In my purse? A wallet (with checkbook), lip balm, and my car keys. In my car? A winter survival kit that includes a blaze orange fleece blanket, a stack of newspapers, a solar/crank operated flashlight/weather radio/cellphone charger, a shovel/window scraper, a lighter, and granola bars. I had a tire blow out an hour…

@hausfrau76: No shit...stupid periods. I've had a migraine for four days straight when I normally only get one bad day before I start. I'll digitally pass you some of my dove ice cream!

@emmielee: What if I like poking Mark Zuckerberg (in the eye) by flouting facebook's policy demanding your face be the profile picture? Or what if I just really like David the Gnome?

Please, my bi-polarness is entirely due to me being a Gemini.

Ya knoh that wouldn' make a haf bad deer opener ghille suit.

@Imogen Quest: (As a Minnesotan, I just do not trust football players)

@Imogen Quest: Please, if possible, make her a former Olympian hockey goalie...

@intelly: Maybe not 'normal' ...but totally understandable, my fellow Finnish hermit in spirit.

I am afraid of childbirth because I'm afraid I won't be able to tolerate the pain meds. Hydrocodone: projectile vomiting. Maxalt: projectile vomiting. Wait, maybe I'll get a projectile birth? One contraction and FOOSH! *crosses fingers*

Speaking of which, why isn't "how to say no" also framed in terms of identifying consent? It's one thing that (more) girls are taught how to say no, but everyone needs to know how to 'hear' no.

@LaFabuliste: In (a small town in) Minnesota, but still, that's Target's heartland. Sigh. I'll have to either order one or hope to find something in Duluth. Grr science-less American youth!

@LaFabuliste: Oh she loves Fancy Nancy, and that'll be a good idea for her birthday (she's almost 5) but darn it I want an actual hands on experiment kit. Here's the most frustrating part, there is NOTHING like that in Target. They have an entire aisle for computerized games, but not one build-a-circuit kit like my…

That's it, I'm buying a science kit for my niece this Christmas. May looking at bugs through high power magnifying glasses bolster her through the frilly pink tutufication her grandma is subjecting her to.

Tonight is a charity party, but my problem is convincing my husband that nice clothes won't hurt him.

Of all the torment I went through in elementary-middle school, the thing that stuck with me the most was an Ashley making fun of my eyebrows. I don't even remember what exactly she said, but after that I really looked in the mirror and internally agreed that yes, my eyebrows were weirdly arched (read: pointed) and too…

@traumamama: Yet.

Paging Aubry de Grey...

The Date Culture evolved from the chaperone system, the chaperones dropped out during the social revolutions of the 20's, and the emphasis on 'going steady' was a post-war development. Why do I remember this? Because my Romance & Culture class was taught by an anthropologist who lived with head hunters back in his day.

My dyslexia + the picture combined to make me read this as "scary cat." This left me wondering what on earth people were saying...as if "scared-y cat" had shifted its meaning in the rest of the country and the phrase hadn't caught on in my little corner of nowhere.

If it was toxins in the water, wouldn't it be more localized? Ithink for this to be as widespread as it is, that the vector would have to be more universal. —Says a happy well drinker