The pouch salmon (and sometimes the canned, you have to read the label to be sure) comes bone and skin free. It's the only kind I buy for salmon patties anymore, because yuck. Also, thanks to my 9 year old, we now call them Krabbie Patties, even though they're fish :)

Ah yes, we also made the Men's Health "Fattest Cities in America" list. Chest thump, hometown, you make me *so* proud. Sometimes I wonder why in the heck I stay here, especially with the crappy mentality of the general public. But the city itself is beautiful, just have to overlook the morons with bad attitudes. I'm…

I live in Corpus, and was shocked to see Kingsville on the list. I knew things were bad in CC but wouldn't have guessed Kingsville would make a list like this. What I love are the protestors that stand outside the ONE clinic in town that provides abortions - mostly white, mostly older, and they bring *chairs* for…

One of the ways to trip up your race opponents in the game is to throw banana peels; they slip and spin and lose whatever spot they had. So yes - bananas = Mario Kart.

I have a ChipIn but it's pretty quiet. Is Kikstarter a better online donating method?

Family tradition is males are named with a J. The ONE name suggestion my SW loving husband announced he'd like for our son? JEDI. Perhaps it's due to being raised by an older generation, but all I could think was it would get shortened to Jed, and he'd be a friggin Clampett. Needless to say, my son is Jacob but now at…

Best of luck to you and Sophie!! I too will be training my Lola for the CGC so she can join a local therapy dog group and visit the senior citizen homes! Got a lot on my plate right now - trying to fundraise to build our city's first dog park - but we work a little bit each week. :)

And this whole time I've always imagined grape as the J in the PB. Hmm.

Before I was diagnosed with Intracranial Hypertension, I had a 24 hour, 7 day a week headache. I got so tired of it I went to the ER and they did an MRI. Came back as "not a tumor", gave me a shot of something and sent me home. Headache came back once the meds wore off, because duh, it was an IH headache and not a…

Thank you :) I've had so many negative people tell me I took "the easy way out" to lose weight. Hardly.

"Hispanics are ignored in the U.S. and practically invisible in the media so at least someone is paying attention."

Hearing my doctor tell me at age 32 I was just a number or two away from Type 2 Diabetes was the push I needed to have Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy. This surgery reduces the size of your stomach without rerouting your intestines like Gastric Bypass or BPD. Yes my diet is supposed to be restricted to high protein, high…

The medical term is actually keratosis pilaris, where the skin's keratin forms hard plugs within the hair follicle. It's actually pretty common, is usually hereditary, worse in the winter and better in the summer. Using lotions with lactic acid, salicylic acid, urea, glycolic acid, or vitamin D will help. It's…

Um, isn't this just strawberry shortcake in a cup??

Do you have Intracranial Hypertension? I had an awful headache, the ER sent me home that it was a migraine. But after the drugs wore off, the headache continued for three **months**. It took an MRI, an ophthalmologist, and two spinal taps (the first one done by a butcher who stabbed me over 6 times) to diagnose me…

We got our Great Dane as an 8 week old puppy when my son was just shy of three. I had more trouble with the child than the dog. He is truly a gentle giant. Granted, as the coordinator for a local dog group trying to build our city's first dog park (yes, in 2012, our city has 196 parks and not one is for dogs) I have…

My biggest problem with crosses/crucifixes is that its a symbol of the means of putting Jesus to death. Why would you wear that? Would you wear an electric chair necklace, or perhaps a syringe depicting lethal injection? If your aunt was mauled to death by a chihuahua, would you wear a pendant with rubies on the…

For those of you that enjoy seeing a huge gooey or crusty chunk of ear wax extracted, there are tons of videos on YouTube. Alternately, the website PopThatZit dot com has them neatly grouped by association - ear wax, sinus infections, maggots, bot flies, boils, blackheads, etc.

My now 9 year old was 8.4lbs and 21.5" long with a 15" head. Labor was 27 hours, delivery was 2.5 hours - yes 2.5 hours of solid pushing. Little punk ripped me from stem to stern, and sitting was definitely painful. But I would sit with him for about 6 to 8 hours everyday in the nursery for a week. People with tiny 5…

My 125lb Great Dane's name is Phantom, for the markings on his face. My rescue Tibetan Spaniel Lola (who was thrown from a pickup window in front of my house covered in thousands of ticks and full of heart worms) was named for a look alike at the local humane society that got adopted before I could get her. Lola is…