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One thing to note - the wife in this story has a better credit score, a longer credit history, and is a US citizen while the husband is on a greencard.

I pay $2000 a month for childcare for one kid. If your take home pay isn’t more than that, there’s no point in working. And forget 2 kids. 

And yet Shonda Rhimes is still mad at Katherine Heigl for pointing that out.

Don’t forget the seasonal brake pads.

Emma Thompson realizes that shitty Christmas movies are a never-ending revenue stream.

Tom died in a car accident and wouldn’t you know, Kate received a heart transplant. The heart was Tom’s. Last Christmas, he gave her his heart.

Emma Thompson CREATED this mess. She wrote it, and is also a producer as well as starring in it. It’s all her fault!

I have to do that for stepping on cracks; eventually the law of big numbers will ensure the soles of my feet have evenly touched cracks all over. But I still get skeeved out when I’m forced into stepping on one and not balancing it...

Wow, it’s comforting to read that someone has had such similar symptoms. I had it really bad as a kid, with a variety of symptoms but especially the need for evenness, and didn’t know it was OCD until I saw an episode of Oprah about kids with OCD. I learned that it’s often caused by stress that kids have no other way…

I have struggled with OCD since I was very young. This is a good post! Thanks for sharing

ETA: Definitely helped my illegible handwriting! I was one of the last of the Millennial cohort to learn cursive in school, and my grandmother also taught me her style, which is basically WW2 era copperplate. So they have this “messy vintage” look.

Wife and I started trying for a baby. So, give them to my kids, I think.

Like I mentioned before, I’ve known people with odd-number aversions. And yeah, I have OCD issues (clearly). Fortunately I don’t really project them onto anyone else and owning my issue helps me get through it. Very rarely, if ever to I project my issues onto others and I’m quite thankful for that.

I gesticulate wildly with my hands while I’m talking. Unfortunately, I haven’t learned to turn off that gesticulation while I’m having a conversation in my head. I often find myself walking down a sidewalk and moving my hands like a crazy person because I;m the only person privy to the conversation that my hands are…

Not totally secret, but just my wife and anyone who stays with us knows:

When I am alone, I yell (loudly), and I curse (vilely), hurling insults and judgment like some kind of deranged street prophet. At everything. Whoever and whatever’s on the radio, the characters on whatever I’m watching on TV, even the author of - and the characters in - whatever book I might be reading. This might…

I don’t know how weird this is, but I’m in my 30s and I still wish on stars. I don’t drive so it’s not unusual for me to be walking home in the dark alone, and I’ll pick the first bright star and make a wish out loud. They’re usually fairly vague, and I’ll also explain myself out loud to the star. Like “I wish that I…

After slathering my hands with lotion and putting on my Borghese conditioning gloves, I like to take a stack of Saltines, layer them with grape jelly, and eat them standing up at the kitchen sink.

Now, before I get eviscerated for this, I should say that I’ve been doing it since I was like thirteen, and the reason is that — for me — it extends the experience and allows me to really savor every moment...