Jen Austin

I've been doing the online dating thing for about six months, and as you might guess I haven't had that much success with it because I'm still doing it.

It has been a wild ride for sure, but nothing up to this point can compare with the crazy thing that happened Friday night. I'm a little offended and entertained by it at the same time!

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Getting up in the morning and having to pull the frying pan out of the cabinet, get the bacon from the fridge, unwrap it, and stand there and cook it, is so much work!  What if you could just roll over and sniff your phone?

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A newspaper ad that was placed in Sabine County, Texas is going viral.

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If you've had a mishap with texting and walking, you're not alone.

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Those guys known as The Bottle Boys have gone viral again.  The last time they created a stir they were performing the Disney classic Under The Sea with only these crazy bottles.  How do they get the different notes?  With varying amounts of water of course.

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The nice weather we had on Saturday didn't last.

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A man from DeSoto  (south of Dallas), was arrested recently on drug charges, and some sort of equipment failure allowed him to escape from police as they were trying to take him into custody.

What happened next was totally unexpected.

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Sometimes I wonder if we should stop inventing things. Do we really need an app that will take the work out of relationships, and automatically send sweet texts to a sig other?

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A missing Nacogdoches teenager may be all the way in Kansas, after possibly being taken through Texas toward Lubbock by her abductor.

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Fellas I have to tell you...if I can hear you chewing your food, I'm grossed out!  If you're wolfing down your burgers and pizza and slurping and smacking all the while, you might be fun for a night, but I don't think we'll be eating mashed potatoes and gravy together when we're seventy!

Even if there are flowers and candlelight and sweet talk to go along with a romantic meal by the fire, if you chew the chocolate covered strawberries with your mouth open and make smacking noises it's a total mood ruiner for me.

Should it be?  The experts say there are many things that we have to let go in relationships and chew noises are one of them.  Help, I will need therapy!  What else is on the list of "overlookable habits?"

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Palestine police recently made a counterfeit bust.

There were reports of counterfeit fifty-dollar bills passed at two convenience stores last week, and officers were able to catch up with three suspects and arrest them.

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Do you have some weird southern sayings in your family?  Maybe you only realize they're a tad weird when you say them around non-family members and they look at you funny.

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