(I just typed 'quilt' instead of 'guilt'. Some kind of weird Freudian slip, I guess ( Read more... )

You know what? If men had to deal with all this (and by all this, I mean imagine me gesturing towards my mid-to-lower abdomen, specifically the part where my uterus is painfully located), there would have been a cure for menstruation, like, 2000 years ago ( Read more... )

You know what has been bringing a disproportionate amount of joy to my life lately? My new iGoogle theme. Seriously, it makes me smile every time I see it. I love it when it's lunch time and the little fox is eating sushi! And there's a little frog sitting on the pier...... and there's dragonflies, and honestly, it's just the greatest ( Read more... )

So I recently had a startling* realization - I don't have to say everything that pops into my head ( Read more... )

Another day at home. I. AM. SO. BORED. Well, at least I am when I am awake, which has not been often over the past four days ( Read more... )

I am sick again. How is this even possible? I got a flu shot, people ( Read more... )

I mean, I seriously, seriously do. At least once a day I preface a sentence with, "I heard this story on NPR....." (Mostly with my bosses, so they think I am smarter than I actually am.)

So it should not be surprising that I am linking to this article, which is one of the most hilarious things EVER. To summarize, a writer from foreignpolicy. ( Read more... )

I need an outlet. So here I am. Again. Let's see if I can get some momentum going.

I think I'll get things started with a list.

Things that are irritating me right now:

• I have something in my right eye. It's itchy and it hurts.
  
  
• Several people haven't RSVP'ed for a baby shower that I am hosting. How hard is it to pick up the phone? For ( Read more... )

One day I will be a good LiveJournaler again, I promise ( Read more... )

I want a wedding dress with sleeves. At first thought, this seems to be a reasonable request. But NO. Really, it seems like 75% of dresses are strapless, another 20% have spaghetti straps, and the remaining 5% have 80's style lace sleeves ( Read more... )