Zombie Shoes

25/25 I watched none of these shows, but the commercials for them where everywhere.

Meanwhile, my father, also a general contractor, loves the damn things. They absolutely are a huge, leaky pain. We lived in northern New England—there is nothing like icy slush dripping on you in the middle of January.

Heterochromia of the scalp, maybe?

Timeless and Prodigal Son.

I was on the phone with my sister, about two weeks after my husband and I started dating. She wanted to know what he was like, how things were going, just normal stuff you'd ask about. I remember saying to her "Well, I'm pretty sure if I was ever going to get married, he'd be it."… Read More

Ugh, Southwest. Why do you not want my extra money so I can pick a damn seat?

Oh, Jane! I loved their stuff so much. They had the best toner. I still haven't found one as good. I was heartbroken when they were discontinued.

TIL my IUD has turned me into a man. And ffs, I didn't check my personhood at the door when I was pregnant. I'd rather have all the inclusive language with its occasional awkwardness than the current attitude of reductiveness based on one's reproductive organs and their state.

Not belonging out countertops is exactly why they get on countertops. Mine know they're not supposed to be up there and I'm not foolish enough to think they're not doing it because I don't catch them in the act. Counters get wiped like they've been rolling all over them before I cook.… Read More

Allegedly, Marie-Antoinette's misattribution was from a 1767 story by Rousseau, where a great princess told a starving people "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche." (let them eat brioche). Marie-Antoinette would have been about 10ish and an Hapsburg princess. Rousseau's tale is drawn from… Read More