Exactly - all those cheesy songs have a place. When I think of the Electric Slide, I remember my great uncle Gerry dancing to it in his ancient pink tux. I in no way regret letting the DJ play whatever silliness he wanted.

Because then that's one more job you've got to do/decision you've got to make, rather than something you can offload. Weddings can be super stressful to plan, so delegation is key. Assigning someone else to load up an iPod could work, but then you've got to trust your cousin/brother/whoever's taste in music, except…

I probably really don't want to know, but thanks :)

Sorry!

With this particular house, I don't know…

I had the same problem with the room in my grandparent's house with at least a dozen clown pictures in it. My sister and I would fight over who had to sleep in there.

My sister looks pretty young, so she got "whose daughter are you?" when she went to users group meetings.

Ah, thanks - like I said, it's been a while.

They might've been? The host on that was like-able, so I watched the occasional epsiode near the beginning of its run, but as his health started to worsen from all the awful stuff he was eating, it became sort of tough to watch.

My go to example of that is always the "Fat Cat" sandwiches that the Rutgers University food trucks sell (sold? I haven't been on that campus since the 90's.) - the classic one had mozzarella sticks, chicken fingers, fries, and marinara sauce on a sub roll.

The library/office also looks like it'd be pretty nice, minus clutter - that's the sort of wall you could put one of those sliding ladder thingies on, which has been a life goal of mine ever since seeing Beauty and the Beast as a kid.

Slightly off topic, but: In my sister's first mechanical engineering job, someone asked her if she needed help/to be shown how to use a screwdriver. Also: Do you need me to do that for you? I don't want you to mess up your nails or something. Trying to be nice/helpful, but being sooo off base in the process.

So was the homeowner just so lonely that they filled the house with fake people? The mannequins seem like the most bizarre flourish. (especially the ceiling children - "oh, I've run out of room on the floor, I guess we'll have to improvise!")

If the concepts and experimental formats are interesting, but the writing style is what's letting it down, then that definitely could be largely due to the translation. It makes me wonder how worrisome it is for authors when their work is getting translated to other languages - they have almost no control or input…

I asked my husband once if he'd ever read it, and he said "Is that the one where the boy can't sleep so his sister makes hot chocolate for him?" I said that he was probably thinking about something else, but then I went to reread it, and there was the scene he was talking about. Of course, how anyone could think…

How difficult is it to just order an appetizer for your kids' entree? No one is being forced to order from the kids' menu, and the interesting food is already there on the main menu.

Exactly - as the parent of a toddler, I totally agree that the first priority is getting the nutrition into your kid in whatever format they'll accept it. And, to be clear, we love eating out, and always make a point to offer our more exciting food to our daughter. A year ago, she'd try it all, but now she's almost…

If you're in a city, then eating out is frequently a lot easier - just walk 5 minutes, as opposed to all the prep time of actually cooking.

Oh, I thought it was Mickey Moose

Was too busy with move, work, and kid stuff to read new books, but did get some new kids' books, so: