I never took my husband's last name, and it did bother him (although he knew that fighting about it was futile). I gave an option to him...I would change my last name if he would change his, so that we would both have to go through the hell of changing all our legal documentation over, but that was just the CRAZIEST…

Damn...that's exactly the kind of attitude I was hoping they wouldn't have :-( Unfortunately neither my husband or MIL eats Chinese food, and everything else open on Christmas Day was prohibitively expensive ($100+ per person for a brunch buffet?? no thanks!) so this was the only way for us to have an actual, nice…

I have to say though, I'm really glad McCormick & Schmick's was open on Christmas day this year...we had to take my MIL out because she has beginning stages of Alzheimers and couldn't make it up to NYC for me to cook for us, but she is also a depressed hoarder that won't get any medical treatment whatsoever. M&S made…

Fortunately she is really chill about it and just tries to order things that are already gluten free (salads without croutons, soups, chicken, macaroons, gluten free crackers instead of the yummy bread that then gets all stuffed in my face at Le Pain Quotidien, etc.) But it still makes me giggle internally at the…

I have a friend like this - she says she is gluten free, but then gets a beer with her gluten free crackers and cheese and I just shake my head and bite my tongue. To be fair, she did say later that it seems to be primarily bread that bothers her, so she admits it may not be gluten that's the problem, but something…

Sorry, but the best tweet from the eminent Dr. Tyson today was:

Also, in the book it explains that the reason she couldn't fully bury her poop was because the ground was so insanely hard at that point that she couldn't even begin to get her trowel through it to dig a hole...it was the best option she could come up with in the moment :-P

#notallcats

Truth - I got involved with a guy who was in a relationship (I know, I know! I was young) but said that it wasn't serious and she hated giving bj's so it was therefore totally within his right to go get it somewhere else, meaning from me. Funny how he then immediately started cheating on me with someone else, and the…

The secret is to have 2 BIG blankets...that way if you want to cuddle under them you can, and when you fall asleep you just naturally find them splitting along individual toss and turn lines. My husband and I have a queen sized bed, 1 queen sized blanket and 1 king sized blanket...because I like/need/will cut you…

My issue was definitely that we had a year and a half long engagement to focus on the wedding planning, and thereby ignore the real relationship issues. We had lived together since day 1 of our relationship too (roommates that got together and never lived apart again), so we had 7 years under our belt of joint…

When was all this have supposed to have taken place? Because I'm pretty sure video cameras on cell phones has been a pretty recent technological update, enough that as a child Amanda Bynes wouldn't have been recording her dad on her phone trying to catch him at something. Between Ms. Bynes and Shia LaBeouf we are…

Yep, they had a grown up sleep over at the Museum of Natural History in NYC (sleep under the giant whale!!!) but it was pretty expensive and sold out super crazy fast so I couldn't go. I remember doing science center sleep overs as a Girl Scout at both the Pacific Science Center and OMSI...they were the best!! We…

While separate but equal doesn't work as it is right now, I also think there is a real value to having some things that boys and girls can do separately at this age. I'm pretty sure that studies have been done that show girls tend to speak up more and take more active leadership roles when they don't have to compete…

Funny thing was, I wasn't even a Dawson's Creek fan and I always thought he was kind of a goober until I watched this show and decided he was actually perfect instead :-D

1. I didn't realize the Saved By The Bell movie was based on Screech's book...that just leaves an icky taste in my mouth because he is such an attention freak liar who hasn't been able to move on from that show in his life.

Exhusband was like this and I won't say it ended the marriage, but it was WAAAAAAY more of a strain than it should have been. Here is a list of things he would eat:

Oh I'm not saying I DIDN'T judge him...LOL! But I figure a lot of what we do or do not eat is formed in childhood, and making it through 18 years of American childhood without even being aware of how to eat that most common of veggies is on the weird scale from his parents side. Plus, I was/am rather smitten with the…

Not in a restaurant, but the first meal I made for my boyfriend included roasted broccoli. He looked at it somewhat skeptically, nibbled on the stem, and declared it "not awful". He then asked me "So do I eat the whole thing? Like, the little green flowery things on top and everything?"...I don't judge him so much…

Because nothing says comfort like being motorboated by a mildly creepy stuffed animal while driving!