The Jockey slip shorts, also mentioned in the article linked to you, have changed my life forever. So comfy and work perfectly. I learned about them here but could not properly thank people or spread the word because I was in the Greys until recently. Once summer hits I will be buying more for near-daily wear. My only…

My husband’s saying: “I love your period, because it means you’re not pregnant.”

I use it to defrost when I haven’t planned well. But I had a little cabin for a while (back before tiny homes were a thing but same idea) and with limited kitchen space I went for a toaster oven as my main cooking device. Worked fine and I never missed the microwave. Didn't really have a freezer in the cabin though so…

Our post-secondary is not free, but is somewhat subsidized, our universities have a higher level of tax dollar support and therefore lower tuition. Average undergrad tuition per year in Canada for 2014 was $5,959 which is about $4,300 U.S. I have the impression that typical university tuition in the US is more than…

I know I’m late to the discussion, but consider the interest rates on the student loan versus the credit cards, if you had to use them because you over-extended yourself to pay down the student debt. You may not be ahead if you had to pay 18% interest instead of carrying a debt at 5% for a little longer (I have no…

And real Parmesan cheese is a transendant experience. If you're buying cheese in a shaker you're missing out anyway.

Ugh. Two of my mutual friends got together, one of them an admitted serial cheater and the other thinking she had the magic pussy that would change him. Within six months he cheated and the relationship crashed and burned and he ended up basically exiling himself from our mutual social circle rather than force people…

I used to wonder about this too, but I read a person’s piece discussing poverty and how a poor person may not have a car to get to a proper grocery store (many poor neighbourhoods being “food deserts”), could well be living without power to run a fridge or to cook with, and may not be able to store food due to bugs in…

My house has a basement suite that I rent to a friend. The space was pretty blah when I bought the house; we replaced the nasty carpets and then told the friend/ tenant that anything she wanted to do in there, we’d cover the cost of supplies if she did the labor. It’s amazing how much difference a fresh coat of paint,…

Wolford tights. Expensive but worth it. I have pairs I’ve had for years. You will feel crazy the first time you drop $50 (or more) on a pair of pantyhose but you will thank me when you still have them three years from now (assuming reasonable care and hand washing). They also have a real size range and accommodate my…

Short answer - no. I lift weights. I love it, I love literally making myself stronger. But it makes me heavier, because that muscle-weighs-more-than-fat thing is true. So I basically can’t talk lbs with other women (unless it’s about how much you squat) because I outweigh you by at least 5o lbs. And I still consider…

I'm also a litigator and I'm ok with her style but not her utter misunderstanding of what constitutes hearsay

There was a waiter at a now-closed restaurant who was an Asian version of my (white) husband. Similar height, build, hair, jawline. We used to joke about the King of the Hill episode where Hank has the Japanese half-brother from his fathers wartime escapades.

Yeah I’ve never understood why filmmakers will feel free to change a gazillion things and depart from truth where they feel like to make a movie better but yet making some character not white is unrealistic.

American Apparel has been an important source for parts of Halloween costumes. I'll give them that.

My husband is exactly my height. This is the key to successful 69 I think.

Subsequent googling (because I’m on a bus with nothing better to do) says its Clooney’s character’s great grandmother who was Hawaiian, who married a white American, and it’s through her that they own the land.

Yeah I posted to someone else, Clooney’s character is supposed to be mostly white with a Hawaiian princess ancestor. I said grandmother above but Google tells me actually his great-grandmother. And the degree of “Hawaiian-ness” and the fact that the family is mostly white is an issue in the story. The character…

My recollection from the book was that they were the descedents from a mixed race marriage between a Hawaiian princess and a white dude. But the book specified that they looked white and were not fully accepted as Hawaiian, as a result. So I didn't think George Clooney was bad casting at all for a guy who is supposed…

You don't have to do sex Ed for a living to make a difference. I am around teen girls in a sports setting. When I hear them talk about sex I insert myself in the conversation and add relevant factual information. Maybe they are dying of embarrassment because I'm old (to them) but I don't care. Now they know and they…