It can be really difficult with kids that age to know what exactly something means! My mother told me that when I was around 4-6, if I called anything “the binder” it was bad news. The problem is, we don’t know what the binder is. I remember it as being the family nickname for the hot water heater, and I remember…

If your daughter is describing him as an unfriendly ghost, he needs to be gone. I take that shit seriously; kids don’t have preconceived notions that what they’re seeing “isn’t really there” for adults, so they tend to be honest. And you don’t need to give house room to an unfriendly ghost.

IIRC the woman who came up with it did one of those massive bridal pieces, where you’re supposed to put the HC’s name and the date of their wedding and there are a jillionty flowers and French knots and shit, and in the middle wrote “Fuck This Shit”. I kind of wish I had the time to actually do exactly that, but I…

Yeah, I like the idea of a meetup-style thing, though this whole app that people are discussing sounds good too (can we make this happen?) because I’m often looking for friends as well as dates. Or rather, I’m MORE often looking for friends than dates, mostly because I refuse to get into online dating, because I am p.…

My bf spent the night last night for the first time in over a month (he was out of town for work) and I was like HOW THE FUCK DO YOU SLEEP WITH ANOTHER PERSON IN THE BED GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT. So, totally Team Separate Bedrooms here.

I will check those out! I have a friend who shops at Sephora a lot, and he’s coming to town sometime this spring - I suspect it will be easier on all of us if I ask him to take me to Sephora for a makeup lesson than if I have him teach me. :)

I don’t wear makeup at all because I can’t figure out how to do it, and I haven’t been invested enough to find out before now. I last wore some lipstick part of the day back in October, and the last time I wore eyeshadow was probably 2008. The last time I wore anything like full-face makeup, someone else did it, and…

I have a question! I have never learned how to do actual makeup, and yet I have utter shitloads of the stuff. I can do a mean Kabuki mask, and I can do theatrical makeup, but where the hell do you learn how to do actual makeup like a normal person might wear? YouTube? Go to the mall and get a makeover and take the…

I may check that out. I STILL have the acne (and I’m 39) and don’t seem to have the scarring, but maybe I just can’t see it? I’d like to try to get my face under some kind of control, but probably not till menopause when my hormones calm the fuck down.

Oh, I remember you saying you like Verner’s ginger ale last week - no idea if California has Thriftway, but they carry Verner’s. Thriftway is the kind of store I’d LIKE to like, especially since I live across the street from one, but it’s too expensive for my broke ass, and they are woefully short of “terrible food…

God, you’re not allergic to crunchy? How do you pitch a diva fit in a restaurant? Please tell me you’re allergic to red at least.

The kind of pet person I hate is the kind who keeps an animal they can’t or won’t give enough time to or don’t like or just plain don’t want. I think you did the right thing. I mean, it sucks hard for you, and I’m sorry it’s hurting you so much, but it sounds like it’s the right thing to do.

Convoy is secretly the greatest song in the universe. I say this because it randomly came up on my iPod when I was driving into LA in the dark one night, surrounded by (conservative estimate) two billion trucks and not a single other car. My bf and I were actually just singing it to each other yesterday, because we’re…

Yup! Despite only having finished a couple of relatively smaller pieces in my life (I tend to get really anal about having the thread be perfectly organized and really anal as well about how it is Not My Fucking Job to organize it so I give up with projects when I can’t figure out where I left off) I am…

This is late and probably no one will see it, but I’m looking for recommendations for mapping software that is a) free or has a demo version; b) runs on a Mac; c) is heavily customizable. (d) would be nice if it has been updated since 2000 and is not available only as a SourceForge download.) Are there any RPG geeks…

Aw, my blushes! But I love clothing and I love how people express their style through them; it’s so cool to actually LOOK at what people wear, because most of us, I think, wear what we feel good in when we have the choice. I love when you see someone who is wearing something and just rocking it.

And she is so freaking right. I am literally sitting across from a man I see once a week who wears crass t-shirts every time I see him. If I did that (if I wanted to) I would be judged harshly, where he’s “just a programmer”, as if that and his maleness gets him off the hook for any kind of clothing standards. (I am…

Today I am wearing black leggings, an Avengers t-shirt, military cut olive jacket, faux-fur vest, rockabilly bandana, purple and green knit beret, and standard mid-calf dress boots and arc reactor earrings, if that helps create the sense I mean. Like, it’s definitely mix-and-match, but I tend to gravitate to things…

No, but goddamn, that woman is my spirit animal now. I hadn’t heard of her before now, somehow, and that Oscars outfit ... would wear!

My personal style is, like, rocker-geek-military-business-casual with hints of rockabilly and scene and Constant Hats - I would pay money for a show where Martha takes people shopping but works within their existing aesthetic. So, for me, she could suggest, let’s say, a nice tailored pant to replace my leggings that…