This is why I want Beaches to be on TV every damn week.

That's also when the internet started getting more mainstream, which meant there would be a bigger demand for new pics on a daily basis

My parent were too cheap to pay for push button phone service so even after we got them we would still the pips as we dialed each number. Anyone else's parents cheap like that?

snicker. I like you.

The problem is this 30% produce expansion amounts to $2 per month per child.

Way late to this post. There was a very brief Food Network program dealing with this. They had famous chefs cooking with food that would otherwise have been composted or discarded. The chefs visited a few farms where there were PILES of fruit not good enough to sell - it had minor bruises or a bug hole or something. …

But it does have the best line of all time:"Melrose Place is a really good show." Saw it when it came out with a college friend and we both looked at each other and were like OMG this is SO true. (This was the original Melrose Place FYI where everyone wanted to get with Billy for unknown reasons.)

But my mishmash of random/homemade ornaments have been passed down through the years and each one means something special or carries a memory. And part of the joy of my Christmas tree comes from carefully choosing which colored light makes an ornament show best.

I will never understand why filmmakers do this. The book was so beautiful, but so obviously not adaptable to a visual format.

Don't give up hope! It took forever but they got a Veronica Mars movie going. So I will hope against hope for a Pushing Daisies movie. Because Olive and the Pie Maker and the crazy aunts deserve another outing!

Somewhat off topic, but the NYT has an article about fetal pain in the health section today. "Complex Science at Issue in Politics of Fetal Pain" Basically the anti-choice folks are convinced it exists at 18 weeks and science says highly unlikely until the 3rd trimester.

Yup. I started thinking about other women who've been labeled difficult: Debra Winger and Linda Fiorentino come to mind. Maybe Gwyneth and Charlie are just coasting on all their family connections? That makes some twisted kind of sense.

Yes, it's true that RDJ is lightyears better than Sheen in every way. I guess I think that RDJ's comeback, which took time and serious effort, kind of paved the way for Sheen's never-ending trainwreck/comeback. And that is infuriating. I get rooting for someone with addiction/mental health issues, but the amount of…

Seriously. Katherine Heigl makes me cringe, but pretty much every actor should be considered for work before Charlie Sheen. I mean, I get that he has issues (so, so many issues) but I feel like all the women who have gone off the deep end never are allowed back. Jeez, Winona Ryder shoplifted and lost all credibility…

I feel like these people may be taking Downton Abbey a little too seriously!

Here is my rage inducing Craigslist post of the moment: http://newyork.craigslist.org/wch/ofc/405002…

I loved this book too, and am fortunate to still have a copy of it. I still read it every now and then, and it makes me resolve to be a better person every time.

Ok so if anyone wants to waste hours (need I ask?) this is the website for you:

O I know the one you're thinking of..Flame something wasn't it?

Oh, The Keeping Days (and rest of books in that series). Love, sex, abuse, teen pregnancy, alcoholism, PTSD, slut shaming (and why it sucks) it deals with so many topics really well.