It didn't take her a year to see the doctor. In the CBS article linked, it says, "For 10 months, doctors were mystified by Lovis’ symptoms: “…excruciating pelvic pain, sharp stabbing pains in my left and right side, I started bleeding very heavily and I would literally vomit from the spinning sensation.”...Lovis began…

Whatevs. If she wants to claim the ability to predict the future, I want to see a winning lotto ticket. /story.

When I got my copper IUD, the gyn asked if I had a known allergy to copper. When I told him that no, I don't, and have eaten out of copper cookware, and worn copper jewelry next to my skin with no issues, we proceeded. I feel as though it should be on the doctor to ask the ever-important, "do you have a known nickel…

If she's such a great psychic, why hasn't she won the trillion dollar lotto?

Techno-wizardry.

I solved the light problem by getting a switch-plate timer at Home Depot. Now I hit the timer button that says '5 minutes' and by the time I'm in bed, light's out. It's kinda awesome.

Quaaludes. Gotta be.

From here on out, whenever I am trying to decide what the classiest course of action would be, I'm going to ask myself, "WWKMD (What Would Kate Middleton Do)?" If the answer isn't what I'm planning on doing (or heck, already in the middle of doing!), it's not getting done.

First she got married, then she got knocked up, then she spawned the kid. Dad saw kid, dad died after seeing kid. Kid is now apparently an orphan. Dad would be ticked.

That's beautiful.

It never hurts to ask. They may even get a kick out of it and use it as the capper on their stories about their eccentric & dearly departed Aunt Ana. ;-)

I've spent the second half of the summer devouring the 'Kushiel's Dart' series. Trained courtesan? Yes please! It is so beautifully and intricately written. I can't even begin to tell you how many bleary-eyed mornings I've had since I've begun this series due to staying up all night, so involved in the storyline that…

So they should eat more tofu, right? Natural estrogen replacement in a subtle form 'n all that.

This. I've gotten to a point now wherein I (usually) have no problems creating a scene about unwanted touching, but a few years back? Yeah, not so much.

I think the difference in her nose is a combination of make-up, lighting, angle of the pose, and her bangs. If you look really closely, you can see that the nostril on the mirror right side looks to be about the same in both photos. The things that make her nose look so different is the fact that in the older photo,…

I wonder what "Ask a Clean Person" makes of this article, which details why it might not be in one's best interest to make the bed each morning:

This. Someone says, "We use the pull-out method, because we're ambivalent." I hear, "We really want to get knocked-up, but we don't want to admit it for whatever reason so...ROULETTE!!"

Have you considered a copper IUD? I became wildly suicidal the last time I tried hormonal birth control. The IUD insertion was...less than pleasant, but I'm on my second one now, and /loving/ it! It took about 2 or 3 months for my body to adjust to having it in, but after that, smooth sailing!

"Oooops! It's muddy! I slipped! Soooooo soooooorry!"

If someone I'm dating mentions to me that someone I used to date was going to be at a party we were attending, so long as it wasn't presented in a "so don't let me catch you making eyes at your ex" jealous sense or something, I'd be appreciative. Not only would it open the door to conversation about anything I may…