Baking is way harder than cooking. If you're cooking, and tasting as you go, you can fix up whatever mistakes need fixing. Baking you have no idea how anything's going to turn out until it's done.

Fun Fact: The placenta is also full of stem cells. In the bad old days, the nurses at my hospital used to save the outer membrane for burn victims because they healed wounds really well and a lot faster.

My niece's initials spell BLAH. Count yourself lucky.

Worse than your boyfriend saying his mom— your boyfriend saying another girl. Sorry, Monique.

Oh, Tracie! I can't love you enough for including Eric Wareheim in this. What a great surprise!

I've got a dog who my husband named Django, after Django Reinhardt, a french guitarist. I stole a cat last year and named him Raleigh St Clair, but we went through quite a few names before deciding on that one. He was first Ben Folds, then Beejee (soft j, a name my grandmother, due to her dementia, named her past…

Carpe diem! Seize the carp!

What?.... LeVar Burton?... of Reading Rainbow?

I've been on both ends of this.

@Ruby_de_la_Booby: ... You aren't my sister.

I love tea. LOVE. I wonder how Tea vs. Coffee would do in a March Madness competition?

Exactly! When I look like shit, then I deserve to be treated as such. Only the prettiest of pretty girls are allowed male attention. Uglies are to be put on silent treatment until they conform to societal beauty standards.

Medical Clown? Dr Rockso?

I like her bangs.

This may be the only time I will come to this guy's defense. I think he said "fans are my everything", which would make F.A.M.E. work.

Ugh. Sex =\= Gender.

Ugh. I'm vegan. PETA, however, makes me want to eat spite burgers with extra everything. Give me one of those 1/3 meat Taco Bell things! Pronto!

@Antrack: Chances of suffering a tear or needing an episiotomy are WAY WAY WAY higher than getting into a car accident, especially if it's your first baby. And that's only if you can have a vaginal delivery, not to mention C-Sections.

@Antrack: There's a difference between wanting children and wanting childbirth, though. If the thought of ripping from your V to your A and never, EVER having a proper bowel movement again is too much, then whatevs, seems legit to me. I work in labour and delivery and most days come home convinced of adopting. It'd be…

@lilydancing: I think it's supposed to mean a canned fish.