Yeah, I'm going to be honest, I hated the book. Not because of the content* but just because it was mediocre writing with excessive vulgarity. It's popular because it's vulgar, not because it's well written.

I was asking my husband about that because they're coming out with FitBits for sleep. I wanted to know how it calculated middle of the night sex. I don't want them thinking that his BP/heart rate are randomly spiking during sleep.

Maybe if we had real burgers instead of nothing burgers we'd be less angry?

It's pretty good. Season 2 is a disappointment, mainly because it ended too soon..

I believe she was paraphrasing Proust. Or perhaps Camus.

+a million stars for Tom Waits

She's twenty years away from ordering a huntsman to cut out her stepdaughter's heart for vanity reasons.

Ugh, that is awful. I'm happy he's now your ex. I just don't get people who think they own their exes. It's like a weird form of abuse, as in "you can never get away from me even if we are broken up".

I don't know why, but her complete ownership over her ex boyfriend is far more disturbing than any of the hazing. That's some Fatal Attraction shit.

And when asked directly what the scandal had taught her about the country's racial dynamics, she sighed, then said, "Um ... I just learned that words ... they're powerful. And they can hurt, no matter how old they are."

Your marriage and family comment made me laugh. My friend is a social worker and her CEU this month is Marriage and Family Therapy. She is ready to quit social work forever after meeting some of her clients.

I believe it does - and yes, the butter sauce is amazing.

My rule is that if the kids want to watch something I loathe (hey there, Dora the Explorer), I have my iPod in. I love them, but I seriously can't stand the sing-yelling.

Yeah, from what I know, her kidneys are barely functional. They were fine before this, but now they are wrecked. She's also had to get her gallbladder removed from all the damage she's done to it, and she developed a heart murmur. It's really not good.

I do have to say, Applebee's wins for best desserts. Their blondie brownie with the ice cream is amazing!

That's cute! I love cute grandpas!

I know that feeling all too well. My sister-in-law is terribly ill from anorexia and also has T1 diabetes. She went to a fancy-shmancy treatment center in the Pacific Northwest and came back looking great. Unfortunately she came back to the same judgmental mother, who immediately laid out all the fashion tabloids and…

At least the parents of spoilt children past didn't write think pieces about it. The think pieces bother me way more than the children.

What is wrong with people? Seriously, put another movie on. The kids will live. My eldest was going through a massive Pocahontas phase where all he wanted to do during his TV time was watch Pocahontas and its half-assed sequel. We put on Hercules instead, to save our sanity. He survived.

I think you may be right. Somehow I think they're all clues a la National Treasure.