Hol-lee shit! I've flown as an unaccompanied minor a few times and I was treated like a goddamn queen. I missed a flight as an adult and was pretty devastated. I couldn't imagine going through that as a pre-teen then get treated like a fucking moron by the person who was supposed to be responsible for you. Did your…

Our not-black cake (or alcoholic for that matter) kept in the freezer only half-ass wrapped up until our first anniversary. The fondant roses were pretty dry but fondant doesn't taste good anyway.

A friend of mine brought over a frozen chicken that he thought I would cook somehow since the grocery store was out of the rotisserie chickens that particular night. Our other friend and I laughed heartily at him. The damn chicken stayed in my freezer for two years until I moved out of that apartment.

K, I'm gonna take this way OT, but you're working on your thesis using AutoCAD? My office gets B.Arch and M.Arch grads all the time who don't really know CAD. They are more comfortable with Revit and SketchUp. They figure out AutoCAD since that's what we use for CDs but don't know all the tricks and shortcut commands…

It’s all good! I think it speaks more to my mindset and how I think the reactions would go if I discussed these things with family.

I read the first part of your post in my notifications and thought I was going to be flamed. But seriously, thanks for the work you do (did?).

They tried to do a six-week cutoff? Shit, I didn’t even realize I was pregnant until 6 or 7 weeks. I’m going to assume that most women who abort early aren’t exactly watching for their most fertile window and counting the hours until they could get a positive pee test after sex to have enough time to arrange for an…

I’m with you on the truffle fries. They are like crack to me! Didn’t have the wasabi last year (or any of them) but I do not enjoy wasabi anyway so probably would not have like it in chip form.

I freak out when my kid looks down the end of his bubble-blowing gun.

This is one of the reasons I'm glad I had a boy. Even if I wouldn't buy that kind of crazy shit on my own, I'm sure others would have foisted it upon us.

This is exactly what I was thinking of when I got towards the end of the article.

But the chop really has been grilled.

It really isn't a stick that's been forcibly shoved into a chop. It's just a bone-in chop that's been trimmed so you can hold on to the bone.

The ones I know do that, but their kids are grown and have jobs that are okay with them wearing biker gear to work.

I get to experience snow and ice multiple times each winter so definitely not year-round riding weather here. I have a small child who requires a car seat so can't substitute a bike for the majority of my transportation.

When I ride with my husband (which has not been since before I was pregnant), I don a full-face modular helmet, leather biker boots, mom-jeans (because the waistband doesn’t dip down exposing my lower back/underwear while astride the bike) gloves, and jacket with armor. Probably the only safety thing I don’t have is…

Having a small child who requires a car seat puts the kibosh on riding instead of driving in 98% of instances.

There is no way I’d get an H-D. I mostly hate how they push women into the super-tiny bikes even though I’m not a tiny person and feel like I’m sitting on a pocket bike. Granted I wouldn’t be able to handle a 1000cc engine as a first bike but other brands have bigger bikes with 600-700cc engines that are more…

This article and my comment were referring to motorcycles, not bicycles. I own a not-fancy bicycle and a trailer for my son. I try to ride that for exercise but the child has a limited (but age-appropriate) attention span so it wouldn't be effective as a replacement for my car.

I wish I had the time to ride and money to own a bike.