I'm currently harboring a not-so-secret crush on our sushi chef. The husband thinks this is hilarious.

@Hamsterpants: I believe the Miller's Outpost in Roswell would occasionally — occasionally — carry Guess? jeans, which were the It Product of my elementary school years.

He's great!

@Archetype: Seriously, where do I sign my mother up? She'd get to be a gramma to someone, AND get off my back about IVF? Score!

@TruculentandUnreliable: As soon as he got the non-diagnosis, he went almost completely vegetarian. He eats poultry and fish once a week and managed to cut out the beer and red meat completely, and rice, tofu and miso are now his main diet staples. He's got way better self-control than I do.

@TruculentandUnreliable: The husband has gout, but his doctor refuses to diagnose it as gout because he didn't have the correct level gouty markers in his blood work. He had some, but it was just under the gout threshold.

@TruculentandUnreliable: Seriously, yo.

Hey now, I have to step up for my girl. Warmaiden might lean to the right of most of us, but she is an educated, kick-ass librarian who has come to her opinions through careful research and moral inventory, and I have to respect that.

Nobody in my circle of friends (except me) had to lie. Their parents didn't care. I was so jealous at the time. Now they're jealous that I'm still hanging out with my parents.

@TruculentandUnreliable: I can't do cakes either, otherwise I would have totally gone the pastry route.

@TruculentandUnreliable: I bake under the misguided idea that if I produce a truffle tart, I won't actually want to eat it.

@TruculentandUnreliable: I seem to recall your husband is a butcher? I think I'd totally be okay with my wheat/sugar/yum stuff issues if my husband would keep me in the artisan bacon.

@SarahMC: I know that at any moment, this could all go away. Hence voting for the betterment of the people (all of them) and not my bottom line. I like finally having the ability to put my money where my mouth has been for years.

@spectatertot: Hi. My name's Beep. Nice to meet you.

@J.D.Regent: It's awesome and heady!

@SinisterRouge: Oooh! Oooh! When the husband took his new job (and landed his new salary), I told him we were now financially obligated to vote Republican. His exact words were "fuck. that. shit."

@littledarling: And yet, we under compensate teachers, cops and fire fighters, and nobody seems to mind, tra-la.

@J.D.Regent: The one transgendered person I know refers to herself as a tranny constantly — which will confuse me if I'm not paying attention, as "tranny" in Universe de Beep means "transmission."

@Scoregasm: I think we're all screwed.

Tween girls could come up with better thinspiration than this.