My mom got that Ikea highchair! We, on the other hand—classy folk that we are—pulled a high chair out of our across-the-street neighbors’ trash one evening.

I have to say, before the advent of daycare into our lives after the first year (I part-time worked from home, part-time sent him to family for the first year), it actually wasn’t that much. The only big ticket expense was the crib and dresser. We got a crib that converts to a toddler bed, so we’re still using it 3…

Winner winner chicken dinner.

Dude, yeah. And the biggest culprit in my daily life is a dude I work with. He’s a delightful human being and I wish him no ill whatsoever but his uptalk habits are really distracting.

Your local health department may provide some select immunizations for free. Give them a call.

When I decided to wean, yeah, that was not a fun week. I tried every old wive’s tale remedy in the book, up to and including sticking cabbage leaves in my bra. I got a clogged duct along the way (I was prone to those in Lefty) and had to spend hours in a warm shower massaging my aching boob trying to work the clog…

Please tell me you did this from memory.

I’d even say get TWO pumps, if you’re going back to work. Get a really nice one for work but get a beater (I know you’re not supposed to use a used breast pump butttt....) for home. That way you don’t have to haul that thing around with you.

And just like at a certain point you might piss yourself or shit your pants, for all the world to see, same happens with breastmilk. It starts to leak, and it is not a small amount, and you’re powerless to stop it. There’s no sphincter there. And the more you think about it, which prompts thinking about nursing your…

I was Class of 88 Mission Specialist (also wanted that) in Huntsville! My now-husband also went that same year (unbeknownst to us, obvs) but he says he didn’t like it. I loved it. This was all before I realized how absurdly bad at math I am, so a career in hard sciences was not in the cards for me, but it was still a…

Can someone explain to me in small words how to make an off-contract phone such as this work with, say, VirginMobile? I love their pay-as-you-go plan but god their phones suck.

It’s on the NBC website right after it airs. Which at first was inserted a thousand trillion commercials into it every 5 minutes, but then suddenly stopped. For me on my browser, at least. The first couple episodes were nearly unwatchable, but now they’re totally ad-free. I don’t know what happened, but it’s a vast…

Yeah, truly that does kind of smart. Probably the most horrific horror genre show that’s ever been on TV (and, like, it doesn’t wear the fact that it’s a fantasy on its sleeve, but it is totally not trying to resemble anything like reality either), you’d think this place would have been all over it.

I used to get so much haterade on Gawker for calling Pizzolatto a misogynist hack.

J’accuse, everyone who didn’t watch Hannibal for the past two and a half years. J’accuse!

I have zero interest in cruises, but I have always applied Rule #1 to my big vacations. I purchase as much as humanly possible in advance, and I pay cash or cash-equivalent. I tend to do a bit of a savings schedule where Phase 1 is saving enough for and purchasing my plane ticket, Phase 2 is saving enough to buy all…

I will stick with Hecubus.

I’ve been calorie counting really religiously for the past 4 months, have successfully lost 25 lbs, and none of the numbers that calculator gave me made any sense. They were all way, way higher than what I know I need to eat in order to lose a few pounds a month. I’m 5’6” and currently 164 lbs and my calorie counting…

We also label grass-fed beef as being grass-fed. It does taste different. Many people feel it tastes better. Milk from pastured cows also tastes way different from cows fed primarily grain feed.

All those Romans were just straight up dicks. Dicks all the way down.