gdp's Comments

The Toast : Aunt Acid: Advice on Pet Custody and Private Grief

Thu, 23 Jun 2016 20:55:02 +0000

LW, Do not give away your cat. Kitty is your cat. Don't let any of the details about how she came to you muddy that fact. You have been the sole caregiver for a year now. You paid Kitty's bills and you bonded with her. She's your cat, she's important to you. And here is the thing: cats aren't special or important until they're yours. There is nothing about Kitty that sets her apart from any other cat your ex-roommate could bring into her home except how you feel about her. There are loads of adoptable cats in this world. Ex-roommate should go and get another one. She tried with Kitty, and it wasn't the right time for her to have a cat. Now that cat is happy in a stable home. You, LW have spent months establishing a bond and a significant amount of money to ensure the cat's well-being. If this were truly a foster situation, roommate would have offered compensation for the vet bills, even if she had to do it in installments. She would have asked for updates. She would have bought kibble. Why disrupt LW's situation when she (ex-roommate) can start fresh with a cat doesn't yet have and very much needs a stable home? The shelters are full of them. Craigslist is full of them. This time of year, roommate can head down to Wal-Mart on Saturday mornings and there's bound to be a family with a box of kittens out front sooner or later. The only reasons I can think of are petty (Kitty was *hers* first!), ugly (roommate made me feel bad about how I cared for Kitty, so now I'll make her feel bad), and selfish (I want a cat, and since this one is the first to come to mind, I will have *this* cat). I took in two cats as a foster during college. I told the girl giving them to me that she had one year to come and get them back. After that, they were my cats and she was absolutely not going to be getting them back. Stand firm. If ex-roommate really wants a cat, she'll get one without making you give up yours. Sorry Aunt Acid, as a cat foster and cat adopter, you missed the mark here. -NotThatCatLady

The Toast : You're A Social Climber. What Horrible Faux Pas Have You Committed At This Dinner Party, Alienating

Thu, 9 Jun 2016 20:46:42 +0000

Our Fanny! She is so Good! Dear, sweet, insufferable Fanny.

The Toast : Childhood Magic Spells, Ranked

Fri, 3 Jun 2016 19:28:33 +0000

My husband recites it to my dogs when they get scared. It doesn't help.

The Toast : A Comprehensive List of Things Sad Kit Harington Looks Like

Thu, 26 May 2016 01:45:42 +0000

"pull off... living in a tiny house," Well, we know what they say about living in tiny houses.

The Toast : If Ted Cruz Were Your Husband

Tue, 24 May 2016 23:13:35 +0000

I assume some portion of Toasties, those with true, pure, sea-taking hearts, were whisked away to a Mallorian Paradise the instant they clicked on the link. The rest of us have been Left Behind, to endure the raging apocalypse that is the of the End Of Toast.

The Toast : If Ted Cruz Were Your Husband

Tue, 24 May 2016 23:10:32 +0000

Best to avoid that tear-hole leakage whenever possible. It leaves itchy, persistent welts on human skin and stains natural fiber fabrics an eerie iridescent blue-green.

The Toast : If Ted Cruz Were Your Husband

Tue, 24 May 2016 23:04:18 +0000

same.

The Toast : Link Roundup!

Thu, 19 May 2016 20:38:42 +0000

Assholes with extremely uneven personal hygiene habits, usually.

The Toast : The Seven Stages Of Aspirational Produce Shopping

Thu, 19 May 2016 00:23:54 +0000

This is literally the only pro in my pro/con list for living across an ocean you. No surprise mystery produce in Alarming Quantities.

The Toast : An Alternative Ending to Castle

Tue, 17 May 2016 18:04:45 +0000

Saaaaame.

The Toast : An Alternative Ending to Castle

Tue, 17 May 2016 02:55:36 +0000

Hah!

The Toast : Everything That's Wrong Of Raccoons

Tue, 17 May 2016 02:49:54 +0000

I had thought that it was a fairly obvious concept. If a slightly boring one. Yours all sound much more interesting, though outside of my comfort zone. But what I meant was a road trip which includes a stop in a nice, lonely, clear-skied place that coincides with a total solar eclipse at that place. Like eastern Oregon next spring.

The Toast : An Alternative Ending to Castle

Tue, 17 May 2016 02:16:28 +0000

I refuse to even consider this ship, in my reality no one has ever shipped any of Fillion's characters. Period. Every last character he's ever played deserves to die alone and then be eaten by opossums. If anything is "the Caskett ship" it is Ishmael and Queequeg. I mean, come on.

The Toast : Everything What's Wrong Of Possums: It's All Of Them

Tue, 17 May 2016 02:02:33 +0000

They invaded from South America when the isthmus formed. Way back before people went around decimating megafauna, South America sported even weirder marsupials than Australia does, along with sloths the size of Asian elephants.

The Toast : If Tom Hiddleston Were Your Boyfriend

Thu, 12 May 2016 19:51:03 +0000

Because they're about as far from fun as a flower can get. Obviously.

The Toast : If Tom Hiddleston Were Your Boyfriend

Thu, 12 May 2016 19:39:15 +0000

I am literally bouncing up and down and concentrating on breathing through my nose to not make the most embarrassing fangirl screams in my office at work.

The Toast : Everything That's Wrong Of Raccoons

Thu, 5 May 2016 18:45:00 +0000

I aspire to be a bureaucratic crone. Life goals: -eclipse road trip -bureaucracy crone-age

The Toast : Everything That's Wrong Of Raccoons

Thu, 5 May 2016 18:38:55 +0000

Domestication is a two way street. Raccoons are perpetually declining that invitation. We (people) don't even go here.

The Toast : "I Know What Clean Smells Like": These New Bleach Ads Are Terrifying

Thu, 5 May 2016 02:33:54 +0000

Oh man, showing up at the weekend cabin to find a fucking elk skull in the hot tub would be a major downer.

The Toast : Needled: A Knitting Story

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 23:16:25 +0000

Mine too! Mine is so short that it usually only includes me. And I regularly am too irritated with my own nonsense to justify the time and effort.