I was listening to Alanis Morsette on my walkman and I sang outloud the lyrics “Wine, dine, 69 me” and then my mom transitioned that into the sex talk by asking “Do you know what 69 means?” It was quite the opener.

On behalf of women everywhere, can we get a slow clap started for the advice for LiL?!

Nope! No eating for at least 12 hours before!

That’s such a better T-shirt idea than the “7 Months Sober” shirt I was wearing before.

The best way to respond to this: make eye contact, lean forward and touch their belly the very same way. It gets your point across without having to say anything.

Yes. Someone needed to say this. We all love NPR in our family, and my SIL works at NPR in DC but having a kid makes you really wary of the world when you listen to NPR all day. Sometimes “ignorance is bliss” is temporarily okay and this is one of those times.

Yeah, BuFu Florida is blue in the counties where its all younger labor/farm families and the counties that are choc-full-o’old people are green. That seems off.

I married a civil engineer. I have to listen about signing and marking all the time. All the time!

That it’s okay to ask for what you want. Women deserve to have as much pleasure as men. Never fake anything, it reinforces bad habits.

Go you! You wrote a great, helpful article, you’re sticking to a budget and you’re teaching your kid about money.

This was a helpful article. It’s definitely worth it’s weight in gold with all it’s insights. Thanks!

I would marry into that.

You, sir, are a genius.

I add one small can of sweet creamed corn and a spoon full of sugar to make the best cornbread you’ve ever tasted. It’s always a crowd pleaser and people don’t believe it is Jiffys.

I loved it! It was like every kind of topography crammed into two little islands. I did everything from boarding down giant sand dunes, black water rafting (the river is 60m underground), bungee jumping, hiking, to just laying on the beach. And I ate a surprising amount of Malaysian food.   

Lol. I found that Japanese cars had the turn signal and blinker positioned opposite from what I’m used to but German cars had it in the right spots.

Oh yeah, and learn what the yellow and white lines mean. They weren’t the same as in the US.

I hope I can help. I lived in New Zealand for a year and learned some lessons the hard way. Foreign countries do not test tourists. The international permit is all you need. Here are my pointers:

Yeah me too!!!

And if you mean “weak” like not enough caffeine, have you thought about a Matcha green tea. Mighty Leaf has a decent Matcha. So does Trader Joe’s.