If they’re fitted at least reasonable well the corsets actually help with the back pain.

I might. A handwritten letter is more personal.

Fwiw I do that all the time. I have stacks of it in multiple places in my house because my kids use it as drawing paper and frequently it’s faster than booting up my computer and printer and printing something out.

Yes, but the author specifically said that it was 2002.

Exactly! I will give people money (and occasionally they give it back) but that’s it.

Yep. Growing up in the 80's when it was rare to have a home computer was hugely different than growing up in the 90's and being a “digital native”.

I think it was longer in the show than in the books. In the books it has to happen very quickly because Jamie has to get out of prison in time to mess with the shipment of port so she actually does it before she forgives Jamie. In the show she says she’s been in the hospital for weeks before she even goes home. Hard…

I was sure I wouldn’t cry because I’ve known about Faith’s death for 20 years but there was no stopping it.

Those are some valid points.

The only good thing about my oldest needing speech therapy is that one of the things they taught him (and worked with him on for years) was about appropriate volume. Now I only need to say “number 2 voice” and he drops down to a normal conversational volume immediately (0 is silent, 1 is whisper, and 3 is yelling). My…

We have a strict outside only rule for wind instruments in our house.

There are definite hormonal changes that go along with parenthood (for moms and dads) that help make your own kids less obnoxious but it’s still almost certain that you will be bothered a lot by your kids should you choose to have them. Generally speaking I’d advise all people who aren’t sure if they want kids to err…

I don’t think “famous for being famous” is a concept everyone understands.

This is why I want to buy my sister a really big deal housewarming present for her new condo. It’s the first house she’s purchased which huge on its own but she’s also 33 and happily single/child free* so she hasn’t had any of those parties.

*I don’t think she’s opposed to getting married/having kids but she’s not…

I used to just say “sex reveal parties” but since visible genitalia doesn’t always correspond to biological sex (as determined by chromosomes) it really does need to be that specific.

In my experience (3 big babies so lots of ultrasounds) the techs always referred to the babies’ sex and the doctors at the clinic always say “are we finding out/do we know the baby’s gender” (to which I would passive aggressively respond “Yes, we do know the baby’s sex”).

I call them “external sexual characteristics reveal parties” .

No, my 4 year old saw it over my shoulder and told me she wanted it (we were discussing getting new backpacks the other day since after almost 2 school years of use her brother’s is falling apart). I’m not willing to spend that much on a bag for a 4 year old though so hopefully she’ll forget.

Link? My 4 year old wants one.

My big brother hunts and likes to tease me about it (because he’s my big brother) but I honestly am not bothered by it because he eats what he kills. That’s not to say that I don’t find the mounted deer heads in his house creepy af but since he and and his boys are not hunting for the trophies (they only have…