WRONG. The only acceptable music on 4th of July is Bluegrass. I recommend just putting Devil Makes Three or Trampled By Turtles on Pandora. You pretty much can’t go wrong with either of those as it pulls a good mix of old and new.

OMG I had her twin! She was also a stray and was also THE. SWEETEST. CAT. She was 18 or 19 when we had to put her down. I’m choosing to believe that your kitty is my Kizzy reborn and taking life by storm :)

I’m gonna go with Criminal Minds episode, but yes... Definitely!

Not really the same thing at all but.... The same thing almost happened to me last night! I had been unloading some grain from the back of my truck and left the tailgate open when I was done. I noticed it later in the evening and went to close it. Just as I was lifting it up this little head popped up:

So kind of off topic but yet not off topic... My parents happen to own and live in a house that Henry Hill lived in for a time here in WA. He was renting it and trying to buy it, but didn’t have the money. Apparently he ended up getting evicted and the house was subsequently sold... To one of the detectives who…

OMG your friend’s family is hilarious and awesome!

YES! 100% team horse! Also... I’m mostly anti selfie UNLESS said selfie depicts horse kisses :D

NOOOOOOO!!!! This is seriously like 90% of my year round alcohol consumption. I suddenly feel the need to spend my entire next paycheck on my favorite kind (Headsnapper, OMG so good)... Let’s see 365 days a year/2 days per bottle = 182.5 bottles per year * $10 a bottle = $1825... Oh god I spend A LOT of money on…

THIS. I know some women that probably have marriages similar to the ones in this article and I wouldn’t enter into that kind of thing for all the money in the world... BUT... If I had the chance to not work and not depend on a relationship for my financial well being? Hell yeah, I’d be all over that! But I have kind…

Yes. I knew what I was signing up for as far as loans go. I didn’t know that the bottom would fall out of the economy just as those debts would come due. All of the pie in the sky promises of what a college education would bring dissipated and there I was, left to pay it all back via the same restaurant gig I had…

THIS. This was my first question after reading this. Not to be all selfish... But what about me and my friends and family members of the same age? This shit should be retroactive or there should at least be some assistance for those of us who are mired in student loan debt.

I know! We have about 2400 s.f.... We have one bedroom that never gets used, a den that we really only go in on Christmas, and a sun room that is basically a large, very disorganized filing cabinet. It’s silly and while I love and appreciate everything we have... I often find myself daydreaming about having half the…

I agree! I am not in a position to get to travel much right now so I love to live vicariously through my friends. I also use it as an opportunity to add destinations to my list that I never thought of visiting before. I have a friend who is spending 6+ months traveling all over Asia at the moment and I love all of her…

Being adopted, YES! I too have this fear. Fortunately we moved to the other side of the country from where I was born/adopted when I was 10 so it’s probably unlikely.... But still... The chance is there and EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

So this is off topic being that it has nothing to do with getting married but... I recently learned that you can actually purchase a private rail car and Amtrak will tow you along on any of their routes (for a fee, of course)!!! I actually bought a mega millions ticket for the sole reason of doing this. Fuck private…

I miss eventing because I feel like I encountered that less in that discipline. I'm a dressage rider now and holy crap the snootiness/cattiness! I've been lucky to find a small group of really great people and to be able to bring my horses home so I can place myself on the periphery of that stuff. Hate the politics…

I'm the same way about the back... As a dressage rider it's soooo important to what we do, but I've always been super persnickety about saddle fit and what not. I never, ever mount from the ground... Then again my older horse is almost 17hh and the other one is a squirrely 16hh youngster so I'm not sure if I could…

Yes she is! Total boss!

I will give you that. I kinda let it slide because basically... Shit happens out in the field. As a former eventer and occasional foxhunter I've certainly been there and I can't imagine how much more difficult it would be to do it in a sidesaddle with the rest of the hunt field bearing down right behind you :)

So I am not a sidesaddle rider (though I've always wanted to try it), but from the sidesaddle riders I've talked to it doesn't put any additional strain on the horse as long as the saddle is fitted properly and the rider keeps their balance centered over the horse... So essentially the same deal as when you ride…