I do vote. I said as much in my original post, but it doesn't change the facts/reasons of why a lot of people my age don't vote. I vote for people in the major parties, because I know that third party candidates can royally screw up an election, by pulling enough votes from the main party candidate, that the corrupt…

If you'll notice, I said that I vote. I was giving you the reason a lot of my generation don't. I find myself having to do the lesser of two evils approach precisely because of what happened in the first presidential election that I voted in. It was a third party candidate in Florida that recieved most of the disputed…

My mom didn't wear makeup, so my first experience with makeup was stage make-up at the age of 11. I still don't know how to put on real make-up. I usually just do mascara and Ben Nye's "natural" lipcolor for evenings out. And I'm 32.

I agreed with you until the last line. My dance teacher as a kid was fat. She had been a professional dancer and then an injury, and having 2 kids sidelined her. But, she knew how to teach and her weight was irrelevant. She used teen students as assistants to demonstrate the move, and then she walked around correcting…

I'm in Rural Illinois, so we don't have wine stores(except for a couple of wineries, but they only sell their wines), we have HUGE locally owned liquor/package stores. These stores have been family owned for generations and like to support the community, hence the fundraisers. Plus the $20 you pay for the tasting goes…

Speaking as a 32 year whose first chance to vote was in the Bush/Gore election(I do vote BTW). Make our votes actually count. Make sure all votes actually GET counted! I know so many of my classmates were so disenchanted with the whole process because of that mess, and the illegality of the Supreme Court basically…

My dad was the best. When I was in Jr. High the new bitch of a principal decided to do away with the annual in school 8th grade Halloween and Christmas dances. I was in 8th grade that year, My dad taught 7th grade at that school, and for even more irony, the principal's son and a school board member's son were also in…

I love this!

I'm one of those people who use pics of my kids or my cats or my kids and cats together. Occasionally I am in a pic too. I take lots of pics because I love taking pictures. I have a DSLR and photography is a hobby. I'm the default photographer for a lot of my son's friends' parents at school and scout stuff too, so my…

I'm like that too, but I'm super picky. I'm not picky out of fear to try things, I'll try anything, but rarely do I like it. I think I have really sensitive taste buds. My mouth feels like its on fire there's only a little too much regular pepper on it. You can forget most Mexican food. I don't like Twinkies, but I…

A good way to weed through the 'meh' wines from a local place, is go to the various wine and beer tastings that they do throughout the year for different charities. You can try as much as you like for an inexpensive amount(they run about $20 in my area). That's where I've found most of my wines that are in the $8-18…

The whole movie made a pretty poor showing. I think that's why we so little of Meg(Hercules), Kida(Atlantis), and the even lesser known Eilonwy(Black Cauldron). Check this out

She was Megara in Hercules.

Hearted! I hated nursing my son, and we didn't really have any supply/latching issues. I only managed 10 days. So with my daughter I didn't even try. But I pumped for 10 weeks. Go figure.

I never nursed my daughter, but I pumped milk for her for 10 weeks. I hated nursing my son and only lasted 10 days. I found out that I didn't hate pumping, so I lasted 10 weeks. It just became too hard to pump after I went back to work.

My husband and I always fight over leftovers. In my house growing up, your leftovers were your leftovers. No one else ate them without asking first. In his house the whole fridge was a free for all. I blew up at him shortly after we were married because he ate my leftover poorboy from Merichka's. 10 years later he…

Actually Old Navy/Gap always have cute stuff that's not cutesy, solid and striped polos, grown-up looking prints, jeans without all the embroidery, etc.

I'm still missing my Heritage Dr. Pepper that was made with the real sugar instead of HFCS. We regularly go to our local Mexican Market to get Coke and those fruit-flavored sodas with the real sugar though. It gets me through.

I used to love the Trefoils until they stopped putting the coarse sugar on the top of them.

My dad was the math brain in my family too. He was a 7th grade science and math teacher. He did everything in his head though. His brain(and mine, and my my 8 year-old son's) was just hardwired for math. He helped a group of coworkers get an A on a master's level stats class take-home final, and he got a C on the same…