Is Piers releasing an album soon? After reading the Gwake gossip, it occurred to me that no one says this kind of idiotic crap unless they have an album coming out.

I don’t know about the stool and disco ball in the bathroom. It looks like an old partier’s place. And Atelier de Troupe sconces? I had to look that up.

Why do I love this child? There would be no room for her ‘sass’ if she were my child. Since she’s not, I have a soft spot for her. Of course, if I met her, she’d probably aim her good foot at it, but still...

She’s certainly the best thing to come out of the Jersey franchise.

Yes! My mom is from Ireland and I spelled color as colour. One nun treated me as though I was insane. Why would there be a u in color? There were lots of other weird gotchas my mom and I didn’t know were coming.

I think most women don’t feel geriatric in their late 30s or early 40s so it’s an eye-opener to find you’re considered that when you’re pregnant. Upset? Not so much. Confused is closer. So Advanced Maternal Age is a little better, but not much. Since the intention is to watch and react faster if there are any issues…

Yeah, but— they could dream up a better term. They’re educated, well meaning people. Some of them are creative and could change the term to something else that kindly says, ‘we need to watch you like a hawk and run tests we wouldn’t with someone younger than you.’

I became a mom for the first time at 40, had the second at 43. We waited, perhaps a bit too long, because of career, money, experiences, travel. We married at 30 so we knew we were going to be older parents and had a lot of things we wanted to do before we had kids. But other than the judgements of people around us,…

truly, madly, deeply

This is a real conversation. I am in a product meeting. I am a product marketing engineer. I was asked to get some coffee. Speechless and wounded, I sat in my seat. A few minutes later, the director of engineering asks why I haven’t gotten the coffee. Wimp that I am, I said I didn’t want coffee. Oh, and you don’t want…

Aggghhhh! So exhausting! So hateful! I’m sorry, banjella, that you know that speech so well.

You do have to be aggressive, but up to a point. I don’t think twice about going over someone’s head to get software completed, or documented, or the release notes legible. If I have to talk to your VP to get it done, I will. Now the two of you may call me an unreasonable bitch, but I would be a lot more unreasonable…

But then he ruined it by making it slow and “laid back”. He took a magnificent song about passion and desire and made it lazy and passionless.

Agreed. Possibly the worst song ever written. I feel like my ears bleed when I’m in proximity to it.

Yes! Because it’s insane to complain about laughter and the places that do, are horrible to work at. It’s always a red flag. Unless you work at a mortuary or something where laughter could be inappropriate now and then...

A million years ago, my second job after college was in Silicon Valley as a tech support specialist. We were expected to do way more than answer phones, and we were expected to work 10-12 hour days. Back then, I was a smoker and insisted on taking a lunch break, and a break in the morning as well as afternoon. All…

Agreed. Your hair looks great.

What teenage kid doesn’t resent the hell of their parents? If you give them everything you never had, then you spoiled them and set up unreal expectations. If you show them discipline and help manage their choices, you’re a controlling asshole. It’s no win. If you’re neat—they’ll be messy or neat in reaction to you,…

Thank you! I am happy to hear how it motivated you and WW worked. I did try many times and lost a bit, but was able to really lose on a modified paleo-type diet. Until I dropped 20lbs, all I heard about from my grandmother to doctor was try WW. Sadly, it does not work for everyone and I guess I was frustrated when I…

I’ve been on the program as recently as August 2014-March 2015. In that time I discovered high protein, somewhat higher fat diet helps me lose and keep off weight. I tried to do that in WW and it didn’t work. If you eat 4-6 ounces of lean meats per meal, you rack up 12 to 18 points of your 22 points per day right…