I’m trying to be the most generous reader I can be, but I still don’t really understand what’s happening here.

At least it wasn’t

Yeppppp a few weeks ago a guy was RELENTLESSLY pursuing me on Tinder/texts and literally the bare minimum amount of Facebook digging revealed that he had a girlfriend.

“Fuck that, are you kidding me?” <—————— YES. THANK YOU. My exact response when I got engaged and started researched pricing for all of the venues I had put on a mental “consider for when we get engaged” list. At the end of the day I realized that the kind of bride I wanted to be was a MARRIED bride. That’s it. That…

My 2 pound dogs. Satos from Puerto Rico. 14 pound Chihuahua/Rat Terrier on the left, 45 pound Beagle/Whippet on the right.

Same. I adopted a 4 year old lab and he lived to be 15!

I would also add that older dogs can be great to adopt as well. I adopted a 6 year-old border collie mutt, and he lived to be 14. He was already house-trained, and was an awesome dog. I miss him every day.

Why the hell would anyone pay $650 for a Lilly Pulitzer for Target dress when they could buy an actual Lilly Pulitzer dress for like $200?

I hate pranks. I am an old, cranky woman when it comes to pranks. And other stuff.

This team is better than last year's team that lost to UCONN in the Sweet Sixteen—and that Cyclone team was a Final Four team before Niang broke his foot in the first game of the tournament. Consider the fact that this team almost never gets rattled and Hoiberg is so calm, cool, and collected—he makes Gandhi look like…

I have but one quibble. Iowa State isn't a "small school." It's got nearly 35,000 students and is the largest university in the state of Iowa.

Yep, small school!

The 21 point comeback against Oklahoma came in their second matchup out in Ames.. not in the Big XII Tourney. Although they trailed in that game as well, it wasn't by 21.

The Oklahoma 21 point comeback was near the end of the regular season. In the Big 12 Tournament the comeback against Oklahoma was only 11 points.

In a year where the Hawkeyes are the third best team in our damn state, I can barely bring myself to read this article and all the homerisms I assume are contained herein about Ames and Veisha and their awful football stadium...

Whatever you do, make sure you consider the financial situations, travel constraints, etc. of others invited to the party. Yes, this may mean you have to tone it down a bit, but I think that's better than 1. making someone stretch their budget for a silly party or 2. turn down the invitation because they can't afford…

Anyone having to plan a bachelorette party should ask the bride what she is up for to make sure she has a good time and isn't doing something she hates.

Consider what the bride enjoys. The whole "Oh I'll take you to the strip joint and pay for a lap dance because that will humiliate you or anything else that you hate" isn't fun for anyone at the party and yes we all thought you were a fucking dick.

For my bachelorette we went to the ballpark! My sister and cousin made reservations at a sports bar near the Phillies' ballpark (Chickie's and Pete's) where we had dinner and shared pitchers of craft beer, then we hung out at the game which was a hilariously good time, and then we did a little dancing and drinking at…