One more tip for delivery! Eat and drink as much as you can during labor. Not that you’ll be wanting to actually chew food and stuff, but the hospital will have popsicles, applesauce, juices, stuff like that. Or you can pack a little cooler with yogurt and energy drinks and whatever you want. I had a 27-hour labor…

The worst part was it felt like someone was trying to rip open my asshole from the inside.

Also puppy pads!  Good to sit on in the car if you are worried about staining your car seats, either from water breaking or bleeding after childbirth.

Oh I just remembered one other thing: Calm. If you are having any constipation now (common in late pregnancy), this is a MUST. I was taking about two tablespoons at night and you have to dissolve it in warm water or else it doesn’t work for some reason. You basically start with whatever the recommended dose is and…

The hospital where I gave birth gave me all that stuff to take home. Tons of supplies: the squirty bottle, hospital-brand Tucks pads, numbing spray (lol), mesh underwear, pads, a sitz bath (which I still use sometimes) and my god what else? A sponge to bathe the baby, little bowls that I still use for pouring water…

I breastfed to 2 1/2 years mostly because all my friends told me that my kid would decide one day that she didn’t want it any more, but she never did. I didn’t know how to stop so it was kind of the path of least resistance to just keep going with it, and it was only in the morning and evening for a while and then…

I get more judgmental about parents who give their kids iPhones to clutch instead of dealing with the goddamn world around them than about strollers, leashes, breastfeeding or carrying. And yes, I have a kid, and I am a single mom.

I honestly go back and forth between whether it or The Shining is King’s greatest novel.

I read every Stephen King book I could get my hands on when I was about 12 years old.  This is my absolute favorite.  I’ll check out that documentary, thanks for the recommendation.

I wish I had a funny joke to share but I can never remember jokes. I thought A Star Is Born was a great escape though but I saw it on Friday before the bottom fell out and now I need a new escape—did you like the movie?

This website helps register but also will break down the ballot initiatives in each state.  A good resource:

Hey Julianne, I had a theory about that awful Oh Oh Oh shirt Ally wore to the rehab facility (and yes I agree her outfit—and random swerve to pop superstardom—was so distracting I could barely pay attention to what was happening): was it not the costume designer nodding to Gaga’s Bad Romance?

He left us in our darkest hour :(

Life is a struggle.  It’s nice to have a break.

I hear you. I always want the first delicious ice-cold sips of a martini. The gradually warming rest of the glass, not so much.  Gotta drink faster I guess!

Real Housewives Of New York, Season 3.  Google “scary island” if you want a juicy preview :)

Congrats on going to the gym!  I’m impressed.

Timecrimes.  Good mix of horror and sci-fi.  

Thank you.  Thank you.

I feel like Mark Prichett might be a robot.