bonny, I bookmark A LOT of your posts. There's often something that speaks directly into my life. So thank you for sharing your wisdom and your self with us.

Awww. Tep and smonster, you made my day! smooch

I buy toilet paper at Costco even though it is just me. One of those honkin' packs lasts me for about 3 months. Whether or not I have tp is NOT the thing I want to spend my time concerned about.

I am with vortex though. I envy the storage that bigboxbuying requires.

Beverly said what I would have said about stranger and their strange thoughts. Who cares. I would, however, add one thing. Sometimes I DO watch people and have thoughts about them. This is recreation for me...in no way based in reality. SOoooo. If anyone else is doing the same in my direction, I can't really deny them the entertainment value, now can I? Good for the goose, good for the gawker.

Jilli, I will never again take your warning lightly. I kept the book on, after that one ridiculous scene because, by then, it was too funny to look away. But then, Dracula turned up and it became something else and well...Lesson learned. Moving on.

Someone mentioned Terence Howard upthread.

I snerked along with everyone else when his toilet habits came to light in the tabloids.

Then, I saw the colon cancer screening psa he did about his mother dying (at 56) of the disease. While I think he could benefit from therapy more than baby wipes, I can see why he'd go that way. Poor guy.

Terrence Howard is an all around douchebag. He's been quoted as saying that now that he has a daughter, he respects women more. God, I hate that sort of revelation. It's a clear red flag of extreme narcissism to me.

It's very sad that his mother died young, but that doesn't excuse him acting like an asshole in public.

ita's right. Plus, I don't care if Terence Howard himself had weird grooming habits; I'm not sleeping with him and I'm not his doctor. It was the things he said about women and their "grooming habits" that put me off. It was so Red Tent-ville, ya know?

Ah. I didn't read past his personal hygiene stuff far enough to get the douchebaggery. No excuse for that, agreed.

I've done a lot of skipping and skimming, so apologies if this has been posted, but Aims, this is for you -- Royal Wedding Commemorative Condoms

the only time i worry about people getting judgy about my grocery cart contents is when i'm at the store buying tampons, chocolate, snacky cakes or other junk food, and booze. And nothing else. But i think that's a pretty self-evident situation.

Speaking as a person who is occasionally fat in public, I have gotten more negative comments while being physically active than at the grocery store.

I silently mutter encouragement to ppl at the gym who look like they are really struggling, for whatever reason. Can't imagine actually saying anything negative. Astonishingly rude.

in slightly related news: i took a belly dancing class last night (immediately before my hula hooping class...sort of as a warm up) for the first time which was super fun. I was praised for my excellent shimmy. Yes, my wide hips and soft belly are perfect for something! It was guiltily gratifying to be clearly excelling over the skinny ladies in the class who had been enough times to develop wardrobes but couldn't move their hips or get a gratifying hip scarf jingle. Guilty because i was judging them for being skinny. Gratifying because i can be just a wee bit competitive when it comes to anything dance-related and am always uber conscious of usually being the roundest person in the room.