Years ago, when my mother, who is allergic to anything that is related to onions (except garlic) and I went to Cancun, I made allergy cards for her. One side had English, the other had Spanish. I was lucky enough to have a friend who was fluent in Spanish who could help me translate. It roughly said that she was…

This is correct. It is essentially a oil bottle with a measuring spoon attached. I have one and love it. I am able to measure out just enough oil to cook, which cuts down on the amount of oil in my food. I keep it next to my stove, where I kept my olive oil bottle/pourer in the past. (I don’t use EVOO when using…

This is correct. It is essentially a oil bottle with a measuring spoon attached. I have one and love it. I am…

Adding your kid as an authorized user is definitely a good way to help your kid’s credit become established. In college, my mother added me to her card (with the warning of using it without permission on pain of death). As she had the card for many years with good credit, I was an 18 y.o. suddenly with 15 years of…

I was helping my sister move out of one apartment and into another and I swore I lost her cat. Logic dictated that it was impossible to do so in a 2 room apartment with the outer door never being opened, but I kinda panicked. Until I turned around in the living room and saw him above the kitchen cabinets (where he was…

I agree with the others saying that she just wants attention. Some cats are just attention whores. My sister’s cat will meow from the other room, as if he “lost” her. How can you loose someone in a 2 room apartment?!?

My cat likes Cheeze-its. He’ll bother you until you give him one. He also likes cereal. If I’m being lazy, eating Cherrios in front of the TV, he’ll get on the back of the couch and stick his head and most of his upper body into the box in order to fish out some. Oh, and on more than one occasion, he’s taken a bit of…

Same here. Also with caterpies, weedles, spearows, and doduos. It’s kinda annoying.

I was going to comment on the physical/mineral sunblocks. They work by actually preventing the UV rays from coming near the skin. Which is why they need to be applied in doses that leave a white residue. That can be tough if you’re like me and are transparent white to begin with: I wouldn’t know if I was covered…

As someone who burns just thinking about the sun, I take 2000IU of D a day to make up for my lack of sunlight. If I wasn’t lactose-intolerant, I would take less since I would be drinking more fortified milk.

I got burned pretty badly when I was vacationing in Mexico (translucent skin does not like being so near the equator). I went to the pharmacy in the local Walmart and asked for something for a sunburn (in broken Spanish). They sold me this wonderful gel that made the pain and itching disappear. I can’t remember the…

I once had someone apologize for melting all the cheese on my panini to the point that it oozed out and started crisping. I told her not to apologize; those crispy bits are the best part!!

Same-sex ballroom dancing is not really something new, at least in the ballroom world. There are even competitions devoted solely to Jack and Jack (or Jill and Jill) couples and many of them are simply amazing!

As an RA in collage, the very first event we did every year was a “How to use a washing machine” crash course. Because to many freshmen, the washer and dryer were like unicorns: always heard about but never actually seen.

I have this one: http://www.amazon.com/Deltatrak-Disp…

I was going to mention metformin too. I have been overweight most of my adult life and have struggled to loose. After a while I just gave up. I was happy to maintain my current weight and not see it inch up. I’m sure I gained some muscle mass in there, because other people would always make a comment (my response: It…

My cat liked to play with the mice he had caught. After we released the second hostage outside, the mice seem to put out the word that it’s off limits.

I can attest to the government being stingy. Every time the NIH and science budgets got cut, there was a collective shudder in my institute. It got to the point where they started having seminars on how to write grant proposals in a way that would sound appealing to the NIH and others on places and organisations to…

Show me a vaccinated child that has autism, I’ll show you thousands of vaccinated children who do not have autism. This link has been disproven so many times and the main discoverer of this “link” disgraced.

I want the job of writing the titles to these bills. You know, making sure the title can be shortened to a readable acronym. How much do you think I would get paid?

I agree. I have allergies to a ton of things and I always make sure I have children’s Benedryl with me at all times (acts faster than the adult version, and since one tablet is half an adult dose, I can take one to take the edge off without zonking out). My allergies are not bad enough to warrant an Epi-pen, but if it…