Getting licensed isn't cheap or easy - the physical tests are pretty hard. I can do a surface dive but forget an actual dive. I could do every part of the test except that and it's an automatic fail if you can't. My parents (who footed the bill) were NOT happy. Meanwhile my older sister did lifeguarding up until…

This was cool for a hot minute in the 90s.

Since the gentleman in question had severe health issues?

Goddammit... Now I want "walking frito pie", as my friends and I call it. Or "walking tacos".

Just clicked the link and my 16 month old is LOVING it!

Didn't she have an ectopic pregnancy and lose a fallopian tube? It was super duper traumatic because of that. I know a girl who that happened to - twice! - and to her, the loss of her fallopian tubes was worse than the loss of the baby.

duh... Really?! I didn't know that!

As much as it was embarrassing I don't know if I did or didn't. No one will tell me. And it was REALLY nice having him there - no way I was going through that alone. Or with my mom, ewww... Or a friend! Or just a nurse.

Nope. I may have pooed while giving birth and he will have witnessed that but I am a firm believer in bathroom door closed. Like, even to pee. I can't go if someone is watching. At all. Like, even in the army when a buddy has to go in the woods with you to pull security. I have issues going if someone is there.

Most of my friends who post pictures of food usually do eat at amazing places - but the food usually looks not so wonderful. The exception is an old exchange student who lives in Japan (hi, Yuki!) and unfailingly posts the most amazing looking food. She either has a talent for it or the food just is that wonderful.

I run so much faster drunk. I can get to the "runner high" stage without realizing it. I absolutely HATE running.

With Venetian plaster you can't just fix a section - it'll look horrible. The whole side/house needed to be redone.

Even though he's not a big climber, the 16 month old gets called "monkey" by his 13 year old big brother because the 13 year olds nickname from their dad was monkey. The 13 year old just thinks of it as a term of affection - not a descriptor. SO. I get you.

It's my favorite musical to sing along with - but damn if I'd ever see a production of it. I prefer it in my mind.

He totally does chores too - and earns money for them. And he makes himself so miserable by dragging his feet doing them. They take 2 or 3 times as long as they should. ugh... teenagers...

My stepson is 13 and Mr Tutie and myself have told him he has NO excuses for being bored. Internet and his own computer, iPhone, PS2/3, Wii, WiiU, DSiXL, 3DS, and a shit ton of games for all his gaming systems. (Mr Tutie and I have accumulated this all over the last 6 to 12 years - 13 year old only got the DS's new…

When I was unemployed for 2 years I got good at buying and eating cheap - not a ton of actual "cooking". It's sort of ruined our expectations of food, and what food should taste like. I've gotten a lot better at cooking - but spices are expensive! And if I have to make a choice between spending $10 on spices that…

I'm 33 and pretty damn certain I'm on the spectrum. I lose jobs because I can't read situations correctly. A diagnosis would be pointless at this point.

I found out that she actually had 2 ectopic pregnancies requiring the removal of both her Fallopian tubes. So the only way forward for biological kids is ivf. She has a teenager and her 16 month old and her transfer for her "last chance" (no more eggs, no more money) is on Monday. I have more sympathy for her, but I'm…

I bought mine online! Not overly fancy, didn't need alterations. Love it! AND it was cheap. And a "real" wedding dress. I was a little wary at first, but I figured that if I didn't like it I had time to find something else.