Three school days left until the end of the year! My across the hall neighbor teacher put it nicely: “I didn’t sign up to live through history, but I’m glad I work with all of you.” We all managed to muddle through, and hopefully next year we will get a full 8:00-3:00 school day with sports and school dances and all…

One of my favorite movie memories was way back during Christmas break 1997. One of oldest childhood friends and I went to see Titanic. We had both seen it already with our significant others, but what else is there to do in small town Iowa during the middle of winter. I don’t think I have laughed so much at a…

I bought some great bootcut Levis on Amazon years ago. I do not have fond memories of tapered jeans, so I never attempted skinny jeans. Bootcut/flare for life!

As a child of the late 70s/early 80s, the first celebrity death that really hit me was Jim Henson. Many an episode of Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and Muppet Babies baby sat me during my formative years. On a side note, I was so traumatized by The Dark Crystal as a kid (skeksis were not my thing), that I didn’t watc…

I totally forgot about that! Did the job lead him to the cult, or vice versa?

True, but it’s closer than Cody, WY, which is also pretty white. I haven’t really thought about who will join his cult....

Maybe we can start beating at the soil with sticks.

Central Oregon is closer if he wants a local branch of Cults ‘R’ Us.

I’m with you and keregi. Trishelle was just not my favorite.

As someone who lived through the Aqua Net years, this works great to remove product build up from hair. I do remember it being sort of drying, but that could just be my hair/scalp.

Two scoops!

I make the same resolution every year: floss more often. My bonus resolution of save more money every month did pretty well this year, since my travel has been restricted to a 2-hour radius.

Whatever happened to the Hipster Grifter? We need a where are they now retrospective.

Great question! I’m a lapsed Iowan - lived there for the first 23 years of my life. Now I’m nearing my 20th anniversary as an Oregonian. I will forever consider myself an Iowan. My current hometown doesn’t consider anyone a local unless their family has been here for three generations.

The dumbest, and only, “detention” I ever had was in 1st grade when my teacher made me sit in the hall for coloring when I was supposed to be watching some educational show.

I think she enrolled in the Tyra Banks smizing correspondence course, but she never actually turned in any assignments.

What a trip down memory lane! The Miz vs. Coral season of The Real World was the last season I watched in its entirety. And holy cow, I did not realize there were 33 seasons of that show.

Now that is an excellent quote. Good find.

That’s why I’m morbidly curious about this. Will they try to weasel their way back in? Will they continue to be merely tolerated? Will they be outright excluded? It’s such a weird thing to think about, but I’m all for them having to become social hermits because no one wants to play with them anymore.

Random thought re the election: Will those delightful Trump children be able to rejoin New York/Hamptons society, or will they be shunned. Money (old and new) makes people weird, so I’m genuinely curious if they’ll be able to hob knob with the gilded set as they have for years.