I hope this catches on. I have a baby, so I know being responsible for a life is a big deal and all, but seriously, nothing makes me back away faster than someone who brings up a parenting "philosophy." Except for maybe someone that brings up a diet "philosophy."

I do not abstain from caffeine or alcohol, though I am breastfeeding. I limit them, and if it's alcohol I try to wait until I've just done the last feeding for the night (my 4 month old sleeps for about 6-7 hours a night now, so the drink is out of my system by then), but some people would still judge, I'm sure.

I've never had a cat, due to allergies, but the way people describe them has made me construct an imaginary scenario where cats are like the asshole boyfriends of the pet world, ignoring you and parceling out tiny packets of affection just often enough to allow some poor lady to convince herself that they have a good…

I believe the different attitude towards and from the deaf community comes from the fact that it has a unique culture that those other groups you named don't. The deaf community has its own language, traditions and values, like any other culture, and I don't believe you see the same kind of shared culture, at least…

Mine as well, at 52. It's funny how it affects me every time I hear news like this.

I watched the first season and a half and had to stop. It started out silly but still entertaining, but then it just got more and more insane, and it was way too hard to continue suspending disbelief. I was also a lawyer in DC until very recently (just moved), so maybe that's it.

Dude, no kidding. I'm a mixed chick, and the stylists I've found don't do a terrible job, but "you should straighten it" is always the default response. I found an awesome lady who specialized in curly hair to style my hair for my wedding. It was funny; she was a white Jewish lady with hair remarkably similar to…

I had my baby 5 weeks ago, and I'm really curious about how her eyes will end up. She was born with gray eyes, which could be just her baby eyes, but my husband's eyes are also gray so maybe they'll stay that way. I'm racially mixed with an ethnicity that usually has dark eyes, plus even the white side of my family…

Not a big fan of the racism and misogyny in those Brat Pack movies (okay I'm pretty much just thinking of 16 Candles, but it was bad enough to taint my view of all of them), but I LOVED The Cosby Show. Here's rooting for the underdog!

Boo, bad news in my opinion. I LOVED libraries as a kid. I probably went 2 or 3 times a month between the ages of 7 and 15. My cat allergies are less severe now, but back then being around a cat would make my face balloon up so bad, my eyes would swell shut. Would have made it a bit hard to read. I love my pets,…

Jesus. 7 lbs was enough for me.

As much as I usually hate when people talk about their pets, I have to admit that the first conversation I ever had with my husband - the one that got us really talking and laughing and clicking - was about how both of our dogs were jerks. We tell each other our dreams too though, so obviously we're just the worst.

Happy Endings is one of the few shows I started watching right from the pilot. And now I remember why I like to wait a few years and then marathon watch shows once they are several seasons in: at least then I know in advanced if they end up being unjustly canceled and can better prepare myself.

It's not that I don't dislike spoilers. But people who complain about spoilers started to annoy me more than spoilers themselves around the time when the definition of "spoilers" seemed to change from "crucial plot twists" to "any reference to any random event that occurs in an episode, no matter how vague and no…

I was waiting for this to happen for my whole pregnancy, since my mom told me she went up a half size with each baby. But I just had my baby a few days ago, and my feet are still the same as ever! My body must have known how much I spent on shoes over the last decade and became too horrified by the prospect of…

True enough! I wonder if that's starting to shift though. I know so many guys lately that are super into Tina Fey, Mary Louise-Parker, and more recently, Connie Britton, among others. Although I suppose they'd throw all of those ladies over for Jennifer Lawrence or Emma Stone.

Maybe it's just my circle, but I'm starting to think that the men aging better than women thing applies more just to movie stars, or maybe only to people who are already pretty good looking, rather than to regular looking average people. I'm looking through facebook at my college friends, and most of the women look…

Don't feel embarrassed, almost everyone freaks out about aging! It's weird to be a young person for your whole entire life, and then all the sudden you hit a point where you're not really one anymore. I started freaking out about it around 27, but now at 29 I'm actually really looking forward to 30. I still have…

7 Psychopaths is available to rent on Amazon instant watch, so I'll probably watch that! I also might try to catch Amour, since it's the only best picture nominee I haven't seen, but egad does it look depressing. At least it clocks in around 2 hours though; so many of the others were closer to 3, and my…

I saw one for spinach recently, which had me worried. I eat a lot of spinach.