Oh, and cereal back to the Jesus minimum wage discussion -- I'm pretty sure I'm on firm theological ground in my belief that Jesus would have been a union carpenter if they'd had them back when.

This is what my minion kept shouting back when Alan Keyes was running around Illinois saying that Jesus wouldn't vote for Obama. "Are you freaking kidding me? That man was a union Democrat!"

Today has been a good day, and a bad day:

Good It's pay day and my gross pay was almost $5000 more than usual - and I get to keep it! (It nets to about $3500 extra). It's because I wasn't reclassified properly earlier this year.

Bad Our HR staff are frelling me around about a position for which I was interviewing candidates. One person says "offer the job to candidate A" (who was the only candidate) and the other person says "why did you only interview 1 person?"

GHA!

Health-ma, Toddson.

Vortex, I have a friend with much the same issues. She has what seems to be a pemanent man in her life, but one reason they haven't gotten married is the issue of alone time. I suggested they buy houses next to each other ... they may be considering it.

And thanks again for your help and concern.

In my extended (non-blood) family there are two very long term couples who have separate apartments in the same building - in one case, my uncles R and L lived in apartments across the hall from each other for 30 some years. That's always seemed kind of ideal to me.

Yeah, I'd be totally into the apartments across the hall set-up. That or three bedrooms. I've known couples who live in a studio together, and just the thought of it freaks me out.

Boy and I were just talking about how we're both going to need our alone time when we live together. I told him I need to not be talked to when I get home from work, for a couple of hours, probably, and he wanted me to know that when he goes for two hour walks it's not cos he's picking up hookers. I told him it was okay so long as they weren't skanky hookers.

I would love to have my own bedroom. DH and I are together pretty much 24/7. He goes to his sports leagues and takes the boys to do stuff so I get down time. I go do my thing, but mostly we are together. I have always preferred to sleep alone. Really nothing to do with the partner. Just would rather have the bed to myself. I wouldn't want my own place though.

For me, I think the ideal is apartments on separate floors, right above/below each other. This has the advantage of separate apartments with the added opportunity for small tunnels through the ceiling/floor so our cats could move back and forth at will.

Y'all make me laugh. well, as a single person with no plans of a long-term relationship.