I have to be back into my 5 am commute schedule for work tomorrow —-I've had FIVE days of sleeping in, staying in pajamas until way past noon and eating my weight in guacamole and xmas cookies—-I am dreading Monday (and I LOVE my job)

Yup!!! If you’d ever told me ten years ago that Bill Cosby would be more disgusting to me than dog mess stuck on my shoe, I never would have believed it—but I truly cannot look at him.

I think there's something that changes because she is his business manager.

Seriously! For all of the watered down maya Angelou quotes she sputters out, that is the one lesson that she's completely blind to. I'm 40 and Oprah has been on this same struggle since I was 12—time to dust yourself off, enjoy your successes and spend time doing something else.

I was so happy for her when her dad stepped in and truly showed up for her and saved her life. I wasn’t any kind of Britney fan at all—-but seeing her get her life back has been so inspiring.

Yes, they mail out WAY too many fundraising letters, I’ve donated in the past and I support their mission—but blanketing my mailbox with fundraising letters twice s month sometimes isn’t going to get them much money.

oh, you’d really be surprised if you saw it now. The Hadley farmland on route 9 is mostly gone there’s even a Lowe’s store right across from a Home Depot now — I think they are both on the land parcel that used to be Montgomery rose florist’s greenhouses—it’s a bit excessive. But I guess it is putting a lot of tax…

Ha!! I was going to start my post with them, but changed my mind. They have a location down on King Street—but they moved out of their old spot at the dead mall. They did, however, still sell both soda and pet food when I drove by a year or maybe two ago! Fun memories!!

What I knew as the dead mall, the shopping center across from the Hampshire Mall? Is now an absolutely thriving strip with Walmart/Barnes and noble/panera/whole foods (was bread and circus back in the day!) and etc. and now the Hampshire mall is the new dead mall.

You won’t recognize Hadley—they’ve added every chain store you can imagine (which the area needed—but it’s a bit jarring. Noho doesn’t have as many cute little shops and cedar chest keeps expanding in Thornes and easily fills a third of it now. Rents are ridiculous in Noho now. Haymarket is still hanging in there.…

It’s getting a little better! I lived in Amherst and Northampton for 10 years or so and almost never set foot in Springfield though—just drove through—on 91.

But if it was a very popular gossip story back then (and I was 12, but totally remember hearing something on the radio (a pop station in Philly) about Madonna being tied to a chair in their house and the police came) Anyway, if it was a widely spread story, that even a 12 year old in Philadelphia heard about at the…

I always wanted one! Never got it.

It would be amazing if Mattel reshot this with the same models all grown up.

Almost 40 years later and that jack in the box A) still works and b) still has all of its paint. I played with it All the time too. I loved that damn thing—although it does look a bit scary seeing it as an adult.

So, I figured he would walk down a city street and get hit in the head with a falling air conditioner eventually because of karma—-but boy, this is even better. I feel a bit bad about feeling so happy about his arrest—but I'll get past it.

She might still have it up in YouTube? It was super simple and basically involved dumping a jar of red sauce over a raw boneless chicken breast with mushrooms, cheese All in A big aluminum foil “boat” and baking it until done. Omg it was good and done in like 20 minutes!!

Slightly off topic but did the toaster oven cookbook ever come out? Because I made sonja’s chicken parm in a toaster oven when I lived in a basement studio apt with two of the saddest half windows you ever saw in your life and it was so tasty it was actually mood enhancing.

It must be so disorienting to have made money hand over fist for years—-to have spent all of that time with the 1980s “NBC, BE THERE!” Advertising and publicity machine behind you and to have no $$ left to show for it. Back in 1983-84? Kim Fields had everything she ever could have wanted.

And how many local women’s health clinics have closed within a hundred mile radius of this woman’s home? This is heartbreaking and should not happen in a country that likes to think of themselves as “the best in the world” at every step, this woman probably ran into access issues. Birth control, abortion…