Thank you, Liss. I’m glad he was well enough to attend our wedding. My husband is an only child, and when his parents were divorced he stayed with his dad, so they had such a unique relationship. My father-in-law looked forward to traveling the world after he retired (which wasn’t far off from him when he passed…

Thanks BigMan, and I am so sorry to hear you lost your mom. I hope she’s with you every day in your heart. <3

THANK YOU Two2TARDIS!! I do too. Like how could you NOT love this crazy hair?!

Ugh, I am so sorry, Liss...It’s terrible, isn’t it. My father-in-law went through the same thing with lung cancer and passed away 4 months after we got married. And his oncologist was actually the same one who treated my mother, so despite how sick he was, he was getting damn good care. Sending you my love <3

Thank you, TeamTarth! She always tells the story about when her oncologist walked in the room “He was like Doogie Howswer. This kid was so young!” He was a few years out of med school and had trained under my grandmother’s oncologist so he felt confident in his ability. I never met him until 2011 when my father-in-law…

Aw thanks Maezeppa!!! I roasted her on my blog when she retired in the summer, and it had her whole office in tears (mostly laughing). Her signature phrase of “what’s up bitch?” and “back in the day...” were on signs all over the office, and I Facetimed her to thank her colleagues for putting up with her for 30 years…

Aw thank you NomNom!! I gotta say, through it all, and even know, she’s one tough broad. Her hair all grew back, and she has this cool-ass spiky hair style. Some lady chased her into a CVS to ask her what product she uses.

In 1987, when I was 10 years old, my mother had stage 3 non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Legitimately. I was TEN and watched my mom go through months of chemotherapy, and then 11 rounds of radiation treatment. I watched her down dozens of pills, many of which were not covered by insurance. I watched her lose all of her hair and…

I didn’t realize that there wasn’t a decoration on my Starbucks red cup until a few days ago when a snowman-adorned red cup came up in my Timehop feed. This has gotten out of fucking control...

Yep. Totally believe in Santa again.

I’m VERY SURE your brother and my sister knew each other! Don’t forget tennis stars whose names rhyme with Smartina Schmavratolova. Are you from SPF by chance?

I wound up meeting him in 2001 when The Monkees played a show in State College, PA. He was really really nice but he wouldn't stop staring at my boobs.

My sister worked as a bar manager & occasional server at a regional chain steakhouse in NJ near Dudley Moore’s home. He was a frequent guest with his caretaker and they were notoriously shitty customers and super shitty tippers.

My friend was so excited for the microdermabrasion groupon she had. Her skin was so messed up afterwards it looked like raw meat. No thanks.

We must work for the same company...

It looks like they stuck her head on a photo of Mariah Carey.

This is literally the best thing I’ve read all year. Cheers to 8 years and many, many more.

I would watch the shit out of that.

Oh TRUST me, I can destroy a stouffers French bread pizza like nobody’s business. But that’s along the lines of “actual pizza" versus someone putting ketchup on cardboard and calling it high fiber pizza.

It’s like the cauliflower pizza crust craze. Wanna know how I cut calories eating pizza? I don’t eat it every damn day, but when I do, it is real, legit, delicious, carby, greasy PIZZA, damnit!