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Re: Randoms for Friday the 17th
Oh, Allison... I feel the same way about the Lion King (and yup, like DP, Bambi's mom). Poor kiddo.
I think that Jim and Brian didn't get over that "we're being set up" hump enough to go on to independent friendship. Would you agree, GVSU? We'll have to try again. I just thought of a great down-the-road scene. Both families meet up during artprize, and we send the two of them off for a drink while we take the kids around.
It's snowing a lot right now. Just so you windowless aren't shocked in a little bit.
Henry and I were at a friend's house this afternoon for a while. When we picked Willa up, he blurted out where we were right away. She was angry that we'd dare to have fun w/out her.
It just looks like wet roads for right now
BTW please keep my coworker and her friend in your prayers. This was a horrorific accident on 68th St last Friday due to the weather. A mother and her child were hit but another car. Anyways these are my coworkers friends. The mother has a shattered pelvic bone and the 4 year old did not make it. Tomorrow is the funeral. Please say a small prayer for everyone involved please.
See, that's where I fail as well. I'm not subtle about these things (see also: cat story, and as addendum, all of the hissing and growling was on the part of my badly behaved G). All of the things I want to say are so bad, like "Anytime we talk about you, in our eyes you have so much in common" FAIL--I think husbands hate to think about their wives talking about them. Or, "This is my friend, she and I like each other, she likes her husband (hopefully), so therefore you should like her husband, too." FAIL--L hates to be told what to like (and who doesn't, I suppose). I need to re-read How to Win Friends and Influence People again to figure this out...
Oh, and L just told me it's snowmageddon out there. Hopefully his drive is better than mine was last week.
I really relate to Willa. Maybe it's the lefty thing. I also get angry when people dare to have fun without me. It's something that I unfortunately have not successfully outgrown.
Good points about why friendship set ups are hard. I've been on the receiving end of friend matchmaking, and there's a lot of pressure!
I don't like missing out on fun either. My family all lives w/in 20 minutes of each other. Last summer, they had a spur of the moment BBQ. Because it wasn't really planned, we weren't invited. I didn't talk to any of them for 2 weeks. I did not, stomp my foot. Growth there.
This is one of the reason's I kind of want to move closer to home.
I wouldn't say that at all, at least on B's part. He is just clueless when it comes to friendships (to put in nicely, or bluntly as some may see). When he is in a group of people he is very social and will get along with everyone. It just doesn't occur to him that HE could be the one to set a time to go out with people. Maybe he thinks that is a "girl thing." I'm surprise his friend in TX hasn't given up on him. If it weren't for Rick, B would never talk to him. Rick is the one who will call on his way home from work .I think B is afraid that he will bother him if he calls in the evening during family time.
He only has one friend here in town. He will email J to set up a time to go out and more often than not, it is me email J saying "hey, B is free next week if you guys want to go out." It would never occur to B to email or call J to chit-chat.
This is funny, I see your bleeped out word when I quote! Nest, you have scarred me for life by exposing me to such naughty words as ***!
That's hilarious that he's paranoid. Maybe that's what precipitated your Valentines. He wanted to make sure you only had good things to say about him.
I'm out of here! Great chatting with you all today.
Hope everyone has a nice weekend!
L also doesn't act the way I know him on these friend first dates, either. He is totally in first date, best behavior mode. Which would be nice if we were attending a work event, but it doesn't show the *real* him that is so much more interesting and friendly.