“Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.’”

I am sorry you are having such a hard time but I am glad that you reached out to us

Her name is Louise Hung - you’re very welcome (and SO good looking!)
LOL - HA!

Love how the tabby stripes play off the tartan plaid!

I need help! What was the last name of the blogger named Louise that sometimes wrote on Jezebel a few years back? She temporarily lived in Japan, was obsessed with cats and ghosts? A friend is going to move to Japan, and I wanted to share her writing. Thanks in advance!

I have the opposite problem - Graves. I have heard that once the Synthroid kicks in you feel much better BUT I think you should say f’em and not work at all at the “part time” job. Anything thyroid is messing with energy/metabolism and people just don’t understand how it isn’t under your control and you don’t have any…

ha ha - i like the hanging planter idea, and could just see someone touching it, then realizing what it is and recoiling, horrified.

some of us have anatomy that won’t let us use cups without leaks :(

the leaking might be due to your tipped uterus (?). I had leaking too, when the cup was only half full, so I asked my gyno if she saw anything that would cause the leak and she said yes, that I have a fibroid inside my uterus but close enough to my cervix to deform it enough that the cup won’t seal, so I wasted $30 on…

it is going to sound trendy, but I have found intermittent fasting (only eating for a certain set number of hours a day) has really worked well for me. I usually restrict my eating to 8 hours, between 9 and 5 or 10 and 6. It makes snacking off-limits, and forces me to eat during somewhat normal times, instead of before…

you’ve got a doppelganger! scary!

kinda OT, but has anyone else been hearing strange noises since reading the scary stories? i am not usually jumpy, but there have been some unfamiliar sounds in the dark as I am trying to get to sleep...

so the attorney tells Mickey Mouse that he doesn’t think the judge will grant a divorce just because Minnie is a little crazy. Mickey says, “For the last time, I didn’t say she was crazy, I said she was FUCKING GOOFY!”

crying! OMG, this is too funny!

crackpot? not crap-pot? ;)

and one more thing - get a female doctor. male MDs are notorious for not taking women’s complaints seriously. exercise more, seriously? i think it was either Jez or one of the sister sites that had a story about survival rates for heart attacks for women seeing male vs female doctors.

what’s up, Flops? always interested to hear how the recent Bay Area emigrant is doing in LA-LA-Land. makes me wonder how much longer I can tough it out and whether I will be homeless when I no longer can. Feeling kinda stuck, so living vicariously through you unstucking yourself, even if it wasn’t exactly what you…

insist they check your thyroid levels, too, if they haven’t already. my thyroid was out of whack and I was having some of the same symptoms - breathessness after what had previously been easy effort, exhaustion, etc. Good luck & keep us posted.

I am probably way too late but I thought I would ask for advice anyway. I hired my first employee last month (yay!) and everything has been fairly smooth so far. Since we work in a print shop and things can get messy (& hot), I said that she can pretty much wear whatever she likes, as long as she doesn’t mind if it…

You can’t care for them in place of them caring for themselves.
It may sound harsh, but after a decade it may be time to cut your losses. Being co-dependent in a relationship makes you focus so much on them that you are all but forgotten about. You need time alone to heal from your co-dependency & perhaps have a shot…