Bad Advice

I have a couple of friends who are thinking about reproducing, and to them I say: STOP! TURN BACK! RUN FOR THE HILLS! Just kidding. Sort of. Having kids is this weird paradigm shift that you genuinely can't comprehend until you're already in too deep to turn back. And the weird thing is you go in … Continue reading Bad Advice

Ow

I hurt myself yesterday putting on on chapstick. I was mashing my lips together the way that you do to to get it all spread evenly and my jaw made a popping sound and I couldn't open my mouth wide for the rest of the day. Which got me thinking, why do I hurt myself … Continue reading Ow

So Embarrassing

I have to admit it. It’s deeply embarrassing, but here goes nothing. **deep breath** I’m completely addicted to Smash. Every tiny fiber of my Recovering Actress body loves it, from the audition process, to the songs, to Anjelica Huston’s everything. I can gush on and on about it ad nauseum (and I do mean nauseum) but there … Continue reading So Embarrassing

What Not To Do

What not to do when you hit your head on the medicine cabinet: Sit on the floor and cry. Realize you’re bleeding and panic. Realize you’re bleeding from a perfectly square hole in your scalp where you’ve been effectively hole-punched by the mirror corner and get blood in your eyes frantically trying to change the … Continue reading What Not To Do

Things I Do Not Want To Hear Right Now (no, not even from you)

“So when are you going to start having babies?”  It’s apparently shocking to the greater world at large that we haven’t come up with a month-by-month procreation plan, and just smiling and saying we want to have kids, but just not, you know, next week is apparently way too obviously dodging the question. However I … Continue reading Things I Do Not Want To Hear Right Now (no, not even from you)