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I celebrate good days by doing experimental baking. Behold - vanilla bean butter cake filled with whipped orange-vanilla mascarpone... topped with bittersweet chocolate ganache and sliced almonds.

You're welcome! Those were just off the top of my head. Cracked has some great lists about creepy shit. So, there's a start!

What makes it worse is Philly has an anonymous CPS tipline. Someone could have easily called and made the tip.

I agree that people should call if they suspect abuse. However, having been on the receiving end of a false call (I'm not shitting you, my now deceased Uncle thought he should turn my ex and I in because we were "drug dealers" (not true) and "extreme hoarders" (also not true). I understand that these are very rare,…

It is a feminist issue. I don't know a single attractive, quiet man who's been accused of being a dick because he's reserved. I thought I was over it because it'd been awhile since I heard that from someone, but given recent events, apparently I'm not.

Well...

They don't want to believe it's real.

Go with your gut. Do you feel a connection, even if the puppy isn't yet filling it? Are you up for the challenge, knowing the reward is big, of bringing him out of his shell? Only you know what you can handle, and if you can learn not to take it personally if there's a warming up period.

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I wouldn't worry about it. My dog had no interest in me when I first met him in the shelter. He was more concerned with looking outside and the ball in the meeting area. As soon as we got home he decided I was his best friend, and hasn't left my side since.

Its a baby animal. I'd put about as much stock in something a puppy did in five minutes as I would a newborn baby. Babies are unpredictable.

I just received my owl pot-holder that I ordered from Etsy (it looks way better in person! Promise!).

It seems like they get demonized if they take kids away from abusive parents, and they also get demonized when they don't and something awful happens. That's got to be a hard job.

It's inexcusable that no one dialed in. I understand if you feel you would put the child or yourself in danger by intervening, but the mother clearly was not going to engage (don't really feel comfortable watching the video, just making an assumption based on the response). I just can't fathom the mind-space of a…

This morning I woke up to a facebook notification that The Ex liked one of my photos. And it wasn't a photo that I posted recently, but one from 2009 which means that he was looking through old photos and was drunk/stoned/whatever enough to hit like. And I realize how pathetic it is for me to be thinking it through to…

Okay so I have been waiting all day for this. I have good news to share that I am very reluctant to broadcast in real life because bragging is bad and I don't want to make my friends who are in similar positions to me feel badly....but I was offered a more than full ride to law school!! I am so, so excited. I was on…

No one will like me for this.

It's surprising how often police are able to find someone based on witness information - physical descriptions mainly, and in this case, since they were on a bus, also where the mother and child boarded and exited, which they could get from the driver if not from you as an onlooker. The woman may be known to them…

You call 911, give them as much info as you can (physical descriptions, which direction the people are headed), and let the cops figure it out from there.