Sweet fancy Moses, I just got goosebumps from that.

Mine is buggies — like amish buggies with horses. When I was little I read or watched something (maybe Scooby Doo?) with a black horse that had red eyes. Then we went to my aunt's house which is near an amish area and I was getting ready for bed and heard hoof sounds outside and looked out and saw a buggy being pulled…

My dog does this thing when he needs to go out where he pokes the doorknob with his nose so it rattles like it would if someone was testing it from the other side. I can't tell you how many times I've woken from a dead sleep to hear the doorknob rattling and thought I was just a door's width from a killer to have his…

My mom was trying to tell me that if I got new windows in my house I could have them open at night in the spring and fall. I had to tell her that there is no way I can ever sleep soundly in a house with a window open. No way, no how. The house must be on total lockdown.

That is some next level older brothering right there.

I had an apartment with an old style peephole that was a little door you opened and just had a grate over it. So there was no covert peeping. They clearly saw you and knew that someone was in there and choosing not to answer. And at least a little bit about them. I obviously never ever used it. Now that I think about…

I've reached a point where I don't have to turn on the light, but I won't look into a mirror at night. When I'm ready for bed, I open the medicine cabinet so I can't accidentally see a ghost/Bloody Mary/into the future and I close it in the morning.

I have had to fish enough things out of there - plastic ring from the top of the milk container, a dried bean, bottle cap, etc., that I keep a small flashlight by the sink and shine it down there just to be sure it's clear every time before I run it. If it has just fallen down there, it's usually just at the bottom…

He was on the Bachelor after show with Paget Brewster a week or two ago and it was so weird and awesome to see him on there. He looked amazing and like he was maybe unsure of how he'd gotten there. It was great.

I like chips and seven layer dip, so I'll definitely be in a house where it is on the television. I can't imagine I'll actually be watching it though.

I think it's the scheduled reading that works against enjoyment. I certainly enjoyed some books I read for class, but it's only the ones that I decided to read on my own timeline (frequently all at once) rather than on the class timeline.

I occasionally buy things from HSN. I haven't bought anything from QVC, as in general I consider their prices to be higher. I have only bought two things from HSN on "Flex Pay", the dreaded installments. I think if you do your research in what you're purchasing you can get some pretty good buys from them. I started…

Do you have a text block at the end of your work emails with your name, title, phone number, etc? We do that but it is not automatic (if I'm just emailing someone in the office next to me I don't usually add it, always do for out of office things) anyway. What I'm getting at is that I sometimes use it if I need to…

The last time a stranger made me smile was over the weekend at the grocery store. As I walked through the parking lot, there was a car in one of the close spaces that was idling and had a driver still in it and several large pit/boxer/mastiff mix looking dogs, which are my very favorite. When I came out the same car…

Good luck to you both. My parents gave me an ultimatum over a decade ago, and I am really grateful to them for it. I knew I needed help, but didn't think I was worth it and their insistence gave me a reason.

Just chiming in to agree strongly that Daveed Diggs is a revelation.

No, every time they called me they had an additional child. I started babysitting for them when I was 12 and they had 2 kids. I was their fill in sitter, so they only called me once a year or so and they had an additional child every time I went there, and never revealed this on the phone. Or in their payment.

Right? I used to babysit for a kid who bit me every time I tried to get him to take a nap and his parents paid me in $2 bills. Another threw tantrums about bath time or bed time to the point where I would call my friends and make them pretend to be Elmo and tell him to go to sleep. Still another family had a new kid…

I watched that movie every day when I was little. We taped it off of the Wonderful World of Disney one Sunday night and it had the Mickey short of The Brave Tailor before it. It's still my favorite Disney movie and I find it incredibly quotable. Toby the turtle, the little girl bunny, and Lady Cluck all have great…

That's horrifying.