Sadly, nothing from my in-laws is worth exchanging, so into the Goodwill pile it goes. The K-Mart clearance bin haul included a sweater that wouldn't fit me even if I wasn't pregnant, a wallet containing a $5 bill (which made the wallet worth approximately $5.01), weird fuzzy slippers, and a compact/hairbrush thing…

This is a fabulous suggestion. Before Christmas, Dillon's (part of the Kroeger chain) was offering 4x gas points on gift card purchases. The rest of the year it's 2x. I tried to do all my gift card purchasing there.

Hear, hear! I am 17 weeks along and absolutely cannot be bothered losing sleep over a "birthing plan" or agonizing over breastfeeding. I mean, I have things I would *like* to have happen with delivery, but as long as I'm alive and healthy and my baby is alive and healthy at the end of it, the middle part isn't as…

Not only is it less fun to love thy neighbor, turn the other cheek, and examine the mote in one's own eye, it's HARD FREAKING WORK! You mean to tell me that if I am a follower of Christ that I have to THINK about how my actions reflect on myself and the state of my faith? Uggggggh! Gross! It's way easier to just have…

Well, I think some of my problem was my pillow—I'm a back sleeper trying to become a side sleeper, and my fancypants contoured pillow was jacking with my neck which was in turn jacking with my head. Switched pillows last night and I am doing a LOT better today.

I am pregnant and fighting migraines. (It's better than morning sickness. I think.) I woke up to a screaming three year old on the radio. I thought I had a few more months/years before I had to hear that! So unfair.

I thought "cigarette" was a swear word and couldn't bring myself to say it above a whisper until I was about 6. I guess my parents really talked up the dangers of smoking and I bought in 100%.

I got the most amazing help from a bra fitter at Nordstrom's a few years ago, and I try to live by her rules of bra care. She recommended that I number my bras so that I never wear the same one two days in a row. Wearing the same bra twice in a row without letting it rest fatigues the elastic and shortens the bra's…

Aww. I told my husband a long time ago that if something happened to me, that he should grieve as long as he needed to but he'd better remarry. He's the kind of guy that's happiest when he's partnered, and he shouldn't spend the rest of his life missing my decomposing ass.

Heh. I am pregnant right now, on purpose and everything! I can definitely vouch for the fact that not being pregnant is awesome. I mean, I'm glad it happened and it'll be worth it, but I'm looking forward to this babby being on the outside so I can get a Mirena again.

I had a subchorionic hematoma and was on pelvic rest for the last eight weeks. I'm now midway through week 12, the hematoma is gone, and the nausea is mostly gone. My poor husband is a saint.

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I think you need to speak with your supervising professors about this. They may not be able to do anything about the atmosphere at that school, but they sure as hell can avoid placing any more students there for student teaching/internships. I can certainly understand why you'd find it difficult to speak up, but…

He was on Star Trek Voyager, too! He fought 7 of 9 in some kind of gladiatorial ring battle. Did the eyebrow thing and the whole bit. It makes me giggle with delight when I catch that episode. Which I just looked up, and is called Tsunkatse.

I must confess I used to kind of write off all NFL cheerleaders as ditzy bitches until I got to know one. I had a KC Chiefs cheerleader for an aerobics instructor several years ago and she was really...normal. And super nice, approachable, all that stuff. She didn't even get annoyed when we could barely do the super…

Screw it, the picture won't work. Suffice it to say I have a black cat named Bear, and he's a pain in the ass but I love him anyway.

You know what scares me most about these questions? How on EARTH do they propose to protect this data once they've collected it? Will it be anonymized, or will my name be tied to it forever? Will it be stored on a server that is connected to the internet? Who will harden this server? If it's stored on paper, will the…

Dumpster diving is illegal if you have to break and enter to actually get to the dumpster. That includes dumpsters that are locked or in a secured area. It's perfectly legal to dig through a dumpster that isn't locked up, though. I'd be especially careful to make sure I wasn't on private property if I were inclined to…

DANGER ZONE!

I just explained this to my husband via IM and he replied "god sez mo jetskis." Uh.