Happy birthday, Teppy!

Happy Birthday Steph!

Happy birthday Tep!

The Zenstimate is what Zillow estimates the house *should* cost based on other local property values.

Happy birthday, Steph!

Sophia, that would be an adorable little place for you. I love the river walk so close by.

When the Bride is Not a Virgin (Sep, 1965)

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This is not to say, of course, that virginity is not an advantage in many instances. If this girl had not been forced by her own personal qualities to learn about sex from experimentation, her fiance would not have doubted her in the first place. But it does illustrate that good marriages can be built on firm grounds even when there is something in the past— sexual or otherwise—that needs to be discussed and thought through ahead of time.

Some may say that this girl is the exception to the rule, and that once a girl begins sexual relations, she loses her inhibitions in this regard. Many boys seem to have this point of view. This, however, is not a sound assumption. It involves, in my opinion, a male error in the understanding of the female point of view.

The vast majority of girls who have sex relations before marriage are not promiscuous and uninhibited. Most of them have a strong emotional attachment for the person with whom they share sexual intimacy—even though this “attachment” may be a temporary one. The fact that a woman has had sex experiences before marriage does not mean that she will not be faithful to her husband when married.

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In spite of the fact that our double standard of sex — which says that sex before marriage is all right for men but not for women—is weakening, it still has a strong hold on most men. A great many of them, no matter how sexually liberated they feel themselves to be, still can’t accept the fact that their wives have had sexual experiences while unmarried.

Often when an engaged woman or a wife confesses to past experience, she docs it out of a sense of guilt. If she does feel the need for confession, she should seek out a counselor to discuss her problems with. She should not burden her husband with them.

Happy Birthday, Teppy!

Sophia, that house is adorable! Hope everything works out at work. Can you talk to your boss' boss and/or HR about where you might fit in well with all your skills? It sounds like you'd be a great resource for a lot of departments.

I'm bleary eyed and failed to make it to yoga this morning on only the 2nd day back after being in the boot, and enforced sloth, for a month. Fail! I just couldn't get my brain to stfu and let me fall asleep last night. It kept running horror losing my office scenarios. Tedious! Jesus, Brain, it's sad but it's not a Tragedy!

Birthday happies to Steph!

Happy birthday, Tepalina! I hope you're feted all day.

Good luck with the work stuff, Sophia. I have to say every time a boss left my work situation degraded. Though I'm pretty sure there have been several Buffistae who's lot improved after a bad boss left.

lisah, I'm bummed about you losing your office too!

Sophia, how does the timing with the house-buying money from work work? I mean, if you can get an FHA loan or whatever that cuts way down on the money you need to have in hand, and you can get that money from your job, then Bob's your uncle!

The house buying money from work is a little confusing. I think, like many of our "benefits" they make the process confusing so that you do not use it. It looks like you contact them, and they send you to home buying classes-- so I don't think you are supposed to come to them with a house all picked out! But I did realize that for a house that low in price, the grants almost entirely cover the downpayment (it looks like $3,000 from the Uni, $3,000 from the city, and $3,000 from participating banks.)

The kind of nice thing is that there actually about 15 of those cute little houses right there and they go on sale fairly regularly.