I've learned on no less than two occasions that Big Red tastes the same coming up as it did going down.

OMG, squee!

Fun fact- although there's only one well documented case of a human surviving a rabies infection diagnosed in a hospital, a study of rural raccoon hunters found that 1% of them had rabies antibodies in their bloodstream (as in, they had contracted and fought off the disease; likely they had a low-grade infection that…

i found an image for you..

Bram Stoker's Dracula

but with so much more intrigue!

mine is I was very young and my pointer finger nail was all swollen and gross from infection. My mom had just given birth to my sister so we didn't have any money, and we really didn't go to doctors except for broken bones and births anyway. They set me on the 70s yellow plastic bathroom counter in our single wide…

nah, that was from Myke Hawk of Man, Woman, Wild. but also something I was taught when I did field school in a jungle back in undergrad.

my sister has a footlocker with organizing inserts dividing it up, she calls it her "treasure chest". some of my friends put thick plastic liners in the bottom drawer of their night stand.

you can call the non-emergency line and request a wellness or welfare check.

we saved up for months and months for our sleep number, and we spent several months bed shopping (good to note- I cannot do tempurpedic because it makes we sweat like crazy, and my body heat means the bed hammocks out underneath me). we spent lots of time talking to sales persons while lying on the beds. (oh, and…

do you have any whole cloves? place a clove between the gum and cheek by the tooth and it will make it all numb, and help w/ the ache.

hey now, the nap mat was way softer than the dogs on the sleeping porch I took my toddler naps on :)

we had the cheapie mattress, our splurge was actually a sleep number bed (those things are like erector sets, BTW, all sorts of little parts you can change out the configuration on. Even with the parts we got we spent the first two weeks trying out different setups. Come July we'll ave had it a year and I still love…

When I visit the folks, we cannot stay in a hotel without raising the ire of "it's not menopause, you just hate me" mom. the only bed option right now is the two decade old full size bed one of my brothers and soon to be ex sister in law conceived my nephew and niece on. SOOOO little sleeping and absolutely no…

growing up i had pretty crap beds- and my mom often re-arranged the sleeping arrangements between my siblings and I so things got switched around frequently! the first after the crib was one of those kindergarten nap mats on a cot, followed by bunk beds (my mattress was over 20yrs old from one of my uncles, sister had…

I slept on four clearance rack mattress pads stacked on the floor for years, then sprung for the $100 with boxspring, frame, and delivery bed that was supposed to last two to five years- and ended up sleeping on it for over 11 years. The fancy pants bed came after a lot of overtime and ramen.

pack a picnic and go have lunch somewhere fun!

Y'all, I made a huge mistake.

yuck. I get the same thing from Splenda. and splenda is almost as sneaky as wheat in food products now-a-days.