Every time one of my friends gets married, I call him or her and say, "I would like to give you engraved cake knives for your wedding." This is because a friend of mine owns a wedding store and easily engraves knives for me. Also, they're personal and unique. And people are pretty excited about having one less thing…

I find this really fascinating, actually. Very few people actually talk about the brain chemistry behind the transition. It's an interesting perspective.

@lodown (is waiting for MizJenkins): And she is managing to rock high waisted pants. That like NEVER happens.

My dog needed one of these. I followed the link to the creator's Etsy shop and acquired a wee pirate hat perfect for my beloved fuzzy thing.

I think it's sort of telling that there is only one official NFL shop for women, and it is in New Orleans, which has three times the number of female fans as most NFL teams. The Saints' female fans mystify the NFL. They're insultingly incredulous about our existence.

Metallic nail polish.

@nolagringa001: I used to teach community college and my only comment was that they hit the look perfectly, but didn't have quite enough pre-nursing students.

@Ms Meghan is Reppin' the Triforce: No iron 100% cotton Gold Label Westbound Woman button down blouses from Dillard's are my favorite. The fabric is soft and comfortable, and they're tailored to fit over an hourglass (I am a 44G.) If you get them on sale, they are very reasonable, and they are high quality.

@the.babe.wore.red: @HermioneLaNoire: You cannot succeed/finish/pass my class by quitting. I understand that in the long term, quitting may be a viable option, but if you want to succeed in my class, you cannot quit in the middle. You especially cannot quit in the middle and then try to fix things at the end.

Education is one of the few things that people pay for in advance and then try not to have delivered.

Don't buy a bunch of crap. Really. Don't. You think you want to have all this cutesy stuff, but the truth is, you've got to transport it and move it. What you really need should all fit into whatever you're driving up in.

As a graduate teaching assistant who has been doing this job for years, I wear nothing but dark wash jeans, solid colored knit shirts or no-wrinkle button downs, and flats or urban hikers. I always always carry a sweater for cold classrooms.

I have to keep my stuffed toys separate from my dog's stuffed toys. Some are for me and some are for him! He has a tiny stuffed turtle and I have a giant stuffed turtle. We sleep with them, but I do not cuddle mine. Nor does he. He bites it.

Mom: I drank pina coladas when I was pregnant for you.

@dizzy.mslizzy: Have your boyfriend explain your character sheet to you and go over the things your character can normally do. A lot of times, that can be broken down into a few skills that she's quite good at, plus some others that she dabbles in. Try to think of her as a movie character without a script.

@Fugbeans: No. You will click things like "Men aged 26-36," "College Education very important," and "Only want to date guys within 50 miles," and they will match you up with 22 year old crane operators in Florida who have their GEDs, even though you do not live in a state that even borders Florida on a map.

@The_same_SZ: I disagree. Why should the state be able to tell a church that they have to marry people the church does not want to marry?

@The_same_SZ: But there's nothing inherently religious about marriage. In fact, the state will happily marry me and the (consenting single) man of my choosing, because there's an F on my driver's license.

@CynicalPink: When I was little, I'd steal a pair of my father's brightly colored sweat pants, and they'd be harem pants when we played at being genies.

@hankmonkey: So much better to let them pick their own dresses. Especially if you have a lot of them and they vary wildly in size. I once went to an October wedding where the bridesmaids wore black, and they all had on this strapless column dress with a swath of fabric that draped at the waist. It looked great on the…