Sure, Amir seemed great in his online dating profile: a dentist and recreational snowboarder with adorable, non-ironic facial hair, but he was a total bore on that first dinner date. (Really? Red Lobster?)

Anyone who’s registered with a dating site can tell you how often those matches who seem so promising online end up being duds IRL (in real life).

The folks behind HowAboutWe, a newly-launched dating service profiled by Mashable have designed a solution to that problem: forget about those vanity profile pictures shot in front of the mirror or those contrived lists of favourite activities, users choose their matches based on the dates they propose.

The site is of the same vein as Alikewise, where you can look for matches based on book tastes.

One 32-year-old male Torontonian and user of HowAboutWe offers: How about we... pretend we're tourists in our own city and go see the sights we've been meaning to...but haven't yet.

A 25-year-old woman from Montreal suggests: How about we... go skiing for a day and learn to know each other on the lift

IDEA # 91

If you are artistically inclined, do a life drawing course, practice until you are confident and then ask your partner to pose for you.

IDEA # 92

Take your partner to a carnival or festival. Try the following:

(1) Food festival
(2) Jazz festival
(3) Wine festival
(4) Music festival

Increasing numbers of American brides are thinking about doing something that used to be unthinkable -- getting married in a bold red gown.

Not that red is a stranger to marriage. Hardly. Red plays a major role in Chinese, Hindu, and some Muslim weddings, and was a popular choice in medieval times. But for modern Westerners? Yes -- we too are starting to marry in red. At least some of us.

It's been happening more and more in Europe over the past decade. Maybe that's because Europe recalls long stretches of time when wedding gowns weren't white. For eons, a woman simply wore her best dress -- one she could certainly use again -- although to keep luck on her side she might gravitate to certain colors and avoid others. With all the choices, it was harder to keep the good colors straight, so the folk world offered a poem with a few fortunate outcomes and many poor ones:

Halloween is starting to gain some traction in Russia.

When I first got here people knew about this holiday but very few folks had any opportunity to participate in it.

Now participating is a relative term because unfortunately you won’t see any kids “Trick or Treating” around town.  Russian cities are simply not structured like American style suburbs so “Trick or Treating” is not really feasible.   But the clubs around town are always looking for events to promote and Halloween as we all know is the perfect venue.

Russian women can be incredibly hard working and disciplined when it comes to work or school.

But even in the midst of their concentration and work is still calm and confident beauty that seems to emanate from their aura.

Someday ..

I hope all you are lucky enough to be invited to the humble but loving home of a Russian woman and her family.

It will be really time, "You'll never forget."

So let me go back in time a little and share with you that "I will never forget."

On the first evening of my arrival in Siberia, I was invited to attend his mother's house in our beautiful Inessa's for dinner.

It was the first time I've ever been in a normal Russian at home and my first task was mental to get used to a small living space throughout the apartment.

Check out this article.

Kentucky Woman "Too Short" Dress For Mall Hires Lawyer to buy
A college student was asked to leave mall

Richmond, Kentucky - 20-year-old Kentucky college student who was expelled from the mall because her dress was too short, hired a lawyer.

Kymberly Clem, 20, attends Eastern Kentucky University and said the incident occurred on Sunday, when the guard approached her at Richmond Mall and asked her to leave because of complaints of shortness of her dress.

9 May Victory Day in Russia.

And from a historical perspective does not mean anything to them, the victory over Nazi Germany in World War 2.

I've always been fascinated by the role that Russian women are in this epochal conflict. I've always heard different stories about the heroism and endurance they have demonstrated not only in supporting roles, but in actual combat.

When I think about that world, as now, it's hard for me to imagine what these women went through to defend their country. Because of this conflict, where more than 20 million Soviets were victims .. spared nothing and nothing was left of the table in the theater of operations.

Olga new friend of ours who also happens to be a fitness nut.

(Should not we all be so ..)

She recently completed her university, where she studied English language and it is ready to see what the real world is like. In addition to the 4-day week routine of fitness, you can also see that she is a real rag to a cat .. (not all of us ..)

Mary introduced her to me, and I thought it was a very sweet girl, so I asked her to share some of her photos for us all to enjoy.