I see. I think Tali Zorah rather than Tali'Zorah would be a good compromise. Both seem fine to me on their own. I'm personally going to go with Isaac and Catherine, though I also really love the name Orson. I just feel like nothing could have stopped me from being bullied, but I don't know how much worse it would have…

Bullies will always find something to mess with someone over. I have one of the most common names of my generation and it really didn't stop them. There are plenty of terrible people who will pick on you no matter what. Maybe it gives them one less thing to latch onto if they have a name that's considered normal,…

Congrats! In two days my husband and I will have been married for 6 months!

I'm trying to build up a reasonable sleep schedule to help me be more productive. We'll see how that goes.

US Airways gave me a transferable voucher, but maybe they're an exception. I didn't know this wasn't the norm. But maybe it was because it was given to me because of a situation where they really messed up rather than as a reward.

Good luck!

They're cute but they only come in what works out to 30 through 34 A through C in American sizes. Not going to work for most women.

I feel like an asshole about cleaning, only I'm a woman. Cleaning was always a cause of fighting and stress in my house growing up. My dad is handicapped and so can only really help by filing things and the like, my mom hates cleaning and only ever did non-maintenance forms of it around holiday-time, which was the…

I'm not anywhere near being a banker (I'm a grad student), but if my husband is stuck in minimum wage jobs still by the time we have kids, he wants to stay home with them instead. Since he's working part-time and I'm in grad school 60-70 hours per week, he already takes care of probably about 50% of the cooking and…

I thought it would just be that because it usually starts a day or so before, but the bleeding started too. Oh well.

Mine started a few days early. And I'm on the pill so it's really weirded me out. It's extra inconvenient considering I'm finishing up a final paper due tomorrow and this is the last class-related thing I need to do to wrap up the semester, and if it came at a normal time I could just be a slacker instead of needing…

Hugs! I'm writing a paper that's due tomorrow and dealing with period cramps as well! And it's super weird because I'm on birth control and the period usually doesn't start until like Tuesday or Wednesday of the off-week but decided to start today even though like, I haven't had any of the off pills yet. Weird. I'm…

No, not yet. My husband's job right now is seasonal, barely above minimum wage, and under 20 hrs per week. My pay is enough to cover the majority of our bills with his money going to cover what I can't, but it means I have nothing left to save after that's done and, considering we both just graduated college a year…

This is true where I am (well, a mix of people saying "soda" and people saying "coke"...at a boundary I guess). My mom has to be careful because she's allergic to Pepsi but not to Coke, somehow. I don't even understand.

My husband is teaching me what to do the way he was taught by his personal trainer friend a while back. I'm starting out with very weak arms unfortunately, but have only used the 5 lb dumbbells for my burnout set because I haven't been able to finish a full set with 15 lb dumbbells yet. Some asshole stole both the 20…

Thanks for the info- good to know. I just started adding in 3 days a week of weightlifting (I've normally just been doing cardio) and am hoping to bring down the body fat %, so if I can trust the scale to at least be self-consistent even if not accurate it should still be a good way to gauge progress. :)

Ooh, interesting. I'd heard it mentioned somewhere before but didn't know what it was, maybe in the context of like trying to make a drug to activate brown fat to burn more calories. So it's all white fat, but it's more harmful when it's located closer to the organs. Hmm. I kind of wish I had taken more bio or…

Ooh, good to know. I thought I had heard of something like there being brown fat and white fat and wasn't sure how that fit in with everything.

What kind of fat is in boobs and butt? My waist is 28 inches but my hips are 43 and my bra size is 32F, so I feel like while I have a high body fat of ~32% (according to a scale that claims to be able to calculate it, don't know how accurate those are), nearly none of it is around my midsection. My BMI is 25.2, which…

I got married this summer and we're not sure when the best time to try to have a baby is. If it happens accidentally we'll roll with it, otherwise we'll see how we feel.