What did you learn today?

[renaeden]

How to make a dream catcher. I have been doing craft for the last few weeks with an organisation that supports people with mental illness.

["couldbecousin"]

People rarely change.  I take a certain amount of comfort in that.

  Gregory House would say they don't change, full stop.  However, they can and they do.


  I've been a slob since I was a child.  Watching years of hoarding shows and having a mouse visitation
  in my apartment have changed my housekeeping behaviors in a big way.   

["couldbecousin"]

I am shite on the telephone.  I just go on automatic, forget what is said and...........  Major disaster.

  I have a similar problem with spoken instructions.
  If there's a lot to remember, it had better be written down! 

["couldbecousin"]

Never under estimate the stupidity of people in large groups.......

  Flash mobs can be forces either for evil or for good.  This I believe. 

["couldbecousin"]

I'm not worthy

  Don't you believe that! 

["couldbecousin"]

I learned this the other day this six piece dining set is  NOT LEATHER 
 

  That's the first thing I look for in a dining room set.  Not-leatherness. 

["couldbecousin"]

  Today I learned that Yes founder/bassist Chris Squire
   died of leukemia last year.  Rest in peace. 

[rock hound]

Avoid mall parking lots this close to Xmas!

[renaeden]

Avoid mall parking lots this close to Xmas!

Yep, spent 20 minutes looking for a spot yesterday. In the end I waited for someone I saw getting into their car to leave so I could get their spot.

[Queen Victoria]

Managed to find a parking spot beside the door first thing (handicapped tag - I use it when I need it, although technically it's for The PR.  In and out of Walmart in 60 minutes.

[Fun With Matches]

I get the idea that I should behave like a good girl until a guy gets attached to me, and then...WHAM! He then realises what a disaster he's got himself into, and there's no escape.

[benjimanbreeg]

I get the idea that I should behave like a good girl until a guy gets attached to me, and then...WHAM! He then realises what a disaster he's got himself into, and there's no escape.

Not intentional was it? 

[Jack]

I get the idea that I should behave like a good girl until a guy gets attached to me, and then...WHAM! He then realises what a disaster he's got himself into, and there's no escape.

It's probably better to blam them right away, and know for certain they can take it.

[Fun With Matches]

I think once someone's hooked, they're far more likely to try and make it work.

I wish everybody could be upfront about their flaws, but that's not how attraction works.

Nobody really wants to give me a chance when they see who I am. I'm pretty much how I appear on WP. I can go for years without having a meltdown if I have my own space that nobody can touch.

And now I'm having one everyday.

I don't know if having a partner is worthwhile, when it is so much hard work to be with anyone. My problem is that I'm too indecisive at the beginning, and I seem to allow too much time to go by. At least with Chris, I'm trying really hard to be myself and tell him exactly what I'm thinking without putting myself down, and it's really working. The problem is I've initiated the conversation the last few times...well, everytime so far, every other day. I dunno how to make him more interested in me. He responds very well, promptly. He only delayed a couple of hours once cos he was in bed having to get up early for work the next day. He records lots of voice clips and sometimes video clips of himself. I don't see why he'd go out of his way for someone that didn't bother him much.

I guess I'm nervous.

[Jack]

I think once someone's hooked, they're far more likely to try and make it work.

I wish everybody could be upfront about their flaws, but that's not how attraction works.

Maybe am misunderstanding. Hooked on what exactly? Would agree other people's meltdowns can be an heavy emotional burden to deal with, so can understand hesitation with that in particular. Husband finds many of my quirks and flaws endearing. Lack of time concept, ultra sensitive gag reflex, hypersensitivity to smell and touch, anxiety, paranoia, he finds it all adorable and to be an endless well of joke fodder to last until the end of our days. Some years into marriage, ran across a small piece of paper with his handwriting. It read: I can solve any algebra problem you could ever give me, and diagram any sentence you could ever speak, but just don't ask me for the time. He told me I said that to him on our first date and he found it so grand that he wrote it down when he got home that night. The reason I said it was because he was asking about my age; we discovered it was my eighteenth birthday and I didn't even realize it. He probably still has that scrap of paper somewhere.