On Ask a Clean Person: Laundry School Is In Session!
@parallel-lines I wash moldy/funky things on a really hot setting (my machine does 60 C and 90 C), and throw in some soda crystals or oxy clean, and they come out fine without bleach.
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On Sex Diaries: The Results
@rosieandiknowit Hey, just to say that I have problems (although there are signs of progress) with vaginismus, and painful sex, and low libido (althrough, frankly, who is really going to be up for sex when it hurts?), and . . . hang in there. Everyone *doesn't* have an amazing sex life, and this thing you're going through is not forever. You've made progress, and I have a feeling that things will continue to get better. Also, if it's any consolation, studies have shown that a good sex life can't save a marriage or relationship -- it's the other things, like thinking of yourselves as a team, shared goals and values, and good communication, that help people to go the distance.
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On Sex Diaries: The Results
@Hello Kidney I think it just means giving each other hand jobs. My feeling is that if if something is "mutual" is no longer masturbation, amirite?! I think we should call it "digital sex," but that term totally hasn't caught on, I guess because it sounds too much like cybersex. (Ha, cybersex. Not like I'm saying I've never let things get steamy over IRC.)
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On The Best Time I Took My Baby to the Emergency Room
What a terrible thing to go through! Thanks for sharing.
A similar thing happened to me as an 8 or 9 month old baby in the early 80s. My baby seat fell from the kitchen table while my mother was making dinner. I was, and remain, perfectly fine.
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On [Maybe] Good Books That Defined You
@Hammitt Seconding both Little Women and The Giver ! How did they not come up before?
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On [Maybe] Good Books That Defined You
The Lord of the Rings (especially the appendixes) must be heavily implicated in my choice to move to a foreign country at 17 to do a linguistics degree. Plus, my husband and I would not be together if we weren't both total geeks who rely on Tolkien anaglogies. (For example, I convinced him that someone was wrong for him by asking, "Is she your Eowyn or your Arwen?" Subtext: Pick me instead.)
As a child, the Chronicles of Narnia, the Anne books and the Diary of Anne Frank all helped make me the person I am today. I also have to give a big shout out to Middlemarch, which besides being amazing, helped cure me of some of my more ridiculous ideas.
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On Ask a Clean Person: I Drank the Juice, and It Was a Mess
@Bitterblue More ideas. An internet search turned up hairspray (!?) and also the suggestion to first start out with an oil like linseed oil (which your mother will have), and then to move down to something like WD-40, and then to use detergent.
http://www.recoveryourlife.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2203
Whatever you do, do it ASAP. Yellow ochre has a medium drying time, as oil paint goes, but once it is fully cured, that's it.
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On Ask a Clean Person: I Drank the Juice, and It Was a Mess
@Bitterblue More ideas. An internet search turned up hairspray (!?) and also the suggestion to first start out with an oil like linseed oil (which your mother will have), and then to move down to something like WD-40, and then to use detergent.
http://www.recoveryourlife.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2203
Whatever you do, do it ASAP. Yellow ochre has a medium drying time, as oil paint goes, but once it is fully cured, that's it.
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On Ask a Clean Person: I Drank the Juice, and It Was a Mess
@Bitterblue Scrape as much as you can off first. If your sweater is very delicate, then the dry cleaners might be your only hope. Other thoughts:
a) You could try olive oil soap, eg Oliva. I use it to clean my brushes.
b) I know you don't like the idea, but I think your best bet (maybe after the Oliva?) is to treat the area with a mixture of dishwashing detergent and some kind of paint thinner. You may only need a teaspoon of paint thinner.
c) There are (expensive) turpentine substitutes that are either odorless or have a citrus smell. Zest-It is one.
d) Washing soda crystals on their own won't cut it, but you could use them to supplement other methods, and I think they help.
I also like @bloodorange's idea. Good luck!
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On The Finger-Wave Hair Tutorial
@gobblegirl I've been googling regional dialect survey maps but I can't find any that do a split on "mauve." I'm from Pennsylvania by way of the DC area and I say it the way you say it, rather than the way Jane says it, but I've heard both.