Amazing, I didn’t see that over there, I just thought it would be a fun passtime. I’ll have to go read that. And thank you, for the link and the invite!

Great minds think in parallel.

As should we all.

Not recently, but I took improv classes in order to get over my absolute terror over public speaking (which I was forced to do for work.) I really really really really really dislike public speaking, so this was no small task.

Still haven’t murdered anybody!

An update to last weeks post. Some of you may already know this from other blogs.

I am a man

Uh, is this like a meta thing you’re going for?

My goal is to be chronic-pain-free so I can go back to work. I may have finally found a doctor who can help.

Howdy do from Harvey and Peanut!

Your gatos are so cute!! Here’s Ella sleeping on my gigantically pregnant belly- her favorite place to nap these days!

My in laws cat Zen relaxing at Christmas.

Photo of my plans this weekend. Though today is supposed to be the last day of the stupid outer-space-like cold. It might be 30 tomorrow!!

Pet thread! I posted these in Pie Pie’s thread but I wanted to share the floof!

Today is the 10 year anniversary of my intended death. I acknowledged my family’s pain but had nothing left to give so I swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills and had flashes of being tucked into a gurney (it felt so tight and safe) pulling tubes out of my arm and nurses yelling, and then waking up in a mental…

Can’t believe how hard he’s whining downthread.

I wish you’d run up and down the thread and post that link in response to EVERY SINGLE MAN in here “butbutbut”-ting and doing the #NotMe like Russell Simmons and the #NotAllMen like a full-on Matt Damon. That piece was written just about a decade ago, and we’re still having this conversation. Literally tens of…

that’s why I use chopsticks to eat cheetos (and pretty much any other snack food in a bag)

I used to get these questions (not from family or close friends: they knew better) and I’d start asking questions back: when are you having your tubal ligation??

YES. I left my job at a natural breaking point (just chose not to sign my new contract) and literally felt like I had been dead and was coming back to life. Such amazing relief. I couldn’t believe it. It’s hard to see how badly you need a change when you’re deep in it (I was literally suicidal at work, and only months…