first of all: axe the cliff bar. you could eat a full lean cuisine meal for the same calories.

second: stop weighing yourself every single day. you're driving yourself nuts. do it every third day. you already have a good intuition when it comes to your having "been good or bad" - don't let the scale freak you out.

it's probably water anyway. you are not gaining fat. at the very most, it's muscle (muscle is heavier than fat). you will... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by krautland at 11:19 AM on November 2, 2006

Forget all these costume/decoration ideas...what kids really value is candy. Give out king sized candy bars. When I went trick-or-treating as a kid, there was one house in the neighborhood that always gave out huge candy bars, and to this day I can still point it out. King sized candy bars look cooler when kids do their inevitable post-trick or treat "dump all the loot on the ground and take inventory," and they're also very good trade leverage. Children will... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by apple scruff at 12:13 PM on October 18, 2006 marked best answer

Just say, "Business in the front, party in the rear."

Your stylist will know what to do.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Dirjy at 12:04 PM on August 29, 2006

that's wicked! it reminds me of some of the el-wire creations that are often photographed at burning man.
posted to MetaFilter by clyde at 8:17 PM on August 4, 2006

Mmkay. I'm 13 (almost 14). If you started a sentence with most of those things, I'd prolly "think" I have you figured out right away cuz I'd tell myself "He understands TIME but not me and my friends and what we live." (That might not be true, but it's what I'd think.)

Mmkay. Here's the deal. We like adults who DO stuff with us and open up the world to us. We don't really like it when they criticize the world we live in. We live in it cuz people... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by FeistyFerret at 11:55 AM on June 19, 2006 marked best answer