Tevas suck. Velcro comes undone when wet and shit gets stuck in it making it problematic. If you want to hike in sandals, go with Chacos. Seriously. Plus, if you can stand to be parted from your Chacos, you can send them back into the company to get resoled.

My mother hated the fact that I was more comfortable in men’s surf shirts and shorts but at that time there was little in the way of female versions. The graphics were so cool (not everything was about the company logo at that point), very few people were dressing like that where I lived, and as an added bonus the…

I’d wear that dress even though I truly dislike butterflies. It’s that gorgeous.

Wow. He actually thinks Walker would make a good president? I'm at a loss for words.

I think I left permanent nail marks in my steering wheel from rage. He is such an ass. It is amazing to me that so many others like him have thousands of people backing their idiocy. So damn frustrating. I feel for you, I really do. Wisconsin is a great place and it deserves to stay that way.

Oh, but now the shrinking is due to Wisconsin not being a "right to work" state, dontcha know. Nothing to do with his horrible decisions. Nope, nothing to see over here. It's all the union's fault. Yup.

There seemed to be a shift in the 90s when I was in high school and college. Suddenly the goal was to get everyone a 4-yr degree. It seemed like a dumb idea then and it really killed of the vocational and technical programs at some schools when budget cuts moved money away from those programs and towards the AA degree…

I wonder at what point will people get angry or worried enough to actually vote. The apathy is sickening.

I'm still trying to figure out how that happened. I made the mistake of listening to NPR this morning and the clip of him at CPAC was rage inducing.

Exactly! When I was a substitute teacher up in the hills around my hometown it was so hard to hear kids in jr high say things like, "why work hard in school when my mom/dad/grandma just sat around drinking beer all day and gets paid for it". I never knew if the kids understood the difference between disability and…

Huh. Where I grew up it was the opposite in regards to labels and such. We were definitely middle class in a more rural area. The kids in school who were from the blue collar/lower class always seemed to be obsessed with having the brands of the moment and with items that were blatantly obvious. Whereas the kids in…

Oh no, California has plenty of the "fuck all you Mexicans" folks, especially in the central valley/farming areas. It's really depressing.

ManCedar is Republican and their current anti-science, anti-education, anti-women, religion in everything fixation is killing him. He's pretty damn close to saying fuck it all and registering as an independent.

Damn. During my freshman year of college, my friend's roommate didn't understand that the card the bank mailed to her after opening a new account was needed to work the ATM machine. We all used the same bank and had a group outing to deposit our first paychecks. She stood there staring at the machine, trying to figure…

I'd think she'd have felt it. I can totally tell when mine is in on the last day of my period. Things shift and suddenly it's very obvious that there is something in there.

Anytime! I spend a lot of time reading books for purely mindless entertainment. My kindle account is so loaded I've started keeping spreadsheets of authors/series to keep track of them all.

I would say yes! Her focus is more on the Whitechapel, poorer areas which make for a nice break from a lot of the other historical romances. Another fun author is Kate Pearce. Definitely more on erotica end of things but her series are good reads.

If you like Courtney Milan, have you read any of the Maiden Lane books by Elizabeth Hoyt?

Very cool about going to Italian school. Was this something you did for high school/college? Cagno, where the family is from, is just south of where German starts appearing on the road signs. I wish we had been able to retain some of the language but spanish class wiped the slate clean. Now when the madre talks to our…

Nice! Go west into Tyrolia and you'll hit our family's hometown. Nonna spoke Nones and so as kids, our understanding of what "Italian" was something guttural and pretty Germanic. Loved her cooking though. Hardly any tomatoes, brown sauce for pasta not marinara, canederli, and lots of apples. And for fucks sake you…