I also went down a Wikipedia rabbit hole, historical monarchs is my favorite one, too!

Sorry but I am hoping for Aethelthryth personally, or maybe Berengaria. There have been a lot of royal Matildas, I quite like that too (is it a bit hipster, though?).

How are the jeans? I want some dark wash skinny jeans and Target is one of like three places around here I can go to the store and actually try things on.

I follow Nicolette Mason's blog and I was expecting something much more cute based on the pictures she shared of herself and other bloggers modelling the collection. On them, it looked smart-casual and not so shapeless. Professional styling and photography, I guess, but I'd rather have had an honest review like…

I really want a koala one!

What helped me the most when I felt the same (I know what I'm drawn to, but how do I make myself look like that?) was to follow a lot of style blogs and create a shopping list based on what I was seeing and liked. It's pretty easy to find them out there, you might search "plus sized street style" or something and…

I don't think any of these people accurately described what I'm seeing, EXCEPT FOR panda suit lady. She does look comfy and happy! Love her!

I downloaded this (it was free) but am too scared to actually read it. I do however highly recommend Smart Bitches Trashy Books' hilarious reviews of this and its sequel.

I think part of it is that front-line staff (waiters, cashiers, counter service people, etc) do not feel/are not empowered to do anything like denying a customer what they ask for. Add to that that many of these customer-facing jobs are low-wage and held by younger people, so there's an additional feeling of being at…

Right, a non-asshole would be like "Oh, I call them mixed but perhaps that is the same thing?" Or whatever. THAT'S the problem here.

I'm not saying you're lying, and I heard the story second hand, but...not only does your body contain salt, this woman was at an oceanfront resort. Salt and salt water all over everything. So you can see how people would be skeptical of this particular person's claims.

EXACTLY.

RETURN OF THE EGG WARS!!!!!!!!!

And drink it with a nice glass of piglio griglio!

Same way they become adults without ever hearing of scrambled eggs (seriously, IS there another generally-accepted/widely-known term for scrambled eggs? No, there is not.)

Allergic to Calcium lady reminds me of a story my husband (former v. v. fancy resort hotel restaurant chef) told me about a lady who asked for no salt in her food because she was allergic to salt. Salt would kill her. This was an oceanside hotel.

More to do with the family politics of invites than the acquisition of physical invitations. My cousin didn't send me an invite to her wedding, so I assumed I wasn't invited, no biggie as we weren't super close and I was living far away. Apparently, she then got pissed when I neither RSVPed, attended, or sent a…

I had exactly the same reaction.

LOL

I figured you'd be a fan of pork wine ;)