This is hilarious. Make sure to check out the descriptions and the other classic thongs . . . I particularly enjoy the DSM one.

Via Feministing.

When I stopped writing blogs, I stopped reading them, for the most part, as well. It was just too much to keep up with, and reading the blogs of people I actually know reminded me of how I wasn't blogging and then I just felt bad. So for a while, I cut down my daily reads to almost nothing. I will never tell you what the list was, because some of them are totally embarrassing. But here's a summary: one liberal blog, one conservative blog, one gossip site, one political tabloid, one feminist blog, and a couple environmentalist blogs. Here is the strange thing, though — I didn't bookmark any of them, so I could only read blogs if I remembered the right address. I can't explain why I was feeling so vehemently anti-blog, but I'm over it now, so please forgive me.

My foray into the world of environmentalist blogs is worth sharing, though. Here are my top three:

Crunchy Chicken
Crunchy Chicken is amazing — it seems like she can do anything from scratch, and blog about it at the same time (with a sense of humor to boot)! This is my #1 must read enviro-blog.

Going Green
'Burban Mom is "just your average suburbanite slob who woke up one day and realized my daily actions were contributing to the rapid decay of the planet." And she is freaking hilarious. What I love, love, love about this blog is that there is nothing remotely esoteric or greener-than-thou about it — it is completely accessible.

Fake Plastic Fish
Beth from Fake Plastic Fish is trying to go plastic-free. I am in complete admiration of the way that she takes the time to call and write to companies about eliminating plastic — in instances where I would totally shrug plastic off as inevitable. But she is not sanctimonious about it at all: she even dressed up as a Brita Filter as part of the Take Back the Filter campaign. (Did you know that Brita filters are recyclable in Europe but not the U.S.?) Reading this blog has made me become way more conscious about the plastic I consume.

I realize no one knows I've decided to start blogging again, so this post may remain unseen for a while. I'm hoping that someone with expertise in this subject area will stumble upon this and offer tremendous insight. Here is my dilemma:

I can't iron. I hate ironing and I'm not good at it. I have a Jiffy esteem travel steamer and it works pretty well for most things. But it doesn't work at all for my heavier pants. I also have a cheapo regular iron and a dorm-sized tabletop ironing board. When I try to iron my pants with this set-up, the iron intermittently turns itself off and drips and the weird size of the board means I end up adding even more strange creases to my pants. I have several possible solutions to this problem and I'm not sure which is the right one.

1) Buy a good iron. But what is a good iron? Need some help here.
2) Buy a full-sized ironing board. These things are much more expensive than I thought they would be.
3) Buy 1 and 2
4) Don't buy an iron at all but instead invest in a commercial-grade steamer. I kind of want to do this since I hate ironing so much but obviously it is the most expensive choice. And then in the reviews there is always someone who says not to waste your money and to keep your regular iron — but who are these people? Do they require extremely pressed clothes?

I am a regular wrinkly person with a modest budget. What should I do?

I decided to write a post.

I thought I was done blogging. Every single day, I think of something really great to share, word it perfectly in my head and then refuse to write it down. There are a lot of reasons why I don't: I stare at this screen all day for work and don't feel like staring at it afterwards, I realize whatever I'm trying to say has already been said a million times or just really isn't that important, people who know me can find out what I'm up to by reading Albert's blog, etc. etc. So why today? Do I have something important to say that no one else has ever said? Of course not. I have absolutely nothing to say. I am just breaking my seal for when I do have something to say. I realized I am not ready to completely abandon this blog . . . so here I am. And here are some interesting things:

My friend Shannon has an awesome blog about her fish. I love this girl. She is a frickin genius.

Courtney Martin reads my mind.

The second season of Mad Men premieres tonight! This is one of the best shows I have ever seen, and it is hands down the best thing on TV right now. It's kind of dark and melodramatic, but every episode is like a beautifully filmed movie in and of itself, and what else do you have to do at 10:00 on a Sunday night?