You know, speaking from personal experience, the joy of getting a surprise gift may also dissipate over time. I’ve been married ten years, and almost always the gifts I knew about (thanks to Amazon wish list) are the ones I’m most pleased to get.

CVS has something called Minute Clinic in many but not all of its branches. Coincidentally, I went twice this weekend (it’s been a rough weekend), and the care has been great. It’s for basic stuff (in my case, an earache and then a dog bite, whee!) but they’ll fill your prescription pronto, they take insurance, and…

Hey, Clover! Count the chicks for me, would you?

How many lungs does one person need, anyway?

Whatever the cause, the life of a model is so so hard on the body. This is very sad.

IMHO, do not ever cut the employee coffee and water cooler. Find other places to cut. Employee morale plummets when you take away the caffeine and hydration and it simply doesn’t save you enough to compensate.

This is exactly the reasoning that the New Mexico Supreme Court reached in an excellent opinion that I can’t right now remember the name of. It’s within the past eight or so years and was authored by Justice Edward Chavez.

Re Liam and Cheryl: That’s not lazy. That’s message discipline. It’s the expensive, professional opposite of lazy.

This is a reasonable explanation. The answer in brief is, only about stuff during the marriage. http://defensewiki.ibj.org/index.php/Marital_Confidences_and_Spousal_Testimonial_Privileges

Eh, if it’s because he’s vegetarian or all-organic or allergic or something, bringing your own and not expecting the host to figure out how to feed you is considered polite in the rest of the world.

I think there’s another option for those kids: Hire a sitter. It’s actually pretty normal to do this, and while it’s kind of totally enabling, it gets you most of what you want.

Hickeys?

His mom is an opera person! I read it on the internet!

Send them to me! We have a thoroughly untrainable mutt, and the only thing he even sort of responds to is cut up hot dog. We go through them like mad. Naturally, once we’re out, he stops listening to us entirely.

Two words: Rose Bowl.

Let’s definitely not forget this.

Are you in Montana, by chance?

At every bar licensure ceremony, New Mexico Supreme Court Justice Petra Jimenez Maes gives the advice, “invest in comfortable shoes.” Best and truest line of the day.

Payless, a drag queen’s best friend! Not a smack — Jackie Beat says so!

I am a woman (and a New Yorker, which may be relevant) and I interrupt A LOT. I need to watch, though, whether I do it more to women than to men.