I am honestly stunned because boneless chicken breasts cost $2.99 fresh here at HEB in Texas. A big bag of frozen chicken breasts is even cheaper.

the doctors were calling them baby A and Baby B. We decided that Baby A would be the name we liked that started with A, and we started calling the babies by their names right away, like as soon as we found out they were boys. When the doctor pulled the first one out (I had a c-section) he said "this one is Baby A"…

not every time there are two sacs, just when there is one placenta AND two sacs. Identical twins almost always have one placenta (rarely two—-we think), and fraternal twins always have two sacs (that one we are 100% certain of)

it's actually not that rare; a lot of twins are born that way. Fraternal twins start out with their own placenta but the placentas fuse pretty commonly. Also, it's just weird saying the word "placenta" and "sac" to a bunch of people you don't know, so I can see why she didn't examine further.

if twins are born with one placenta but two sacs, it takes a SNA test to know whether they are identical or fraternal (barring obvious things like different sex or different hair/eye color). DNA tests are expensive and usually not covered by insurance, unless it's for something like testing for a transplant match.

only at the very beginning, long before they could get a toe to their mouths. Within the first six weeks after they came home, I could tell them apart fine.

I think they mean unassisted by fertility drugs/treatments. Which is kind of silly, anyway, because fertility treatments would make fraternal twins more likely, but not identicals.

one amniotic sac = identical.

I have twins. I painted their toenails to tell them apart. And also for fun.

Just the other day, I had my sunglasses on top of my head. I leaned into my car to get groceries out in such a way that I hit my sunglasses on the roof, grinding them into my skull, which really freaking hurts. So, of course, like a logical adult, I flung the sunglasses into the opposite car door. I punished the…

Oh, I have a flirting with sharp objects story! When I was about 18, I worked in a very classy steakhouse that sold bottled beer. One of the other waiters had a leeetle crush on me, and also was kind of a dork (which makes sense, as I am more than kind of a dork) and really, really wanted to impress me with some…

the missing word in your last sentence is killing me! Your sister got to kiss Jared Leto? Punch him? What?

I totally did that, just not at the Van's Warped Tour. It was instead at the 99.5 KISS FM Crawfish Festival. I think Nickleback was the headliner. I am ashamed.

I use "sober lifestyle" mostly to refer to people who have made a conscious choice to completely abstain ftom alcohol and other drugs—-generally recovering alcoholics/addicts, but I guess Mormons would fit the bill, too. But I know a lot more alcoholics than I do Mormons.

they should have a baby.

now that Tim Burton is single again, I can't help but picture the three of them creepily hanging out, trying to pick up girls together.

thank you for confirming that this happened. I couldn't decide if I really saw that, or if I fell asleep and dreamed that Marilyn Manson and Carol Brady were super smart and into each other (in the dark, dark days before DVR, I sleep-watched Politically Incorrect a lot)

I'm not sure trolling on reddit is really possible. Reddit is sort of a bridge unto itself.

Because it's a tradition to stay up and ring in the new year, and Cherenkov* naturally want to participate?

you just have to move to the Pacific or Mountain Time Zone before tonight, so he can watch all that craziness at 9 or 10 pm.