I swear by lavender. I started buying a good quality oil from a local purveyor, and now I just put it on my wrists like perfume before I go to bed.

This is true for pretty much everyone I know. I am literally never "free" - the fun stuff, the recreation, even the relaxing - it all has to have a designated time or else it doesn't happen. To more laid back people, I know it can sound ridiculous, but it's the only way that anything (including chilling out) gets done…

As a pre-teen, I had long hair and used two towels. I also threw them in the laundry after every use. My stepmother only had to find two heavy wet towels had been sitting on top of the family laundry basket for a day or two before she got pissed. Can't say I blame her, considering that the wet towel in a pile thing…

Okay, now that is reasoning that I can get behind. I just choose not to worry about risks (death by amoeba!) that are statistically infinitesimal.

I'd call ~130 since 1962 pretty darned uncommon.

Note to self: don't bring neti to mom's house....well water.

I'm one of the weirdos who doesn't bother to use distilled water. The risk, as I understand it, is that there might be a brain-eating amoeba in the water supply. My take on this is that if this is the case, then my (major metropolitan area) city has much bigger problems and we're all pretty fucked. I guess it's like…

I lived in Virginia. Before I made the move across the river, actually. But "want representation, then don't live somewhere that doesn't have it" is a seriously disingenuous argument. Not to mention a red herring, when the point was that DC residents pay federal tax, yet have no authority about how even our own local…

Ha, yeah. Keep on spending my federal tax dollars (and I pay those mightily) - for which I have no representation at the federal level.

I lived in a pocket of tolerable in the middle of a sea of red voters. It was a constant source of sadness to see what happened on the state level. Know when people say that if you don't like the political climate, then move? That's what I did. I don't know if I could stomach living in Rick Perry's Texas...even if I…

I'm originally a New Englander - my problem with living in Louisiana was that the culture of the South was so completely alien to me. I felt like less of a foreigner as a student in London than I did during a relatively long stint down south. I tried to adapt - ended up running away so I could live somewhere I…

I lived in Louisiana for six years....there is no part of me that wants to go to OK or TX.

The National Gallery of Art? The Hirshhorn? The Smithsonian? Air & Space? The Shakespeare Free For All, even? No-cost things that I take advantage of...all the time.

I was going to say "too bad they're all in the south or the midwest". I am a confirmed big city kind of person, and the only one that I would ever consider on that list is Columbus. And even that is a stretch.

If you buy enough groceries, the Costco membership (don't know about the others) pays for itself pretty quickly. Can't beat the prices, and often name-brand (or their label - which is pretty much only on stuff that they feel lives up to a certain standard). I save a boatload buying things like bags of onions & sweet…

A variation on this is vexing me at the moment. Have two sets of travel dates possible. First set, airfare is nearly $300 cheaper - for the same flights - as the dates a month later. But expensive airfare is on the same weekend that I have friends out of town and thus would be able to stay free in an empty and…

Not only have I been (non-coercively) coaxed, I have told my partner directly: in times of high stress I'm not likely to initiate anything, and further, I'm likely to be pretty not interested at first.

Aaaaargh! This drives me utterly batty. Yes, a thousand times yes: we call female humans "women".

Yes - men are able to get vasectomies without regard to how many children they already do or don't have. I know quite a few of them. And let's not forget - if you can not bear biological children, you can still become a parent. The establishment says: lack of fertility is so abhorrent that we need to protect you from…

Yeah, I'm with you here. I always knew that I didn't want kids - I was the one who played with only the stuffed animals when my friends had baby dolls. I tried to make that "final decision" (medical sterilization) many times since about age 22, and I could not get any doctor anywhere to take me seriously, since "what…