I figure he's fucking with us and we just don't know how yet. I always have a shot of alcohol waiting for the foreshadowing moment and drink it when it happens. Best solo Mad Men drinking game ever.

I start a new job tomorrow. I haven't worked a desk job in 2 years. I left the last one because I spent 2 1/2 hours commuting a week just to get denied lunch breaks and being told I was being promoted without a pay increase so I wasn't going to get overtime anymore.

I'm in St. Louis and I still drove half an hour to get Jeni's Gooey Butter Cake Ice Cream. I wish I had the lavender to try but we only have 5 options.

I was hoping you'd mention Kids Eat Free Days. I have certain restaurants I tend to like when I go out with my (less adventurous) parents and every time I go to one I take a picture with my phone of the day they offer kid free dining. I made an album on my phone for restaurants of this type and when they invite me to…

Ann can wear whatever ugly shirt she wants and spend however much she wants. But if she wants to spend $990 on a shirt then she needs to stop with that "I don't feel wealthy" crap because that's more than my monthly mortgage payment.

My name has always aged well with me. I'm Julie and I'm named for Julianne McNamara who had just competed in the 1984 Olympics and gotten a 10.0 on bars in gymnastics. She ended up marrying a St. Louis Cardinal which my dad (who liked the name) proclaims as proof of my superior name. It was popular enough to be heard…

My family and my husband's family both did it. I'm an ancestry nerd and you don't know how much of a pain it is to have a family line with 12 Delphines in it. My husband's great grandma was named Delphine and she named her first daughter it and her other 8 daughters each had a Delphine two sons named a daughter…

No but if your family sees you post this and later they have to make end of life decisions because you never wrote anything down, they may remember your update and try to make the decision they think you would have wanted.

Seriously people, if you are serious about organ donation make sure you have an advance health care directive, will or living will. Make sure your family knows about such forms and make sure the hospital as a copy. Every time I see my doctor I sign a form that allows me to attach any directives to be kept on file just…

Spring is a hard time of year for me because I work in the yard so much that cooking can fall behind. I also work a job with seasonal hours in election years (petition verification for the govt) so that's starting up again meaning my schedule is always in flux. It's easy to meal plan when you have a routine and even…

But what if you develop liver failure and you died as a result of buying your Tylenol OTC? Birth control is hardly worse than many OTC drugs and many others are far more fatal.

I live in a state with tort reform, where you basically only get to sue doctors and win if you are the next of kin for someone already dead or have them sue on your behalf because they are so incapacitated. Why do the majority of doctors in my state still over-diagnose, over-treat and order unnecessary tests?

I wish you had been in my undergrad econ classes with me. I argued this shit with my professor all the time and he insisted I was just missing the point. In a way I feel vindicated though because I predicted the market collapse and my asshole professor insisted that because Bush had been president for 6 years we were…

Considering my 1995 Camry is still running beautifully (well, mostly alright) I have a similar loyalty to the car.

My dog was home alone when my house was broken into a few years back. She was crated at the time but had to stay in her crate for the first 2 hours the police were on scene too. She developed a kind of doggy PTSD after the experience and we found having the TV on while we aren't home is great for keeping her calm.…

My ringtone for my husband is a Daft Punk song and when it rings I usually either give her food for lunch or go to the kitchen to prep dinner. The other day Pandora played the song and she bolted from the room and ran for the kitchen. She'll also do that looking for phone thing and she comes to alert me when the oven…

I got an invite to a shower that was for the bride's second marriage but the groom's first. I was wary but I had just married into that side of the family and wanted to meet the family now that I had learned their named. She rocked that shower. She had us each bring a glass of wine as our "gift" and then had a giant…

Oh shit, that's bad timing. Here it happens to fall 1 day after all the make up tests end so teachers encourage kids to go to work to get them out of the classroom. Plus it was a Thursday so it won't mess with district count numbers for funding purposes (those are done on Wednesdays) so today was a giant endorsed skip…

There are 2 ways my pit might kill me.

Considering many (and really most) of the dogs taken from the Michael Vick fighting areas are now family pets and even therapy dogs, I really do believe that hands on experience and training can change a dog.