I used MyFitnessPal for a month or two last year, but then holidays and life stresses intervened...coincidentally, I just started it again today (and then promptly forgot about it when I went to a relative's house for dinner, oops).

I'm sorry that your mom is so horrible to you. As a mother of two adults I can't imagine wanting them to be with someone who didn't make them happy...nor can I imagine telling them they needed to change to find a partner!

My partner got both of us the test for Valentine's Day; he wanted to find some relatives for me (I have never met my dad and know almost nothing about him besides his name), and for his own part, he thought at the time that he had a particular genetic disease (turned out he had a different one, which I think is…

Not sure that's quite right about 23andme only looking at your maternal DNA. Their site says that the ancestry analysis "includes DNA you received from all of your ancestors, on both sides of your family." It's true that they can't look at your paternal haplotype, because that's stuff that's only on the y…

The first character who popped into my mind was Jonathan Strange. It's been ages since I've read the book, but he can do magic and he seemed like he'd be fun.

I had a son who died several years ago. To me it doesn't seem odd for you to be sad or to feel "guilty" that all your kids are alive. I feel sad when other people's kids die too, and even kind of guilty that I still have two living...maybe guilty isn't the right word, but there is a certain discomfort when…

I've got nothing for that question. What does that tell you? :-)

But why do you need to know about their ethnicity? Most dietary requirements (vegan, gluten-free, corn/peanut/whatever allergies are a few that come to mind) don't have anything to do with ethnicity. Kosher and halal are specific to religious practices, not ethnicity; there are white Muslims and there are Jews who…

Don't forget, though, that if you live within city limits the yard police can get you! I had that idea one summer about my back yard (screw it, it's too hot) and the city sent someone in to mow it while I was at work and billed me $100. At least the fashion police can't fine you yet...

Valley Girl! Young Nicolas Cage. Sigh.

I'm in my mid-50s and I have purple hair. Most of the sweet discounts don't kick in until 60 or later, though, alas.

Height is not a factor for me at all. I'm 5'4" and I don't wear heels (so maybe my opinion is of no interest to you), so I don't often meet men who are shorter than me, plus I've been off the market since the online dating thing took off, but I can still look and I'll look at men of whatever height. For two or three…

Were you expecting to see pictures of the fingertip? I was. I also hoped to learn how she did it. When I chopped off my fingertip (mandoline accident, January 2012) my partner, who is big into macro photography, took closeups of my finger as it healed, as well as a couple of shots of the lost portion. The latter…

Another Upper Left Coaster here, living in a 100-year-old house with no AC. I mixed some of last year's frozen raspberries with yogurt, Uncle Sam cereal, and Splenda. That's how I cook in this weather.

I don't know if he said it first, but Dave Barry did definitely say it.

Same thing happened to me with a non-Kaiser hospital, except 19 stitches.

I put my house on the market four years after my son committed suicide in it. It is possible, if one knows my real name, to discover via the internets that I have a son who killed himself. I didn't see a need to mention this to my potential realtors, but they apparently felt the need to find out. They called me in…

Thanks! I have to say that not bleeding ROCKS, don't you agree? Or are you there yet?

I used the Couch to 5K app. It's another one of those programs that uses intervals - you start out with something like 90 seconds walking and 60 running, and move up to 30 minutes running. I found it helpful to have an incremental program like that, so I didn't stagnate or overdo it. You can have the app…

Sympathy and I hope that symptom goes away soon. I have had only occasional mild breast soreness, but I've been having hot flashes for about four years (starting two years before I stopped bleeding). FUCK THAT SHIT! Well, at least I'm not irritable.