Exactly! Mazel tov to them. The actual marriage is a gazillion times more important than whether guests (like me) could attend the ceremony.

Irony: she retouches photographs for a living and may have stolen the bib number from Instagram.

Can a vagina wince? My vagina just sympathy winced.

Yes, that is traditional etiquette. He is a good friend, and when I can afford something I know he and his husband will truly enjoy, I plan to still get them something. They have pricey tastes in things, and that's cool if it works for them (because they can afford it), so when I can I'll get them both something I…

I'm sort of blown away by some of the comments here with people saying how many weddings they are attending or participating in and then lamenting about the cost. One of my good friends lives about 4 hours away, and when he got married last year I had to politely decline because SO and I were unemployed (SO laid off…

Looks Charles Manson-y to me. Potato, po-TAH-to.

As much as I think Guy Fieri should go back to his day job as the Heat Miser, to be fair, "Guy-talian" is probably not any more an egregious bastardization of a word than the name for "Eataly" markets. We're all going to hell.

My sincerest best wishes to you. We have cats and a dog, and the thought of moving them anywhere via plane has boggled my mind. The cats loathe carriers because cats. The dog loathes strangers because he was an abused shelter dog, and although he has come a long way, he would bark and bark through a kennel in an…

Yeah, I said in my original post "some people would not care." I'm totally for everyone doing things their own way and to their own wishes for a memorial or an interpretation of their wishes at a memorial. My own paternal grandmother was a total hippie and just requested people gather informally at her home and share…

Well, of course a situation like that is an exception. FWIW, I am Jewish too and I understand the quick turnaround after death. I'm not harboring ill will against people who cannot wear traditional dress clothes to a service because of financial or other hardships. Or, for that matter, if the person who died expressly…

People not dressing up for FUNERALS drives me ape. I used to drive past a funeral home every day between work and home, and the sight of someone dressed up at all for a service was rare, and even then I'd guess they were immediate family or pallbearers, etc. People were obviously attending memorial services in shorts,…

My dad was practically the polar opposite of this. He trusted me implicitly, probably too much. I made mistakes, had my heart broken a few times, learned love lessons via experience, etc. I turned out ok. Never ended up in any life-compromising situations like unwanted/unplanned teen pregnancy. Grew up to have healthy…

Fellow Jew here. Would rather eat a whole can of those crap (because they're oddly soft) coconut macaroons than drink one mouthful of jellybean milk.

I just coined it. Feel free to spread it around. We need to get the word out as Entwinees. I refuse to be smothered in my sleep unless it's my cat sleeping on my head. Cat-on-head is ok because 9 furry pounds purring on my skull is way more conducive to my sleeping than 190 pounds of sweaty snoring man body thrown…

Yes. This would be the most effective solution.

Entwiners have no idea how intrusive they are. They have confused sandbagging your body with their dead weight for love.

YES. You understand, Aurora. This list is a sham. A SHAM, I SAY.

Skor bars are #1. Heath bars are clearly #2. Toblerone (original, any size) can be #3. Butterfinger is #4, dammit. And Symphony milk chocolate almond-toffee bars, which, like Heath bars, are made by Hershey and therefore should not be good because their plain bars are crap but Heath and Symphony somehow slipped…

Are you me? That sounds familiar.

My SO likes to wrap himself around me until I feel like the sliced-open tauntaun with Luke Skywalker stuffed inside. And then I tell him I love him but GET OFF MEEE. Just back it up so I can breathe, ffs. He's cute, but an Entwiner. Gives me claustrophobia.