It's making me feel a little funny though that my friend drew my boobs. I know they're big and I often wear tiny shirts but I still blushed a lot when I first saw it.

Oh, please enjoy the boobtacularity of that drawing. It is really just the coolest, boobies included.

Stupid brain! That's because you live in the City of The Broken Hearted. Duh! It's all hopeless, anyway. (/Everything I know I learned From Homicide)

Also, was DX pulling my leg in Natter or did the seach function-y things under the posting box just show up today? I am tired and busy and somewhat harried and am not able to parse jokiness in posts.

Sorry 'bout the tired and busy.

Yes, he was. It just showed up today.

Also, was DX pulling my leg in Natter or did the seach function-y things under the posting box just show up today?

No joke. ita announced it earlier.

OK, Hec, you and Maria need to get your stories straight...

Tired= just regular Monday tired, and busy= work is kind of slammed, but right now, in an OK way.

It's wedding invitations where I really get the why-am-I-alone bs going on. Valentine's, whatev. But then I'm not specificaly told to bring a boyfriend to Valentine's, or seated at a table with an empty chair or a bunch of other random singles, or being all third-wheely at a Valentine's reception filled with couples, many of seem to be there specifically to scope out who you brought with you.

Given my innate contrariness, I strongly suspect that Valentine's will be far more irksome to me when I am in a commited relationship than it is now when I'm not.

vw, I thought you might find this link on Appalachian dialect interesting:

Thanks, Susan!

I am home. Paper still not magically written. I think I'm gonna have to work on those powers a bit.

The best response to have when asked why you didn't bring a date to a wedding or something is, "Oh, he's just for fun, he's not worthy of the event."

I didn't seriously hook up with anybody till I was 24, and my contentment with that state terrified the 19-year-olds around me who lived in dread of turning 20 without a guy.

That's because you live in the City of The Broken Hearted. Duh! It's all hopeless, anyway.

Hah! That makes me both laugh AND cry!

It's not your stupid brain.

I blame my brain because I KNOW about the evil Hallmark dudes and what they're up to but I still get sad about being ALONE FOREVER!

VW I love that you are setting a specific goal and rewarding yourself with an IPOD if you reach it! I'm rooting hard for you!!! And also trying to figure out what hard but attainable goal I can set for myself that would warrant me getting an IPOD as a reward. hmmmm....maybe successfully creating a budget and following it for a couple of months. Very hard for me.