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    Image of LuvEwan LuvEwan
    11/30/09

    Annaleigh is my favorite top model contestant EVER.

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    12:57 AM

    @LuvEwan: Even though she hasn't done much post-show, I'll always love CariDee.

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    01:02 AM

    @voteforme: Yes. CariDee had an actual personality. I loved when she sassed Nigel.

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    Image of SUNNY1 SUNNY1
    11/30/09

    I'm bored and I don't want to do my work. So, in honor of Dawn French, what are people's fave French works? Mine are the French and Saunders skits, particularly their movie parodies.

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    11/30/09

    @SUNNY1: Vicar of Dibley, hands down.

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    Image of curiousgeorgiana curiousgeorgiana
    11/30/09

    Double post!

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    Edited by curiousgeorgiana at 11/30/09 8:43 PM curiousgeorgiana was starred curiousgeorgiana was unstarred
    Image of Sputnik_Sweetheart Sputnik_Sweetheart
    11/30/09

    OK, my parents are pushing me to buy a condo. The thing is I make under 40k a year and while I have a decent amount saved, I'm worried about being house poor or getting stuck in a small studio that I can't sell. And oh yeah, I live in the Boston area, so my savings and salary don't go that far.

    Right now, I'm putting money aside every month and thinking about looking when I am up for a raise early next year-- that way, I have a little more money to work with and I know my job is safe. But my Dad is telling me that I should buy something NOW while interest rates are low and there is a tax credit for new homebuyers. I'm just not sure that I'd be able to pay a mortgage, condo fees, utilities, food, car maintenance, insurance, taxes, various healthcare fees, the small luxuries I have now (I will not give up yoga and dance classes-- they keep me sane and happy), AND be able to put some money aside for emergencies.

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    11/30/09

    @Sputnik_Sweetheart: Don't let your parents guilt you into this. If you aren't ready, you aren't. The worst thing ever is buyer remorse, especially on something you can't return.

    The tax credit is nice, but it didn't exist a few years ago, won't exist a few years hence, the world won't end, and you'll eventually buy something. The worst thing is spending money you don't have, or aren't sure you have. Do Not Do It.

    So, pretty much, I'm telling you to listen to your gut.

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    11/30/09

    @Sputnik_Sweetheart: Don't do it if you aren't ready. There are too many house-poor people out there right now.
    I do think they're extending the tax credit, though, so who knows what'll be around a year from now!

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    11/30/09

    @Sputnik_Sweetheart: I would go meet with a loan person. They can crunch some numbers and either you will figure out it will work OR your parents will see it won't work and leave you alone.

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    11/30/09

    Question: how do people make their comments italicized? I've been reduced to putting words in all caps, but it looks like I'm screaming random words...

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    11/30/09

    @SUNNY1: Italic tag!

    tag!

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    Edited by curiousgeorgiana at 11/30/09 8:45 PM curiousgeorgiana was starred curiousgeorgiana was unstarred
    Image of Sputnik_Sweetheart Sputnik_Sweetheart
    11/30/09

    @SUNNY1: Because I don't think the tags will show up if I type it here:
    [www.pageresource.com]

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    11/30/09

    @curiousgeorgiana: wait, what? "your text"?

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    SUNNY1 was starred SUNNY1 was unstarred
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    11/30/09

    @Sputnik_Sweetheart: Omg, it's everything I wanted to know!
    Thanks, to both of you!
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    11/30/09

    @curiousgeorgiana: Sorry! I was trying to link it. Curse html.

    Sputnik has it.

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    11/30/09

    @curiousgeorgiana: haha it's ok. Thanks anyway!

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    Image of serreca serreca
    11/30/09

    Ladies, I need some advice and/or thoughts.

    I have a 17-year-old sister who is absolutely giving my parents fits. I live 10 hours from my family so I hear all this from afar and feel really helpless.

    My sister, K, will be 18 in February, and is planning on moving out. She doesn't know where, or how she will pay for things, she just knows that she's leaving.

    She's been involved with a 19-year-old boy (they have sex and smoke pot together, and she has snuck out of the house at night multiple times to be with him). This dude is pretty much a loser. No education, no job, no ambition. He lives with his cousins or something in a small trailer so I don't know if she'd move in with him or what.

    My mom is equal parts heartbroken and livid about all this. She's told K that if she moves out, she won't be able to take anything with her that my mom paid for - no car, no phone, most of her wardrobe.

    She also says that if K moves out, she will NOT be welcome back at any point, which seems harsh to me.

    What can be done about this? What can I do? What can I even SAY? This whole family drama is driving me nuts because I HATE drama like this.

    Any words of wisdom?

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    11/30/09

    @serreca: Try to get them to book an appointment for family counseling. If your sisters hears better advice from a pro or someone that's not your parents it might go better. Good luck!

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    11/30/09

    @sayah: Good idea. I mentioned that to them when I was home for Thanksgiving, because my mom & sister tend to yell past each other. But they weren't very receptive to it. I will try again, though.

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    11/30/09

    @serreca: I had an aunt deal with this with my cousin.

    She took the hard line approach, and it did not go well.

    Resistance is likely what K wants. My recommendation would be to ask your parents to not give her ultimatums. Never eliminate the possibility of her coming home-- if she ever does get scared, or get in trouble, you don't want her to hesitate, even for a second, to call for help.

    I totally recommend the counseling-- they likely have much sounder advice.

    Good wishes sent your way!

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    11/30/09

    @serreca: I know this is not the answer you want but sometimes with girls this age you have to let them make their own mistakes. I have unfortunately too much experience in exactly what you are talking about. Baby steps is really the only progress you can expect. It gets better as she grows up (sometimes it takes a hell of an experience to knock some sense into them), but these are not the type of personalities you can get through to. Over time she will get a job, get a new boyfriend, and slowly, but surely drop these behaviors. It gets better, I promise. And not that this helps, but watching them grow up and improve is an amazing thing.

    As for the counseling suggestion, I would try to get her to go by herself before getting more family members involved. There are probably underlying issues a professional might be able to help her work through.
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    Image of Dodgergirl Dodgergirl
    11/30/09

    At exactly 4:30 PT I am blocking jez and the true enemy of productivity, facebook, for the next 18 hours. Then, I'm going to make myself a pot of tea, and write this stupid paper that I have been putting off through a wonderful combination of anxiety, psychical illness, and good old-fashioned procrastination. I think I'm going to have to pull an all-nighter for the first time in two years. (Last time, I ended up switching on my Sports Night DVDs at around 3:30 in the morning, and crying like a baby at the end of the first season finale. Moral of the story: I get extremely weepy when I'm tired, and said weepiness messes with my productivity).

    WISH ME LUCK.

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    11/30/09

    @Dodgergirl: Good luck! Stay strong.

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    curiousgeorgiana promoted this comment sayah was starred sayah was unstarred
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    11/30/09

    @sayah: Thank you! And I snuck back on, and now feel like a failure. But I'm blocking it again, and not coming back, damn it!

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    11/30/09

    @Dodgergirl: Good luck!

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    Image of token_illiterate_commenter token_illiterate_commenter
    11/30/09

    I've been letting my computer shuffle through my entire music folder today instead of playlist like normally. I've come to the conclusion that I was a seriously depressed mofo when I bought all that music. Listening to it almost sent me back in to it.

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    11/30/09

    @token_illiterate_commenter: I love shuffling through my music. Rachmaninoff Vespers smashed up against 50 Cent and The Who?

    Rock on.

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    11/30/09

    @curiousgeorgiana: I don't mind the classical, jazz, swing, R&B,rock mash up, but why did I think I needed every Pink Floyd album ever made? What was with the fascination with Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac? But mostly, did I really need THAT many old school blues songs? "Like to hear it? Here it goes..."

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    11/30/09

    @token_illiterate_commenter: Yeah, I had an obsession with The Cure for awhile. Get too many of those songs back to back and you regret it.

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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    11/30/09

    Oh god, I feel like I just got punched in the soul.

    My Australian boyfriend forgot to file his application with the Diversity Visa lottery and the deadline is passed.

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    Image of BeckyIva BeckyIva
    11/30/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: Hugs? I am shamefully ignorant of that whole process; what are the consequences? Is he in Australia right now or in the states?

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    Zombie Ms. Skittles promoted this comment BeckyIva was starred BeckyIva was unstarred
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    11/30/09

    @BeckyIva: Sorry. I realized after I posted that this is kind of opaque.

    He's in Australia, the Diversity Visa (DV) lottery is a process by which a prospective immigrant from certain specific countries (namely, countries we don't get a lot of immigrants from so most Latin American countries and Canada don't qualify) can file documentation with the Secretary of State and be entered in a lottery system to allow them to immigrate to the US without qualifying under one of the other broad categories. Since I can't legally afford to support him right now (but could afford to support him if he were even just working a minimum wage job) this is our best hope for him being able to immigrate in the next 3-5 years and he forgot to file the paperwork.

    It's like a sucker punch to the gut.

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    Image of Lizabelle Lizabelle
    11/29/09

    Dear mother with the four kids on my train,

    Thank you so much for singling me out for a seat move because you're precious little angels needed more leg room. Thank you for complaining to the conductor when I simply couldn't force my joints to unlock any faster. My RA ravaged body is excited to take on the challenge of the having a seat further barring my legs from my movement, while my ears are delighted by the earth shattering swan song of your eldest complaining that she has no tray table.

    Additionally, I'm so glad that you brought along a tub or two of tuna salad and have set yourself upon the task of making a sandwich mountain. The continued assault on my physical comfort helps to remind me that life is good and I should be thankful for the incessant whining and pointing in my general direction.

    It was not a problem dragging myself to the least comfortable place for someone with the condition, but I'm certain you know that. After all, not a word of thanks was offered by you, which goes to show how well you read my latent excitement. Please extend my thanks to you conductor cohort, I was so happy to know that I look good enough to warrant the "one day, when you're a mom, you'll understand" speech when the kids aren't with me. I'm glad that he too noticed my ease of motion.

    Complacently yours,
    Lizabelle

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    SomeAuthorGirl promoted this comment Lizabelle was starred Lizabelle was unstarred
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    11/29/09

    @Lizabelle: *hugs* That sucks the big one. The tuna in particular was salt in the wound.

    I wandered into the groupthink to post something about how sometimes being a parent is exactly as annoying as those without children suspect. But considering what you went through, I'll keep it to myself and nurse this lemon drop instead. :)

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    11/29/09

    @SomeAuthorGirl: Being a parent isn't easy...I just want to hit this particular one.

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    SomeAuthorGirl promoted this comment Lizabelle was starred Lizabelle was unstarred
    Image of bluebears bluebears
    11/29/09

    God DAMN it! Tennessee just won, I was about to move into 2nd place for the week in my pickem league.

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    11/30/09

    @bluebears: I'm not fielding a fantasy and/or pickem team this year, but I can certainly commiserate. Who knew Vince Young had 387 yards in him? Tennessee seems to have picked up a little steam out of nowhere.

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    11/29/09

    How many of you guys are actually prepared for an emergency? Like, stored water and canned goods, etc?

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    11/29/09

    @deeemer: I have an emergency kit in my car and my boyfriend's car. Blankets, clothes, shoes, lights, batteries, medicine, first aid kit, and a gun/ ammo. And we have a few scenarios for getting out of the city.

    We're in DC though, so we're pretty much screwed in event of nuclear attack. Now disease etc, we might have enough to survive.

    Reading The Road pretty much killed any hope I had though ;o).

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    11/29/09

    @deeemer: We have water delivered so we usually have 3-5 of those large 3 gallon jugs at any one time. We have some canned food but nothing we made a point to have incase of emergency.

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    11/29/09

    @deeemer: I've been thinking about this a lot, lately. I am very unprepared, mostly because I have to move around a lot, and can't take my stored water and canned food with me everywhere. It worries me from time to time. In the event of the zombie apocalypse, I am so going to be in the first wave of casualties, especially because I don't even have a gun.

    In all seriousness, I'd love to be more prepared, but it's not possible right now. I would have to rely on others if something happened, which sucks.

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    chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish promoted this comment Adah was starred Adah was unstarred
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    11/29/09

    @deeemer: I have cat food. Lots and lots of cat food.

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    11/29/09

    @chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish: See we don't have a lot of that and we would have very angry kitties in the case of an emergency. I should make a point to pick up some extra.

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    11/29/09

    @Miss Scarlett: Mostly, I just want to make sure I'm not eaten in my sleep. I'm woefully outnumbered here. :)

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    11/29/09

    @chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish: I guess you can gnaw on those in an emergency.

    You missed me freaking out last night. I just finished this book: [www.amazon.com]

    And now I'm so scared, I can't sleep at night. SO. VERY. SCARED.
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    11/29/09

    @curiousgeorgiana: I hated The Road. The only redeeming factor of that joyless, emotionless book was the announcement that Viggo would play the dad in the upcoming movie. But the book I read recently was worse in terms of "this could really happen". "One Second After".

    As an aside, you're pretty much screwed in DC regardless. The OSA book has a particularly gruesome end for you folks. And I didn't know that the murder rate in DC is higher than everywhere else! How bizarre.

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    11/29/09

    @Miss Scarlett: I think I want to get water delivered, just to have those jugs. I bought a bunch of those little water gallons, and those developed little holes and swamped my floor. Ugh.

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    11/30/09

    @curiousgeorgiana: The Road taught me that in the event of nuclear devastation or some such, I will be eaten by newly formed tribes of humans with fewer qualms than I. And that the human spirit is a funny thing or some shit, but whatever. The message that stuck with me is the former.

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    11/30/09

    @jigglyball: Exactly. Are you carrying the fire?

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    11/30/09

    @deeemer: Awww, I loved The Road. Story was god awful depressing, but the language was gorgeous.

    "If he was not the word of God, then God never spoke."

    Come on--that's good stuff.

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    11/30/09

    @jigglyball: Don't forget being raped! Thanks, The Road! Oh, and The Stand!

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    Image of BearDownCBears BearDownCBears
    11/29/09

    Johnny Knox, hellz yeah.

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    11/29/09

    @BearDownCBears: Never mind.

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    11/29/09

    @BearDownCBears: How's my guy Forte doing? He's a fellow Tulanian of mine :o)

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    11/29/09

    @curiousgeorgiana: Suck. There are no holes. The offensive line is terrible, minus the tight ends. That's why I'm slow to sign on to the "Jay-Cutler-is-horrible" bandwagon because he's constantly running for his life.

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    11/29/09

    @BearDownCBears: Boo. I was so hopeful for Forte after a great rookie season. Hopefully your O-line will get healthy/ get some draft picks in the off season.

    I am so glad the Redskins didn't pick up Cutler ;o). Not that Campbell or our o-line is much better.

    As my Dad has been a Bears fan since the 60s, Go Bears!!

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    11/29/09

    @BearDownCBears: This game is brutal.

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    11/29/09

    @bluebears: It's like I'm in junior high again. I'd go down to the bus stop Monday morning and my friend would be in his Starter brand Packers coat ripping on me.

    Oh what a surprise, they pulled their 33-year-old tackle. Who we paid for.

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    11/29/09

    @BearDownCBears: I am disturbed at all these Michiganders who were apparently fans of non-Lions affiliated nfl teams.

    Seriously though, what has happened to their defense? I agree, Cutler gets no protection. I've always thought he was uneven though, even in Denver.

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    11/29/09

    @bluebears: Mike Brown was awesome, but he got hurt and old. Urlacher has sort of fizzled since his best days with neck and back owies. The starting defensive ends are over 30. Tommie Harris is perpetually hurt; the other tackle is a perpetual rotation. Tillman's okay, but he's no Charles Woodson.

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    11/29/09

    @BearDownCBears: I also think they've suffered in the coaching department.

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    11/29/09

    @bluebears: I hate to admit it, but yeah. The Mr. Cool approach is much better when you are structurally sound and need to manage games. Ron Rivera got in deep shit over the Super Bowl debacle, so Lovie took over the D coordinator job too. Now the defense plays like 9-year-olds. This correlation looks suspiciously like causation.

    Is it an attitude thing? Singletary's tough-guy routine is popular with the Madden types, but I'll admit I was a doubter. Pro footballers aren't high schoolers you can marshall along with "toughness" slogans about "no excuses". But you know, although the Niners are still not great this year, they're better than they were. Part of me wants to say Da Bears could use some of that right now.

    But you know, it doesn't look like their problem is discipline, it's talent. They NEED NEW PLAYERS. Same with the Lions, although you should hold onto Stafford, IMO.

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    11/29/09

    @BearDownCBears: They have really dragged their feet on getting young blood in, particularly in the defense. The really good organizations don't wait until their former championship team is totally old and broken before they get new players.

    I agree about the whole "tough-guy" bullshit. It CERTAINLY isn't working for Mangini in Cleveland and god knows its never worked for the Lions.

    eta: I agree about Stafford. I think he has a good arm and he showed heart in that Browns game. He will run up against the same problem that every Lions qb faces, absolutely no protection. Ford apparently is still trying to "crack" that problem.

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    11/29/09

    @bluebears: I think we take a colonial romp into Canada and steal their best CFL talent. We can recruit the Michigan Militia and compensate them with Nugent tickets or something. Whoever loses the series between our teams this year gets first pick.

    Be extra nice to Pilgrim Soul over the next few weeks, because we'll need to recruit her as an interpreter between the Canadian prisoners and the lawyers.

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    Image of jigglyball jigglyball
    11/30/09

    @BearDownCBears: Oh, Jay. Jay, Jay, Jay. I watched you for four years at Vandy. You should be fucking used to running for your life.

    That said, the kid's got genuine talent and some serious mettle, but he's in a funk, and the Bears need to add some pieces to the offense, and fast (except that they forfeited a draft pick for ol' Jay).

    And by kid, I mean large man who graduated a year ahead of me.

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    11/30/09

    @bluebears: Cutler is totally uneven. I really thought he'd grow beyond that in the pros, but he hasn't developed as quickly as I'd hoped. Which is a shame, because dude's talented. I don't know if it's because he's been too busy indulging in coach and team drama to really grow as a QB, or if he thinks the comparisons to Brett Favre are 100% favorable.

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    11/30/09

    @BearDownCBears: Not to sidetrack the conversation, but are you a Chicagoan? I'll be there this coming weekend, and I'm welcoming recommendations for eating, drinking and general merry-making.

    And if you know where the Bears hang out, I would like to go heckle Mr. Earl Bennett, Mr. Jay Cutler, and Mr. Hunter Hillenmeyer. STOP RECREATING THE WORST PARTS OF MY COLLEGE EXPERIENCE, YOU TOOLBAGS.

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    Image of ucelluccia ucelluccia
    11/29/09

    So I don't have a signature scent. Not really. This is related to my lack of knowledge about makeup (outside of lip balm and the occasional heavy eyeliner for a concert), fashion (outside of jeans and Chucks and tank tops), and other grown-up things.

    I currently wear Ryder by Hollister (I know, I know), which I am fine with, but I'd like to find a "real" scent, you know? I've always loved the way Husband's cologne (all men's cologne, really) smells, but I don't know enough about perfume not to end up smelling like a dude. Help?

    (PS for those who remember -- the hair turned out cute except that my cowlick is accentuated. Awesome.)

    #scents

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    11/29/09

    @ucelluccia: OK, and to add -- I like citrus smells in general, but don't know if I'd still like them in a perfume. I am drawn to clean smells in general, as well, but again, don't know if they will translate into a perfume. Grarrrrrrrrr frustrated.

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    Image of taliewalie taliewalie
    11/29/09

    @ucelluccia: I'd probably go to Sephora or a department store, try a lot of different perfumes and see which one I liked the best!

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    Image of Blodwynn Blodwynn
    11/29/09

    @ucelluccia: I have a love affair with Burberry's women's perfume. Unfortunately, I live no where near a Sephora and the cheapest bottle I found was out of my price ange at the time. :/

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    Image of highshinebright highshinebright
    11/29/09

    @ucelluccia: Not trying to be a sephora salesperson or anything but they have something where you pay like $50 and get about 10 different perfume samples and then you can try them out and when you have decided what you want you go back to the store and they give you a full size of one of the samples. I'm not sure exactly what perfumes are in the pack but you should check it out.

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    Image of rileycal rileycal
    11/29/09

    I have to go to a dinner for my sister-in-laws birthday tonight. It's going to be awkward. I am not looking forward to this..

    This day has been really awful so far, so I'm hoping this dinner will go smoothly. I want to eat good food, dammit!

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    11/29/09

    @rileycal: why will it be awkward? do you not get along with her?

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    11/29/09

    @bluebears: There was the whole mess of her thinking my brother was lying to her, which he wasn't, and she brought pretty much EVERYONE into it. It went to unbelievable heights over something that should have been handled between my brother and her.

    Then, my brother stopped talking to us, and has only recently started contacting us more.

    The thing is, nothing has been resolved. We've tried to talk to both of them about it cause she's not the only one to blame, it's bad decisions on both parts. So I fear a fake setting, which really makes me annoyed.

    And I've never had a problem with her, my brother dated her for 6 years before getting married to her last November. My sister on the other hand.. but she won't be there so thank Jesus.

    Oh my, sorry about unloading all this! Haha

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    11/29/09

    @rileycal: ugh that sucks. sorry.

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