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I can finally listen to music without headphones! I accidentally purchased a monitor without speakers when I built my computer during the summer, and ended up waiting until Black Friday before I could get a good price on a decent pair. I've read this twice and still don't follow. I think she bought...

We're closing on our house today. Squeeeeeeeee.

When I was in Provo I always did Thanksgiving with siblings and friends because there was no point in going home for such a short trip. But there was no way I'd miss Christmas. That's just crazy. Probably it helps that I'm a stickler for Christmas traditions, and we have no family drama to speak of,...

I have made some alternate verses of other songs. For a while I was thinking of ones for "what do you do with a drunken sailor?" what do you do with a cranky (crying/poopy/happy) baby? x3 early in the morning (or in the afternoon/evening) -fill her with milk until she's sleepy -throw her ...

Ward choir with tone deaf people. I just can't stand it when someone is perpetually off (and that there is no chance of them getting better) and I wish I could discourage them being in the group. Grrrr. People like you are why I hate that our church has so much singing. I spent my whole childhood l...

I answered less than $200, but you have to remember that I bought it used in 1973. And I was a poor, struggling student. My wife has always loved the ring, however. Well, $200 in 1973 is roughly $1000 in today's money. My dad has a simple gold band with a bunch of overlapping circles on it, and whe...

We scheduled the ward Halloween party and the Primary program two days apart, which was madness, but they're both over, which means I am done having to plan anything until Easter. Hooray! Also, seven young men signed up to help me run games, but only two showed up, which meant I spent all night help...

I agree that a height difference of more than a foot is just too much. My sister and her husband are 5'2" and 6'2" respectively, and all I can think is that they must have to stoop and strain to get any decent kissing done. My husband and I are only 3 or 4 inches apart height-wise, which i...

I know nobody thinks this is as exciting as I do, but WE GOT THE HOUSE. There's still a lot of stuff to finalize, and we have to get it inspected and appraised, but we're officially in the process of buying our first home. If any of you ever find yourselves on the Kentucky/Middle Tennessee border fo...

Yeah, our last apartment was a tri-plex off to the side of the owner's house that I think used to be their garage. Teeny tiny. We submitted our offer today, but found out there are several other offers being made, so there's a good chance we won't get the house, and I'm choosing to be preemptively h...

It's an 800 sq. ft. two-car detached garage with a workbench, another big work table, a whole wall of pegboard, and a storage room that will make a great craft room for me. And it has an upstairs loft storage area that I can turn into a playhouse for B.A.B.Y. someday. I'm just really excited because...

Also, guys, we're making an offer on a house tomorrow and I am giddy. And freaked out. And I really really hope we get it because this house has a garage I want to marry.

Someone I know from BYU lives in that complex too! Maybe the same person? Her initials are JMB.

I almost asked a question just like this after attending stake conference a few months ago. The mission president and his wife were speakers, and I was trying to think, um, what's her title? Heck, what's her calling even? When that letter comes, what position does it say she's been called to? I just...

You should be able to look up your new bishop's number on lds.org though. Call him up and tell him to send someone over!

One of my film professors taught a post-apocalyptic sci-fi class, so he asked those of us in his other classes, "In a post-apocalyptic world, what do you have to offer? If you come to the gates of a human settlement and they tell you they're only letting you in if you can contribute some useful...

The biggest one, as I think we've discussed before, is budget; many an activities day leader has asked about doing a pinewood derby for the girls only to find out renting the tracks would take nearly their entire budget, whereas the derby is only one of many activities requiring money that the boys...

Did you think it was Grindr? I TOTALLY thought it was Grindr. (If you don't know what Grindr is, you probably don't need/want to know.) And then I was all, Oh yeah, Tinder makes a lot more sense. Oh man, you have to watch the Top Gear episode where Stephen Fry mentions Grindr: http://www.topgear.co...

I've been watching a bunch of hour-long PBS documentaries on Netflix about British buildings. I've seen Secrets of the Tower of London, Secrets of Highclere Castle, Secrets of Henry VIII's Palace: Hampton Court, and Secrets of Selfridges so far. They've all been really fun to watch, and now I feel s...

I think the actual Church rule is that people of the opposite sex can't drive together when carrying out Church business, unless they're both single. So, unless it's something you're doing in an official capacity, you should be free to give rides to whoever. I was actually thinking about this rule r...