We went to Fort Walton Beach last year right after the pirate festival. The beach was beautiful and it the town had a fun, kind of trashy feel. When we went further into town to find a restaurant, we counted the number of tattoo shops and bong stores between the hotel and the destination.

I just read Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow, who I really dig. He does a lot of near-future writing. I've tried to make everyone I know read Little Brother. It illustrates the crossroads of law and technology and was like a narrative version of Spy Chips. The sequel, Homeland, comes out on the 5th and he…

I use hot rollers to get my hair to all wave together. Otherwise it's a big, thick mess. Then I hit it with Frizzy's Secret Weapon, which keeps it in locks, instead of each hair trying to get away. Currently my hair is long, wavy, and thick, but that will change soon.

I would look for an oil that you like and use a heater. The Black Alchemy Lab has pretty much everything. I imagine they would mix something up if you ask.

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I picked mine up last Tuesday. I get 3 months at a time and it dropped from $100 to $75. My insurance starts over in July, so I think I may have just hit a breakover point with my deductible.

Having a wedding is about celebrating your union with your families. I see nothing wrong with wanting to celebrate that with your grandparents while they are here. If you've been together for that long, having a wedding probably won't change much in your day-to-day lives. My husband and I probably would have never…

When I was about 10 I found a box of my dad's old books from childhood hidden in one of my grandfather's sheds. It was full of Tarzan books, John Carter books and (Alfred Hitchcock's) Three Investigators books. I had been looking forward to the movie from the moment I heard it was filming. I liked it a lot, but I…

I had a cat do that for catnip. It was in a kitchen drawer, in a zip lock. We walked in the apartment to find him purring, eyes closed, on his back kind of spread eagle. He was in the middle of the shredded zip lock. Cat nip was spread from the kitchen, across the living room, and down the hallway to the bedrooms.…

You have to be careful where you do that. I once went to a festival with my fire engine red hair sticking up and I dyed my skin pale green. People kept sneaking up and touching my shoulders to make sure I was really there.

I have also been guilty of eating first and then asking about ingredients.

I stumbled across the giant hardbacks of the Sandman a few months ago. They are, of course, wonderful. I had forgotten they had so much Greek mythology and were a bit rapey. Also loved the Books of Magic (I've been a bit geeky about Gaiman since high school) and the Invisibles.

My husband used to get really upset when talking about things he felt passionately about. He felt like I was always interrupting him to disagree. It took a while for him to get that conversation and debate go back and forth, and if he wanted to monologue, that was fine, but I would have to get paper and a pen first…

I mix almost equal parts thawed hash browns and grated cheddar and push it up against the sides of a glass pan to make a crust. Cook ground beef in a skillet - season with salt, pepper, garlic powder, whatever. Drain meat. Cook finely sliced cabbage in pan. Add meat and a can of green chillies. Before I had kids…

The ones that stuck with me the most were the ones with Eugene Tooms. I even remember the character's name.

Idol Hands was on Logo tonight, so I watched it with my 13 year old daughter. She said she couldn't believe I made her watch it. Hey, she could have left the room at any time.

I have a heating pad with a spongy insert that you just wet down, but when I was young and between heating pads, I put damp towels in the microwave. That works but you have to reheat them.

I get like that when I have a nerve pinched. I usually use moist heat on my neck and shoulders and try to relax the muscles and stretch it out.

You're going to have to reveal where you went.

I've never had that work into a long term relationship, but I have had fun. That's just my experience.