I’m glad he got better, and good on you for adopting him.

Yeah, though strangely, my pro-choice, anti-gun centrist father thinks Ted Cruz is a “smart guy.” That frightens me.

Shudder...I’m having flashbacks of my brief stint teaching high school English.

I generally just dont’t line mine for this reason, and if I do, I go really subtle or my lips end up looking like a preschooler drew them.

No this particular uncle is only a gifted amateur. Sadly, I suspect the fanatically conservative uncle is pretty common.

I have thin pink lips and pale pinkish Irish complexion. My lips don’t actually disappear when I smile, but I do tend to look fairly lipless if I smile very broadly. I suspect, though, that if I tried lip contouring like above, I’d just look creepy.

No, I see that too, but I might be unable to accurately read her body language through my social anxiety induced horror at the idea of a public proposal.

Even if you were a book reader, you’d only have a slightly better chance of accurately predicting anything from this point on. Some story lines have used up all the published material so far, and a few others are so wildly divergent, even book readers don’t have the best idea of exactly what’s going to happen.

I just binge watched Almighty Johnsons, and I really liked her in that.

Wow. Did it ever. As soon as I saw the scenes they picked for the previouslies, I expected vague hints, but what we got was a lot more pointed than I expected.

This makes me insane. I pretty much can’t talk about anything with one side of my family because they are all rabidly anti choice, anti access to health care, anti entitlements (that aren’t their “hard-earned” medicare and social security) and one uncle is even rabidly anti birth control (conveniently now that he and…

Me too except I get heartburn, headaches gas and skin rashes like an hour or so after eating a massive dose of onions, and everyone always acts like I’m a whiny liar when I ask them to hold the damn onions. Mostly, my issue is strong, raw onions, but things with enough cooked onions can cause problems too. And then,…

I think maybe she was a pre law student when she was a teenager. The papers say they started a relationship when she was a college sophomore (and his daughters roommate -ick).

Possibly, whoever designed it has been reading Twilight.

My sister and BIL got at least three crucifixes for their wedding, like the large kind you are supposed to hang on your wall. She got more for her first anniversary and when she had the kids (from the same relatives). I’m not exactly sure what my relatives think she should do with all of these crucifixes. Possibly,…

I had this same conundrum with my brother. The wedding required travel, and I had to spend $200 plus for the shoes and bridesmaid dress plus more for hair at the required place, and I had to chip in for the huge wedding party shower gift. I just couldn’t do a gift at the time because I didn’t have a full time job and…

We did that for a wedding I was a bridesmaid in. Sadly, the labeled bottles outlasted the marriage, but it was a cute gift, and they seemed to like it at the time.

That’s interesting. I’m glad you found something that worked for you.

Yeah, my niece and nephew’s preschool just has the no candy rule. Apparently, candy has the power to incite temper tantrums in the other kids who don’t have it like nothing else, so they’d rather parents just not pack it in lunches.

I envy you. I’m of (mostly) Northern European descent with one grandmother from Eastern Europe (also an area of high lactose tolerance), and I’m still mildly to moderately lactose intolerant. If I had to get the easily-burnt pasty skin, I feel like I should at least be able to console myself with milkshakes without…