This couple I used to babysit for let their daughter name the fetus. She was 4 and awesome, so she chose Spike.

I'm on my first pregnancy, and I got uninterested in the food comparisons once I started feeling kicks.

I would like to have an app that plays the saddest part of movies at random. Sometimes you just need a good cry, and the first 10 minutes of Up does it for me every time.

As long as my panties steer clear of Mormonism, we'll be okay.

Do you use a broom or a dust mop? We moved last fall to a place with hardwood throughout, and within a week my dog's hair is making little fur tumbleweeds down the hallway. I got a microfiber dustmop, and while I still hate sweeping the tile in the kitchen, I can get really zen pushing that dustmop around. …

This is the primary reason I like to invite people over. It motivates me to clean like none other. But then, my husband is the same way.

Nooooo! I hate it when that happens.

You can't scrub them away, because they're not dirt. Try something with salicylic acid. I really like Neutrogena's 3-in-1 something something acne treatment. (It has an obscenely long name, but 3-in-1 is key.)

That happened to me when I was your age & getting my first manicure. (You are not weirdly sheltered, I promise.) I wanted a French mani, and the lady just started filing my nails down to nothing. I didn't say anything, but it was NOT what I expected to happen. It looked nice, but it was months before my natural…

I had Mirena, and insertion is not the most comfy day you'll ever have. It's like a really bad menstrual cramp, and you will probably not feel awesome for several hours afterwards as you continue to experience lighter cramping, but it passes and then you're good for five years. I didn't even have a period after the…

Congrats!

You take that back about Phinneas! That was the name of my very first betta fish. :)

I'm pregnant, and I love this song. But I too have hesitated sharing with my pregnant friends because I don't know how they'd take it.

You can tell as early as 15 weeks. I found out about my little guy that early.

You can be bothered by it. She sounds fucking annoying.

My husband had a cocobolo wood-inlay ring. He liked it a lot, but wore it to work by accident (does electrical work out in the field, and can't wear rings), and lost it. We have yet to replace it a year later, because it was almost $300 and it just never seems that essential.

32 weeks over here! I haven't quite reached the get-it-out-of-me point, but then again, I'm not really ready for him to be here yet. People keep telling me horror stories about how all their babies came five weeks early, and I'm like, this kid doesn't even have a carseat yet. He is not allowed.

Actually, a lot of states are getting waivers for No Child Left Behind. The current educational bullshit is Obama's Race to the Top program, in which 46 states have pledged to tie student test scores with teacher & administrator evaluations. Fun times!

I'd argue it makes it worse. "John James"? It has no flow and even less imagination. His mother must have really wanted a girl.

My mom used to only keep alcohol in the house when my grandfather came for his yearly visit. Heineken. I remember stealing an abandoned Heineken from the bottom of the crisper drawer in the 9th grade and spending a good hour with it in my bedroom, trying to get it open without a bottle opener. WINNER!