Right! That's why I did the app. I just wanted to get a basic idea of numbers. (I did star to get obsessive, which is why I stopped) Now that I know, I can keep in the back of my mind that I need to reduce the sodium in our food and that I can't eat an entire box of chocolates in one go. I have to stretch it out over…

At this point, I have decided I don't care. According to the app I eat an average of 1600 calories a day (just regularly, not dieting) and I exercise every day. I'm not going to stress about it anymore. I feel healthy. My asthma has all but disappeared. I don't want to count calories, it quickly becomes obsessive in a…

For a month, I used an app to keep track of everything I ate and all the exercise I did. Considering my husband and I rarely eat out and make 95% of our meals from scratch, I just couldn't figure out why, with added exercise, I wasn't losing any weight. I thought I ate pretty healthy....turns out I do. My sodium…

As children, my brothers and I were not really good kids. We turned out to be good teenagers and great adults, which my mother says makes up for our under 10 years, but yeah....we were the definition of bad. So one year, after my brother had been kicked out of homeschool (that bad), my other brother had thrown a shoe…

My mother's go-to line was "Outside". Then she would proceed to lock us out and tell us to stay in the yard until she was ready for us to come back in. Naturally, we became really good at tree climbing.

Try searching for 'bad neighbors' on YouTube. It is insane. I don't understand living life like that. Hating people that much. How miserable they must be.

I agree. My mother has always been one of those people who would go behind you and remake the bed the way she liked it, re-sweep the floor, re-wash the dishes. She did make us do our own laundry though. My youngest brother still lives at home and she continues to clean his bathroom because she says he doesn't do it…

Maybe these people just spent too much time hanging out with their female coworkers and that is how they got this brilliant (sarcasm) idea? Seriously, there is this weird thing when it comes to my fellow females when we go out to eat. It's like everyone is playing this game of who-can-eat-the-healthiest. Look, I can…

I have so many bad liar stories, but I will limit it to two:

I have an old friend who I follow on Facebook and from the way she talks it is clear that she really hates being a mom. It took me months to figure out that she actually has four children, because she clearly only likes one of them and that is the only child she posts pictures or statuses about. She only brags about…

I hate how, even years later, I can think back on an incident and immediately begin blushing from embarrassment. I always try to give myself a little pep talk about it. Why are you still so embarrassed by something that happened so long ago? Yet I am.

Whenever I hear the word 'goop' I think of this book. Considering it was a children's book on manners and a goop was an ill-behaved and bad-mannered child, I just can't help but think of them when reading about rich people's overpriced junk.

My issue is that she keeps singing songs in English, when she clearly doesn't speak the language, which is why her words and ultimately the song, sounds strange and stilted. I would love to hear her sing a song in Italian.

My middle brother used to do babysitting when he was 15-22. It was a little extra cash, kids like him, and he was a fun babysitter. Most of the families he sat for though were single mothers who were looking to add a more male presence in their children's lives. I get why people are cautious, but you should be…

I was thinking the same thing. My younger self didn't care about boys. She would have been more interested in how many books I had read (I started keeping count when I was ten) and whether I became a concert violinist. (I did not)

As someone who used to work for this coffee establishment, I can't figure out how they got anyone to wait on them. Seriously, I would have hidden in the back and not come out until they were gone. As the manager, I wouldn't have made any of my employees wait on them either. I have a cousin who is missing an eye…

Completely agree. My husband gets along fairly well with most people, but I have one friend who completely butts heads with him anytime they are in the same room together. She is a good friend though and I would hate to lose that friendship just because she and my husband have very different communication styles. So I…

I was thinking the same thing. I also find it rewarding to get rid of the clothes that are too big for me too. Financially, my husband and I like to celebrate paying off some debt by using some of our savings to go to an event that that costs money and we don't normally get to do. Not anything terrible expensive but…

I own one pair of jeans and I wore them one day with a nice blouse to an outdoor birthday party, and everyone was in shock over it. I get that it was a more casual look than they were used to, but they are dressier jeans in my opinion. The kind you wear with high heels, which I was wearing.

I asked my hairstylist if I should get bangs, you know, to try something new. He didn't even miss a beat when he said, "Honey, no. You do not want to grow that shit out." So yeah, no bangs.