I saw Hot Fuzz five times in the theater, and it’s the ONLY movie I’ve ever gone back to see more than once. The surprise savior swan still gets me every damn time.

Really, even a person WITHOUT Alzheimer’s can’t consent to all future sex acts. If I put in writing that my SO can have sex with me anytime he wishes, and then he does exactly that at a time I’m saying (and meaning) no...that’s rape. Morally most certainly, and I’m pretty sure legally as well, even if the ‘contract’…

I don’t think any of those things are gross, really. But posting a picture of it online for the world to see? Now THAT is gross.

The invite is due to the person wanting me to attend, but that has no bearing on my desire to do so. There are some things I just flat don’t enjoy...happy hour being one of them. As a person who does not drink, hates crowds, and can’t stand loud music, I’m not going to spend time being miserable at a bar simply…

Um...no? I agree that it’s shitty not to have your kids attend other kids’ birthday parties, especially when said kid likely attended your own kid’s party at some prior or future point. Kids are a lot more frail. But as an adult, I’m by no means obligated to attend every invitation I receive, and I’ve never once heard…

I’m in a room with eight overstuffed bookcases AND I was read to all the time as a kid (one of my earliest memories is of my mother reading The Giver to me at bedroom) and I still think you’re being over the top.

Racism doesn’t need to occur in a vacuum to be real. I’m very glad you’ve overcome the teachings of your youth, but you WERE racist during the time that you ‘said and thought awful things.’ It doesn’t matter if your parents or community contributed to it...it was still just as real as someone who comes into it on…

Sure, of course. I absolutely believe her pain is real...not just to her, but ‘real’ in the general sense. I also believe the burning in her chest that she experiences with every new medication is real. And the itching. Doesn’t make it any less frustrating, though, when she constantly asks me why the doctors aren’t…

The really weird thing is that they decided to care out of the freaking blue. My cousin hasn’t had any contact with myself or mom in over two years...the other day she stopped by without a phone call, visited mom for about two hours, and then left and called everyone else in the family and told them I’m not taking…

If you do a lot of research into Morgellans and in particular visit the forums where sufferers gather, there is a very strong tie between Morgellans and belief in conspiracy theories like chem trails. Many sufferers believe they are being experimented on by the government or that they are infected with tiny aliens.…

LOL...I wish it worked like that! She has severe memory loss and problems with cognitive thinking, but the one thing she can still do on her own is ‘research’ drugs online. As soon as something new is prescribed, she runs online and reads all about the side effects...then comes down with ALL of them, often before…

easy to say, less easy to accomplish when you have someone literally following you around from room to room all day long telling you how sick they are and how much pain they’re in, but who blockades all attempts to provide solutions. Right now all of my siblings are talking behind my back about how I don’t care of mom…

I deal with this with my mother. If I bring up antidepressants, she gets enraged and screams that I think her pain ‘is all in her head.’ Her other constant retort is that I can’’t ‘tell her how she feels.’ I’m not trying to. I don’t care WHY she feels the way she does, I just want to find a solution for it.

• My cat started out as a feral kitten, so his social skills...leave something to be desired. He bites. A lot. Usually not hard enough to draw blood, but I wake up every morning with teeth in my throat. One morning he nipped my cheek and I managed to pull away at just the wrong angle, resulting in a truly impressive…

Every single time I try to get into Minecraft, I get just far in to establish a nice base when the game starts crashing to desktop with a warning that it isn't compatible with my version of Windows. After that it refuses to load at all. It just amuses me that I never have this problem from the start...it's always…

I always get into games late...it's my blessing and my curse (at least I never had to experience the original ending to Mass Effect.) I'd love to get into TF2, but I just assume everyone will hate me for being a newb this late in the game. Hell, the Medic is my wallpaper and I've never played. I have the same fear…

I was late to work once because I saw a woman standing on the side of the road holding up a dog Lion King style. I drove past her, realized the scene was really, well, weird, and turned around and went back to ask if everything was okay. She told me her dog was acting 'wrong' and she wanted to take him to a vet but…

Random story...I live with my mother as a caretaker. She has an absolute phobia of throwing out ANY food item because 'it will stink up the trash can'. This applies even in the dead of winter, when any food is going to be too cold to stink. We don't have a disposal...so her solution is to freeze every tiny scrap of…

That makes sense. I think most people DO get defensive when accused of doing something they aren't, especially something really hurtful. That's just a normal reaction. But the depth of the defensiveness can be very telling. I know with my mother, I can tell when she's stolen from me by how sharply she denies it. …

That doesn't make giving the ultimatum to stop seeing one's friends less abusive, though. Demanding that someone cut off outside connections is a huge red flag. It doesn't become less so if a woman if the one making the demand.