Gaithersburg is crazy town. My uncle lives there and proudly explained the older sections inspired Pleasantville. My cousin has/had some issues and I’m like no shit! This entire place is super planned, superficial as hell, and is like consumer American mainstream wet dream. Of course the kids there wanna rebel.

Nah. The very fact that you feel inadequate and self-conscious about your ability to girl means you are, in fact, girling at normal levels.

You should look into Mario Badescu shampoo and conditioner. It’s GREAT! . They have one for color treated hair and the pricing is pretty darn good and a big 16 oz bottle of shampoo is $14.00, the conditioner is the same and they last forever. I love me some Mario Badescu.

oooooh. So they’re basically saying the size I think I am with the fit issues I’ve described = smaller band size. Nice. I really need to get myself to a department store and get measured again, this just proves it!

Yeah I need to go do that. Maybe today after work when my husband can watch the kid. I just love shopping online at work in between mundane tasks. Treat yo’self! But... I like the idea, just get fitted and go on a try-on spree.

I just went to their site and took their quiz and they said based on my size they think I’ll find a more comfortable fit elsewhere but they do stock my size. I’m sorta confused. I’m a 32D and they stock it so I may try them out anyways.

Okay where does one get decent bras? I need more bras and I want comfortable bras that fit well. I got measured (granted at a victorias secret) so I guess I could try online but I don’t know where to start. What’s a good price range for a good everyday bra?

No. I do not. I think “Wow that would likely cost way more than I want to pay for it, require an instruction manual to get into, feel uncomfortable as hell, and then likely cause sexy times to come to a halt in order to take off.”

I agree. Some of the best conversations I’ve had/listened to have been people talking frankly about $. What they’re making is less of the topic than how much things cost, what they’re spending on certain things, and what they’re doing savings/debt/retirement wise. It was informative and oddly freeing to just throw…

How the hell does fitbit know? Like it tracks sex motions and after the sync he got to thinking, wait a minute I haven’t been involved in this much thrusting lately... something’s up!? I like this theory.

Oh I’d probably still be childless if fate hadn’t taken a hand; literally, we were using protection and engaging in other activities, not 100% on how it happened. This time (kid number 2) I am resolved to plan it out and wait until I’m ready and I’m already getting the “when are you gonna have #2, you’re getting…

Well she did. She gave me up for adoption.

Question: at what age do you feel like you are going to move on to more formalized preschool? My current provider will and has watched kids up until 4+ but I wonder if it would behoove my son at some point to have more structure, more traditional preschool pre-school. He’s now 2 years and 2 months so we are good to go…

Oh snap. I should probably stop referring to the dietician I see as my nutritionist then. I thought they were interchangeable.

So I just started lifting weights and doing interval training 2-3 times a week in September and lately I am ALWAYS hungry. And not for sweets but for meat and cheese and nuts and milk. I’m trying to be mindful and not over eat but damn, I am so much hungrier lately! Damnit, now I’m hungry.

Do it! And can you take mine too? But for real, my daycare lady got into it just this way. She took on some other kids and then when hers aged out was like “I love kids, I can stay at home and do the projects I love plus be surrounded by kids and get money for it.”

Wait are you not doing income based repayment? Because I have 6 figure professional degree loans and I’m paying less than that. Granted, I’ll be paying it off forever (though some I can get rid of in 12 years for public service loan forgiveness). Also, my husband makes A LOT more than me so we decided to file…

Yep, kids are luxury items now. Also student loans are another problem we need to freaking do something about already. They’re worried people aren’t having kids, worried people aren’t saving for retirement, why aren’t young people buying homes? Well, when you are paying a hefty chunk of what you make every month…

So we didn’t plan ours, he happened (no idea how, still fuzzy on that). BUT I was freaking out, how are we going to afford him, what are we going to do?! And my grandmother who had kids at the end of the depression and during WWII just calmly said “you’ll make it work, people have literally been doing it since the…

It’s the waxy coating: they’re little cheesy creatures that are blue, shriveled and slug-like. They don’t get cute for a few months at least and even then...