To my horror, I see that I screwed up the dashes again in my earlier post, and it's too late to edit. That whole section that is typed in strikethrough is supposed to have a dash both before and after it.
Okay, an example. Let's see.
"So, John says he wants to go downtown to the arts festival Friday night, you know, get a little culture and see and be seen, not that there's ever anyone to see or be seen by in the places we can afford to go, but he wants to at least make the effort. So I spend an hour and a half getting ready to go out, including painting my toenails and then fixing the one that got screwed up when I put my shoes on before the polish was dry and tweezing my eyebrows and squeezing my fat butt into Spanx because the only possible thing I have to wear is the black skirt and it doesn't fit right because OF COURSE I'm bloating, not to mention PMS-ing - anyway, so finally after all this I go teetering downstairs in the skintight black skirt and the new black patent f*ck-me shoes, and John is just sitting there in front of the TV. You guessed it - he's fallen asleep. I mean, he's freaking SNORING."
When I'm writing stuff like this and realize I've gone on too long, instead of going back and dividing up into shorter sentences, I just throw in an "anyway" or two.