In other news, I left Direct Student Loans a really big tip this morning. Got a check for my birthday - made an extra payment. According to their interest calculator, I just saved myself like ... $50 over ten years. WHERE’S MY DIRTBAG BULLET POINT?

You manage to have fond memories over something that your mother made sure you and your siblings never felt scared about. Your mother kicks serious ass.

Does it count if you didn’t fully realize it was awful?

I was about five years old. My mother decides to load four of us kids in the van and take us from Washington State to California, to go to my mom’s cousin’s wedding. While there, we were also going to visit her siblings and go to Disneyland and all sorts of fun…

I’m not sure how much of an outright disaster this is, but it was pretty funny, so I figured I’d share.

I’m 95% sure this is just Daniel Day Lewis Prepping for a role.

The future Mrs. C and I are forgoing a cake and have decided on wedding doughnuts instead. It’s cheaper, they’re dairy free (the future Mrs. can’t digest it, would not be a fun wedding night), there’s a great fancy doughnut place right by the venue, and goddamnit, doughnuts are awesome!

My aunt Bonnie’s second wedding was a small affair in Lake Tahoe. Her cake was from a chain grocery store, which, since it was located Tahoe, did regular wedding cake business and had a pretty large bakery section. My aunt’s fiancé, Steve, picked up the cake the morning of the wedding and came back to the cabin we…

Got a bunch of stars for this story on an unrelated Kitchenette blog. Worth reposting:

Along the lines of handling customers with different, potentially difficult, needs that some might find cumbersome, there was this great story shared in Tom Sietsema’s weekly chat last Wednesday.

But they’re asking for it. They even said it phonetically. Where did they get the idea that the restaurant even served it? They MUST have seen it on the menu. I would have just asked for them to point to it. Problem solved.

I would like to send an order of the crap dip to the table over there. The one with the lady that’s allergic to crunchy and the man that doesn’t know what scrambled eggs are.

There’s no way that it would take more time to have him point at a line of text on a menu than to get two managers involved to eventually decide on and approve the plan Josh came up with.

With respect, you could have your eyes glued to home plate, but if you think you could dodge a bat flying at you at that speed, you are fucking kidding yourself.

Even if you are paying attention, there’s always a chance for disaster. The Pirates had a coach, Don Long, who was seriously injured from a broken bat, and he was also watching the batter swing. Stuff happens sometimes

She never switched genders. Sex is not the same as gender. Problem solved. You’re welcome.

This is a you problem, not a Caitlyn Jenner problem.

As a native Kentuckian (who once even spent a year working with George Clooney’s sister), let me politely invite you to go fuck yourself.

His father was a TV anchorman and ran for congress. His Aunt was a huge deal actress/singer.

Whatever you were going for with the tone and voice of this article did not work.

Visit their FB page, cry and get back to me.