This is my rule of thumb when driving anywhere outside of NYC.
Pre-map times with Google Maps.
What ever Google Maps says, Add 1 hour to get out of NYC. Add 1 hour for a holiday weekend. For every 4 hours Google maps says, add 1 hour for rest/pit stops. Yes that is the equivalent of 15 mins per hour.

I promise, no matter what your “theme” is for your wedding, or even if you have no theme, 20-30 years down the line you’re going to look at the photos and just cringe at the fashion. Look at photos of weddings in the 80s and you will simply just say, “UGH” at the big pouffy shoulders and the sundress hat on the bride.…

I know the Mom. She posted on FB last night “He just caught the game ball with his left hand.. Oh did I mention that he was holding our daughter in his right hand. # winning ”

This PISSES ME OFF. After living in NYC for 17 years, and not having a car for most of them, we recently got a 2004 XC90. NYC drivers are the absolute worst about using the shoulder and I ABSOLUTELY move myself over just slightly into the shoulder to make those jerks slow down at least. #passiveaggresiveatitsfinest

I have: 13yo, 14yo, 19yo, and 22yo. I believe it is my sole purpose in life to embarrass them as much as I possibly can before they grow up. My favorite is when we’re out somewhere and one of them says, “Can you please talk quieter mom?” Reflexive response, “WHAT? YOU WANT ME TO TALK LOUDER? SHOULD I TALK ABOUT THAT…

He is pretty hot.

In retrospect, looking at these dolls, yes, they are totally douchey dude bro. But please don’t destroy my 80s childhood nostaglia. Heck I seriously crushed on a guy in college because he looked so much like Ken. (I saw him again years later with his wife, he was totally douchey to her, so I guess your theory proves…

Is it just me or do they all look like douchey dude bros? Guy in the “Hawaiian” shirt looks like he belongs on Jersey Shore. Give me 80s Ken or give me death.

I’m 43 so I don’t know what the fuck that makes me, maybe Gen X? I had GERMAN Jewish grandparents, from Germany, and let me tell you, you eat the marzipan. Surely there is good marzipan and there is bad marzipan, and it’s impossible to tell from just looking at marzipan shaped like fruit, but you just eat the damn…

I was listening to some Ani DiFranco before I played this and I have to say - is it just me or does she sound a lot like Ani in this song? I mean the dance beat underneath isn’t Ani, but the sound of her voice and the lyrics are very Ani.

As the mother of a child who is “legally blind”, in most states you can be “legally blind” and have some vision. That means lots of different things. For my child it means her peripheral vision is so far gone that it’s like looking through a straw. The central vision is relatively “okay” with glasses, but the…

Miss Eaves - THANK YOU. I LOVE THIS SONG AND THIS VIDEO. Showing to my teens tonight...

I know I’m the dissenting opinion here, but as the mother of a child with Asperger’s and also a relatively high IQ, it is extremely heartening to see kids like this represented in mainstream media. My child isn’t an emotionless genius with no feelings, but neither does said child experience emotion the same as…

I was serious Blackberry lover. I had two. I used the second it until it died. Like it literally fell apart into pieces. There was no blackberry currently on the market when it happened. So I got a Galaxy Note 3. Which I am STILL using. I saw the priv and wanted it but it was out of my price range at the time. But now…

As the spouse of a disabled veteran, let me just say they are VERY quick to take money back, and they take a LONG time to fix things. They stopped paying us a portion of my husband’s pension when one of our kids transferred from community college to a 4 year college because according to their records “he has completed…

I’m down for $10.

I like to break out 3AM eternal every so often just to show my children what original cell phones were and how big they were. They don’t believe it. 

ZOMG I got one of these too. In 1987... or whatever version there was in 1987.

Ahem. Some of us went to UMass Amherst, and the *original* Yankee Candle Workshop is down the road. Some of us remember it *before* it got big and commercial and mass produced. Before they had that year round Christmas Store nonsense. [/nostalgia]

Once I bought a giant vat of hellman’s. Only after I got home did I realize it was past the “best by date”. I called up Hellman’s corporate and they told me it was shelf stable, and “as long as it smells and tastes okay, it’s completely safe to eat.” I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.