Personally, I’m a boot snob - I have about 12 different pairs of black boots alone - but I do like me a nice shoe, and I have that tape dispenser shaped like a heeled shoe. I agree with you that this is a lot of NOPE. For one thing, completely aside from being hideous, the proportions are all goofy and very, very…

I was in an advanced program and had to take either choir or band, of the three electives offered at my middle school (home ec was the other one). I’m still mad about the fact that they wouldn’t let me take home ec, because let me tell you, I could have used those skills, but somehow, I don’t run into choirs that I…

This is actually correct. It could have been a giraffe, or a potted plant, or a dancing chair. It’s impossible to say “what” might pass someone at the Golden Globes.

This is the season of death and rebirth for Azaleans, as for so many others. However, January is the time that they celebrate the promise of the sacred chlorophyll; that’s their main calendar holiday. It started in ancient times, times so far removed from now that no Azalean can remember them, when the young, dormant…

Depends. I mean, yes, it SHOULD be the norm in office environments, though I’ve found that salary office jobs are not at all strict about things the way hourly places are, even when it’s all in an office. But I think the more significant issue in the post, and in my working experience, is what the culture of the…

I haven’t tried that yet, but it might help. I do sleep on my side (and I don’t think I move a lot in the night; I usually wake up on the same side, though my bf tells me I do move some) and I know that has its own risks because of how the spine is positioned, which is part of why I’m thinking a new mattress might…

My older cat recently added a second vocalization that I THINK is his attempt at a trill. Mostly he sounds like an angry goat, and I love thinking that what he thinks he’s saying goes something like this:

“Cattie Shack” is an abomination before the Lord, honestly.

Just don’t turn it too high. You may want to google a good temperature for her; if it’s an enclosed space, she obviously can’t get away if she overheats. I set my heater to come on at 50 F, which covers pretty much overnight, and my apartment holds heat surprisingly well so it stays warm enough to be comfortable for…

That kind of shit makes me RAGE. It is beyond unconscionable to abuse an animal in any case, and under those circumstances? I hope they never meet a person who treats them the way they have treated others.

This is how my cat, Apollo, became Lord Apollo “Merp-Merp” Merplederp, of the New Hampshire Merplederps.

I can’t decide if it’s working or not but I’m starting veeery slowly (we have a history of bad backs in my family, and my mom has had several collapsed vertebrae) with this thing where I lay on my back with my knees up and then lift my hips to make a diagonal line between shoulders and knees. I have a few other…

I feel you. I hope the interview goes in a way that gets your confidence back on track. Job hunting is the absolute worst and I would rather be trapped in an elevator with MRAs for three days than keep doing it.

Well, that escalated quickly on his part. Seriously, I have no patience with grown-ass adults who do that shit, and the fact he makes you the butt of jokes but you can’t do the same to him is messed up. Also, the kid is four. Dad is going to have some trouble when kid hits about 12 and thinks he’s the most garbagey…

Agreed regarding emotional distance, especially with dumped animals. Both of my current kitties were dumped irresponsibly for health issues (I actually know both of their previous owners, it’s all weird, but when I say irresponsibly, I mean “not taken to a shelter, just left alone/to starve”) and they had their own…

I’ve been reading through comments, so I’m late, but here I am, not revising my book, like a boss. Feeling better than this time last week (I still miss my dog, though) and at least in part it’s because I figured out the two things majorly wrong with the book so far (one: main character lacks the correct personality…

Yup. I haven’t heard from either loan co since. I’m sure they hear it so much that it sounds like an excuse, but I told the first guy that I just really did not have the information and please don’t call me - he was super understanding about that - and in the second, I was all “LET ME HELP YOU WITH THAT. YES SHE STILL…

I think it’s not acceptable that pot is seen as “no big”. This is not because I’m a prude (though I seem to be allergic to it and that colors how I view it ... also, I get told that it “isn’t possible” to be allergic to it because NAAAAATURE. I am also allergic to dust, chocolate, crab, cilantro, parmesan, scotch…

Hey! This MIGHT be a thing - I have been asked to be a guarantor for two (terrible) people, which is not a cosignatory situation. However, when I started getting calls asking for their addresses, in the first case I told them that I did not know anything about where the guy was (true) and that I could not help them.…

I am HOPING that I will not be back next week to tell you this one got away, but I am still waiting (they said they would let me know by Thursday, which is a big fat lie because no one ever makes a decision like that when they say they will). It is an odd combination of skills (though not as odd as the graphic design…