None of those people look like they are having any fun. I mean...they're watching tennis.

I loved that. Also, it's me.

It’s crazy!! When I saw them they were celebrating her 50th birthday for like the 15th year running.

General Petraeus was there a lot, with the infamous mistress AND the wife, in turns. Allegedly it was there that the mistress broke the news to him that she’d been working with the Feds. I served him and his family breakfast once and he was a total asshole and so was his adult daughter.

I started in Housekeeping when…

It really is the end of days.

I just last month left a job at a super famous fancy hotel in VA, and The Gingriches are longtime regulars. They stayed over Christmas and I interacted with them a few times and they were SO. AWFUL. Like, textbook rich people terrible customers, demanding and hateful to staff, awful.

I'm in.

warm, you say? I’ve been half heartedly planning my escape your way but I've been worried about too cold!

I envision it as some sort of Stepford Wife type situation. Some sort of implant? Routine brainwashing?

Kind of...one of my close friends is a doula, and she was on board last time but my daughter came 4 weeks early and the doula was in NYC. (we live in VA, I think she goes 'on call' about 2 weeks before her clients' due dates, it was just SO early). So she wasn't there for the actual birth, but all of the appointments…

‘extrajudicial execution' is a great way to phrase that. I think the way we word these things typically (police brutality, officer-involved fatal shooting) leave too much room for opinions and defenses of the police. But, nah. This man was executed OUTSIDE of the justice system. Can we make #ExtrajudicialExecution a…

well said. you’re a good friend. I suppose faking enthusiasm is probably an essential part of most adult relationships of all kinds!

and even I think a 'beer and bottle' party is excessive and highly likely to be a result of the one-uppance performance culture you mentioned. Like, you KNOW that was not the dad's idea,…

600 already?! I read the linked article about the 6 year old boy the police murdered last year (I somehow had not heard of that) and it said by November of 2015 there had been 838 fatal on duty police shootings. 17 children were killed by police last year. SEVENTEEN FUCKING CHILDREN

congrats!! I'm 10 weeks now and found out at 6 too. I have a 3 year old and had 2 miscarriages in between. I don't want to 'tell everyone' for a while, just to be safe. (I'm not planning any kind of formal facebook post, I'm talking about my family and boss and whatnot, only my doula and sis in law know for now. And…

OK fine that one is terrible.

Thank you!! I can't wait to see what junk food my 10 week fetus compares to.

It goes both ways, though. Why not be happy about something your friends are happy about? I’m currently pregnant with my 2nd child after a couple miscarriages and thinking it would be fun to do a little gender reveal just because I want to be surprised and I think it would be fun. I have been talking to my sister in…

I'd venture to say that men expect that sort of thing even more than women. women (hopefully) will be more understanding even if they've never been there. Men? You better grow my baby with a smile on that face. You are a sacred vessel!!!

I thought the same thing!! People are always talking about the 'mommy wars', the passive aggressive way women have of putting down other women's parenting/pregnancy choices (breast v bottle, cosleeping v actually sleeping, cry it out or not, etc) This just sounded like more holier than thou mommy war shit to me.

I fully expect the father of my one and half kids to perform the hell out of that shit.

Have you happened to try any of their eyebrow products? I've got my eye on that pomade but I'm skeptical because the price is so low. But the quality of their other stuff I've tried is amazing, so I'm obviously just overthinking. About eyebrow pomade. At work.