There are tricks to making Baby Foot more effective, especially if (like me) you’ve got some serious callus happening. First is to do a little bit of callus shaving before applying the treatment. Then, the package says to soak your feet for 30 minutes (I think) before applying the treatment, up that time to like an…

SO GOOD. I once made the mistake of thinking I could slice radishes super thin the night before and then bring salt and butter to work with me to have a nice snack at my desk at work. I ended up with flimsy, watery radishes and monumental disappointment. However, I think I appreciate such radishes even more now!

Zingerman’s has a pastry called the Obama Bun. Just hang out at the bakehouse or the deli when he’s reportedly in town and I have to guess he’ll stop eventually, right??

Mr. Notlois is going for his masters right now and the only reason he’s going to actually walk across the stage at graduation is because his mother and I keep asking him to. He thinks spending the money (I think it’s like $150 bucks all told) on it is ridiculous (he’s right.) But what’s most ridiculous is the fact…

There’s nothing about this that is difficult. Is it something that 1) you’d say to a man and 2) is something that the person can actually control (“your hair is very pretty” “I like your makeup” “Your skirt looks really nice” etc) it’s fine to compliment. If you’re questioning it, keep it to yourself.

We have Prime and I’ve used it for about 10% of my Christmas shopping. Most things show up within the 2 days promised and I’ve taken advantage of the “Get things delivered at a later date and we’ll give you a $5 Whole Foods coupon” thing a few times and those things were still delivered within 2 days. Shipping…

I just like to spend several hours (a slight exaggeration but it’s a while) poring over ornaments and Christmas village houses to find the perfect ones to add to my collection every year. The house has to be so cute it nearly moves me to tears and the ornament has to be one that features something anthropomorphized and…

My tree is fat as fuck and covered in ornaments collected over the decades my husband and I have been alive. Nothing matches and it’s perfect.

This looks great but the important thing is... HOW IS OSCAR ISAAC STILL THAT HOT WITH THAT FACIAL HAIR??

I’m still waiting for WHBM by me to carry anything above a 12. I loved their clothes when I was skinny but was too broke to buy much of anything. Now that I have money I’m too fat to fit into anything they carry in store (I’m a 16 COME ON GUYS) and like fuck am I spending 60-100 bucks for a shirt I can’t try on.

Ditto. I’m a reasonably successful woman in my field and I absolutely would not be here (especially in such a male-dominated field) if I’d become a mother my senior year of college. 

Your story is so damn precious! I was a week into dating Mr. NotLois, called my mom on the way home from a date (and I’ll say that I was never the type of kid to plan my wedding or ever thought I’d get married) and said “I’m going to sound like one of those insipid little twats you hear at weddings but I’m marrying…

I’ve never thought of them for camping shoes but OMG that is such a great solution to the “I just need to pee real quick” in the middle of the night camping problem. Why have I been suffering with flip-flops for that for years? Stuff gets all up in your toes and it hurts when you step into a stick in the dark. I never…

I remember when Prince George was born, I was so excited to lay out the front page of the paper I was working for at the time with a centerpiece dedicated to the new little prince. (Pretty much never get to do super big A1s unless it’s bad news so it’s always nice when something good happens.) One of the sports…

I liked Gone Girl well enough but it’s my least favorite of Gillian Flynn’s works (and I have no idea why it’s so popular versus her other stuff.) Sharp Objects is my favorite but, if it follows the book (and having watched the first episode I think it will rather faithfully) and you have issues with self-harm, stamp…

You’re probably very right. I think I need to pay closer attention. I grew up in an area where I was very much the racial minority (largely black and latinx) and it took some time to actually get used to more heavily white spaces when I started college (and I went to a pretty diverse school.) I may have just not…

I legit didn’t know people didn’t understand this. How can you not understand this?? I’m white as fuck (though my mother is first generation American and my mother in law is an immigrant so maybe that helped but STILL) and I was bawling and wanted to step out of the theater to call my mother to tell her how much I…

Nothing but respect for MY president! P.S. My president is the woman who yelled fuck you at the tangerine dumpster fire who lives in the White House.

I love asking kids (works best once they’re more than 5 or so and through like 12-13 years old) how old they are and be like “You’re like, what, 22 or something right?” and they laugh and correct you and then you get to be like “WHAT no wayyyyy I thought you were like at least 20, you’re so tall and smart!” Or, if…

While I’ve been stuck on my share of roller coasters (a risk you run when you went in on a family pack of season passes to six flags with all your idiot friends every year of high school and went and rode roller coasters all day 2-3 times a week every summer for 4 years) I would not want to get stuck on the Millennium…