Lifehacks* thread! What are the little (or big) things you do that greatly improve your life for little effort?

Look girl, no one here wants to see Don Jr! We wanna see those perfect boobs!!! No, but seriously congrats and I’m glad you love them!!

Hey guys! Here’s your scheduled Catalina update: she’s doing great, actually! In the past few weeks she’s come down to 0,5 liters of oxygen (22% as opposed to the 21% we all breathe) and doing great on it even when sleeping. I think she may be off supplemental oxygen within 2 months, which YAY, but it doesn’t mean…

Catalina has been doing great! We went for some checkups last week and all things considered she’s meeting milestones in acceptable times. We confirmed she has perfectly normal hearing, which is awesome, and now I know she just likes to ignore us!

Hi friends.
I’m having an off day. My sister is having a manic episode to the point where we’re wondering if she’s actually schizophrenic. At this exact moment, there’s nothing I can do about it so I’ve taken to my bed. My close friends are all late in pregnancies or have very very young children so their minds are…

Hey guys!

CATALINA IS HOME!!! She arrived yesterday and home care has been going wonderfully. She was originally scheduled to be discharged on the 10th but her night oximetry test had a bad result, so her oxygen needed to be adjusted and her retest went okay. Anyway, she’s here and doesn’t seem to be very stressed out about the…

*Baby pictures*

Yes, but parading the special needs kids you teach solely in order to make yourself seem more desirable and sympathetic to reality tv audiences is a bit calculated. Yes, those kids may have wanted to be a part of the episode, but overall the whole thing was a horrible attempt to make Vanessa seem like-able.

This is at least the third article I’ve read in a similar vein — about depressed people neglecting their self-care — in the last month or two. I don’t know what has caused this emergence, but I welcome it. I work from home so I’m not worried about what I look/smell like to other people, so my depression wins most…

Whelp, The Root is taking this latest act of terrorism in Charlottesville to pigeonhole all The White People again. There is no nuance over there and it’s devolved into something as nasty and intellectually neutered as a reddit forum. If you’re white, fuck you you’re a racist. And if you think you’re not racist, it…

You neglected to mention this will be in airports. That’s BRILLIANT. I flew to Japan (...huh, that’s kind of ironic) back in January and didn’t realize my checked bag would remain checked at a domestic layover, leaving me with only the sweater and jeans I’d been wearing to work earlier that day to wear for a second…

Haha mine are always about them like, losing my course records or otherwise not fulfilling the graduation credit load by just not going to class. I’m glad that they’re not based on me failing any classes—they’re always in the vein of ‘oh, yeah, you didn’t take this and now you need to and you’re stuck here for a whole…

I’m assuming that you grew up without being tormented, tortured or otherwise terribly treated by your family, though? And thus didn’t get warped before you had any idea that such treatment was wrong and not your fault?

I feel stupidly proud of my ingenious solution to my dog’s possessive issue of refusing to give back the ball he wants you to throw.

Is it weird to just pretend you have no idea who they are? Like if you run into a former bully or mean girl 15 years later and they are all “omg Scarlet McCaw? From Nightmare High? It’s me Jessica!” Just pretend you have no idea who they are and claim never to have met a Jessica, even if you absolutely remember very…

I was a mouthy feminist in a sea of Mormon redneck. Popularity was not an option:

Remember Maya Angelou’s quote:

Let me guess: when you remind a former classmate of their behavior do they look dumbfounded and say they don’t remember? I only ever went to our very 1st reunion, and the bullies were all uncomfortably super nice - thrilled to spread their largess to those they had injured.