RisaPlata
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I would like to take a moment to acknowledge the awesomeness of The Incredibles. Superheroes that are men, women, children, white, black, but it's about their struggle to come to terms with their identity as a family. One of the best movies ever.

Yeah, this was something I actually had to re-learn recently. See, I grew up in New England, but now I live in Los Angeles and just go back for two weeks at Christmas and one week at Thanksgiving. And I got so good at living in LA that I forgot how to dress for cold, and froze for a couple years before I remembered

@morninggloria: I know it's a different point you're making, but two things that changed my life:

@CollegeBookworm: I thought I could take it. I was all "hamster on a piano? Pffft. Easy." And you know what? I CANNOT TAKE IT. IT'S TOO MUCH! I MUST WATCH AGAIN. AND AGAIN. AND AGAIN.

@say kaci: I always have a problem getting rid of clothing, even if I don't or shouldn't wear it anymore, because I attach memories to it. So the solution I devised is to once a year, go through all my closets and drawers and put everything I need to get rid of in a box and put that box in the back of my closet. The

@gra: For a while I was watching Clean Sweep on TLC every Saturday morning, and that really helped me to separate my emotions from my stuff and do an annual purge so I don't get overwhelmed. Especially since my father is a hoarder, I'm aware of what a dangerous trap it is.

@terribletwenties aka Aesop's Foibles: I know what you mean. I've spent more of this past year unemployed than not, and the only way I've been able to make ends meet is to put everything on my credit card, of which I make the minimum payment each month. I'm watching myself falling further and further into debt, and

I love how the answer to the question about fingering is actually "yes!" So it's not as inappropriate as it seems.

@blueVamp: "Did a My Little Pony give you a makeover or was Claire's having a sale?"

I've got a theory. Tell me what you think. I think that we're all afraid of rejection, that even after commitment, there's the fear that one day your guy will just "change his mind" and leave you. And a vampire can't ever leave you because you're drawn together by destiny. I mean, we all want to believe we'll meet the

@Dashrashi: Yes! Thank you! I was feeling much too lazy to look it up.

@nagumi: Yep. And then he promises them he's going to show them their leader or something and gathers them all in the auditorium and shows them a speech of Hitler, which is when they all realize they're evil and wrong and maybe the students without armbands don't need to die.

@onthecornerofparkerandwoolf: They just showed us a movie about a school where a teacher created a "club" that all wore black armbands and slowly started discriminating against other kids and eventually became Nazis. I become instantly suspicious of anything involving armbands now. Which was not completely what they

I have one watch that I have worn every day since I got it in 2000, except when the battery dies once a year. It doesn't have numbers, but it does have little gold dots in the right places and the date. It's also very adjustable, which is perfect because my wrists get big and small at various times during the year,

Still too young to feel so old.

@Cortina can see Russian from her house: Can't you just hear their mothers yelling at them? "Lee Harvey Oswald, where do you think you're going with that gun? You're going to shoot your eye out!"