I had to check, as there are, apparently, plenty of people who think this is perfectly fine behavior. *shudder*

She had a valid safety concern. How is she to know that angry neighbors won't escalate and actually harm her or disable her car? They are not exactly displaying rational or civil behavior.

God, I hope this is parody.

Hit up your local library! Take an afternoon, pull out a stack of cookbooks, and photocopy any recipe that looks doable. I store my recipe printouts in a three-ring binder. Then if a recipe is good, it stays; if it's a dud, I just rip it out to make room for something else.

Yes! You can do this with almost-empty jelly jars, too, for a fruity vinaigrette.

Offbeat Bride is EXCELLENT. The sample weddings are inspiring, and there's lots of great, practical advice as well.

That is effing amazing.

I, too, would like a glowing orb just inside my cervix.

Coconut oil: Great for cooking. Great alternative to commercial hair products. Terrible for Alzheimer's. (Unless you're putting it in the food and/or hair of someone with Alzheimer's ... then it's great. But only for her/his food and/or hair. Not the Alzheimer's.)

Coconut oil: Great for cooking. Great alternative to commercial hair products. Terrible for Alzheimer's. (Unless you're putting it in the food and/or hair of someone with Alzheimer's ... then it's great. But only for her/his food and/or hair. Not the Alzheimer's.)

Did she survive adulthood? We all must know!

Did she survive adulthood? We all must know!

Not all of us are trying to con you! I want less coffee in my cup because there are a lot of stairs between my office and the coffee shop, and I don't want coffee from a too-full cup to spurt out onto my work clothes.

Well now we know what's causing them. #PrayerChangesThings

The Pogo Stainless Steel Chug bottle.

The Pogo Stainless Steel Chug bottle.

I hope you do call the four news stations today. You survived and thrived and just want to save other young women ... there's still a story.

Honestly, (if I weren't married myself) I'd date a married person as long as they no longer lived with their SO. That, to me, clearly indicates that they are for-real broken up. Sometimes there are financial/logistical considerations that prevent papers being filed right away.

Um ... then who would make your food and ring up your clothing purchases?

And she's 17! She's hyper-fertile! She could get re-knocked up in an instant.

I do not understand this either. When I was in a church youth group and we took a trip, our leaders would always plan our route and then call restaurants we were stopping at ahead of time to notify them that there would be a large group. I was shocked and appalled to learn that this was not standard practice.