No, it wasn’t even that. I don’t remember. Best tip is get and use good sunscreen on your face every day— like lotion that has it in it. And then get an even more heavy duty one (with zinc) for when you will really be out in the sun like for a walk or something. Face wash is all the same unless you need a kind that…

Yea, either her skin looked good before, or she just wasn’t taking care of it. There’s no magic in their stuff.

These companies are huge on the whole “you don’t have to work” angle. It gets a little suffocating and gross because all the chicks who sell the stuff post all this crap about how they make all this money while still being good moms, raising their own kids, etc. I mean, be a SAHM all you want, it’s great! But don’t…

In fairness, it’s a non-work lawyer FB group. But still. It’s a skincare line, just like any other you’d see in Sephora or at your dermatologist, but they only sell through the pyramid scheme method. They have some stupid story about how they just didn’t like selling in stores or something. It’s ok stuff, but it’s…

Rodan and Fields skincare and Stella and Dot jewelry are the ones in my orbit. Both not bad products, just not really good either and certainly not worth dealing with the whole friend-saleperson thing.

I had a woman from college (who I also knew through mutual friends) message me on FB randomly asking to call me. I thought there was some issue with one of our mutual friends, or it was a job networking thing. No, she wanted to talk to me about her “new business.” Which turned out to be another pyramid scheme called…

What’s killing me right now are the fucking Rodan and Fields chicks. I belong to a FB group for lawyers that I thought wouldn’t have such stuff, but they are everywhere. They have a superpower of knowing when anyone, anywhere brings up the topic of skincare. Their shit is fine, but it’s a gimmick to get people to buy…

My family is now used to me screaming like a banchee whenever anyone is on their way over to our house. They know what “put the living room back together” means (all those couch pillows on the floor? put them the fuck back! get your shit off the coffee table!)

Every weekend my husband goes, just maintaining our household is so much work. It really is. Just the weekly grocery shopping, cleaning out the fridge of old shit, putting stuff away, and then cooking, cleaning up after cooking. All just so we don’t die of starvation. And that’s before we’ve dealt with any laundry,…

My story is pretty much the same. But I think my old firm got better about it in the years after I left, and I know they started making part time partners. That and some women were cool with working nonstop. There’s one who lives like an hour away on top of the crazy hours. It’s just not a job for people who want a…

I think what she’s talking about is FMLA allows an employer to recover amounts it paid for an employee’s health benefits while on leave if they don’t return after an FMLA leave. It’s sort of turned into an urban myth that they can make you pay back your paid leave benefits (disability, actual maternity/paternity…

Yep. I worked at one of the largest, and when I was pregnant I was on campus interviewing poster girl. They loved it. Day to day with two kids under two, that was a different story. But it all worked out in the end.

Um, no they don’t. I worked at one of the biggest for 10 years and had both my kids there. Plus I interviewed dozens of student candidates.

I finally saw Moana this weekend— my kids had seen it with my sitter. It was so good! I didn’t have high expectations but I really loved it.

I think the thing that’s really killing me about it is those mouth breathers are joined, to some extent, by a lot of the wealthy, educated people in my very blue coastal CA area who could justify anything if it meant “lower taxes and less regulation.” Probably some bible and guns in there, too. Most of them can’t…

I my 13 year old son, 11 year old daughter and her friend. My son kept leaning over to me and whispering “Stockholm Syndrome!”

Excellent point, but reading quotes from some of them is pretty demoralizing. The same way it is when they do one of those street interviews and ask people things like, what century did WWII happen?

Yep. Could you imagine going inside the mind of someone who not only likes him, but would actually go to one of these? It’s about the point you lose all hope.

Dresses like that are super popular as work attire now. It’s nice to avoid suits, but I always feel like I’m a Fox anchor when I wear one.

I have a 13 year old son and I’m fond of making this point to other moms. It’s fun to watch their eyes get big.