<3 Black Forest - a friend sent me a couple packages a few years ago, and I Tim Tam Slammed the crap out of all of them through several mugs of raspberry hot chocolate.

I've been on Eldre'Thalas for ten years...

Were you in my guild? We had a guildie who sang a don't-stand-in-the-fire song to us every time we faced that very boss. haha.

That's insane. On a morning flight to Atlanta a few years ago, the plane was only half full, the exit row was empty, and the window seat in that vicinity had no seat in front of it, so I could stretch my legs out. I asked for permission, the stewardess went through the "are you able and willing to blah blah" routine,…

The only time I remember having a problem with excessive farts on a plane, it was because I had a jumbo Arby's beef and cheddar sandwich an hour before a nine hour international flight (I figured - rightly so - that I might not get a decent meal outside airplane food for a good 12 or 13 hours, so I was staving that…

The Germans do bitchin' pastry too. The apricot Berliner I had in Frankfurt last spring was amazing. They're a tiny bit crunchier than American donuts, and the fruit filling is real, not artificially flavored corny syrup. om nom nom.

I loved that game. When I went to Munich in 2003, I recognized a lot of the destination names on the U-bahn, as well as some of the landmarks that Gabe walked past eighty five times. Too bad I couldn't make time/money to go see Neuschwanstein, Herrenchiemsee, etc.

If I'm not mistaken, this is the same princess mentioned in a 20 yr old Sierra game called Gabriel Knight II; much of it revolves around a partially fictionalized Ludwig II, and some of the clues to the overarching mystery are found in letters between him and Elisabeth.

I get cold sores, and while it's usually only stress/menstrual related, rarely more than dime-sized, two of the worst-in-my-life-covered-my-entire-philtrum sores came from beard burn. Freshly shaved is okay. 5 day plus beard is okay. Anything in the middle, particularly the 6 hour to 48 hour mark, means there will be…

I just spent half an hour in the new Tarren Mill/Southshore battlegrounds. As a player since vanilla, the prospect was exciting. The reality? Same as nearly ten years ago: Alliance-heavy server = Horde bloodbath. (but it was fun taking out as many squishies as I could before they squished *me*. repeatedly.)

You verbed a noun. *shudder of revulsion*

Absolutely true. I was supposed to fly from Baltimore from Milwaukee one year, but due to horrible weather at my layover in Detroit, the flight was delayed and delayed and finally canceled. There was a flight boarding for Minneapolis at the next gate, so I dodged through all the people on their phones calling the…

Depends on your particular brand of anxiety. If you tend to focus on specific issues over long periods of time, sometimes having a concrete track record of "it will be okay" can help. It might not do anything when you're in a full swing attack, but I usually get advance warning for mine, and any tool I can use to talk…

When I was in Sweden, I visited a friend of mine there who had an Xbox One, and he was grumbling that it never responded to his voice command to turn on or off. I inquired if the unit was made in Europe or the US. When he said he thought it was probably an American unit, I turned to face the Xbox and said "Xbox turn…

I bought international tickets on a Sunday night in Nov 2013, four months out. I'd been scoping airfare for a month already and knew it was unlikely to go any cheaper, which indeed it did not. (I was also kind of afraid that if I didn't go ahead and buy it then, my bosses would change their minds about letting me…

Peacoats are great on women too. Mine is a thirty year old Navy peacoat that desperately needs the lining replaced, but you can't get wool like that anymore, at least not in the commissary, so I keep it - air it out, stitch up the worst of the holes on the inside, pluck every last damn cat hair that gets caught in the…

Oh hi, really old article I responded to twice which I didn't even notice until now.. *puts on derp smile*

I almost never had to get physical in response to bullying, mostly because I was far too large to be a good target (amazon chick in a school full of short lil Sicilians ftw), but I did learn how to be MEAN in response to the verbal bullying, and it got so ingrained that I dished it out to anyone who so much as…

Shirts always fit badly over my boobs too, but there's only a ~6" difference between my bust and my waist; the problem is all in my shoulders. I'm shaped like an H with a side of pear.

I love them too! I go into places like The Limited and they have these really nice funky blouses (vertical black and white stripes? yes!) and I try them on in XL, and if I can even button them, the back threatens to split or the whole middle of the shirt hikes straight up if I move my arms more than a few inches.…