I found the key to be Words With Friends. You play a word, she knows you're alive and all is right with the world.

If I don't send my mother regular email updats, she writes a frantic all-caps email. "EVERYTHING OK WITH YOU? I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM YOU IN AGES!!!!! WRITE YOUR MOM LET HER KNOW YOU ARE OK ASAP!!!"

I commented on another site that I think this app is a terrible idea, because what's to stop someone like an angry ex or an ex of an ex from doing this. Or hell, even an abusive spouse? There are just some things people shouldn't have the power to do with an app.

Further proof that "not afraid of looking ridiculous" is the hottest thing ever.

Monogamy is a perfectly acceptable lifestyle if both partners agree to it. Reneging on an agreement like that without telling your partner should be considered shameful.

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my MIL went the whole hog and wore black and never smiled once! I had family and friends all day telling me she was sulking and crying all day. Like the toddler she was being, I just ignored her bad behaviour.

That mother of the groom sounds awful! She's going to be Trouble in your friend's marriage and a super meddling mother-in-law, I can tell. I hope the groom is strong enough to stand up to his mom and put her in her place because I bet she's going to be stepping out of every chance she gets.

I'm in the greys so don't know if you'll see this, but - I know someone where, at the wedding, the groom's mom wore a strapless, full-length, white lace gown. Yes, a wedding gown. Mother of the groom. Bride didn't make a big deal but she was not amused. GAHHHH.

I have a lot of feelings about this whole War Machine thing but I will just summarize by saying that I hope from here on out the world is very unkind to him.

Yeah it really does mess with your mind. I know I need to wait at least a year before we can starting trying for a baby... but still tempted. I mean if I got pregnant it would be horrible timing, we are in the middle of planning a wedding (we eloped and now are planning a wedding/reception for my family who lives far…

Happened to me. I was assaulted late night coming home from NYC to my (then) home on Long Island on the train. Fell asleep (was a little drunk), woke up with some guy's hand up my skirt, sitting next to me. The rest of the train car was completely empty. I had noticed he sat down but was half-awake (and had taken that…

Jack Donaghy won't sleep on planes either. But..because he doesn't want to get incepted.

When I told my other globetrotter friends that I didn't intend to take sleeping pills on any of my upcoming red-eye flights, they looked at me like I was crazy. "You have to sleep! You won't be rested if you don't get some help!"

Wellllll, hi-diddly-ho.. Diddy!

As a funny aside, for a really long time my sister thought the lyrics to "Escape" were "You can run, you can die, but you can't escape my love." Which sort of managed to add another layer of creepy to an already kind of creepy song (lyrics wise...cardio wise, I effing love this song).

THIS IS A DELIGHT

I just imagine she's thinking, "Hey, Y'all"! over and over and over...

No. The newborn days are pretty mind-numbing: a lot of bottles, boobs, schedules, worries and diapers. Fortunately, that stage is the most fleeting. Slowly they start to interact and take in the world and that's when it gets pretty damn cool. My son is two and watching his eyes open to world - watching him be excited…

I am, apparently, quite aloof with people I don't know. On the day my husband met me, I was immediately interested in him, but he later described me as "stand-offish." However, that all changed when I was 31 and had been married a couple years. I suddenly became VERY INTERESTED in the babies of acquaintances, and…