Once a month maybe, for five minutes, mostly just to make sure none of us are dead.

This is so funny that this article came up today. This weekend my husband got cussed out by his dad bc apparently I don't call my mother in law enough. Calling your mother in law? I'm doing it wrong.

I BEGGED my mom to get texting forever. She wouldn't budge.

I wonder if standard text message rates applied.

Did everyone at your senior prom have hair that looked inexplicably wet?

And you definitely shouldn't wear makeup if you don't feel like it! Or go all-out with peacock false lashes and the whole shimmery kablooey! Whatever makes you feel comfortable and happy is the right thing to do. And I hear you on the not having patience thing. Some days, I'm lucky to get out of the house with enough…

Okay ... Just teared up during her acne-covering tutorial. Now, this may be in part because I am dealing with a monthly chin visitor to correspond with my monthly uterine visitor. But her explanation was achingly sweet and empathetic and so damned glass-half-full (or glass 85% full?) in the most charming way without…

Go watch that vid, go watch that vid! It'll honestly amaze you. I always used to plaster on heaps of concealer, but ever since switching to Eldridge's method my skin's looked as close to flawless as it'll ever get. I did high kicks and heel clicks in my bathroom after the first time I tried this. Nearly fractured my…

If anyone is looking for absolutely wonderful, sane, non-judgemental makeup advice (including contouring!), I highly recommend Lisa Eldridge's site. I only recently discovered her, and man, I wish I'd had her calm, easy-going reassurance when I was a teenager. I get really exhausted by the arbitrary laws that some…

Also, if I were to walk into a BCBG, the sales girls would just stare past me like I wasn't even there. None of this "going to check in the back" shit. Just straight up ignore. I won't even go into those places for handbags or shoes.

Yep, that is exactly why they ask you that. I'm allergic to eggs and there are a handful of vaccines that I can't get. Thankfully they are starting to develop egg-free vaccines, but there are still holes in my immunity and I, and others in the same boat, depend on people that can be vaccinated to get with the program.

I think MMR is mandatory for a lot of colleges. It was for mine, at least.

This! Lilbassoon just got his six month shots yesterday. We had to take him to the free clinic because of insurance reasons, and they hadposters of what the diseases he was getting shots for look like in real people. You know, staying up with a feverish, super fussy baby last night was totally worth it. I would say…

Someone (a brilliant angel, perhaps?) shared this link on the Gawker post about this yesterday (or whenever) and I think it's really worth sharing again:

It would suck for my child to get an ear infection. Can you imagine having your poor child deal with the discomfort of an achy ear and having to take antibiotics when they could have something as mundane as measles instead? Srsly, u guyzz!

That is the assumption being made here is that the cabin was depressurized. However, from everything I have been able to research the plane at that weight wouldn't be able to fly to FL450 no matter who wanted it there. A pilot that has been trained in high altitude breathing could, combined with an oxygen mask,…

As a size 12 lady, I would look BIZARRE if I suddenly had a thigh gap with this size body.