I’m pregnant with my first now and if he’d been a girl, he’d have been Margo! Love that name!

I don’t find his looks soooooo handsome, but his radio persona + his nerdy, taltall looks really does it for me.

Oh Jesus. Kai Ryssdal is my celebrity crush. I get all fluttery seeing his name spelled out, and then having flash back to his smooth radio persona voice doing the Marketplace intro.

I love how toddlers move like they’re in an underwater ballet or something. Adults really don’t use their arms enough when talking.

I am super hooked on this website: http://hookedonhouses.net/category/house…. It really breaks down the houses in movies and on TV and shows how unrealistically opulent the vast majority of Hollywood houses are. It’s like the real estate version of this 2013 Jez post breaking down the cost of the outfits on Parks &…

Your use of hotkeys = awesome.

Nah, I’m pregnant with my first now and feel very weirded out about this widespread deception I’m expected to participate in. I am honest to a fault, and I don’t see how lying to my kid would be enjoyable. But one mom I know said she had felt similarly, but seeing her kids get all jazzed about Santa made her feel…

Men who are good fathers are so attractive. These gifs...

There actually are receipts.

I am so sorry you lost your friend. Our companion animals’ lives are too short. Hugs.

Bernard was my celebrity crush when I was a child! I can recognize that actor in anything, from The Addams Family to Master of None! My husband is always like, “Is that Mr. Universe from Serenity?” And I’m like, “Wut.”

Thank you for such a personal, supportive response. I’m sorry you were aware of those dynamics growing up.

It was terrifying to have sex without protection that month. Most miserable sex of our lives. It turns out that I find “trying to have a baby” a complete libido killer. I am really glad we were buzzed when we conceived so the pressure was off and I can remember it as more fun than terrifying.

Also, I’m with you. Once you’re not using a method perfectly, you’re basically “trying.” It just didn’t feel like trying, and that was a relief after years and months of deep ambivalence.

I could see how ‘gaming the system’ is not entirely accurate. However, it’s hard to find entirely accurate ways of stating our sentiment at that moment.

You went a little darker than I wanted to, but I had a lot of similar thoughts while we decided to get pregnant. There is a lot of heartache in the world and I can’t guarantee my children’s futures, yet I love being part of a family and don’t want that to end when my parents eventually die, so I chose to have a kid.…

I think women get to choose which methods to use and how to use them, but I think leaving that decision entirely in their hands has resulted in a lot of accidental pregnancies the dudes were blindsided by. I’m pregnant with my first now, a boy, and I’m wondering what I should tell him about family planning. I’m…

This is really hard to talk about because so many people have such strong opinions about it. About half my acquaintances with children were the ambivalent, imperfect birth control users and a few of them have infuriated me by calling their pregnancies “birth control babies.” Um, no. You didn’t read the instructions,…

My parents will work (long, long hours) till they die and my husband’s parents live out of state, so whenever people badgered us to have kids and waxed on about how you just make it work, I was able to deduce that either they have family looking after their children and/or less debt/more income than we have.

I actually think it proves the opposite, that despite never watching the show, Jez wrote such a great piece that two years later I can recall it existed. Besides, that’s about how long it takes me to hear about a show before I start watching it. I’m like 2—3 years behind what’s current. Because of that piece, when…