I'm sure this will be hidden in the greys, but .... who watched Outlander tonight?! I'm desperate to talk to anyone about it.

As an old, experienced drinker, I have to say SIren is right. Not a good night to drink hard. And definitely don't mix with painkillers. If, and only if, you have NOT already been drinking - a hot bath, warm pjs, a Benadryl and into bed helps with feeling burned out and horrible.

I went to the gym 4 days in a row after not exercising much at all for months, because I have a rad new friend who was looking for a gym buddy. Our kids are in the same class at school and I really like her. I'm in my late 30s and kind of past the prime "make new friends" stage, but I'm super excited about this one.

Oh, no. Hugs (I don't know how to do gifs). I know it sounds corny, but the Vampire Diaries is super addictive and popcorny, with lots of over the top emotional scenes to have a good cry over.

Don't feel creepy!! Totally okay.

I would hang out with most of these folks. Especially Laura.

I just posted this in response to another poster:

Best wedding idea ever.

Forget planning weddings. One day I picked my son up at daycare to discover he had gotten married to Mercedes, while their friends apparently played air mariachi. Mercedes' gigantic, tattooed, shaved-headed dad was within earshot while my son told the story, and I did not know this until he came up and said, "were you…

Folk metal is the best metal.

My son, when he was around 4 or 5, told me that it was okay that his favourite colour was pink, because "pink is a kind of red, and boys like red." Flash forward a few years and his favourite colour became red. Broke my heart a bit. But then I remembered that when I started dating my husband, back when we were teens,…

You and I have this all in common. Luckily I found a tall bookish socially awkward quiet guy who is also a good person to marry - but now I have a small collection of socially awkward misanthropic dude friends who come to me for girl/life advice.

Not now, because we live on different continents :( But historically, yes. And we talk on the phone from time to time. Had a good talk today, actually. Argh, and now I'm sitting here overtired and drinking wine and missing him. Oh, well. He's young, still. I hold out hope that he'll figure it out.

He's also brilliant, and funny as hell, but acutely socially awkward in a not-cute way and a huge misanthrope. So ... basically BC's Sherlock, actually. Which is a way less glamorous thing to witness in real life :/

As a lawyer, I can't agree with you more. Cosigned!

I have a friend who looks not unlike BC. Actually, he looks like the geeky lovechild of BC and Tilda Swinton. A few years ago he came into the office looking baffled and downcast and told me that the barista had told him he looked like "the British guy who plays the new Sherlock, what's his name?" I said, "Benedict…

Also, I've always wondered why they feel compelled to put concentric ovals or little flowers in the middle of the pad. My vagina doesn't need a target, guys. It doesn't have eyes and it's too dark to see in there, anyway.

"Tom! Let go of my tongue!"

That's a good theory - I have just been re-reading the book as the series progresses (surprisingly not painful, given how well the series has managed to both stay faithful to the text AND branch out), and I was really surprised that they didn't keep it so Dougal was bringing her in for questioning.

Well, she tells him he's hurting her, AND she says to stop. After that point, it is rape even if she consented previously. Of course, under our current western laws it is rape - consent is ongoing and can be terminated. But presumably under the law of the time and place woman couldn't be raped by her husband, so to…