I do cook with mine on. I only take it off before bed. Sometimes my hands swell a bit when I sleep, mostly.

Anthropologie always has super cute ones that run like $10-15. It is my most favorite thing to buy my newly engaged friends!

I got this piece of advice, and I always share it: you have a little jewelry tray next to your bed, and maybe one in the kitchen if you like to cook. If you aren't in those two places, you don't take the ring off. Period.

allowed to roam free in the pasture eating acorns until they are of proper size...then salted and air-dried for six weeks followed by a minimum curing process of 12 months

He was clearly trying to "show off" to clients, but I once had a customer pay me $100 to leave my shift waiting tables and get him a bottle of Texas Pete (or maybe Lousiana hot sauce?) because we'd run out. Of course I didn't actually leave because I couldn't, but my manager did because he was awesome, and even when I…

Emergency C Sections fuck shit up for EVERYONE. If you are a dual working family, ooof. And don't even try to throw bed rest in there.

I just bought a new one from the fish market here that I realllly like but—-I cannot remember the name. They had it on the bar to eat with your fish dip and I marched right over to the market portion and bought it immediately. However, one of my other current favorites is Fat Cat's Caribbean curry. Just the right…

For years after I graduated high school, my english teacher would tell her students how should we know if they came to class high because she knew when I (and another girl) would come to class high. I never even saw marijuana in person until college. I do think the other girl smoked, but we weren't really friends. The…

I agree. I LOVE spice and I love hot sauce. But Sriracha doesn't really offer anything THAT interesting. Give me a well-made Jamaican style habanero-mango hot sauce any day.

I'm on board with Arby's. I like Sriracha, but only in certain applications. There are infinitely better pepper sauces out there.

Look I get what you are saying; I don't have a definition of poverty that is "people who live different than me must be rich." If you've read anything I've ever written ever before, you'd know that. But these people are not the people you are comparing them to. Like I explained to someone else, they are a family who…

So by that logic you'd never have toll roads in states where you pay state taxes? Or fees related to making a false report? When the EPA has to help clean up something, they often charge a fee to the party who caused the mess, even though technically our taxes support and fund the EPA. This happens all the time!

I didn't demand a "bill" be presented. Do you know how much money this would cost? I said "some fee." And later a "fine." Which, though it strains my brain to figure out how these are remotely related, oil companies do get charged when they do stupid shit.

Was their blog public? Were you able to read it somewhere? Just sounds like maybe yes. I'm curious now.

Nope. But going home to a rural area and going on a little cruise that you just haaaad to take because you want all your buddies to follow your blog about your family sailing to New Zealand seems quite a bit different to me.

Whoa dude, you just went waaaaaaaay further than we were talking about. Like, so inexplicably not relevant to this conversation at all.

thanks for the insight. How about this: we charged fines to the idiot wasps who take their sick kids on the high seas and require an expensive rescue, and we apply those fines to pay ambulance fees of poor rural people who legitimately cannot afford it and haven't put themselves in a stupid predicament.

Statistically speaking, most people who can afford to have a parent stay home and take care of the kids are at least solidly middle class.

You realize that there are people who live in crappy conditions and cannot afford to save any money? That those people would never dream of saving enough to buy a boat or not work for years? Are you kidding me with this? Having to save doesn't make you not rich.

Money is a finite resource. I guess I'd rather make, say, more police card available in poor areas or available to people who live in rural conditions than available to a couple of people who don't follow the rules on a mountain, like in your example. And I think the latter are more likely to have some extra…