So hey! I’m watching Penn State/Ohio State football and drinking malbec. The Bartender and I are packed, locked, and loaded for our move to Panama on Tuesday. We have seven huge suitcases, three cats in carriers, two backpacks and a great feeling of excitement and anticipation. We have rapid Covid antigen tests in…

I’m moving to Panama in twelve days, kittens! Our apartment in the mountains is so pretty and filled with sunshine! And we’re gonna watch Krampus tonight!

I don’t care if it makes me a bad person. Nothing has made me happier in the past six months than hearing about Trump’s diagnosis.* AND that the event he caught it from was probably that slimy-ass nomination of ACB!

Those of you who were here from the fall of 2018 to the spring of 2020 may recall that I was seeking advice about trying for a job at the Cleveland Clinic, basically my dream employer. I applied for two positions and each time made it to a second interview, but was not hired for either.

during recess in 4th grade in the mid-80s, I took a jump rope and tied it to the top of a jungle gym with the intention of swinging on it. being 9 and not knowing how to tie a knot, it didn’t hold and I fell, breaking both wrists, 3 ribs and my nose all at the same time and since this was well before cell phones, no…

I once gave myself a serious corneal abrasion when I jammed a hockey-stick shaped piece of moulded plastic into my eye. It happened as I was being given a tour of a facility that required hard hats and protective eyewear for visitors. Yes, I almost blinded myself with the arm of a pair of safety glasses.

To be fair, it’s not like Trudeau is in a position to say what he is actually thinking. Canada still has to maintain a good relationship with the US for a million reasons, not the least of which is trade. I wouldn’t put it past Trump to do everything in his power to fuck with Canada if Trudeau said anything even…

There are lots of drugstore brand sulfate/silicone-free products, too, in case you have trouble finding something online in the short term. It can take some effort though to read ingredients panels. Avoid anything containing “sodium laureth/lauryl sulfate” for shampoo and anything ending in “-cone” (dimethicone,…

No sulfates/no dimethicone has made a huge difference for me! I’ve had hypothyroidism (Hashimoto’s) for 20 years, so I figured my hair loss was a side effect from the medical condition, or maybe the result of the aging process. Nope! ;) I hope it works for you!

As the result of one unfortunate salon visit with a stylist who poorly skilled and also a poor communicator, I suddenly looked 20 years older... and very Republican. About 10 years ago I decided to have my long, nearly waist length hair cut into a just above the shoulder lob. But because the person in the chair next…

7th grade, 1985/86. For Christmas I received a gift certificate for a perm, yay!!! For a reason I will never understand, I decided to cut my bangs before going to the salon. I kept cutting and cutting and cutting until I was left with, for lack of a better description, a bangs crew cut. I went thru with the perm. I…

Determined not to have boring straight hair, and tired of fighting the absolutely unbelievable year-round humidity of the gulf south which no combination of hot rollers and hairspray can cope with, in the mid 90s I decided to return to my high school days and do a perm. Pfft, I color my own hair all the time, how hard…

This is the pissing contest I’ve been waiting for!

I’m totally doxxing myself with this story but whatever. My worst roommate inspired an episode of Law and Order SVU. She was assigned to me my freshman year of college based on some questionnaire we had to fill out during the summer. To this day I am disturbed that some computer algorithm though we would be a good…

She had lice and didn’t tell us until... well, you know how that all shook out. Refused to bathe during the winter months. Claimed a friendship with Meatloaf, and hung in our dorm window her dead, taxidermied pet parrot in its cage.

One of the good things about being stuck in the middle of snowy, mountainous nowhere without a car is that I won’t have to see my God awful mother tomorrow on Mother’s Day. Praise Jesus on that one. Plus, I can save a Klonopin, which my doctor prescribed specifically for the times I have to come in contact with those…

“Sleep with who you want. You only get so much time. Don’t worry about your body, it’s good no matter what. Just don’t stop having fun. And if you find someone, make sure they’re worth your time.”

-My great grandmother at age 99 before I left the country to study abroad. She also told me to drink a high ball on the…

Sex is like euchre. If you have a good hand, you can go alone. Thanks mom!!

Hey all: I almost never hit SNS on an actual Saturday and I’m terminally grey, but I made a point to this time. I have to share my wonderful awful news. Currently I work for my provincial government, a government which desperately wants to be Trump Mark II. I’ve been with the government for 17 years nearly and it’s a…

Any runners here? I started getting into running last summer but thrn got bogged down with work...life.. stress.. and didnt run for 4 months. Started again about a month ago and today ran a 10k. Just around my neighborhood, of course, but i was so proud. Longest ive ever run, and i made decent time. I almost started…