I use a traditionally male name, as well. It was always fun when I showed up and people did the double-take. Or the “But you’re a girl/woman/chick/babe? But your work is so good!” My favorite is when I switched the name on my resume from my legal name - feminine - to the traditionally male name (which actually uses a…

Or, you know, just have it be a Wedding Shower and have the groom and male friends invited as well. My college roommate’s husband came to his shower nearly two decades ago now - this is not a novel concept.

I worked as an accessibility consultant - so I would tell people when they were building websites that they had to, you know, think about blind and deaf people as well.

It means a type of curl.

I was talking about that online elsewhere last night. Fire arrows aren’t the same as regular arrows, so they simply weren’t prepared. Though you would think the Wildlings are a little more familiar with what the the Others can do - as evidenced by the Thenn ordering the rapid closure of the gate - and they would have…

I wanted more for that character (Karsi?). She’s bad-ass enough to speak for the Wildlings, she’s a killing machine up there with some of the best fighters on the show, but because the wights were children she just crumpled? She couldn’t have just, I don’t know, run, if she couldn’t get past ripping apart dead…

Yeah, the last deflation was equally as non-riveting.

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.

This leaps to mind. :)

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.