I desperately wanted my breasts to go away when they started developing when I was in elementary school (C by 5th grade). Too bad I didn't know that all I had to do was ignore them, and they would have gone away.

I don't think that HRAs and HSAs should be allowed to replace insurance. Period. They are useful to toss tax-free money aside beforehand for deductibles, coinsurance, copays, or covered OTC meds. The argument that people will be savvier health care consumers if they have an HRA/HSA is ridiculous. In most states, you…

I am totally responsible for my dislike of DD coffee. I used to love it, so much so that I would have one every single morning when pregnant with kiddo #2 (1-2 cups was allowable per my OB!) so I never ever want it again, I've had enough for a lifetime. I guess it was the weird not dark-roastiness of it that made me…

I couldn't go two blocks in Baltimore County (MD) without seeing a DD, but the east Houston (TX) suburbs are DD-less wastelands. There's a local chain called Shipley's Donuts, but they pale in comparison to DD donuts. DD's regular coffee doesn't even taste like goddamn coffee, but I love the onion bagels with veggie…

I was at Preschool Story Time with my kids this week and saw a three year old in kitten heels. At the library. For Story Time. I was thrown off. I couldn't figure out a single reason that a three year old should need black patent kitten heels that didn't involve some scary Jon-Benet Ramsey shit. This is Texas, though,…

Exactly what I was going to say. When I did this back in HS (say, 1997) my number was 775.

Every time I hear the song, I think 'Growing Pains'. That in itself makes it totally unsexy to me. Maybe it isn't fair to Robin Thicke to think of his Dad instead of him when I see him, but ever since he became some famous R&B singer, I've been thinking how incredulous it is.

There is a flip side to that and it isn't pretty. Some parents (my mother, The Duggars) use their older children as built in childcare which prevents those older children from having the ability to have a normal social life or participation in wholesome extra-curricular activities.

Vive le Fresca!

I attempted greek yougurt. High in protein, easy grab and go breakfast...why not? I got food poisoning, and spent 24 hours dehydrated and with a blood sugar reading in the 130s (super abnormal for me, usual sugar reading falls around 90...my parents are diabetics, I want to make sure I'm not one too). I nearly passed…

Fresca is my favorite soda, which is probably one of the only things I have in common with LBJ. I'm 31 and agnostic, but do enjoy mah jongg. You can't find it everywhere, but it is so worth the hunt. I was terrified that once I moved out of state, I wouldn't be able to find it again. No worries, Kroger is my dealer…

I am also stupid fertile, which is crazy because for the first 6 years of my marriage, I was sure I was barren. (6 years, no birth control at all.) Then boom, I was pregnant, had the first, when she was 9 mos old I found out that my hormonal bc failed, and I was pregnant again. Kept it, though it was dicey as to…

Eh, if you call surgical intervention for an hemmoraging ectopic and a lingering distrust of birth control good times, then yes. If not, then you're me. :)

Oh, hello fellow <1%-er.

I did that maybe three times with my husband. But he's my husband. Why hasn't the novelty worn off yet for this girl?

Me too.

That was within 5 minutes of onset of menstruation when I had the Paraguard IUD. That thing made me anemic. (Also, eff the Paraguard).

True story. I was riding a Baltimore Metro (MTA) bus home from work and an old white lady started to pet me. I'm a white girl, and I think my hair was blonde then (I can't keep up with my haircolor changes), and upon realizing that I was being petted by the old lady beside me, I do this slow take off my headphones and…

I agree with you on the sex work front, it is demeaning (and I also have a theory about the correlation in the rise of douchebag dudes with the increased accessibility of porn through the internet). I also feel like that there is money to be made, it is a service that has always been, and will always be, so we should…

I swear that I rented Muriel's Wedding at least 20 times on VHS when I was a teen, I never saw it for sale, else I would have bought it (ah, the 90's, when mom and pop video rental stores had the 5 movies, 5 days, $5 deal). I loved that movie. Porpoise Spit! Abba! How can you not love that movie!?