Oh, you also asked if latex molds to you like memory foam. It does not. At least, the solid, non-shredded ones don't. It just stays in its own shape. I sink down a little bit into mine because I have a soft (plush) one, but as soon as I lift my head, it pops right back up. Latex pillows do last the longest of any pillow I've tried. My old one was a decade old when I forgot it at a hotel. It was still as good as new.

You might like latex then. I have this pillow in low loft, plush. It is nice and soft for me, but it's solid latex (with holes in it--I think that affects the softness), so you don't sink to the bottom. It has a super-soft, stretchy bamboo cover. With the cover on, the pillow is a little firmer, or if I use a regular pillow protector, it's a little softer. The bamboo cover constricts it just a tiny bit, which makes it a bit firmer.

How thick do you want your pillow once you're lying on it (distance from bed to head with pillow in between)? How soft do you want your pillow to be? Do you want to sink down into a soft one or lie on top of firm one? Do you like down? Feathers? Poly fiber? What do you like and dislike about other pillows you've tried (other than the memory foam one)? My favorite for the last several years has been latex. It replaced my old down pillows. I liked the softness of down, but I hated having to rebunch my pillow up into the right position in the middle of the night. I found a soft latex one, and it's been great for me. Knowing more about your preferences will help us give you better advice!

Amazon has CuddlDuds long underwear for boys for about $15 per set. I just ordered some to try!

Debbi, that scarf is gorgeous. It looks quite intricate. I'm working on this scarf and a hurricane hat from Ravelry.

It seems to be a new feature that all collections sync across all devices. If I turn off Whyspersync will it not delete DS's collections off of his device?

I just got a new Kindle. It automatically downloaded all the collections off of my old Kindle, DH's Kindle app, and DS's Kindle. I don't want to see DS's or DH's collections, and I also don't want my collections showing up on DS's Kindle. With my previous Kindle (keyboard version), I didn't have DS's or DH's collections, and they couldn't see mine. If I try to delete one of their collections, I get a message that the collection will be deleted across all devices, which isn't what I want. Why is this happening now? What can I do?

Which video would you recommend for a total beginner?

Whenever I see a poll where your response is visible to everyone, I think, "Why?" I won't vote in them, and I can only imagine that a lot of others also won't vote in them. People here regularly choose that option for their polls, so clearly I'm missing something about why! Enlighten me, please!

Raw tomatoes are an abomination. I loathe Jim Carrey. I don't understand the appeal of his movies. To me, he seems like the class clown who was obnoxious then and hasn't improved with age. I do not understand celebrity gossip magazines. Why do people care about the lives of a bunch of people they don't know and who seem to lead frivolous lives devoid of anything resembling values. I don't understand some people's desire to have their kids in a million activities. Some are fine, but is it necessary to have 10 or more per week? Downtime is good, people.

You are right that there is a lot more to life than money, and it sucks to miss your husband (or your parent) a lot. I mainly wanted to point out that there are lots of careers that demand lots of hours without the financial compensation or the job security that medicine offers.

That assumption is beyond funny to me. I am in a family of several doctors, my best friend is a physician, and I have several doctors as friends and neighbors. My social circle is largely physician families. They all gripe about how medicine is changed, but every single one of them makes a very nice income. That can't be said of most professions. Some specialties have horrible hours; others are more manageable. The family practice docs that I know (including the above-mentioned best friend) work 2.5, 3, or 4 days per week. The ones who work four days per week are considered full-time in their practice groups; the same is true of the pediatricians I know. The ones who work part-time (the 2.5 and 3 days per week ones) make very good salaries for 2 or 3 long days per week. How many other professions let you have four days off per week and still make a salary that could be the sole support of a family? There are more grueling specialties that require or almost require in-house call regularly, but all of the physicians I know in those specialties are quite well compensated ($200,000 at the low end up through $400,000 or more) for their work in those fields. The academic physicians I know also have great flexibility in the hours they work when they're not doing clinical work. As for the children of the physicians I know? Many are still to young to choose a career, but among those who have older children, I've started to notice many heading to medical school in their late 20s or early 30s after they've given other careers a try. I know doctors love to gripe about their jobs, but I think many of them have lost perspective on exactly how hard other professions also work. Yes, conditions have changed for the worse, and practicing medicine is more frustrating for many reasons now than it was 30 years ago. It's still one of the few professions where you have amazing job security and excellent financial compensation.

Do they expect you as the parent to be financially responsible for any fines and lost or damaged books? Then they should let you use the card unless they have a different fine structure for kids' cards. (It might make more sense to have a different fine structure for kids' BOOKS, not cards, but that's another issue.)

The doctor one amuses me. Lots of people work long hours, so I don't see that as a negative for being a doctor because I doubt that the people becoming doctors would otherwise choose jobs that don't requite lots of hours. I still see that as one of the careers where one can make a good living with good job security, making it a good option if one is interested and can make it through without too much in loans. The high cost to get there is what I'd see as the real problem with medicine!

I've saved on overdue fines. I'm saved the worry of bringing home bedbugs from the library. But, mostly, no, it hasn't save me money. The instant gratification of being able to get the book I want right now, when I want it, kills any book budget in my house.

Could you do them in batches? Half in the first batch, then dump, rebutter the hot pan, and cook the second batch? That's basically what I do when I do crepes. After four or five crepes, they start to stick a tiny bit in the center, so I have to scrape well with a metal spatula, and then rebutter that spot in particular. Otherwise, I rebutter a tiny bit after every two crepes.

We have a carbon steel griddle, and it's amazing. Can you post a couple of links to carbon steel skillets? A big gift-giving season is approaching!

The key is to heat the pan really well first. Hot pan, cold fat over the whole pan bottom, and eggs will slide around without sticking at all. That's how I make eggs every morning, and cleaning the pan takes about 5 seconds. I even make crepes in a stainless pan using this method, and they also don't stick at all and flip easily.

I need some fast, peppy tunes to motivate me for cleaning house and cooking dinner. What new, interesting music do you listen to?

We throw them away. I suppose we could ask at the pharmacy.

The ignorance of that post is kind of staggering. If you're poor, you've got a heck of a lot more to worry about than whether it's your second cousin's birthday today. Also, many of those "habits" are more like cultural norms. As others have said, they're not the causes of wealth. I'm not so impressed with DR.

By not car-key-worthy, I meant they are not worthy of having the car keys. In other words, they're impaired to the point they should not drive. I think there's still quite a bit of distance after the point where one shouldn't drive before they're drunk to the point of dancing on the table, etc!

I love reading everyone's responses. It's interesting how much variation there is. Where I live, a homeschool moms' night out is guaranteed to have alcohol. A dinner party among friends or neighbors here will always have alcohol. Wine will always be there (and it's the most common hostess gift to bring along), and sometimes there will be beer. Occasionally someone will throw a cocktail party and serve mixed drinks in addition to beer and wine. People may get a bit tipsy to the point where they're more comfortable chatting with people they don't know well or a bit more talkative than normal, but I've never seen anyone get to the point of what I would consider drunk. If it's a neighborhood gathering where everyone has walked over, they'll all drink 2 or 3 drinks because no one has to drive home. At a party where people have driven to get there, usually one spouse has only one or 1.5 drinks over the course of the evening, and the other may have 2 or 3. With one side of my family, alcohol never appeared at extended family gatherings. I've since realized that a lot of Methodists are anti-alcohol, though I never remember hearing about that at the time. Most of those same relatives did drink some in other situations, so I'm not really sure why there was never wine or beer at the family Thanksgiving, for example. The cultural issues around alcohol are really interesting to me. I know that where I grew up, there is much more binge drinking, even among adults with children. It's not uncommon for someone to have 5 or 6 drinks in an evening if they're drinking. Beer is the drink of choice, with hard liquor following that. Wine is still less common there. That area also has much more conservative views on alcohol, and I find that contrast fascinating. Do the conservative views stem from the binge drinking? It's also a much lower income area and much more religious area than where I've lived for the past couple of decades, so the cultural divide is pretty big in a lot of ways, and that definitely plays into the way people drink alcohol.

I've always suffered silently in the past, but I can see asking for compensation from the airline.

Your wish is my command. The poll has been edited. :001_tt2: