I used to have all kinds of fancy water bottles but they always ended up leaking!! Now I use the 4$ one I got from the grocery store about 2 years ago and it’s brilliant. Plus, if it gets lost or broken it’s no big deal, and it’s recyclable.

I had constant stomach aches throughout childhood and part of it was chronic anxiety due to a bad home life. I think I know exactly how you felt back then.

The pain wasn’t as bad as it could have been. Tylenol and ibuprofen was all I needed to manage pain. The thing that got me was just how long it takes for the muscles and nerves to get it together, long after the skin has healed.

Hahaha! My “all natural” birth to my son split my vagina like a banana peel. TMI but I got five 2nd degree tears and one of them was aiming for the clitoris. He’s 2 now and I am still in the process of regaining my pelvic floor strength.

“In order to make your life with them work, you have to change and grow and adapt, you have to learn from them, learn what motivates them and then use that against them to manipulate them into staying alive and not driving you to the edge of insanity.”

That was a.. revealing.. article. That shift in belief, and more importantly the shift in prominence of that particular belief, makes Gilead seem even nearer at hand. *shudder*

There were a few Wives that could bear children, they were mentioned briefly in passing. The more important point was that the Wives would parent the children ‘correctly’, unlike those filthy Handmaids.

I really really like your interpretation. At first I was ‘boo too young’ but thinking about it from your side of things I think it will make a poignant image.

I’m so sorry, I hope one day you’ll be free from those voices too.

Thanks very much!

Can you expand on that? I’m Canadian and have no clue about how class is expressed.

DAT FANNY PACK THO

*hugs*

I’m Canadian but I cried for days after your election. It took a lot of serious thought for me to figure out why I was taking things so badly. It came down to realizing that my worldview, that most people are fundamentally altruistic deep down in their cores, was wrong. Dead wrong.

Quick! Get the baking soda!

Yeah! Let’s slip away under cover of afternoon in the biggest car in the county!

Paging doctor Jemima

Not since Ted Kennedy in a barney suit!

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My face swelled for 3 weeks, with my eyes nearly shut, after a single application of benzoyl peroxide cream that was given to me by my doctor.