Jezebels, I’m having one of those nights where I’m feeling intensely lonely, and not even the usual Netflix and sushi is helping.

That’s it - China has WON.

I also have fibro, and my luxury is multiple showers when I am in pain. Yes, I am in California. I am in California, and everything hurts. Like my skin hurts, and my bones. If I take 1-2 extra showers once in a while...yeah, I’m gonna do that. I let my lawn die. That has to count for something.

We are not even moderately rich...but look what my husband did! A local college library replaced their bookshelves, and he bought the old ones and built a library in our house!!! It’s the first time in our lives that we have more shelf space than books. It’s wonderful. (The whole room is full of bookshelves but this…

Yes, plus strip the bed daily and remake with freshly laundered and ironed sheets. I'd also love a very deep bathtub that is deep enough to cover my boobs and my knees at the SAME FUCKING TIME

I would build the most ridiculous fucking house. Not just average wealthy gaudy, but really awesome and weird. There are many requirements, some more weird than others: a environmentally-conscious as possible, huge porch, private balconies, an absolutely giant walk-in closet (the kind that has its own sitting room), a…

I don’t know about frivolous, but I have to use the pool and gym SO MUCH for my physical therapy. So I would build myself my own little fieldhouse with my own saline pool, a nice indoor track, gym equipment, and spiffy locker room with a great sauna, shower, and one of those suit-extractor things.

Cats instead of goats. They would have tunnels built through the house to run through.

Even though I've mostly gone ebook these days...

1) A Burberry trench coat. My mom gave me money to buy it but I cannot bring myself to do it. Thoughts?

I don’t have one specific frivolous item I would buy (except this newly discovered RAVE SHOWER), but I do spend a possibly-unhealthy amount of time decorating the fancy interior of my non-existant fancy house. I consider which Farrow & Ball paints I will use and which custom furniture I will buy. I daydream about…

I want a huge library with more books than I could ever read, with a wheeled ladder and everything. There would be a huge window to let in plenty of natural light, plants hanging from the ceiling, and floor-to-ceiling bookshelves.
There would be kids’ books on the bottom shelves and the nice, bound ones up high, and I…

God I thought the same thing. If Patrick Dempsey started hitting on me I would have a VERY hard time saying no.

What a coincidence, because I was thinking about Idris Elba when I broke my own speed record.

I don't drink caffeine but my cat is having some serious poop zoomies while I'm listening to this.

So many good ones but the one that I love the most is this convo.

My family went to see Jurassic Park the day it came out (which was a pretty big deal for my family, as movie tickets back then were pretty expensive and so a bit of a luxury). Needless to say, our local cinema was PACKED. During the scene when the cowardly lawyer gets eaten by the T-Rex, the moment he gets plucked off…

So my mom died when I was 6 from cancer. At my kindergarten “graduation” I was getting a special citizenship award and was really excited about it. The evening of the ceremony, I remeber my mom laying on the couch obviously in a ton of pain. I, being 6, was oblivious and demanded she get ready for my graduation. She…

About 10 years or so ago, one night when I was visiting from college, I admitted to my mom that I was smoking weed. I was scared because all through high school and middle school she’d tell me over and over how she’d never done drugs. I believed her of course.

My mom works in an inner city middle school as a teachers assistant. Basically it keeps her busy and she loves the kids she works with, which are the behavior kids. She has basically become a second mother to a lot of them and has some truly heartbreaking stories. One of the best was a kid whose mother had just died…