I had to hit 'reply' to you just to see your reply to my comment. Hitting the K, hitting refresh today...nothing worked for me to see the comments on this page today! Nothing!!!

Same thing has been happening to me the last couple of days. And sometimes even clicking on the K (discuss speech bubble thing) doesn't even help. Maybe they'll get it worked out soon.

I lost my brother when he was 39 years old. And when that happened, I decided that it was too much trouble to be mad and angry at people. She's right. Forgive. Don't spend your life hating and being mad at people, especially at those you love the most. Spend what little time you have cherishing them and enjoying the…

It never happened in mine, either. But to be fair, I joined a service sorority at a small, liberal arts college. The things we did were meant to build sisterhood, and they did. I had a wonderful time in my sorority and met some absolutely wonderful girls/ladies that I'm still friends with today, 25 years later, and I…

Labs get it, too. Hip dypspasia, or somesuch. They can get it in their front elbows, too. We carried our boy up and down stairs while he was young, while his bones were forming, until we couldn't lift him any more, to limit damage. Luckily, his hips are very good.

Oh, my heaven! I didn't know about your heart attack. That's awful. And then to crave something. I hate to crave food. I really hate it more than anything. That's why I don't go on a diet and limit myself any more (just portion sizes). I went on that diet where you don't eat carbs, and my god, when I walked by the…

America's Test Kitchen recommends a brand called Plugra, which is a European style butter. I found it today at Wal-mart of all places! I'm really excited about trying this. It was $1.98 for 8 oz! That's just two sticks. It smells nice. I'll probably cook a little with it tonight and maybe make some dipping sauce to…

Someone posted a link to the America's Test Kitchen, which explains how butter is made. If it is made from cultured milk, it is not sweet (and that is how the European style butters are made). The sweet butters are made from sweet cream, and those are the ones that come out sweet. That was my understanding. I also…

I was raised on margarine, so when I first tasted butter on my toast, I spat it out. It just tasted horrible. Now that I'm used to it and go back to eating margarine, I spit it out and think the margarine tastes like s***! Strange how my taste buds have completely turned around.

Central Market here in Texas has a European style salted butter with no sugar in it that I like. It seems all the butters in the regular grocery stores have a lot of sugar in them, and I don't like that—they are just too sweet. We live in Norway most of the time, and the butter we get there does not have sugar in it.…

Natural boobs, not fake ones? And I think she's standing with her hip jutted out just a bit, which is pushing them out at an awkward angle. She looks absolutely lovely to me.

I live in Fort Worth where this is going on. I heard a news report last night on the radio. They are having some argument now over the mother's EEG and are debating whether or not she's really dead. They don't believe the EEG is real or not. I didn't hear the whole report. It's just ghastly and horrible and…

I watched that documentary, and in no place did she look fat. Her tummy was flat and looked really toned. She looked fantastic and healthy all around, so it could be those costumes that are just unflattering on her. She did keep making it a point to say that she's really shy, so I do wonder if sometimes when she comes…

Prednisone causes weight loss? Since when? Prednisone is a steroid and causes you to gain weight after long-term use. Unless transplant patients react differently to it than other patients? I was on prednisone for my arthritis, and I gained a shit ton of weight and was never so glad to be off of it. I finally was able…

A friend of mine went on the diet, was monitored by doctors and everything. She is morbidly obese. Insurance did not pay for her program. She ate less than 1000 calories a day. She did lose weight, but after she quit the program, she gained back all of the weight she lost and more. She was taking the shots (and not…

Oh, dear, I laughed for 10 minutes. Thanks!

I totally agree in your assessment. I even wrote them a letter and told them I wouldn't listen to Sandra Bezig any more just because she was so pessimistic and mean to all of the competitors all the time. She never had a nice word to say about anyone, and I just got tired of listening to her be so mean all the time. I…

That just makes me cry.

What airline are you flying? I didn't know any domestic airlines allowed dogs to fly in cargo any more. Or is your dog flying in the cabin? I recently flew with my dog on Lufthansa in early December from Oslo, Norway, to Dallas/Fort Worth, and we got stuck in Frankfurt for 3 days because of the ice storm in Dallas.…

I would like for people who use TL; DR at the END of their essays to start apologizing. If you truly don't want people to read what you write, then put it at the beginning so I can choose if I want to read it or not. By the time I get to the TL; DR, I've already read it! What you really meant, Madeleine, when you used…