"How to Marry a Finnish Girl"

I confess if I were you (male OR female) - I would be curious as to how to accomplish that very thing....
I mean how hard can it be to propose to someone (regardless if they are Finnish or not), hope to heck they say "Yes!" and then begin your new journey together as (eventually) husband and wife?

Apparently - there's a book on how to get the Finnish woman of your dreams to say "YES!"
 My friend emailed me the link ages ago and it is now, over 3 weeks later (and at almost 4am - ARGH!) that I post it for you!

Don't believe me?
Check it out here.
And no it's NOT available on Book Depository.  I checked already (and again just now).

Good luck!
*And don't tell her I sent you to that site! It's totally legit by the way!  It's on Facebook too....took the author 9 years to convince his now-wife to say "yes"....so I guess he has experience...*


PS Any Finnish males - opinions?
PPS I do not plan on marrying a Finnish Girl...but perhaps you are - or you know someone who needs these expertise-like tips! (What a great stocking stuffer!)

Sometimes you have to laugh at the blind guy...

*Please be warned I'm laughing at what the blind guy did - NOT AT HIM BEING BLIND!*

Today Tim and I met with a friend, toured around Public Gardens in Halifax...we took the bus back to Dartmouth and sat near the front (as the buses don't have an empty gap for the strollers like Finnish ones)...a young blind man came on the bus and sat down.
He asked the bus driver several times where we were located and then he whips out his cell phone.

*Please note I try and not to eavesdrop...however, because I understand English...and this fellow was yelling...it was hard NOT to!*

He greets his friend with "Hi, so what's going on with that guy? Because I seriously don't think biting you should be part of friendship....No really! You just don't bite your friend - it's not part of the definition of friendship!.....Well if you sleep with him and turn your back...you know what'll happen.  HE'LL BITE YOU IN THE BACK!...Yeah! It'll be an all-night biting war!!  Yep....no really you just don't do that....You shouldn't take the word of a stranger over a good friend! I wouldn't do it to you!!!...Nope this biting has to stop.  I would put a muzzle on him!  Oh even better...get his teeth out...or put soft caps on his teeth!...Well, I guess I'll be seeing you in the next life time!  Oh and doesn't he like it up his butt?!"

This was a lengthy conversation (some swearing was in there and some other insiginicant blah blah) and I was laughing so hard that I needed a tissue and I was shaking so much that I was positive he'd realize someone was laughing at him!  (Despite having a seat between us - however the bus was thankfully noisy and busy!)

There was a fellow sitting across from me and he was listening to his cell phone or iPod...well after I heard about the biting - I started choking up and the tears were streaming down my face.
Well, by the time I managed to dig out my tissue - he was curious as to what I was laughing about - because the husband was reading some academia journal and was also chuckling.
So he popped out his ear phones and started listening and was having a grand ol' time laughing...the bus driver was snorting...

I'm surprised the bus didn't crash.