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31 March How I spent my weekendFirst, on Thursday, I went in another stupid, crazy snowstorm to look at new-to-me cars; because mine is dying.
Then on Friday I booked a trip to Vegas for a long weekend in October with a friend. On our way back to work (we booked it on our lunch hours) I got amazing financing for the car I wanted that I looked at on Thursday. Here are some pics
Awww, what a good girl Tabitha has been for me. I'm sad to see her go.
So sad, in fact, that I cried. (not really, but it looked good for the pic.)
And, of course, I am so happy with the new car that I am kicking up my heels!!
Then, Saturday my church did a sketch/variety show based on the Ed Sullivan show. Here are my two performances.
This one, the resolution sucks, but you get the idea.
Clearly I am more than willing to make an utter fool of myself to get a laugh. Miss Kitty and her Trained Poochies can be booked for parties etc. Contact me for details. ;D 27 March Internet dating ... jury's still outRemember that jerk that emailed me? Well I've been pretty active on that site and recently realized that I have no idea how many messages I've sent and how many responses I've gotten. So I took a minute to figure it out tonight .... because I had nothing better to do. I've sent a grand total of 141 messages. 10-20 are ongoing conversations so we'll exclude those. A grand total of 43 messages have never even been opened yet. Which means I'm doing reasonably well, although not statistically well.
Statistically I've got approx 60% of my messages being opened. Right now I am talking with 3 different guys. It was 4, but one of them is in grad school and must have midterms or something 'cause he completely dropped off the planet. Although I can see, now that I've finally realized that the website allows me to see all of the messages I've sent and if/when they've been read, that he did read my last message last night around 11. However, let's say I've gotten a message back and responded a second time to even 10 guys total, including the current 3-4. That means 8% of my messages are yielding a return. Taking it one step further I've only had 4 actual 'conversations' with the guys, which also then means I've got a 3% response rate.
Don't ask me what in God's green earth possessed me to figure out the actual simple statistics of this, but something did. And now that I know I've got a 3% return rate two things come to mind:
1) I need to spend WAY MORE time on this computer sending messages.
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2) I am so deeply and incredibly glad that it only takes one guy to get to my hopeful final destination. (For those of you following along with the stats, that's less than a one percent return rate, ... so far.)  26 March Name name bo bame ...yes - it’s a meme. hehe. i found it while randomly browsing people’s blogs and stumbled upon it at Lethal Euphoria. Don’t feel obligated to take part in this, i just found it amusing and wanted to share. I hope you enjoy it! 1. My rock star name (first pet and current car) 2. My gangsta name (ice cream flavour and cookie or biscuit) 3. My fly girl name (first letter of first name, first three letters of last name) 4. My detective name (favourite colour, favourite animal) 5. My soap opera name (middle name, city of birth) 6. My Star Wars name (first three letters of your last name, first two of your first name) 7. My superhero name (second favourite colour, favourite drink, add “the”) 8. My Nascar name (first two names of my two grandfathers) 9. My stripper name (favourite perfume, favourite sweet) 10. My witness protection name (mother’s and father’s middle names) 11. My weather anchor name (fifth grade teacher’s name, a major city beginning with the same letter) 12. My spy name (favourite season/flower) 13. Cartoon name (favourite fruit plus garment you’re wearing, with an “ie” or “y” added) 14 Hippie name (what you ate for breakfast plus favourite tree) 15. Your rockstar tour name (favourite hobby plus weather element, with “the”) That was AWESOME!! Thanks Kristy!!! 11 March Hapy EasterSlightly 'inappropriate' but INCREDIBLY FUNNY. Go check my friend Kris' Lethal Euphoria page. HA!! I asked if she came up with it herself, but I haven't gotten an answer back quite yet. 02 March WARNING: Angry White FemaleSo I'm on this Christian dating website ... [deleted] I got this message today from a guy and this is what he says:
of course you state your "weight is personal" because you're overweight, why not just admit it and move on?
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I deleted most of what used to be here. I was watching Oprah's Big Give tonight and was reminded of multiple things I have said in the past. I am reminded of what I felt and thought when my mom's best friend died a little while back. I was also reminded of the song we sang in church this morning.
There is a line that says "I will wait for you." and this morning, in church, when i sang it I was thinking, "Lord, I do. I do wait for you. I will wait for you. Clearly you don't mean for me to be in a relationship right now. And I can wait on you. I don't "want" to wait on you, but I would rather wait on you than to be in a bad or barely mediocre relationship."
Tonight, I was upset at the email above and stressed out about the new business venture I'm about to start. And, on the Oprah Big Give one team gave a woman a bunch of stuff because her husband was murdered and ended it with her and her twin daughters writing messages to the husband/dad in a balloon and letting them float to "heaven." I talked to mom for a minute about it and when I hung up, I started to cry. I remembered her friend. And I remembered what I felt when she died. I remember thinking to myself "life is TOOOO short" to not take advantage of every SINGLE oportunity available to me. No matter what else I do in this world I could be gone tomorrow .. or in a month ... or in two years. Any number of things could happen and at the end of the day things like the email above do NOT make any difference in the greater scheme of things. So, I'm going to try hard to hold on to that.
"I will wait for you Lord. I will wait." 01 March Good thing I don't have kidsHaven't visited it in a long while, but I stopped over to Dooce today. Realized they've gotten a dog that makes for good posts and that I kinda miss reading about her. Might have to make stopping by there a bit more of a regular habit. Regardless, this post she had up led me to this post and HOW FUNNY!! Yes it is in Spanish, but the drawings are not. ohhh, the things people draw ... the things that occur to the rest of us who then find a friend to draw something like that and then put it on the internet.
And, as an advance notice, my mom is currently in the process of creating her own dance to this song. She actually wants to go on YouTube. So, once she's perfected the dance, I'm going to record it for her and put her on YouTube. I'm already so excited I can hardly wait for her to finish!!!!!
She cracks me up! |
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