I'm an English speaker but I learned French in school and later learned Spanish and German. I was never comfortable with French and never thought in it. I was always too stressed out with the perfection of the accent and grammar that I would translate back and forth in my head instead of thinking in it properly. When…

This was the first kind of house I thought of when I read the title. I grew up in a flood prone area. All the houses had legs. Haha.

We actually studied the vr1 capsaicin receptor in my genetics class. When your tongue touches an actual hot object or fluid, the vr1 receptor opens up and floods calcium into the cell and triggers a pain response in the nerve. It tells you, hey, this is hot and could cause you injury. The exact same receptor can be…

Nah. I was the pickiest eater in the world up until I was around 25. A friend had invited me to dinner with a couple she knew and then later told me how embarrassing it was for her that I barely ate any of the food they had cooked for us. I was completely oblivious that my not liking a lot of food could hurt other…

I really think you're better off paying your savings account that money instead of an insurance company. I've had a lot of pets over the years and about a third of them have had some kind of medical emergency that required usually $800 to take care of. So on average, I've paid about $270 per dog in their lifetime on…

This was what came to my mind, too. I thought it would organize my life. Haha. Though I have to say, my samsung tablet pretty much fulfills that dream I had with this thing. :P

I assume kiss in Swedish is an onomatopoeia and now I will never get that reference out of my head.

Stomp is apparently slang for sex in South Africa. When I was teaching a toddler class using elephants in the story, the elephant had to travel across the table and I said, "stompy, stompy, stompy, stompy" my TA from South Africa freaked out.

I have a hard time getting there, myself. My solution is to get there two or three times alone and THEN let the boyfriend in. I'm so sensitive at that point that I accomplish the big O with him and then we can both sleep satisfied.

Splinters and blisters. Same reason you use gloves to rake with. :)

When my dad and step mother got divorced the first time, they sued for custody of their chihuahua, Festus, and won joint custody. The judge ordered them to trade the dog every week at Taco Bell. The last line on the judgement was Yo Quiero Taco Bell. So funny. They got back together a few months later due to chatting…

When my brother drove me over to our Dad's on Thanksgiving (3 hr ride), I entertained myself by looking at the SSID's of passing wifi signals. There were two of those. One of them said something like Black FBI Van, and the other said NSA Surveillance Drone. There was one small town we passed through where literally…

Just a caution. I had my genetics tested and all my results point to me having blue eyes as well (70%) . But I have brown. (1%) We're not quite there yet with certainties and even probabilities. :P

Wow. I thought I was imagining that sound. Like maybe the whine was my ears ringing due to the sudden lack of electronic sound.

Counterpoint to your counterpoint:

Game of Thrones

I love this. Not that I have a bleeding heart for fish, but it's fun to see if it can even be done, and so it has.

Every time my mother shows up in a dream (she's dead) I realize I'm dreaming. I either wake up or steer the dream to something more fun. I usually then forget that I am dreaming. This has been happening about eight years now. I think it is defensive for me. The emotional toll of waking up and realizing she's gone…

This.