This is a list of things people have said to me with the intent of complimenting me. I really didn't know what to say after, so I just smiled and nodded. My Grandpa-in-law: "You've fattened up since the last time I saw you. Now you don't look like a skeleton." Friend from my former church: "You look just like Claire Danes in that movie....what's the one where she's sickly the whole time then she dies...?" (Little Women is the answer there by the way, and Claire Danes does look like death the entire movie.) My mother: "You take after your father. Bags under the eyes are hereditary." My husband, when asked by an acquaintance if his wife was a good cook: "She makes a delicious meat loaf and.... (pause while searching the far corners of his brain for another meal I cook well) Yeah, her meat loaf is really good." An old Army (girl) friend, describing what she thought was my nicest feature: "You have nice legs.