Back in the Pleistocene, I just said to my then boyfriend, when we were in the tub, “we need to have the talk. Do you want to be monogamous or what?” He said yes. Reader, I married him, 3 yrs later. 11,700 years later we are still happy and together, encased in amber. 

Jezzies, has anyone ever gotten cold feet about getting married? Or called off an engagement? Or did you not call off a wedding/engagement, and then wish you’d called it off in retrospect?

Feeling excited but very nervous about going to college in a few weeks. Ahh, adulthood!

Does anyone else have parents who can’t be bothered to keep their houses from descending into a decades long spiral into squalor?

Eat it standing in front of the open fridge door.

This does sound scary, but breathe deep—you’re ok now. You didn’t tell him even generally where you live, and you GTFO. Your instincts served you well. I’m so glad it ended when it did. 

Fuck I’m really creeped out and feel so uneasy. It’s 3.30am here and after a night out I went to Mcdonalds drive thru. I parked my car near the restaurant and started to eat. There were some minivans with workers going home. The second they left a dude creeps out from the bushes near me and asks me for directions to a…

Congratulations! That's one of my favorite sounds, second only to trains in the distance.

I’m single again for the first time in 6 years and while I’m not ready to date seriously yet, I’m very ready to go have casual sex again and I know it’s supposed to be easy and yet ???? I’m on Tinder but so far I haven’t actually followed through with it too much. At first I was matching with guys that I probably…

After having my own apartment for seven years and having enough $$ to have a dog for at least as long, I finally adopted a doggo yesterday! Her name is BB and she is very cute and loving. She even came potty trained! Her only “flaw” is some separation anxiety, so I’m a bit anxious about work on Monday, but I have a…

I keep confusing Extinction with Annihilation. I really hope the latter isn’t stupid, since I loved the book.

Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom was so dumb that I felt personally insulted. At no point during that entire movie did anything happen that remotely made any sense..... and saying that about a Jurassic movie is saying a lot. 

A lot of those women became millionaires and even billionaires selling young girls a body image that was no more real than anime. There is value in pointing out how much of a lie the image is. And I have to ask, is the lie not misogyny? Is photoshop, hours of make up, surgery, and a team of experts to post a single…

WTF does that guy mean?? “Payback” for WHAT?? Filling his childhood imagination with wonder? What does this guy think the sharks did to him??

Awesome news! I was on Prozac back in 2000, and the only thing it did for me was lead me to self-harm. Glad to hear that the Zoloft was what was needed to help things along.

I had kind of a major breakthrough in therapy. I had been feeling like my therapist and dietician were teaming up against me. I finally realized they were teaming up against my eating disorder. I was protecting the ED because I identified so strongly with it, it felt like they were attacking me. I’ve had an ED most…

I started a new job in mid May that I’m not entirely qualified for.  My boss moved up my 90 day review (which was originally scheduled for August 14) because he wanted to let me know what a difference I have made to the company, how impressed he is with how quickly I've learned, and how much easier I have made his…

Nothing particular from me (though I was able to help out a couple friends last Saturday, which was gratifying), but my husband finally finished his beadwork piece:

Do not take a job as a secretary. Don’t do it. There is nothing wrong with being a secretary, but if you don’t want to be one, the easiest way to get pigeonholed for YEARS in secretarial work is to take a job as a secretary. It is VERY hard to break from secretarial to analytical types of work. I took a…

What interesting thing did you learn today? I learned the reason cats attack you when you rub their belly is because they think we’re especially incapable cats and they are trying to teach us to defend ourselves, just like they do for kittens. I don’t know if this is 100% true, but it amused me because my cat does not…