This is pure comedy gold! I have set the oven on fire a couple of times. Just totally unable to estimate how much batter to put in a cake pan. But my dad taught me years ago (knowing how hopeless my case is) that you can put out an oven fire with salt. Just pour a shitload of plain old table salt on the fire and it…

Ha! I know where you're coming from. My husband has worked in the music industry for 15 years and his mother still asks him when he is going to get a serious career. And gives him flyers about law school. We live overseas now though, so it's a damn sight easier to opt out of family Thanksgiving.

When you get a migraine, does the smell of your deodorant make you sick? It's one of the worst things for me. I'm lying down, half dead, and the fruity scent of Secret is making need to vomit. Yuck.

I was just coming here to say I am getting some aura symptoms and this post just made me shudder. I really need to go take some Migraleve, but I have my son and no sitter and I am afraid it will make me sleep. I love how kind the OP's parents were. I hope my kid never gets this, but if he does, I hope I have the…

As tough as being a sole caregiver is, you were so lucky to spend that time with your grandma. I love that you did it, and that you wanted to. You and your grandma were really blessed to get that time together and I bet she absolutely worshiped you. I love this story! Thanks for telling it.

I'm so sorry.

Agh! That is a fucking nightmare. No way. I have always assumed that anyone who made it to adulthood without contracting herpes (the mouth kind) was a non-responder. My mom and husband both get cold sores and I don't, so I never really worry about it, but now I have a new horror!

How on earth did that happen?

I had a really severe cough on a flight from NYC to SYD once (it was bad - couldn't take anything much for it because I was pregnant and couldn't postpone the flight) and when I got back to Sydney I saw the doctor. Turns out I had whooping cough. I felt terrible about the possibility of making the flight attendants or…

It can be done, but it requires steady nerves and the willingness to get dirty. Now that my kid is potty trained I have a new problem. Twice he hasn't quite made it to the toilet and has peed all over the lavatory floor. I had the horrible experience of personally mopping the floor with towels and soap. YUCK!

You can buy saline nasal gel, which I find lasts longer and works better on long flights than saline solution. I fly Sydney to NYC every few months and it saves my poor nose.

I loved the pants off this tumblr. Laughed out loud, cried, and was generally crazy happy the whole time I read it. GAH, I love the daddies. I sent the bit about the kid whose Mexican rad dad taught him to greet others in the room with respect to my own dad. We aren't Latino, so it isn't a cultural thing, but it is…

That is the sweetest thing I've heard today. I miss my grandaddy.

I just did a quick search and it looks like there is an allowance to stay in the UK as well. You would need legal advice, though. There needs to be documentation via police or hospital, but if the visa is gained through marriage to a partner with permanent residence status in the UK, there are provisions. Here's a…

I kind of want some Goldieblox for myself! I'll definitely be buying for my niece. But as far as fair use of the Beasties song goes, even though I love the Goldieblox song and video, thatz not okay. If they hadn't put the ad bit in the end about the product, they could have gotten away with it, but since it is an…

Why thank you so very much. Made my day! Someday I will sit down and learn the black magic of the gif.

And Bernard Black is MY personal nominee for sexiest (fictional) man. Well, Bernard and Jamie Lannister, but Bernard would wipe the floor with poor Jamie.

It used to be so, but I don't think it's as significant as it used to be. At least anecdotally. Cost of living has really gone up in the US. Groceries, gas, appliances, it all costs more. And cost of living estimates seem to never take into account the staggering costs of medical care in the US. I may get cheaper rent…

I have always heard that (I'm a midwestern girl who has a southern mama and was transplanted to NYC before I made the jump to Sydney), but I had heard also that in the US they rectified this and required companies to make up what tips didn't cover, up to minimum wage. Makes sense that it would be state by state,…

I know. I don't know how much I thought about it (except to think minimum wage should be raised) until I moved here and saw that the minimum is actually a living wage and that people seem to have more pride in a job of work here. There's no shame in being a server or store clerk or whatever, which I used to see at…