I'm not commenting to say that you suck - you don't suck! - but you're definitely missing a big component of why the Two Wongs shirt, and things like it, are far more problematic than a heroic plumber shouting "Mamma Mia!"

if you really want to get into photography, I can't say enough about starting with film. if you can take a local intro course, or look for online instruction, even better. you can get an old 35mm SLR (Single Lens Reflex) pretty inexpensively (and if you still want digital images, I usually bring my film to Walgreens…

the beau's farts are far more impressive and plentiful than mine, and then every once in a while I get him, but good.

I read "I man. Idiot." but I wasn't being sexist, I just thought he was that other late-night talk show host that used to be the cohost on The Man Show and was trying to capitalize on past fame. But I can't think of his name. I'm sorry, I have sick-brain from my neverending cold.

my little brother liked to climb into my mother's shirt with his head poking out the collar with hers (she was wearing really baggy shirts at the time) and once proclaimed "I wish ALL of us could live inside Mommy's shirt!"

my parents just happened to have copies of Peter Mayle's "Where Did I Come From?" and "What's Happening to Me?" on a low shelf when I was growing up. I would sneak out of bed at night and read them. there were pictures of naked people! I must be finding something that belonged to my parents that I wasn't supposed to…

I can verify that abdominal exercise in which a person supports their weight on their forearms on a so-called captain's chair with padded arm rests and then lifts their knees toward their chest. Just. Sayin'. Kind of dangerous though, since you're holding yourself up mid-air when it happens and then your arms start to…

I just can't get upset about things like cupcakes, really good frozen yogurt, or microbrews being trendy. Those are awesome things, why would I want less of them?

Gallstones seem to be a tough diagnosis. I had been having pains for as long as I could remember when I was 22-23. It finally got so bad one night my boyfriend had to rush me to the ER at 3am. They told me to see a gastroenterologist and sent me home. I saw one for 6 months, trying various medications for IBS, before…

I am now hyper-aware of the cooler feeling the air coming in through my nose has compared to the air being breathed out of my nose. Thanks a lot, guys.

somehow this is even weirder, because if I cover the droopy, dark half of the dress, she looks amazeballs.

my bff and I decided when the 3rd LotR came out that it would be a good idea to watch all 3 in one day. we watched 1 & 2 at her house, made fondue, and went to the theater to see 3. it was...an experience (I use the word "awe-ful-some") and I had that soundtrack in my head FOR A WEEK. it did make pretty much…

LOVED Day is Done. And somehow, despite NOT being a morning person, inexplicably loved (and hated) its converse, that "little birdies" song - you had to get up earliest with your BFF and go up to each cabin, singing softly until "theeee BRIGHT SUN COMES UP! the dew falls a-way. GOOD MORNING, GOOD MORNING the little…

is it weird that that sounds really awesome to me? I love organizing. but man, what a lot of work!

aw thanks. I guess I knew really cool boy scouts or something. I really did learn a lot, because there was more to it than I expected (heck, just finding a place to host it, getting kids to show up more than once. one older kid came, and it was really meant for little kids, and he became my assistant, so it was cool…

it makes me really want to devote some time to being a troop leader when I'm older and settled in one place. luckily, my best friend's mom (who was one of our awesome "break-off-and-make-our-own-damned-troop" leaders) continued to volunteer as a girl scout leader even after we'd grown and gone to college, so she got…

I'm sure you'll never guess it, if you guessed a long, long while!

I'm reading all the other comments and took too long to edit mine to add this. If any Jezzies were scouts and got your Gold Award, what did you do for your main project? I always hear really cool Eagle Scout Award stories and feel like my Gold Award was a little on the lame side, but I'm no less proud of having…

I've got something in my pocket that belongs across my face...

there are some seriously lame troops out there. my first troop was huge, and we were the lodge-"campers" and sit-upon makers. our leaders taught us to make our own lip gloss out of vaseline, and invited the hair-stylist mom to teach us to do a french twist. after an especially epic blow-out between the two sides of…