I know! I am so excited! I’m in my mid thirties and excited about our insurance paying 50% coverage on metal braces! This has never happened before and I’m usually paying loads of money every year on fillings because I max out whatever little coverage we usually have. 

It pisses me off, because I am almost militant about my oral care, but my childhood dentist told my parents that braces would be cosmetic and unnecessary. Turns out that my teeth are so damn crowded that no matter what I do, I will get cavities.

I was a nightmare on the pill and then a cranky nightmare when I went off of the pill. Assuming your pill had estrogen in it, your body might be reacting to that, since Mirena is progestin only.

I honestly have a routine for this situation!

I am stupidly excited about our insurance finally adding adult orthodontics to our policy. I can finally get braces and hopefully stop getting fillings every single year. 

I once received a dishwasher as a birthday present from my in-laws. Our old one had died and we had a newborn Mini Schwa at the time. I spent an hour crying in happiness.

To me, the worst part is that she could have kept the list intact and just properly cited and sourced it. It’s two or three extra steps and would have exposed the fact that she was copying from a podiatrist, but would have at least attempted some sense of professionalism.

What’s immediately suspicious about the book, which was a New York Times bestseller published by a HarperCollins imprint, is that it contains no notes or bibliography.

I think that there is always a chance of a “wild card” when it comes to children. As parents, we can shape, influence, and develop the likelihood of our children becoming psychologically healthy/unhealthy adults. But there’s always that chance that, no matter what a parent does, there will be an exception to the…

There might be more doing the same soon. A lot of people might be thinking of doing this, but afraid to take that first step alone. Now that someone else has done it, they may come out of the shadows.

Mine will sit on the bathtub between the shower curtains and just watch the water when I shower. As soon as I’m done, he’s rolling around in the wet tub.

Does your Wegie like water? Mine refuses to be immersed in water, but loves playing with it, watching it, and sleeping in the bathroom sink.

He is such a fluffy beast and we never expected it. He was an accidental addition to our house and he was so average at 8 months old. Then he just kept growing and growing... didn’t reach full size until 2 years old. I was all prepared to ask the vet about diets and stuff, when she just said that he’s a big-ass breed…

He’s a great cat. A shithead cat, but he’s terribly friendly. He loves pretty much everyone except the cat across the street and the vet.

So, I couldn’t find a good photo of him with something to compare with in size, so you get the floof picture. He’s extremely floofy, so you can’t tell that he has muscles underneath all that fur. But he’s a loooong cat and he’s stocky. 

Well, that explains why my shithead keeps trying to break into the cupboards. He’s already 20lbs, all muscle. He doesn’t need to get fat. (He’s a Norwegian forest cat and they are huge by default.)

When I was planning my wedding back in 2005, I had never been to a wedding before. At all. I had absolutely zero knowledge about what happened at weddings except that there would be vows and cake. My husband had been to a single wedding....when he was a toddler. To top it off, my family has a “special” sort of…

I now want Rita and Lord Zed to take over the world. Now would be a great time. Just take over the whole damn thing, I’m sure they’re far more capable than the circus we face. 

I don’t work currently with the elderly, but I’ve had enough association to know that it can be a hit or miss thing. I’ve seen elderly people go downhill quickly when it came to walking and moving, but held on for 10 years in that state. I’ve also seen elderly folks with every single risk factor and health concern…

I mean, I could and still can learn Russian, no doubt about that. It’s that I just graduated with a dual degree, one of which was German. I chose it because I grew up hearing and understanding German (just not speaking it, I’m still clunky on speaking it) and because the Russian program only offered a minor instead of…