My mom got that Ikea highchair! We, on the other hand—classy folk that we are—pulled a high chair out of our across-the-street neighbors’ trash one evening.

I have to say, before the advent of daycare into our lives after the first year (I part-time worked from home, part-time sent him to family for the first year), it actually wasn’t that much. The only big ticket expense was the crib and dresser. We got a crib that converts to a toddler bed, so we’re still using it 3…

Winner winner chicken dinner.

Dude, yeah. And the biggest culprit in my daily life is a dude I work with. He’s a delightful human being and I wish him no ill whatsoever but his uptalk habits are really distracting.

Your local health department may provide some select immunizations for free. Give them a call.

When I decided to wean, yeah, that was not a fun week. I tried every old wive’s tale remedy in the book, up to and including sticking cabbage leaves in my bra. I got a clogged duct along the way (I was prone to those in Lefty) and had to spend hours in a warm shower massaging my aching boob trying to work the clog…

Please tell me you did this from memory.

I’d even say get TWO pumps, if you’re going back to work. Get a really nice one for work but get a beater (I know you’re not supposed to use a used breast pump butttt....) for home. That way you don’t have to haul that thing around with you.

And just like at a certain point you might piss yourself or shit your pants, for all the world to see, same happens with breastmilk. It starts to leak, and it is not a small amount, and you’re powerless to stop it. There’s no sphincter there. And the more you think about it, which prompts thinking about nursing your…

I used to get so much haterade on Gawker for calling Pizzolatto a misogynist hack.

I have zero interest in cruises, but I have always applied Rule #1 to my big vacations. I purchase as much as humanly possible in advance, and I pay cash or cash-equivalent. I tend to do a bit of a savings schedule where Phase 1 is saving enough for and purchasing my plane ticket, Phase 2 is saving enough to buy all…

I’ve been calorie counting really religiously for the past 4 months, have successfully lost 25 lbs, and none of the numbers that calculator gave me made any sense. They were all way, way higher than what I know I need to eat in order to lose a few pounds a month. I’m 5’6” and currently 164 lbs and my calorie counting…

All those Romans were just straight up dicks. Dicks all the way down.

Does it work on an actual computer I can plug into my TV, though? (I think expecting a channel on my oldscchool Wii is probably unrealistic, but how does one watch this on not-a-phone?)

Oh, mos def true. And the kids of Sea Org members have a very different experience from public members. But definitely in the case of Sea Org member kids, they seem to have no problem whatsoever traumatizing the hell out of them from a very young age.

Yeah, this is way more in line with what I’ve read. Maybe it’s different for the children of celebrities, just in case someone who the press pays attention to starts to talk about it? I wouldn’t put that kind of thing past the COS.

That goes very much against everything I’ve read about what happens to the children of Sea Org members. They’re basically warehoused in work camps and not educated at all. See: Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige Hill. The justification is that children aren’t actually chilren, they’re just smaller-statured vessels for…

Define “desperate enough.” I’m a comfortably middle class full-time employed happily married woman with one child already. I don’t want any more. If my IUD were to fail, I would probably terminate. I wouldn’t be plunged into abject poverty by having another child, I just don’t want one.

That’s an accomplishment whether it’s a 15-minute 5K or a 30-minute one.