I'm not a jeans girl, but if you are? That sounds perfect.

DAW. Dead of cute.

I feel that. White isn't a great color on most women, much less us fair folk. Plus, who am I kidding with a white dress? The purple was called "Pearl Blue" and looked purple/grey/greenish depending on the light. Found a hair thingie on Etsy and called it a day.

I love his big, poofy paws.

I got married in December and wore purple. I feel so trend setter-y.

Obviously, 4 years is too soon. If she were still single and hadn't dated anyone, 4 years would be too long. We are obviously the people who are best suited to figure out when is OK to move on.. for her.

Yeah, not wearing makeup after coming back from two days sick and people ask why you have a sunburn? Rosacea= why I wear makeup every day. Yeep.

this totally made my day. "Sophie.. rhymes with TROPHY!"

the best printer I ever owned was a dot matrix. Seriously. Lasted for years, printed clearly. I've had at least five printers in the same amount of time I had that 1992 dot matrix.

argh. So tough. My favorite kitty ever was a Maine Coon. My favorite kitty (at home waiting for me!) is a tuxedo. It's like choosing your favorite child.

I had a friend who went into funeral work, and promptly got out of it. After getting a BS (and this was somewhat recently— within the past ten years), she realized that the only thing she would be permitted to do was what she called "geisha work"— essentially funeral planning. Men always did the embalming, which is…

runkeeper! I don't run, I walk, but it's great.

No, but peanut eater gets crumbs on something inadvertantly touched by allergy-haver; allergy-haver doesn't realize... that's a recipe for disaster.

I don't think it's the breathing in, I think it's the possibility that they could be ingested. The particles aren't always so micro— peanuts on tray table, hands to mouth... bad.

Yeah, it's kind of bitchy considering that anaphylactic shock can kill someone. My best friend is highly allergic to peanuts, and some of your peanuts commingling with her, say, Biscoff? She could quite easily die.

My grandma insisted she didn't want to be "laid out". My mom was so impressed with how "nice" grandma looked (in the nightgown and robe that she bought her specifically for the casket!) that she did open casket. Not only did grandma get viewed, she got viewed in her nightgown and robe, which would have horrified her…

I had a friend who was a licensed funeral director and basically ran a mausoleum. She HATED sealer caskets. HATED. Why? Because they leaked. And drew flies. You don't decay normally, and the body can actually... blow up. Yeah. She is now a nurse. It's much cleaner.

Actually there are "green" burial places that are exactly what you discuss. They mark you with a distinctive rock and you go about your business turning into worm food and making the forest richer. I think it's a cool idea.

I think what he's saying is that it is something that he feels is good enough for his parents— not that he'd do it without their consent, ykwim? That's the litmus test for a lot of burial/disposal techniques with many people: could I do this to my parents?

Chobani Pineapple is possibly my most favorite dairy product ever. It surpasses French cheeses. I mean. It's just so damn good, and also harder to FIND for me than French cheeses (I swear someone just buys.them.all) so it's a treat. I just had some Chobani Strawberry, which was disappointing in comparison.