heck yes! I took an entire class on irish names. A full semester.

It does seem kind of rough that the little baby is going to stand out his whole life - it's not just a white family, it's like the poster family for whiteness. The mormon church is more and more diverse but these folks are Utah-based, white-bread people with ties to LDS compounds where it's still considered a…

I had these last year - I got them for a trip to Paris where we'd be walking a lot. I basically wore sundresses every day but had this clear rain poncho - it was warm but rainy while we were there. I could dry these with a towel!

Oh and my neighbour has a baby called Loomey!

My cousin named his baby Irelynn. Because we're Irish. But instead of Ireland, Irelynn. Yup.

I looove them too. These is mine.

According to my husband, Fairy Tale of New York is the best Christmas song and the temporary Irish national anthem throughout the month of December. He spent Christmas with my family in America this year, they didn't quite get his need to play it every third song....

I'm doing research at the moment - I am an anthropologist writing about Mormons. Anyhow, in Sacrament last Sunday a woman got emotional about how we never hear "Merry Christmas" anymore, and it's very special and "precious" to her to be wished a merry Christmas, and she wishes in this "modern and multicultural"…

Hey we have the same bday! And I feel ya on the combined presents and having a bday just when everyone is on party burn-out. I started celebrating the last weekend of January and this is much better - people are bored and cold and happy for an excuse to do something fun. My name is Amiee so my friends call it…

I love this. My friends describe me as a 'married cat lady' and as a joke someone gave us a subscription to 'cat fancy' for our wedding. I am always disappointed by the lack of coverage of good products in cat fancy - it really could use an update!

I ALWAYS make this comment on American Girl stories - here I go again:

Anal device, anal device

Yikes, I read that and burst into tears. SO great that you helped her out, so shitty that a mother had to rely on strangers to keep her baby fed when I'd prefer my tax dollars went to her being able to shop for food with dignity, and fuckin food stamps.

Ah I want to take them both!

I actually had this crazy dream the other night that I brought home a bunch of homeless dogs. My husband and two cats were so pissed, and in the dream the cats were all stressed out, then my landlord was going to kick us out and my husband was like "why did you bring home these dogs?!?!?".…

So I just moved from the land of snowy winters to California, where there is no snow. I got this Boden Rainy Day Mac and love it - the shape is nice and flattering, it's rain-proof and very casual. It's fleece so I can layer under it when it's properly cold. Boden also does nice duffle and wool coats for proper winter…

I picked out a few foster kids this year from a similar charity - I got a 15-year-old asking for a winter coat and toiletries like shampoo. I ended up getting her a visa gift card for $200, a cute scarf and fancy shampoo from my aunt's salon. Then had to inform my husband he gets nothing. But it's okay - he got a…

My friends refer to me as "the married cat lady". It's a thing.

He looks like Jafar from Aladdin....

Ha, my husband wishes my friends were like this! When people stay over though I get excited and sit up all night with them. He'll go to bed without me!

This is EXACTLY what I believed about both Santa and Jesus as a kid. My dad teaches in a school district that's about 99% black so he had a black Santa visit his kids, and black Santa decorations. I had previously asked about the Jesus thing when we visited a black church and I first encountered images of black Jesus,…