Yay beauty thread! :D I tried a cut crease for the first time ever last weekend. For some reason it’s never dawned on me to try it before, but I’m obsessed with late ‘60s-style makeup (nude lips + heavy eye makeup and falsies) and wanted it to look authentic. It was harder than I thought it would be but I was really…

Women don’t get caught for murder, because we all learn how to get blood out of things at an early age. Ba dump bump!

Well I’m glad she’s catching up. And I don’t know if it made a difference in anything other than dictating their future body weight, but we had them on that super high-in-fat premature baby Similac formula for the longest time. I wanna say almost the entire first year. Of course, the girlfriend and I are both on the…

I grew up with this couple! Kristen was a wonderful friend growing up and her husband Ian was my first kiss (seventh grade, in a friends basement). We haven’t stayed in touch as adults, but we’re friends on Facebook. I was so excited to see that they’ve ended up together, but so, so sorry to see them go through this.

Yes! It’s massive now, with a 7-acre campus that opened in 2009. We have a whopping five different residential programs now plus two preventive programs for parents in the community. I’ve worked at shit nonprofits before, but even though have my gripes about it, ACS is a damn good place that does a lot of good work.…

No no no. The bigger one (baby A) was absorbing the nutrients of the smaller one (baby B) in utero, thus slowing his (baby B’s) development. It took me a little while to understand how a baby could be born at 32 weeks but be classified developmentally as 28 weeks old. Weird.

These dresses look even bigger than her wedding dress, and from what I remember on a previous interview with the costume designer, they had to have a special bench made for her to sit on between takes because the dress was so heavy and cumbersome to wear.

This, more than anything else, has convinced me I need to start watching Outlander.

This was wonderful. I have to wear and construct 18th century clothing for work every so often, and it is HARD. Really, overwhelmingly hard to get it authentic, right, sewn properly and true to the year and place you are in. 18th century clothing construction has little to do with modern clothing construction, it’s an…

My friend’s daughter was away at school and fell off a cliff near campus and died. A month or two later a pathetic gunman shot up the neighborhood before killing himself. If it ain’t one thing, it’s another, and there’s no way to predict where tragedy will strike.

My car battery died, this evening. Waited in a windy parking lot for an hour and fifteen minutes total. Came home, bedraggled.

Maybe you have to be from California? I don’t know. Everybody, count how many avocados you have right now. Three or more? You’re from California.

I used to like it. Then I developed an allergy to it. I like avocado a lot, but I dislike being covered with hives (seriously, I looked like a lizard person... it was not cute) a lot more.

All the pygmy sloth hugs in the world for you. So, so sorry for your loss.

And, not to beat a dead horse, but if you do not witness the baby stop breathing, you are two give the breaths first, then pump. If you do witness it, the opposite: pump, then breath. It’s all timing. This is why CPR training, as you advise, is a good idea.

I can speak to this because I lost my first baby to SIDS at 3 1/2 months in 1976. Back then, you always put your baby to sleep on his/her stomach so they wouldn’t strangle on vomit. My baby was with a babysitter; I had gone back to work 2 weeks before she died. I don’t know if she was lying on her back or stomach. I…

I always heard (from our pediatrician and elsewhere) that if the baby rolls himself over, it’s fine to let him sleep that way.

Shakespeare fan SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is why the “justice” system is fucked; this kid got probation for rape, and he still couldn’t hack it. Meanwhile, there are people younger than him rotting in jails on charges, not convictions, because they can’t afford this kind of “justice”. People like Labrie can exhaust every benefit of every doubt and then…