Does it count if it's a member of the family? Because my husband is a tall dark-haired man and he brought me fried chicken on NYD.

Korea does this as a country, so my husband "turned" 32 yesterday, even though his birthday isn't until the summer. It confuses the hell out of me, so for the next six months or so I'll keep waffling on my age ("Uh, 26. I mean 27! Wait, four years younger than Hubs, so that's...") and confusing everyone else.

Awww, his half moustache makes him look like he had a mishap at the barber while getting a trim.

Here in Korea, my exotic "animal" at my wedding was me! Plus my parents and the three Americans + one French girl* who showed up as my guests.

I teach English to kindergartners and elementary students, most of whom spend up to 10 hours a day in school and extra school. One of their readings one day was about how children all over the world, particularly girls, couldn't go to school, and I could see that it just blew their minds. Since then, many of them have…

Poodle party!

My poodle is named Louis (pronounced Louie) because my husband wanted a French name for it and it was the only name we both liked that he could pronounce. It was a pretty good choice simply for the infinite number of nicknames it spawns (Lou, Lulu, Skip To My Lou, Lovely Louis, King Louie, etc).

I really don't understand why you'd be jeered. What about people in the army? Pretty much everyone knows (or at least knows of) someone in the service, and unless they have some secret way of getting GS cookies that I'm unaware of, it's rather ignorant to assume that no one overseas would be interested.

This happened to the couple across the street from us. I used to babysit the youngest two, and the oldest girl and my brother were the same age and at the same school, so it just made sense to have family playdates. Then the wife died (very suddenly) of pneumonia after I went away to college and everything kind of…

Do you have any idea if there will be international shipping? I've been cookie free for three years and it SUCKS. D:

OHMYGODYES.

My husband is the one who has problems with this in our relationship. I'm perfectly happy to rely on my dog or coworkers for random shit I want to do, but my husband is of the mind that we should do everything together because we're a couple. Normally I indulge him as much as I can, but it gets to be a bit much.

I walked in on my parents once when I was about 5 or 6 and couldn't sleep, but they covered pretty well and it wasn't until years later that I realized what they had been doing. (I also realized that my brother was probably conceived around then.)

I work at a kindergarten, and I see at least one Elsa dress a day. Some of them are so sparklyyyyyyyyy~

I always take the obvious toiletries (soap, shampoo, etc) and often take things like pens or stationary (sometimes intentionally, and sometimes I just forget to put them back after carrying them with me all day), but I always leave everything else. The only thing I've ever taken that I considered "stealing" was a…

One of my coworkers has larger-than-average breasts and every time she complains about the kids trying to touch them or making strange comments, the Korean teachers say, "They're just not used to such large bodies!"

Speaking as someone whose parents transplanted her there at an early age, I can assure you that it basically is.

My great-grandmother had her last child really late compared to the others, so she was born right around when my grandfather (who married early) started making his own family. Then when my great-grandmother got remarried to an emotionally abusive man who wouldn't let her take her daughter to the hospital when she was…

Yeah, I'm an extremely indecisive person, but I solve this by sucking it up and not forcing my friends to do things for me. I'm a big girl, I can deal with it myself.

Does anyone have any good Thanksgiving recipes that don't require an oven? My other foreign coworkers and I are planning on having a Thanksgiving potluck, but this being Korea I don't have an oven. Ideally I want to stay away from salads, just because it feels like a cop-out. I have a stove, a microwave, and a…