Taking BCPs, even though you are technically having a cycle, should shut down your natural cycle of hormones over time and replace it with an artificial one. This should give you relief from your hormone-related depression. I see that folks are suggesting that you skip the blank pills and just stay on the hormones…

I cannot go a single week without a picture of her! So cute!

This song may cheer you up over time. It’s by Nick Lowe, and here’s how it starts:

Please don’t apologize — fibromyalgia is a bear. I hope you are getting proper pain management (Lyrica? opiates? marijuana?) and good advice as well as medical tests and care and stuff. I used to confront fibro peripherally in my work, and I also deal with chronic pain in my own life. I only know three things that…

Oh, I’ve got to agree on this one. The hubby and I have been married 30 years now, and that was a huge, huge one for us. His parents were full of disapproval for us, and considered him, even though he is a fine upstanding man who is of excellent character and self-supporting and stuff, to be a black sheep. It kind…

I had had a bunch of miscarriages, so I waited 5 months to tell anyone but my therapist and my best girlfriend. It was pretty obvious by then, though!

I’m psyched!

Children are not distributed to people based on how qualified and interested they are. I learned this the hard way. It’s a sick world.

Chase is among the worst. I changed to a credit union after 2008 and I have been very happy.

I love Sarah Silverman’s political stuff, except for the last convention, when she was smug and unpleasing. I’m hoping for another series like “Call your Bubbe” for the 2018 elections!

Lovely!

That one put me right over the edge, I swear. I may have started looking at pitchforks online at Gardener’s Supply.

I am slowly rebuilding my understanding of the legislative process that has been pushed out of my brain since I lived in D.C., and was also a Congressional page.

Yeah, but at least now we know what’s going on....

I love your handle.

Can you guys unload him? I would send money to help primary him....

Damn, I’m sorry.

Me, neither.

Please eat a bunch of brightly colored vegetables or whatever it takes and hold out! We need you.

Oh, you got that in one.