Tomorrow we will be celebrating our freedom from the UK and mourning the UK’s “freedom” from its role as Europe’s financial center.

One thing that is both awesome and daunting about sobriety is rediscovering how to self-soothe without the help of alcohol. So on this Saturday evening, what is making you happy or what are you doing to make yourself happy?

Graduation weekend edition!

So, because I am the luckiest person on the planet, I currently have a stye. I’ve thrown out my mascara - which I presume is the culprit - and I’ve sharpened my pencil eyeliner down by a solid inch. I’m not sure what else is necessary. Should I scrub my eyeliner sharpener in hot water and bleach with an old…

Hey everyone! If you missed my post a couple days ago, I thought it may be a good idea to have a sober counterpart to GroupDrink over the weekends. Those of us who are sober, working on sobriety, contemplating sobriety, or just trying to cut back for the day can use a space to support one another and talk about just…

(People are upset with me using stock photos, so I’m just going to send photos of my actual geographic area. You are looking at Mt. Diablo. On a clear day, you can see all the way to the Sierras!)

I have been in pieces for months, and everything in my life that matters has hung in the balance. Many things remain unresolved. I am in love with Fellow, and he has to decide whether he will allow our relationship to continue given my emotional issues.

I want to give an enormous thank you to everyone in this community who was so supportive less than a month ago when I really came apart. I want to individually thank Kemperboyd, MisfitToy, Violet Baudelaire, MadGeniusPiglet, among so many others.

I am dissolving.

Fellow is visiting this weekend from Los Angeles. :) But it is freezing here and snowing heavily. It is currently 11 after windchill, and that is fucking warm. I’m trying to find some way for him to enjoy himself and not leave here falling out of love with me.

So, it’s the cold winter months now and the holidays besides. Anyone have good recommendations of Netflix documentaries?

Brotherology apparently now has a handle, and he wants me to ungrey him. He’s been reading Jezebel for a long time and closely enough that he doxxed me to me. I love my brother. He is a disabled combat veteran who is an incredible brother to me and always has been. But that doesn’t mean I always agree with his…

The real world is asleep. But is GT asleep?

So, cat’s out of whatever bag it was in. Brotherology apparently reads Jezebel on a nearly daily basis (awww!), and as a result has finally figured out my handle. I don’t think he knows how to look up all my comments. But regardless, he sees them at the bottom of articles, and I’m going to make a conscious effort to…

In a fit of nostalgia, I’m watching SATC, specifically that episode in which Samantha gets her first HIV test. A couple of things about this circa 2000 episode are odd. Firstly, that we’re supposed to think it’s so modern that Carrie and Miranda have had a couple of HIV tests. Holy God. I’ve had one a year for the…

Disneyland is our fucking jam. Fellow and I take it very seriously and are falling into a pattern of going about four times a year. We’re coming up on a Disneyland weekend in a few weeks, and this time I’m planning to deck us out in Disney gear! I’d love some opinions.

How do you react to commenters who resort to calling you “honey,” “sweetie,” or other gendered pet names to demean you in a thread? How do we stand up to these instances without tainting the loving monikers our partners call us? What is the best way to deal with this when it comes up?

You have taught no geometry today, motherfucker.

Two nights ago I took off my favorite earrings, the ones my mother gave me that match an old pair of hers, and laid them next to my glasses on the couch. I couldn’t find them the next morning. I’ve been moving, so I assumed they’d made their way into the mess of my new bedroom. An hour ago I returned to my backdoor…