You HAVE to read NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. If you like scary stories. This sounds amazingly like the world he dreamed up. Because holy shit your story is scary.

No joke. I don't even know how many hours I sat here last year.

Did anyone take Lori's boots after she ate it? I can never stop thinking about those boots. First thing I do at the sign of the zombie apocalypse is get me some Fryes.

NPR did a project in the last year or so where they reported as if Texas had seceded. It was pretty interesting. http://www.npr.org/2012/03/30/149…

Well, show off about it, whydoncha! ;-) But seriously, tell his parents how much you appreciate it. I think my dad was a bigger influence on my cleaning than my mom, but my father-in-law has probably never touched a mop. Good catch, friend!

oh my god, my husband and I have to do this for his grandparents. Except one time the waitress got confused and brought out the second bill (all we had was a card and asked her to swipe it for a few bucks so we could leave a tip on that) and the grandparents almost had a heart attack thinking they'd been double…

Good luck!! Er, best wishes and congratulations! It's so super fun.

Oh my god, I have had that EXACT inner turmoil!! "Who are you? What's happening in your head? Do you even know? What does marriage even MEAN?!"

Are you me? Was this last night? Were you at my house? Last night I went in to go to bed and noticed that the comforter had been put on the bed. Nice, right? Then I see that all the rest of the bed, sheets and blankets under the comforter, were still completely unmade. I brought it up and he was like "but...I put the…

Yes, this. We got married at year 6 of being together and I know the 7 year itch isn't like, mandatory, but I feel like we're about there, even though we've just been married a few months. Sometimes I find myself thinking "I actually don't enjoy living with you at this moment" but then we do something fun or I just…

One has a better guitar riff, is basically the idea. http://kcur.org/post/how-royal…

Have you ever looked at PUA forums? I got sucked in one time reading all I could about Fedoras and this phenomenon and sadly, it is probably NOT a parody. These guys just honestly don't have a clue.

Interesting! But no, this guy definitely wasn't married and seemed to be struggling a lot internally. I think he was a bit younger. Courtney Kendrick (CJane) linked to his blog. Maybe sometime I'll go back back back in the archives and see if I can find it again.

I have a lot more to say on the subject, but at the moment, Nat. Although I would have said Taza five years ago. I do use Taza's dutch pancake recipe on a weekly basis, though.

It took having a job where I had to go to the post office every single day for 2.5 years to get me to my current level of comfort with the postal system. If it weren't for that job I don't know if I would ever order things online exactly because of this.

Until Brownback, Kansas had a history of moderate republican and democratic governors. (Remember, Kathleen Sebelius was governor until she joined the Obama administration.) Brownback jumped in with a TON of name recognition (he's been in the Senate for decades) and major anti-Obama backlash and a ton of money. Also,…

Better than ill-fitting jeans and tanktops over white tshirts, though.

If you want "my life is so blessed" check out nieniedialogues. It's fairly tragic - beautiful husband and wife horribly burned in a fatal plane crash in 2008 - but also super obnoxious. One time I happened across the blog of a gay mormon man who knows he's gay but wants to get married anyway because that's what…

Don't forget Nienie (ugh) and CJane (my personal favorite)! Yes to Hey Natalie Jean. I do like that girl.

I hate earnestness. And enthusiasm.