Living without a smartphone seems to bother some people
Specifically, my NOT having a smartphone seems to irritate / irk some folks. (Mildly bothered of course, they’re not rabid mad at me for not having one, but it just bothers
Ridiculous cultural preferences for a baby boy or a baby girl
A small rant today. I don’t believe in preferring one gender over another, but many cultures do this, and it’s mainly the baby girls that get killed, aborted, abandoned
The Bond Between a Mother and Her Daughter
I watched this in the morning before I left for my doctor’s appointment and it was such a bad idea because now I look like a hot mess and my eyes are all red and puffy. Just
When should a woman have her first child or baby?
Reading this article from the L.A. Times annoyed me: Survey: Majority of Americans say women should have first child by 25 When should a women have her first baby? A majority of Am
How to tell if someone has grown up rich and wasteful
As the title says, sometimes people reveal the littlest things to show you how they were raised and whether they grew up “rich” or not, and I see it the most in how peo
You can get more money if you’re unemployed in France than if you work minimum wage
Heard on the French radio the other day (Les Grosses Têtes) that a guy did some research between a family that was unemployed (neither parent working) and a family with two parent
I wonder what it would be like to be with someone famous
I’ve always wondered what it would be like to be with someone famous. Never mind actually being someone famous, that thought has always scared the beejebus out of me, because
Investing Series: How I started getting into investing
Everyone should know by now that I am not someone who considers herself a sophisticated investor by any means. I repeat like a parrot (and follow) the advice of investing in index
Stay at home parents, DO NOT call yourselves “Household Engineers”!!
On the show Property Brothers today, a rather annoying woman called herself a “household engineer”, and it threw me for a loop until I realized she was a stay-at-home-p
How to stop caring about people who whine about their lives but are too lazy to change
For most people this is true — you don’t necessarily need more money to be happy, you just need to change the way you see your life. You can truly choose to see your li