The windstorm we got 3 or 4 years ago in Pasadena took out so many trees. We didn't have power for a week. Still, we were better off than the cul-de-sac that had a huge tree fall across the entrance and no one could get in or out for several days. I heard they had a great block party, though.

Yeah, there's two kinds of California drivers: the ones who panic when water comes from the sky and drive REAL SLOW even on the freeways, and the ones who think it is their gods-given right to travel at 80+ regardless of road conditions or visibility.

brb changing my 16-year-old's name to Mayhem.

Are you in Seattle right now? Because I'm across the lake and it's glorious today. Sunshine, blue skies, and joy.

I was in Chicago once, in ...January 1992?

I am with you on the polarized sunglasses thing. Moving to Washington from Los Angeles was great for me because I could actually leave the house without them once in a while. There are 20 years of photos of me hidden behind my sunglasses because I would forget they were on.

I loved this book. So much science and it made me laugh out loud more than a few times.

Along the lines of WOTW:

We're in an argument about it right now. I told him to pay up and he's threatening to sic CPS on me because apparently he thinks everything a 16 year old posts on Facebook is the gospel truth. *eyeroll*

I have no idea, but she DID marry my brother so she has a high tolerance for ... something. Sarcasm, at least. No one in my family speaks anything else. She's kind of a badass.

Hence my hyperlink. :)

Those women don't get alimony. Women in the postulated situation do.

Seriously, I miss this hair:

I love Scarlett, but I sympathize because I feel the same way about Halle Berry and everyone thinks I'm nuts.

You can tell she likes Steve, because he's grabbing her arm and she hasn't yet removed his testicles.

Las Vegas too. I remember walking down the strip on my honeymoon with a yard-long margarita in each hand. After that things are fuzzy.

In my sister-in-law's case just last month, the complication WAS the home birth. She thought she was having mild Braxton-Hicks contractions right up until she had to push. 10 minutes later my niece was born, accidentally, at home.

Yeah, what Figbash said. People on Netflix reviews are calling her slutty. Spoiler alert: she's not slutty.

Oooh ooh and the glorious costume porn that is Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, which I found because of a Jezebel article about people calling her a slutty slut.

So in love. <3