in the handicapped seats in front. One day, one of their group - a middle-aged blind man with obvious mental disabilities - was sitting about 3 seats in…
My husband (we celebrated 20 years married last week) just spent 4 hours taking the extensions out of my hair for me, with nary a complaint, but with a top-of-the-head kiss every time I gasped in pain. I had an extraordinarily shitty first 20 years on this earth, and since I met my husband, he has worked 24/7 to heal…
Man, the older I get, the more pissed off I get that weed does not agree with me. Of course, the last time I smoked I was 19 (I'm 44 now), bought it off some guy called "Snake" and ended up in the ER with a heart rate of 190, so. This is just to say, I want to sit in the steamy post-shower bathroom and smoke weed and…
Argh - WESTERN NEW YORK. Not upstate.
It's kinda hotter without him saying the word.
Ah yes, the overcompensation, I know it well. Now that I'm fat (antidepressants) I shave my legs and underarms every single day. Wash, blow dry, curl hair, every day. Wear expensive scented body lotion and perfume. Perfect manicure and pedicure, always. When you know that a certain percentage of people find you…
It's such reactionary knee-jerk bullshit to dismiss him by collecting these lyrics together. The kid KNOWS he has rage toward women (justifiable rage, if you know his history) and I'd MUCH rather he expresses that rage via his art than via his fists. People pay so much lip service to rehabilitation and redemption but…
I see this argument all the time about purchasing power-ups and I don't get it. How is spending money on CC any different than spending money on renting a movie or other form of escapist entertainment?
How to pee standing up (for road trips, camping and such): get yourself a plastic medicine spoon
When I come home newly-shorn (I like to grow it out lonnnng then chop it pixie-short) I *always* get the hottest sex ever. Like, in the front hall now-now-now sex. And that's after 19 years of marriage. Confidence is sexy to secure men, and ain't no confidence like chopping off 12" of hair.
Oh yeah I heartily second the Tana French rec.
