I hear you. I live in the attic of a 100+ year old building with no insulation and windows that have gaps an inch wide. I call it urban camping and while it is uncomfortable at times (no matter how high my downstairs neighbor turns up the heat in the winter it never gets much above 53F in my apartment) I love living…

You're putting too much effort in! Get a mandolin, shave them into slivers, toss with lemon juice and olive oil, dash salt, pepper, maybe some diced tart apples and nuts and GO TO TOWN ON THAT SHIT! (Ok, shaving them takes effort but Trader Joe's has 'em shaved and bagged for easy yummies!)

It is my personal belief that animal shelters give the animals ill-fitting names so that people feel sorry for them and decide to save them from the fate of a completely inappropriate name. Case in point: my scruffy black wire-haired terrier mutt was named Pamela. Good name for a person, a cat or a high-maintenance…

I totally understand the conundrum. I call my boyfriend's family my sin-laws (short for almost in-laws). It works better cause the biffles and I have been together almost 8 years.

True story- a friend of mine growing up was somehow able to get DBL FST1 past the powers that be at the IL DMV. Because it was a combo of letters and numbers he didn't even have to pay for a vanity plate. You would think that anyone approving the license plate request of a 16 year old boy would look a little closer…

Such a great song! My guy put it on the very first mix-tape he made for me and I can't hear it without smiling and thinking about him.

Seriously! I keep going on Netflix saying "I'll just watch one more" after work each night then 3 hours later its 5 am and I'm crying. (I work nights. Also: damn you Whedon!) My recent track has been to choose a minor character ands mainline all the shows featuring them- Oz being the latest. Love me some Seth Green...

Thanks! That made my day plus you let me reminisce about my punk days. It's been a good birthday!

Shot of Fernet Branca (this is also my remedy for any upset stomach) then a hot shower listening to Bowie or T.Rex or MC5 and singing along loudly all while chewing a large wad of bubble gum. Basically get yourself in a good mood and the symptoms will fade.

Back in my younger days I would stand with my smaller girlfriends because at 5'5" I towered over most of them and I became quite adept at angling my elbows at precise angles to hit soft fleshy parts of the jerks. The decent people who honestly lost balance in the pit would get a polite catch-and-shove but the assholes…

In my experience spelling doesn't always have a direct correlation to language or reading comprehension- I had major problems spelling and while it took me longer to learn to read than most children it didn't hold me back at all language wise. I wasn't able to read until summer before 3rd grade and was subsequently…

Go Arvind! I had such a hard time learning to read and spell when I was a kid and it was so frustrating for me. I can still remember standing in the back room of my house stomping my foot with tears in my eyes because I couldn't spell frog right- kept spelling it F-O-R-G and could not understand for the life of me why…

OH! The happy looks on David and Neil's faces! The dubious looks on their children who are surely thinking "One day I am really going to be embarrassed by this picture but for now this is the BEST THING EVAR!"

This is my terrier/terror mix Alibi who tries very hard to live up to (or down to) her name. The first day back to work after adopting her she thought it would be a good idea to bust out the attic window screen and run around on the roof chasing squirrels. When the boyfriend went by mid-day to check on her and take…