I ordered a coat from BR a last week and it showed up today, which was later than the original arrival date but, tbh, I chalked that up to UPS being the literal worst in my area.

I clicked to check it out and you are so right, very disappointing. I’m lucky that I can wear a L/XL in most lines, I’m right on the cusp of plus-size stuff, so I have some more options but size really shouldn’t be so damn limiting for clothes.

Went to a concert last night and didn’t take any pictures, but every one around me had their phones out, recording song after song on video. Couldn’t help but think, why bother going to a show if you’re just going to watch it through your phone screen the whole time? Are you ever going to watch any of those videos…

It all goes back to rape culture, too. When we teach kids and teenagers so little about sex, how the hell are they supposed to understand consent fully when they’re stuck getting knowledge from porn and teen shows on the CW?? It’s just not ok. I’m so, so thankful, every day, to have parents who raised me in a pretty…

I’m childless but we’re doing Christmas cards for the first time on a large scale. I may never do them again after this year. I work with layout, so I could lay out photo cards by myself (I did our save the dates and wedding invites and wedding programs myself when we got hitched) but fuck that, I just bought a few…

Adults in America know so little about this stuff, it’s terrifying. In college, I minored in psychology and focused a lot on the psychology of sex and relationships. My psych of sex prof, on the first day of class, told us about a policy she had about questions. If there was one you were too afraid to ask in class,…

I will probably go and see this for 2 reasons.
1) I love me some Natalie Portman.
2) There is jack shit out in February and I have a very, very sick addiction to going to the movies. I go at least once a week, often twice. February is hell on earth for me for this reason.

I had an abortion in Michigan about four years ago, through Planned Parenthood. They gave me the paperwork about a week out from the procedure because of scheduling issues (could only happen on certain days, booked up for the first ones I was eligible for and the waiting period kept me from going to an open…

I guess I don’t understand the point of this article? The not as reliable forms of pregnancy prevention are not only still out there, they’re what most people use. No one is holding a gun to your head and making you get an IUD. If you aren’t sure about when you want a kid, get on the pill or use no protection. No one…

It costs a LOT to put someone to death in America and, yes, costs far less to keep them in prison until they die of natural causes. Here’s why:
1) The cost of the appeals process as the person who gets the death penalty tries to get it knocked down to life in prison. This is a very long and drawn out process, meaning…

One year, when I was a kid, we had my grandpa come to visit for a week and we decided to make a mini-vacation of it and go down to San Antonio for Thanksgiving (we lived in Dallas at the time.) We’re staying at one of the nicer places on the River Walk and they have a huge Thanksgiving buffet with all the trimmings.…

I’m definitely a fat woman now, and I honestly think that has a lot to do with the fact that my parents started me on a diet when I was 8 and were always harping on my figure, regardless of how thin I was. Really fucked up my relationship with food.

About 12 years old, parents are planning a trip to Europe and my dad looks at me and says “You need to lose some weight before we go, I’m embarrassed to have my friends meet you right now.” I was 5’7” and a size 5, so I know now that I wasn’t the least bit fat, but boy did that give me a complex. 13 years later and…

I get 2 weeks vacation and 1 week sick every year, plus 3 personal days. Vacation and personal disappear after the fiscal year but the sick days roll over. My husband, on the other hand, gets 3 weeks off per year and those are vacation, sick and personal days all rolled into one. He works retail, I’m a journalist. Not…

That pasta looks amazing!

I’ll give my husband this much, he is terrible when it comes to helping out with chores, but he does his own laundry and he wrote the thank you notes to his side of the wedding people. He also writes his own Christmas cards. The man can’t empty the dishwasher, but I guess there are small victories here.

Mr. NotLois and I have already carefully planned how we’re going to introduce our children to Star Wars, including video taping their reaction to finding out that Vader is Luke’s father. It will be beautiful.

You sound like an excellent professor. I had a few like you in college, and it really helped. Thanks for making a difference :)

How hard would have been to say “Ok, I’m rescheduling the exam but class will still be happening tomorrow. We’ll be doing exam review and discussion. Students in attendance will have the opportunity to get extra credit. If not in attendance and still want to get some extra credit, write an essay on such and such…

I feel like mostly mall stores who do this deserve all the kudos because I know that a lot of malls have contracts with the stores in them that says “Hey, if the mall is open, you’re open,too, or else you pay a fine.” I imagine H&M is probably racking up a lot of fines doing this, so good for them!