Sad reality of being an adult. My mom came over to return something and I did not get taken care of. whine.

A neighbor child whom I'd sat for and her friend went missing on vacation when they were 15. Never found.

H's coworker and his family came back from a weekend at the beach to find their 20 year old's car on the side of the road, door open. He was found dead months later.

As a parent (this is like playing would you rather be deaf or blind), I think shot in the head is better than weeks or forever of wondering.

I'm so, so sorry, Sophia. I hope you're wrong, and she's safe somewhere.

Oh god, Sophia. I hope she turns up.

In better news, YAY husband-of-Dana!

What birth control method requires twice a day? I mean, of hormonal choices. If you're using condoms maybe? And go you for getting laid twice every single day.

That was also my question and thought.

I put my iPod in my bra around the house a fair amount, but it's real little.

One advantage of living 2K+ miles from your parents is if you get sick when visiting, they go uber-parent, and not only baby you, do other random shit out of helplessness. Disadvantage? They sometimes forget and treat you like you are 12. When you are healthy.

For those not on fb, Maria is still flu-ridden, but kicking, if by kicking you mean she is somewhat better than yesterday, but still the kind of sick wherein accomplishing a shower is a major accomplishment and leaves one wiped out.

Someone gave me a link to this jewellery. I don't know where that goes, and I already took Safesearch off at work once (bondage has non porn uses!) and I don't want to reverse image search anything risqué...

I had to double-check with my better half, but that goes in the urethra, and the small ball on the side is meant to come out where a piercing for a Prince Albert is.

On Teppy can you rely for all your whack-ass needs.

Thank you all. I would be so happy if she turned up safe and alive. It just seems so unlikely given the circumstances. She as an actress and a stage manager at our theatre, and I as her stage management reference, as out (male) head of the department said he "could not in good conscience give her a recommendation as a stage manager" even though she was quite wonderful (he does not like women so much), and I found her crying outside the theatre after that encounter.

I think that it's a Buffista thing. You got a wacky or embarrassing question? Ask the Buffistas. We have no shame, and a wealth of arcane knowledge.

I think that it's a Buffista thing. You got a wacky or embarrassing question? Ask the Buffistas. We have no shame, and a wealth of arcane knowledge.

Yeah, whenever Tim has a weird question that he can't find an answer for (or figure out where to even start looking for the answer), he always tells me to ask the Buffistas.

Woo! Fed tax refund landed. Now to be a grownup and put it all in savings. I'm going to try to count it as savings this year. Ditto on my healthcare reimbursements. Because it is now Year 4 of mortgage, and while I've been breaking even more or less, I really haven't been able to put anything into savings like I used to regularly. I know I'm lucky, but this isn't my comfort zone. Even as I got my retirement annual statement and was pleasantly surprised for once.

And my savings is my emergency fund: plumbing epic fail, car epic fail, lesser discretionary big home improvement projects, fear of layoffs.

It's a start.

Was kind of astounded by my bonus, considering I only started my job the last week of August. I can afford to pay all of my owed taxes and also put a bit into savings. Thank goodness.

Sara, shall we get our grown-up cards laminated this weekend?