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"You know, I was just thinking that my Tiny Balls of Butter were missing that certain... little-hairy-fish taste. Thank goodness Mark Bittman is here to set me on the path of anchovy righteousness.
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"Announcements are to (ahem) announce to people you don't see often that something significant has happened in your life. Your great-aunties will be so proud, and slip them next to your baby picture in the family photo album. If people send gifts,..." [
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2 months ago
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2 months ago
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"I'm a white girl from Georgia who married an Asian (Chinese-Japanese) boy from Hawaii. So let's talk family blending.
I absolutely understand your desire to appear respectful of their culture. You want to fit in to this family, but you're..." [
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2 months ago
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"Thanks, all, for the great answers. Some of this stuff, like epsom salts and tiger balm, never would have occurred to me. I've managed to narrow it down to a respectably sized list of "things we wouldn't want to have to go out in the middle..." [
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2 months ago
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"It's OK to work for money, and it's OK to choose stability. I left my fulfilling, low-paying "dream job" for financial reasons. It one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make, but it taught me a Big Life Lesson. You are not your..." [
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3 months ago
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"I'm usually the repeater, and it's usually my frustrated husband saying "You told me this already" and/or "I get it." I think I tend to repeat myself in two different ways:
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3 months ago
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"Everything -- good, bad, and ugly -- that has happened up to now IS part of your education, including your time in the real world. Every experience has made you who you are, and prepared you in some way to take the next step in your journey. If..." [
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4 months ago
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"I'm with those who say it can be done if you find The Right Dog. Our furbaby is quite possibly the laziest dog on the planet -- almost catlike in her need for a daylong nap (even on weekends, when we're around). She's usually still asleep when we..." [
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5 months ago
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"You should totally take things one day at a time. It's the only way. Honestly. And I could cite my husband and I as an example of that (we got together 10+ years ago, and we've only been married for 4+ of those), except for the next piece of..." [
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6 months ago
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"Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. If you had a marriage license, you would start with getting a new social security card. From there, you'd get a new driver's license. With a marriage license, SS card and driver's license all in your new name,..." [
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6 months ago
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"I'm so sorry. I've recently been through a funeral and subsequent related family drama, so I sympathize. But I agree with those who say that you should not let these women keep you from attending the funeral if that is your wish. flakypastry is..." [
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6 months ago
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"It sounds like you've already weeded out the good advice (take the high road, and document everything) from the not-so-good in this thread, but I just wanted to give you one piece of perspective from your future self, because I was you about 7 years..." [
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6 months ago
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"They're so comfortable about multiculturalism there that race jokes just aren't offensive to most people any more than blonde jokes, for example. It puts people off who aren't used to it...
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7 months ago
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"We've been making all the necessary wedding preparations and have been lucky enough to find a family friend, a pastor, who will officiate.He's been doing pre-marriage counseling with us and suggested we write our own vows. Problem is, we both really..." [
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7 months ago
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"I guess from my perspective food like sushi, onigiri and burritos - even sandwiches are not snacks but rather meals.
I assumed that by using the word "snacks" in my question that we would all be thinking of small items of food which..." [
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8 months ago
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"Just in case MediaMonkey doesn't work out for you, you can actually do everything you're asking with iTunes and a couple of small utilities.
For album art, Tunesleeve plays nicely with iTunes and embeds album art in the tags. Just check the..." [
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"@geoff.: If you're looking for a dedicated album-art-fetching program, I'd recommend Album Art Aggregator. It finds art for about 85% of my collection (the other 15% being pretty rare/weird stuff), and it's a small, well-behaved program.
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"+1 for languagehat. I left my "dream job" for financial reasons a few months ago. It was a hard decision (probably the hardest I've ever had to make), and my circumstances were probably different than yours, but I learned an important and..." [
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