I kept my name when I married, but I don't mind our future kids having my husband's name. If they're biologically ours, then I'll be the one giving birth to them - there will be no question about their maternity. I don't need the extra bond of them having my name to prove that they're mine. My husband doesn't have…

I used to be pretty indifferent to flying, but I flew first class for the first time last week and now I just wish that were my whole life: sitting in a plane, in first class, always and forever. Where they give you free alcohol and treat you like kings.

Thanks, that's good to know. I know labor's no picnic, but it's nice to have some hope that it might be less traumatic than the miscarriage.

Oh thank you, that's good to hear. The experience really scared the crap out of me! My doctor wasn't really all that specific about what would go down, and I had no idea if it was normal, or if I just had a really low pain threshold or what.

Thank you, I'm doing better now.

It was natural, but I wonder if there was something up with my body to make things more difficult. As I mentioned, the embryo had stopped developing at around 6 weeks; however, my body did not pass the miscarriage until what would have been 14 weeks. If it had gone on much longer, my doctor probably would have had…

Oh man, I had a miscarriage recently and up until that point I always thought I'd at least attempt to go the natural way. But the amount of pain that filled my uterus in its effort to expel a 6 or 7 week old embryo was just so incredibly, indescribably monumental. All I could think was, if it's this bad now, what's…

Thank you, I'm doing better now, but it's always nice to hear kind words!

Bad day today. My husband has been at work now for 37 hours straight. He slept for an hour on his office floor this morning at 8 am after an all nighter. Don't go into biglaw, law student type folks! I may make a third of his salary at my tiny little modest boutique firm, but I don't think I've ever worked more…

I spent a summer working as a food runner in college. Really the only thing that made me improve was time, as working day after day made me develop some better arm muscles. I, embarrassingly, dropped a giant bowl of mussels on my first night on the job. But by the end of the summer I was carrying giant trays with…

Exchanging presents has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas either, but that doesn't stop anyone. Come on, where's your commercialism spirit?

Agreed, I tend to hate defense attorney bashing. Those friends in my graduating class that became public defenders aren't just some of the best lawyers I know - they're some of the best people I know, period. But the skeezy label for this guy is pretty apt.

Whether religion is an illusion or not doesn't have any bearing on whether or not its useless or useful.

Yeah, even though Rick was ultimately somewhat supportive, I was pretty annoyed that he had the nerve to question whether or not an abortion was the right decision. There's pretty much no conceivably worse time for anyone to be pregnant than during a zombie apocalypse — and he's asking her why she doesn't want to…

I usually say that even if a fetus IS a person, that doesn't give it the right to live in my body against my will. I had a miscarriage recently, and even though it was a welcome pregnancy, it was pretty freaking horrible. Pregnancy is not just some mild inconvenience that a person can breeze through, and then just…

I have a pro life friend who uses the word "baby" or "child" when talking about fetuses. I'm always like "dude, when you go to brunch and want eggs, do you ask for chicken?"

The southern flag is different because it is still used to intimidate black people. When I was a kid and my family moved into a new neighborhood, the local redneck threatened to mow a southern flag into our lawn (I don't know how he might have managed that, he must have been pretty nifty with a lawn mower). In any…

The word "panties" sounds kind of like "cooties." And the word "cooties" makes me think of little wriggling worms. I guess that's what I picture cooties to be. I hate "panties." But I hate the sound of oh so many words: lotion, cream, greasy. And then there are words where I don't hate the sound, but they still…

From what I've read, pretty much any woman only has a 20% chance of conceiving in a given month, even those under 30. It seems so low, but I guess it's not surprising considering a woman's only fertile for a few days, and the sperm has to travel all that way to meet the egg at just the right time. Seems like it…

I don't think you are missing anything if you skip out. The books are kind of addictive and action packed - but also pretty shallow. The characters are kind of flat. When I was reading, I was reading to find out what happened next in the plot. I wasn't reading to find out what happened to Katniss , or any of the…