LOL! Before my hedgehog died (of old age), my cat used to try to sniff him and regularly got spiked in the nose. As soon as the cat's nose came close enough, the hedgehog would do this jump/twitch thing. It never really hurt the cat, but I don't think he ever knew what to make of this horrible prickle ball that lived…

Ugh, I saw this on a friend's FB page earlier today, too. I hope these assholes get alcohol poisoning and wake up covered in their own vomit.

It took my doctor about a month and a half to find the right does of Celexa for me, and then it was another 3 to 4 weeks for it to really start taking effect. My experience was similar to Kelsey's. It wasn't that I suddenly started feeling fantastic, but the antidepressants gave me enough control over my emotions that…

I heard the band at that wedding was awful.

It's Thurston Howell III, isn't it?

Good point. No Tolkien character names at all.

I'm pretty sure my husband was kidding about Optimus Prime, but he is completely 100% serious about wanting to name a daughter Iphigenia, even though he was a classics major and knows all about the whole scarificing-your-daughter aspect of that name. "But it's so strong!"

I think my husband's second choice was Morgoth. I may need to borrow your policy and add "no Lord of the Rings names."

My husband told me that if we ever have a son, he wants to name him Optimus Prime. *takes all the birth control*

I love the implication that he'd be willing to buy them secondhand. Like, if you bought some, crossed out "Girl Scouts of America" with a magic marker, and then turned around and sold them to him, he'd be totally fine with that. He knows that people can't go without their Girl Scout cookies. Hell, he can't go without…

LOL, no need to apologize. Stories like this one are what justify EOnline's existence.

I'm sorry, the slow loris incident?

A shout-out of encouragement from the other side: I supported my husband and myself for 3 1/2 years while my husband finished his degree. (He worked part-time, too, but didn't make very much per hour, so it was pretty much down to me to pay the bills.) When he graduated and got a full-time job again: oh my God, the…

So picky! It's totally worth it when they "kill" their toys, though. How can they still be so cute when they're pretending to disembowel something?

I agree with some of the other posters, you don't necessarily have to worry about a cat being bored in an apartment setting as long as you have some basic things,

I tried to make an apple pie with vegan crust for my friend, but I didn't realize there isn't a 1:1 correlation between butter and vegetable shortening. Too much vegetable shortening = oven on fire. Oh, and I was in my bathrobe the entire time, because I was also doing laundry.

I don't want to eat a disembodied breast being mamograhamed, no matter how good the pun.

Oh, try Jeannette Winterson (Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, The Passion), Angela Carter (though I would not recommend starting with The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman - whoa! Maybe The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories), and Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace), if you haven't read them already.

I second the idea of checking out SCBWI. (I have several friends who are members.) They're a great resource, and it sounds like you'd qualify to join them already.

Do we live in the same town? Trader Joe's just opened where I live, too! There's a TJ's in the city where my mom lives, so for the past few year's we've stocked up on chocolate-covered orange sticks, mango salsa, olive oil, wine, and cheve whenever we've visited her, but we've never been able to get frozen stuff…