After scrolling through the last few hundred posts I feel compelled to share my non-dating experiences. I haven't really dated anyone since high school so no thoughts on that. I have however been successfully (IMO) married 3 times.
DH#1 - totally friend based from beginning to end. Met him while trying to get back together with old boyfriend. Never intended to date him. Became best friends and ended up marrying. Married 12 years but stayed friends after divorce.
DH#2 - total movie worthy love at first sight. Met at a party when we were both heavily involved with other people with no intention of ending those relationships. We both told the host later we absolutely needed to see the other one again. One week later I told DH#1 I could not remain married when I felt so strongly about another human. He ended his relationship as well. We married. We had 3 years and 3 months together before he died.
DH#3 - met in school competing on tests, turned to friends with benefits, then in business, now married 22 years.
Three totally different starts with one strong similarity - I was not even remotely looking for a relationship at the time with any of them. Apparently I am a marrying kind of girl.
Similarly, no tots, but they do the fries and duck fat beignets (among other things), if you're ever in Portland, ME: [link]
How did I not know about that place?
I have been to all the stores, and I think I finally have everything I need for the trip. And I also have pretty new hair.
I worked a half-day today, due to DH being away on a week-long trip. Home with the doggies, but I stopped to get chicken Mcnuggests, which I am eating now while listening to the BBC and feeling very happy.
Laura, thanks for sharing your experiences! Very interesting.
Where y'at?
Sun Ray Grill, in the corner of the Cotton Mill bldg, near the Rusty Nail.
I got the bacon and Brie burger.
This is relevant to my interests!
I found out Sur La Table sells jars of duck fat, so I will be toddling down there sometime to get some. I'ma thinking that my favorite bar food, potato skins with bacon, cheese and sour cream, would be rendered (heh) even more fab by frying the baked skins in duck fat. And I am generous enough to make a few tots for Dan.
smonster! I am so excited to have you here next weekend!!!
Strix! I am so excited to be going to there! I would like to meet up with my other friends, maybe for dinner Friday or lunch Saturday, but I haven't heard back from them. The important is you! Your birthday party! And GettingTFO of NOLA, the town I love so much but just need a tiny wee break from.
I have got to do a domestic goose for Christmas this year since I won't be going home. Then I could have lots and lots of goose fat to cook with the rest of the year.
That is absolutely fine...I don't think I have anything planned for Friday, except cleaning and prepping vats o' sangria, so whatever you want to do.
Weather next weekend is supposed to be decent—high 80's/low 90's for the high, upper60's/low 70's at night— for which I am VERY grateful, as the Death Valley weather we've been having left me a little afraid for my party.
You can have the Guest Room, which looks suspiciously like a small boy's room, but the bed is very comfortable, and you will have your own TV/DVD player! And lots of stuffed animals! And...er, real ones, I am SO glad you are not allergic or else I would be shipping your fur-covered corpse back to NOLA.
I am going to be sending out my bday party invites tonight; it will not be huge, probably 15-20 people, but pretty mellow and geeky and drunken and adult and smoky, but I have indoors and outdoors and a house that's good for parties, so you can go introvert at any time and crash! So bring some geeky t-shirts and a short skirt or whatever and we will chill like mofos! YAY!
high 80's/low 90's for the high, upper60's/low 70's at night
And I'm guessing less than 75% humidity? I will need to bring layers! How exciting.
Sounds like a great party. And I'm happy to help with prep! I am a good cleaner, though you wouldn't know from my house, and I like to chop.
