Generally speaking, I schedule meetings with the intention of honoring a time contract and respecting the person's time. Often, I'm meeting with people coming from one meeting and diving right into another. If I schedule for 30 min, and it takes 40, I'm still going to end the meeting in 30, and have that last 10…

I was encouraged to play sports and to play outside, but as a teenager, I opted out of sports for things I was better at. I gained a good amount of weight between 12 and 14, and then it just stuck around. I recently discovered health assessments from my childhood, where concerned PE teachers recommended more…

I - to this day - don't really know how people blow-dry their hair and have it look good (I have curly hair which makes this less obvious), I don't really know much beyond the basics of makeup, and no one really ever talked to me about shaving and the awkward puberty topics - not even sex. I guess my parents just…

I feel more comfortable when I have more of the plan than 40%, but, for example, right now, I'm trying to crochet a blanket for a friend who is having a baby. My plan was 1) Ask my mother in law to show me how. 2) Do it on my own. 3) Produce blanket.

The cable thing really gets me when people complain about the cost of it. 15 years ago, it was next to impossible to cut the cord, if you wanted more than 5 channels. Today, it's completely possible to still have great entertainment, assuming you have decent internet.

Some of these feel more arbitrary than actual measurements listed on the product packaging, but I understand it could be helpful for meals out. I'm a fan of my food scale for getting an idea of what a portion looks like - and some things, I don't measure.

Scott Smith over at Motivation To Move calls this "Fixin' to get ready". I've had a manager tell me that I'm good at "Planning the Plan", but emphasize that follow-through could start sooner.

If you go to a new preparer, it's common to have the preparer ask for last year's return. They are going to look at what you did last year in part, to determine how to go about this year's return. If you have a preparer do 2014 for you, you can likely do your own for 2015, assuming there have been no major changes…

You're not going to find it at Ashley furniture or something similar. You'll likely have to look for locally-run places in your area. We have a place called House of Denmark near us.

You might like Danish furniture - very minimalist. Some furniture stores specialize in this style that feels very retro, but is still being manufactured in some places.

I think that the "rule" is to prevent furniture from being unbalanced. We have a high-pile rug, and needed to make some modifications to how we placed furniture with legs on and off it. You don't want the back of the chair to be un-parallel with the ground - especially with other horizontal lines near by. We fixed…

I typically have my coffee table around 18-24" from the couch, otherwise it is useless as a table to set drinks on while sitting on the couch. If you opt out of a coffee table, be sure to anchor your central conversation space another way. To me, it's the point that everything should be gently aimed at, when you're…

Living in Missouri (say misery, if you're into puns), I think that the cities (KC and STL) are likely happier than the less-populated areas. I imagine on a county-to-county basis, that would probably be the reflection you see.

It's an interesting predicament. As others mentioned, most of the kids from the time the vaccine was permitted for people thru the mid 90's, schools typically made sure kids were immunized. Parent's didn't second guess it.

I definitely know parents that did this with Chicken Pox, though! My brother was immunized for Chicken Pox because it was a health risk for him (he had asthma), but I distinctly remember one of his friend's moms talking with my mom about how all the not-yet-infected cousins were getting together to play with the…

I felt that your article's title was extremely misleading. Your article was about people failing to lose weight because of their reliance on willpower to follow the essential weight-loss principle (calories in and calories out). It is not the "least helpful", and it's not even the untrue, like so many other things…

Due to recent muscle ailments, I've had to take to the pool for my cardio workouts. I now no longer believe you can always do more at the gym. I usually just shrug off those crappy last two reps when lifting, but the last time I said, "Just one more lap" in the pool, I finished by choking on water because I was…

You can get a fine for having a yard sale without a permit where I live. (They are $5.)

39,999. I'd only pay $8 for a Bud Light! ;-)

I'm with you - but $1/can is the going rate on a lot of soda machines. It turns out that, while the price most would pay without cringing is probably more around $.65, no one wants to carry around dimes and nickles. My advice - choose one - $.50 or $1.