I have invited my Somali friend and her son to celebrate Friendsgiving with me and my kid Wednesday night and tomorrow is our family dinner. My husband works at 2 psych hospitals so he will be working every night this week but tomorrow.

I’ve got a 5 year old so I know what you mean. I recently had a full-blown bells and whistles panic attack and it was the first one I've ever had. I've had moments in the past where I froze or where my heart started pounding and I got tunnel vision, but this was something the fuck else. I'm not generally ruled by fear…

Perfect sense. I am terrified of dental visits and leery of ophthalmologist appointments so it took me a while to figure out the commonality. My therapist had me start at the end and work my way to the reaction, but I bet your method is less stressful still. Thank you.

I will find that blog and read it. Journaling doesn’t work for me, it seems to reinforce the experience, but I sometimes talk thru the situation in an audio recording so I can listen to my breathing and word choice later. Similar!

Thanks Phoebe!

❤ I love you, Derby. Thanks for sharing.

Fear is the stupidest emotion. Can you reason with it? Not usually. Can you beat it into submission? Debatable. Can you outsmart it? Tell me how.

Oof. Hope this Thanksgiving is better, Mr Swanson.

Jeans have a body type and cut requirement that’s not very accessible for everyone. Adding lycra to them has helped, but there’s still a large part of humanity that won’t look as good as a small part of humanity.

*wails in too-broke*

I am jealous past words at the Dyson dryer. Have you gotten to use it yet?

The watermelon one definitely has no coconut product in it. Good luck!

Mine’s witching hour was relatively early, something like 1030 to midnightish. I got pretty lucky. Plus, he didn’t cry constantly, just when I tried to put him down. That was fun. :) Hopefully Tiny Baby outgrows this before too long. Mine did it for maybe 3 months, but they were miserable for sure.

I switched to SunBum and it’s fucking amazing, but I think it does have coconut in it. Have you tried Maui Moisture? They have a really good line that I like, tho they do nothing for my curls.

Ah meth.

We didn’t have quotes but

I like this. I like you.

A-fucking-men.

I just want it to be over.

Objecting to group based on variance is a reasonable stance. After all, the true core demographic of ‘boomers’ that most find reprehensible is actually very small, specifically white middle class fundamentalist Christians. My willingness to use this term against them is that the ones most likely to receive this insult…