That is such a charming story! My husband is not interested in presents either. Every year, for his birthday, I go to the grocery store and buy a bag of things I know he'd buy if we weren't living on grad student money. Olives, licorice, interesting dried fruit and nuts, tiny cheeses...et cetera. Sometimes I add…

"Princess" and "queen" suggest entitlement, not empowerment. To me, anyway.

Nearly hit 3 times today within a one hour period. Something happens to drivers this time of year.

My first year of college, my archaeology class offered an opportunity to do a survey, which involved a trip to the mountains and a 5 mile hike out and back to a site. 3 of us went, including a 21 year old diabetic who had never spent the night away from home. She began the trip by insisting that at any point when she…

How long until he starts having massive amounts of plastic surgery?

I asked my husband what he would do first if he won. He said, "Buy olives and some cheese. Really good olives." Then he described what varieties he would like to get, including the green ones stuffed with hot red peppers and some kalamatas.

I'm fairly broke, so I tend to buy clothes like jeans and dresses off of ebay. I tend to wear t-shirts and jeans until they are just about falling apart, too. I'm not one to get rid of a piece of clothing just because it has a bit of age on it.

Yeah. No. Just no.

I know a baby Athena. I wonder if it's the same one. It can't be THAT common? Right???

The history of predictive text messages:

My friend made up a drink called the Cumberbatch: Cucumber infused gin, tonic and Benedictine.

The Jake Johnson tweet reminds me of this sketch:

Don't worry. One of us will come along, frown lovingly at you and then clean up something you've spilled on yourself and the floor. After we've stopped you from having any fun, that is.

Nope. My husband is the one who "insists" on separating, but I never do as I never did before I knew him and my whites never turned grey.

Yeah, except spicy food doesn't cause peptic ulcers. Bacterial infections do.

This was exactly my question, too.