Thanks for the suggestions! I also will never return things I buy online. It’s just too much work, dammit. I did order a couple of pairs of pants from the Loft for work and a sweater that was a disaster. For the first time in my life, I returned the sweater. It ended up costing me $8 to send back. That was my reward…

Are you me? I love dinosaurs and nachos and have ridiculous boobs that are now doubly ridiculous because of pregnancy. I am currently doing the four-boob look with an 36-H cup and I have NO IDEA where or how to find a damn nursing bra that is going to do me any good at all.

The hospital where we are delivering provides it as an option, but reminds you to check with your insurance company to see if this visit is covered. I have some cherry insurance, so it is, but I asked the hospital rep how many people have this covered by insurance and she said “maybe one in ten”.

People are assholes. It’s not a big ask to be called by your given name. It's really their problem.

Okay, so admission time. The first time I ever heard of Sarah Palin was on Frontline or something, a PBS program about drilling in the Arctic. She seemed pretty put together and reasonable. When McCain picked her, I thought, “oh yeah, that governor from Alaska. She might be a good choice.” Boy howdy. So I don’t know…

Always a second opinion. My parents’ dog had a spinal embolism when she was three. First vet told them and said, “so I will put her down for you.” My mom freaked. While my mom was crying hysterically, my dad just walked into the exam room, picked up the dog and walked out the front door. They went to another be…

I am well awake that Donna was a character that Retta played, but I still told a coworker last week, “do you know Retta is related to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf AND Ginuwine...wait, she is not actually related to Ginuwine, scratch that."

Oh God. That sucks. She is such an amazing actress. Apparently not such an amazing person.

I remember seeing him on Entertainment Tonight back when he and Camille were first together and he was being kind of ooky about how amazing she was. My grandma, red her psychological deft soul, said, “that woman is going to be perfect for him until he decides she isn’t worth the dirt on his shoes. I hope they don’t…

No, your comment illustrates what I am saying. No one should give your wife the business either. My mom was sick the entire time she was pregnant with me. The only things she could manage not to throw up were saltines. She gained eight pounds. I was fine. With my brother she gained 35 (she is 5 feet so it looked like…

I also went to college with a dude from Texas who would wear flip-flops and shorts every time it went below zero to “prove that Texans have more balls than Minnesotans”. People are weird about being extremists.

Normally I feel pretty neutral toward all celebrity, but Pink is a kick-ass lady and if anything bad ever happens with her and Corey Hart again I will need to take a day off work to process through it.

My irrational love for Pink as a person (even though I don’t really care about her music) is enough for me to be Team Gaga.

OH GOD! NO ONE SHOULD MAKE REBA WAIT!

Okay. So because I got pregnant, the people who I normally talk about power curve models with at work now have the right to comment on the state of my body. You are ascribing intent that people are “excited and joyous” about my girth while likewise talking about how much you hate all of your pregnant friends. I am…

Chill, man. I am saying pretty much the same thing as you are. I am saying that *perhaps* some people take a little offense to AS talking about how fat she is when she is relatively svelte. This is not unlike the backlash Jennifer Lawrence got for talking about the gender pay gap even though she is well-compensated.…

you are totally right and thank you for telling me how I should feel. In getting pregnant I completely surrendered my right to not have my body openly judged by coworkers and strangers alike! Thanks!

Yes, you are bigger. You also feel it. The problem is the sane as the problem whenever anyone comments on changes in your body. It’s not nice to feel assessed and judged. Maybe it doesn’t feel offensive to everyone. The emotional world isn’t a monolith, but why not err on the side of not being offensive?

I did have one coworker, who had a kid about two years ago, chastise another coworker for saying I was “much bigger than I would think you should be at this stage”. Mostly I have just said things like, "well, I try to tell him to lay off the beer and chips, but..."

She is “fat” for her industry and is probably told so by power players on the regular. I agree it is a little tone deaf when most people are heavier than her, but it might be her reality. I am pregnant right now and the number of people who walk up to me and tell me I am HUGE (even though I am in the normal weight…