Yeah...it was a pretty short-sighted pet decision. No more tiny critters for me! I love them too much, and too fleetingly :( I'm sure your ratties were lovely! I've had friends with rats, and they were always so much cooler than I thought they would be.

Yeah, dude, me too. I had a little hamster in college that this prompted me to think about , and now I'm sad, too :( But, you know, for tiny-dead-animals reasons, not computer reasons. Man.

Yeah...I have thoughts like this all the time about Mr. Dforce :/ (NB we are currently long-distance, because fuck grad school) Today I heard about a terrible wreck that happened yesterday at X exit on his interstate highway. Last night, we got off the phone right as he was getting to that area because the traffic was…

Oh god, I love that animals say different things in different languages :D

I have these guys in the lawn in my rental. Fucking terrifying looking...but I just make sure I wear sandals out in the grass so I don't step on one barefooted, and I've never had a problem!

Dude, kcunning was just saying that it was an opinion of a certain generation. My parents are from that generation, and my dad has definitely said that he's a bit weirded out by the hairless trend and that he "just doesn't get it" (this is obvs more than I'd like to know about my parents' sexual preferences). You've…

Oh man, if only dudes (hell, if only everyone!) was well-educated about birth-control. There are lots of medical reasons to be on hormonal birth-control. My sister, for example, has a history of ovarian cysts; certain types of BC pills help suppress her body's tendency to grow cysts, so she has been on the pill since…

I don't have personal experience, but I know several people who have done it and loved it. They've renewed their contracts and continued to get their MAs in education while still signed on.

Aw, poor guy! I vaguely remember my dad getting one done when I was about 9, and Mom let him be a big baby, as well. Mr. Dforce has pledged to man up when it's time in return for my many years on the pill and the discomfort from the insertion of my IUD. It's nice to have a great partner, huh :)

Yeah, we had a great 20's party for my sister's 20th b-day back in 2008, and it was plenty easy to find outfits.

I really worry about my mother-in-law. If my father-in-law goes before her, I don't know what will happen. She just buys, and buys, and buys, and buys. There are stacks of stuff everywhere, and most of it is new. It's not really restricted to stuff or food, but there are several rooms in the house that are just for…

Ann Arbor :) It might not be solid Midwest (nor solidly a hippy town), but there's lots of farmland around and it is pretty Midwestern to this Westerner. Sorry to have kept you in suspense!

This is something I have struggled with in the past, since I buy a lot of discount regular produce for fairly cheap. CSAs are really not right for everyone, but at least you tried it! Good luck finding a better one :)

I live in a hippy dippy town in the Midwest, so you can bet your ass that there are a million different CSAs to choose from. When Mr. Dforce moves back and one of us has a real salary, we're totally going to invest in a share! We've been wanting to since we moved out here, but one person alone struggles to eat even a…

I would go for it, then. If you had asked me the day after I got mine inserted, I might have given you a different answer...but now I've had mine for a solid 2.5 years and my life circumstances have changed, making it feasible to have kids sooner than had been in the plans, and I definitely don't regret it. Not having…

Kiera, you really are a good kid. I grew up in a small town, as a good kid, and even I knew what kind of reaction would happen. I am certainly guilty of making this kind of explosion, except we always did it purposefully out of sheer boredom. There's not a lot to do in the middle of the desert besides lighting things…

As she acknowledges.

Let me preface what I'm about to say: first, I know that many people feel that Scientology's status as a religion is dubious; second, I understand the concerns about human rights issues.

If you're looking to get pregnant in the next few years, it may not be worth it. If you're planning on waiting quite awhile, though, I think it very much pays itself off in every way.

Soooo....I didn't go into all the details. The dilation pill was my second go round. We did the consultation and the doctor was like, "Well, it sounds like you've thought about this thoroughly. I don't see any reason that you shouldn't have one. How do you feel about getting one inserted today?" So, we tried it cold…