Same here! I blame it on being super Midwestern. Except my desk is really messy, so that's legit.

Sounds good to me. I'm married, but to a chef, so he's always going to be away dealing with other people's Valentine's Days. I generally find it's a lovely time to buy a bottle of affordable wine, grab some fine appetizers, maybe call up a friend, hang out with my dogs and chill. Later on this weekend we may cook up a…

Yes yes yes. I started on the pill in high school when I was missing several days of school a month because of debilitating cramps and nausea. It was awful, and the pill made it bearable. Looking back, it's worth a slightly elevated breast cancer risk, though I didn't know that at the time and possibly would not have…

Yay! I usually don't get super invested in TV show characters' romantic lives anymore, but dammit, The Mindy Project made me believe again.

Mine is weird because of how anachronistic it seems in an era of Facebook and online dating.

I want Cate Blanchett to wear it, and sweep regally past the paparazzi.

Right? I was the only girl in a statistics class, and the only girl in my work group in a chem class. My best friend double-majored in physics and math, and was the only woman in quite a few of her classes. And yet she awesomed it up all over the place and is getting a PhD. I mean, I almost feel bad for the guy…

Thing is, in the article she does accept responsibility.

Hell yeah, don't know what I did before I started using big boxes of Chianti as cooking wine - soups, reductions, tomato sauces, yum. Red wine mushroom gravy with homemade biscuits is also the Best Brunch Dish.

Those are pretty good goals, but if you can manage the sock one you are a better woman than I. I just ended up buying all the same kind of sock so I wouldn't have to worry about it. Whomp whomp.

Our command is just 'out'. They know that means all paws off linoleum. They can stare and beg from there if they want. We've got two rescues: an Italian Greyhound and a lab/akita(?)/mastiff(?) mix.

I guess I think of sleepovers as a solely a good thing because growing up my bestie and I had one or two every week. It was only upon growing up a bit that I realized the reason for that was because her family had some issues and my parents half-adopted her to give her a positive place to be :/ It was fun as hell at…

Definitely. I've seen drag queens make much bigger facial transformations than these with just makeup. Granted, it looks pretty artificial, but so does Ke$ha's, really.

The food mill makes such a difference, right? I always use it to mash/strain my pumpkin before baking and it makes the besssst pie. Key to texture success.

Yeah, I'm getting a turkey from a farmer I know too, and it's all free range (as in actual pastures) natural-diet etc. unfortunately that means hella expensive. It is, stupidly enough, a huge privilege to eat good meat.

:) thanks

I think it's great to say that a large percentage of women have engaged in disordered eating. It could help shift the focus from an individual, mental-health centered model to a societal, holistic and political model. Acknowledging that a really wide swath of the population is affected, on a continuum from 'weird…

Roasting veggies and nuts is a great way to get some crunchiness while remaining healthy. Roasted pumpkins seeds are awesome with squash soup, or you could go with roasted green beans or asparagus as a side dish.

Yep, from where I sit the next big things are game/different meats, and exultation of peasant foods with high end ingredients/preparations.

I don't get why marriage makes women more conservative. I got married last year, and yet I still value autonomy over decisions regarding my vagina. Also social safety nets, equal rights, etc. Seriously, why does marriage change that for some women?