I was told by a laser clinic I wasn’t a candidate either, blond hair (well I’m a redhead but I wanted to get rid of the blond facial hair) and pale Irish skin.

drums. I got my niece a drum kit. I am sure her parents love me for that.

You’re a better mom than I. I told my son, who at 4 was told he shouldn’t like purple because it’s a girl colour, that the kid who said it said what he did because his parents didn’t love him.

Beware! Flying cross the ocean tends to get you a better “quality” of flight attendant than flying cross country, esp. BA, they seem more professional. Make sure you check the carriers rules on carry-on and try to adhere to them. Get there early early and request priority boarding. I have seen some horrible FA’s be so…

We don’t have Uber in my city (yet). An acquaintance is a sex crimes investigator in the city. There were SEVERAL sexual assaults on women over the 10 day period of our annual summer festival, perpetrated by licensed cab drivers. In cabs with partitions. They didn’t make the media, for whatever reason. I only know,…

No! Those are not good. Nononononono.

i don’t live there, but worked in and out of there for a few months, and i appreciate it. :)

hahaha! No, she was a hockey wife after my time in the trenches, and all reports were she was a really sweet girl (same town though!) The offending wife in question was European, not Duff!

I shouldn’t have scared you off! The NWT is a gorgeous landscape. Really and truly wild lands. Just wear a bug jacket. They are a lifesaver.

Right?! Blackflies have NOTHING on the horsefly. Good god. They are huge. Like small dogs live in fear. Blackflies are midges. Midge includes a few species of small flies.

Totally not related, a co worker bought the domain “JesusCheeses” years ago as a joke to make “holy” cheese to serve at communion because the “crackers” were too boring on their own. I don’t think she kept it though. It still makes me laugh. (I know this serious story might not be the place to share, but I am…

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…