My siblings and I loved a lot of this stuff when we were that age, although we didn’t eat a ton of it (seafood + our part of the Midwest= expensive). When I was really little, my parents would give me the really briney, salty, cured meats that they didn’t like but people gave them. Like, they’d be over at someone’s…

Oh my god, I love stories about little kids learning language, because seriously our language is so weird that it’s hilariously honest watching them figure it out.

My parents made $80,000 if you include benefits (they have excellent health care), at the time of their retirement teaching public school. It wasn’t for very long though, basically only as they hit the very very top of seniority, with at minimum one masters’ degree (my dad, for example, has a masters + enough hours…

Both of my aunts and my uncle had their kids around 40-45. You might get mistaken for their grandmother sometimes, but it’s not that weird (it is the only complaint my aunt has about having her only kids at 45).

Oh jesus, 18 months of election cycle. I’ll be in my corner waiting for it to end.

So much. My cousin has had about 3 different positions in the 4 years since graduating because of the budget cuts (she’s lucky to live in a really populated area with a lot of schools per district because she can find new jobs without having to move) and is looking at fewer benefits than our parents because of how our…

tend to attract white/Anglo, middle class folks who “want to make a difference”, rather than folks who want, and need, to make good money.

And can we mention how much more comfortable Docs are than other shoes. I can get behind a lot of 90s fashion for the pure comfort levels.

They’re usually pretty good about it, but there are times when it’s like “oh left overs for lunch... oh we only have left over pizza... and it’s Hawaiian... cereal for lunch then...” They’ve started being good about checking sauces- BBQ sauce by and large has a lot of pineapple juice in it.

I found this video to be both informative AND distracting. I want pizza and her lipstick.

Pineapple has no place on a pizza! I literally only say this because I am allergic to pineapple and keep getting burned by my inlaws who fucking love Hawaiian pizza more than is natural.

Right? A lot of really healthy things have carbs- fruit springs to mind.

I know a guy who invited his parents on his honeymoon cruise and they went. Seriously. He and his wife said "yes, let's have our parents come." It was weird.

You have just made me super glad that my mom and I refused to go to one of these.

God, that was my first thought too... I’m really sad that my first thought to seeing that picture is that that kid is being patted down, not asking for help tying his shoe. I’ve officially hit the point of no return for trusting cops haven’t I?

We actually had a decent number of out students when I was in high school. They got shit from some assholes, but there were enough people who were supportive that people felt more comfortable coming out at my school than the other ones in the area or that some of them had transfered from. Change between 2006 and 1998…

I like makeup and dresses and find doing makeup to be a soothing way to, for lack of a better phrase, get my game face on before facing the world. I absolutely have had people treat me like an idiot because I dress up and don’t fit the image of “smart girl”. The first time I interacted with some of the other people…

Yeah, same with my school in 2006. I don’t remember any of the girls wearing a tux, but everyone who was out brought their partners or a date and a lot of straight people brought friends of the same sex from other schools as their date. Because that’s more fun that trying to get a real date. I kinda can’t help but…

I pretend that the movie didn’t happen and keep hoping for a remake. Someone get on it for me. I have Cinderella money that needs spending (because I didn’t go see Cinderella like I planned).

And it’s not like opening day at Wrigley is ever popular or anything...