Full disclosure: We are from a country were people DO NOT get married. My parents were together 25 years and never married and that's pretty much the norm. Which make the story even better :)

Exactly. If you don't officially NOT invite them, they will show up! This was a smart move!

South Park?? What's that?!?!

You can't say things like that and just not tell the story... Right?

I never understood why people feel embarrassed to be a virgin. Older virgins are rare and I don't know for guys (looking for virgin girls) but I know a lot of ladies (and guys) who think a virgin guy is really really sexy. Yet, where I come from, sex is not as big of a deal than lets say in american culture.

There a few trick to ease the pain. Get it installed when you are ovulating. My doc told me that and apparently it work because I got mine after work and was good to go to work the next day. It didn't hurt much more than regular period.

Mental image. No. Noooo. Noooooooo!

Mirena is (almost) all my wishes come true in the form of a birth control.

Sure!! If you don't mind moving here, dealing with bone chilling temperature and shoveling feet and feet of show to get to work 9 months a year... Not a problem!! ;) I always like new friends, it keep us warm when we don't have electricity ;)

That's why you need friends! And we do this often, but not as often if someone kill a moose or a deer when it's hunting season.

You can buy "half" an animal too. And when you tell your friends that it's cheaper... You'll have to refuse offers!

And don't be afraid to visit the farm the animals come from! Local farmers LOVE when you get interrested in what they do and how they do it. It's so surprising for urban folks to realize all the work and love that goes into what farmers do, specialy the small businesses. I have a great relationship with my local…

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A few years ago, going trough some kind of phase in my life, I decided to go as minimal as I could get with my purse. It became kind of a quest to find the optiomal way to carry the bare minimum around.

I always tell my friends who are concerned about the environmental side of eating meat that it is difficult but far from impossible to find a butcher who is specialized in small or ancestral farming business.

Any idea if it's available outside the US?

I salute you anonymous courage! You are the stuff of nightmares!

This Harvard ban is simply insane. It is NOT applicable on a daily basis.

Home Shellac thingies are terrible. If you want gel or shellac, get it done in a salon.

Really? I worked in service industry all my life and I never had a boss NOT take my side!