Never heard of these before and am now very intrigued. I see my distraction task for the night: googling yurts...

I JUST posted about the "Tiny Homes" book! I'm obsessed!

I LOVE Eichler style homes, kinda in the same vein.

OMG, that fucking FRIDGE! It is amazing and I look for it in every episode. Plus that view they have is spectacular.

Well, that's definitely fair. I think I've always envisioned having a tiny little cute cabin all to myself. (Not in a unibomber way though). I have lived in small apartments for most of my adult life and it's always felt nice; also my family had a McMansion for part of my childhood and I really didn't like it. All…

Yeah, totally. I remember desperately asking Santa for a pair of roller blades one year, only to feel my heart sink when I opened my christmas present and saw a pair of white and pink ones. I feel like such a brat writing this to complain about it, but it really was almost social suicide to be 8 and wearing pink…

ETA= I have always loved the idea of a tiny cozy log cabin. Some gems from this book include:

Best. Book. Ever.

As with LaMorena, I used to wear them all the time in my early 20s. I don't know how I did it, but I rarely fell and never really had problems wearing them out and about (and drunk). But now I'm going into my 30s, and maybe it's more to do with getting knee surgery recently, but I just don't really want to wear them…

I can picture 100% of these on Diane Kruger.

Wow, I figured I probably just hadn't figured it out correctly. I've noticed that it asks my approval for tagged photos, but otherwise, anyone can put up whatever they damn well please and I have no say in it. It sucks and is absolutely not supposed to be limited to just photos.

My niece appears to be the same way though, which gives me hope. A couple years ago in kindergarten was when she was REALLY into pink and dolls, but now she appears to be much more intrigued by games. And she really doesn't care about whether the games are for girls or boys (except she has one Bratz board game that is…

Yeah, exactly. They had a girl toy aisle, but we rarely cared about it (especially as we got to about 8 or 9). I remember making fun of the shitty girl legos they were trying to roll out at the time; it was SO obviously an inferior product!

That is SO sad. :(

That's a good point. My niece's mother is always kind of stressing the idea that 'girly' things are what to strive for (as in, I generally only see her complimenting her daughter on "how pretty" she it, stuff like that). She's certainly not a bad mother and I don't mean to be criticizing her parenting, as I'm…

I remember thinking the same thing. Also, this was the 80s and early 90s, but I definitely remember that pink was NOT "cool" among girls. Rather, it was cool to say you hated pink!

In defense of Monster High, they are better than Barbies IMO, but still... the outfits all look like strippers on Halloween. The HEELS.

If it's any consolation, my 7 year old niece is now really into Minecraft, which is a decidedly gender-neutral game. Plus, I just gave her Apples To Apples for christmas and she squealed "I've always wanted this!" when she opened it. So there's still hope. (Good luck with Monster High, though).

I remember when I took child psychology a long time ago, we talked about some principle in kids where they begin to start categorizing the things that make them unique as "special". I'm probably not describing it well but essentially there's a known phenomenon during childhood where kids begin to say things like "my…

Yeah, definitely. And like Fauxcused said, he certainly had a lot to work with during the Bush years. He used to have such a fiery passion back then and it was just so refreshing to see a voice of reason at that time. He's got a lot less to be outraged over now, combined with the fact that he's not really an underdog…