Tonight is the first night I have felt really pregnant, I am 5 months along. I went to a surprise birthday party for a friend and we all sat at bar stools at a brewery with no back support. I am dying. My back is killing me. It is such a weird feeling considering I have always been young and in good health. I think I…

Macy's!

I'd think being a mom or dad and being a teacher would be a great career. (not that is isn't a good career for those who aren't). You get summers off and breaks and are home around 4pm. Lots of stability. I might, MIGHT, understand that question if you were working 100 hour weeks with a newborn doing financial trading…

I think it is nice to have a store close on a day during the traditional weekend so employees can be with their families. Every retail store I have worked at, I worked weekends.

Some people on here are being pretty bitter towards conventionally attractive women, and I don't think that this attitude is helpful in the end towards the treatment of all women.

Agreed.

Kim looks great pregnant. Curvy Kim is a lot more becoming than when she is super thin.

Eek... she is a very lovely woman but these shirts are ugly.

I cannot help but feel bad for Heidi. She lost her brother in Iraq. She obviously was in a very disfunctional relationship with Spencer. And with all the plastic surgery, she obviously has a body image issue.

My husband is in the Air Force and I am really looking forward to moving out of the DC area in 1-2 years from now. I think maintaing relationships is pretty hard around here because of traffic and people moving in and out of areas within the suburbs and out of the area entirely. I think a smaller city and suburb area…

I like Springfield! You can get on 395 super fast and be in Alexandria in 10 minutes. But anyway, I live in Southern Maryland (a good hour outside of the city with traffic) and I also just plan a lot more to be social. I find it a bit more stressful and have hung out with people a lot less now. I think for a lot of…

To park at the metro is like 5 dollars and then you pay for the metro... It can end up being cheaper to drive into the city if there is more than one person with you. I understand what you are saying but a lot of city dwellers won't meet halfway or are kind of oblivious to how difficult it can be to get into the city.…

I have done the end of orange line treck to Bethesda on the weekends and it is awful. I live pretty out of the DC metro area now but I have noticed that people in Bethesda or Silver Spring will also not meet half-way. I'd rather meet in Foggy Bottom then go all the way to Bethesda if we are both metro-ing. I got to a…

And it is like equal distance for a person in Capitol Hill to metro to lets say Arlington or Falls Church as it is for them to metro to Adams Morgan or Upper NW when you consider the time it takes to switch lines. It is city elitism at its finest.

I can understand that. But offering to meet in Silver Spring or Arlington or Alexandria when all of those are metro accessible is often a good compromise. I used to live in Fairfax and if people came out to meet me, I'd pick them up from the orange line and drop them back off. It is when DC residents (no offense) only…

I normally offer to pick up a city-dweller friend at the subway stop nearest to my house. I think it is a good compromise.

I don't get this because it is fair easier for the city dwellers to find parking in the suburbs (and often they don't have to pay for it!) but to insist that I go into the city to meet them and paying 20 bucks for parking and deal with DC friday night traffic? Fuck it.

This is a bit of a silly study. A lot of children media is small budget straight-to-home videos and tv movies on Disney and Nick. Just looking at movies that were in theaters seems to be shortsided.

I found the first paragraph to be a huge generalization on how women felt to be a housewife. I don't think there was enough nuance between changing social expectations and those who make the choice to be housewives. But I agree with you... more egalitarian social expectations benefit everyone.

I agree. Inflation of the housing market and medical insurance has been a huge detriment to society. Ideally, one partner in the relationship could stay at home or work less hours for the first year but at least in the US, it is close to impossible. I am a housewife and soon to be mom this spring. It just happened…