I didn’t feel like scrolling through all their posts to find a giraffe baby update for you, but they have a cute baby alpaca.

I’m pretty curious about the backstory here - because I have a very difficult mother and a medium-high difficult older sister. I will do basically anything to not get involved in their relationship, because it’s just impossible. Any indication that I am not completely on the side of the one currently speaking to me,…

During a gap year when I was 19 years old, I was living far away from home and got into a relationship with an awful, manipulative guy (of course I did not know it back then). While we were dating, I had to go back to my home state for about a month because of some family issues, so I gave him the number to my…

Thank you. I feel that is truly the only appropriate response! (Hug) It caused me a great deal of harm. It yoked me with years of abandonment issues, issues in my relationships with men and friendships with women and leveled my self-esteem...for a while. But I was very, very, very lucky to meet some wonderful people…

I hated being a teenager. HATED it. Hated the lack of real power, hated being patronized when I wrote something good (“I can’t believe a high school student wrote that!” never felt like a compliment), hated how people made up their mind about me and I was stuck with that perception, hated how sometimes I would be…

I’m so sorry my love. I think we all need to tell our stories. It seems too far away and yet too soon. I vote by mail, but I still have all the stuff I bought, I throw pillow in blue of “A Woman’s Place is in the White House” on my, heee just realized how appropriate this is, fainting couch! My “Shatter the Glass…

I feel for you. I don’t talk to my siblings at all. It’s not like I decided to stop, it’s just that now that our parents are dead, if I don’t do all the work there is no relationship,so there is no relationship, because I refuse to keep doing all the work. I have a sister that I grew up with and an older brother…

I’ve had a fucking week. I started a new job Monday that I wasn’t very sure about and now after 5 days of cumbaya meetings that didn’t apply to my department I finally got hard info on my *actual* position and, shock shock shock, it’s every bit as gruelling emotionally as I’d suspected, and SURPRISE! none of the …

I celebrated my 37th birthday Wednsday. I feel about the same as I did at 36 but I got an early gift of infection. Being sick sucks, being sick during your birthday is double sucky.

Hi everyone! I keep getting aggravated with myself today for even telling my just-like-my-narcissistic-mother sister that my parked (and only) car was damaged in a hit and run the other night. Not only did she offer zero kind remarks or sympathy, but she asked me why my car was parked on a busy street (wordlessly…

The official Star Trek Instagram page shared the picture of the cake I made for my dad’s retirement party. The cake could have been better if I had more time but I still feel famous!

Beauty Thread

Self Care Thread:

I emailed Jezebel hoping they would post this story. Since I haven’t seen it yet, I thought I would share it here because it’s important.

Hello lovely people. This is me on this day of emotional opposites:

This pleases me. Not gonna lie, I SHAMELESSLY loved this trash.

FACTS. I grew up Mormon, which is a different bag o’ weirdness, but so much of what I was taught basically boiled down to “idk, pray more I guess?” because if that wasn’t fixing everything, clearly the issue was you and not, I don’t know, an anxiety disorder, the stress of poverty, or even not a real just issue…

This makes me so sad to read. I had a highly oppressive Southern Baptist upbringing so I’m familiar with the painful attempts to make the Bible and Christianity seem “hip.”

My wife and I still say “Sammi and Ronnie done or done-done?”

Damnit I knew I shouldn’t have gone to the gym, eaten lunch, and gotten a tan all in the same day. It’s like saying ‘Beetlejuice’ three times.