Quitting smoking was an awesome idea. Quitting smoking before a four day holiday weekend was a really fucking miserable I want to die and kill everyone idea (apologies in advance. this is hyperbole. I do not want to die and I do not want to kill anyone. I need to be wildly explicit).

We use the slow cooker and Instant Pot when it's too hot to cook.  

It sounds like you’ve thought of just about everything. Maybe help him up and down from furniture if he’s allowed on sofas and beds. Dogs are such troopers, they'll do things even when it hurts. You're taking good care of him. 💗

100% NOT into this earthquake shit. I got through last night ok (my old house shook pretty bad and now the front door is fitting slightly different?) but as I’ve felt a few aftershocks I am increasingly becoming unwary. This whole 11% chance of a bigger one hitting soon has me ready to sleep under the heavy kitchen…

Anyone have some senior dog care tips? My guy is getting up there - 11 - and I’m just trying to make sure I’m doing everything I can for him. He’s at the stage where he needs to be careful he doesn’t overdo it when playing/running but hasn’t quite figured that out mentally yet (if he ever will).

Diana’s sister in the yellow hat looks like she could be “Camilla’s sister in the yellow hat.” A very particular look. And given that the Spencer family is far more noble and long-rooted in Britain than the gotten-up Saxe-Coburg und Gotha Windsors, it could be that Cam is taking style cues from her. Diana was related…

Okay I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed that. He looks like his dad forced him to wear a suit and go to church.

Diana’s sister in the yellow hat looks straight out of Dowtown Abbey. The on Will’s face is interesting. Not really a smile and not really a smirk.

“... only Republican donors got to see them.... there’s no such thing as a free tank.”

As a first mother, also known as a birth mother, I can’t even make it to the sustainability part of your well-put statement. It is, on such a visceral, life long level that I agree with you. Being both adopted and being extremely abusively coerced into relinquishing my newborn daughter, none of this shit sits well…

Update via Sickthings, the main Alice Cooper fan site:

That's how you know that there is cat in the DNA.

3 years ago. Went to a graduation of a cousin getting out of college on the West Coast with my dad and my sister. Take a late flight from the east coast and get in kind of late into Sacramento. Get rental vehicle and head to the hotel for the night. Get out of vehicle and proceed to rip and fall onto my left shoulder…

I had suddenly left a job one summer. And my wife told me her family had rented a shore house for 2 weeks. And I was more than welcome to come down for a few days. I was 26 years old. As I walk I to the house, her dad stops because I have a case of beer. He informs me that beer or any alcohol is not welcomed into the…

I’m not sure if this counts because technically the vacation was amazing, but I dropped my plane ticket in a canal running to catch the bus to the airport when I spent a week in Amsterdam during college.

My dad’s family had been going to this rinky-dink set of cabins in rural Wisconsin for generations. By the time I was a ‘tween in the 90s, they’d at least been retrofitted with electricity, but you still had to use an outhouse. The nearby lake was great, but my fond summertime memories of bonfires, tubing, and jumping…

My family once decided to drive almost 2.500 miles from Fairbanks, Alaska to a small town in Eastern Washington. We were going to my uncle’s wedding. Taking advantage of the fact the whole family was getting together, there was an intervention planned the day before for another uncle who was an alcoholic. On one hand…

I have a twin brother and we were c-section babies and at 34 the macbeth jokes just ain’t stoppin’. we have committed. 

Just wait until your kid(s) get older. My daughter went through a Macbeth phase and went around telling everyone she and her brother were never born.

All weddings are performative.