I am O+ as well! I wonder??? Midges though! A little trip to Loch Ness taught me the horrors of the midge. I did some field work in the NWT in Canada, and they had flies called “bulldogs” (I have heard of them called horseflies more commonly) and they would bite chunks of flesh from you. That was horrific. The mossies…

Wow! I’ve been a bridesmaid 3 times, and have never paid for hair and makeup! I think I have awesome friends...

As the mother of 3 I can say that if they could (as in maybe MIL can help dad for a weekend) the mom of 4 is the person who needs a weekend break the most. I get having to make a living at an hourly wage job, it’s money, and as much as it doesn’t buy happiness it sure does buy groceries. I just really feel that those…

When I was a stay at home mom, I would have killed for another set of adult hands around the house all day and night. My mother and father and MIL helped when they could, but wouldn’t it be great to have someone whose sole job was to help you? If I could afford it, I would have jumped at the chance.

Yes, nose jobs. In the 90’s that was like a sweet sixteen gift for most of the rich kids in my area. That and a Mercedes.

you do you. Not weird. It’s your wedding, if you don’t want a maid of honor or anything like that, then don’t and damn the naysayers!

Don’t they have dads? I have 3 kids, and spend weekends away with my amazing girlfriends, because fathers. (And I don’t mean “aren’t they married?” or some bull like that, I just mean that generally there is another person who created that toddler and they should have to step it up to take care of them. I am sorry in…

I was the “university friend” ina wedding party with 2 sisters, 2 cousins and a best friend growing up all from the same small town of maybe 200 people. That was a weird weekend. Thankfully they are all lovely people, but wow did i feel like the odd (wo)man out.

I like the “trend” of not matching. 125 years ago when I got married, the bridemaids dresses all matched. Several years later and my sister got married, and we all had the same colour, but very different dresses. I think complementary colours (like they don’t have to match, but maybe they don’t totally clash?) and…

I have to ask, are the weddings then HUGE? If I had 16 bridesmaids there wouldn’t be any guests left (on my side. Wedding guest count near 300 - a total of 35 on my side, friends and family all in.)

Yes! I just posted how much I loved that series. Nellie Bly was my favourite, the adventure and illustrations were awesome!. And Marie Curie. I took chem. I am glad my kids have them all now to read. My mom and grandma bought me the entire series.

My mom and grandma bought me a series of books when I was little, children’s books on important historical people. Nellie Bly was one of them, and she was by far my favorite. I would read and re-read that story for ages, convinced I would be a famous journalist like her one day. She was incredible. Thanks for this…

Camping is for young people. I made the mistake of camping in Waterford one year, the field in which we set up our tents was lovely - until the hordes of mosquitos came in and nearly killed us with all the biting. Spent the night in the tent drinking wine and playing card games. Give me a bed in surrounded by four…

Congratulations and Happy Anniversary! You put your time in the trenches and you deserve a great job that makes you happy!!

Preach! Bubbles would have been welcome back in those days! I can speak fondly of my coping mechanisms, now that the terrible trauma of my time in customer service is long past. To be honest, I just really couldn’t take any of it seriously but still needed a job so used my over active imagination and innate ability to…

Love it! When dealing with angry people I would use my soft “cult member” voice. The one that’s very monotone and non-threatening and devoid of all emotion and sounds like I have just taken 16 Valium and am about to go off with my Manson family. Customer service is fun!

I agree. You SHOULD see race. It’s a very identifying trait. People should be proud of their heritage and we should all celebrate the differences. You shouldn’t let racial stereotypes cloud your judgement, or make assumptions based on race, but to pretend that you *don’t see* that is lying to yourself and to those…

Sligo beaches are sooo lovely!

*whispers* *I think they were being sarcastic...*

Also- you should really hit up Ireland one of these times. Such a beautiful country, and much hungover fun to be had! Roscommon isn’t the most glamourous of counties, but if you want to seek out ghostly history I suggest County Galway and especially the Gaeltacht. Filled with superstition. (Also the Oyster festival in…