I had a girlfriend do that (preach about water intake) a few years ago. “I lost like 15 pounds!” she swore at me. Then I found out she was drinking full-sugar sodas and swapped them out for water. DUH. Of course she lost weight. She just cut a bunch of calories from her diet!

I would feel terrible if I only pooped twice a week... I don’t understand how that works. Does your friend just not eat any fiber?

Your dad looks like he just looked into the bucket of truth or something. What an amazing picture.

THIS PICTURE IS MAKING ME CRY. meta.

I’m in awe every time I see mountains. I grew up in Houston, what can I say, they always take my breath away. The same thing with being at sea — being totally surrounded by water, especially at night when one can actually see the stars — just kind of melts my brain for a wee bit.

Did anyone else glance at the photo and think she was holding some kind of Benjamin Button baby-adolescent in the crook of her arm? Just me? OOOK then.

Jaden and His Need For Capitalization drives me mad I tells ya! Mad!

THAT LEGIT HAPPENED. He was doing a book signing/presentation at my local dec center and I stayed until almost everyone was gone (because I hate making conversation at the valet stand with all the snooty designistas my city has been churning out) and grabbed a couple of flutes of champagne for the both of us.

Come sit next to me, Loose_Seal, we can speculate all about Blue Ivy, Suri Cruise, and Shiloh Jolie’s memoirs. I have literally been waiting for Suri’s since the day she was born. CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE I CAN I CAN IMAGINE. And I do!

The Bloggess’ first book was that, for me. Laughing to the point of tears on a plane. And she fully acknowledged she’d left out at least a whole book’s worth of material.

But what about my first memoir which details feeling pretty average growing up in a suburb of a large metropolis, then as an adult, working as a purchasing agent for an uber luxury interior design firm and getting to poke through the closets of the rich and quasi famous? WHAT ABOUT THAT? There was going to be a whole…

Stunning!

I just commented that my uncle (our officiant) barely kept it together while I was blubbering. I am positive he probably had a shot of vodka and a stern talking to himself right before the ceremony. His daughter was our flower girl... we didn’t really set him up for success.

Our officiant is actually doing 2 different cousins weddings this summer, he said he feels more confident about it this time... worked the kinks out, yadda yadda. Both were in attendance at my wedding and definitely witnessed all the tears.

MY FACE RIGHT NOW.

Oh god, I blubbered like a baby from the second I had to open my mouth. I cry at weddings of fictional characters on TV. I cry when I walk past a wedding on a beach and I don’t even know the people. Something about the family you get to pick really gets my goat and the idea of joining families with the person you…

YES. I was coming to say just this. I love this machine. I love that you can open it flat, and that the top plate can be “floated” instead of hinging at an angle. That the plates themselves can be taken off of the machine and put in the dishwasher... also a huge plus.

YES. I was coming to say just this. I love this machine. I love that you can open it flat, and that the top plate…

I actually put my plates in the dishwasher and haven’t had an issue. The manual says that is OK.

I actually put my plates in the dishwasher and haven’t had an issue. The manual says that is OK.

Yes, I replied upthread to someone that I do wonder if there was abuse only he experienced. But the closeness in age would mean my husband and my SIL would have probably been around it (though as you mention, it is possible to not process it, especially if it is happening to someone else. )