I have never understood the point of that message. Tell me what it is or just tell me when you can talk or when I answer the phone. I had to turn off my voice mail because people leave a message saying, “I need to talk to you. Call me back” like, why leave a message saying that? Either leave a message telling me what…

That seems like a reasonable answer to me. I don’t know enough about dairy farming to really know, I was wondering if we were comparing to places with less industrialized farming methods meaning fewer drugs and happier animals (I have read for instance that happier pigs taste better because they don’t release the…

I feel like they are happy about the things he says and does for the most part because it basically keeps them employed and well paid. Possibly less happy when it actively interferes with them doing their job, like talking about an active lawsuit or something.

yeah, I just really, really need to believe it is an act. Which makes him evil and ridiculous, but fairly garden variety. If he really believes even a portion of the crap he spouts I can’t believe he manages to function independently as a person.

I get that the cheese and yogurt are different, and how that’s possible. I’m kind of curious about how the milk is different? Is it because of what the animals get fed? Like, I assume grass fed dairy cows produce a different (better) flavor of milk? Is it the pasteurization? (I don’t know why I’m so interested. I…

I feel like I should admit this with some outward signs of shame, but that actually looks pretty tasty and I would definitely eat it. Except I would have to go to Walmart to get it, and all ethical issues with business practices aside, I’m pretty sure the Walmart near me is one of the circles of hell and I’m going to…

She’s very young, so hopefully she will. although, she is helping raise his son by his first girlfriend (like they have full custody) and she doesn’t want to leave him.

Sadly, I know someone in a relationship exactly like that, except she was really shocked when he treated her like shit while she was pregnant and doesn’t really contribute financially to the family (actual quote when he finally got a job: this is my money to spend on myself. Even though she worked several jobs while…

It is interesting. I work with a guy who is married to a woman from the Philippines that was a mail order bride (is there a better term for this? Mail order bride feels disparaging in a way that I don’t really intend here), and he is one of the most awkward human beings I’ve ever met. I don’t know, maybe they actually…

It seems like as good a topic as any. Especially when you know you have to carry on a one sided conversation.

Agree absolutely. I’m generally pretty over sensitive to the “not a real mom” bullshit because I am adopted and I adopted my daughter and people like to ask about my “real mom” and her “real mom” and I’m like, we’re all real? (I know what they mean, and most people don’t mean it like it comes across, but then again…

Come hang out with me. I sing to my dog all the time (I’m a terrible singer, but she doesn’t seem to mind). Her name is Sunny so I usually try to sing her things with either “sunny” or “sunshine” in them. Also I forget and talk to her like she’s a person in a public.

I have caught myself singing Sublime’s Lovin is What I Got, and honestly, she doesn’t know what any of it means and she seems to like the tune, so whatever. You do what you have to do. I try to bleep out any “fucks” because she’s 20 months old and repeats things (we aren’t super careful about avoiding cussing in front…

Maybe it’s just that the moms I know in real life are my friends? It’s totally possible the other moms at daycare judge the shit out of me, but they don’t actually say it to my face so I don’t care. But the internet is a savage, mom-eat-mom wasteland. I once saw someone casually mention that their baby slept in a crib…

This quote, though. In real life I feel like this is true. I don’t know any moms who do this shit to each other. But, I mean, have you been on the internet recently? This is ALL that ever seems to happen with internet mom stuff.

So I got to the “gross mush” and “no one says how are you doing in a sing songy voice to their baby all day” and was like, I have no idea who any of these people are, but I am definitely not Team Whoever the Hell Just Said This because I used that “gross mush” and also have you ever tried to talk to an infant all day?…

Which is funny, because Jennifer Lawrence is definitely also trying very hard. She’s just better at making it look like she’s not.

I was kind of this person at one point. I think I got over it by my early 20s. I also think it was influenced by my mother’s relationship to painkillers (i.e., terrible doctor who way, way, way over prescribed serious narcotic painkillers and her convinced that she needed to take all of this shit because the doctor…

I applaud this work of genius and simultaneously hate you for it.

So I use the “We’re Related” app for funsies, until I checked it this morning and it said that Sarah Palin is potentially my 8th cousin through my grandmothers family. I mean, I don’t know how accurate this thing really is. It also says I’m related to both Obamas, Warren Buffett, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, and…