I feel like some of these would backfire. If my spouse texts me "I'm having an awesome day!" I'd want to know what made it so great? Did he get a raise? Did his boss hit on him? And if a guy didn't answer you'd ask him later, right?

I say it to my baby sister. Because I do miss her adorable face.

The adoption fee for a puppy at Seattle Humane is $250. We adopted a small older dog, and that fee was $275 for some reason. I was surprised at how high adoption fees are, but it included a six-week obedience course that was very good.

I actually scoured Craigslist ads for lost pets after we adopted ours. He has such lovely manners and was so easy to train we thought he must have been someone's beloved companion. Although he was 5 years old and not neutered either, so maybe not.

You know, the issue I used to have about dating men with kids (even though I was a single mother myself), was that I met so many men who'd tell me they had a kid somewhere that they never saw, and his mom was a crazy hosebeast, and seem proud of those things.

Right? Mr. Bells is 3 years younger than me so I wouldn't even have met him IF we'd gone to the same college. Which we didn't because he was a Mormon at BYU back in the day.

I so went to the wrong college then. UCSB was not the venue for a non-partying, not-surfing, dead pale girl to find people with similar interests.

Leaving all the rest of the bullshit aside, "grab a spouse at your college" is such a bizarrely narrow focus to me, and I'm not even remotely well-traveled. Not only does it leave out everyone not in one small location, but "the one" can't even be 5 years older or younger than you?

YESSS I came here for this. Miles for the win.

I'm with you. LOVE this movie. Dracula's playing it just campy enough to be hilarious but not annoying. I can stare at Kate Beckinsale in that corset all day long. And of course, Werewolverine.

I think she's cosplaying some Guild Wars 2 armor.

This one? My best friend had it in our college apartment. We bought an extra-long cord so we could take it into our rooms.

I'm hypnotized by the way she shimmies out of that chair. There is nothing that woman does less than perfectly.

Right? I don't know how to pronounce Lupita's last name, but I'd make damn sure to find out if I ever had to introduce her for anything.

Oops, I replied to myself instead of you. Sorry, haven't had coffee yet.

Haha I don't mind if you don't? The vaginal septum was obvious with the first pelvic exam, but they didn't realize the extent of it until I had an TV ultrasound for something else. I did manage to carry one pregnancy to term successfully on the left side, but I haven't been able to conceive since. My OB was willing…

So funny gynecologist story: I had a weird pap once and they sent me to a specialist for another test. This guy was a cheerful older fellow. His practice had rave reviews.

Trust me, you do not have the worst. I have didelphys uterus, with the vaginal septum. My cervixes are connected on one side and look like a figure 8. I have to have two paps each time.

The four seasons of So Cal, according to my father: the hills are brown, the hills are green, the hills are black (or on fire), and the hills are plastic.

If it takes you 3 hours to get to Catalina, you're already lost. ;)