I lifted weights at the gym, drove to NOLA, danced at my cousin's wedding, raced around the Super Dome, and arrived home- foot unscathed. But one sober misstep on Kristen's staircase sent my ankle rolling and me crashing to the platform beneath my sideways toes ( Read more... )

1. My bed is broken! At least, the steel midbeam is bent ( Read more... )

Dear David Boreanaz,

You were lame and unattractive enough when trying to play a badass vampire. You failed to make the byronic hero attractive to anyone. And now you're on this Bones TV show, with these stupid advertisements where you utter stupid, lame lines like, "handling this machine is like making love to a woman, you have to be gentle." ( Read more... )

I started taking this stuff with my daily multivitamin some time in December, and my skin has completely broken out. My face looks like it did when I was 15- covered in the old pre-accutane, pre-ortho bumps and craters. Luckily, I have been introduced to the world of makeup since then and can hide it better, but this is ridiculous ( Read more... )

Fourteen children....

What fertility doctor agrees to help impregnate a woman who already has SIX CHILDREN? What lapse of judgment- or rule of the dollar- did that take?

No doctor should be able to, in good conscience, artificially impregnate a woman who already has six children younger than ten years old.. Especially using a technique that ( Read more... )

So I am one of 2.6 million Americans on a waiting list for one of those DTV converter box coupons. You know the ones I mean- those coupons that allow you to continue watching free TV without shelling out $50-$200 for the converter ( Read more... )

I miss DC. I miss DC. I miss DC. I miss DC. I miss DC ( Read more... )

That's the practice it supposedly takes to become an expert in something. What a late moment in my life to realize this... ten years from now is so much further away than ten years from 15 would have been, or ten years from ten... and that assumes three solid hours of practice a day ( Read more... )

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I love gum, especially the minty, promise-your-teeth-will-get-whiter, pop-it-out-in-squares kind. I can run through a pack in a couple of days, at which point I have to bum from friends and coworkers after every garlicky meal and before every business meeting until I can run by the store and pick up another pack. I know I'm not alone on this one ( Read more... )