I had to read your post twice because I couldn't believe that someone expressed some of my thoughts for me. The love I have for my 3 kids is almost suffocating sometimes. The older they get, the more crazy I am about them (yes, even the 2 teenagers...). But here's the thing and this might be where we differ (for…

Hugs to you and thank you for the painful admission. It's comforting to me because my kids are the only reason I'm still here but it's not an admission that I trust making to most audiences.

I feel like I've heard from a Mr. Fat_Tit_Lover here in Chicago. Perhaps there weren't underscores and I head from the Original FTL. Incidentally, I recently received this message from a Mr. SilverFocks who lives in another city and who decided he just couldn't sit back and allow my remark- "if you voted for Romney…

I have 15 yr old and 13 yr old boys (and an almost-10 yr old girl, but I'm not there yet with her) and I have to admit that whenever I read stories that involve younger teenagers drinking, I wonder if maybe my kids are too naive. My kids are home pretty much every weekend night and when they aren't, they are over a…

I'm no defender of the use of Gisele in this ad (ahem, loads of inspiring female athletes to choose from to hawk your shitty (my opinion) work out clothes), but I didn't *have* to work out or worry about my skin until my 30s. Now that I'm in my 40s, I have to work out 5-6 times/week just so I can eat a sandwich and…

I agree 100%. Look, I'm 45 years old and the mother of 3. Do I wake my ass up at 5:30am every day to work out so I can—fingers crossed!— look like Gisele? Please. I'm not delusional. I work out because I love how empowering it is. I work out for the strength it builds. I work out because it's a nice addition to…

This is going to be the most oft used gif by me EVER. Which tells you a whole depressing lot about my life.

You're wrong; I get it completely. I don't care that he was already punished (you call that punishment?). Many people lose their jobs because of their off-work behavior, even when they are also punished under the law. The two events are not mutually exclusive. I know for a fact that my employer would surely fire my…

You fellow grammar nerds really warm my heart. Thanks for restoring my faith in humanity.

"A man kicks a dog and he should lose his job?" A) you don't even need to watch the video to understand that the monster did far more than "kick" the dog; and B) yes, I believe he actually should lose his job if he "just" kicks a dog. If he can lawfully be fired for something stupid like wearing a yellow shirt on…

No f'ing doubt. I just got done wasting 20 minutes of my life reading some Facebook thread of morons talk ad nauseum about the alleged robbery that had NOTHING to do with Mike's shooting. Out of the ~50 people who commented, only ONE person mentioned that the irrelevancy of his alleged prior acts. (I didn't because…

"I didn't want to die, per se, I wanted to stop hurting."

I'm in my 40s and I grew up loving the guy (Mork & Mindy, Mrs. Doubtfire, etc.). Wow. What a warm smile. What a talent. As a generally miserable person who has suffered from chronic depression her entire life, hearing about a suicide is always really difficult for me, but this one is especially hard to swallow.

Me, too, minus the better sex (desolate wasteland) and great ass (not meant to be). It's approximately one hour of mediation (albeit on the self-loathing side), when all I'm thinking about is the next exercise and beating my partner or my partner and I beating everyone else. I'm not thinking about work, my kids, my…

You just made this shitty Wednesday less shitty, my friend. Thank you, and right back atcha!

Cheers to you for saying that. Mom of 3 older kids here and I gotta say that nothing makes me roll my eyes harder than another mom trying to pass off a purely anecdotal experience as The Way [Pregnancy/Labor/Breastfeeding/General Parenthood] is For Everyone. I read the first reference to farts and thought I misread…

There's no confusion here. The 4 methods of contraception that Hobby Lobby takes issue with are Plan B, Ella, and the two IUDs, ParaGard and Mirena. I have a Mirena IUD and I haven't been laid in 18 months (as of July 26, but who's counting? I hate my life), so there's nothing "emergency" about it. Same goes for…

Fair enough.

Love the last paragraph, but what you wrote in your first two paragraphs apply solely to your friend. My second was a VBAC; no tearing. My third was also a VBAC; tore a little bit. She was also 10.0 lbs. The tearing has nothing to do with whether the mom had a prior c-section. Also, I didn't opt for a VBAC so I…

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