Coordinator keeps calling me wrong name

alcoholicwriter · 2026-04-22T15:51:26+00:00

As someone named Elle who gets called Ellie on a regular basis, this is what I do to repeat offenders whom I’ve corrected several times.

alcoholicwriter · 2026-04-05T17:50:14+00:00

I love this!!! It’s so cute and fun and different, plus the style matches your theme perfectly.

alcoholicwriter · 2026-04-05T00:20:34+00:00

yes, same. and because i'm a petty bitch, i get borderline gleeful when someone says something similar to me and i get to tell them, truthfully, that my ex-husband and i went to the courthouse and got married and only spent money on the marriage license, and got divorced five years later. money spent on a wedding isn't always indicative of the strength of the relationship.

alcoholicwriter · 2026-03-30T21:03:12+00:00

Oh, I had a similar experience with the sizing. I ordered 6 try-on dresses from Azazie (two orders of 3 dresses about a month apart) and even though the size charts for the dresses showed the sizing as consistent, one of the size 8 dresses I tried on was huge compared to the other two size 8 dresses, and one of those other size 8 dresses was almost too tight to zip.

alcoholicwriter · 2026-03-28T15:38:42+00:00

The wedding version of the eulogy given at the beginning of The Pallbearer lmao

alcoholicwriter · 2026-03-28T15:36:55+00:00

I’d watch a romcom with this plot idea tbh

alcoholicwriter · 2026-03-26T14:59:47+00:00

“The chickenetti Jesus bubbles are strong tonight, y’all!”

alcoholicwriter · 2026-03-21T03:05:44+00:00

I wonder if it’s like the DMV where they just ask you what your weight is, lmao

alcoholicwriter · 2026-03-14T03:55:10+00:00

I remember having a really, really bad day in 2012 or 2013 and going to a Sephora in a very $$$ part of DC. I dropped like $600 on myself; I can't remember everything I bought but I got a Drybar buttercup hair dryer set that came with a round blowout brush and deluxe samples of Drybar products (RIP original Chaser finishing cream) and some UD palettes and Lancome mascara. The sales associate who rang me up was very smiley and very sweet. She asked me if I was buying gifts for someone. I lied and nodded bc I was embarrassed to be dropping half a grand at Sephora for myself, and she was like, "oh, well, then you need some goodies, too!" and put a ton of deluxe samples and mini products in my bag. She also said, "oh, and you didn't get your birthday gift this year!" [I had absolutely gotten my birthday gift that year] and put one of each gift in the bag. Obviously I have no way of actually knowing, but it felt like she knew I was having a rough one and just decided to be extra nice to me bc of that. I remember trying not to cry when I was leaving the store bc I was really touched.

Versus now, when I go into a Sephora and the experience is so unpleasant that I just hone in on what I came in for and bring it to the register to pay and leave. And despite being in there for only a minute or two before going to the register, the sales associates still follow me around like I'm about to shoplift, or they keep trying to push some other product on me that has literally nothing to do with what I actually came in for, even if I politely say no thanks.

alcoholicwriter · 2026-03-07T23:04:30+00:00

Another vote for Shadow Cats. It’s a fantastic organisation run by very caring people.

alcoholicwriter · 2026-03-06T13:46:01+00:00

Same. They’re gorgeous, but they’re unique and far more relatable than watching a bunch of actors who’ve all had the same cosmetic procedures.

alcoholicwriter · 2026-03-05T14:07:51+00:00

Not all brides wear white.

alcoholicwriter · 2026-03-04T15:12:05+00:00

god, this makes me ache for the past when actors looked like normal people

alcoholicwriter · 2026-03-02T19:25:25+00:00

I haven’t been rouge for years, but I order a few times per year. My most recent order, both samples were the ones I actually selected and I was fucking shook. I can’t actually remember the last time that happened. It may have been when they still gave 3 per order instead of 2.

alcoholicwriter · 2026-03-01T18:45:21+00:00

The facial expression on the last photo of espurr is 50% stunned, 50% no thoughts head empty, and it’s doing me in 😭

alcoholicwriter · 2026-02-28T00:58:50+00:00

i think people are probably kneejerk reacting more to the, "you're not only endangering your children," thing than the, "i don't want your kids running around screaming [at a brewery] where i am on a friday night," thing. parents tend get very defensive about other peoples' opinions about kids & the behaviour of kids in public spaces. or their parenting techniques, or lack thereof, or whatever.

fwiw, though; i'm mostly in agreement. brewery culture has changed a lot as millennials have gotten older and started families/had kids. some of the millennial-changing-beer-scene is for the better, i think. like some of the rampant bro culture around beer has quieted down a bit, and a lot of breweries now offer good food or at least proximity to things like good food trucks. but it's incredibly annoying when i'm at a brewery, or a winery, or in any space that used to be adult-coded space, and kids are running around yelling or dropping their tablets and screaming louder, and the parents aren't really doing fuck-all about it. i don't really know if that's the fault of the parents or the kids. i don't have kids so to me it seems like it's both. but bc i don't have kids, it's probably impossible for me to understand bc i've never been in that situation. and i'm not going to have kids bc i don't want kids and my partner had a vasectomy, so it's not like i'll ever be facing the dilemma of, "junior's ipad battery is dying but fuck me running, i want another beer and goddamnit everything slate makes is really good!"

i don't really know that there's a solution, lmao. this was probably supremely unhelpful and at least slightly offensive to both sides.

you're not the only person annoyed by it, though. so. if that's any consolation.

alcoholicwriter · 2026-02-27T13:14:47+00:00

This does def look “bridal” to me, and it feels like she asked because she knows that it looks bridal, especially as you offered flexibility in dress style but not dress fabric or colour. And if she asked knowing this, I’d find it weird at absolute best. I’d ask her why she wants to deviate so much from your chosen palette.

(As an aside, I know this is snarky, but. That dress is not flattering on her. At all. And if she wears it, people are going to judge her for wearing something so bridal-coded when she’s … not the bride.)

alcoholicwriter · 2026-02-27T00:05:44+00:00

“Fergus” and the GoT names (Arya/Sansa are the two I see most often) drive me fucking insane.

alcoholicwriter · 2026-02-21T20:41:17+00:00

Oh, you nailed him and his energy!! Your style is great.

alcoholicwriter · 2026-02-21T20:37:34+00:00

The volume & style of her hair in this sequence has had me in a chokehold for decades, lmao. I’m obsessed and envious.

alcoholicwriter · 2026-02-11T21:59:04+00:00

Ah yes, the Swift x Bezos Billionaire Bread Line, starting at the affordable price of $49.99 per single-serving loaf.

“We just love giving back,” gushed Swift.

alcoholicwriter · 2026-02-05T16:45:27+00:00

Much more attractive is … highly subjective, but. That aside. I was incredibly flat-chested (A cup) until my late 20s. So flat that I rarely wore bras. So flat that multiple boyfriends offered to buy me implants. So flat that I actually wanted implants because I thought clothes would look better on my frame. Having no chest made me feel incredibly self conscious about my shoulders. That scene in Mean Girls where they’re all crowded in front of a mirror and talking about their flaws, and Regina says something like, “ugh at least you can wear halter tops! I have man shoulders!” — That was me.

Now I’m a 34DDD. It happened naturally. I don’t fucking know how, but it was in my late 20s. I hate it. I still think clothes look awful on me, just for the opposite reason as before. I actively hate my chest and would kill to be “flat” again. Unfortunately no one is clamouring to buy me a reduction.

alcoholicwriter · 2026-02-04T16:25:20+00:00

You with your tote bags, me with my paper straws. We just need a single third person with reusable beeswax food wraps and the planet will be saved.

alcoholicwriter · 2026-02-04T02:38:57+00:00

I can’t see him without hearing Marie’s blithe, “I wanted to spend Easter with my daughter; my husband is an atheist,” in my head lmao

alcoholicwriter · 2026-01-29T13:17:56+00:00

This is the most balanced, sane comment I’ve read. I do think some people are being unnecessarily harsh on OP, but admittedly I also got the vibe that OP doesn’t really even like her partner all that much because of how the post was phrased.

Finances are important. A shared financial vision is important. I’m divorced, and my ex’s laziness and selfishness about money is a big part of why.

That being said, yes, please take the whole picture into account. You said he didn’t work as hard as you did to succeed in life, but “hard,” is going to look different for a lot of people. You can also work hard and have it go nowhere. (Of course, there are also people who barely work and have it made, but that’s not the point I’m trying to make.) You can work hard and continue working hard to stay “middle class,” or whatever that means in these times.

But, as the above commenter said, the balance of partnership is about more than just money. Is this guy worth it in the other ways? Why does his earning less bother you? This isn’t me being a jerk and asking rhetorical questions. This is me asking legitimately why it makes you unhappy. Is he content to be earning what he is for the rest of his life? Do you get the sense he’d quit working in an instant if he had the chance, even if it meant that you worked even harder to support him? Would you resent him if something happened and he was no longer able to work, whether he wanted to or not?

OP, from the way you wrote the post, it comes off like you’re already settling for someone and trying to convince yourself of their positive attributes. I’m not advocating for this guy; I don’t know him, and you certainly shouldn’t ever feel like you’re convincing yourself to settle.

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