The 'I don't have the funds to go to this' also works too. If you are rich and they know it, the 'I have this hella important meeting thing to attend to then so I can't make it' works just as well.

Ah, my family will not let you get away with that. They will go on and on about this thing they remember and stuff and just...I like being around my friend's family more since they don't play shit like that. They know I don't recall them half the time but they rather play the usual 'hey how you doin' thing than play…

Beleive me, I am certainly going to do this when I have the money to do so. Thanksgiving after I started college was GLORIOUS because I lived outside of the city and it was like a 4 hour commute to come home. Conversely, I got a hell of a lot of 'why don't you call more???' calls from my mom but hell, I barely talk to…

I am going to do this...and throw meat near them then run away while they are fighting over it. It's good to be in a family of carnivoires. :D

If you say it like that, they will think it's funny and goad you more. Believe me, tried it.

I just kind of balnk out and go 'uhm...no' ad smile awkwardly as they laugh until I can escape.

Any tips on dealing with family gatherings where people play the 'remember me?' game and you don't remember anyone? I usually just panic and disappear for a while so much so that my family [the closer ones that is] expect it.

Nothing will make my name sound more professional unless I just leave off my first and middle name and go by my last name. Starria J. Turner sounds juvinille to me but then I had to sign my name like that since another girl in my class had the same initials minus the middle name. >_> Being unique is suffering.

I've been trying to make some sort of schedule since my sleeping patters is all over the place, this will help greatly. I am not going to follow it to the letter but it's a nice outline to push me in the right direction-especially the interview times. Is it okay to wap out apartment hunting for job hunting or is there…

I use it for websites and mind it does do web apps as well as software. As Alex A mentioned, some of the prominent sites like you guys and tumblr have a page there with a big list of alternatives. :)

*raises hand in agreement about clear's slow ass internet* but on the flip side, it gives me a lot of leeway in modding my router and the like. If something breaks, I usually fix it. Free training and all that. My max speed is about 4 mbps...at off-peak hours...on a toorent with over 1000 active seeders. /sigh I am…

You must mean late twenties because a lot of people on my block had cable and I am 22. :) There was almost a riot when the college I went to blocked the cable channels we got [like BET and Cartoon Network] and I really doubt the people around me would dick around with cable cutting. Me, I avoid the lot of it by being…

I don't really think it matters depends on the occasion and what they wear. Easter sunday, this passed easter sunday, the pastor told everyone to dress down. Sure, there were some who still dressed up, me included since I had gotten my clothes months before he announced this, but the majority wore jeans. There was a…

They all look oh so slightly sad. Why?

She looks more like paris hilton without the makeup. Not ugly, just...generic. Still pretty though. :/

I rather like this. As a big dabbler [I place the blame on you lot, really. All those interesting articles have resulted in many wiki walks and more tabs than my poor computer can handle usually] I kind of flit from place to place with different hobbies. This may annoy those who like the few things I do well but I…

I still [personally] don't see the appeal of speed reading. I get through thick books [think the thickest Harry Potter book] about two days at a time with interrruptions like sleeping, eating and other people. It used to be a great thing when I was in school but now it just means I run out of reading material quicker.

The only thing that bugs me about this is that with every install a new document is created to just give permissions and I can't open the store in a seperate tab and peruse each add on in different tabs like I can with chrome extensions. Granted this may be because I am hunting through on firefox not chrome but it…

Of course there is the other discreet way of buying a toy that isn't marketed as a toy. Walmart has a line of back massagers under 6 bucks and just buy one of those, put in new batteries [since they are always weak] and there you have a budget vibrator that is cute and innocent enough you can display on a bookshelf…

The walk uphill in the snow to kill a mountain goat so they may kill to make a condom worthy of their mighty cock. XD I had a boyfriend two years older than me say that and just died.