a - 06 september 2001
From: Anne
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 2:19 PM
Subject: I’m gonna go for it!
Hi, Michele!
Poor Kristen: something like that would be a literal nightmare! How is her friend doing? Also, when is Nora’s surgery going to be? I will keep her in my prayers.
I have a nine pm counting gig tonight, so I’ll be hanging out in town until then. I plan to get something to eat and go see Jurassic Park III. I also plan to go to the college and scan that pic of Darrell. If I have any time beyond that I’ll work on some homework.
In other news, I have been a member of a "Christian Friendship" web site - www.crossdaily.com - since May. The membership is free and you can tell what sort of "relationship" you’re looking for such as dating, marriage, pen pal, or friendship. I had selected "friendship only" but I hardly ever received any emails. Today I switched it to "long-term dating." I included this paragraph in the "what I’m looking for" section of the questionnaire:
"I am looking for a good Christian man who is in the Huntsville area or pretty close to it. I like a guy with a positive attitude who is easygoing and fun. It would be great if he is close to my age (within five or so years) and has a good career. Ideally, we could chat by email and get to know each other a bit then see where it goes from there."
What do you think? I wanted to sound non-desperate yet approachable. I’ll see what kind of response that brings in. (I thought of including "he should closely resemble Arnold Vosloo" but I thought that would severely limit the responses.) I’m not holding my breath that I’ll have much response from that site - since I joined only one person from the Huntsville area wrote to me when I was looking for friends and he disappeared after a few emails. Oh well - nothing to lose right? I’ll let you know how it goes. If you want to join, it’s free like I said. The only catch is that the free membership people can only send and receive one email a day - you use their site instead of your own email to contact other members initially. You need a screen name - I’m "looloobelle" because I didn’t want to be "Anne575."
The possibility of meeting someone great is exciting, but I’m also leery. I can just imagine the lame, awkward responses I’ll get! And can you imagine actually meeting for the equivalent of a blind date. Like I keep saying, "We’ll see!"
I’m going to think about who I could ask at church about this situation. The two women that I really felt I could talk to have left our church to go elsewhere. It is so tough to find someone that understands. I’m like you again (what a surprise!) in that I can’t talk to my family. They probably wouldn’t listen anyway. I’d love to talk to someone who met someone like people do in the movies; I’d love for that someone to tell me that it is possible! That’s another thing about this crossdaily site - it is the exact opposite of the way I want to meet The One. I wonder if I’ll look at the people who respond in the same way I felt when Chell was trying to set me up with some unknown geek.
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TV - Step by Step
Movie - Broken Arrow
Song - Crush by Jennifer Page
CD - ?
Funny moment- from Mama’s Family. MaMa was applying for a job at a local travel agency and the guy said something like, "and you can answer the phone?" Mama replied sarcastically, "No, when it rings at my house I usually run around in circles, yelling ‘What do I do? What do I do?’ "
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That’s it for now. Talk to you later! God bless!
Anne
