I've only heard Minnesotans say it but I can imagine folks from Wisconsin and ND saying it as well..

Yeah, one of the green flags for my husband is that he is friends with his ex, despite having gone through some serious stuff together. She is a nice person and there is a reason they were together for so long. Also, there is a reason they are not together now and there is a reason my husband and I are together. I…

"I didn't have an email address until I was in college"— I think this is a big distinction. This makes a person communicate differently. I am the same age as you but my dad got a PC in the early 90s, so I was using chat rooms and emailing through high school.

That is good to know! Thanks for the information :)

That is so interesting! Some of the most cutting edge research right now has to do with gut bacteria and mood/autoimmune disease/other ailments. It's like the most overlooked system in the body and they're still trying to fully understand it.My husband actually got terrible migraines after drinking wine and certain…

PS My husband and I always talk about moving to Toronto and I always wonder how my skills would translate... Hmmm...

Haha- I totally understand. This is a funny thing about my job— I am not working directly with patients the vast majority of the time. I am safely tucked away in the medical records office and occasionally host patients who want to see their records. But I work at a pediatric hospital and I look at case after case…

Cheers to cognitive dissonance when it comes to booze!

I don't have a problem with bread. My husband is just one of those gluten haters.

Funny thing is that eating, for instance, a sandwich or a muffin, does not make me feel bad. But drinking beer makes me feel AWFUL.

I agree :) The corporate lawyers where I work are SUPER uptight about things. Fine by me- I live in constant fear of the HIPAA beast.

Sounds right to me. I copied this to leave here:

Sounds hard. Many internet hugs for you.

You get a lot of positive reinforcement and it turns into something very serious. It's like it seems like a good thing to do at first, and then you realize how biased the world is as soon as you begin changing, and going back to being fat would mean going back to the way people used to treat you.

My husband gives me the side eye when I eat gluten. Also, when he first started his big health kick, I brought some cake home for him from a birthday party and he said he wouldn't touch that poison. It's good to eat healthy, and yes, sugar is bad, but it gets to the point where it is rude and inconvenient to other…

According to the policy where I work, what she did is not OK.

I think Delcan is nice. I haven't said anything about my nephews' super trendy names. But with her next baby my sister was considering Ellie May, and had settled on the name. I did give my opinion on that one, mostly because she had no memory of the Beverly Hillbilles... She said no one remembered the Beverly…

Seconded. They are my favorite— just the right combination of support and movement.

I can't stand that. The feminist in me can't help but think that girls are not called, "My little woman," but so many people refer to boys as "Little man."

I always imagine he's living in some surreal bubble world. The way he makes legislative decisions makes no sense to me... Like, someone at his church said to support Medicare and suddenly he changes his tune on that one. Or someone said that there was something, anything that was bad about the 3C train (I will NEVER…