My MIL is a fellow Minnesotan who lives in one of the suburbs very close to downtown. She has been posting nothing but Eagles complaints on Facebook lately, and I’m sure she and her neighbors plan on having their neighborhood locked down tight Super Bowl weekend.

I save my good coffee for the weekend and punish myself with Folgers instant during the week to better deal with my middle schoolers. You know what makes that instant coffee sort of decent - honey instead of sugar. It kind of makes it taste like graham crackers.

I used to get carsick. We’re talking every trip that exceeded half an hour in the car. It got to the point where I had regular puking spots along the routes we frequently traveled. One trip in particular really takes the cake. We were ferrying my sister and her best friend to summer camp, and all of us kids were in…

My dad has an argument along the same lines about how undocumented workers are actually helping social security - they’re paying in without taking anything out.

Not disagreeing in the least bit, which is why I don’t read more than once or twice a year anymore to check out blind item reveals. It’s mostly nostalgia for the old Gawker blind items.

Hey, did we ever figure out if Debra Messing was CDAN’s coke mom? I don’t know why that blind item popped up in my brain; I haven’t read CDAN regularly in years.

Yes. I lived in Portland for 13 years. A job opened up in a town I loved visiting, so I jumped on it. I’ve been here for four years now, and I don’t miss city living at all. Pros: I work with the public, so I’ve had the opportunity to meet all sorts of genuinely nice people. I’m close to all of my favorite beaches,…

I appreciate the variety of styles they have. I may have stayed up way past my bedtime last night digging through their website.

That’s what we’re looking for, too. I want something comfy, normal looking, and easy to clean.

Thanks! The butt groove in my current couch is telling me it’s time.

That’s good to know. I’m in the market for a new couch to replace my old Ikea Klippen. I really like the idea of free shipping because I no longer live within Ikea’s free shipping range. My local furniture store is way overpriced for what I’m looking for.

Cost of living is pretty low where I’m at, but I’m on the south coast instead of Lincoln City or above. My husband and I just bought a 1926 bungalow for under $200,000, which would not have happened for us in Portland. I used to live in Hillsdale, and there was a 900+ sq. ft. house in my neighborhood that sold for…

Yeah, we left in 2014, and have only been back to visit seven times since. I miss my Barbur World Foods and Uwajimaya, but I don’t miss my rent or Trimet. I have definitely saved money by not running to Costco Tigard every other week, too. Sadly, my current county is not rural enough for me to go back to pumping my…

Have any of you ever ordered anything from Wayfair.com? What’s the quality like?

Was she the youngest to skate last night?

Tara lost my love during her guest stint on SYTYCD. I want technical comments, not flowery crap. And yes, to Ashley. I wish she would have taken the Nastia Liukin retirement route.

Her tears at the end are what did me in. I love that she knew she killed it, and let her emotions show.

My husband and I up and left Iowa in 2001 to move to Oregon. It was the best decision we ever made. We recently moved again, but this time to the coast. My recommendation: take a vacation to Arizona, but do some mundane stuff like go to Costco. It’s always good to get a feel for the community (and its population) of…

I got sucked into Nationals last night. I cannot wait to see what Starr Andrews brings to the rink in the years to come. I absolutely love that she skated to her own rendition of a Whitney Houston song.

My husband had his sinuses roto-rootered out about 20 years ago, and he hasn’t had a sinus infection since. Definitely worth it in my opinion! He says that getting the drainage tubes removed was the least fun part of recovery. What took him some getting used to was irrigating with saline. Now he loves it, and he…