He's back...

I was at a conference last weekend for work, and came across an amazing book entitled "Getting In Touch with Your Inner Bitch." I bought it because I suffer from the terminal illnesses known as "The Good Girl Syndrom" and "Toxic Niceness." I hear that both illnesses are treatable with a simple remedy of saying "No."

Anyways, I was skimming through the book when I got back home on Sunday and had an ephiphany. There was a quote that struck me..."If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten." It makes complete sense to me, so why didn't I think of that myself? I promptly made the conscious decision, that the next time a guy approaches me, rather than running away, which is what I normally do (even though I say I don't), I'll do the opposite...stay there, no matter how uncomfortable I feel, and see what happens.

Lo and behold, I check my email on Monday morning, and there's an email from HIM...as my friend says, my Steve Urkel. He's been chasing me off and on since high school ten years ago. My friends all know of him, although they've never met him, but our "relationship" (and I use that term very loosely is something of a comedy. The way he describes himself around other women, and the way he acts around me is completely different. His version of how we met and my version are completely different. How we kept in touch, and ended up going on a couple of dates again are different. He says I was his first love, but I don't believe him.

I know I've changed over the past ten years, and I hope to God he has too. I guess my dilemma is: what do I do? For all I know, all he wants is a friendship, but judging from the things he's said in past emails, it's likely that he wants more. And although I'm flattered by the attention, I can't figure out if I'm genuinely interested, or just happy about the attention (trust me folks, it happens very rarely for me). I haven't seen him in ten years, but the opportunity to see him is pretty much my call. I have a few events in the next two weeks that I can invite him to, but not sure if I should because I really do not want to lead him on. I have no problem being a friend to him, but not sure if I want more.

Advice? please?

1. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?

Osama

2. You can flip a switch that will wipe any band or musical artist out of existence. Which one will it be?

K-fed

3. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?

parents who don't know how to take care of their kids

4. What is your favorite cheese? american

5. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your immediate disposal. What kind will you make?

i wouldn't make it. i'd have my dad make it. he makes the best sandwiches out of the weirdest stuff!

6. You have the opportunity to sleep with the movie (porn counts) celebrity of your choice. We are talking no-strings-attached sex and it can only happen once. Who is the lucky celebrity of your choice?

Morris Chestnut

7. You have the opportunity to sleep with the music-celebrity of your choice. Who do you pick? John Legend

8. Now that you've slept with two different people in a row, you seem to be having an excellent day because you just came across a hundred-dollar bill on the sidewalk. Holy shit, a hundred bucks! How are you gonna spend it?

I'll probably go shopping.

9. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere. You have to depart right now. Where are you gonna go?

Italy or Spain.

10. Upon arrival to the aforementioned location, you get off the plane and discover another hundred-dollar bill. Shit! Now that you are in the new location, what are you gonna do?

Shop!

11. An angel appears out of Heaven and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. It is...?

Mango Margaritas and Vodka Sours...yum!

12. Rufus appears out of nowhere with a time-traveling phone booth. You can go anytime in the PAST. What time are you traveling to and what are you going to do when you get there?

I'd go to when my grandparents were alive to see what they were like.

13. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place?

World peace :-)


14. You have been given the opportunity to create the half-hour TV show of your own design. What is it called and what's the premise?

"How to be sexy without looking like a ho"
15. What is your favorite curse word? shit...but my new one is f*ing a.

16. One night you wake up because you heard a noise. You turn on the light to find that you are surrounded by MUMMIES. The mummies aren't really doing anything, they're just standing around your bed. What do you do?

Leave <---- ditto datbury :-)

17. Your house is on fire, holy shit! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don't worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely.So what's the item?

mr. bear

18. The Angel of Death has descended upon you. Fortunately, the Angel of Death is pretty cool and in a good mood, and it offers you a half-hour to do whatever you want before you bite it. Whatcha gonna do in that half-hour?

what any red-blooded american woman would do...i'd find the hottest guy and take him to the nearest darkened corner/room and...GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER!

19. You accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what's even cooler is that they endow you with the super-power of your choice! What's it gonna be?

I think I'd like to have the ability to make stupid people smart.


20. You can re-live any point of time in your life. The time-span can only be a half-hour, though. What half-hour of your past would you like to experience again?

that fateful day in junior high when i ran home instead of meeting my crush under the stairs ;-)

21. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be? (the answer "nothing" doesn't count)

that one night at hollywood.

22. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-traveling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But check out this cool shit... you can move to anywhere else in the world! Bitchin'! What country are you going to live in now?

Italy or spain...maybe even one of the islands

23. This question still counts, even for those of you who are under age. Check it out. You have been eternally banned from every single bar in the world except for ONE. Which one is it gonna be?

the one with decent educated guys

24. Hopefully you didn't mention this in the super-powers question.... If you did, then we'll just expand on that. Check it out... Suddenly, you have gained the ability to FLOAT!!! Whose house are you going to float to first, and be like "Dude, check it out... I can FLOAT!"?

i'd go to school and freak out my students

25. The constant absorption of magical moonbeams mixed with the radioactive vegetables you consumed earlier has given you the ability to resurrect the dead famous-person of your choice. So which celebrity will you bring back to life?

elvis

26. The Celestial Gates of Beyond have opened, much to your surprise because you didn't think such a thing existed. Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person/etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back?

my paternal grandmother. i'm told i'm the spitting image of her

27. What's your theme song? Girls just wanna have fun~

Dreams...

For the past week, I've had two dreams that have kind of freaked me out...both involving my psycho stalker (if you don't know who that is, read my previous blog). My psycho stalker isn't really psycho. He's a nice guy who's pursued me for the past 10 years. Apparently I was his first love (we only went on two dates), and everytime I finally think I've gotten rid of him, he pops back into my life via phone call, greeting card/letter, or email. He's absolutly not my type, but in the first dream, I was two months preggers with his kid, and in the second dream, he came over to my parents' house (i was living there in the dream) and had breakfast with me.

This concerns me for two reasons: #1 - i have no romantic feelings towards him whatsoever, so why the heck am i dreaming about him, and #2 - is this God's way of telling me i'm supposed to be with him??? because if so, God and I are gonna have to have a very serious chat.

on another note, the guy that i am interested in, never called, so i guess that's the end of that. people keep telling me that i'm too picky...but seriously folks, is hoping that the guy i'm dating be financially stable and independent, lives on his own, have a heart for God,and knows how to treat a lady with respect too much to ask? i don't think that's being picky. i think that's knowing that that's what i deserve. i don't want some guy that's so messed up i have to fix him. i'm not super woman. i don't have magical powers. i cannot change a guy. i don't want him to change for me...if he's gonna change, he has to do it for himself. otherwise, what the heck is he doing it for??

whew...i feel better now...thanks :-)

Men...

I'm a twenty-something (okay, pushing 30), fairly attractive, self-sufficient, level-headed, professional. I've never been married, don't have any kids, no psycho ex-boyfriends, but an occasional stalker...well one "stalker" who tends to find me every few years (he's harmless really). I'm educated. I'm strong. And although I seem to have a lot going for me, I always seem to attract the wrong kind of guy. I just don't understand men. I know this is the 21st century and women ask guys out all the time, but seriously...do they expect us to all the work? Short of wearing a sign saying "ask me out", I don't know what to do. And no, I'm not desperate. I don't want just any guy to ask me out. There's one in particular. Cute, sweet, God-fearing, educated, not cocky like most guys i know. Seems to be interested just by some of the things he says to me, but just when i think he's lost interest, or I've lost interest, he'll say something to catch my attention. I'll respond, and then nothing....

what the heck's a girl supposed to do????????????

Welcome to me...

for those of you who are quite familiar with blogging, do you ever wish you could blog and not worry about what others will think about your thoughts? maybe you do, maybe you don't...either way, this is my way of blogging anonymously...i have a myspace page, but since i have so many friends on it, sometimes, i feel the need to say something, and not have them think diffrently about me. not sure if it makes sense to you, but it makes sense to me. sure, i'll have a few friends reading this blog, but whatever it is that i'm blogging about, chances are, they'll already know.

i guess what i'm saying is, this is my cyber journal. read it, ignore it, comment on it...i really don't care. but enjoy it :-)

Single in the City...

So during the week I went to a singles event with a friend. I don't normally go out in the middle of the week, but thought "What the heck, I don't have anything else better to do!" Plus, it was FREE! I got all dolled up, in my humble opinion, looked awesome! Got there, and lo and behold, all the guys there were, ummm, how do I say this nicely...special. When I say "special" I don't mean that in a good way. There's a reason why those guys are single. If you're 34 and still living with Momma for no reason, that's not a great way to pick up women. But, I digress...that's not the point of this post. Actually, a newsreporter was there, and asked my friend and I if she could interview us. She said she had been doing research, and the research suggested that women that are educated and have a high IQ, have more trouble finding suitable guys to date. She also stated that women prefer guys with a higher IQ, while men prefer women with lower IQs. I know my opinion...what's yours?