This right here. Almost every “positive” person I’ve met is really just an avoider masking their deficiencies with an overly optimistic facade. They often do fall apart in a crisis, while the pessimists/realists have already faced up to reality and worried through several possible solutions.

My candidate is Anybody But Trump. And I guess I’m insecure, if by insecure you mean “completely fucking terrified of the prospect of a Trump presidency”. I really don’t care whether Clinton or Sanders wins; I’ll vote for either. Hell, I’ll vote for a talking dog, or a sock puppet, or 10-year-old Lady Mormont from…

The possibility of a Trump presidency is really fucking scary. Bernie needs to stop this nonsense now so the party can start to get on the same page for the national election.

Holy shit. This chick is seriously spoiled, self-centered, and immature. And she’s not nearly as pretty as she thinks she is. She might be skinny and blonde, but that doesn’t make up for her horsey face or all the ugly on the inside.

Sassy helped me navigate the trials and tribulations of young Gen-X womanhood. It was the smart, feminist alternative to magazines like YM and Seventeen. It had articles that were about topics other than boys and makeup (although it had some of that too). I loved Sassy.

I also love the passive voice here, as though her own actions had nothing whatsoever to do with the “negative energy” in her life. The negative energy just sort of got “put” there somehow, you see!

Gross. :-(

I got a paltry 1.5% raise at my old job last year after a really good annual review, and then they cut our medical benefits and 401K contributions. These indignities combined with a variety of other issues prompted me to start looking for a new job. Two months later I got an offer from a more prestigious company in a…

XOJane is the meanest place on the internet. You couldn’t pay me enough money to submit an article there.

Here’s what lives in Central Florida ponds:

Urban Pinellas County isn’t too mosquito infested right now, and we’re a little too far north for crocodiles and Burmese pythons (I think, anyway). But I believe I read that central FL has a denser alligator population than pretty much anywhere else in the continental US, including the Everglades. And some of those…

This comment is so late I’m sure I will be permanently gray and nobody will ever read it, but I’m just going to put this out there anyway. I happen to live in Pinellas County, probably less than 15 minutes drive from the pond these girls died in.

Getting PreCheck last year was one of the better travel-related decisions I’ve made. I’ve already had to fly three times this year, and having PreCheck has not only saved me from having to stand in multiple huge lines, but just makes the whole security process so much less of a PITA. It’s so great to be able to just…

I live in Florida and I don’t even know what a manatee beach is. Can someone explain this term?

I thought Dubya was the worst president of my lifetime, and right now, staring down the barrel of President Trump or President Cruz, I'm actually starting to miss him a little....

Yeah, seriously. A million dollars will probably buy you a one-bedroom condo in SF right now.

“Blame would be something like, “You missed this deadline and now we all missed our deadlines.”

Never had bedbugs, but as a Floridian with cats who gets periodic flea infestations, I can wholeheartedly second the recommendation for diatomaceous earth. When we notice the fleas, we dose the cats with Frontline, and then spread D-earth on every flooring surface in the house as well as chairs, couches, beds, etc. We…

I had fibroids the size of a 5-month pregnancy. The period craziness basically fucked up my life 3 days a month without fail, and I was so anemic I was at risk of a stroke. The best day of my life was the day I got a hysterectomy. I am now 7 months out from hyst and feel better than I have in a decade. Completely and…

I feel that way too. And also, 6 months post-surgery, my libido is back in a way it hasn't been for 10 years. My husband is extremely happy. ;-) I have a hypothesis that the anemia I was suffering with for years was dampening my normal sexual self, to the point where I thought I was becoming asexual or something. Now…