Ugh. My friend Julie’s parents were witnesses. I can’t even imagine the fear and horror that they feel/felt. As a lapsed Iowan, I just can’t condone this.

Check YouTube. I watch GH everyday via the inter webs, and there are episodes from years ago still up for that show.

Cheesecake! I worked enough weddings in my 10+ years as a caterer to know that I didn’t want a traditional cake.

I used to work as a caterer for the University of Iowa. The IMU during the summer is wedding central, and I have worked at a few doozies. Only one, however, had a near fiasco with the cake. As you can imagine, Iowa in the summer is hot and humid. Even with air conditioning, the main ballroom of the IMU never really…

Thank you! As a fellow Oregonian, I came here to post the same thing. I still find it awesome that we Oregonians were pretty meh about Stu being elected.

My SIL has been to rehab 17 times, and every time she has come out with a new rehab boyfriend. Some of those relationships have lasted over a year, but most of them have resulted in a relapse for one or both of them.

Huzzah to your mom! My mom had my older sister in 1974. She was the first teacher in our school district to get pregnant and keep her job. She received 10 days of maternity leave, and as a giant middle finger to her superintendent, she took one extra day. It’s amazing how little and how far we’ve come in just 41 years.

While I, personally, am still ambivalent toward Stannis, my husband is pro Stannis all the way. He thinks that Stannis is a good strategist and will be useful to the end game, whatever that may be.

Great idea! My strategy would be to add the box that I like the least. Then I’d be more apt to ration them appropriately. Therefore, there would be absolutely no Thin Mints or Samoas in my trunk.

Is it sad that the only version of Love Hurts that I was aware of prior to this performance was the Nazareth version? No? Good.

LeVar Burton should get her to help out with his Reading Rainbow redux!

You know what would be awesome? A Lorde & Taylor album where they cover Hall & Oates or Simon & Garfunkel. Just saying.

I caught a couple of my seventh graders walking out of school with a dvd of Goonies a few days ago. They didn't believe me when I said it came out when I was in the second grade. That, and the popularity of Baby Got Back with my middle schoolers. Weird times.

My old restaurant's BOH crew was quite the group of merry pranksters. One of my personal favorites was the salt shaker in the med kit that was for our wounds.

One of my cousins and his wife taught their kids that McDonald's is only for the potty. Words to live by, people, words to live by.

How about this one for creepy? Why I saved this, I have no idea.

Lapsed rural Iowan here to represent! It was the same down here, too. Some of the ladies were way into being farm wives, while others tried to pretend they didn't smell of hog manure. It's always amazing to go back and visit and realize that nothing ever changes except the amount of old people in town.

On a side note,…

Ah, late to one I have stories for once again. Crap.

I started working in the food service industry at the age of fifteen. I went from catering for my small town catering company to catering for the IMU in Iowa City. It was there that I started working on my long list of celebrity food-related encounters. My worst had…

Wait a minute. Are you saying that it's good think that I never met Axl Rose in real life? (I seriously have no explanation for why I had a crush on him in 7th grade.)

I'm a lapsed W. Iowan (go Crawford County!), so not only have I had to hang my head in shame over Steve King, but I get her, too. Can I go back to collecting Garbage Pail Kids instead of lackluster representatives?