So, um, I could really use some Jezzie advice. I work in downtown Buffalo, and like a lot of firms, we have "our bar" (technically a restaurant which has a bar). It's less than a block from our office and it's the place we go for a drink after work a few days a week, where we go for lunch, etc. We were there for a…

@Wolfabeast: Hearted right back! My daughter keeps going around yelling "I have CHOLERA!" and "Jed has a SNAKEBITE!". I've spent the week anticipating her summer program calling me to inquire as to why, exactly, she believes she has smallpox. I'll keep her though, if only because she helped me take down a couple…

@Lorin: Nope, sorry. But I'll wear mine and we can go get martinis together! (After we find babysitters.)

@dumblonde: Now I know what to call my daughter's birthday! Thankfully, I started a "Therapy necessary because Mom thinks she's funny" fund when she was inutero.

@andheartss haz it: What do those of us who did not plan it, used birth control and still found ourselves pregnant call it? I go with 'Appreciate Your (Currently, Mostly) Legal Right to Choose Day' but that's just me.

@weetziebat: If you want to play the old-school version, you can go here: [www.virtualapple.org]

I spent ALL of Sunday playing this with my daughter!!!! [www.virtualapple.org] You can play it here, old-school graphics and all. My daughter got fed up playing it after she died of cholera 4 games in a row. Girl's got some hunting mojo, though - I can't hit a rabbit, but she's bringing down bears and deer like…

Edit: Almost-double post.

@nameredacted: In our house, we refer to these books as the "How I learned to make a Bourbon Manhattan." series.

@Flackette Goes Retro: Old-time radio show, "Fibber McGee and Molly". Started in the 30's and lasted...um, dunno. Grandfather was a fan and would talk about listening to it when they got their first radio :)

@LadyNo Fondles Sweaters: Wow. Who exactly are you to judge their marriage a "failure"? If you're married and your marriage ends then, please, by all means, feel free to *personally* call it a failure. Because, as you've said, that's what YOU feel it is. Guess what - not everyone who ends a marriage feels that…

The women, which can go for up to $1,500, are often forced to "live like animals."

Dear President Obama,

I watched the lead-in and the beginning of the segment and when the announcer was introducing the "makeup-free Today Show," the jackass said "YIKES". It was my mother's tv, so I couldn't throw anything at it. Ugh.

Re: the Glee/Victoria Beckham article - I'm not a Posh fan, but saying she is "po-faced" makes you a f-ing complete asshole, Glamour-UK "source". I really don't care if she's a guest star or not, but that remark was just plain ugly.

@Scylla and Sin: *Hoffman*, my apologies.

But, he attended the Landon School, whose motto is "Virtute et non vi" -

Hey! It's by Mara Hoffmann, a girl I went to school with!!! I saw it today when she posted the link: [www.facebook.com]!/profile.php?id=757264082&ref=ts and thought exactly the same thing. (Interesting note, one of her bikini designs was featured in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, worn by Brooklyn Decker...)

@wishingflower: It's amazing, isn't it?! My mother came to each of our 1st grade classes and gave a quilt lecture when we were little, and when my eldest sister studied the Civil War, my mom was still well enough to teach her class about the Underground Railroad Quilt Code! I can barely sew a button on, so I bought a…

@galaxina: It really is, isn't it? Until now, my daughter and nephews only knew my mother as the woman they visit who's sick. It melted my heart too see her smile and hug them!