In addition to it being time consuming, it also requires a ridiculously huge amount of the fur to equal out to a usable spinnable amount. I knit and am learning to spin, and I've watched in stunned silence several times when a friend will come out to a knit night, drag a completely full trashbag (sourced from over a…

What, actually THINK before bombarding a man with idiotic questions? Surely you jest. Reporters just don't DO that, don't you know.

For that? No - but for other things, eventually. I had just reacted in a blind panic, slugged him, and ran. Mainly afraid with the way things tend to go, he might get fired but I'd get charged with assault.

If you ever figure it out, drop me a line and let me know as well? In my case, it's not my mom - it's my husband. He was a powerlifter for years, starting at about 15 and that drastically & permanently changes your body. His bone density levels are insane and once he stopped lifting and working out (and yes, taking…

Your mouth to god's ear - I don't get it at all. I've read her stuff and I'm trying to not feel too bitter about the half a million book deal for drug fueled mania when I'm a writer myself... but at the end of it, I can't get past the whole "I'm sitting ~HERE~ doing angel dust and the heroin gets here in an hour" and…

Lovely is perfectly acceptable. Ten years together and 6 married so we're definitely on our way to happily ever after. And all that... on only one date and done. Not too shabby! I hope you have someone in your life just as lovely (and goofy. Sweet. Smart. And more!) or will find yours soon.

Amen! My fil is a chef at a local reception hall (they just finished filming an episode of Bridezilla there actually) and people just... are insane. I was lucky, I just basically had to show up on time - my husband has worked in the industry off and on since he was a kid (he has a DJ business on the side in addition…

Here's hoping this is true. I can type fast, I can print fast, and if you give me the tools requires I can even do some halfway decent calligraphy and even illumination style artsy writing - and I can do all of the above with both hands even as I'm ambidextrous. But my cursive looks like you handed a chimp a leaky pen…

It's only fair you do - we women as a group tend to lie through our teeth about our ~weights~ so men should have something they fudge. But it's actually really nice to hear a man admit guys do it. I don't get the vanity sizing thing myself - but that might be simply because shopping is such a miserable experience for…

No, in my case it's more of a near Pavlovian reaction of "Oh. OH! Tall Girl. ANOTHER TALL GIRL! Weeeeeee" (as if all we need to be friends is the same despair of having to wear flood pants.) I DO stand straighter though, but not to out tall. It's just some back part of my brain suddenly hears my gran's voice and a…

Yup, they do. The worse offender is actually my husband back when we were dating. You see, he was CONVINCED he was 5'11. Now, I'm tall. If I hang on the inversion board for a bit (I've broken my back in a few places and on bad days can lose some height) so everything is in place, I AM 6'2 in my bare feet. I own that.…

That's a possibility of course, but I'm glad it also is funny to someone else. For me, I think it's as much a case of how very different he IS from how he can APPEAR to strangers. Yes, he can be protective, and yes he can back it up (thankfully, he is the ~right~ kind of protective. He knows women can take care of…

It happens from time to time when out with my husband - but that's mainly because my husband is so scary-good at fading away to people watch. (It's one of the thing that caught his attention about me - he can't 'fade' from my view, I always see him. Which he loves... and makes him crazy.) He has worked a bunch of…

Hell - I'd be happy to add to the kitty for that sit down chat and playlist. And I even promise to break into fangush sobs too so you don't feel weird.

Oh... god. I put my bra on every day by using the upside down/backward front attach and then swivel approach - and I get dressed BEFORE caffeine is applied to my desperate brain. I don't even what to think what a misfiring 3,800 volts to the nipples feels like first thing in the morning. I applaud the effort to find a…

You ever want to get into politics and run with that platform, I'll come work for your campaign. (Bad experience that makes me now almost GLAD I can't eat fast food anymore due to celiac.)

And..... that's why nothing will change. Sorry too many words, sorry it was a full view and not something that fits on a bumpersticker. And if you think no one is killing people without guns? Take a look at what's going on in Africa. Lots of folks dead or missing limbs from nothing more high-tech then a hatchet. I…

It's a toss up between two. Either the 8 hour plane ride sitting next to a parent who had decided that their 7 year old was not only so 'small' they could just sit on mom's lap (no, they weren't. And I have no clue how they pulled off not buying a ticket for him) but he was also 'too young' to understand the word 'no'…

Now THAT is a political campaign idea that wouldn't make me want to bang my (or anyone else's) head into a wall.