Finally, a marriage proposal trend I can get behind. However, I would also get all these doggies together in a closed room, let them off the leash, and enjoy a cuddly puppy swarm.

Well, the story says they were with their owners, so hopefully that is taken care of.

So.... it's like a crackerjack box for ladies who love Scentsy?

Great. They're terrible for the environment. They can invade the bodies of even the smallest aquatic critters and get ingested or get stuck in tissues. What asshole was like: "We need more tiny pieces of plastic in our water supply — let's put it in soaps!"

My parents have a seasonally-appropriate story: They met in Boston after a blizzard when my dad was shoveling his car out of the snow. He was using a really tiny, crappy shovel and wasn't getting anywhere, and my mom, who is from Minnesota, made fun of his tiny shovel and offered to help with her much bigger shovel.…

I was drunk and angry at my friends and stormed out of a bar to sit outside and smoke and stew in my feelings. My (future) boyfriend was walking into the same bar with friends and somehow thought I looked cute smoking angrily alone outside (of a bar that allowed smoking, no less). Despite having severe asthma, he…

Sadly, when my boyfriend really gets going, he snores loud enough to hear through earplugs.

I think it really depends on your body type. I could never realistically be that skinny, but I'm also bigger than most people. I'm 5'9 and just have a kind of larger overall stature. I had an eating disorder years ago and the lowest I ever got was a size 7/8. Most people would consider that "average" but my pelvic…

Where from near Houma? I worked for the newspapers in Houma and Thibodaux for a few years starting in 2007. I actually got to cover a bit of the Ronald Dominque case. Sometimes I wonder about the violent crime in this part of the world. For such a small area some horrible shit happens here. Just a couple of years ago,…

I know visiting the Alamo and battling hoards of tourists on the Riverwalk always get me in the mood...

Seriously. I thought I was done with this bullshit when I moved to New Orleans six years ago. I lost my hat and gloves. My wool trenchcoat was at the bottom of a box in my attic. Then after the sixth or so hard freeze this winter I had to give up and buy an ice scraper. I know you guys have it worse in Chicago and New…

My boyfriend's going to be so disappointed. I guess I really should have married him before I expired.

Oh crap. I just turned 30. I didn't realize that my sexy was required to be automatically powered down on the eve of my 30th birthday.

Oh no! Poor little dude. I've had a 20 lb cat before, and he was pretty fat. I can't imagine how you get a cat to 36 lbs. Hope someone gets him healthy!

I hope my little sister doesn't see this. She has had a pathological fear of escalators since we were kids and watched this Rescue 911 episode about a little boy who's almost strangled to death by his clothes when he gets caught in the escalator. At 27 she still flinches getting on the escalator if she thinks about…

She definitely sounded like she was singing live. You didn't catch the bits when she was dancing and lost her breath a bit?

Ha. Yeah. When I first start dating him, he'd returned home to try to finish his degree at a regional college after failing out of a good school. He was having all of these problems despite being ridiculously smart and eventually told me he used to be treated for ADD. He was always losing things, always spacing out on…

It can be the same for adults too, depending on who you go to. My boyfriend was diagnosed in childhood and had to be "re-diagnosed" in adulthood because some doctor told his parents that people grow out of ADD and took him off his medication when he graduated high school. Then he failed out of his first college, and…

AMEN. I'm from the South. I was raised to be extra polite. It makes me feel good to be a "nice" person, and honestly, it's gotten me places! I get irritated that people tell me I'm somehow not as strong if the demeanor I want to present is one of politeness and pleasantness. I worked as a reporter for years and my…

Because I was an extremely shy nerdy gaming girl growing up in a very small southern town, in high school I used the internet as a major social outlet and used to make online friends/meet people I got to know online. This was before Facebook and before dating websites took off and it was considered really considered…