8 Secrets to Being a Low-Maintenance Woman

8. Stop asking "What are you thinking about?" all the time - chances are, nothing. Let him keep his thoughts to himself occasionally.

7. Stop making your relationship the main topic of all your conversations. With your girlfriends, your boyfriend, your husband or your co-workers - talk about something else, it's not always about your relationship.

6. Be OK with solitude. Even the tightest couples need and thrive on time apart.  A low-maintenance gal is OK with the occasional guys night out because she can't wait to spend a quiet evening alone.

5. Take care of your own self-esteem. Don't leave it up to the man to tell you how great you are to build your self esteem - do it yourself.

4. Take it easy on the special orders. Chances are the chef might actually know more about food than you do. Designing your own entree every time you are at a restaurant asking for water, lemon, a napkin, a straw isn't impressive it's annoying.

3. Learn to laugh at yourself. Being  low-maintenance often means being bale to bounce back quickly from life's little trouble. A girl that can laugh at her own mistakes comes across as confident, funny and less likely to fall apart when someone else makes a mistake.

2. Buy some freakin' comfortable shoes. We don't care if they are ugly - we are sick to death of hearing about how much your feet hurt. To a lot of men a respectable pairs of shoes or whatever is just as appealing as a pair of stilettos.

1. Stop worrying about your hair. The simpler the style, the faster you will be able to get out of the house and on to something more fun.

After no rapture, billboard proclaims: "That was Awkward"

Originally published at http://mynorthwest.com/?nid=646&sid=485527

A few billboards in the area announced the end of the world was coming May 21st. Didn't happen. "That was awkward," is the billboard response.

The Family Radio Group, led by Howard Camping, launched an expensive advertising campaign to promote judgment day. Saturday was supposed to be the beginning of the end - the first day in a five month event that would end with the universe destroyed on October 21, 2011. Other church groups shared the belief and purchased their own billboards and advertising vehicles to spread the message. Here's a link to some of the hundreds of billboards across the country that went up. Below you'll see a billboard from Seattle's Interbay neighborhood, sponsored by Camping's group.

Photo by Stephanie Klein, MyNorthwest.com

Now what? This billboard below has been making the rounds on social media sites:

What are your post-rapture thoughts? If you believed it would happen, how will you defend yourself against the people who will make jokes at your expense? A sociologist, who's studied these kinds of doomsday predictions, says for some it'll reinforce their beliefs.

"A third of believers become disillusioned after a failed prediction, while another third find reason to believe more strongly. The remaining group members fall somewhere in between," says Stephen Kent with the University of Alberta, in an interview with Live Science. (Gee, what a brilliant scientific mind - "Well, some folks will still believe, other won't, and the rest will fall somewhere else along the continuum.")

Situation Room supposedly watching the Osama bin Laden fiasco unfold