My sibling has also been trying (unsuccessfully) for a while and I will probably mirror your reaction if the announcement ever comes. ps: It's totally adorable that your coworkers got so excited as well!

Maybe I'm just a Scrooge but I would hate to be on the receiving end of that type of announcement because your reaction is never going to as excited as this Kat person wants, unless you're the grandparents. It's just not that exciting when a friend is pregnant. "Oh, wow! That's wonderful news," is about as much…

I'm at that point in my life where lots of my friends are getting pregnant and having babies. Every time someone tells me they're pregnant, I'm unsure if I should say "Congratulations!" or "On purpose?" And this is how I know that I am not yet ready to procreate.

Feinberg sounds like a totally righteous babe, and I salute hir amazing chutzpah. But good god, communist regimes have a terrible, evil, unspeakable track record when it comes to supporting and protecting the rights of trans folk. The lucky ones spent a lifetime rotting in a Siberian gulag or Qinghai re-education…

At this time last year, if you had tried to talk to me about issues of social justice and inequality, I probably would've brushed you off and told you the the LGBT community is doing pretty well for themselves. At this time last year, if you were to ask what I knew of transgender issues, I couldn't name one. I…

I went to college in Massachusetts, where they eat hot dogs in glorified wonder bread slices. The steam from the dog and the juice from the condiments would make it disintegrate in your hand as you ate. By the end you were desperately trying not to let the naked sausage fly out of your grasp. It was an abomination.

There are two schools of though RE: grits. I think most people prefer savory but some people (my husband) prefer sweet, like cream of wheat. He adds butter and syrup to his grits. I mean, I think it is an unholy act of terrorism but he isn't the only one I've ever met to do that.

Lil Baby Birdy is finally here! Since I've spoken so much about my pregnancy over the last few months, there's no way I could pass up sharing her during Saturday Night Social.

I had that problem this summer and my guess would be that you are missing something. I cleaned everything, threw away all the food in my fridge AND freezer, threw away an old granola wrapper from two years ago in an unused overnight bag, etc. and I set traps and that didn't get rid of them. It turns out a grape had…

ugh. for the past week I've been waging a war against the fruit flies in my kitchen (and...everywhere, really. it's a studio apartment). I've set beer and vinegar traps and bought some disgusting sticky fly paper, but nothing's working especially well. Anyone have tips on how to deter the little winged bastards? My…

I will cherish this as if I was back in the late nineties. Or maybe even early 90s. Because compared to now, I miss the hell out of it.

yes. i work on a university campus and see students day in and day out, and are these kids honestly sexing each other? BABIES!

Not to be a downer, but being married to a saxophone-playing architect is much better in fantasy than in reality (even when, or maybe especially when, they are also handsome and civic minded). I wouldn't trade mine for the world, but a quick "google" for "what it's like to date an architect" will come up with a…

Yay! This'll be fun. Dance of happiness!

He wishes.

How can I get out of work for this

No shit.

In defense of the Bloomin' Onion: I was GOING to say I don't think any of us Americans actually believe it (or anything else at Outback) is 'Australian' food. But now that I've typed it, I realize that it's probably not true. Probably plenty of us think the Alice Springs Chicken Quesadillas are an authentic…

Nope. It's a very good try, but it's still not quite as monumentally disgusting as Pizza Hut's cheeseburger pizza crown, available throughout the Middle East. Drizzled with Pizza Hut's "special sauce". You don't want to know. No, you really don't want to know.

Do you not have nacho pizza in America? I am by no means saying it should be a thing that exists, but it has been a thing that exists in Australia for a while now.