Anne was one of my favorite follows at the time because I also lived and ran around DC so I enjoyed her content. I recently read one of her posts and I’m amazed she’s still keeping up with the blog because it’s the same monotonous content.

I do not know the specifics but she has mentioned before that she attended boarding school. So yeah, that kind of upper upper class I would assume.

And on the opposite end, the author Jennifer Weiner posted on her Instagram asking parents to send her their kids cookie link and she was going to buy as many as possible.

Isn’t that this entire subreddit though?

I mean, I don’t totally think you’re wrong. I’ve done it, it’s not fun, you’ve got to really temper expectations. But contrast that with her post about how grateful she is that her dad is around to make these memories however one of her children isn’t included in them.

Some snark on a throwback HLB- Ashley @healthyhappier is on her second family vacation to Disneyworld in a year where they left their youngest daughter at home.

Earlier this year they took their older for kindergarten graduation, which I think makes sense if you want to do stuff for bigger kids and know you have the means to go again in the future. I think her daughter had just turned 3.

So now they’re at Disney again, this time with her parents, and still left the youngest at home. This trip without her makes me feel sad that she’s missing out. They are celebrating the 1 year anniversary of Ashley’s dad’s open heart surgery and it just seems like such an odd occasion to exclude one of the grandchildren. Her most recent grid post is of her youngest dresses as a Disney princess for Halloween so you know she would have loved it and they have 4 adults there who could help out.

Jess O’Connell, currently known as quantumcoursecreator but formerly known as MermaidFit Jess and Operation Skinny Jeans, has a new public personal account: just_jess.solo where I guess she’s documenting her life now post-divorce. I kind of hope she spills some tea on what happened with her husband who she was able to “retire” from his job.

If I remember correctly, she had to rewrite it. Sounds like a nightmare and it’s pretty amazing that she was able to do it again.

Does anyone still follow Jess O'Connell? She currently goes by quantumcoursecreator but she was a former HLB (maybe generous to group her in here) and Beachbody shiller.

She's at a conference for I think the course software that she uses. All the people around her are dressed nicely, most appear casual but professional. Then you have Jess wearing a tshirt, ripped jeans and her converse. Glad to see some things never change.

Just offering a different perspective, my dad was 56 when I was born, died at 64, (so not nearly as old as De Niro but same type of situation since he passed away when I was 7).

It is unfortunate that he has not been around. There have been some things about that I’ve had to talk about in therapy. But I’ve never once wished the alternative, that I hadn’t been born. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I don’t think men in their senior years should be making it a priority to procreate, it does seem icky, but there are also worse things that could happen.

Keeping this vague and generic to hopefully stay on the right side of the rules, though this was ages ago in 2015. This was at a major race and we were all there together under the same company sponsorship. Overall the group was very cliquey, some not nice things were said behind people’s backs when they left the room. I can name a couple who were very kind but there were a lot of mean girl vibes that day. It’s nothing too shocking, I’m sure a lot of them weren’t friends but just happened to have the same job.

I was at an event where I got to meet several of them (not an HLB myself but I won a blogger giveaway that put me at an event with them). The social dynamics were wild.

Blast from the past. Meghann (mealsandmiles) posted some photos for her 10 year wedding anniversary and Ashley (healthyhappierbear) was one of her bridesmaids. Not really snark, I just never would have expected to see that they were such close friends. 2013 was a year or two before I followed either of them. The HLB hey-day was fun and like a fever-dream.

In one of her “Currently” or life-focused blog posts from this summer, she addresses that she stepped away from IG for balance in her life and she has no plans for if/when she might return to posting

Jenna (eatliverun) announced this morning that she’s having a girl. Her boys seem over the moon and I bet she is too.

My daughter just turned 7 and a few months ago realized that when I share photos, it includes people she doesn’t know.

I keep my friends list very small and same as you, have never posted anything that I think might be embarrassing for her in the future, but I did tell her moving forward, I wouldn’t share without asking. Also, she’s 7 and still figuring out consent, so I just stopped posting.

It’s been the right decision. So many kids of people I know have 0 privacy.

I think the comparison has to do with some of the wild theories some of her fans come up with and the amount of time they spend analyzing every little detail, looking for Easter Eggs and speculating. I like Taylor Swift but the fandom can be a lot.

That said, Swifties are harmless where as Qanon… not so much.

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Haha. I hadn’t even done the math on how far along she might be.

Jenna from Eat, Live, Run announced baby number 4 today. Exciting for her and her family!

What made me chuckle was in the post she said it was getting hard to hide, and I’m sure in person that’s true, but she doesn’t really post anymore so I don’t think what’s left of her audience ever would have suspected a thing.

Oh, I am with you. I have a lot of side eye about this trip, you could travel with a friend to Burlington for a fraction of the price. I don’t understand how it’s so expensive, beyond probably having to pay for some logistical help.

I don’t think either of them has said much about it but the speculation I do remember is that Zooey’s star was rising quickly at the time with New Girl and likely her time and attention was focused on her career and not the relationship. I’m sure there’s blame to go around but I never heard that either one was really to blame.

This feels right for her, she was already barely engaged as it is. Hers was one of the first blogs I ever started to follow so it’s sad in a way. I was a young newlywed and many, many of the first recipes I cooked were from her.

Ok, but now I need to know where you were.

My mom did this recently and regrets it.

She had two older cats (13/14) and one passed away. She brought a 5 year old brother/sister pair into the house and they’ve totally ganged up on the OG cat. OG cat has pretty much restricted herself to one room of the house (my moms bedroom) and now my mom also has to work to shut the pair of cats away periodically through the day so OG cat can come out and explore.

She won’t relinquish the pair but she is sad about what she did to OG kitties life.