I actually created a secret second Pinterest account a couple of weeks ago for this purpose (I mean, a wedding dress is a wedding dress no matter what you title the pinboard) and I was SO relieved to see this announcement. I was constantly having to check which account I was logged into before pinning.

She did. She basically had about a half inch of skin below her lower lip and that was it. You could easily tell it was missing - it definitely creeped me out as a kid, before I knew what had happened. She was pretty much the toughest old broad ever.

I don't think so...they've held the lease since the early '70s, and the sage couldn't possibly have been that old.

The wall thing is so weird. My boyfriend and his family moved into a new house when he was in his early teens, and one day when he was upstairs in the attic he noticed something scrawled on the wall - I don't remember the exact wording but it was something to the effect of, "bad smells always come back." He rubbed it…

My great-great-aunt lived a mile or two away from a high-security prison in a semi-rural area, and one night in the 1960s or '70s, an inmate escaped, gained access to her house, found one of her guns, and SHOT HER CHIN OFF. She was fine, and I believe they caught him (in fact I am fairly certain she shot back at him).…

This is not much of a story, but several months ago I moved into my boyfriend's apartment in a small San Francisco apartment building built in 1908. I've always felt very uneasy in the apartment, especially at night, but nothing obviously supernatural has happened (and I had a few ghostly experiences back when I…

My boyfriend, who had literally no interest in cats as recently as four months ago, has been know to refer to ours as "our pre-baby baby."

I agree with everything you said here, down to the taxation of sugary foods.

Both my brothers are cops, and both of them were tased as part of training. One of them posted the video of it on Facebook. It was terrifying but also kind of funny...for some reason, despite being incapacitated, he could not stop laughing.

That sounds like an extreme case of it, but it is definitely pretty common in NH and possibly other parts of northern New England to add extraneous r sounds, especially in when one word (or syllable) ends with a vowel and the next starts with one. I still occasionally notice myself saying draw-ring instead of drawing,…

Once I was rollerblading in the semirural neighborhood I grew up in and crossed a wooden footbridge over a creek. A squirrel was sitting on the railing, and as I passed, it leaped off and onto my thigh, digging its little claws in and holding on for at least 10 feet. It was honestly one of the most traumatic…

You know, apart from the dragon art-cars and whatnot, any of this could easily have gone down at a San Francisco Whole Foods. The Upper Haight one, especially.

I used to do a lot of trade shows and usually wore Cole Haan shoes with Nike Air technology. Expensive, but much more comfortable than most of my other heels.

I feel exactly the same way. I was raised in a very Catholic environment, and while most of my family members have evolved into Easter/Christmas Catholics, my mom and grandma are still fairly devout. I know there's an expectation that I get married in the church, but I flat out will not do it as long as they are…

Mine too. I think I had a $20 copay. Insurance privilege?

I should add, I have had no other side effects and my period stopped apart from ultra-light spotting after two cycles.

Anecdata: I finished off my last pill pack after I had my Mirena inserted at my doctor's instruction - I think I had five or six more active pills - and the combo turned me into an emotional wreck with hair-trigger mood swings for a good month after. Even though the IUD hormones are localized to the uterus, double…

My ex-roommate did this. She invited her unemployed layabout of a boyfriend to move in with us to help him get settled back into our city after some time away, and surprise! Six months later when I moved out he was still unemployed, still a layabout. I can't wait to see how that ends.

That's how it works in California - maternity leave is covered by the state as a short-term disability.

You might want to try taking fish oil if you aren't already. Apparently they have some natural anti-inflammatory properties that can help sciatica. I had a near-debilitating case that went on for three or four months a couple of years ago - cortisone shots didn't do a damn thing, but as soon as I started taking fish…