I do not know what the appropriate tool is for removing dried bits of grout from tile surface is, but I can tell you with absolute certainty that it not a dental pick.

So yesterday I was fixing the grout in my bathroom. I didn't have gloves, and I was barefoot. I know the box warned that grout can irritate your skin, but almost everything says that nowadays, so I didn't pay much attention. I figured that at worst it would dry my skin a bit. And I had to do it barefoot because shoes would scuff up the tub. (This ( Read more... )

Usually the term Minnesota Magic refers to the wondrous phenomena of it being "too cold to snow". I've never been able to pinpoint the temp, but it's somewhere around 5 degrees. Colder than that and no snowing, which sucks because it still evaporates. January can get really ugly around here when all the snow is gone and it's just freezing and ( Read more... )

Pets do not understand SM. To them you are just the bad girl hurting their owner and as it turns out, its kinda upsetting for them. Poor things.

They don't cover this shit in SM 101.

So last night around 3:40am, I woke up with a migraine headache, and it was the worst pain I've ever experienced. I've had migraines before, during the day. They are horrible, but you feel them coming, there is lead up, and time to take drugs. Waking up with one, I found that I didn't have a single coping mechanism. It was just full on agony. It ( Read more... )

So, when you have really strange, vaguely offensive friends, perhaps it's not the best idea to show your mother their websites in order to show her photo's from a Halloween party ( Read more... )

You have my deepest sympathies. As a resident of Minnesota, I know full well how it feels to have your governor be the joke of the whole country. Hell, the whole world. The Irish couldn't stop giggling when my husband or I told them where we were from. "OH! Minnesota! You guys had the ex wrestler for Gov., right? What were you lot thinking ( Read more... )

I -hate- the first few days of a depression. I know that the later days, after it's been dragging on for weeks, are hard. The thing is they are more tiring than painful. It drags on me, wears me down till I can't move, but there is also that apathy that makes it livable. The first days are the worst because while I'm slipping down the slope I know ( Read more... )

Anyone who suggests that you grout your tiled floor using a grouting bag, hates you. A lot. I know, some of you out there are saying, but ________ told me to do it, and I know that s/he is really a great person and holds no ill will towards me! You are wrong. That person despises you, and wants to punish you ( Read more... )

So, it turns out that spending the whole night having dreams about situations where you are super tired, but are trying desperately not to fall asleep is not a good idea. It seems to convince your brain that you never slept at all, and you wake up feeling like ass.