a - 3 october 2001
From: "Anne"
Subject: Aye carumba!
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 13:17:29 -0500
Ola, Michele!
I’m feeling Spanish today - someone sent me a letter about the Angel site in Spanish! I used a translation website to translate her words into English and my reply into Spanish.
No problema about a short-o letter-o. Okay, I’m stopping that now. Seriously, some days I only have time for a brief note, and some days there’s just nothing happening that’s note-worthy.
Last night, I set the VCR to record the 2-hour Buffy premier. About 8:15, I realized that I’d accidentally set the time to record from 6:59 to 8:03. I ran in to check it, and it had indeed stopped recording. I turned on the TV to watch what I was missing and reset the VCR to start in one minute. It kicked in just in time to record Buffy’s hand popping up through the dirt by her grave. Imagine if I hadn’t suddenly realized I set the timer wrong! Here’s the kicker, my mom was right there and watched me set the wrong time. She said, "Yes, it’s two hours tonight." I was, like, "Oh, yes. The big season premiere." WHY didn’t she say, "Don’t you have that just set for about an hour?" Then I’d have said, "ZOIKS! I do! Thanks for catching that!" I’m just glad I thought of it and only missed about ten minutes. After I watched the show before the VCR kicked in again, I wanted to watch the rest of it. So I left my studying efforts and went to watch it. When that went off, I rewinded and watched the first part. Man! That was a tough episode to watch - there were some bad, bad things going on! Not the good kind of bad either. It was the wrong thing to watch right before bed. It was definitely not a "feel good" episode!
My bosses weren’t here this morning. Praise the Lord, I’ve had the chance to cram. Call me crazy but I still feel pretty confident about the test. I’m definitely ready to have it over with!
In other news, during Grand Jury last week, Greg - Randy’s partner - told us that he is going on vacation this week … to Disney World. If he was going a bit later, you might’ve seen him. Greg kind of reminded me of my dad - a big guy with hair cropped very short - although Greg isn’t nearly as old as my dad was. I’d say Greg isn’t even forty.
Speaking of Randy 
it’s so funny that you mention kissing versus waiting to kiss. Just yesterday I recalled some of the losers I kissed - years ago - and instinctively my hand flew up to cover my face in shame. I absolutely do NOT think it’s weird to want to kiss only your husband or at least someone that you have strong feelings for. I have kissed guys before and it meant absolutely nothing to me; THAT is weird and wrong! It should mean something!
Climbing off that soapbox and onto another. Engagement?! Would have said "yes"! I am blown away! Please don’t think I’m judging, because I don’t know about their situation. But for myself, I can’t imagine marrying someone after dating him only a month. Maybe I’m just cynical about it, but I’d want to feel I really know for sure. I’d probably want to discuss the issue with him to death. I’d want to talk with him about his goals for the future, his family plans, his family’s past, the way he spends money, … there’s just so much. Like I said, I’d probably talk about it and think about it too much. But there is a lot involved in marriage - this person will be your partner on many levels: legally, spiritually, financially, etc. and he should also be your best friend. I think such a decision would take me a long while to be sure.
Side note: I agree with you - I bet your mother would have plenty to say if they were actually engaged. My mom used to always tell me to leave Sara alone when I’d be bugging her about stuff. (This was the main reason I could not stand my sister when we were younger. If I may gloat a bit, now I am the very independent one and Sara still needs Mom to bail her out on a lot of things.) Still, if Sara was thinking of marrying, or even dating someone that I thought wasn’t right, you better believe that I’d be telling her about it in the nicest way possible. It would be just like her to try to do whatever it was anyway just to do the opposite of what I said.
That’s it for today. I must go take this test. (insert biting the nails here)
Talk to you soon! God bless us all - every one!
Anne
