never take the fraud in the factum, my mother always said...

Often, many trade jobs (massage therapy, for instance) pay enough per hour that you don't have to work as many hours and therefore can pursue a 'traditional' education, in tandem with or followed by internships that others have to eschew because they are working every minute they aren't in class, in order to be able…

....until you peanut butter a mustache onto their face.

Worst. Nightmare!!! I hate surprise shit...not a control issue, just that I find asking for something and having that be supported, makes me feel loved than someone trying to stay one step ahead. I'm speaking about things on a large scale, by the way....if the hubs brings me flowers or some 'hey this made me think of…

in the words of the esteemed Chris Trager.....

Sing it, sister. We may be the only two, but neither of us is all alone....Pooping. Or not.

Constipated for a week before, then poop-o-rama as I start. :\ Not sure which is worse, sometimes. At least the poop runs out, at some point. Have found that staying hydrated is the best way to mitigate the worst of the symptoms in either case.

Had zero menstrual issues as a teen and younger adult....now perimenopausal and WOW: Acne! Cramps! Headaches! Bloat! Super poops! (In addition to wrinkles, sagging skin, slower metabolism, age spots...)

LOVED the really old books in the Nancy Drew series; when I was a little kid in the 70's, it was typical to walk away from a yard sale on a summer Saturday morning less 25 cents but having gained a hardcover with a copyright from the late 1930's and a day's worth of sleuthing with Nancy in her roadster. I have a…

I appreciate that a $78 blouse is listed here as a 'splurge' just as a $218 one. For some of us, either one of those is out of reach at the moment. It gets frustrating sometimes to look in magazines (for a variety of reasons, but that's another story) and have the 'get it cheap' price still be around a hundred bucks!

I loved the first season....it seriously creeped me out because it left a few things unseen, unsaid, but so palpable. I found season 2 to be totally different; more of a torture-porn/Saw/Hostel genre, which has never appealed to me. So, maybe it was great too, but I just didn't dig it. This season looks like it is…

i've been nothing but ambivalent about him forever, but I THINK I JUST LIT ON ACTUAL FIRE upon seeing this pic. Hubba hubba.

Christina Ricci gets more attractive by the minute. She has a unique look that has matured beautifully.

cable networks who broadcast material that makes bowties spin around

The original sequence of the novels was perfect! Never understood why they had to reorganize them 'chronologically'.

My great aunt was one of my favourite people, as she was a school teacher (I thought it was very cool to have insight into what teachers are like, out of the classroom!), had boxes and boxes of costume jewelry that she'd let me play with, AND quite a home library. Grimm's, and Bullfinch's Mythology, were so horrific…

I read this several years before I understood the whole of it, as well. I had a teen aged babysitter two days weekly in the summer between 3rd and 4th grade (about a year after it was published), and she was reading the series; she was so engrossed that I asked her all about it and she had pretty well told me the…

Quinoa, Chevron, Hashtag, et al. You win the Internet today for that reference!

Heidi's boobage is fantastic and I applaud her choice to rock 'em they way nature intended.

She got her momma's hair...and I got her dad's. My dad had thick-ish hair but nothing like mine. Have you ever had yours cut super short; pixie style? The two times in my adult life that I've done so, I swear it grew back thicker and wavier. Like branches of a shrub, trying to get past one another to the light!