Interesting post. My now 19 year old daughter had the exact same issues, even down to the no veggies and no meat, and being able to detect them in anything. She also gagged and projectile vomited when certain tastes or, more likely textures were introduced. She is on the spectrum. I'm not saying yours is. I'm just saying that I could have written that part of your post.

I love the subscription boxes! My kids are both obsessed with Japan and all things Japanese, so their father actually found them a subscription box just for Japanese products. Food, candy, music, other stuff. It's way cool, and something fun for them. I think it's a great way to learn a little something about other cultures that you won't find in a textbook, or even on video. There's power in taste.

I absolutely do! And I get it with some regularity, because I work from home and everyone else is in work or school or activities, but that's not the same as being alone NOT doing work, but just piddling, reading, enjoying the silence and solitude. In fact, I just sent the kids (DDs 19 and 12, and visiting 12 year old nephew) to a movie without me. I'll gladly pay for that to have a couple of hours to myself, in my house.

I think it's cute, although I still wouldn't want it in my house. It's a checkered garter snake, by the way.

I had it done in 2008. Best money I ever spent. It's amazing to be able to see, uncorrected, when I never did before. My vision is still 20/15. That said, I'm over 40 now and starting to notice that the day when I'll need reading glasses is coming sooner than I would like. I may actually have the surgery again so that one eye is corrected for far-sightedness, eliminating the need for readers. My sister did that (after having had regular LASIK about 10 years prior) and her vision is perfect, about 6 years later. She's 56 now.

DD19 LOVES these. They're awful. I can barely stand to look at them.

I prefer to get down on it, a la Kool and the Gang.

One of my friends took his three kids to see it and he left the movie feeling a bit depressed! He said the main message was something like: Life is good, but then stuff happens and it's going to suck and you're just going to have to learn to live with it. That's just the way it is in this world. Sounds like a barrel of laughs! hahaha

I'm so sorry for your loss. You are allowed to grieve. It hasn't even been a year. Be patient and kind with yourself. As for your husband, it does sound a bit insensitive to me, and I would have been upset, too. In a somewhat similar story, I have been much more sensitive and emotional and, unlike what you've described here, very bitchy and quick to anger toward my husband lately. I know it. I see it. I just feel like he lacks an empathy gene or something sometimes. That said, I know that he's a good man, and he loves me, and his intent is not to anger or upset me. So I'm trying very hard to look at what he does through those filters instead of the "what the hell is wrong with him, and why does he just continue to say stupid shit" filter that seems to be so prevalent lately. It's hard. I understand. Hang in there, and take care of yourself.

I've seen them 4 times, and I love the show. It's funny and physical and sometimes slapstick, but i find a lot of it to be highly cerebral and thought-provoking, too. A social commentary, if you will. I can't wait to see them again. All that said, I know people who absolutely hated it and walked out. I think it's either your cup of tea, or it isn't.

I understand the history of the posting. I do not think that this particular post is trolling or unkind. It's a legitimate question, one that I've had myself many times, as I know others have as well. It has been established that most people understand how prayer can impact the pray-er, but only a couple here have bothered to even try to answer what it does for the person/people/institution/whatever is being prayed for. Do people think that prayer can save lives? If so, how? Is it because it is thought that prayer can directly influence God? I've seen one answer here that seems to specifically say no, and yet another that seems to say that yes, it can. If one is of the belief that prayer directly influences God, then what about when it doesn't? Because in my own experience, it seems that's when the mysteries of faith, and the fact that God has a better plan, are referenced. But if that's the case, and God already knows His plan, then I'm back to questioning the usefulness of the prayer in the first place, except to bring comfort to the pray-er and the prayed for, and also because the Bible says that believers should pray. I'm not implying that comfort is a bad thing (obviously it isn't), or that one should not follow the directives of one's Holy Book. The question here is around the physical impact on an outcome. Does prayer have the ability to impact that? And I'm asking none of this to be disrespectful or rude or hateful or unkind, and I'm certainly not a troll. I am, however, someone who has always wondered if people actually believed that their prayers could shift an outcome, and, if so, but the outcome is not what was desired....what then? What does that mean?

I'll concur with everyone who has suggested Apothic and Menage a Trois. I don't happen to like either, but that's because they're both a bit too sweet for me, even though they aren't actually sweet wines. My tastes tend toward the very bold, and these are not that. I don't know anyone who likes a less bold/slightly sweet red that doesn't like either of these two.

My beloved Dyson finally died after several years a couple of months ago. I replaced it with a Shark Navigator at my sister's recommendation, simply because I didn't want to spend the money for a new Dyson. I love it at least as much as I did the Dyson. I highly recommend it.

Have you tried Soma Intimates? I only buy my bras there. And yes, if they fit properly they are snug at first, but after a wear or two they loosen up a bit. I'm a little smaller than you, and I do wear underwire, but my sister is about the same size (maybe exactly?) and she buys hers there as well, with no underwire. It's worth a shot. All of my bras, underwear, pajamas, and lounge-type wear (stuff I can wear around the house but also out in public) come from there. It's not cheap, but the bras are considerably less than a custom bra shop. Like $55 - $70.

We can't line dry laundry in our neighborhood, either. I can't really think of any strange rules. The only one that bugs me is no veggie garden, even in your own back yard. I live in a town home, but seriously, particularly if someone fenced in their yard, why would I care if they grow vegetables? We pay $525 a year to the Master Association (they take care of, among other things, the pool and tennis courts, and all common areas that don't belong to a sub-association. Plus, we pay $105/month to the sub-association. That covers landscaping (lawns, pine straw, landscaping/flowers in common areas), doggie waste stations, roof repairs, exterior home maintenance, and a host of other things. I think it's a fair amount.

I would absolutely allow him to be evaluated, if he wanted to do so. Like a previous poster stated, there will always be time and opportunity to go back to college. Who knows if he will even get selected? It's a potential fantastic opportunity, and if it doesn't work out still has another path to take. I'd discuss it with him, but I'd definitely not dismiss it.

I use this Boscia BB Cream. I use the original tint, and I know it seems weird that it would self-adjust, but it does. I have friends who use it who are not the same skin-tone as I am and somehow it works great on all of us. SPF 27 I'm 43, and, like you, no actual wrinkles, but I'm starting to get fine lines, for sure.

Oh. Weeeeelllllllllll.......never mind, then. :-)

Where I live hits every single one of your bullet points. I live in Cobb County, Georgia, which is a suburb of Atlanta. We need a youth orchestra or symphony for DD: Check * Decent apartment options (I don't want to rent a house) that are affordable ($1000 give or take for a 3-bdrm): Very nice but inexpensive housing options * I LOVE rain, so the desert SW would not be an option. Check * I'd really like to have all four seasons: We do, although it never gets as cold as it does up North, and we don't get much snow, so if that's a requirement then we may be a bit too far South * We'd like our new area to have a zoo and aquarium: Very nice zoo, largest aquarium in the world * We'd like to have community colleges and/or universities nearby. There is a university, and several community colleges, within less than 10 miles from my house * Good schools as the kids may want to go back to PS in our new location: Some of the top public schools in the state, although it IS Georgia, so that's all relative. Also, there are pockets of the county that aren't that great. * Easy homeschooling in case they don't. :-D: Easy homeschooling. * Not an overly religious area (I'm Pagan): I'm atheist. :-) No issues at all.

Land's End has the best T-Shirts. I love them. They feel great, wash well, have a great thickness, and the material is high quality. I prefer the fitted tees, and they're made for women there, as opposed to teenagers. They look nice, and are not too tight, but show that you have a waist.

I answered that I don't think I'm a good wife, and I really do think that's true. It could read "spouse" instead of wife, because when I was responding I wasn't applying traditional gender roles to my own circumstances. I don't think whether one does laundry or makes dinner or whatever it makes them a good spouse or not. My response was based purely on how I feel about marriage in my own mind. I'm not miserable or unhappy, it just feels much more natural and authentic for me to be single, where DH really enjoys being married. For the record, he tells me he thinks I'm a great wife, but I'm not sure that's true. Not that he's lying, but I think it's preferable for him to be married, even if it's to a less than perfect for him spouse, than to not be married at all.

But you can be taught morals and righteous behavior and still make the choice to do something horrendous. I realize you didn't say the these next words, so they are not necessarily meant toward you, specifically, but you cannot "pray away" mental illness or chemical imbalance in the brain. So, I agree with albeto in that rather than toss our hands up and blame the devil for sin, and pray a bit harder, we would better serve society by destigmatizing the underying mental issues so that people will not feel the need to hide them, thus ending up on a downward spiral that kills hundreds of people. And sometimes (not necessarily in this case) people are just so sick they cannot be cured. It's a chemical issue. A brain issue. One that often goes undiagnosed. In many of these cases the best we can hope for is that it is uncovered and they are able to be treated before they kill themselves or others, but we know it doesn't always happen. You can choose to call that "evil," but I choose to call it illness. Not that it excuses the behavior or that it should go unpunished, but there are actual, medical reasons behind it.

Great question. I try to be, but I really don't think I'm all that great at it because I never really wanted to be married anyway. I think I was a great wife to my first husband. And, honestly, he was a lousy husband. After my divorce, I realized that I'm really not one who wants to tolerate all of the bad and difficult times in a marriage, just for the sake of being married. I am far happier when it's just me and my kids, when I am completely in control, when I don't have to take another adult's thoughts/feelings/needs/desires into consideration when making decisions about my life, either big or small. I like to have someone there to be a friend, and to be my plus-1, and for sex and intimacy, but then I like for him to have his own space to go home to and leave me alone for a bit to manage my life. That sounds selfish, and I suppose it really is, but I don't necessarily see it as bad. Not everyone needs the same things out of life to be fulfilled. All that said, I love my husband, and was certainly not forced into marrying him. I married because it was important to him, and the fact that I was even willing to consider it because of his feelings told me it was the right thing to do. He's a good man and human being, and I am encouraging and supportive. We divide our familial duties by what makes sense for us. We get along well. But am I a "good" wife? Probably not the greatest, but I'm not a "bad" wife, either.

She'll definitely get 100% of anything that is hers that sells. I don't really want to pay her a set fee for setup and cleanup, because I don't know what will sell. I'm thinking a percentage of the rest of it. I just don't know what percentage is fair. And again, it's mainly because I was planning to do it myself anyway, and have plans for the funds, that I'm not just giving her all of it.

DD18 has decided all of us have way too much stuff, most of it good enough to sell, and she's going to organize a yard sale for all of it. I told her I think that's great, and I'll help her the day of, and in determining what can be sold that isn't hers, but she needs to carry most of the load. So my thought is that I'll somehow divide the proceeds with her. I won't just give it all to her because I was going to do it myself anyway. Plus, most of the goods that will be sold are mine and DH's. But if she's doing the majority of the work, she should be compensated accordingly. So, what division do you think is appropriate?