'85: "We Are The (Couch) World..."

(((Mastodon)))

Take him on the Steve Harvey show. Steve is a Christian (even though he likes to go to Las Vegas?!), he sends the wife on a spa day "on strike" and makes the hubby do eveything she does in a day. The men change their tune pretty quickly. Or any kind of way, Steve straightens them out. Yesterday a guy goes on and says, "steve, im a man" and steve goes, "oh youre gonna pay for that!" I steve!

Hello fellow speck on the horizon!

Mast - no one can fault you for not wanting to poke the bear. But from what little we know of you, my opinion is that you would be fine as a single person, but that you wouldnt have to remain single long if you didnt want to. You are so funny, smart, and lots of good things! Those just happen to be the only two things i can really name in people. Anyway, imo, that puts you in a win-win situation. H accedes to your requests - you win. He doesnt - eff that noise; you still win.

Oh yes, I see you...right over there!

Aww, you are sweet. You are dead wrong about some of that, but you are still very sweet (Yes, I would definitely be fine on my own. I'd have to start cooking, cleaning, and things like that, but I know I could do it.)

Anyway, there are no requests I want him to accede to.

...so yes, I guess my marriage is not bad at all - for me, in any case. I can't even imagine what it would be like to live in a relationship like that. Or I guess I could, because my dad (who was born in the 1920s) did not do very much in terms of household chores. But I always knew that my parents were enormously old-fashioned.

I am trying to imagine getting 6-10 hugs a day...

***Ack warning for stopdog and pbutton and maybe some others***
I disclosed a guilty secret to T a couple of weeks ago: I have this recurring fantasy, or mental image that pops into my head, that somebody holds me really tight, in a kind of long safe hug, and that 'somebody' is usually my T. (He didn't explode when I told him that, either. Very non-flammable kind of guy, my T. (and btw, what's with the English language and 'flammable' and 'inflammable' being synonyms rather than antonyms? Hmm?))

Well, I have to prepare for my academic writing class which I haven't really started on yet... (and when I say "my class" I mean that I'm teaching it )

My prior T and I hugged like that at the end of my last session. It was quite nice. I recommend it.

I have this intense need to just be alone today. I can't though. We have a family supper out tonight followed by drinks and dessert at our house. I need to put my social hat on.

and btw, what's with the English language and 'flammable' and 'inflammable' being synonyms rather than antonyms? Hmm?

I remember my brother telling me in the early 1960's that they had to invent the word flammable because people were too surprised when they crashed into tankers hauling gasoline marked "inflammable" on the new expressways, that the tankers blew up. The crashers thought it was safe to crash into something INflammable. Sure, why not?

rawr rawr rawr....

I love the way parrots hang upside from a branch and swing. Just like kids.

"Flammable" has been used since the early 19th century, so it's not a 1960s coinage. "Inflammable" is older, though.

I've done that with my T. It's niiiiiiiice... A little scary, but nice.

We need an 'educational' button on here, like on Ravelry...

Funny yo should say that as my neighbour has made multiple offers to help, pride or being sure what the terms of engagement are keep me ffrom accepting. I'm never quite sure of what people want in return. And do I offer first? I can't imagine what a man would want in return except maybe something sexual....

I only ack at imagining a therapist hugging me. Someone imagining or wanting their own therapist to hug them is merely a bafflement.

Just remembered a spanner is what we call a wrench.

Where can I get my own cat couch. I love unique furniture!

I had forgotten that, antway I wouldn t know what you call a spanner.Wrench to me is pull sharpy and quickly.

I was not saying you would know what I meant if I said I needed a wrench. I have read books where they used the word and I had looked it up before.
I remember being in London the first time and they kept referring to courgette on menus - I had no idea it was zucchini.

The Interwebs? lol

I just read the professional cuddle thread... That would freak me right out.