Last week, my 25 year old coworker was going to work on his "piece of shit" Jeep and I mentioned Adam Sandler's Ode To My Car. Both him and my 19 year old coworker both went "Adam Sandler? The actor? I didn't know he made music". I crumbled to dust.
For me it was two things that were brushed aside: the first was hyperemesis gravidarum. All three of my pregnancies were SO hard and everyone kept saying that ginger and eating crackers before I got up would cure it. I was literally waking up to puke. It was all day, every day. I…Â
Why am I single? I'm funny, smart, sweet, amazing....I keep getting told. In reality, I'm just a time filler - someone to keep dudes ego boosted until they move on to someone else. It's cool though - I started to recognize the pattern and what my role in it was. So I worked on me…Â
Back before cell phones were really common/ necessary, I was walking home and noticed a car drive slowly past me. Didn't think much of it - maybe they were looking for an address or a parking place. Then they went by again. And they definitely weren't looking for parking as they passed…Â
#16: My ex- mother in law gave me one of her old wedding rings after her son and I got married. it was a beautiful platinum ring with two rows of sapphires and a row of diamonds. After I got pregnant, my ex wouldn't let me take the ring off. Sooo....about 3 weeks before I went into…Â
#3: Will it clean out the shards of broken shotglass the stupid "repair" company dropped in the disposal and never took out (instead, they filled the sink with dirty sponges and I guess assumed we'd never notice...?). Because that would be a lot easier than replacing the disposal…Â
I had a difficult relationship with my ex-husband (not entirely his fault - he had severe psychological problems). He constantly accused me of cheating and literally asked me multiple times a day if the baby I was pregnant with was his (yes. He was the father. Thanks Maury). One time,…Â
#15 - Yes. My school had a parking lot just for the high schoolers and a good number of them drove luxury cars. A girl in my grade got a completely customized BMW for her 16th birthday. So yes...that does happen (and yes, my school was in "The Valley).
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