LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE these 2025 proclamations!! SHAME SANDWICH is a 2025 Substack Best Seller. THEEE Megan Lee is a famous comedy writer/genius/stellar Mom. She is financially FREE and INDEPENDENT AF from any job that does not serve her.
The world stops when she graces us with her words.
You are the most beautiful gem!!!! 😭😭😭 Miss K, thank you from the deepest depth, widest width, and highest high of my heart, for your words!!!!! I have all the chills and all the feels right now. 🥹 💕✨ YES to everything you said!!!! ⚡️ ⚡️⚡️⚡️ You bring the BESTEST energy to Susbtack, and ANYONE and I mean ANYONE who is graced by your words is better off for it. 💛💛💛💛
I love your writing and your content is hilarious and deeply relatable. Perhaps I can hire you as my own personal therapist? Thank you for for adding some insight and exceptionally crude humor (really, THANK YOU), to my life.
🤗🤗🤗 ALL THE WARM FUZZIES from your comment!!! Thank you so very much for being here, and I'm just THRILLED that my words and exceptionally crude humor bring you joy and reliability!!! Makes me smile like you wouldn't believe it. 😁💕🙏
I could not agree with you more. Megan’s hilarious writing IS a form of therapy- shame sandwich is a way of living now! Thank you for putting to words so perfectly how I feel out here as well. Also, your name is impeccable. Never change it. ☕️
I hate day light savings time cause I don’t see the sun at all except on my days off…working 7:00am -7:00pm it’s dark when I leave the house and dark when I get home.
And the cold! Goes straight to my bones!
But the good thing is it’s easy to get cooled off during hot flashes….lol
I try to find the silver lining around the clouds.
Happy New Year!!! 💕 Love your silver lining perspective! 🙏 Although I fully see you even though the sun doesn’t see you when you’re working, that IS sad. 😢 Hate being cold too!!! 🥶
(Although my silver lining is that I do love the beauty snow brings, and the ability to play and ski in it. ❄️)
I moved from city life to rural living in 2008. I lived on farms and ranches when I was a young child, then in suburban settings until the 2000's. I was a recovering people pleaser, overachiever, anxious workaholic, and worried individual with a tendency towards being triggered into large emotional reactions and yelling. I began to let Nature heal me through riding horses, hiking, visiting lakes and rivers and spending hours at a time outdoors. After only a couple of years I began to relax, and by 5 yrs in I was in the rhythms of the seasons and feeling a peace I'd never had. I started to sing, to write more, to paint. I trained horses and gave riding lessons up until my back failed a few years ago and I had to do some inner work to find a new identity and vocation, and living here has made all the difference. Shutting out all the noise allowed me to listen to myself and what I needed. Feeding birds, playing with dogs, standing by a rushing river and feeling a part of everything on Earth. It healed me.
Virg… this is beyond beautiful. 😭 Seriously just got massive full body chills from reading this. Nature is sooooo wise, so beautiful, and so healing. And I cannot believe how little I engage with it. 😭 Thank you so much for sharing this, I know it will forever stay with me, and continue to encourage me to be one with Nature more. I’ve written before about my connection and love affair with Ireland, and I believe part of the reason why I love Ireland so much is for the stunning natural beauty and ample access to it… it’s everywhere. And I want to be surrounded by it. Maybe one day I will live there. But for now, my goal is to get out in Nature more… and then move somewhere that offers even more easy access to mother earth. 💕💕💕 P.S. I looooooove horses, but don’t get around them NEARLY enough. 😭
Thank you so much!!! 🥰 AND — that is an excellent suggestion. I probably SHOULD wash my pillow case more frequently, and if that means less face washing I am all for it. 😂
I can say I was already screaming two words in “Christ’s crotch” and then we got to “Satan’s sack”🤣🤣🤣 I’ve no more breath to inhale my food with, because we are light speed food inhaling sisters.👯♀️
😂😂😂😂😂 Please know that I am laughing with joy and grinning in unsafe proportions in happiness right now that this made you scream. Truly one of the highest forms of praise I can get!!! And ugh it’s SO HARD NOT TO INHALE THE FOOD!!!
Observation? You’ve gone from chest references to male anatomy. Freud would REALLY love THAT. Maybe Megan needs to get some…. Now to the newsletter:
RE: Scarfing. When I was in high school, my buddy Doug and I went to Steve’s house on a Saturday morning. Steve was eating breakfast, and had a pretty good size bowl in front of him, with a box of cereal and a jug of milk. His dad had the day off and was in the living room in his favorite chair, reading the paper. Steve’s face was about buried in this bowl. His dad walked into the kitchen to get another cup of coffee, sees Steve, silently eating, while Doug and I talked about plans for the day. Steve’s old man looked at Steve and said, “JESUS CHRIST!!! Don’t you even come up for AIR?” At that point, Steve picked his head up, looked around in a silent “what?”, then went right back into the bowl. Doug and I just *howled*. Neither of us has ever forgotten it.
So you eat something like thst?
RE: Washing your face. Only half the population does anything like that, and it’s the female half. I haven’t made a special trip to *just wash my face* since the last time I played football in the mud, which was a looooong time ago.
RE: Doing shit. You’re describing my ENTIRE CAREER, dealing with half the people I have to deal with, driving in traffic,…. But they’re all required to get from point A (where I am) to point B (where I want to be). I’ve heard it this way: “Life is a shit sandwich. The more ‘bread’ you have, the less shit you have to eat.”
RE: Outside. It’s 22 degrees (F, not C) here right now, with a 10mph wind (feels like 11), there isn’t a cloud in the sky, and the sun just went down, so it’s only getting colder, as in 17 for a low temp tonite. I love it outside, too, but I’m not CRAZY about it. If it’s warmer where you are, grab your daughter and go for it. I envy you. But for me? I’m going to stay here where it’s warm, eat a vitamin D pill, and hope my furnace doesn’t break down.
RE: I’ve got 18— EIGHTEEN paying subscribers.
Make it 19.
For 2025, change what you have to, but stay true to yourself. ALWAYS.
Freud would have a field day with my writing!!! 😂😂 My normal mind is just exceptionally… vulgar and crude. 😂 Although, it does have me wondering, was it nature or nurture that made it that way? Now I shall be pondering that… 🤔 I suspect both LOL
Steve and I sound like we’d be worthy foes on the food eating battle field!!! 😂 Except, not anymore, because I’m not a reformed fast eater. Hahahah.
Yes for getting out in nature, even when it’s a wee bit cold!! I’ve been aiming for a mid-day walk and then once after dinner with my daughter and so far the last 1.5 weeks it’s been going GREAT, even if I haven’t hit every day!!! One day I did turn back half way because with the windchill it was 11 degrees and I was freezing. 🥶😅 But it’s been awesome, especially in the evenings with my daughter! 💛
Here’s to having more bread on our shit sandwiches!!! And less face washing.
AND — I’m so so so honored that are here and supporting my work!!! Thank you! 🙏😄🥪🥳
When it’s remotely decent out, I like to take after dinner walks - gets my ass out of the kitchen for long enough that what I gorged down has a snowball’s chance in Hell to click the “full” switch.
Vulgar and crude is perfectly fine with me. I’m convinced I inherited my language and manners from my old man’s New Jersey Irish family. We ALL cuss like 20-year Navy vets, even the women. They call it “brevity” - telling you to ‘fuck off’ in so many words. Or saving even more time by just flying you the New Jersey State Bird. And I grew up 4 hours away from them. So it MUST be genetic, and I can’t do anything about it. Anyway, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
I always wait and let somebody new that I meet cuss first. But a couple times I’ve gotten the “whoa, hold on sailor” look when I then unleash a torrent of expletives on them. “Too much?” I say, generally to a nod from them.
I am 41 years old and I wash my face exactly zero or one time per day. Welcome to the club! (I think my skin is so healthy since I don’t go crazy with products!?)
I learned that somewhere around 27 years old when I told my then husband I wanted us to go to Europe and he said we don’t have enough money and I said we do if we sell everything we own! And we did.
And we had $1,200. So we went, and it lasted 10 months because we had 28 cents when we got home again. What a fucking amazing time we had!!!!
That’s when I found out you can do anything you want by just saying so and shortly after that doing it. So just keep writing cause you’re doing it.
I have found life is much easier if you just ‘announce’ what’s going to happen, then everyone else adjusts accordingly. The truth is so easy to say. Giggle
HOLY HELL YOU ARE AMAZING!!!! That was ball-sy and badass-ey and I WANT TO BE AS BRAVE AS YOU. Because deep down, when I get past the fear, I do believe that when there’s a will, there’s a way. 💕 Thank you so much for sharing this with me, I shall channel you when I need to take a leap. ✨🙏
The 'washing-my-face-once-a-day' confession had me cracking up! I mean, who hasn't had a nightly battle with the sink? It's so refreshing to hear someone say 'screw it' to the beauty standards that don't serve them. You're inspiring me to be a little kinder to myself and maybe, just maybe, ditch the nighttime face wash too! 😉
😂🙏 Beauty standards give me all the angst. 😭 So glad my face wash woes can inspire you to be a little (or a lottle) kinder to your face!!! 🙏 I’m a couple of weeks into my ditched nightly face wash and have ZERO REGRETS!!!
Cheers to freeing yourself into becoming exactly who you are and who you want to be. I'm glad you're taking me along with you on SS. I recommend the spending of more time outdoors. Any green space will do. Don't wear headphones so you can listen to birds and insects and connect with Nature. We are not meant to stare a lighted screens all the time. I prescribe at least 3 x a week for at least 30 minutes or more for maximum happiness. It helps with the disregulated nervous system in a big way. Ask me how I know... Love, Virg.
Thank you so much, Virg! 🤗 I’m so glad you’re here!!! And, yessssss to more outside green space! And I totally agree, walking without earbuds is sooo meditative and beautiful. And omg I am SO HERE for the positive real life “reviews” of going out in nature and seeing results lol… so you’ve noticed a tangible improvement from being outdoors regularly?? 🤞💕✨
YAY!!!! Hearing this makes me so happy, I’m smiling RIGHT NOW reading your comment!!! 😁 And, I definitely do smile and laugh while writing what I write. 🤭😅😂
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE these 2025 proclamations!! SHAME SANDWICH is a 2025 Substack Best Seller. THEEE Megan Lee is a famous comedy writer/genius/stellar Mom. She is financially FREE and INDEPENDENT AF from any job that does not serve her.
The world stops when she graces us with her words.
Nothing, WE MEAN NOTHING, stands in her way.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR LADY!!
You are the most beautiful gem!!!! 😭😭😭 Miss K, thank you from the deepest depth, widest width, and highest high of my heart, for your words!!!!! I have all the chills and all the feels right now. 🥹 💕✨ YES to everything you said!!!! ⚡️ ⚡️⚡️⚡️ You bring the BESTEST energy to Susbtack, and ANYONE and I mean ANYONE who is graced by your words is better off for it. 💛💛💛💛
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! ✨✨✨
I love your writing and your content is hilarious and deeply relatable. Perhaps I can hire you as my own personal therapist? Thank you for for adding some insight and exceptionally crude humor (really, THANK YOU), to my life.
🤗🤗🤗 ALL THE WARM FUZZIES from your comment!!! Thank you so very much for being here, and I'm just THRILLED that my words and exceptionally crude humor bring you joy and reliability!!! Makes me smile like you wouldn't believe it. 😁💕🙏
Dear Hold My Coffee,
I could not agree with you more. Megan’s hilarious writing IS a form of therapy- shame sandwich is a way of living now! Thank you for putting to words so perfectly how I feel out here as well. Also, your name is impeccable. Never change it. ☕️
🥰🥰🥰
Happy new year to you and yours….
I hate day light savings time cause I don’t see the sun at all except on my days off…working 7:00am -7:00pm it’s dark when I leave the house and dark when I get home.
And the cold! Goes straight to my bones!
But the good thing is it’s easy to get cooled off during hot flashes….lol
I try to find the silver lining around the clouds.
Blesses dear one…Di
Happy New Year!!! 💕 Love your silver lining perspective! 🙏 Although I fully see you even though the sun doesn’t see you when you’re working, that IS sad. 😢 Hate being cold too!!! 🥶
(Although my silver lining is that I do love the beauty snow brings, and the ability to play and ski in it. ❄️)
I moved from city life to rural living in 2008. I lived on farms and ranches when I was a young child, then in suburban settings until the 2000's. I was a recovering people pleaser, overachiever, anxious workaholic, and worried individual with a tendency towards being triggered into large emotional reactions and yelling. I began to let Nature heal me through riding horses, hiking, visiting lakes and rivers and spending hours at a time outdoors. After only a couple of years I began to relax, and by 5 yrs in I was in the rhythms of the seasons and feeling a peace I'd never had. I started to sing, to write more, to paint. I trained horses and gave riding lessons up until my back failed a few years ago and I had to do some inner work to find a new identity and vocation, and living here has made all the difference. Shutting out all the noise allowed me to listen to myself and what I needed. Feeding birds, playing with dogs, standing by a rushing river and feeling a part of everything on Earth. It healed me.
Virg… this is beyond beautiful. 😭 Seriously just got massive full body chills from reading this. Nature is sooooo wise, so beautiful, and so healing. And I cannot believe how little I engage with it. 😭 Thank you so much for sharing this, I know it will forever stay with me, and continue to encourage me to be one with Nature more. I’ve written before about my connection and love affair with Ireland, and I believe part of the reason why I love Ireland so much is for the stunning natural beauty and ample access to it… it’s everywhere. And I want to be surrounded by it. Maybe one day I will live there. But for now, my goal is to get out in Nature more… and then move somewhere that offers even more easy access to mother earth. 💕💕💕 P.S. I looooooove horses, but don’t get around them NEARLY enough. 😭
After reading this again, I think I might "steal" it back. It's a pretty good bio... ;)
HELL YEAH. 😍
Great job....nothing to be ashamed for! (Plus wash pillow case weekly and it helps when NOT washing face!)lol 😂
Thank you so much!!! 🥰 AND — that is an excellent suggestion. I probably SHOULD wash my pillow case more frequently, and if that means less face washing I am all for it. 😂
I can say I was already screaming two words in “Christ’s crotch” and then we got to “Satan’s sack”🤣🤣🤣 I’ve no more breath to inhale my food with, because we are light speed food inhaling sisters.👯♀️
I am also trying not to do this.
😂😂😂😂😂 Please know that I am laughing with joy and grinning in unsafe proportions in happiness right now that this made you scream. Truly one of the highest forms of praise I can get!!! And ugh it’s SO HARD NOT TO INHALE THE FOOD!!!
I believe in us. 😂
I thought nothing could top the written bass noises and then we got immediately to Christ’s crotch I swear I nearly fell out.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 YESSSSS!!!! hahahaha
I just want you to know I listened to this while I was at the supermarket and it was a WILD RIDE! 🤣🤣 Happy New Year! 🥳
HAHAHA I love this so much!!!! 😂💛💛 I need to give this one a listen on audio. 🤣
Observation? You’ve gone from chest references to male anatomy. Freud would REALLY love THAT. Maybe Megan needs to get some…. Now to the newsletter:
RE: Scarfing. When I was in high school, my buddy Doug and I went to Steve’s house on a Saturday morning. Steve was eating breakfast, and had a pretty good size bowl in front of him, with a box of cereal and a jug of milk. His dad had the day off and was in the living room in his favorite chair, reading the paper. Steve’s face was about buried in this bowl. His dad walked into the kitchen to get another cup of coffee, sees Steve, silently eating, while Doug and I talked about plans for the day. Steve’s old man looked at Steve and said, “JESUS CHRIST!!! Don’t you even come up for AIR?” At that point, Steve picked his head up, looked around in a silent “what?”, then went right back into the bowl. Doug and I just *howled*. Neither of us has ever forgotten it.
So you eat something like thst?
RE: Washing your face. Only half the population does anything like that, and it’s the female half. I haven’t made a special trip to *just wash my face* since the last time I played football in the mud, which was a looooong time ago.
RE: Doing shit. You’re describing my ENTIRE CAREER, dealing with half the people I have to deal with, driving in traffic,…. But they’re all required to get from point A (where I am) to point B (where I want to be). I’ve heard it this way: “Life is a shit sandwich. The more ‘bread’ you have, the less shit you have to eat.”
RE: Outside. It’s 22 degrees (F, not C) here right now, with a 10mph wind (feels like 11), there isn’t a cloud in the sky, and the sun just went down, so it’s only getting colder, as in 17 for a low temp tonite. I love it outside, too, but I’m not CRAZY about it. If it’s warmer where you are, grab your daughter and go for it. I envy you. But for me? I’m going to stay here where it’s warm, eat a vitamin D pill, and hope my furnace doesn’t break down.
RE: I’ve got 18— EIGHTEEN paying subscribers.
Make it 19.
For 2025, change what you have to, but stay true to yourself. ALWAYS.
Freud would have a field day with my writing!!! 😂😂 My normal mind is just exceptionally… vulgar and crude. 😂 Although, it does have me wondering, was it nature or nurture that made it that way? Now I shall be pondering that… 🤔 I suspect both LOL
Steve and I sound like we’d be worthy foes on the food eating battle field!!! 😂 Except, not anymore, because I’m not a reformed fast eater. Hahahah.
Yes for getting out in nature, even when it’s a wee bit cold!! I’ve been aiming for a mid-day walk and then once after dinner with my daughter and so far the last 1.5 weeks it’s been going GREAT, even if I haven’t hit every day!!! One day I did turn back half way because with the windchill it was 11 degrees and I was freezing. 🥶😅 But it’s been awesome, especially in the evenings with my daughter! 💛
Here’s to having more bread on our shit sandwiches!!! And less face washing.
AND — I’m so so so honored that are here and supporting my work!!! Thank you! 🙏😄🥪🥳
No thanks necessary.
When it’s remotely decent out, I like to take after dinner walks - gets my ass out of the kitchen for long enough that what I gorged down has a snowball’s chance in Hell to click the “full” switch.
Vulgar and crude is perfectly fine with me. I’m convinced I inherited my language and manners from my old man’s New Jersey Irish family. We ALL cuss like 20-year Navy vets, even the women. They call it “brevity” - telling you to ‘fuck off’ in so many words. Or saving even more time by just flying you the New Jersey State Bird. And I grew up 4 hours away from them. So it MUST be genetic, and I can’t do anything about it. Anyway, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
😂😂 Those are some amazingly strong genetics. That’s awesome hahahah
I always wait and let somebody new that I meet cuss first. But a couple times I’ve gotten the “whoa, hold on sailor” look when I then unleash a torrent of expletives on them. “Too much?” I say, generally to a nod from them.
😂😂 Yeah, I’m very aware of when and with whom I unleash, too.
Then we’d both have a problem if we ever met, huh?
I am 41 years old and I wash my face exactly zero or one time per day. Welcome to the club! (I think my skin is so healthy since I don’t go crazy with products!?)
OMG YOU ARE GOALLLLLS!!!! That sounds amazing. 🙏💛 Can you pls send some of your skin care genes or magic my way? Asking for my skin. 😂
Hahaha gladly!
Oh, and it was 1970 so do the math.
Do what you want man !!!!!
I learned that somewhere around 27 years old when I told my then husband I wanted us to go to Europe and he said we don’t have enough money and I said we do if we sell everything we own! And we did.
And we had $1,200. So we went, and it lasted 10 months because we had 28 cents when we got home again. What a fucking amazing time we had!!!!
That’s when I found out you can do anything you want by just saying so and shortly after that doing it. So just keep writing cause you’re doing it.
I have found life is much easier if you just ‘announce’ what’s going to happen, then everyone else adjusts accordingly. The truth is so easy to say. Giggle
YES!
HOLY HELL YOU ARE AMAZING!!!! That was ball-sy and badass-ey and I WANT TO BE AS BRAVE AS YOU. Because deep down, when I get past the fear, I do believe that when there’s a will, there’s a way. 💕 Thank you so much for sharing this with me, I shall channel you when I need to take a leap. ✨🙏
Christ’s Crotch that was quite the rollercoaster. You must be pretty entertaining in person. ❤️
Hahaha LOVE that opening sentence you used. 😂🙏 My daughter is eternally embarrassed at the thought of me being myself in public … yes? 🤣💕
The 'washing-my-face-once-a-day' confession had me cracking up! I mean, who hasn't had a nightly battle with the sink? It's so refreshing to hear someone say 'screw it' to the beauty standards that don't serve them. You're inspiring me to be a little kinder to myself and maybe, just maybe, ditch the nighttime face wash too! 😉
😂🙏 Beauty standards give me all the angst. 😭 So glad my face wash woes can inspire you to be a little (or a lottle) kinder to your face!!! 🙏 I’m a couple of weeks into my ditched nightly face wash and have ZERO REGRETS!!!
I’ve been skipping it and sleeping just a bit more 🩵 I love it.
YASSS!!! 😁🙏
Cheers to freeing yourself into becoming exactly who you are and who you want to be. I'm glad you're taking me along with you on SS. I recommend the spending of more time outdoors. Any green space will do. Don't wear headphones so you can listen to birds and insects and connect with Nature. We are not meant to stare a lighted screens all the time. I prescribe at least 3 x a week for at least 30 minutes or more for maximum happiness. It helps with the disregulated nervous system in a big way. Ask me how I know... Love, Virg.
Thank you so much, Virg! 🤗 I’m so glad you’re here!!! And, yessssss to more outside green space! And I totally agree, walking without earbuds is sooo meditative and beautiful. And omg I am SO HERE for the positive real life “reviews” of going out in nature and seeing results lol… so you’ve noticed a tangible improvement from being outdoors regularly?? 🤞💕✨
You made me smile today. I hope you smile when you write, because you're writing makes me smile
YAY!!!! Hearing this makes me so happy, I’m smiling RIGHT NOW reading your comment!!! 😁 And, I definitely do smile and laugh while writing what I write. 🤭😅😂
URGH!! Food is so goooood. And, it can be consumed slowly. 🙏 Rooting for us to chew slowly in 2025!! lol