I do this already and people think I’m nuts. But it works! 

Hell, I could go to my gyn and ask to get my tubes tied because I have no use for this child making portion of my anatomy, and I’d probably get a long run around about future me, and future decisions, and future men who are somehow going to magically convince me I want to have children. I’d have to work to find…

In the case of a person’s death, unless you murdered them or caused their death by direct complete and utter neglect—it is not your fault. Not your fault. It is your brain trying anything to claw at something stable or static in the blender that is grief. It’s irrational, and useless, and hurtful, but it makes more…

“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”

Yep. And thus it’s considered outside of state control AND too alienating to visitors to ask them to do these things. The only good thing is that we are exiting busy travel season and entering local visiting season, and the locals have been well trained on masks and have above a 80% compliance rate. 

The prednisone energy and prednisone hunger are real. So is the prednisone heartburn and nausea.

I have four or five of those crocks and they are probably about 75 years old now and I love them. I hope yours are equally loved. 

hahahahaha amazing. 

bahaha, I haven’t, but that sounds like a hoot. 

It’s a hell of a drug and does great things, but ughhh. Everything else is in overdrive.

We’ve been given great leeway to insist on the 6ft thing. It’s our only recourse—we’re allowed to walk away from people we feel are too close.

It was too warm in my kitchen and it was melllltttting. I felt like I was in the great british bake off, tossing it back in the fridge every two minutes while my fridge screamed at me for having the door open too long while I tried to keep the layers from sliding off each other. 

I’ve been on prednisone for bad asthma for the last few days and while my lungs are better I feel absolutely rubbish otherwise. I have to return to work with the public in the next few days, with a staff of 60 people and no requirements for mask wearing by staff or visitors.

We had one of the aunts over for a socially distanced evening, and since dude has FIVE AUNTIES everything has to be levels of perfect so I don’t become the point of auntie discussion/gossip. So I made a cake.

“I blame the TGI Friday’s test kitchen executive chef (a prepaid cellphone that Guy Fieri texts recipes to while high on whippets)“

Same. My boyfriend is Filipino and makes fun of my paleness regularly.  

Yeah, also a big fan, for all the reasons you listed. I’m glad they are widely available now--when I was a kid my mom had to order them from Australia and they were ugly. 

This is true, but ‘who would win in the hellscape of American healthcare’ wasn’t the type of flex we were discussing. 

My birthday present from my mom last year was several sunshirts, to keep my bleak northern european self from turning in to a lobster every time I did anything outside.

Newborn piglet covered self bhahahahaha. That’s going to be my new description for my skin from now on.