Maybe they're helping some college students move?

My French friend is delightful but neurotic at the level of a pure-bred chihuahua. I figured that was what kept her so slim. It takes a lot of energy to be that crazy. (Naturally, I extrapolate this to the entire country.) I tell her I'll lose weight when she quits smoking. I'm pretty safe on that one.

Oh, I really wanted to get that for us, but I can't quite justify the expense right now (they're $99 each). My understanding is that you are assigned the number and it is not associated with your name or any other identifying information outside of the number (maybe the address). It seems like the only way it could…

For all the "once a cheater always a cheater" advocates out there: You can't know what goes on in someone else's marriage. In some cases, the cheating may be preferable to "the pressure of conforming...ruins—literally RUINS—a lot of people's lives."

Wow, so my regular cooking repertoire is the same as what chefs do at home. I'm going to take that as a positive, don't bother me with details.

To the Christmas babies: Please feel free to share my birthday. I don't always use it to its best advantage, and it is the perfect distance from Christmas: June 25. I'm not the only one with this day, but I'm sure there's plenty of room.

I had an ob/gyn tell me she had just delivered a few months ago and didn't need an episiotomy, but that I would most likely need one. So much for "we'll see what happens." 8 months later I ended up having a c-section, so it was a moot point. I'm in favor of gestation chambers; someone needs to come up with that.

Oh, that's who is buying those IKEA lanterns. I always wonder why they're still carrying them.

Expensive gag gift.

What kind of rich people wizardry is Steve Martin using on his skin? That is some inhumanly smooth and perfect, yet not plastic-ey, epidermis right there. How?

Good for Miley. I was irked the other day when Jez had the padded bra story and everyone was on team "hide yo nipples" because they are somehow unprofessional. Maybe offices should get a handle on sub-arctic air conditioning, and we'd get a twofer: Fewer party hats and slower global warming.

Well, that is a way to spend time. I couldn't do it, but the dog and his person seem to enjoy it. That's what freedom is about.

Great, so Couric has created video that can be snippetized and used to further the anti-vax bullshit in perpetuity. Great job.

You'd be surprised at the high dollar houses in LA that haven't been updated in ages, Vast swathes of LA are still on knob and tube wiring. I think its less of an issue for the super-rich folks, but for the "regular" people a not very interesting smallish house in a nice area can be $1 million and still have a kitchen…

Now you tell me. I've been aiming wrong for years. Dammit, I'm almost out of ammo, too.

I think the correlation between "stuff-your-face" and "loosen-up-generally" seasons and "engagement season" needs further study. Perhaps, while we are of course pushed by advertising, it could be that folks are just their happier, looser selves for a while, so it seems like a good idea. Then January slimming season…

Please divulge how one loses RBF?

We tried it their way. Their way sucked. People naturally gravitate toward the less sucky way. Sometimes it takes a damn long while though.

Oh please, between power lines randomly festooned across everywhere, poorly thought out shrubbery, and the fact that this thing won't have the sense to actually put a package behind anything, I think this isn't happening in the near future. Too many lost deliveries to contend with.
Unless we're expected to retrieve…

Look on the bright side: You are free to indulge yourself with no expectations from anyone else. I miss that, there should really be a way to trade for a year or two here and there....

(Posted from my bedroom respite from our male adolescent progeny's loud use of the rest of the house with video game noises and a…