Hey, Hook is a magical movie.

The person who was meanest to me in high school looked AMAZING after giving birth. It was so unfair.

I love Lewis Black, and I not-so-secretly hope he and Kathleen Madigan end up together.

My husband’s father and aunts all have their tombstones engraved and sitting in their garages. They are also the most miserable, sour-faced people I’ve ever met. Coincidence?

Thanks! At first, I think it was definitely an issue with using cheap brands that fall into my eyes. But then I started buying name brands, and I still had trouble. I’ll try primer one day when I’m at home and don’t have to go anywhere; if it works, I’ll know, and if it doesn’t, I won’t have to go out with red,…

Give it a try. If you can cook, you can bake!

Thanks! They’re super easy to do if anyone feels like baking a treat for tomorrow. I use the Hershey’s “Perfectly Chocolate” cake recipe (I live at a high altitude, so I adjust the baking soda/baking powder/liquid measurements) for the cupcakes and a basic vanilla buttercream recipe for the frosting. The front ones…

I did five dozen cupcakes for an Easter event. I originally planned to do 13x9 cakes and cut them into squares, but the first cake I made split in half when I took it out of the pan, and I wasn’t going to bake five or six more cakes to get three that held together. These are a few of the finished ones (front are green…

I used to have the same problem. I had my gallbladder out on March 23 of last year, and since then, I’ve only thrown up once (the other night, as a matter of fact, when I had a fever and sinus headache). Before that, I was throwing up two to three times per week. Laughing too hard, coughing too hard, etc. would make…

Recommendations for a non-sparkly eye shadow that won’t irritate my eyes? I haven’t worn makeup in ages because it seems like every brand has me rubbing my eyes within 20 minutes of application. I could also use a mascara recommendation (that also doesn’t irritate the eyes).

Beautiful! I want a phalaenopsis orchid in the worst way, but there’s no way it wouldn’t be eaten/knocked over by one of my cats within five minutes of bringing it home.

I just found a website where you can read judicial opinions/orders from civil cases. It is now apparent to me that at least 50% of lawsuits are complete wastes of time and money (e.g. the one filed by the lady who bought expired allergy medication from CVS but didn’t take the pills, didn’t request a refund or…

This just grinds my gears. I have spina bifida, which obviously is not as bad as some of the birth defects that a baby can have. But I have gone through surgery after surgery, suffered through humiliating and painful procedures, and continually struggle to afford my medications and medical supplies. Every time I try…

Well, my mother told me yesterday that there are so many problems in the world, she doesn’t understand why minorities are always filing gender/racial discrimination lawsuits. So...yeah.

I haven’t seen anything for ThinkGeek, but I’ve written copy for an office-supply chain, two major retailers, a mail-order jewelry company, a wedding paper/invitations website, and a deal-of-the-day site (I can’t name names because of my contractor agreement).

It’s too bad it’s not like that everywhere. Almost all of my friends are teachers, and not one of them makes less than $55K. Some of them are already in the $70K range, and we’re in our mid-thirties. Teachers in our local districts usually retire making between $95K and $105K per year (for teaching; administrators…

It’s not like that everywhere, though. Where I’m from, teachers make more than almost anyone else. When you drive into the fancy developments, it’s the lawyers, doctors, and teachers who live there. Where I live now, teachers make like $30,000/year.

Exactly. My cousin went from making $18,000 a year at a private school to making over $70,000 a year at a public school.

Absolutely! Some of the assignments suck, but several Fortune 500 companies use these services to get copy for their websites, so I’ve had fun writing product descriptions and catalog copy.

It’s actually about $8,000 above the poverty line for a single person, but even if it wasn’t, it’s still twice what he makes. It doesn’t make any sense to say, “Well, unless I can earn $40,000+, I might as well just not do anything.” He’d still have $10,000/year more than he does now.