I Google them when he's not home. There. I said it. Now I feel better. :)

Oh man! Now I have a place to go to read all about my secret reality TV obsession! I have no one in my real life to share this with and I hardly ever get to watch the show now that my bf and I are living together. He always wants to watch cooking shows or shows where you learn shit. I just want to watch right wing…

While I personally wouldn't want my bf to spend $10k on a ring, I totally see your point.

I'm a Photoshop novice and can do a better job with clone stamp! Half the photo is grass! It's like they did this in Microsoft Paint.

The Franciscans are great too! It's those Opus Dei guys I don't trust. They take misogyny to a whole new level!

Haha! Yeah, I was actually educated by both if you tally up my 20 years in Catholic education! Although my Benedictine friends still roll their eyes at this Jesuit pope. :)

I have studied the Bible in school, but not in the way that non-Catholics consider "Bible study." I have studied it as a both a historical and man-made (read fallible) document and that there is a lot of room for interpretation (like the earth wasn't really made in 7 days. . .). The first written account of Jesus'…

I was taught by Benedictine nuns. They are awesome ladies!

It makes a bad name for those who do. I went to a pretty liberal Catholic school where the teachers taught us that historically speaking, it was rare at the time to only have one kid or to not get married, so Jesus probably had brothers and sisters and maybe even had a wife and kids of his own and to not take things…

I want to know more about this "submissive marriage"!

I like to have a good shaved leg. I'm blonde and pale skinned, but my leg hair is dark, so it just looks weird. But my skin gets crazy dry in the winter. Somewhere around November I told my boyfriend that I wasn't going to be shaving that often and he didn't care. Then this awful winter happened and I have only…

Oh man. I'm a MOH right now and just trying to plan the bachelorette party has been a nightmare. I want to shout at my friend "IT'S MY PARTY FOR YOU" but she insists on planning the whole thing. You are a saint. I feel your pain.

I agree with you on this! I've been asked to be a bridesmaid 8 times. I turned it down three for three of those. For two I was genuinely confused as to why I was even asked in the first place. And for the last one I originally said yes and then had a major thing come up and I was unable to make it to the wedding,…

I have never in my life read a more perfect description of a Chicago Bro than the one you just wrote. Thank you. I want to print it on postcards and hand it out to bros in Wrigleyville who might be looking for a change. "Are you a bro? Does this description fit you? Do you want to break from male pattern bro-ness?"…

I read this and immediately thought, WHOA! That's a lot of coffee! And then I realized I had a problem with alcohol . . .

I totally signed in to write that obviously no one has opened their knitting bag (I'm that weirdo who brings her knitting to class) to find that those stupid circular Denise needles came undone AGAIN in transit, leaving close to 50 stitches that were mostly YO and k2tog, just hanging out without any support. At which…

You'll love it if summer ever comes around! The city drives me nuts some of the time, but it really is great. Especially if you love to eat!

Yep yep! I got my first one at 29 and even if people don't understand the meaning behind it, they always tell me that it looks incredibly well done. Because it is. Even my second one, which is the super simple, geometric, Chicago flag (born and raised, I earned it), looks fabulous. It's an art, Biebs! Not just…

Such a great point! And so many people just don't get it. And I get even more frustrated when so many women I know also don't get it and just propagate the rape culture.

It's such a slippery slope, isn't it? I haven't read though all the other comments on this thread, but it seems like there are quite a few people out there in this world who really are just strapped for attention. And then if/when something terrible happens to them, it's really hard to find anything they say…