I started a monthly donation to PP yesterday! I look forward to sharing this with my evangelical sister in law when she starts on about how she didn’t have an abortion (you know, when she got knocked up by a guy who was not her husband). Fun fun!

“Who carries Chapstick around with them?”

Ours do in Virginia. Also, the DOJ maintains a list with links to each state. I’ve found it to be quite useful. (I hire people...I don’t just check out sex offender registries for fun :)

I joined the English honor society in college solely because it was called Sigma Tau Delta...STD. To be fair, I was an English major so it made sense. But then I doubled down and lobbied the administration to change our motto to “STD: Catch It!”. Also, I’m not ashamed of any of this!

I grew up in a town of 2,000 and I wouldn’t even describe that as remote. 55,000 isn’t small at all. What a nut.

Stuff like this makes me glad I was homeschooled. I was a weird, quiet kid and would’ve gotten the crap beat out of me in a public school. My husband went to public schools in the county we grew up in and it sounds completely awful.

So, I’m a cop and I worked patrol in a heavily populated area and we would often get calls about the Mormon missionaries “soliciting”. (To solicit where I work, you usually have to have a permit...talking about religion is not soliciting so no permit required.) I always secretly hoped they would try to convert me but…

Oh I like that! It really hammers home the point that “no” is a real option.

I awkwardly say “ha ha I’m not much of a hugger” while waving. I’m a little awkward so it works...

Oh my god, I had a bonnet in 3rd grade too! I was also on a big sewing kick and would make little pillows and shit. There’s a picture of me sitting on a stool in the kitchen, sewing an apron and wearing my bonnet and not smiling (I never smiled in pictures...no idea why). I look like the saddest little creature ever…

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I’m an EMT and had a doctor stop at a car crash to assist once. A doctor on scene really isn’t helpful at all because we just have the equipment we have but we try to be polite to everyone. Asked what kind of doctor he was and he said he was a podiatrist. Thanks but...no thanks...

The Newseum is awesome and it shares a building with The Source which has an amazing brunch!

In DC, do a Segway tour! I’ve lived in the area all my life so I’ve seen all the tourist stuff but it was such a neat way to see everything. My best friend and I did one a couple years ago and it was a great, super fun way to visit a ton of sites. You can pick your favorites and go back later if you want more time…

I’m in sign language interpreter school (first year, so the very beginning) and I got into a conversation about something in ASL on a break from class and it was the first moment that I’ve been like “oh, I can actually communicate in this language”. It was small but super exciting!

I agree with this. We have Animal Control where I live and, while they have arrest powers, they’re highly geared toward educating owners. These animals are suffering and they either need to be removed or the care needs to changed drastically.

I just paid $600 to have my cat’s teeth cleaned (and one extraction). The price was a lot of money for me so I had to save up but now I wish I’d done it years earlier. He’s so much happier and eats his food cheerfully and his breath doesn’t smell at all! The cost + having him under anesthesia freaked me out but I’m so…

You know, I’ve heard the comparison between “high” Swedish taxes and these mysteriously low ones we have here in the US and, yet, when I look at my paycheck, $700ish in taxes, etc. has been taken from my $2200 check. It happens every time, too... 😁

I had a fungal infection on my toe last year and it was awful! Oral meds that required me to stay out of the sun (+ a mandatory work trip to the beach), oozing toe, and, eventually, the nail coming off. Yuck! I’m even more methodical about my foot washing now.

I do! I use a pouf/loofah/whatever you want to call it (and I change it every month) and I scrub my legs just like the rest of me. I shave them maybe 3 times a year so they’re furry more often than not but it’s very fine, blond hair that isn’t really noticeable unless you’re weirdly close to my legs.