I was super picky about my notebooks - 5 Star, spiral bound, one subject, college ruled ONLY - for years and years and years. Only kind of notebook I ever liked or trusted.

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...and they HAD to be college-ruled. None of that little kid standard ruled nonsense.

Five Star notebooks were/are the shit. But they were so expensive! My mom wouldn't buy them for me. :-(

I regularly maintain a drawer full of notebooks and pads. Because I NEED MORE PAPER. Promise I do.

For younger years: Milky pens and black-paper spiral notebooks. ~So cool~

I still use those in my job. Just because.

Mechanical pencils!!!!

Also, holy crud, but I just realized that his campaign slogan is "El CandiGato", which may be the greatest thing I have ever heard.

I have a large dog. I can just see me waking up one morning and finding him stuck with all four legs going down into the mattress. The cat would just vanish never to be seen again.

Seriously. I had a Facebook friend who posted a similar one at Hiroshima, and it was enough for me to defriend her. Holy shit people, have some basic human decency.

Yeah. I was trying not to use the phrase control freak but every control freak is like that. Fortunately the reverse is not true - not everyone who insists on paying is a control freak.

As a straight woman, my strategy is as follows: I always offer to pay half on a first date. Always.

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Or they could go in a totally different direction.

It totally counts. That's the digital branch. I probably use the digital branch a few times a week and the brick and mortar 1-3 a month.

It's funny, those failures make you a better sewer though, and provide you with some great stories. I don't know how many terrible sewing-machine related stories we have among my group of seamstresses (and those who tolerate the sewing in their presence). Many of them involve throwing half-finished items across the…

Fair enough, but people do that in actual real life. In India, the state of Punjab produces a staggering amount of the country's primary rice, wheat and cotton crops, all of which are water intense. Punjab is also an extremely water-stressed region, where any day now some poor schlub is going to drill so deep he hits…

I enjoyed the first two Hunger Games books despite this bizarre feature, because I have a weakness for fiction that's about oppressed people fighting for their freedom. That couldn't save the third book, however.