meara, my kids say booty all the time, but people draw lines for kid-appropriate language in all kinds of weird places.

(And my personal standards may not be the highest, since only just yesterday my not-quite-four year-old asked me "Mommy why did you say fuck you?" after a driver ran a red light in front of our bike.)

So when you wake up with a crick in your neck, swim for over an hour and then spend another 2 hours running errands, perhaps you should do so on more than a pot of coffee and water. Made myself an arugula and parm omelet, but may take a bit for my body and mind to register this.

May make cookies later.

Aw, crap. Edward Hermann died.

meara, we curse in front of the kids all the time, so grain of salt this. But we do say booty and, more often, boot.

"Booty" always seemed to me to be another word for "butt," and just about as innocuous as "butt." Or somewhere between "butt" and "ass."

Oh, not Mr. Gilmore. :-(

I suppose it could depend on what you're doing with the booty (calling it might get confusing for a kid...), but as an alternate word for ass, it never really pinged me.

Then again, I spent nine years in Detroit, so what do I know?

Today is not a good day to get prescriptions filled--the computers seem to be on vacation too.

Wahoo! I just got an alert that the slipcovers I'd been looking for are available online again. Soon, I will have presentable living room furniture that doesn't look or smell like a litterbox!

I can see both sides, both as a harmless word for gluteus maximus, but has also been sexualized in song (I feel like I just heard a song about having a big booty).

Huh, my corporate holiday present arrived. Everyone in the company was given a fitbit Charge wristband.