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Posted on 09/02/2004 2:18:28 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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Morninmumbleyawn.
Doesn't Fedora do some writing? (where you been anyway Fedora?)
I am NOT, I repeat NOT even considering NaNoWriMo this year. Not gonna do it.
I DO however, have an idea for a book that I'm working on. It's sort of an inspirational/humor type thing for guys based on "Corin" stories.
And, if I may say so myself I am lovin' this South Beach diet. I went off the deep end and had pizza this weekend. This morning I was still down three more pounds from last week, a total of 17 since August 10.
You went off and are still down? I hate you. For that, you're off the NaNo list. - Seriesly, you've had a dreadful attack of real life, as usual. Are you going to call your book "Job for the 21st Century"?
I'm really struggling to get back into things right now. Bought a cheap scale, which is motivating to some extent; but I haven't hit the "magic gain-back number" that would really make me diet hard. Still... it's got to be this week, though Saturday's not going to be any good for dieting.
There is something about this that is really troubling for me because I am really hoping you find your someone.
You want to be asked by the 'right' guy, at the right time, and I would presume, you want to be the first one he has ever asked. Now, perhaps sometimes the blind can walk together, but I bet they trip alot. I wouldn't be the one to recommend compromising good principles, but it would be helpful to both of you if at least one of you has been partway down the path before. Allow yourself some dates, if I can recommend that. You don't have to know they are the 'one', and it could be that the guy you don't think is the 'one' becomes the 'one' if you give him a chance. If not, at least you know more about it than you did before.
Crap! I am late.... gotta go, see everyone this afternoon!
Yes, but remember I am still working my way back down to where I was when I lost that first 50 lbs. I still have 11 to go to get there.
Plus, with the dance workshop and auditions, I did about five hours of aerobic dance on Saturday and yard work on Sunday.
And finally, don't forget I've got a lot further to go than you.
Besides, I'm a guy. ;-)
I'm not completely opposed to dating, but I wouldn't date someone who was absolutely not someone I could ever, ever marry. I'd want there to at least be the possibility, or otherwise...why ruin a good friendship?
And for the most part, I wouldn't go out with someone who wasn't of the same faith. Now...that isn't written in stone, but once again, if someone is out of the question, I wouldn't want to lead them on.
Good way of putting it! I feel the same way myself. But it is kinda awkward to have to say, yes, you're Christian, but you're the wrong kind of Christian, isn't it?
What's a scuppernong? It sounds like something that could be very,very good or very,very bad! I almost added (like okra) but I didn't want to offend the GRITS!!
I haven't been down for quite awhile. I'm trying to talk myself into going back to the stricter phase for awhile...but I think I'm still losing inches, so maybe I shouldn't care.
But I still have 15 pounds to go, and it's looking like it'll take me a couple of YEARS to get there...half a pound a month or so. *sigh*
Guess it's better than gaining half a pound a month, though. And I'm in pretty darned good shape aerobically. When we hiked yesterday, I was much less out of breath than most of the others.
Everybody's gotta eat. He don't have to be "Mr. Right" but he could be "Mr. Good-enough-to-buy-me-dinner."
Even Jesus spent time with the sinners and the tax collectors. ;-)
(((Hang in there Rosie)))
Yes, but in the long run, that's more likely to stay off.
Heh...unless I get so discouraged I quit!
I think there are other benefits to this diet besides weight loss, though. I FEEL better and more energetic than I have in years.
You'd feel differently on the subject if you had daughters. I make friends with the "sinners and tax collectors", but I won't date 'em.
Fortunately for me, my father didn't hold a similar position... but ninety percent of the time, it's better to go with the "do not be unequally yoked" rule.
Of course, I haven't decided whether Arminians count as unequally yoked - just kidding!
Outstanding!!! I'm enjoying it myself, especially the Ricotta cheese dessert each night! I'm down 10 since we returned from Perdido in the middle of August!
I understand about not going out with the guy who was not Catholic. If you truly want a Catholic household, then it's best to marry someone within the Faith. You immediately have a shared background, and know where the other is coming from. As the nuns used to say "Always choose a date who would make a good mate!" I didn't always follow that advice, but tried to chose activities that would put me in position to meet Catholic guys, and fortunately I found a great one!
I'm not totally without experience, though I know I come across that way.
It just hasn't happened lately. And for the most part, there aren't any single people in the parish.
In some ways I want to move to where that's less the case, but picking a town out of a hat in the hopes that it's different from where I am doesn't exactly appeal to me.
Scuppernongs are kinda like grapes; folks make jellies and wine with them!
C'mon, okra is good! Just cooked up a bunch last night to make my gumbo base. I have one more batch to go, then I can cook it with the stock and throw in the shrimp and crab! I hope it turns out well. I've never made this HUGH a batch before. This will be the first time most of these folks up here have ever had it, so I want it to be VEY tasty!
Any daughters I'd have would not date until they were thirty-five, or I was dead. Whichever came first.
I'm not at all saying lower standards or compromise principles. All I'm saying is that sometimes it's good to go out to eat.
And that's all I'm gonna say.
So much for that idea. ;-)
But I'm not at all opposed to free food!
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