This is today's Ask Amy column:DEAR AMY: “Overwhelmed” wondered what to do with four “poster-size pictures” of a stepson’s wedding. You suggested she mount them on foam board and pull them out when the young couple visit ( Read more... )

Oh, feminism. [insert link to my "part 1" post]

Since I lost the original draft of this with all the internetty links therein, I can only guess at the direction I was headed with it and what references I used. The main point I remember is, "What exactly IS feminism?" That is, why is a movie that passes the Bechdel Test *more likely* to be [though ( Read more... )

I'll write about Fanksgivin and BRACK FLIDAY later. For now, an Ask Amy that bugs me in the way that going to the LEGO store bugs me ['cause I remember a school assignment where we were to build a castle WITHOUT using LEGO stuff, and other kids used LEGO stuff]...DEAR AMY: My 10-year-old daughter finished a school project that took her hours of ( Read more... )

Oh, poop, I was going to post a GIF. Eh, I guess we didn't really have any board games as such, so I'll let it slide. This time.

I wanted to repost this for sickening truth =pDEAR AMY: Last year a co-worker gave birth to her first child. As soon as I learned of her pregnancy, I threw myself into making a homemade cradle for the baby ( Read more... )

Hmm, what TOTALLY EPIC thing can I post about for Day 4000!!?[if I counted correctly]?? ...nothing major's happening =p So I'll just steal these Q/As from today's Ask Amy column:( Wherein the 'stolen baby name' issue is addressed again. )

This has not made me the maddest I've ever been about something, but I'll be damned if it isn't maddening ENOUGH.DEAR AMY: My brother’s long-term, live-in girlfriend and I care about each other very much, but we are both hotheaded and stubborn ( Read more... )

One of the recurring irritations on Neopets is newbies [not n00bs, 'cause I realize this isn't an obvious solution to reach] not understanding how the Brain Tree Quest works. The short of it is, though it's free to attempt an answer from the pool of known permutations*, it will NEVER be correct unless the Esophagor Quest is completed TWICE, ( Read more... )

So I didn't want to make a fuss about it and wave all kinds of flags calling attention to the matter, but--as record--I've finally had to effectively block somebody on FB for negative conduct. It's not that I can't handle negativity so much as I would rather not [why there's an absence of discussion on most of the more serious matters I know I ( Read more... )

I am amazed by the number of problems people have simply in not being able to say "no" or "you're full of it." [I have this problem, too, note.] For instance, today's Ask Amy: ( Wherein a husband cannot say no to petsitting a problem dog and wife cannot say why do I have to do all the work. )

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