I grew up in Youngstown, which is a stone's throw from the PA border. For many years now, my family has tried to convince me to move back home. When I tell them no, because there isn't a single job in the whole of Youngstown, they say "Oh, but maybe you could just move to Pittsburgh then! It's so close!" Then I laugh.

I've been to two weddings I'd say were pretty bad. One of them was a long time ago and I was only about 10 at the time so my memories are hazy, but the basic story is this: Groom is my now-uncle's brother (at the time he and my aunt were still just dating) and the bride was a woman who was....pretty well known around…

I'm about halfway through "The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters" and it is just so much more incredibly ridiculous than I ever could have imagined. I gobbled up all of Nancy Mitford's novels when I was a teenager and they had a pretty profound impact on me. The reality of their lives is just so bizarre. Anyone…

God, she really is just a fucking flawless human being, isn't she?

Medela Harmony, you guys. For Real.

THIS A MILLION TRILLION TIMES. GOD.

Oh my god I DID TOO i cannot believe I forgot to put that in my post. I tore up and sideways.

Here's my story. It's not as horrible as some to be sure, but maybe worse than others:

'A few generations ago'? The kid is 33? You're talking about the early 80's like it was a hundred years ago. I'm a mother, I fucking KNOW it's not all wonder and rainbow bunnies. That woman is a monster.

Sometimes, the knowledge that day will come is the only thing that keeps me going! That's why I only have one child with no plans to have more, and why I had him young. When he's off on his own, I'll still be young enough to party. I was 26 when my son was born, and I was the first one in my ENTIRE extended group of…

Hear, hear. No one held these women at gunpoint and forced them to bear their children. Especially the one who was apathetic towards her son and then went on to have ANOTHER child! I'm a mother to an almost-4-year-old son, and it's hard as hell. It's exhausting and frustrating and so much more difficult than I ever…

Three words: The Gainesville Ripper.

I was a highschool senior in 2001. I'm old enough to well remember the pre-9/11 world. The experience I have, that I share with many of my peers, is that the real, lasting post-9/11 damage was done not by terrorists but by our own government. The fearmongering and the ease and eagerness with which we gave up our civil…

Don't be too impressed, refusing the epidural was, by far, the STUPIDEST thing I've ever done. I was diagnosed with PTSD after the birth. Fun!

Oh god, they brought the mirror in without even asking me if I wanted it!! The nurses were all like LOOK LOOK YOU CAN SEE THE HEAD and made me reach down and feel it. I wanted to kill all of them. This was after a 36 hour, epidural-free labor, with Pitocin. I'm sure they have those fucking wheeled mirrors IN HELL,…

Get the epidural. Trust me on this.

Did you turn the shower on? Extra paranoid stoner points if you did!

I also use couchtuner.eu.

Season 4 is a snoozefest because the main plotline of the show and the source of all the tension and drama was the relationship between Mary and Matthew, and the family adjusting to having an 'outsider' being the heir. Now all they're left with are side plots, and all that shit is boring. I watched season 4, but I…

Well, the whole series only spans about 10 years. It's totally feasible for a lab to live that long. I had one who lived to be 16.