Our best man and his wife found out about six weeks before the wedding that they were pregnant with their first child. They kept it a secret from us, because they said they didn’t want to steal our thunder.

Yep. He was there that night as well.

I don’t know about frivolous, but I have to use the pool and gym SO MUCH for my physical therapy. So I would build myself my own little fieldhouse with my own saline pool, a nice indoor track, gym equipment, and spiffy locker room with a great sauna, shower, and one of those suit-extractor things.

Oh man I missed the call for these last week. The one with the 2-hour interview that ended with the whole “oh, we hired someone else” line hit a nerve. I went to an interview where the HR department had confirmed with me twice in the week leading up to the interview: once a week before, once the day before. I…

Our wedding cake was so good, it ended up completely evaporating - not a crumb left anywhere, not even a piece for the freezer. So instead, we went back to the bakery for our first anniversary, and got a little layer cake made out of the same materials. (Except we swapped the fondant for buttercream, and when the…

Yeah, we did the anniversary dance thing instead at ours. There were only three unattached women at our wedding who were not geriatric. Two were in their 40’s - one happily single, one happily divorced - and a widowed late 50-something. The single men were more plentiful and generally in their late 20’s and early…

You need one of these.

Yeah. I have a good friend and a niece with Celiac disease. When we eat out now, we have to specify that they actually have Celiac disease, and gluten-free is not a choice for them.

It’s not about insulting. It’s about hanging out with someone who just read something on a blog and think they’re more informed than my dietitian about nutrition science (and my medical history). It happens more often than you think, and it gets fatiguing after a while.

I have medical issues that have had me working with Clinical Dietitians for years, since I have to eat a very specific way. And it never fails: someone will see me eat my lower calorie diet, and tell me I HAVE to do the Paleo diet. I HAVE to do the Keto/Super-Low-Carb diet. I HAVE to go gluten free. I HAVE to do…

When I got married well over a decade ago, the planner at the hotel kept asking me “What’s your theme?” She refused to believe I didn’t have one.

I’m just mystified about some of this.

I suggested it back on the GoT subreddit back in the day, and I was so incredibly surprised at how many upvotes it got. There is, apparently, a John Hawkes Tribe.

Mance is a far more interesting and subtle character in the books than as written on the show.

Still hope. I mean, I love Ciaran Hinds and he’s done a bang-up job, but the way Mance is written, Hawkes would have been SO MUCH BETTER.

Such a fabulous, underrated actor. I was SO hoping HBO would cast him as Mance Rayder on Game of Thrones.

They usually have video clips up within 24 hours. You can frequently see better from those than you did in the theater. ;)

There’s also this lovely tool of the cutting trade:

I just googled him - man, I didn’t realize what he was doing these days.

Yep. We live in the Cities so we go from time to time. It’s always fun. My late mother used to say “It’s just...gentle. It’s not in your face, it’s lots of talented people, and it’s a nice quiet kind of laugh.”