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Our home needs a new roof. It's been asphalt shingling, and it's fine, but if I can manage to keep it in budget I'd much rather use a greener material. Or even just a cheaper material. Or something that looks nice! Really, I guess I want to jazz my roof UP!

I want to paint our front door a BIG bright color, but my partner's got reservations. Some help from the community would really help us make a decision about this.

I live in a Canadian border city. It is not urban; it's a collection of suburbs with giant malls as focal points. It's an inefficient arrangement, and it's exactly the type of town that's been torn down by the foreclosure crisis. It's the type of town that a group of architects and designers at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC would like to change. Running now until August 13th is the exhibit "Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream."

Lately, I've taken a stronger interest in my health. Step one: Get a baseline blood panel.

Lo and behold, I was super low in Vitamin D and Vitamin B. My blood pressure is high and my sinuses are a wreck. I've been prescribed sprays, allergy meds, vitamins and I am back on the aspirin.

So after a few years of taking nothing but prenatal vitamins, like a lot of Americans, I'm back on the daily pill party.

As I have a lot of other tasks vying for my attention, taking daily pills just isn't something I always remember. But at least I know enough to hack myself.

When you can't afford housing where you need it, what do you do? If you're like Will Woodbridge, Australian university student, you build yourself a raft on a nearby lake and take up residence there.

Do you know how fun it is to prepare for the end of the world, zombie-style? It's my new favorite hobby! The best part is I never run out of gift ideas anymore (my husband is one of those impossible-to-buy-for guys). I'll use any holiday as an excuse to add to our collection. Here's what I put together to make Easter working with our prepping plans.

Once a month or so, we get a little scope-creepy and take a look at budget and career issues. Today, I'mma put on my old corporate job hat and give you the three questions that YOU should ask your interviewer, to totally impress them and make them start visualizing all the ways they are desperate to have you working this job.

So there are some people who are a little embarrassed to hear about, um, well…*ahem*, "feminine issues." This is not an article for them. This is an article for the other people who like to get all in other people's personal business, but understand that because of the constraints of polite society, they can't always ask all the questions they like.

There's this thing called a menstrual cup! You may have heard of it. It's a reusable alternative to pads and tampons in the form of a cup that fits comfortably up in your vagina and collects rather than absorbing menstrual blood.