I know the feeling. That's great

Thank you. The best part is he has helped me to be a better person in every way and vice versa.

Congratulations, Jolene. One of the gifts of life is living happily with another

Yes, we are losing the war while we argue about homosexuality and abortion. What happened to taxation without representation ? I guess that's too esoteric.

Go for it

So.... how rough can I get with my humor here?
I've got another good one, but...

Thank you, I'm here all week.

chilling. f**ckers. ironically, I parted a group of conservatives in a discussion where I said, "thanks for arguing away my freedoms"

I took my leave of a group mostly comprised of college English professors with the remark,"I'll leave you to continue your discussion on how you will re-distribute my wealth."

You can't run with the wolves if you pee like a puppy.

hahaha

I much enjoyed this thread. I am the flighty flamboyant girl. I moved every 3 months for 3 years. Roughly, it was not exactly every 3 but close to it. I was trying to kick off a career as a rockstar, working 2 and 3 jobs to make ends meat, and leaving a trail of broken hearts in my wake. I never became a rock star and ended up trying to settle down with a perpetual bachelor. All I got from that was a position as a single mother. Fortunately my mom was divorcing her husband so we moved in together. It was nice for a while but I was like a caged animal chomping at the bit staying home with my young child. Fortunately, I found a great man, a machinest, who could easily be an engineer with just a little more schooling and his exact opposite-ness has completed my spontaneity. We just work, but it took us 3 hard years to figure out how to coexist, but we figured it out and have been going strong for 6 yrs in June.

Yo' mama's such a collectivist she burned her little black dress and stole a little red book.

+1!

one whom I was with in college lives about 100 miles
northeast of here and has a facebook page. . I sent
her a note;;; no response.

my first was an exchange student -- can't find her.

most friends have faded into ancient diary history,
but one is quite active;;; we're writing books
together. . just finished one tonight. . a guy, this
friend.

the older I get, the more I want to put a factual
diary together, with names and dates -- march 24,
1967, north beach jekyll island, when I first
kissed a girl -- and I just might do it. . wonder
where she is, now....... -- j

I married the 1st time at 22, for 15 years. . split and
then looked for someone with whom to make a family
for 15 more, then married someone with whom
no kids came along, so we're growing old together
and loving others' kids.

wife is disabled with arthritis, etc. and I have
emphysema, so we go slow, but We Go !!! -- j

<Big Smile!>
One of my through-marriage relatives showed up last Thanksgiving looking decidedly pregnant. I bit my tongue and didn't congratulate her, but judiciously asked around... she wasn't.
It turned out that her hub wants a family but she's afraid of anything and everything associated with pregnancy, birth, etc., and when she's anxious, she eats... and the fat accumulates where it makes her look pregnant.

Ironic, eh? My first wife and I both had enough neuroses and other shit that, had we made any babies, those poor kids would have had genes they'd want to trade in for good ones. Lucky for those unborn non-children of ours, probably (actually and obviously, no way to know now...).

Second wife lost her reproductive plumbing after an auto accident, so according to some fundamentalists, our marriage could not produce children naturally, so we're as bad as if we were gay and of same gender.

Life on this planet is SO strange...

my first wife and I were escapees from parental
restraint together, and were married by a judge with
her next-door-neighbor witnessing. . . when the
judge said, "You may kiss the bride," I replied
(no kidding) "Where?"

that's how much we wanted to comply with the
rules -- just tell me what to do, and let us leave.

I could fix most everything except her fear of
having kids. -- j

I connected with my first wife shortly after she'd broken an engagement with a guy she realized was not, let's say, 'well-connected to reality,' and I, as an engineer grad, was a bastion of 'stability' compared to him. In the end, after some years of marriage, we realized that we were, like the book, "The Scientist versus The Humanist" and too different to stay together.

Engineers DO make great spouses, though... they can fix things AND are often good earners and not as 'flighty' as some of the more ... ah... 'flamboyant' competitors.

YMMV...

That reminds me of two girls I dated in college, too...
Took the first one, "M" to a drive-in movie. She sat on my hand and I was naïve (and stupid) enough to remove my hand.

The second one, "J", about four years later, was my bunk-buddy for two months, and although I was getting VERY serious about HER, it wasn't mutual and she dropped me like a hot rock. A few months later, I was crushing on "D" who was more interested in "Rick." Some time later, Rick and "J" married... some irony in that. "D" got her MD, I think, and married. Rick and "J" divorced, and around the time I got back in touch with "J", she stopped writing suddenly. Her sister told me a few months later that "J" had died. Such is life...

Depending on your definition of "is", of course... :)

Imagine that it's dawn on the Serengeti. Everyone starts running, the predators to get their breakfast and the prey to stay off the menu. Anyone who's standing still will be killed or will starve. That's a model for how the global market is forming, literally before our eyes. Global competition does not allow for a laid back attitude. If you're not running, you'll be run over. Some may be turned off by such a picture. I'm invigorated.

at one point, my mom -- who was a knockout
southern belle -- asked me how I was able to
attract girlfriends so easily. . . y'see, she didn't
understand how an atheist could relate to the
real world, I guess, and she'd seen me with
more than one girlfriend. . . serial monogamy.

so, it was engineering, huh?

I never knew that. . I thought that it was
animal magnetism. . the other strong force. -- j

p.s. Dale was a fortunate young man!!!

What is the cite for this one? That was AR? Wow. Co -opted by the progs

just joshin you. I know all too well about spontaneous girls latching on to engineers :)