I don't know if they are moving away from the historical dolls totally, but at this point they are definitely putting most of their marketing behind the modern dolls. Which is so sad to me...by the time American Girls became popular, I was too old to be super into dolls, but I LOVED the books (not just the series of…

I had it when I was 14, and I'm 28 now. It was awful.

I hated the Keurig when I worked in an office that had one, but my new office has this contraption that brews coffee out of these individual flat packets with like, plastic buttons on top that hook them into the machine, and it is literally THE worst coffee I have ever drunk in my life. Ugh.

Seconding this - I always wanted to name any potential future daughter after my grandmother, whose name was Sophia (but pronounced so-phaya, not so-pheea), but given the fact that every third baby girl is named Sophia these days, I'm not sure if I can bring myself to do it, even with a non-standard pronunciation.

Call me vain, but I've always planned on having exclusively black pets so that any fur they shed would match my mostly black wardrobe. So practical!

Agreed. And if I am using a recipe from the internets, I print it out beforehand. Me + cooking + electronics = no.

I was once in a similar situation, only my dad did contribute, by terming to the underwear in question "slingshots."

It's really common in San Francisco. It's nice if you really need to go while your roommate's in the shower or something, but hand-washing can pose a problem then. I guess there's always the kitchen?

My parents had a gray cat that absolutely adored my mother - I mean, he would sit in her lap and let her hold him like a baby for HOURS every night - but hated everyone else in my family. I couldn't get within three feet of him without him trying to bite me, and once, when I was sitting on the couch, he climbed up on…

I'd never thought about this before, but it sure makes me glad that toilet in my apartment is in a separate room from the sink and shower...

Another good source for coconut oil is your local Indian market. Dabur Vatika Enriched Coconut Oil is an amazing product (though, full disclosure, I've only ever used it as a hair treatment), and it'll only set you back $3-5 for a bottle that lasts ages.

This is pure conjecture based on my experience being raised as a Catholic, but I think that it's probably because Catholicism really does a good job of instilling a sense of guilt in its followers that other Christian religions don't, which, when combined with the fact that it just isn't accepted in the community in…

My first thought upon reading this was, only four car payments? That sounds totally reasonable! Then I remembered that I drive a Hyundai...

I'm with you. I'm not a twin myself, but my younger brothers are identical, and having witnessed the incredible bond that they share and the way that their relationship has evolved from childhood to mid-twenties, I really feel like (many) twins are the luckiest people on earth. I can't imagine having to contemplate…

Uh, maybe if the way you'd phrased that question made you sound a little less sanctimonious, people might not have gotten so up in arms.

I seem to recall from the days when I ate a lot of packaged soup that the Healthy Choices ones in the little microwaveable bowls had two nutrition tables on them: one for a 1-cup serving and one for the whole bowl. I always appreciated that they acknowledged that no one in the universe is going to leave 40% of a…

That's really interesting...I was born with a broken collarbone also but don't have any permanent damage other than a big old bump on the far right hand side of my clavicle where the break healed. Like your parents, mine were totally rational about it, acknowledging that the doctors couldn't help that I was enormous…

Might I recommend Banana Republic's website? I ordered a sheath from their suiting collection that is probably the only dress I've ever owned that has a waist that matches up with mine.

Yes, you can. Except for the mascara guidelines, which exist for actual medical reasons, I'm convinced the guidelines have been made up at random by makeup companies to get people to buy more stuff.

I justify it by telling myself that he was born in MA and grew up in NH. Rooting for him is just rooting for a hometown boy!