Bad Christmas music gets infinitely worse with each hearing of it. I didn't mind Feliz Navidad as much pre-retail job and now I wish Celine would take it back. On the other side, I'm fairly certain Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's version of Mr. Heatmiser is worse than Santa Claus is coming to town but it's not on the radio…

As a former retail worker, I agree. I still know all the words to Feliz Navidad. I usually worked the morning weekend shift and on Sundays the store would be dead the first 4 hours so you could hear the music. In those 4 hours I once heard Feliz Navidad 6 times. When my relief came she asked what she could do and I…

When I decided to makeover my pantry the first thing that went were the snack cakes. I made a new rule that said if I want to eat sweets I need to make them myself. It makes me rethink how much I want that sweet and lets me try to make a much healthier recipe. I'm partial to chocolate chip cookies so I substitute the…

This might not be as possible with other cancers since the fastest way to get results on a biopsy is through a needle biopsy. For many cancers, especially lymphomas, needle biopsies can present you a false negative. I know at least a dozen people in my cancer support group who had their diagnosis of cancer delayed by…

One of the largest increasing groups of unvaxed people are adults who don't get their booster shots. If you are in your late 20s you should have gotten a booster for tetanus that also included diphtheria and pertussis in it. If not, you could be part of the problem. Go ask your parents or even an old medical practice…

Thank you for this. I had cancer and the 9 months during chemo and the months after while my system was recovering were some of the scariest times for me. I had to get 4 shots a week just to be healthy enough to avoid staying in the hospital because I had such low defenses. I had to make the choice several times, can…

The only person I know who staggers her vaccines for a real reason is my sister-in-law and she's diabetic (and thus immuno-compromised). When she got one batch of vaccines her diabetes went out of control because she caught a cold that same week and she ended up in the hospital. She still gets vaccinated for…

Interestingly, her side says he injected her with hormone shots, that he gave up his blood for the required blood tests, and it was his insurance and credit cards that paid for the procedures. She admits he didn't go to the bank to donate sperm and instead sent her with a cup but the sperm bank seems to say that's…

I may or may not be doing that for the vacation I'm going on. I live in St. Louis so Chicago is closest to me but I don't want to be in Chicago this time of year. I need under cabinet lighting and I've priced out my options and Ikea can beat them all. So then I discover Atlanta. It has an Ikea, a CB2, a West Elm, the…

Especially considering she missed a job interview to substitute teach while she was attempting to wait at the drug testing facility. It's just rude.

You're right on target with this comment. Like I said above, the average income for St. Charles city is $51,000 so it's hardly some rich white people ville.

A correction: St. Charles was never the biggest location for urban sprawl so much as its own city. My family had lived in St. Charles since the 1870s until I went and married someone outside the city. There are a lot of legacy families who did the same. We all immigrated from France/Germany and settled in St. Charles…

I've been to the Christmas Traditions on Main Street St. Charles many times. I've seen her in character and it won't be the same without her. She was always bouncing down the street and they had collector cards kids could pick up from all the characters and hers was always as popular as St. Nick himself.

I have very similar experiences. I might be okay as an adult but I have a lot of issues with my parents. I was overall a good kid but anytime I did something they didn't like it was handled with a smack or more. What really hurt more is that I started acting out aggressively, hitting my own little brother when he…

I'm in the process of converting my little brother into a Whovian and he just watched that episode and asked me about the poppies since the timing overlaps. Oh that episode! Between the WWI storyline and the drama I get emotional every time. Time to rewatch!

I don't think people are unaware of the poppy image being connected with WWI and Veterans/Armistice/Remembrance Day. I think what usually happens is on November 1 we see the poppies start appearing on the screen while most Americans are at worst still hungover for Halloween and at best attending church services for…

I was just searching the comments, hoping someone had Owen's poetry. So moving and such haunting imagery.

I run a little travel blog and recently featured KC. When I was researching the city I learned about the WWI Museum and how it fell into disrepair and was restored. Living on the St. Louis side I had no idea. Kansas City was never big on my to-visit list but the WWI museum is just begging my historian side to come…

Well, 2 weekends ago when my hometown team won the World Series, people filled the streets and ignored the cars and paraded around completely drunk and screaming. Somehow none of the people at the game that night felt the need to hit the gas and plow through them rather than let police do their thing. If someone had…

I went to a college that had Harry Laughlin's papers and once I heard about them I was just shocked. I actually found out about his history reading a book about Buck v Bell and realized my university was basically the legacy of the place he had worked at. Even as a student there I didn't know until my last year there.…