On How to Bring Your Lunch to Work: A Guide
@PotatoPotato I have work peanut butter and home almond butter because for some reason in my mind it's better to eat one serving of each than two servings of one in the same day, should I be so inclined.
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On IUDs, or A Detailed Guide to Long-Term Sperm Scarecrows
@SarahDances This is weird to me too. I was diagnosed with HSIL which turned out to be CIN a couple of weeks before my Mirena insertion appointment, and when I asked my doc if maybe we should just deal with the colposcopy, etc. first she was like, "Absolutely not! Let's get this IUD in first!" So, I don't know.
Relatedly, my doctor is awesome.
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On IUDs, or A Detailed Guide to Long-Term Sperm Scarecrows
@redheaded&crazy I was told five days, and waited three. But I was also simultaneously finishing my last pill pack (do NOT recommend - the double hormones made me crazy emotional not just at the time but for a couple of weeks after) so BC efficacy was not an issue - it takes a week to ten days for the hormones to take full effect.
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On IUDs, or A Detailed Guide to Long-Term Sperm Scarecrows
@angelinha I have Kaiser Permanente, and mine was totally covered except for the $20 office visit copay.
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On Inadvertently Mocking the Dead
I was on the crew team in college. One morning I accidentally slept through my 4:45 AM alarm. That turned out to be the day the rest of the team rowed by a corpse hanging in a tree not far from our boathouse. Never was I so thankful to be chewed out for missing practice.
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On Inadvertently Mocking the Dead
@automaticdoor Ugh. My grandfather and two of my uncles ran a wrecker company, and some of the stories they would tell us about accident scenes they came across, particularly when they beat the police there, would just turn your stomach.
In California - maybe just the Bay Area? - they let motorcyclists ride between the lanes, so when it gets really trafficky, they'll just be zooming by you in between the carpool lane and the next one over so you don't even know they're there until they're literally next to you. Over the past year I've driven by three different accident scenes involving motorcyclists that resulted in multiple police/fire/ambulance vehicles and I couldn't even look. I will even hold my hand in my peripheral vision so I don't accidentally catch a glimpse.
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On Lent Is Capitalized
@feartie And you have mine. I don't really know if comfort-eating meat is a thing, but if so, you are welcome to my share.
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On Lent Is Capitalized
@feartie Agreed on all counts (except the giving up of chocolate - never!). I was hoping to go get ashes today, especially considering I have a colposcopy tomorrow and am freaking the F out, but I have barely been able to get away from my desk to pee and have to go straight to a business dinner after. So no church for me.
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On Lent Is Capitalized
Meat. But just meat meat, not fish or anything.
I haven't actually practiced Catholicism in about a decade but I wanted to see if I could do it and figured it would keep me accountable for 40 days and earn me some good will from my mother.
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On Beauty Disasters: How to Cover Up Almost Anything
@susurrus of dismay Actually, I was SO EXCITED to read this because I do it too! It works shockingly well. Besides, A) it actually doesn't taste like anything as long as you have a top coat over it and B) the nail polish is set enough that you're not actually ingesting nail polish - it can't be any worse than being a well manicured nail biter.