Do you know when you have found true love?
Well I know what true love is not.
I could assume that real, honest, whole hearted Love is the opposite of everything I have experienced. When a man simply uses you to get what he wants, that’s not love.
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What if everything is exactly the way that we imagine it to be? For better or worse?
In TV newsrooms across the country in all 210 markets, there are the same types of employees. It’s as though the stations are staffed by Central Casting. There’s the quiet editor who barely says a word to anyone, an overly flirtatious producer, and the reporter who runs around in a panic about every story like he or she is covering the shooting of John F. Kennedy rather than the annual story about chilly weather meaning it’s time to cover your plants, bring in the pets from the outside, and wrap your home’s pipes.
There’s also the curmudgeonly aka bitter photographer. I’ve known a few. One would lean back in a chair in the newsroom every time managers from the corporate office were in town.
“We’re gonna be sold.”
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No one gets away with anything and everything. You might think that’s true. But it’s not.
My favorite cartoon is Scooby Doo. It’s mostly because I like mysteries and secret passages.
One of my favorite moments during an episode is at the end when Fred, Velma, Daphne, Shaggy, and Scooby tear off the mask of the ghost, zombie, or witch.
“Mr. Jones!”
They’re shocked the bad guy has turned out to be the friendly hotel owner or ship captain.
“Yes and I would’ve gotten away with it too if it hadn’t been for these meddling kids.”
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Whitney Houston sang about the question many of us ask ourselves in relationships, “How will I know if he really loves me?”
You’ve probably dropped an “L” bomb or two in your lifetime, especially if you’re like me.
I’ve never said it without meaning it, but now that I’m older I realize at least one of those statements was more of a “I don’t want to be without you I can see myself falling in love with you down the road so I’ll say it back to avoid being awkward.”
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True friends and members of my close family found out many years ago the secret. Don’t tell me what to do.
When my sister Renee’ and I were kids, our parents John and Ann created “chore charts” for us. They were hand made calendars, one for Renee’ and one for me. On it were the days of the week cross-listed with various chores including emptying the dishwasher, folding socks, emptying waste baskets, and taking out the garbage. I liked the chart and how it kept me on a nice, little
As I got older and chore charts drifted into the past, chore completion became less regimented. If I noticed the dishwasher needed to be unloaded, then I’d unload it.
But if my parents were to suddenly ask me to unload the dishwasher that day, I would bristle.
Mittens. One of the animals I dooned at my mother
Don’t tell me what to do.
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I am frugal and stubborn. Close family and friends will immediately and passionately agree.
Fake cheese
I spend two weeks deciding whether to buy socks and I use items until they fall apart. This also means many times in my personal and work-life, I’ve ignored signs for me to end something before it gets worse. But I don’t. Despite every indication from my intuition, I hang on for dear life.
Thus it was incredibly difficult for me to throw away what is arguably the world’s most hideous food item:
Parmesan topping.
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Two noteworthy things happened recently. One, I talked with my friend Gary about one of our favorite musicals: The Music Man. Two, I had a conversation with passionate sipandgogirl.com contributor Crazy Spectacular about dating.
The two events intersected in the most fascinating way.
I was chatting via Facebook’s personal messaging system with Crazy Spectacular and told her about an ex-boyfriend posting compromising photos of a woman.
She went to that man’s Facebook page and contacted me in horror. But it wasn’t the photos of the woman that gave her pause. It was the photos of the man. She was stunned he was 20 years older than me.
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Children grow up hearing it’s important to be nice to other people. Adults don’t explain, though, why we’re supposed to be nice. There’s just a vague reference to “being a good person.”
They also don’t clarify the difference between being nice and being a doormat. If you don’t know the difference, you’re going to feel isolated.
I was on Facebook the other day and read this post on Mark’s page:
I’ve come to realize I really have no idea who my real friends are. People tell me how great of a guy I am when I ask them to dinner or out for a drink, only to then be asked to loan them money or just take them out for dinners. I’ve probably given 5 digits to those I thought really had an interest in my friendship (or in dating me) only to have never gotten paid back, never given an offer to treat me to dinner, never given a thank you card. Or they disappear shortly after being given something. Just plain nothing. I do it out of the kindness of my heart and don’t expect anything back.
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My first ballot for U.S. President was cast in 1992. I was excited to enter the polling place for the first time. That particular political season and race was electric and dynamic too.
The 1992 election was also when I emerged as the family member with a different political and sometimes religious leaning than the rest of my relatives.
With that revelation, I further cemented my black sheep status.
A black sheep. Standing out from the rest.
A Tale from Sip and Go Girl always means a tale from a dating experience that’s real and true.
This one features Casey.
He was in my War, Peace, and Mass Media class with me on Mondays and Wednesdays.
He asked during a study group if I wanted to go to a movie the next weekend. I didn’t have any attraction to him, but he was a nice guy and a fellow journalism student.
We saw the movie “Under Siege.” That’s the action film starring Steven Seagal as the Navy SEAL who stops bad guys from taking over a ship. We then hit the dance and night clubs. We went to Bobby McGees first. The movie hadn’t allowed us much of a chance to talk so we started chatting for real.
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