On Toxic Dating, "Abominable" Sisters, and the French Manicure
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On What if He's a Gay Serial Killer?
Oh snap! Tonight I open a stage adaptation of P&P as Lizzy Bennet!!! Hairpin, as ever, you are inside my brain and I wish you to be there always. Also, please send support, 'Pinnerverse. Lizzy Bennet talks a lot.
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On Really Good Books For People Who Are Reading a Lot of Articles About Girls
@RK Fire Ugh, The Kitchen God's Wife is so important. Joy Luck is fun and a good read, but Kitchen God really takes it up like, twelve notches.
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On Did You Notice The Way Joyce Ramsay Pronounced "Massacre?"
@Steph I read the Shanda Sharer story yesterday and I think it's turned me off of reading true crime forever. I am seriously haunted by that story and can't stop thinking about it. The True Crime Diary write-up, salacious and poorly-written as it is, made me cry and kind of feel like throwing up.
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On Did You Notice The Way Joyce Ramsay Pronounced "Massacre?"
Oh brother. This is really feeding into my recent true crime addiction. One of these days, someone from the IT department is going to check my Wikipedia searches, and I'm going to be led out of here in handcuffs. Also, this story is HORRIFYING.
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On Daughters! What Are You Gonna Do
Give her some veggies and sign her up for soccer, you vodka-soaked nightmare.
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On "Was My Face Red!"
@vanillawaif Yes, yes a thousand times yes! Didn't she try to dye everything purple? And Sam had the chicken pox? Oh man. Those were the days.
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On "Was My Face Red!"
@BadWolf I read the f out of Anastasia on my mom's recommendation, because the Babysitters Club books were all about boys and, let's be honest, kind of trashy. So I never told her about the Playboy references, or Anastasia's obsession with Gone with the Wind, specifically when Rhett carries Scarlett up the stairs. "They could have been playing Scrabble up there, for all we know." Gah, those books were so amazing! "Pages Bookstore," thumb wart, Gertrudestein, Freud bust. I love you, Lois Lowry.
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On How to Bring Your Lunch to Work: A Guide
Get out of my brain! [Weeps, stares at turkey sandwich on desk whilst others in the office go out for better, more glamorous turkey sandwiches.]
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On Toxic Dating, "Abominable" Sisters, and the French Manicure
Re: LW#5: I was in a similar situation (well more similar to the Lady's, actually, right down to the timeframe and the having-to-see-them-all-the-time aspect) and what worked best for me was to forgive him.
Hear me out - it doesn't mean he is excused from his behavior, it doesn't mean you have to like him, or talk to him or have fond feelings about him, or even wish him well. But it's really hard to control anger and it does start to feel really corrosive. Forgiveness is something that you own. It gives you the power. Yes, he's awful, but he has to be with himself for the rest of his life, and that's punishment enough. And forgive him for being awful, and move it on along. You can do it, LW#5!!
Or don't. I probably have no idea what I'm talking about, but it worked okay for me.