I have it, too and while I have used it often for pasta, I use it a lot in the summer to wash and store veggies from our CSA. I love that thing, best bonus piece ever from our registry pots and pans

I have that, it's wonderful!

I am definitely not weird enough for this city, but I love it anyway :)

It definitely seems to happen that way.

Hey now, I live in inner SE, in a great neighborhood, and it's very nice. NE, SW, and NW are nice too, but eastside PDX is awesome too (as long as you stay west of 82nd)

Thank you for this and all the subsequent posts. You have no idea how much I needed this today :)

Absolutely the same over here in Portland! I was shitty drunk last new year's (no glass breaking, but I did throw up in the morning) This year I am pregnant, and didn't have more than a sip of my husband's beer at dinner. When we were at the bar getting ready for the ball to drop, my husband snuck in a bottle of…

Have a few extra drinks for me, Jezzie's!!

Yes. don't feed the trolls.

Not be scared to death of raising a child that is expecting to come out of me in July.

and me as well :)

I am also due in July and yeah, shitting pants would be my exact reaction as well, if I conceived again in Sept.

Thank you! and yes, they burn like shit!

I am currently on blood thinning Lovenox shots once a day until mid June, because I'm pregnant. I had some clots in my arm about ten years ago when I was in college and even though I got the situation corrected, my OB wants to be safe. They suck and if you hit a blood vessel, my stomach looks black and blue for a…

Holy gorgeous, Batman! Jurnee Smollett is smokin'! I seriously do not think I have seen her since Full House.

Columbine happened during my junior year of high school and my senior year we had a full time armed cop on our grounds. Dude was nice and all, but I'm pretty sure the brunt of his job involved writing tickets for illegally parked cars. Pretty sure he would not have stood a chance against an AR, either.

You make a good point here. I had what my OB called a chemical pregnancy in May, which basically means my husband and I conceived but the egg did not attach. I was five days late, got a positive pregnancy test and then got my period three days after that.

My sister's ex was a native San Franciscan and constantly called our family out for having Midwestern accents (we're from Iowa originally)

Ok, full disclosure. Portland is great. . .for some. My now husband and I moved here over five years ago from Iowa (you could not pay me a million dollars to move back there. I'm serious.) I moved here sight unseen, and it has been the best decision of our lives. We are fortunate to both be gainfully employed (it…