drinking game for SOTU next year?

Erin, you're a hero. While reading these (and yes, I hate read them the same way I hate read Twilight) the phrase "In mental tatters" is so apt it's basically poetry.

I'm straight, but with an infertility diagnosis, I have had the same thoughts: my body doesn't work the way it's supposed to, but it's still REALLY good at the menstruating part. I don't get the parts that I want to work, but the worst aspect works without fail. Every. Single. Month.

The part about her period being useless because she's a lesbian echoes my thoughts exactly. Like, it's so fucking pointless for me to have a period, it's not even funny. I almost feel like it shouldn't even pertain to me.

Maybe Beck won because he doesn't need the help of five songwriters and two back-up vocalists to make a good album.

I always wonder why people are so weird.

So going around trashing another artist to make your point is "respecting artistry"?? Ok Kanye. Sit the fuck down.

I won first prize in the 3rd grade "Reflections" arts contest for a really nice pastel sketch I did of my mom's Christmas cactus. Should I....send that ribbon onto Beyonce out of respect for art? Or do I get to keep it?

I just posted this over on Gawker, but I think it got buried. But anyway, Kanye wasn't trying to be funny in regards to Beck winning over Beyonce. He was just on E! and he said, "Beck should have respected artistry and given his Grammy to Beyonce". It never fucking ends with him. And he obviously has no clue who Beck…

or have the personal strength or literal safety to do something about it until later.

Due to the statute of limitations, Montag is only eligible to be charged with crimes that occurred after July 1st, 1996

I'm just imaging the hell that would be being a bridesmaid for one of these ladies.

IT IS EASIER TO TALK TO NEW PEOPLE WHEN YOU ARE FEELING CONFIDENT

I know it's called "the shopping cart" but I don't think you're actually supposed to be reading the labels on the imaginary items you're putting in the "cart".

Well yeah, obviously that, too. But at what age does a child understand death? I'm thinking "no toys and cartoons" is easier to grasp long before killing and death is. I want her to avoid the safe until she can understand the real reason behind staying away from it. Is that weird? I feel like it's weird now that I've…

Or you could tell her that it is where you keep your gun locked up and that guns are for killing and you own that gun for shooting people dead. And that dead people are dead forever. Then you could teach her some actual gun safety in case she ever stumbles across your firearm.

Just riffing here.

Whenever this happens* I always think about the kid who pulled the trigger. How do you deal with that as you grow older? (Or in the immediate aftermath AND as you grow older for older children.)

We bought a bio-locking safe for the gun I keep for home defense. It can only be opened with my fingerprint. Hopefully, my kid will never even see the safe. But if she does, I'm going to tell her that it's a trap for the souls of little children to be transported to the Containment Unit, where they don't get any toys…

My hair only holds a curl at the tips, and curly at the tips with straight roots reads... wavy. I can make my hair straight, but it ends up so voluminous it looks fucking triangular, so the only style where I look halfway decent if I straighten it is half up, and that looks so flower girl. Ugh.