Careful, I’m going to keep coming back for more recommendations. :D I was thrilled to see how many people mentioned Jennifer Crusie - she’s definitely my favourite.

Sometimes that tossing of good food is because people are assholes. My husband manages a grocery store, and I’m in a whole pile of neighbourhood FB groups, and it’s insane the amount of bitching people make about the food they buy. “I bought yogurt for $0.10 a cup and it expires tomorrow!” Yeah, that’s why it’s…

I initially read “John Barrymore” as “John Barrowman” and almost cried.

I just wanted to jump back in to this thread to say thank you for recommending the Hating Game. I picked it up from the library yesterday and read it the same day. So good - I laughed, and got teary, and just really loved how the lead was so comfortable in her own skin.

I feel like my mom would occasionally make one with marshmallows in it, but I’m not 100% sure. I do know I made a point of getting my grandmother’s recipe for it when I was still a teenager... I’ve never made it, but I have it!

My grandmother would make jello salad with shredded carrots and pineapple in it. If left alone with the dish, I probably would have eaten it all. And as a grown-up, I think I still would.

Try here? https://whatwasthatbook.dreamwidth.org

iirc, she sees the little girl on the dad’s lap and his hand in a place she felt was wrong. That book changed how I looked at a dad playing completely innocently with his daughters for awhile... Lolita also messed me up for awhile.

That was the point where I stopped reading. I always meant to finish it, but...

Yay!

Those early-month sleep regressions are a bitch. It’ll get better, I promise! (I know, cold comfort... but if you want extra arms to hold little dude, I’m offering!)

Was it the amnesty/amtisty fuck up? (I don’t remember his word, but I do remember it was supposed to be amnesty). John Oliver highlighted it.

There was a show like this that I watched on satellite or one of the pre-on demand on demand channels years ago. It was a sex therapist that would have usually 3-4 couples on the show at a time, and they’d be given assignments each night and then filmed, and while the naughty stuff was blurred out, you still knew…

Now in Presidential Size (TM)!

I have a germophobe coworker who never goes to the bathroom - pee or poo - at work or in public if he can avoid it. His multiple month-long bought of kidney stones, where he had to pee at doctor’s offices and at the hospital, was one of his circles of Hell.

We have a vip who uses a motor soother to get around. (She stands to work at times, so she has some mobility, though I don’t presume to know how much or how often she can).

You need more stars. My husband has our en suite (I hate shower stalls, which that bathroom has), and I use the full bathroom right outside our bedroom that I also share with the kids. Even though my toilet  gets way more traffic, his is much more disgusting. Men are gross, and standing to pee just increases the…

(I routinely go for days without pooping and with little to no discomfort.) (I think I get it from my mom... though I can be slow in the bathroom like my dad, which my husband loves to mock me for.)

When I was 15 I started dating a guy who was 21. He was amazingly immature and so gross in so many ways (see: dating someone underage who was also 6 years his junior). I want to go back in time and smack the shit out of myself for that one - though I try to focus on the fact that it taught me what I will not tolerate…

Mine was ‘lazy’ in that the doctors had to do the work - I didn’t have to push my child’s giant head out of my birth canal. So maybe that’s how she meant it?