Just other day, I went hiking with a bunch of others, and one brought a teen girl. Mother kept complaining that the said teen isn't dressed sufficiently warm for the weather. It was 28 degrees at start, projected to jump to 45 in 2 hours. So. Yeah. Perfectly normal. Just laugh. Not a battle you wan...

"Anybody Have a Map", "For Forever", "Waving Through a Window" and "Only Us". This is second on my list of musicals I must see. Turkish and I know all of the words and can't wait for an opportunity to get tickets.

Six Feet Under and West Wing (which I've just started watching a few days ago but am into season 2 now and HOT DAMN is Aaron Sorkin amazing).

No, but he strikes me as a guy who is attentive to his wife's demands. Just saying. Y'all can try it, and if it doesn't work, ya know, he can shave Yeah, the last time he grew it out he was on medical leave from work when he got the broken ribs. He's on a gas mask requirement list so no beard right...

Every woman wants a viking! Well, maybe not every woman. Mi viking isn't allowed to grow it out because then he looks like a very tall, very scary Gimli. Red, bushy, untamable beard. Beard oil and conditioner. You've seen how bushy my beard is. Well, when I actually go through the effort of using m...

5 baskets, one which is broken and pinchy and decrepit. Of those 5, one is our sock basket where all of teh unmatched socks live and we have to go basket-diving for the pair (or one that feels most like the pair regardless of its actual pattern). One is full of folded and un-folded towels, one is st...

bonk by Mary Roach, a book about the study of sex and what that has looked like over the years. Her writing is hilarious.

In no particular order: My microwave died My power steering went out while I was driving home from work I was told that I have a super-high IQ which actually had the opposite effect the psychologist expected to have and made me really angry and bitter because here I am, at 36, and just now finished ...

I was in 1st or 2nd grade and the older kids on the bus told me.

Paul was murder on phones until we got him an otterbox case that is basically life-proof. Since then, no issues. Turkish has had three phones over the last 6 years and hasn't cracked, dinged, or scratched a phone yet. I'm sure it will happen at some point but she's really good with items that need a...

This latest development, of the government dictating to a science agency what words it can and cannot use, is the most troubling development coming out of this disastrous administration yet. Science-based. Evidence-based. Fetus. Transgender. Diversity. Entitlement. Vulnerable. Say them often, and ca...

Bottom line I have no clue how to proceed with this kid. People always think these accounts are about bragging, which is why I don't discuss with anyone else, but I'm sure that a lot of you here have been through similar with your own kids and it really is perplexing what to do. It's challenging to...

Agreed. No point living in some kind of sweaty inferno. Out of curiosity, what sort of grad program is it? Or maybe it's a matter of switching universities, but to a particular program/major? No grad program yet. It's a large scholarship (2, actually) for adult students for the undergrad (it applie...

I can't really get into any of my real problems so I'll just tell you about the small one: my bath bomb disappeared. The special bath bomb that I bought so that on the weekend I could have a wonderful relaxing bath and purge le stress? It has vanished completely. Either the dog ate it down, which i...