It’s a little different in federal prison - inmates there have to serve at least 85% of their sentence.

Marshawn "I'm Just Here So I Don't Get Fined" Lynch.

Keep yours and use his name "unofficially" for awhile. If it sticks, you can change it officially later. Or just keep using it socially when you feel like it and never change. I got married this year and felt pressured into changing it. I really regret it and am seriously considering changing it back.

I'd recommend keeping your name, with the option to use your husband's socially (e.g. when you want to be the "Doe Family," or later, "Mrs. Doe, Joe's mom"). I really wanted to have a "unit" name and my husband is closer to his family than I am to mine, so I changed mine after years of saying I never would. It's been…

Or "too old." Don't want to risk an older child with behavior problems. :(

Ugh, that is so annoying and doesn’t even make sense! You’re “supposed” to give God 10% of your income, not 10% of your brunch bill.

My husband just discovered that the liquor store in his tiny home town in northern Indiana will special order Three Floyds for him. He got a 12 pack of Zombie Dust for $20 and an entire case is on the way. I’ve never seen someone so excited.

Exactly. It sounds like this was something that had to be hand-delivered, so she should've been sending her boss a message asking when would be a convenient time for her to come get it.

Not your circus, not your monkeys.

I think my dad registers as whatever party is actually holding a primary that cycle.

Funnily enough, she’s actually registered as a Democrat per some source I recently read and can't remember.

She is now in the custody of the U.S. Marshall’s for contempt.

I mean, it’s fine for the bridesmaid not to give a gift. But she really shouldn’t have eaten that dry chicken and sliver of cake if she wasn’t going to cover the cost of her plate.

People never seem to get it right if you do anything even slightly untraditional. After much hand-wringing, I took my husband’s last name and moved my maiden name to my middle name. But instead of using my middle initial (as is customary in my profession - which I think is yours too), I use my full middle (formerly,…

I guess it's just all about knowing your audience and doing what is polite/customary in your family/region/social circle.

That was a great idea and sounds like fun! My friends are scattered all over the U.S. and insisted on meeting in Vegas. I tried to pick up tabs when I could snatch them when no one was looking and my mom got us a suite with her hotel points. Luckily, a nice guy at the craps table taught us all to play and we walked…

I don’t really have a problem with it, but maybe I would feel differently if I hadn’t grown up seeing it done this way. But in my experience, only people close to the bride (or maybe her mother) are invited to the shower. I think that it is tacky and gift-grabby to invite people who aren’t invited to the wedding…

Technically, if you give a gift at the shower, you aren’t expected to give one at the wedding. In practice, I think people generally give a gift at both and I would feel weird not doing so. But if I buy a shower gift, I usually give a smaller wedding gift, than if I hadn't gone to a shower.

We used "A Lovely Love Story" as a reading, so I really wished we had done the dinosaur thing (the book features dinosaurs). If only I had read this a week earlier!

I think people (especially family) like the idea of buying us something that we will keep for a really long time. Which I get. And I think that some people think it looks bad or "cheap" to show up to a shower with two towels as a gift (I disagree, those suckers are expensive). But I do recommend towels as a gift,…