OMG I'm so sorry. Hugging my kitty now.

Um can we please not forget about Rod THE Bod?

That is wild, let me echo everyone else saying thank you for answering questions. So intriguing.

It’s this week’s Mixed Eggs Guy.

I am too but it will make me feel better from now on to think of it in terms of my usefulness in rap battles ;$

Yup. I'm totally an angry/frustrated cryer, which just makes me more angry/frustrated. I feel your pain.

You pretty much just described my life until about age 12. Nerd solidarity hug and I’m so sorry we had to go through that.

I’m also from the northeast and never heard it until I moved to Georgia, so I assumed it was a southern thing, but who knows. I stand by my point of it being creepily nonspecific when used as in the bit I quoted!

At least she didn’t bring a knife to a gun fight?

Now, the story goes that Bullet was talking to two girls at once, and the one girl found out and talked to her two friends, as one does in times of distress.

WOW. a Can you turn this into a book and maybe in the meantime explain how people can be so terrible?

Damn if having a million of those stashed every where (all my handbags, backseat of the car, next to the bed, etc) isn’t the best idea ever (I have a five year old).

The Royal Baby will be wearing its crown

Uh excuse me it is pronounced “Abraham”, the J, Xes, O, and N are silent.

My mistake, anyway her name is really Kayleigh Braylee Hayden Caiden Jaden.

Yep. The huz and I have told his family many times (though not in letter form, hmm) that we don’t want cheap plastic stuff (we have a really small house, small yard, and small budget plus I guess we are kind of snooty about good quality stuff that lasts, fine) but it always appears every Christmas. I would never TELL…

Yeah, I don’t disagree with you. I got the impression that this letter was just to close family members, not like demanding gifts from everyone they’ve ever met, so I give the parents a little more leeway. I’m a librarian so I was definitely NOOOOO WHY when the letter said no books! Books are my favorite kid gift!

I give my side of the family a link to an Amazon wishlist of a dozen or so things every time my kid’s birthday or Chanukah rolls around. They live far away and like to send lots of presents and are the rare thoughtful family members that make a point of getting things the kid actually wants/are age appropriate, and…

Would you rather have paid for childcare? We compared the cost of childcare vs the mister continuing to work (with travel/clothing/etc costs factored into that) and it was less expensive for him to stay home. Also, at the time my kid was born I'd been earning money and paying taxes for literally half my life. I'd…

I was on WIC when I was pregnant and when my daughter was young, so maybe all of 2009 and a bit of 2010. I live in an area that already has a rather less-than-vibrant economy, but it was still a shocker to find out that despite having an advanced degree, and a professional job that required that degree, I still…