We looked at adopting as we grew desperate. The “free” kids you can adopt from the state often require intensive health management (maybe not even conscious that they exist). So far it looks like the $57k insurance paid for delivery is about the cost of a private adoption.

I’m so sorry. Take today to grieve then pick yourself up tomorrow. It’s the only way to not go mad.

We went through two (three?) rounds of IUI. From the time we started until the day our child was born was three years and two months. We had two miscarriages and I’ve got scarred blood veins in my arms now from all the testing. I believe you’ll get there too. The bad days are bad, but it’s worth it the first time your…

And you can fuck off @idunnosomethingthough

I just get so depressed at night when Dad takes the baby for an hour. I’m thrilled to have alone time, but...

I have an infant. He eats at 3 a.m. and around 6:30 a.m. It usually takes an hour to safely tuck him back into bed. I’m exhausted by 9 a.m. 

I was just so angry about my medically necessary induction and c-section. Everything had gone so well, then I lost all control of my body. I also suffered the trauma of feeling the surgery. Then EVERYONE (including my therapist after I explicitly stated my stance) told me that none of my pain mattered. A healthy baby…

When I worked tech support, a boss yelled at me when I asked the client for more information about the problem. I was supposed to have guessed what “The computer isn’t working” means.

Yeah, I heard it on NPR. I was aghast at how whiny he was. Someone commented on another platform in this manner which I’ve come to associated with a disingenuous “folksy” type image that can’t be bothered to follow politics, so they make “common man” observations. They tried to compare the critiques of how emotional…

Worked at a major retailer. Our nice store manager left and a new one was brought in. He immediately set about getting all the old people fired (people too old to get ANY other job who had worked there for decades and they were just door greeters at this point). He treated us so much like crap that a bunch of gathered…

I don’t understand why IT is treated like garbage. We’re keeping the business running and yet are crapped on by literally everyone including people way down the ladder. 

I hate how my inflatable pillow + Bose headphones don’t work together. They just get in each other’s way. 

Turkish Air is amazing. They fed us three times flying from NY area to Istanbul. The food was amazing, they gave out toiletries in a souvenir tin box, passed around hot towels, and the price was 100s less than the competition.

Yep. Style guides started saying one space in the 60s.

When I looked this up, I found out that most style guides made the decision to go single space in the 60s.

My partner is 37 and they use double spaces. I had two separate typewriter classes (closer to 30) and I use single.

I can’t help it. I have some serious responsibilities, but get overruled a lot then blamed when it goes poorly — just like I knew it would. So when I get pulled in and reprimanded for not preventing their stupidity, I get so furious that I cry. I can’t help it. I’m pissed. It’s that or me telling them where they can…

I’ve cried at work under these circumstances: I’m furious or I was just informed someone I knew had died.

I hate that my anger is attached to my tear ducts.

I have a dance for this song.

On Tumblr, they’ve been calling this the “[Song title] playing from another room.”