I was at a friend’s house the other day, and I noticed that she had multiple Christmas cards on the wall from the same family. Upon closer inspection, I realized that the cards were from different years, spanning all the way back to 2006. When I asked her about this, she said that she keeps the Christmas cards to watch her friends grow older.

Oh boy. I, too, like to watch my friends grow older, but I do it with these novel things I call eyes and a memory, not a hoarded collection of holiday cards.

I toss out all my Christmas cards on January 6th, the twelfth day of Christmas. I don’t keep them for years and years, pulling them out of some garage bin every December to reminisce about Christmases of yore. Is this nuts? Am I just not being empathetic or sentimental enough to understand this phenomenon?

Women be trippin on weddings. Katie, a past podcast guest, is getting married next week year, so we asked Sarah, her maid of honor and another friend of the podcast, to tell us about the experience in all its crazy glory. Here’s the first chapter in Katie’s trip to the altar.

In January, Katie and I went ring-shopping. Katie wanted me to help her pick out the perfect ring, then relay the information to her boyfriend, Bryan. “I’m going to have to wear this ring everyday,” she said. “It’s like letting someone else pick out a tattoo for you. That’s crazy!”

This was only the beginning of the crazy.

Katie suggested that I try on rings, too, but that dream ended when the salesman asked me, “So what’s his name?” Some things are too scary even to lie about.

The salesman (who towered over me like Michael Clark Duncan) thought that ring-shopping with a friend was odd. Looking around the store, we saw excited women clutching fear-stricken men who could only see price tags and carat sizes, failing to see the importance of sparkle factor and the bragging rights that come with a ring so big it says, “My fiancé loves me more than yours does.”

What truly matters when selecting a diamond is the fit. Just like big people should never wear horizontal stripes, small hands should never wear anything too clunky or big. Slender hands, on the contrary, can get away with more bling. However, over the top clusters should be reserved for man hands, to distract. And never give a diamond to a woman with talons. (She might lose it in the wild.)

Once the ring has been bought, there is one deadly comment that must be avoided - never said to the bride-to-be unless your goal is to be uninvited to the wedding and bitch-slapped by a girl wearing a huge rock. Do not ever compare the bride-to-be’s ring with someone else’s engagement ring. I saw this happen, and it was terrible.

Remember, diamonds are as unique as f***ing snowflakes.

WBT Podcast: Women Be Trippin on overpacking, and Jake and Eddie try to overcome their bafflement of women’s underwear.

(Special guest: Em)

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A few months ago, we interviewed Katie about her need for an expensive engagement ring in the absolute near future. We’d like to congratulate Katie and her boyfriend, who got engaged over the weekend. Here is the original interview from seven months ago:

(Special guest: Katie)

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WBT Podcast: Women Be Trippin on mowing the lawn.

(Special guest: Katie)

Here are some of our favorite posts from this year:

Ugly Friend: Women Be Trippin on ugly friends and why girls have them (with special guest Jaimey).

Sex and the City Midnight Screening: Women Be Trippin takes a field trip to the midnight screening of SEX AND THE CITY, to try to understand why women like the movie so much.

Brazilian Wax: Women Be Trippin gets a Brazilian Wax to find out what girls have to go through.

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WBT Podcast: Women Be Trippin on being a Daddy’s girl.

(Special guest: Katie)

WBT Podcast: Women Be Trippin on oranges. That’s right, oranges.

(Special guest: Katie)

The Last Time Katie Cried, Part I

WBT Podcast: Women Be Trippin on uncontrollable emotions, crying during Final Destination, and crying to relieve stress.

(Special guest: Katie)

WBT Podcast: Women Be Trippin on needing an expensive engagement ring right now.

(Special guest: Katie)