Western MA, where I grew up: "wicked" but it needs to be modifying something, not as a stand alone exclamation. "Wicked cold" "Wicked dumb." Wicked sick of this winter".

My husband was couch surfing when I met him. I didn't realize it until after a couple of weeks I was like, "Where do you go at night? Why don't you just stay here?" That was in 2001. Sometimes it does work!

We have the purple flower one for our boxer. After having one food-inhaling meatloaf die of bloat, I wasn't taking my chances. The vizsla eats likes she's angling for a Vogue cover so she still has a regular bowl.

The two years I spent working in the college library fixing books is some of the best preparation I had for being being a parent.

I think my mom still has my Princess Diana paper dolls stored somewhere. I should make her send them to me and then never, ever let my three-year-old turdler EVER touch them.

I don't think I have ever had any. I should try some and feel like I am a part of history.

Villa Park, IL, my current town, was developed out of farmland in the early 1900s as two residential subdivisions which were later identified as a good way to to supply convenient homes for the employees of North America's only Ovaltine factory. Eventually, the two subdivisions merged and took the name of one of them,…

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When I come home from work my dogs run to the door barking like they have never met me before. Every day. They are dumb. Wicked dumb.

Hey now, I was 17 when they left Hartford. I didn't exactly have much purchasing power to help the situation.

That is, for reasons wholly unknown to me, the only Encyclopedia Brown plot I can remember to this day.

The Gospel according to Don Bluth.

I'll probably languish in the greys but whatever: I have a wii and a seven-year-old. I want to upgrade to <i>something</i> but am having trouble deciding between the PS4 and wiiU. I don't want a PS3 out of the fear that a few years down the line needing to upgrade again just to get the new games. I am not a gamer,…

Going to work dressed like this on Friday was pretty much the highlight of my career.

Finished just in time

Also, not actually listening to anything right now, just doesn't want to talk to you.

In high school I made myself a Princess Leia costume which mysteriously disappeared in college. I finally got a Butterick 5174 pattern to replace it and bough my fabric last weekend.

That is awesome. I should probably rethink my kids' names.

It was definitely strange. The whole thing was strange. My summons showed up before I had even turned 18 and despite having midterms as a good hardship excuse, Massachusetts really wanted me to help mete out some justice. It was ok though, I got paid $25 per day after the third day and was the only person on the jury…

School is definitely not a guaranteed pass for jury duty. I was impaneled for four weeks when I was 18 and still in high school. I'd go to my first class, drive two towns away for jury duty and then come back in time for sports practice. Oddly, the only person who cared my my Civics teacher.