Congrats on getting sober and healthy!

Dude. If running will keep me looking like that at 92, I’m starting tomorrow.

How Clean Is Your House! I loved that show. They had a microbiologist (Kim) come swab all the surfaces in the house and tell the people about the germs they were hanging out with all the time, and this awesome professional house cleaner (Agatha, with a glorious hair style and fancy-pants cleaning gloves) would show…

I’m kind of thinking of the dumpster diving that I’ve seen other Hispanic people do: looking for aluminum cans and other metal that can be redeemed/sold for cash. Somehow I get the distinct impression that Marie’s bagel dives are looked at more favorably than a lot of metal hunting, even though metal hunting probably…

I kinda thought that, too, but don’t want to make assumptions about people’s sex lives. I mean, it’s not unbelievable that Greg just hates to clean and likes having her around. But I was also like “if we replace Marie’s-friend-Greg with Marie’s-husband-or-boyfruend-Greg this story became a lot less interesting. Area…

I guess if she's a housekeeper for this Greg guy, she's not actually getting free rent; she's just paying rent in kind instead of in cash. But then, if we acknowledge that, she's not actually living on just 5K a year, so.

Errrr, why not count her income as a housekeeper for Greg? What does maid service in Brooklyn cost, relative to renting a bedroom in a nice place like what she’s got? I’m guessing live-in/on-call maid service isn’t cheap?

Geese. Geese are smellier than chickens. No contest. Geese are also stupid as fuck and can be quite mean.

The Professor should know that baby talk (or at least the high pitched singsong tone) really had been shown to be beneficial to a baby’s development :-)

The only negative physical/developmental result so far is that she actually gained a little too much weight at first. That was when we were like “Eh, it’s a phase, she’ll snap back soon enough” and let her drink as much milk as she wanted and eat all the fruit and bread and stuff like that. Right now she’s actually…

It’s what my phone apparently thinks I meant when I mis-typed “bananas”. But of course it was clearly not evident from the context...

I don’t know about other countries except Mexico, which definitely has plenty of kids who won’t broken bananas or wrinkly food orwhateverwhatever

With three of my kids, they skipped a meal once in a blue moon, but mostly they ate without complaint. My fourth child has led to many nights. of wondering what will happen if the teacher or counselor finds out that my child has not eaten a single morsel of food at home (she still takes a lunch to school) in three…

Even if you don’t give in and let the kid eat pb&j or Rice Krispies, it’s still a monumental headache dealing with a kid who will not eat what you cook for dinner. I have spent the last four years saying to my daughter (who is now eight) that this is dinner and she can like it or go hungry, and it is still a fucking…

Yeah, my daughter is the same way. When she was three, I became quite smug because the only things she wouldn't eat were jelly and syrup and soda (she said the bubbles hurt her mouth). Then at four, she just...turned picky. We figured it was a phase and didn't make a big deal about. During the first year, anyway. It…

Hey, most of the women you know are having this same issue right now but with eyebrows. I spent a decade fighting with tweezers and wax and threads and now strong eyebrows are a thing. Super.

I know, see my sheepish response to my own comment. Still creepy in my opinion, because I think the whole weird tradition is creepy. And it probably smells terrible, too.

Dibs.

So on further reading, it looks like she ran up and asked for a kiss and that this actually is a gender-flip of a weird-ass Wellesley tradition? Okay then. Still creepy in my book, because it puts people on the spot, but probably not as assault-y as I had originally thought.

I feel like this is one of those “reverse the genders” situations.