Ugh, fuck that. Anyone whose kid is crying gets to go in front of me for all the things, always. Neither of us particularly want to hear a child’s wails in an enclosed space, so everyone wins when you let the parents go ahead and move the party to the parking lot. I firmly believe that the people glaring at you to…

This is a revelation. Here I am in the alleged Frozen Capital of Courtesy (I keep hearing how nice Canadians are... from Americans) and this has never really happened to me either time I’ve been pregnant. Except on planes, oddly, where courtesy generally goes to die. My fav was a guy who let my 2 year old straight up…

I find the key is "barely giving a shit." Or at least, I'll never be as invested in how I'm viewed by others as this piece wants me to be, and I don't really buy that we can influence how others perceive us to the degree that's implied here. I definitely know I couldn't. For better or worse, I have little to no…

You need the opposite of that - how to see yourself the way other people see you.

I am a legit (and humongous) 6 months pregnant, and if someone let me skip in line at Chipotle I would faint from shock. Is this a thing? Do people really let pregnant ladies cut in line? I have gotten a "bump bump" exactly once (to first class on an international flight, so no small potatoes) but I assumed it was…

user "NoFatChicksLOL" gives the puppy 1/5 stars: "that stupid hood rat puppy just runs around and around and never actually gets the stick, and also my cotton candy stuck to my hands and there were fat people and children there, and also sticks. NO THANKS, AMERICA."

I've got a cheese grater strapped to mine. For greater enjoyment, apparently.

Ouf. I realize that I should have said "a lot of babies and toddlers" - my much-younger sister was also a very late-to-bed kind of kid. I remember her at 3, sitting on the toilet seat in the bathroom and handing me items from my make-up bag as I got ready to hit the bars at, like 10:30. Weirdly, now that she's a…

Whoa. That was real, but... thank you. It's better to know what's coming. My parents say that I was a pretty easy teen, in that I responded to logic and was eager for responsibility. My sister, though... I feel like she's ramping up towards something big. She's like Kanye before an album drops. The other day she…

Okay - level with me here. Asshole teenagers or (inadvertent) asshole toddlers: which is actually worse? I find my imperious toddler (a shrieked"Mommy, no thank you" is his current response to everything, including being handed a cookie) and my relentless sarcasta-tween 11 year old sister roughly equally taxing right…

I wrote a (waaaay longer than I intended) reply to jollipop about my experience as an ambivalent baby-maker. I won't replicate it here, but I just wanted to say that my dude was also the one who was staunchly in the "yes please babies" camp, whereas I truly could have gone either way. I'm a fairly unemotional person,…

I gotta say, I was pretty ambivalent come conception time, too. But, my husband had always been very clear that he wanted children, and I knew what I was signing up for in marrying him and clearly still felt it was a good deal for me. To be clear, it wasn't that I actively didn't want kids, more so that I didn't…

Exactly. The hivemind sees "harm to penises or potential thereof" everywhere.

That's classic - "I'll call it 'canola' on the delivery bill, but if they call it 'canola' on the town sign, I'm out. Jackasses!"

Does anyone in or near tisdale grow traditional rapeseed varieties anymore? I sort of thought that everyone who had the right agronomics would be growing higher-value canola varieties over old-school rapeseed.

I agree wholeheartedly re: your description of Gilbert Blythe, and am also floored that Jason Priestly was in the running for that part. Is that real? You may have just blown my mind...

I just got done fangirling about her singing "Maps" to her baby - also one of my kid's fav lullabies. So perfect. Except then you realize that she is Karen O, and you're not, and then it's a bummer :-/

This makes me so happy! "Maps" is my kid's Thursday lullaby (yes, I know), and I will now be positively dizzy with the possibility that somewhere, Karen O. is also singing it to her little baby. And then I will be vaguely bummed that she sounds like Karen O and I... do not.

Whilst you're at Sephora, see if they're still carrying the Clinique chubby stick in darker red colours (hard to find these days at actual Clinique counters). It wears like lipstick, but goes on like a pencil and really stays put - much less prone to seepage outside the lip areas, especially if you're using a clear…

Yup. Dragon Girl is my go-to 'dramatic' lip colour, and even though I have the complexion of an Irish fishmonger (read pale, but prone to "ruddy" blushing pretty much all the time) it doesn't really pickup the natural red undertones from my skin. It's a miracle!