The secret to braiding fine hair is to hairspray it twice and brush it out after each time you spray it before you begin braiding. It gives the hair more texture. This was my mom’s solution to braiding my really fine hair. (Really my grandma’s, but it was a group effort.) Admittedly, I grew up and cut it all off for…

I love that, and I’m incorporating it into my vocabulary.

I’m Canadian, and ‘cunt’ is reserved for traffic fuckery pretty much exclusively. I’ve only used it to refer to a person once, and I have a sailor mouth.

I lived in a university residence, and can honestly say about 60% of 18 year olds can’t. Our RAs ran laundry clinics so they could learn. It was really sad.

I’ve been in a splint on and off for 7 months, and I just found out that they sell that stuff in tube shape to occupational therapists! It’s great, I now have 2! (I am in Canada, and OT is covered by our healthcare system, so I don’t know if this is economical for Americans. But fellow Canadians, you can get this fix…

I freaked out when my ex got engaged, because we’re 20 and it was to one of my former good friends. Admittedly, I mainly used this an excuse to make my friends buy me drinks and talk dramatically about how I was a spinster. Thankfully, I now live in a beautiful place across the country, where everyone agrees with me…

I’m a college student with several younger female cousins (early high school age) and I can honestly say that’s the difference. One of them recently asked me if my long-term boyfriend and I would get engaged after grad, because that’s what people do. I asked them if they knew how much debt the average student has when…

Yep. I dye my hair a uniform black, so going to a salon amounts to highway robbery. $80 vs $13 for a box and a cooler for my best friend to ask her to do it for me.

My best friend and my only female cousin have the same first and middle names, because they were so popular in the early 90s. You don’t want to live that life, it’s incredibly annoying.

There are so many beautiful rare French names! My dad’s family is from France, and Olivia was one of the few that translated for all of my family members. I was also the only Olivia at school, and lucked out into being the only Olivia Glorieux in the world. If any of my cousins use it for a baby, I’ll be slightly…

I’m an Olivia born in the 90s, and my mom is astonishingly bitter about the name being popular now. She was unique, everyone else is a try hard (according to her).

As a 5’1” woman with one arm, this is an excellent guide. My strategy also includes trying to fly on European based airlines whenever possible, because they are infinitely nicer about it. I have purposefully chosen people who I heard speaking with European accents because they’re almost always more willing to help…

My mom is obsessed with French Meadow. She has to have the french onion soup every time we go through MSP. This has been going on as far back as I can remember. (I am personally a Maui Tacos girl.)

I’ve seen worse at that Boston Pizza on regular nights. Winnipeggers are fucked up about the Jets, and I say that as one.

My dad’s co-worker is listed in the phone as J. Bieber. He gets so many phone calls from terrifying random people. I’m pretty sure he’s going to take his fiancée’s name at this point.

My mom went back to work when I was 13, and I can honestly say that I started to enjoy spending time with her way more when we didn't have to be together 24/7. She also says she enjoyed me way more when there were aspects of her life that weren't kid-centric. It's really healthy for kids to see their parents having…

I'm from Brandon, and both Jordin and Terence Tootoo visited my class a couple of times, the last about 3 days before Terence killed himself. I still remember how incredibly kind and polite they were to all of us, and how heartbroken we all were when we heard the news. I had always hoped Jordin would tell his story to…

Glossybox Canada is amazing! It's the exact same as the US version, which is rare and fantastic.

I can report similar things for the Canadian version (got the exact same box this month). Glossybox is also a great gift for someone who loves beauty! My mom got it for me for the holidays and I think fondly of her with every box I get.

I'm a Manchester United fan, and I cannot imagine the amount of soul searching this must have caused. I'm also Canadian, and recently converted my boyfriend to my hockey team. I still have no idea how I managed it. Love makes us do strange things to our teams?