Goodbye, Funny T-Shirts. You Will Be Missed.

By William Bendis

I seem to have a bit of a problem. I have spent years of expendable, college income on mainly just two things: alcohol and funny t-shirts. The alcohol gets rid of itself fairly easily, but the funny t-shirts have just kept stockpiling in my closet for five straight years. Now there isn't room for even a pair of jeans. My current, well-intentioned girlfriend and informed me that I should be putting aside childish things and get rid of the t-shirt overflow. Well, I tried giving some to a Goodwill and they wouldn't take them. Now I have to get creative, or possibly lose the affection of a really hot girl that's already out of my league.

There is a website called EBAY where the most wonderful items can be bought for a relatively cheap price. One of these items happens to be a fully-functional, gently-used t-shirt cannon. Excuse me, but did you not hear me correctly? I said "t-shirt cannon." A weapon that shoots a t-shirt at 4 million miles an hour into stadium crowds using pressurized air. This cannon can be used, say, from the passenger side of my best friend's ride to give the poor and destitute free, funny t-shirts personally. They might get a bruise or two, but who can be angry after they get free t-shirts?

Maybe I'm letting some inner anger over being forced to get rid of my funny t-shirts bubble up with that whole "shooting homeless people with free shirts" idea. Maybe I need to redirect that internalized anger outward into something fun and exciting. Since a huge portion of my funny t-shirts are white tees, I could give them away to guests at my wet t-shirt party bonanza! Each guest will be issued one water gun and one white tee for the evening. Add some delicious booze, and watch things get crazy! That, my friends, is a great idea.

I would never ever look someone dead in the eyes and tell them that I think that I am "good with my hands" unless I was about to make a really inappropriate joke that my girlfriend will slap me for. However, I am going to cash my man-card in here and say that I think that quilts are pretty freaking cool. The things that ladies can do with their old lady hands is astounding, and I wish I could make a giant quilt out of the fronts of all my old funny t-shirts. I heard about a guy who is selling quilts made from old concert t-shirts of heavy metal bands. Why couldn't I do the same? Oh, yeah. Because I'm useless at crafts. I'll make you a macaroni duck to prove it.

I just came to a realization. Not only am I really cool for owning so many funny t-shirts, but I am also a borderline genius. I haven't even tried that hard, and I have three super ideas to bring to my girlfriend in order to get rid of these funny t-shirts of mine. I may have a college education now and I may be in a serious relationship, but I hope she goes for the wet t-shirt party idea. I suddenly got that weird feeling that I get sometimes when my girlfriend is staring at me with her eyebrows all scrunched together. She's probably reading this over my shoulder.

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Love Goes Beyond Virtual Boundaries

By Alex Shant

This is a true story about a girl, but it is always about a boy. The girl, Stacey, was a freshmen student of one the prestigious schools in her state. She was taking up a course related to communication studies. While doing a project on virtual communication, she decided to work on a participant observation research on online dating. She maintained a user name in yahoo messenger and registered in several sites. That was where she met Shelton, who was a black American from California.

Shelton was highly friendly. He would send Stacey personal messages after their usual conversation. Stacey would take the messages as research materials. She would try to deconstruct the details and analyze the sincerity of it. She would pull out the implications and stir theories in it in the aim of trying to understand how Shelton could express so much in a limited medium such as the mails.

Stacey soon wondered why she would become very excited to receive messages from Shelton. Little did she know that she had grown adorned with the sweetness of Shelton's messages that she no longer looked at it as a variable for analysis but as something to make her day feel exceptionally good during her day.

Of course, in the process of acknowledging her feelings, she passed through a stage of confusion were in she became skeptical about Shelton's sincerity. The stereotypical view of Shelton as a black American emerged even if such embedded judgment was already hidden in her mindset having attended several racial appreciation and deference classes. She thought Shelton was a maniac who only wants to have sex with her.

But Shelton proved to become a highly respectable man. After being reciprocated with his feelings, he eventually informed Stacey that he was willing to go to her state and formally court her. He expressed the necessary actions to overcome such a work no matter how classic it may look. He said that by that means he would show how genuine he was and how serious he is about wanting to be in a relationship.

When Shelton finally visited Stacey's place, he lived up to his promise by sticking to his values and not even forcing for physical intimacy. It was during that time that Stacey eventually decided to put Shelton aside from the list of communication research respondents and see him as someone to actually become steady with. In the end, what was initially a study became a result of a blissfully lasting relationship of two people who met online.

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Common Signs Of Cheating Spouse.

By Talasak Khou

Most people often turn a blind eye to the signs of cheating spouse. Though their mind keeps telling them that there is something going wrong in their relationship, the heart does not want to accept the truth. After all, who would want to believe that the person to who they entrusted their lives to will end up breaking their heart!!! But yes, there are times when things go wrong and eventually you have to accept the truth. In this article, we list out a few signs that cheating spouses display.

When the affair is fresh and new, your spouse will be over affectionate towards you. He/she will begin showering you with a lot more love than ever before. They do this in an effort to overcome the guilt that is tormenting them from within for cheating on you.

Has the feeling of love suddenly morphed into that of hatred? Does he/she complain about the same behavior that they had initially liked in you? Again, if your answer is "yes", to even one of these questions, then, it is time for you to start preparing mentally for the worse.

You can also notice changes in the way they interact with their children. The amount of time spent with the family decreases. Family holidays will not be as frequent and as happy as before.

There is a very evident change in sex life. They either will indulge in excessive sex with you or they will completely avoid sex. They will show signs or boredom and fatigue as bedtime approaches in order to avoid physical contact.

Spending extra hours at work due to increasing workload is another reason they tend to give to escape time with family.

Personal grooming comes to the forefront. Constant visits to the beauty salon and spending excessive money of beauty products increases.

These signs of a cheating spouse will help you accept the fact that your spouse is indeed cheating on you and it is time for you and your spouse to have a one-on-one conversation in order to decide the further course of action.

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Planning Weddings For A Stress Free Wedding Day

By Byron Jonas

The mood of the wedding day is dependant on many things. However, pre-planning weddings with all possibilities covered can minimize stress and result in a smooth flowing function. Time and energy spent on the initial coordination of the function will be worth the effort to ensure a very happy day.

Unless the couple are arranging their own wedding and not looking to help from others in the family, there are various decision that are made in conjunction with other people. The couple may decide on some factors, such as the ceremony, themselves. However, they might discuss items such as the reception and or the number of guests with their parents. This involves spending time getting ideas together.

The question of finances and who pays for what is a major topic that should be covered as early as possible. It is essential to know how much money is available to spend on the function so that a budget could be set to work with.

If funds allow it, then hiring a professional wedding planner will take a lot of the stress out of arranging the day. The planner will take care of every aspect of the wedding, from the ceremony to the reception to the honeymoon, if necessary.

If family members are willing to help, then using their expertise and goodwill is a very good idea. Even if they are not involved in the actual planning, allocating them specific jobs on the day will ensure that the function will flow smoothly. If something should go wrong, then the person who is allocated the job will attend to it rather than the couple having to sort out problems.

Not only is thorough pre-planning necessary, it is also essential to have documented action plans. The document should cover even the very minor details such as who will serve the cake. It is covering the small things and communication that makes weddings flow smoothly.

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System of Romance

By Alex Shant

Based to Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University and something of the Queen Mum of romance research, "People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms for love, They survive for love, die for love, kill for love. It can be stronger than the drive to stay alive." Human beings make a terrible fuss about a lot of things but none more than romance. Eating and drinking are just as essential for keeping the species going--more so actually, since a celibate person can at least carry on living but a starving person can't. Yet although we may build whole institutions around the easy ritual of eating, it never turns us flat-out nuts. Romance does.

Nearly 30 years ago, psychologist Elaine Hatfield of the University of Hawaii and sociologist Susan Sprecher now of Illinois State University designed a 15-item questionnaire that ranks people combined what the researchers call the passionate-love scale (see box, page 60). Hatfield has administered the test in places as different as the U.S., Pacific islands, Russia, Mexico, Pakistan and, most recently, India and has found that no matter where she looks, it's impossible to crush love. "It seemed only people in the West were funny enough to marry for passionate love," she says. "But in all of the cultures I've studied, people love wildly."

What scientists, not to mention the rest of us, want to know is, Why? What makes us go so loony over love? Why would we bother with this complex exercise in fan dances and flirtations, winking and signaling, joy and sorrow? "We have only a very limited understanding of what romance is in a scientific sense," admits John Bancroft, emeritus director of the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Ind., a place where they know a thing or two about the method human beings pair up. But that restricted understanding is expanding.

The more scientists look, the more they're able to tease romance apart into its individual strands--the visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, neurochemical processes that make it possible. None of those things may be necessary for simple procreation, but all of them appear essential for something larger. What that something is--and how we achieve it-- is only now coming clear.

If human reproductive behavior is a complicated thing, part of the reason is that it's designed to serve two clashing purposes. On the one hand, we're driven to mate a lot. On the other hand, we want to mate well so that our offspring survive. If you're a female, you get only a few rolls of the reproductive dice in a lifetime. If you're a male, your freedom to conceive is limited only by the availability of willing partners, but the demands of providing for too big a brood are a powerful incentive to limit your pairings to the female who will give you just a few strong young. For that reason, no sooner do we reach sexual maturity than we learn to look for signals of good genes and reproductive fitness in potential partners and, importantly, to display them ourselves.

"Every living human is a descendant of a long line of successful maters," says David Buss, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin. "We've adapted to pick certain types of mates and to fulfill the desires of the opposite sex."

One of the most primal of those desires is that a possible partner smells right. Good smells and bad smells are fundamentally no different from each other; both are merely volatile molecules wafting off an object and providing some clue as to the thing that emitted them. Humans, like all animals, quickly learn to assign values to those scents, recognizing that, say, putrefying flesh can carry disease and thus recoiling from its smell and that warm cookies carry the promise of vanilla, sugar and butter and thus being drawn to them. Other humans carry telltale smells of their own, and those can affect us in equally powerful ways.

The best-known illustration of the invisible influence of scent is the way the menstrual cycles of women who live communally tend to synchronize. In a state of nature, this is a very good idea. It's not in a tribe's or community's interests for one ovulating female to monopolize the reproductive attention of too many males. Better to have all the females become fertile at once and offer the fittest potential mates to compete with one another for them.

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How to deal with a boyfriend that Complains

By Alex Shant

Dating a nagger is a no-no. They are usual parasites of happiness. They eat your time, happiness and they make you paranoid. They keep on asking you where you are and what you are doing. \

They keep on remind you things you have to do and things you should never do. But what can you do if the person you really like is a nagger? Of course, you have to find ways in order for him to change or find ways to manipulate him into being a better person.

Consult him personally. The most essential step in dealing with a person like this is to tell him personally that he is being a nagger. He might not know that he is. Tell him you are uncomfortable with him always asking your whereabouts. Tell him you want space even if you are together. Most importantly, tell him that the best way for you relationship to work is by letting you be and trusting you.

Put him on your shoes. If still he doesn't listen to you despite the consolation, put him in your shoes by doing what he is doing to you. Try this for a week or so but never for the entire month as it may cause a major fight on your end and his. Ask him his whereabouts and tell him not to do things you do not like. When he says he doesn't like what you are doing, tell him that that is exactly what you are doing to him.

Conclude without a fight. Once he realizes his mistake and starts telling you that he will change, accept it. He may not do it right away or may still be a little fuzzy on his personality revisions but he will gradually change taking into mind what you did earlier.

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Dealing with Lover's Quarrel: How to control jealousy

By Alex Shant

Jealousy is commonly found in relationships. But although it is common, controlling jealousy is vital. Facts show that excessive degree of jealousy can kill every relationship, even the most promising one. Why? Because jealousy, when it has overwhelmed the you, can make you into one that always thinks very negatively, one that always puts the worst spin on everything that happens between the two of you.



For example, instead of thinking that his cell phone is out of power when you cannot reach him, you may think that he turned it off intentionally because he is still with another woman. Or, instead of thinking that a traffic jam had made him unable to come home as early as he used to be, you may think that he spent his time with a beautiful girl in a bar.



Indeed, it is not for nothing people call green-eyed monster for jealousy. You have to get a grip of it, tightly, before it becomes detrimental to your life and relationship.


We often see how an overly-jealous person behaves very annoyingly. Without you even aware of it, you can be very harsh and interrogative to your partner if jealousy has overwhelmed your whole being. Just like every other jealous person, you may feel that you have the rights to all do that - even though there is no slightest indication that supports your suspicion. You just feel that your jealousy is right, while in fact it is totally baseless. Before you decide to continue treating your partner as a red-handed thief, read this: behaving like that will only make him create more distance to you. Instead of ensuring your partner's company, you will make him more and more uncomfortable with you, or even feel afraid.



Everyone has his limits. If you don't stop behaving like that, soon enough he will leave you if he feels that it is the only thing he can do free himself from your control and to regain his independence. So, if you find yourself always feel suspicious and jealous even though there is no base for it, then stop a while and reflect. Controlling jealousy needs you to first acknowledge your own problems.



The root of jealousy is always fear. You are jealous because you are afraid. You are afraid of losing your partner's feeling and affection. That's what behind your controlling

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