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"Pretty is as pretty does", per my grandmother.

She's naturally pretty; not Gino's type.

I bought towels yesterday. The original price was crazy, and even on deep discount they were pricy. I washed them, on gentle, in my brand new washing machine. The hems are fraying and there are picked threads all over each towel. Back to the store I go. But I'm not bothering to fold them and bundle them up in the pretty ribbon in which they came.

Hope all of the Canucks are sitting on your nice chesterfield, with your feet up on your ottoman. And a monkey. Haven't you always wanted a monkey?

When I was a kid, we stayed with relatives for a short visit. The son, who was about 10, poured a large quantity of ketchup on everything he ate. It was really disgusting to watch. When they visited us the next summer, my mother threw away our ketchup before they arrived so she could honestly say "sorry, we don't have any ketchup."

Chicago style hot dog nothing else will do.

Your phone has a magnifier tool, don't even have to take a photo.

I thought it was Jessa speaking, but it was Jana.

Jana has never been an elocutionist, but she seems to be deliberately adopting a "hillbilly" accent.

Staples in Canada runs a great ad campaign for Back to School sales - parents (well, moms) skipping merrily with carts of school supplies while "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" plays.

Whereas I start with the presumption "unless you are explicitly told to spread this news, keep it to yourself." In a world of social media oversharing, people seem to have lost all sense of others' privacy.

Who is against the Queen must die.

Not the "Canadian way" signed a Canadian

All the more reason for her son not to be talking about her. And if he does have a Power of Attorney, it would give him the right to handle her financial affairs. It does not give him the right to blab her personal business to the world. Bruce Willis does not appear to be so incapacitated, so presumably is aware of, and consents to, the statements his family has made. If not, them shame on them too.

Because it's her private business, unless she chooses to share it.

Where does Rowlands' son get off announcing her medical condition to the world?

Top tip - do it on Sundays. It helps overcome that Sunday night dread "The weekend is over, I have to go to work tomorrow" with "goody, I get clean sheets".

The worst is when you head up to bed and realize "Damn, I washed the sheets this morning and was planning to put them back on the bed. They're still in the dryer."

Have a party, have all the parties you want, say all the special words you want, engage in all the rituals you want. But a wedding is a specific thing - the ceremony in which two people are legally joined in marriage. To suggest their actual legal wedding didn't really count, or wasn't a real wedding is an insult to all of the people who fought for decades for the right to be legally married.

You're already married. You staged a piece of performance art, not a wedding.

Because the star has to want (or at least consent to) it, and pay for it. Lots of people couldn't be arsed about having a star. Walk of Fame rules

The penalty for "refusing to blow" is the same as "blowing over the limit". If you have been in an accident, legal advice is to refuse to blow, so there is no evidence how impaired you were.

It's such a bullshit argument. Moms (it's never dads) obviously carry or walk the children from the car to get the cart. You do it again in reverse; put your groceries in your car, take your children to return the empty cart, then carry or walk your children back to the car where you started.

A further update to my Easter baking saga. The last of the lemon ricotta cake from my freezer makes a great strawberry shortcake.

"him and myself" The number of office emails I receive that begin "on behalf of Big Boss and myself...." ... Not to mention the "please contact myself". I deserve a medal for not hitting "Reply all" and using the vocabulary this grammar deserves.