Seltzer is unsweetened (with sugar or artificial sweetener), just water and CO2. It's actually a great way to wean off of soda because you get bubbles and nothing bad.

We had those too! But no one else remembers them but me. You could squirt milk from them.

I've been running for 10 years. I started using Runkeeper to log my workouts about 2 years ago and went from being able to run 5Ks to being able to run half marathons. Runkeeper gave me enough extra motivation to put in the extra running I needed.

God, that might actually be me. My husband really likes putting things away in his own organization scheme. It leads to me yelling down the stairs to him while staring in the cabinet: "Honey, where are the Band-aids?" And they're usually in the box that I swear was travel size toiletries the last time I was in that…

My last office the admin assistant was a man. Even though answering the phone was in his job description, he wouldn't do it. There were two people on the team who got a lot of calls to the office line, a man and a woman (the rest of us could safely ignore the phone). The woman ended up answering the phone 95% of…

I am so sorry for your loss and for the failure of the justice system.

Yes to Philip Island (I also really liked making a stop at French Island and renting a bike) and a river cruise. The only other thing I remember doing in Melbourne was St. Kilda beach.

Oh God, I was losing hair a few months ago. My husband kept saying that I still had plenty of hair but I was pulling out handfuls every time I ran my hand through my hair. I think mine was caused by warfarin (though it started a couple months after I was done with the warfarin) and it went away after a few weeks and…

I don't know if it still is, but it was required of military members going to Iraq in the 2006 timeframe.

99% of Baltimore public school children are vaccinated. I can't speak for rural poverty, but urban poverty is not an impediment to vaccination.

100% agree. I'm a little heavier than I usually am right now (and the author's body image really resonates with me... average weight but with thighs that rub together and a desire to be thinner). However, I just ran 5 miles in a 9:12 pace and it's awesome that my body can do that.

I think I have a mild latex allergy. I was always a little uncomfortable when having sex with condoms. Once my husband bought the polyurethane ones and I found it MUCH better. So maybe give those a try if you want to use condoms. I'd never noticed any issues before, though in the last year or so, I've started…

Do you mean the Mantoux test? While it sort of seems like a vaccination because it's a needle in your skin, it is just a test to see if you have been exposed? TB vaccination is only recommended by the CDC in limited cases (which does not even include all health care workers— only those working in areas with high…

Are you sure about a TB vaccine? The CDC doesn't recommend it as a population-wide vaccine (http://www.vaccines.gov/diseases/tb/). Yale requires negative TB skin test or a clear chest X-ray but does not require the vaccine (http://yalehealth.yale.edu/faq/67), and UConn only requires a skin test in certain cases and…

I had a fake boyfriend for a little while due to one of my coworkers asking me out repeatedly. It was annoying but I had to work with the guy and didn't want to deal with him. But honestly, all you have to do is pick a first name and occasionally be like "[Name] and I are spending the weekend in Vermont." And then…

You are not alone.

Yep. I can't use hormonal birth control and I recently seem to have developed a latex allergy. Luckily my husband fits in normal condoms so I don't have to get an IUD for a year or so before we are ready to try for kids.

While I think it makes sense for them to do this since you probably need the money more now than later, unless your working class grandparents managed to save $11 million they aren't avoiding any estate tax.

While I think it's nice for them to do this since you probably need the money more now than later, unless your working class grandparents managed to save $11 million they aren't avoiding any estate tax.

I just got married, and our wedding cost nearly $30K. But my husband has a large family, and my mother, who was paying, wanted to invite all her sisters and all my cousins. We couldn't have had fewer than about 80 guests even if it was family only. Combine that with an expensive area and the desire to have a really…