Whelp, I was going to hang out in my sexy sexy sex pants (stained in not one, but two places with Nutella) and watch season two of The Fall while my daughter is at a sleepover, but I guess I'd better change. Perhaps I can find some non-lustful dungarees somewhere. I mean, it's just me and the dogs here, but you never…

I like to sweat. I'm in my gym every day, either swimming or lifting or swinging kettlebells or taking a Zumba, BodyJam, BodyPump, or strength conditioning class. You get old when you stop moving and playing. I'm 60 and shaking the hell out of my big ass booty.

Knowing someone who annually engages in this foolishness, it's definitely a drink, but it works like a super laxative. Raw cider vinegar apparently has a similar effect.

Keep it in your fridge at work until Elaine finds it and eats it while solo-waltzing around your office and eventually replaces it with an Entenman's? They don't have a castle in Europe, but they do have their own dairy case at the end of the aisle.

Wanted for questioning:

She has a short tail and sometimes has dingleberry issues. I assure you, I take care of her.

only in proper outhouses, and then with great difficulty. I guess my toilet training took entirely too well. I hate camping.

Going up, my parents were were divorced and never communicated directly. I got bounced back and forth between them a lot. Always based on what my mom needed. Fuck my social life or grades or stability. If being a parent started to get too hard, she'd ship me off to live with my grandmother or father. She'd get lonely,…

And that, boys and girls, is how you really Lean In.

Has anyone here watched "The Fall" with Gillian Anderson? I CAN'T LOOK AWAY.

I'd like to start a thread here if, you'll all indulge me, for tips on how a medical professional can discuss weight loss with their obese patients. I've always struggled with it, especially because I'm dealing with kids. Weight interventions don't have a great success rate, and the last thing I want to do is…

It does seem to be a generational blindness. I'm in my early 50s, and have permanent hearing loss from mumps I contracted as a toddler (just before the vaccine became available); my down-the street neighbor, just a couple of years older than me, had polio and required braces to walk (had to crawl when we went to the…

Yes! Hillbilly/mountain culture is pretty damn country, but not in the same way most people think of when they think 'southern'. And yep, the accent really does change depending on what county you're in. I can tell a Logan County person from a Putnam County person on the phone, easy.

This was sort of my experience. I grew up in Southern West Virginia (which is NOT part of the South or the Midwest*, thank you very much. We consider it Appalachian or even East Coast, because, while it doesn't touch the coast, it is wedged so hard into VA, MD, and PA that most people around there consider it to be…

My skin is a natural peach yogurt in color, but with blue-green veins running through like mold.

I, for one, change my clothes like 3 or 4 times a day. You guys, I do WAAAAAAY too much laundry. My day goes like this: work clothes, gym clothes (optional), lounge clothes with fresh change of underwear, nightgown, midnight interlude in which I wake up in a flop sweat and tear my nightgown off.

The mention of Idaho reminds me of a story from a hippy friend of mine. On the way back east from Oregon she stopped off for a meal in Idaho. In all sweet hippy naivety she asked the waiter if there was a vegetarian option. His reply was "Ma'am, out here, we feed the lettuce to the rabbits. And then, we eat the…

Yes, especially if you're taking kickboxing! Punching something is very therapeutic...

The Mat is $68 and it's definitely worth it. I went through more than one "cheap" mat (you know, $25 at Target and the like) in far less than the time other friends had had their Lulu mats. It's not really cheaper when you're buying mats more often because they tear and shred from use. Now having used it, I could…