Try looking for a slightly higher-end salon. I live in Podunk Nowhere, NoCal, but my salon has tips that are already designed (as in, cases of them) they use with clear gel and acrylic (if you want). They also do air-brushed designs that would knock your socks off!

You're lucky. I was sugar restricted as a kid (as much as Mum was able). My "sweet cereal treat" was Buckwheats. (If you don't know what those were, they were like Wheaties with a very slightly sweetened maple covering.) Natural sodas were an occasional treat, but they barely existed - if at all - when I was a kid.

Absolutely not! Mum used to mix juices with seltzer for me a lot when I wanted is soda. Dad was a die-hard Classic Coke drinker; he could have all he wanted, while I was relegated to one or two cans per week, if that.

Diet Pepsi is most definitely too sweet and also too flat. I miss TAB. That was my favourite, because it was made with saccharine even after aspartame came out. (I have to limit my aspartame in-take because it gives me wicked migraines.)

That is weird coincidence, and very cool! Maybe I was confusing the foam with the tiles? (We actually saw the streaks of the Columbia coming in, before it blew up. To then go inside and see what had happened after it passed up was heartbreaking.)

I don't know; it's just something I've always used.

So it's finally Friday, and TGIF!! I'm sunburnt and peeling, I itch like I'm staked to an ant-hill, and Toddles is doing jumping jacks on my last and final nerve. Oh, and I started my period.

That's what happened at my high school. The "bad influence girls" were transferred to the continuation school (sometimes even outside the district) with the rest of the degenerates.

I went to a state-funded PUBLIC school that had a "you show, you go" policy. ALL the pregnant girls (married or not - and yes, some of them were married off at 14) got transferred to the continuation school or home study.

I don't think "illegal" and "downright un-American" matter to a lot of these wing-nuts. It seems some rights only apply to those with penii (penis plural), even in THIS day and age.

Like the folks in AZ, right? Too much hot, not enough hydration. Or something.

And people say Cali's an f'd up state. I mean, I know we have our problems (LOTS of them!) but some of the stuff coming out of backward states makes me stop and say "WTF are they thinking?!?"

Nothing. Not a God damned thing. And when I pointed this out, I received a ration of shit from one certain commentor (who shall remain nameless) about how this shouldn't be acceptable at all, and I was fucked up for saying the guys should feel the wrath as well.

Poor bear! They cut off his supply of chocolate!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought it!

I guess I just think that if they're going to be unfair and fucked up, they should be unfair and fucked up to EVERYBODY.

Ah, but science only works when it points to the same views to which they subscribe! I see what you did there. ;)

Ah, but science only works when it points to the same views to which they subscribe! I see what you did there. ;)

Could they start doing DNA tests on said babies and thus suspend the guys who father these kids? Or does that hit too close to home?

Thank goodness I'd finished eating when I read this. I scared both kids and all 3 cats!!