maetelle

What's sad is you could put this in an art museum and call it, like, The Futility of Christmas or something and get somebody to shell out thousands for it.

Got another one. Was sitting in the mezzanine section of a concert hall and needed to go down to another level for something. I was wearing brand new shoes that were overly grippy. I'd tripped mid-step several times. I went to walk down the tiny set of stairs and my right foot would… Read More

I was headed downstairs. Somehow I tripped and went sliding down with my right foot dragging underneath me. Didn't break it (by some miracle) but my cat was like "???????" when I finally came to rest on the floor.

The flu. Spending Christmas trying not to vomit. Do not recommend.

I should add that it's all good now. I'm actually getting paid now to do cross stitch for people! I've had two friends pick out patterns and pay me to make the gifts so they can give them to other people. It's a pretty sweet gig.

I have a friend who is pretty wealthy. Like she's taking a year off from work just because. When her daughter was born I offered to make a cross stitch birth announcement. It's habit for me to offer and then have the person go on Etsy and pick a pattern they'd like and then I buy… Read More

It's ridiculous to even be expected to write the note. Leaving that aside, I think it's best to find some way to ask where the kid heard the word. "What was the bad word you said in school? Hmm. Mommy and I don't know that word. Where did you hear it?" Something to that effect so… Read More

re: the upside down door. Every window in my house has some sort of perch under it for my cat. I call them her Snooping Spots. I also have privacy film on my back door...but it stops about two feet from the bottom. For her to look out and see her birds at the feeder.

He shouldn't have to. They're grown ass adults. He shouldn't have to become a parent to his own parents just to get them to stop being assholes.

This is a silly secret that barely fits here but it cracks me up. My dad passed away last year. Mom and I were going through the microfiche of his military records when I glanced and read out loud something about him "being very involved in Boy Scouts." My mom was surprised by this… Read More