Vital life skills

Let's be honest…during the holiday season , you can't be expected to hang out with your family all day, every day. You need to balance your time together wisely, so you don't end up extremely annoyed with each other by the end of Boxing Day. My family is not one to insist we spend every second of every day together during this time, but I know some families do just that. There are many ways to avoid going crazy if you're a member of one of those families. First of all, you can take the infamous…

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I love Hallmark Christmas movies . Well, maybe love is too strong of a term. I will watch at least one Hallmark Christmas movie yearly to bask in the channel's dedication to repetitiveness, cheapness, and corniness. It makes me feel comforted that hundreds of practically identical movies are playing on the Hallmark Channel all day, every day, during this time of year. Even during the rest of the year, the Hallmark Channel has committed itself to the values of churning out the same tired stuff b…

Nobody wants to be nervous all the time. Nothing is more fraught than feeling uneasy in every one of your social relationships. Anxiety might be a fairly common affliction, but that does not make it suck any less. If it gets bad enough, you might become a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown . I haven't seen that movie, but if I had to guess, I'd guess the titular woman suffers from anxiety. For me, the best ways to fight anxiety have been with meds and therapy, simple as that. In therapy,…

What did he expect?

Landlords : you can't live with them and I wish we could live without them, but most of us can't. I'm lucky that I haven't had any horrible landlord experiences yet, but I'm sure one is on the horizon. From the horror stories I've heard, I'm confident that at least 50% of landlords are fully incompetent at their jobs, and that honestly sounds like a generous estimate. In the tradition of horrible landlord stories, Buzzfeed writer Tim Unkenholz shared a painfully hilarious exchange he had with h…

Devious

I am known for having a really sharp memory. I remember things that nobody else in my family or friend groups does, and I am especially skilled at remembering dates. If anyone can't recall my cousin's wedding anniversary , they know who to call. One of the only things that I am terrible at remembering is drama, especially somebody telling me about the drama in their life. For some reason, my brain does not want me to hold on to any of that; honestly, I think I'm better for it. There is little t…

We are all goblins now

It's not even free