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The cell phone thing works, not because they're more aware of their cell phone than their child, but because it's a second change in routine that helps them remember the first change in routine. Exactly. Film crews do something similar when filming scenes inside houses. Before they start shooting t...

I never mentioned cosmetic surgery. I said plastic surgery, which cosmetic surgery falls under. And breast reduction surgery could be labeled as either depending on why someone's getting it. I know a woman who had a breast reduction to help her back pain. I know another woman who had a reduction bec...

I only hear plastic surgery mentioned in a positive light in Mormon circles when people are talking about having breast reduction surgery. Which, if you think about it, is still a form of "enhancement," just in the other direction. I very much disagree. I know multiple women who have had ...

I was really surprised that TSG and the reader think plastic surgery is less stigmatized. I've met Mormons who will admit to having tattoos, but the fact that nobody fesses up to having plastic surgery says something I think. Or maybe you never hear about it because talking about medical stuff is so...

No. 1 Ladies seems like it could pair nicely with I Know Why the caged Bird Sings.

I don't get why she's shying away from digital books. I read something recently (and now I can't find it of course) that said reading on an e-reader still sets an example for kids - their brains don't take into account what you're reading on, so long as they see you reading. That may be completely f...

I dreamed I was trying to get a date with Brain from Pinky and the Brain. I woke up before he could give me an answer, but I think he was going to say yes.

(it's me, you guys, it's me D.A.R.E.) I briefly had a linguistic professor who was talking to us about register, and about how we speak one way around some people and another way around others. (Have you already talked about this here? I didn't read anything above the last few posts. I'm just writin...

mic0 wrote:I sometimes want to ask my mom why they decided to have me, seeing as I was born 7 years after my brother, well into the time when they knew my mom had severe depression and anxiety, and far before it was mostly helped (just a few years ago).

Sounds to me like you're an oops baby.

Yeah, I got some silicone mini bundt pans for my birthday: http://www.amazon.com/Freshware-6-Cavit ... mini+bundt

I picked 16 pounds of strawberries yesterday. I sliced them all up and froze them, then baked a bunch of mini bundt sour cream cakes to freeze as well, so now I can have a tiny cake any time I want. Best decision of my entire life.

I have a friend whose parents left for a mission in Germany when he was in college, and they just didn't bother coming home for his wedding. They had one of his sisters coordinate everything and host the reception.

Someone in my ward here in TN just posted on FB that they're having a yard sell this weekend.

So, the youth speaker in my ward today gave a talk about dress and appearance, and the importance of following the guidelines in For the Strength of the Youth. She specifically mentioned not wearing sleeveless outfits, which was ...interesting, because she was wearing a sleeveless dress while she ga...

Katya wrote:I happened to be playing around in the Oxford Historical Thesaurus the other day

NEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDD.

Then let the Women's Session be for women exclusively. I'd consider that fair. Yeah, I thought about asking a Board question about this. The Women's meeting had a bunch of GAs there, and Pres. Monson presided over it, which strikes me as odd. Female auxiliary presidents can preside over their norma...

My unclaimed money check came today after I submitted my claim in December. They're really behind because of the KSL story.

Russell M. Nelson's a big supporter of using the right hand to take the sacrament. My husband said he thought he remembered him saying something about it in the last few years, so I looked and couldn't find anything that recent (granted I didn't look very extensively), but I did find something from ...

Also, as a sidenote, can anyone else not stand the women's general session? I try to listen but their lilting, sing-song voices drive me up a wall. I feel like I'm five and I just feel like it's so girlish and insincere. I am a terrible person. I'm going to my first women's broadcast ever tonight. ...

Mine is three. I worked on a film with Edward Herrmann, who was in Big Business with Fred Ward, who was in Tremors with Kevin Bacon.