Chix Chat

Hi, Michele!

How do you like that subject line? I’m still waiting on your pics! Maybe I’ll get them later today; I’m sending this message about 8:30 and our mail usually arrives about 11:00.

I did get the message yesterday - I was busy and didn’t get a chance to finish my response letter! (Next time, I’ll send a quick Angel-gram so that you know I’m working on it.) I think I noticed why last Friday’s email didn’t arrive here. Did you put your email address in the TO section? I’ve done that before: sent stuff to myself when I meant to send it to someone else.

I did see Danielle’s signing in my guestbook; and I was wondering about the flip hair inside joke.

That was mighty nice of you to ask why I’m single when I’m so wonderful - I’m paraphrasing there   - If I may say so, the same can be said about you! And it does beg the question: "Why are we still single?" We have so much to offer!

There’s an article in the new Cosmo that has advice on what we were talking about: dating guys just for the sake of dating. Of course, their stance on the issue is that "you shouldn’t feel guilty about seeing someone that you think you have no future with." This advice is in an article on how to make yourself more attractive to guys; this was under the section that you should casually date someone to make yourself more attractive to other guys. That is a step beyond dating someone for a free lunch! (According to Cosmo, guys will rate an average-looking woman as being more attractive if she is talking to another man.) I don’t think that using some poor dork as bait is the way to meet Mr. Right!

A few years ago, a Christian friend suggested that I get involved with the Baptist Campus Ministry. They told me that would be a good place to meet a guy. I still haven’t joined the BCM yet, but I bet it would be as good a place as any to meet a potential husband. I was thinking about that the other day, and I realized that most of the places I go have a less-than-quality sort of dating material. It’s like, "I wouldn’t go to McDonald’s and look for Eggplant Parmigiana." All of the guys I’ve previously dated were people I worked with at restaurants or wherever. There’s nothing wrong with them, of course, but they’re just not the one for me. I’ve often thought about visiting a larger church, or at least becoming a part of their singles program, to try to be around the kind of Christian man that I’m looking for.

Having said that, I think about sex too! (So much for a smooth segue.) There is one cool episode of My So-Called Life where Angela (the teen-aged main character) keeps thinking about sex. She looks at adults and says in the voice-over, "Mr. Smith *has* sex. Ms. Jones *has* sex. They could be having sex together right now!" She shakes her head and thinks, "I am the sickest person."

I can fully relate to your dilemma. I don’t know if I am qualified to give advice about that since I’m in the same boat. I do find that some days/weeks are better than others. Some days it seems like I find myself thinking "thoughts" about every semi-attractive guy I meet. Other days, I’m more calm. It’s funny you should mention being tempted by Arnold Vosloo, because I’ve also wondered what would happen if someone that *^%& fine asked me out. Like you, I honestly don’t know what I’d do! I guess it’s true what they say about God not letting us be tempted above what we are able. (Maybe this is why I only date scumbuckets - believe me, they are easy to resist!)

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**recommendations**
movie - Oscar
cd - Wheels are turnin’/REO Speedwagon
TV show - Caroline in the City

funny moment: from the Mama’s Family episode where Naomi had the dinner party that was spoiled by Mama lying on the floor in the living room due to her back having gone out. After the party was over, Naomi was  being very calm; she appeared to be tidying up the living room. Mama is still lying on the floor. Naomi starts to set the TV tray tables over Mama one at a time, all the while she’s talking about how Mama couldn’t help that her back went out. "It struck you without warning," she says at one point. After she’s set all of the tray tables over Mama, she puts a tablecloth on them and turns out the light. Of course, Mama’s saying, "What the …?" Naomi has the last word as she’s leaving the room, "I’m sure you’re every bit as comfortable as you made my guests tonight."
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new questions!

when you go to the movies, who do you usually go with?- me, myself and I.

do you know how to sew or knit or crochet?- I can sew a little - like reattaching buttons that have come off or mending a small tear.

do you believe in ufo’s/extraterrestrials?- no

How would you feel if you found out one of the men you had a crush on had died?-  I would feel awful!

when you have a "to do" list, do you usually do what you want to do first, or do what you least want to do first so you can get it out of the way?- I try to get what I least want to do as soon as possible so it won’t be hanging over my head.

has your name ever been mentioned on the radio?- Yes! When I became a finalist in the Top Ten Reasons I Need a Shopping Spree, they read my name and my top ten list on the air. I was so thrilled!
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NEW QUESTIONS
Have you ever ridden in a limosine? No. I’m sick about that too - for that Top Ten Radio contest I won, they left a message on the office voicemail on a Friday saying that they were taking all of the winners to the shopping spree in a limo the next day. I didn’t get that message until the following Tuesday. (Thanks a lot boss!)

How many bottles of nail polish do you have? I have about six bottles of nail polish that aren’t ruined.

What color are your nails painted? Do you match your finger and toe nail polish? My toenails are white (because that’s the newest polish that I have). When I do paint my fingernails, I usually don’t match them to my toes. Although I haven’t done it in a while, I like a modified French manicure on my fingernails: I paint the tips white and then paint over the whole nail with a clear polish.

What beauty regimens would you let your husband see you do? Just the basics: putting on makeup, fixing my hair, brushing my teeth. I wouldn’t want him to see anything that I wouldn’t want to see him do.

Would you wear makeup around your husband most of the time? I wouldn’t all the time, but I’d definitely try to look my best. I’ve read in magazines that one of guys’ pet peeves is a woman who thinks she doesn’t have to fix herself up because she has a man.

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That’s about it for now. Talk to you soon! God bless!

Anne