while i do believe that food can become an addiction, the use of the language of "abstinence" around it makes me nervous. you can abstain from alcohol and cigarettes and meth and sex, but abstaining from food successfully = death. that seems like a particularly dangerous way to frame this problem.

@Scout: yeah, this stuff definitely gets worse when my anxiety increases, and i have cycles where i struggle with near-constant anxiety. it's been getting better lately (yay!) and, unsurprisingly, so has my tolerance for clutter.

@ThereIsNoFluffy: "People who say 'don't worry about it' don't understand how uncomfortable tidy people feel in untidy spaces."

@bleedingmouths: hummus. if you have veggies or any kind of carb, hummus is a win.

@HuckleberryFriend: have you had your eyes checked? it might be eyestrain. i've worn glasses since the fifth grade, and i always know when i need to get the prescription checked because i start getting mysterious headaches.

@JessIsElf-ity: seconded. NO idea. i probably wouldn't have done it at all (i'm not so much the internet joiner, jezebel excluded) had i not been so psyched to proclaim to the world i was wearing happy little trees.

god it took me awhile to figure out this ad doesn't refer to *literal* peanuts. you know, like as for a cause. "are they made of peanut fiber?", i asked myself. truly. it's a good thing it's saturday.

"If you're embodying joy, compassion and sensuality, telling him how great he is, making him feel like a billion bucks and the conqueror of worlds, you have no competition."

@BejeweledEdificeOfCheese: making up gimmicky names for rom-coms that give away the entire plot is my new favorite game. thanks!

@cupcakefauxpaws: is that to say that this is a real thing, the lady-proposal on leap day? this is my surprised face.

So...a woman who builds imaginary "lives" in empty unsold homes to make them seem more attractive decides to co-opt an ersatz ethnic tradition that means nothing to her in order to add "romance" to her currently unsatisfactory life?

@SarahMC: nor can i, but you know? i'm not super sexually repressed. i never found masturbation particularly interesting on my own (i just think it's so *boring* compared to sex with an actual other human being, when so much else is going on), and i get really uncomfortable in any sort of performative situation,…

@Helen Valentine: my grandma would have ROCKED a cage match. rocked it with panache. and a jaunty hat.

@RStewie: snark-free: i'm down with this, for the most part, but how precisely do you have universal healthcare without big government?

Dear Ladies,

dear forced-sterlization-woo! jezebelles,

@OakMotYouthCenter: then that's a bunch of awesome reasons for you to call a social worker, not for doctors to tie her tubes on the sly. i'm pretty sure "right to consent to surgery" is not one of the ones you lose for being an asshole.

is this to suggest that if i kiss a bunch of guys, kissing my husband/soulmate/life partner will be less cherished? because that seems...insane. what's cherished is *the person on the other end*, not the act of mashing your lips on some dude's face. to say nothing of some lady's face. this seems like a fundamental…

@yeimi: seconded. thirded.

ps: joanie, i wish every day you could be here to get drunk and combative at my wedding. i miss you hard.