It was such a traumatizing thing to have happen then (I'm pretty sure I ran out of there crying), but now it is just so ridiculous and funny.

Yeah, I think the only thing that makes me roll my eyes about her fighting the fight is that she wants her voice to be everyone else's. If she could put the Gaga away for a while and let other voices join her own, that would be cool.

Grandmas totally know how to pull a guilt trip.

Congrats! Here are some cupcakes with little berets. Raspberry ones, though.

So the tabloid media have turned into my mom? Any mention of babies or children triggers the grandma hormones and she instantly thinks me or my sister will be pregnant again imminently. I was actually afraid to mention that I was sick to my stomach recently for fear she might take it the wrong way.

My husband and father-in-law took our son to see Cars 2 yesterday. I'm kind of bummed that I missed it since it wasn't terrible, but I'm sure the DVD will be gifted to us at some point, so I guess I don't have to feel so left out.

Hope you can make it out and be social sometime here soon :) I remember those days in grad school, though. Sometimes it felt like the only people I interacted with all week were all involved with my studies. It was weird to talk to someone who wasn't involved with school.

I cannot attest personally to the wonders of Denver, but I have a close friend who moved out there, and he said he's not ever moving back. So, I think it must be a pretty cool place to live (at least cooler than Ohio, where I am now).

Thank god the belt is pink, otherwise I wouldn't have realized it was a lady tournament.

Crown Princess Mary of Denmark looks very much like Jennifer Anniston. Her hat also looks possibly to be a headband, which breaks the crazy hat rule, I think.

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This also happens when a virgin wakes three witch sisters.

But Cicero did call Mark Antony "Our own Helen of Troy" (I think in the Catilines?). Other than that, he's easy to translate but a bore to get through. Dancing is way better.

People in the middle ages died from seriously weird causes.

I sported those weird gerbil clip ins so much! I can't believe my mom used to let me out of the house with those things stuck all over my head.

I think I'm the only one in my family that really dislikes A&W root beer. I enjoy medicinal-tasting root beers like Barq's. Admitting my hate of A&W root beer floats was almost sacrilegious. I also once wet my pants in an A&W root beer stand bathroom when I couldn't get out of my romper fast enough (the 90s were…

Yeah, there's nothing worse that realizing I've gone X number of days without a cigarette to get me craving one like no other. The less I think about actually smoking, the better I am about not trying to bum one off a friend.

If making movies out of birthing books is going to become a thing, I think Hollywood should option the Bradley Method book.

"We're still not clear on what that has to do with the choices other women make."

I actually have a professor argue against me getting a TA position because I once couldn't make it to her class because my mom (my main childcare) was sick and no one else could watch my son. She said I was not academic enough.