From my experience, no. BC makes me a raging, acne riddled, crampy, bitch. Pregnancy made me the most zen "everything is going to work out in the end because the universe knows what it's doing" woman. Miniphantom's dad wanted to know what the fetus had done with his lady, heh.

Jezzies! A few weeks ago I posted a rather long & painful SNS re: my mom. I was overwhelmed by the support and kindness I received from y'all, and had a bit of a hard time processing all of it. The history with my mom felt like popping one of those white heads that you think isn't that bad but then it just oozes and…

If you do get a pattern worked I will commission the hell out of you to make me one. Srsly.

Our family of three makes it by on about 45k per year. In California. We live skinny, but we're by no means miserable. I agree that the money they received should have gone farther than it did

My daughter had her first dance class last night. She had so much fun dancing, and her dad and I had so much fun watching. Things in our lives are just nice and mellow and happy and I'm feeling super content and thankful.

Yeah, this is the first rom-com in a long time that I've watched the trailer and said "cute. I could watch" instead of "craaaaagh. I may ralph"

I'm glad someone shares my blech feelings towards the first season + the Holt crow this looks fantastic enough to get me to watch again vibe. I could never put my finger on exactly what it was about the first season that I didn't like... but thIs looks like perfection- campy perfection!

CHRISTOPHER HEYERDAHL! He is so my unconventional crush.

This seems like as good a place as any to rage face (even though my rage faces stay in the grey). Fuck you Facebook remembrance posts.

Fucking thank you. I lost a very good friend when the first tower fell, and unless you're a soldier, emergency personnel, lost someone, or were there just. SHUT. UP. I don't care how well written and well intentioned your saccharine little sentiments are, shut up. There's no feeling that compares to making a million…

I'm getting 9-11 mixed with anti-war & pro-gun sentiments. I lost an amazing friend when the first tower fell, and it's really, really hard for me not to digitally slap everyone.

They were absorbed by his chin.

Hello from Tahoe! Maybe it's something in the water up here, because I had a very similar response. Miniphantom's dad was in the OB office sobbing the first time we heard the heartbeat, saw the ultrasound, etc. but for me it all felt like a crazy science experiment that just happened to be happening inside my uterus.…

This. This is why I ramped up my sewing machine again. Miniphantom gets to pick fabrics & age appropriate patterns, I get to make sure my kid looks like a kid.

That just gave me all the smiles needed to get through my morning!

It's extra sad because I distinctly remember an interview (I'm thinking linked via IMDB) where he talked about being okay with being broke the rest of his life as long as the work he was doing was high quality. Charlie, what devil got his claws in you?

I second what omlete said. You didn't say how old your nephew is, but it sounds like he's young. Kids absorb a lot more than adults generally realize, and if he's exhibiting violent behavior chances are he's picked up other pieces of their behavior as well. Unfortunately, if your brother / sister in law won't listen…

Fit, fit, FIT! You can great clothes and still look really young if they don't fit well. A proper tailor can make a $10 pair of thrift shop pants look like they cost $$$. My tailor charges ten - twenty bucks per alteration, depending on what he's doing.

The sad thing is that (unlike her phantom relative) she grew up really sheltered and is just a genuinely trusting, kind person who still believes in Prince Charming and story book endings. I pulled this guy up to show that there was no way they had the same favorite movie / color / food / book, and found the above…

I'm sayin. My cousin was super shocked that this "perfect" guy she just happened to meet at her favorite Boston bar, who worked in her ideal field, who was wearing a shirt she posted on her brothers Facebook page... turned out to be an unemployed psycho with two restraining orders against him. A little intent savvy…