@Ailatan: Ha! I thought the exact same thing. He does look like a cooler German version of Murray.

@zayante: Depends on your style. White Teeth is much bolder and brighter if that's your style. On Beauty is much more quiet and careful. (It's also a gigantic homage to Howards End, so you may want to read that first.) I prefer On Beauty, but I think White Teeth may be a better 1st one.

@LittleMissBossyBoots: I have a mousy brown color. I went two shades lighter for a strawberry-blonde-ish red. I like it a lot. Though I'm thinking of going a little warmer and redder and less gold to try and compliment my skin more.

@CircleK: I liked it too. Creepy weird possibly-sexual European-toilet humor at its best.

@Penny: I find that litigate until 18 suspect, don't you? Especially because I don't see how a federal statute would apply and states all take different approaches when it comes to statutes of limitation on these kinds of things. Sounds like something they heard or something in their state rather than something…

@DaneCA: I am enjoying it, but I wish it was a bit easier. Not that I require easy reading, but I have a bad habit of speed-reading and I often find myself having to turn back a page or two and re-orient. That said, I do like it, though I'm not sure it's my perfect cup of tea. I am usually not much of a historical…

@BetteD: It takes a good 200 pages or so to get used to Mantel's approach. Scenes are quite short, important events are usually glossed over in a line or two, and she uses the word "him" or "he" without referring to an individual character constantly. Once you get oriented, it's much better. Though it's not the…

Dammit, I am going to finish "Wolf Hall" this weekend. That doorstop has been holding me up for weeks now and I refuse to be held hostage any longer.

@SarsDoesntSave: This sounds like a timing problem. I don't know that the problem was you, the problem was more likely the fact that he'd only just broken up with the GF. Give it some time. Continue to talk, hang out, etc. as normal. Then bring it up again in a month or two.

@castlecouture001: Where in Utah are you moving?

@Penny: It's okay. We all have the pregnancy stuff we're diligent about and the stuff we let slide. Like I probably didn't need to be so weird about avoiding any and all cold meats, but I did. Ah well.

@malishka: Ugh, I know. When I first saw my baby, my thought was, "Okay. That's my baby." It's a long process and maybe I'll just be one of those mothers who's better with toddlers or older kids, I don't know. But a baby can't communicate, and for me just waiting all those weeks it took him to smile were very…

@angelina jolie-laide is a mavericky bish: Honestly? I like them on babies. That's about it. They are an excellent and cute way to show off chubby baby arms and legs. I don't think they work quite so well as a way to show off the female figure.

@cinematheques: I would delete her comment and un-friend. (If she's not a friend, I'd change your privacy settings.) It drives me nuts how the parental generation thinks FB is an appropriate place to be parental. It's not. Especially to someone else's kid.

@RebeccaNurse: Your friend is a big fat jerk. Sorry. It's one thing to be someone who falls hard and fast, I've been that person. But to go on and on to your friends is a big fat no-no, especially if your friends are single. I wouldn't even open the texts if I were you. Maybe if you ignore her she'll go away?

@Penny: Yeah, I was totally one of those people who started allowing myself a half a glass of wine once I hit the 2nd trimester. And there might have been half a beer in there somewhere. It was nice. But it was much nicer when I actually got to start drinking again after it was all over.

@malishka: Postpartum is hard enough even if you don't have issues with depression. I am still struggling every day to deal with being a mom and not being one of those women who immediately bonded with her kid. It's a daily battle and you'll definitely want to be in your best fighting shape, you know? There are…

@dumblonde: The only thing that changed for us: joint accounts. Seriously. And that's not even something everyone does. Everything else stayed the same. But now we have pretty wedding pictures to look at.

@Penny: Yes, the hot baths no-no is a huge tragedy. I just stared longingly at the hot tub when we were at a resort on vacation. I believe you're supposed to keep it at 90 degrees or below, which for me is not worth taking a bath at all.

@Sorsha: @loyedeane: Here is the comment thread w/ videos. Btw, I don't like the name "plopping" much either.