I've had a Minera IUD in for probably...7 years now? It expired 2 years ago but I haven't taken it out yet because I'm too chicken and don't know what to do next :(

You completely missed my point, snarky mcsnarkerson (and fwiw, I don't play video games or watch zombie movies). Even if jokingly, people attribute horrible things to supernatural causes because it makes them feel less unsafe. No one wants to think that there are face-eating people in their midst, because that would…

Just document everything meticulously (not on your work computer). That way if anyone tries to take it out on you, you've got a little bit of armour to save your ass with HR.

What assholes. People like that shouldn't be allowed in positions of power over others.

Don't panic...probably nothing catastrophic will happen in terms of extreme climate change within 2012. I think it's a very slow process (which is why it's too easy for us to put off doing anything). Also, it wouldn't be like a stereotypical world-wide apocalypse, I don't think. It affects everywhere on earth but…

Ugh, I just read the gamer rape word article Jezebel linked to (three words I said that I'll never say again), and then I read the comments, and now I think less of humanity. (also, holy fucking triggering batman). UNSEE.

i'm so tired but i really don't feel like going to bed. sleeping feels like a waste of precious weekend time, since being at work sucks the rest of my time away. i'm not even doing anything, i just want to be awake. sigh.

That's how I felt about it. The initial news stories just conveyed that some naked guy was eating another guy's face and didn't even stop after being shot! What part of that totally bizarre scenario doesn't scream "zombie attack"?

To me, having a specific category of union for gay people seems segregationist and unnecessary. I mean, a committed relationship between two consenting adults seems like a universal enough definition of the type of union society legally sanctions; why would it need a different name for the exact same kind of…

I will never understand the anti-gay stuff. I'm just glad to hear some good news on this front.

I fully agree.

there is way too much super cute fashion in that video!

Me & hubby take a yours, mine and ours approach to finances. We each have our own bank accounts and credit cards, and we share a joint chequing account, a household credit card, and a few joint savings accounts for specific things like veterinary expenses and vacations. We put 50% of our incomes into the joint…

Let's not overthink it. Cupcakes are awesome because buying a whole cake is risking death by sugar overdose unless you have a house full of at least 6 people to eat it together, or some kind of iron willpower that lets you freeze a cake in individual portion sizes and not eat them all in two days.

i always wondered how you clean those properly...

i just tried making this (99% rubbing alcohol mixed with aloe, nothing else) and the aloe didn't really mix in all that well. it kinda kept clumping and settling to the bottom of the container. so i think i have three little bottles filled mostly with alcohol, and one filled mostly with aloe.

That's why someone else is supposed to make your cocktails, darling ;)

Better living through chemistry. Beta blockers (e.g. propranolol) are used off-label for stage fright. They prevent your sympathetic nervous system from ramping up too high so it really helps the anxiety, without the brain fuzz you get with benzos. I take them at least an hour before anything that I anticipate to…

online banking is a deal-breaker for me. neither of my two banks have physical locations, and phone banking is just way too irritating.

This exact thing was an episode of Strong Medicine like, 12 years ago.