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My partner has always made more than me, and we put everything into a joint account. We used to fight about personal discretionary spending, and eventually settled on a strategy where we each get an "allowance" every pay period that we can spend on whatever we want without having… Read More

I spent a long time picking out an awesome hors d'oeuvres buffet and hardly ate any of it!

A man once told me I was wrong about what kind of apple *I liked*. He said that if I liked sweet apples (also incorrect; he liked sour ones), I could do better than Honeycrisp.

My friend Byron once got "pirate" on his cup.

I was recently told that I was wrong about what kind of apple I liked. Specifically, if I wanted a sweet apple (also wrong, he preferred sour apples), I could do better than the overrated Honeycrisp.

We had a young male substitute yoga teacher one day. I was modifying a pose due to a shoulder injury. He noticed and then proceeded to come near me at every pose change to say "here's an easier option *for you*" even though I didn't need mods for any other poses that didn't involve… Read More

Basically, my mother is the most passive-agressive situation. For my 40th birthday, she sent me a dollar store vegetable peeler. The same year, she sent my husband a $50 bill for his 43rd birthday. Last year for Christmas, in addition to some gifts, she sent each of us a separate… Read More

I used to not wear bright colours and form fitting outfits. Then I stopped giving a fuck and wore what I liked. Apparently I like bright and/or tight!

This is Elsa. She's 14, so she's not named after the Disney Elsa. She was a feral kitten who we adopted at age 3 weeks. She was the size of a chipmunk. We had to feed her with a syringe and teach her how to use the litter box. She's the softest cat ever.

Not a birthday present, but among other gifts last Christmas she sent me a cheque for $30 and my husband a separate cheque for $50.