Get the juicer! The husband and I had been talking about buying one for forever, but put it off because he wanted a super expensive masticating one. Last week we finally went bit the bullet and bought a less expensive (non-masticating) one, but have used it every day and probably consumed more fruits/veggies than we…

I just recommended the same site on a different thread - it's a great site for the less mainstream. The entire Offbeat Empire is worth checking out.

Most parenting message boards are rage inducing on one end of the spectrum or the other, but every so often I just have to sit and hate-read them for a while. I'm lucky that there is one locally based Facebook group that isn't completely crazy that I'm a part of, but there are still a few members that try to bring the…

Have you tried Offbeat Families? It's a pretty chill, welcoming, crunchy-ish-but-accepting-of-less-crunchy blog. They specifically don't have a forum to avoid the drama.

Congrats! Not to be a weirdo, but I saw your picture and realized I knew who you were - I used to read your blog long ago, before my old computer died and I lost the link (very shortly after September 2011). I'm really happy that things are going well for you!

I've been anxiously awaiting that movie for years! How has it not happened yet?

I have a strange family, too. I'm 29 and the only child of a mother obsessed with photographically documenting everything - especially me. The amount of photos of my childhood is astounding. I'm sure taking copious amounts of pictures of your children is much easier these days, but as long as you aren't trying to make…

I'm in. A wing place in my college town serves a dessert called the Muddy Pig - a freshly fried donut spread with Nutella and topped with crumbled bacon. It's heaven in your mouth.

Example: I was in bifocals at age 8. EIGHT. Mercifully, they were non-lined lenses, so I didn't look quite so much like a tiny grandma. I never actually figured out how to successfully switch between the near/far sighted parts and was switched back to regular (absurdly thick) near sighted lenses when I went back the…

Not to mention that being married for a long time doesn't exactly preclude one from being gay. My parents were married for nearly twenty years and my dad has now been with his partner for a decade.

Same here! I'm currently pregnant and my MIL has been repeatedly saying (since long before conception) how she MUST buy them for her future grandchildren. Should I send her the link or let her find out on her own?

That made me absurdly happy! I loved that kid in Love Actually and think he has the perfect look for Jojen.

Meh, I had a great uncle Zebulon and a great-great-grandfather Nebuchadnezzar. I mean, at least they're weird in the "old timey" way and not in the "completely pulled out of your ass" way.

My personal favorites - Raiden and Saiden. Because who doesn't want to name their child after a Mortal Kombat character and/or Satan.

But if your son is the Stallion that mounts the world, shouldn't he be Rhaego?

I got on Facebook the other day and saw that my mother-in-law tagged my husband and I in a photo. It was the ultrasound picture we sent in her Mother's Day card - despite the fact that we have not posted anything about said pregnancy on our pages.

But what about all of us who were products of a gay man or woman giving straight marriage a try back in the 70s-80s? Are me and my 3 sorta-step-brothers all secretly half-gay because we have gay dads? They better lock us up, too. Just in case.

Before the season started, I'm pretty sure that I read Oona Chaplin was cast as "Jeyne" - I can totally see them making her a Lannister of a lesser branch to make it more intense than Robb hooking up with a mere Lannister banner man's daughter.

Seconded - "Finding Your Roots" is so awesome. I tried to watch this show once or twice and it just doesn't cut it. It's missing the Henry Louis Gates, Jr. charm.

Indeed! As a very pleased beneficiary of Tricare, I agree that socialized medicine is far from evil. If only I could convince my rather poor, conservative family of this...