Whenever I see the equivalent of “It’s a child not a choice,” I always remember the exact moment I learned what a feminist was. I was raised Catholic, but my dad was anti-organized religion and both my parents are super liberal. One day, we were leaving church (where my dad went to keep me and my kid brother from…

Spotify needs to have all the BBC live lounges on there because half the time, the covers are better than the original songs and now I’m only ever let down by the originals and want a playlist of all the covers.

This is so brilliant! I got the birth control arm implant and am in love with it because I haven’t had a period in like 7 months, but if I still got them, I’d be on board, even if it was just as a backup to the tampon.

Wait, I know not the main point here at all, but Carey Mulligan’s character in Drive was supposed to be Latina?? Man. That was my favorite movie of that year and now I’m so disappointed in it.

Non-tippers piss me the fuck off and I don’t even work for tips anymore. I was out to eat on vacation the other day in a place where you know the only locals in that room are the ones being paid to be there, and the people at the table directly next to my husband and I paid in cash and said to the server “Sorry…

BnL put on such great concerts it’s insane.

Serious question. Is this “Trash the Dress” bullshit just a way for super self obsessed brides to get to have another day that’s all about them that they get to be a bride in? I mean, I keep TRYING to understand this trend but I really really cannot. “Yes, here’s the gown I slaved over choosing, going to alteration…

Every time I hear/read Iggy Azalea, I just think of my mother, texting me while I’m sitting working a late shift at my office and asking if I’m watching Saturday Night Live. It went something like this:

Thanks for the review! I’d been wondering what it was like to use and if it was worth the money (not that I’d be buying one anytime soon, anyway.) The only people I thought it would be really useful for are for people who are regularly in places they can’t check their phones but always need to be able to receive…

I thank the sexy time Gods on the reg for having parents who weren’t assholes about sex since I grew up in Texas, where logic goes to die. I was able to go to them without shame when I eventually became sexually active (later than almost all my friends, I might add, even though they got me the HPV vaccine and I…

I was bothered by the lack of “Yeah, I used to be a gun for hire, here’s all my morally questionable but badass conquests” but I didn’t think the reveal of being sterilized was so much stripping her of her womanhood and that she really wanted to be a mommy so much as her losing her humanity and personal autonomy? I…

This is so true of all animal abusers. Animal abuse should carry stiffer punishments on principle anyway, but you’d think people could use the context clues of Jeffery Dahmer or Ted Bundy and see the link between animal torture and murderers.

There’s nothing wrong with valuing your marriage over anything else. There is something wrong with valuing a wedding over everything else. I get that not everyone has the same accomplishments I do, but if you’re getting married and throwing a wedding, I’d like to think you’ve graduated high school (something that took…

I grew up in the south, I get the whole big wedding culture thing to a certain extent? But I feel like rooting the highlights of a woman’s life in her relationship to others (wedding day, day she becomes a mother, etc) versus her own accomplishments is contributing to a lot of issues in today’s society. I’m married…

Waited on a woman once who was allergic to corn. Holy crap did I not realize what all had corn in it. She ordered just a house salad (at a Red Robin) with oil and vinegar, probably trying to make life easy on me as she didn’t even mention the allergy when she placed her order. I brought the salad out and it had…

Can I recommend being the kind of bride where your wedding day isn’t the biggest, best, most important, happiest day of your life?

My 21st birthday is in December, so I went once then. It was really nice! But I do love it in the summer. I’m a sucker and go almost annually. If you pick the right time, it’s so affordable (relatively speaking, of course) and we always have fun, so I’m just like “Screw it, I need a week by the pool.” I highly…

Totally looked at that piece and thought “I’m going Vegas in 3 weeks. That would look super cute with my swim suit. I can justify buying jewelry just for the pool, right? For Vegas pool?”

This is basically exactly what we did. Matching, lovely dishes, fantastic stuff to host parties with, fancy bakeware that I use CONSTANTLY but could never justify spending the money on myself, really high quality knives. It really makes cooking and throwing parties and stuff way less of a hassle when you’ve got the…

I’m glad that “anything not on the registry” was ranked at number 30 because some of our favorite wedding gifts were things not on our registry. We got a few lovely decor items and one thing that will always be a point of pride in my kitchen and a family heirloom once the hubs and I are all dead and shit. It was the…