One quick tale of human suckitude before I pack up and leave ( Read more... )

I'm in a community on Facebook called I Run 4 Michael. It matches runners up with special needs individuals (mostly kids) and we dedicate all our runs to our buddies. It's a really special group, and I love my buddy, Emma. There are tens of thousands of members in the group, and a lot of them are incredibly religious. There are constant calls for ( Read more... )

I had an abortion ( Read more... )

When I complain, I am not asking for advice or solutions. I am venting. My diet right now is THE SUCK and I bitch about it on Facebook and everyone is like "have you tried ____?" and I'm like Is ____ saag paneer? Or chocolate? Or even a bowl of fucking cereal? I don't want consolation prizes. I want what I can't have and I want to bitch about it.

I am shaking with rage right now and I just need to get this out of my system. I was driving home on TV highway today, and I had tweezers in my right hand, using them to scratch at an itchy spot under a callus on my left hand. My left hand was on the steering wheel (at 6 o'clock), and I was watching the road. All of a sudden, the driver next to me ( Read more... )

There's kind of a mini-scandal brewing in the bridge community right now. If you want to read about it in detail, start with this post on Bridgewinners and follow its links to go further down the rabbit hole, as I find myself doing right now. But here's the short version ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to share this story for a while. I often complain about both sexism and ageism in bridge, and in the finals of the IMP Pairs in Dallas, Jen and I got a huge helping of both from a pair of men in the penultimate round of the event. On the first board, they had a quick auction to 6N, I made a lead, dummy hit, and declarer started to ( Read more... )

If this is the biggest complaint in my marriage, I've got a pretty great relationship, but I need to vent about it for a moment ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning feeling fine. Then I got to work and my left eye was suddenly all blurry. It didn't go away and there was nothing in it, so I posted to Facebook, and everyone was like "that could be serious, get it checked out." I called a vision clinic near my office, described the condition, and the woman scheduled me an immediate ( Read more... )

Yesterday was not a good day.  I woke up to news that my husband's grandfather had passed away in the early morning.  This was completely expected and non-shocking, but it is still difficult for the family, McKenzie especially.  His dad came and got him from the regional, and I met everyone in Salem after work.  Most things are taken care of, and ( Read more... )