Spike's Bitches 26: Damn right I'm impure!
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Happy anniversary, Nora and Tom!
Sparky, the funeral was really tough, but my friend seems to be keeping it all together. Her little guy is a bit baffled and sad, but that's totally normal for a six-year-old. They're going to be okay, but it's still hard to accept. No one should die that young, and in that much pain.
GC, my parents got me (read: really for them) a kitten they named Fancy when I was still a toddler. Their cat, Samantha, was pathologically jealous of me, and had clawed me a couple of times, so they had to find a new home for her. And then I wound up allergic to Fancy anyway.
It's Wednesday, right?
Is it that serious already, then?
Ha! No. I'm not seeking out rabbis here, just information. I'm a big fan of looking ahead. At this point, it's the best relationship I've ever had, by far. We're compatible to a truly absurd degree. This means that fighting for the right to marry her is a possibility I'd like to plan for, even if it is an unlikely eventual outcome or desire.
Well -- and this is my opinion only -- if you're not converting b/c of your own personal faith/relationship with God/spirituality, then you shouldn't be converting at all.
I agree. As above, if I didn't think I might could possibly believe it, I wouldn't be reading up on it at all. I miss God, I miss faith, and I miss my spirituality - I just don't miss Christianity. What I've seen of Judaism since I got out here, mostly through her but a bit with other friends, really piques my interest, so I'm checking it out. This may mean I end up converting to Reform or Conservative Judaism eventually, GF or not. If the religion doesn't speak to me, then I won't be converting at all, and we'll break up due to irreconcilable differences. Or because we don't like each other so much anymore. Whichever.
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Happy Anniversary Tom and Nora!
Sparky, the funeral was really tough, but my friend seems to be keeping it all together. Her little guy is a bit baffled and sad, but that's totally normal for a six-year-old. They're going to be okay, but it's still hard to accept. No one should die that young, and in that much pain.
Oh, AmyLiz. There are no words.
Ha! No. I'm not seeking out rabbis here, just information. I'm a big fan of looking ahead. At this point, it's the best relationship I've ever had, by far. We're compatible to a truly absurd degree. This means that fighting for the right to marry her is a possibility I'd like to plan for, even if it is an unlikely eventual outcome or desire.
You're making me 'ship like a mad shipper--I mean, I'm already at the like a take out an ad in
Variety,
"How's forever? Does forever work for you?" level of 'shipping.
I miss God, I miss faith, and I miss my spirituality - I just don't miss Christianity. What I've seen of Judaism since I got out here, mostly through her but a bit with other friends, really piques my interest, so I'm checking it out.
If this is the case, then you're on the right path, just by virtue of doing the exploring. I just wish you could do that exploration without all the external pressures complicating things.
Happy Anniversary, Nora and Tom! It seems like just yesterday that I was sniffling over your beautiful elopement pictures.
It seems like just yesterday that I was sniffling over your beautiful elopement pictures.
Yeah, but I'm disturbed we've heard so little of the Rubber Duckies. I fear they've secretly met with Miss Kitty Fantastico's fate.
if you're not converting b/c of your own personal faith/relationship with God/spirituality, then you shouldn't be converting at all. It should be a blessing, not a burden, and I'd think that converting to a religion because you "have to," rather than *want* to, would be a burden.
I'm with you in the ideal case, but I think it often gets complicated in the case of marriage and children, and that isn't necessarily such a bad thing. I mean, being forced to do so is bad, no question. But I think not everyone (here I'm going to the general, not the D.Griswold topic at hand) experiences religion as a search for truth/relationship with God thing; for many people, I think, it is (within certain parameters) a matter of... practicality? I'm saying this wrong. I think I'm trying to describe a sort of combination of "Your people will be my people and your God my God," and "Oh, honey, God don't care which church you go, long as you show up!"
ETA: In fact, that may be the best description of the kind of religiosity I admire -- a cross between Ruth and Dolly Parton.
Yeah, but I'm disturbed we've heard so little of the Rubber Duckies. I fear they've secretly met with Miss Kitty Fantastico's fate.
They are on our bathtub ledge, and Eve aka Casper was playing with them when they came to visit a couple months ago!
Aw, Colin. He is the closest we have come to a pet. Really, he's more an elopement mascot.
Happy Anniversary, Nora & Tom!
AmyLiz, all the best to your friend and her son. It's heartbreaking.
Adorable Ellie!
D. Gris, I choose to believe that she is also thinking about how she might change her life to make one work with you, and that the two of you will find a place in which you are both comfortable.
Today a program starts here at the school, and if it flops, it's all on my head. I'm both excited and wishing I could hide under my desk.
