I nannied for a while in Portland and I thought it seemed like a great place for babies! Lots of parks and child-friendly cafes. The kids I took care of were always healthy and happy, and parents paid way less for childcare than they would have in Boston or New York. I'd actually love to move back to Portland to raise…

I STOLE YOUR HONEY LIKE I STOLE YOUR BIKE

Why are they always called "holiday" albums when it's all Christmas music? Just called it a goddamn Christmas album, so I don't have to bother checking the track list to see if there's even one song for any other holiday. I mean, I'll probably listen to it anyway, for the five hours in November between Thanksgiving…

Yay, Cricket appreciation! Although I was definitely also that kid reading the Thesaurus for fun, so Erin's description might not be wildly inaccurate.

I'm bi, and I dated girls before I started dating guys. My parents knew I was bi, but it apparently just did not occur to them that having a girlfriend sleep over was not the same as having a friend who is a girl sleep over. So my first girlfriend and I shared a bed, and no one cared.

I don't have an answer, but where did you find a good balconette in that size? I've been looking for one for ages!

This is amazing. Keeping an eye out for when they start carrying other brands, since I'm an ob girl.

I have no tips for eating better, but I definitely got a lot better at exercising regularly when I found an activity I loved, and didn't just tolerate. So I tried almost every class my gym offered until I settled on boxing (over zumba and yoga and various weight-lifting things, not that there's anything wrong with…

My friends had small-ish weddings in MA and OR, and then I attended a couple ginormous Russian weddings in Minnesota with my boyfriend. I have since determined that said boyfriend and I will have to elope, because I don't think we can afford to buy that much vodka for that many people.

Oh man, I just bought my first Moving Comfort bra (I was waiting for City Sports to have a sale, because EXPENSIVE), and it's AMAZING.

I guess the good news is you still have time to decide? I'm not trying to be flippant, but if you do find out you're pregnant and still don't know what to do, you can sleep on it for a week or ten and look at your options, your budget, your job opportunities, etc.

I need this suit in my life.

Wait, are we pretending that Noah's Bagels makes actual bagels, and not, you know, bagel-shaped wonderbread?

Wacoal used to make them, but I don't see any on their site right now. But they vary a lot every retail season, as far as I can tell.

I have this problem with most of my otherwise-comfortable, well-fitting bras. It happens WAY less with a few of my lace bras from Wacoal. They're shaped like a full-coverage balconette, if that makes sense? I'm looking for a link and failing miserably, since I got them at TJ Maxx and they're probably from like four…

I LOVE THIS IDEA. Any Boston-area sluts in this thread? I've been monogamish for three years, and I'm STILL sluttier than most of the friends I hang out with on a regular basis. I love them, but come ON, sometimes a girl just needs to overshare with like-minded sexual deviants.

...are you kidding? I had chronic back/neck pain for years, and the first time I went to a chiropractor, they took x-rays, poked something, and suddenly there was vastly less pain. It was AMAZING. Every doctor I'd seen up until that point just kept insisting that I needed to pull my shoulders back.

Wait, so if I turned into my mother years ago, when I first hit puberty, does something different happen when I turn 31/have a baby?

CRYING LAUGHING

Preach.