I'm not going in tomorrow. I have an appointment with a doctor about sciatica. I was almost in tears today it hurt so bad.

My sciatica is BAD right now. Every day at work I average 6k steps and 12 flights of stairs. Please send healing vibes my way because I've had this off and on for a couple of years and I feel like it just isn't getting better this time.

Not to defend Russia AT ALL (my family is from Ukraine), but it's not just about the uber rich. Normal, everyday people in Russia, the vast majority of whom don't support Putin, are also affected. They have absolutely no access to their money. Imagine going to the bank, and there's no money. Credit cards don't work. You can't buy food or medicine - nothing. I don't think Putin really cares about kids not being able to get their insulin, even Russian kid. But if it stays this bad, his own people are going to try to overthrow him, and they damn well may be able to. That, he does care about.

DH had a nightmare last night that I left him. He's a lazy SOB sometimes but I still love him. I felt bad for him, he was really upset. He said we were at a party and I told him I didn't want to be with him anymore and left. Then when he got home all my stuff was gone. I have NO plans to pull a Houdini. LOL. But what I didn't tell him is that if that were really happening, it would be HIS stuff that was gone. Not mine.

My friend is in town visiting, but I can't bear to see her. I feel so depressed and gained a lot of weight recently. I feel bad making an excuse even though it was a little honest. Mostly, it's feel shameful for all this weight gain and in a bad mental space

I don't have a weight problem, but I do have belly fat that I'm trying to get rid of. It definitely started in menopause, but I don't want to use that as an excuse to accept it. Because, for one, it's ugly and uncomfortable, and two, it's visceral fat which is dangerous and unhealthy. I don't diet, instead I try to mostly eat non-processed food, limit salt and sugar and I'm active, including HIIT and strength training. It's still IMPOSSIBLE to lose this ugly belly! And I've read so much contradictory information. "Eat keto to lower your insulin levels ", but then I read eating keto is bad for heart, kidneys, etc. Eat nuts, you're eating too many nuts, Eat dairy, no dairy's bad for you, take these vitamins, but you're taking them at the wrong time of day. Ugh, it's ridiculous! I'm going crazy just trying to be healthy!

The Orange One took FIFTEEN boxes of documents out of the White House?! I bet we can quadruple that number and still be underestimating. Yet he’s walking the streets of gold, still bad-mouthing everyone who’s on to his BS. ARREST HIM!!

He's definitely got a listening device somewhere in the house. If it were me, I would find a way to find it. I would. I would google the hell out of it, and find a way. Or hire someone to come in and sweep the place. I couldn't live like that. I mean, WHY? I would find it. I would probably also simulate an affair or something really bad that there's NO way he could know about(because you made it up)- and see how he treats you when he gets home. Or maybe make him think you won the lottery and didn't tell him.... SOMETHING. And then when he starts acting froggy about it, I'd just set the listening device on the counter in front of him. And walk out.

I want so badly to be honest with my therapist but I don't want to be committed. Depressed and suicidal and I don't know what to do.

My DH has nice hair. He's got very thick salt & pepper wavy hair and he's always just buzzed it off. It's never looked bad, but I've had visions of McDreamy hair on top of his head lol. So, I asked him to let it grow out. ... Guys. ... It's NOT McDreamy. It's McWeird. It's McPoofy. I don't know how to tell him. He did this for ME, after all. Maybe he just needs a better cut? I don't know but the way it is now is so poofy it's nuts.