I really hope they get to do that. 24 weeks...that’s scary. And it’s amazing we can do that now. My gestating kicker of a baby is at week 20 and he’s tiny, I can’t imagine him leaving the womb 4 weeks from now.

I know you’re correct, and I appreciate the way you wrote this, it’s both clear and concise.

That bothered me as well. I am very particular about my historical desserts.

A lot of us like the damaged look. I just don’t like neck tattoos and a bad attitude so I’m honestly “meh” on the attractiveness of Aaron Carter.

Indeed. Most of the time you also don’t need them to tell you, you’ll find out on your own eventually. I have had a few brilliant friends and classmates and sooner or later, you realize they’re playing a different field than you, but they’d never be so crass as to say so (or think so, even).

No country is immune to the effects of globalization, unfortunately. We still like to think we make the best of everything, even though we hardly make anything these days.

Yeah, the Aga is a tricky business. It’s really pretty, and honestly, if you’re in a badly insulated, cold house, it’s a lifesaver. If you want to actually bake something in an efficient manner, however, then you want something other than an Aga.

Yep, being Swedish, basically everything I have in my kitchen is Electrolux. Unfortunately, it has gone the same way as every other major company and now outsources everything and cuts corners wherever they can. I do however have a Swedish-made Electrolux kitchen assistant that is basically a motor with a bowl on it…

I had a newspaper when I was ten, together with my twelve year old friend. We covered “environmental issues” in our neighborhood, i.e., writing down how many batteries we found laying around and asking the municipal garbage manager why they wouldn’t compost. We did everything by hand which severely limited the amount…

I feel you on the self esteem. You are beyond gorgeous here, though. Actual hollywood material.

I played wedding, but unfortunately seven year old me lacked attention to details. I therefore had to go through fabric choices and seating charts at the ripe old age of thirty. Had I had the foresight to do all that and budget for the entire wedding 23 years previously, I would have saved myself a lot of headaches.

True. If your kid dies you’re entitled to process it in any way you wish, ghost photography and all. But, NO ONE should be allowed to charge that amount of cash for such lazy photoshopping.

I do not disapprove of the idea, but I do disapprove of the poor quality of these images! No one should pay actual money for this level of photography/photoshopping.

Oh god, yes. Me too. I think it might have come as an extra in a book club haul full of sweet valley high stuff (or sweet valley middle school, whatever that was called)?

Yep. My dad is forty years older than me, and he and my mom split up when I was about 18. While I was shopping for his new apartment with him at an electronics store a few months after the divorce, we ran into his boss.

She is 46 years old. I agree she looks different, but that’s a good looking 46.

Sami (Fenno-Scandinavian indigenous people). I am part sami and expect issues with my eyelids as I age, and mine are not half as hooded as hers were. The sami ancestry also shows in her high cheekbones. It’s very sad that her genetical ancestry has been made fun of for such a long time (calling her Squinty, etc) and I…

Ah, laudanum. There have been times where I have felt a certain sorrow over the fact that it’s no longer offered as a cold remedy.

Of course that was it. Perhaps it was even made worse by your mental state at the time. Had someone jilted you, were you trying to repress your feelings? That combined with a chill could surely do it.

On the upside, dying of a chest cold is really the most Brontë way to miss out on something Brontë!