Thank you for this. I’m 38 with more grey than I’m comfortable with sometimes, and I’ve been tempted to start colouring it, but knowing I won’t be the only mid-30s woman in thew world who does makeup and cute clothes and long hair without colouring makes me feel better about staying natural.

To add in some new titles to the mix, I offer my favorites:

Sometimes I think we should all live in a nudist colony for a spell so that being naked around other people stops feeling so vulnerable. Or at least take up streaking as a national pastime.

I had to have it the second I saw it. Although, if I don't shut the bathroom door (I live alone, so the door is pretty much never shut) Omar can see me peeing. Sometimes I talk to him about my day.

The week I turned 40 I got the following piece of advice from an 86 year old.....

I just got followed by Jezebel this moment!

I LOOK REALLY GOOD RIGHT NOW AND I AM PUMPED TO GO OUT TONIGHT.

My husband is at the Mets game so I'm waiting on a Chinese food delivery to go with my wine. My daughter and I are settling in to watch the game on TV—poor hubby is going to freeze, it's cold today.

Bud light because it is in my fridge and I don't want to go get anything else. Lazy Saturday forever!!

1. Everyone who suggested I start watching The Wire last week—thank you. I am a woman obsessed now. I’m about halfway through season one, and I can’t get enough. I love that there are no clear heroes, that even the people you love fuck up spectacularly, and that the people you can’t stand or don’t care about when…

Two days in a row? Gasp!

I haven’t smoked since Sept 24!!!!!!!!!!! And I’ve started running again and wow, I can breathe. Sometimes I take a deep breath and I’m genuinely surprised how good it feels and that I don’t start coughing like crazy. Amazing.

Personally, I would give it more time, not because people can’t grow and change, but because it takes more than a few months to do so. I know several couples, myself included, that have had successful relationships with someone it din’t work out with in the past. But a big mark of that, in my limited experience, is…

Yeah, apart from dating a 13-year-old and conspiracy to commit a double homicide, he’s a really normal kid!

So handsome!

That point about compromise — a lot of people seem to view that as a bad word these days. When you say, “relationships require compromise,” some people will look at you like you just said, “relationships require disrespect and abuse.” The idea of accepting that you can’t have everything exactly the way you want it…

No matter what I do, my cat buddy is right there next to me, hanging out. In the bathroom? Check. Attempting to untangle things? “Helping.” Having some food? If I put down a plate, he will help me out by trying to bury it. Fun story, while typing, he stepped on my eye.

Sure, when Justin Bieber goes outside naked and people see him it’s a violation of his privacy. When I go outside my front door in my underwear and people see me I’m “drunk and disorderly” and “no longer welcome at public parks.”

Justin Bieber is aware that the entire internet has seen his penis

I REST MY CASE.