Yeah I can’t believe how great they are! Also I’m a little bitter they weren’t around during my teenage days. I could have saved myself a lot of embarrassment back then.

I too have sensitive (combination, but mostly dry, and a lot of redness) skin and I use a lot of Soko Glam products. This is what I’ve been using:

It sounds like we have the same hair! My hair is basically straight underneath. No clue why, but it drives me crazy.

I love her curly hair in the London photos. It’s what I wish mine would do.

I immediately thought of this segment and Ira Glass pointing out his own vocal fry when I started reading this.

Exactly.

The VP of the company I work for is best friends with Josh Duhamel. VP is a douche so I would not be at all surprised if Duhamel is also.

I am not a very regular commenter, but I’m a very regular reader, and I want to say how much I’ve enjoyed your writing these past two years. You’ll be missed!

Yeah it just doesn’t seem...right...celebrating Independence Day this year. I have no pride in this country. And I was never a big ‘yay America’ person to begin with. Everything seems particularly bleak right now, especially with North Korea successfully testing ICBMs.

Feeling depressed today as the four-day weekend comes to an end. Work is particularly bad right now so I am absolutely dreading tomorrow, and I’ve spent all day in a funk. I did manage to do some meal prep stuff for the week, which I am proud of. When I’m feeling like his I usually turn to junk food so I’m glad I am…

This post showed up along the top bar of the home page and when I saw ‘Introducing Dear Jane’ I thought omg Jane like Jane Marie?!?! So I clicked and YES IT’S TRUE WELCOME BACK!

Right?! WTF, Pottermore.

Well this is really dorky but I used to live in London and I love and miss the city so much that I’ll sometimes read books about London to make me feel better. Like Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Biography.

Too many, but here a few that come to the top of my head:

Yep. Thank god for when the movies finally came around.

Fav Hogwarts professor: Lupin

A mongrel dog. Totally does not suit me at all.

I haven’t read those, so I’ll have to do so!

Harry Potter is something I grew up with, but I think it means more to me now than it did when I was a kid. When my anxiety was at its worst during the past couple of years I turned to Harry Potter in any form (books, movies, audiobooks) to get me through. It is the utmost source of comfort for me. I love that now,…

On the flip side, I work in the paper industry and see varying versions of this in email signatures all the time: