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Hey Anthony! **sigh** I do really want to. It's just I hate starting something I can't finish. LOL but on the other hand everyone's ideas do sound good...lol and everyone has to make a few mistakes right? **uncertain expression** I dunno yet aww thank you! That's really sweet of you to say You seem like a really cool person too! I hope everything continues to go well with the ER guy, and good luck in your new location

Hey Dan! Ok that sounds like a really awesome plan! hmmmmm

Hey Viv! Yep, get 'em drunk and helpless then take 'em outta the state! Sounds like a winning plan to me hehe I do really wanna go back though! **sigh** yeah . It's really sad to like see the difference between them too. My grandpa reminds me to do stuff. My grandmother doesn't even remember the stuff you remind her about Woo Hoo! 3 times by 3 beautiful people

Hey Vance! awww thank you so much Vance! I'm really happy that enjoy them! I love reading yours too

Hey Kitty Ohhh well then it MUST be okay! awww thanks Kitty, that means alot! Have an awesome day!

Hey Camy Hitting the waiter is rude, hitting on the waiter is a different barrel of squid altogether So ... erm ... nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more: will you be eating there again? Camy LOL it is so funny you should say that! I always check over my blogs and posts before I submit them to make sure I don't have typos and stuff. Anyway I actually did have "hit your waiter" LOL I guess some people would have chosen the more risqu

Hey Nick, What a huge coincedence! I've been thinking alot about changing mine recently too. I probably won't though . Anyway I say go with your secret choice. It must be the best or you wouldn't want to keep it a secret to protect it Good luck and have a fun day Kevin Oh and you're stories are always going to be good regardless of your display name

aww Luc I hope you feel better. People like that probably aren't really "happy" anyway. Take care and feel better, Kevin

Hey Vance! Well perhaps whoever thought up the commercial was of a similar opinion with regards to rap music To be vulgar: "Gee this song is really $^@&" "yeah it is $#@$" "Hey! Speaking of $^$# you know what this song would be good for?!" HAHAHAHA So I guess since it sorta came up let me share one of my all time embarrasing stories. I pulled up to this little shop, and was about to get out and go in, when I realized that my door wouldn't open! So I pull the handle harder...Nothing...So I start pulling vigorously on the handle and shoving on the door with my shoulder...still nothing...So now I'm frantically banging on the door and shouting in hopes that someone will hear me. The whole truck is shaking but the door won't open. So now I'm really starting to freak out because I realize I've left my cell phone at home, so I can't even call anyone to come and rescue me! Then I'm struck with a brilliant idea! I'll roll down the window and get out that way. .....of course while I was rolling down the window and climbing out I leaned on the lock....doors just open so much more easily when they're unlocked. LOL it sounds kinda fun to me! I bet he secretly thinks it's adorable OUCH! I'm sorry ....what possessed her to do that? .....you didn't have that rap commercial on did you? Anyway I hope your hand is better and I'm glad you had such a great Easter! Take care and have a great day! Kevin

Wooo HOOOO!! It's Kurtie's birthday! 16, wow that's an important one! SOOOOO did you get your license today? I hope you have a really amazing birthday, Kurt, you deserve all the happiness and peace the world has to offer . We're all really proud of you! Take care and may this year find even happier than before Kevin

Ok so let's see. Here's a quick recap of what happened over the Easter holidays. My mom and I went and visited my grandmother and aunt (dad's side of the family). My grandmother decided to give me my graduation present early. Yay! It was a check and it'll really help assuage my financial stress with the move. Then I found out that my cousin had written this nice little article about romantic love which had gotten accepted and was being circulated in papers all over the country. So I thought that was really nice! (This isn't the cousin I'm closer with and whose sexuality I have wondered about . Actually I don't think she'd ever write an article like that . A few years ago we were sitting in the car on the way the mall and this nice little love song came on, and I was like, "awww isn't this a great song!?" and she was like, "well it's nice but completely unrealistic." "what do you mean", I ask. "well" she resonds, "there's just so many other things out there more important than love." **me giving her a sad/shocked look**, "what? you don't really believe all that do you?" she askes, "I mean love's fine, but I'll take fame and fortunate any day" ) Well anyway at least one of my cousins is romantic and happily married. I also found out that she'd been having trouble conceiving, but they'd discovered a cyst in her uterus and removed it, and they're pretty sure that was the culprit. So on the way home my mom and I stopped at a casino. It was pretty fun. We both ended up winning a bit, I was way up until right at the end when I lost a bit , but at least I still left ahead. I'm actually really looking forward to moving to a state that doesn't have gambling. I've pretty much kicked the habit -- I only go when other people want to now -- but it'll be nice to just not have the temptation at all. Anyway as for my main grandparents (...well that doesn't sound right, but you know what I mean). My grandfather's still very sore from the ribs, but he refuses to let it slow him down much. So he's still out in his garden etc. every day. Which I guess is nice, but on the other hand it seems to be keeping him achy longer, and may be slowing his recovery. Meanwhile my grandmother's Alzheimer's is getting worse . After we got home that day (Saturday) she asked my 3 times (within the span of 40 min. ) If I wanted to go to church with her the next morning. Each time I said yes. The next day I woke up to discover she'd gone without me. She said she wasn't sure if I wanted to go. (I ended up going that evening after I'd gotten home). ****************** So anyway today was an interesting little day. I woke up certain I was going to skip class, in fact I even got up to go to the bathroom intending to go back to bed. But then I realized I wasn't that tired, and if I hurried I could still make it. Plus I realized today would probably be the day we'd find out our scores from the last test. And it was. I made a really high B. So now all I have to do to pass that class with a C (which is the minimum passing grade for this class), is get a 46% on the final. So I can breath much easier now. Not getting a C in this class was the only possible way I wouldn't graduate. So I'm in complete coast mode now (hence the skipping ) Work was interesting. On two seperate occasions someone came up behind me and grabbed my hips. First Stacey, then a couple of hours later Patrick. LOL I guess I should wear that pair of (snug) pants more often . Of course I'm sure it would have bothered some people, but given my flirtatious relationship with both of them it wasn't really inappropriate, more playful. LOL I thought it was a pretty big coincedence though. Believe it or not I go weeks at work sometimes without anyone grabbing my hips, then lo and behold twice in one day . So anyway then I got home and was just setting in for a nice quiet evening when the power went out . So I called the electricity company and found out it would take about 2 hours to restore. So I decided to go out to dinner, and elected to walk since I was in an energetic mood (It was probably only about 5 or 6 miles round trip anyway). I'd called my friend Mandi to see if she wanted to come with me, but she was eating at the time. I couldn't hear her too well on the phone, but I think she said she was eating with Joe, her long distance boyfriend who'd come to stay for Easter, but should have been home by today! So I guess I'll get the scoop on that later lol. So anyway I get to the restaurant and the hostess takes me to this table, but the busboy is in the process of bending over it, clearing everything away. So the hostess says, "Oh Jeremy, I thought you'd finished that already" then she turns to me and says, "Sorry, it'll just be a second". Now the thing about Jeremy is, Jeremy is well-built. Now the thing about me is...well you guys know the thing about me . So anyway I really didn't mind waiting on Jeremy at all . So anyway when he's done she seats me and hands me a menu and says, "Cody will be right with you to take care of you." So of course I'm thinking, "Why can't Jeremy take care of me?" ....well at least that what I was thinking until I met Cody . So Cody was really cute! He had these really pretty blue eyes. Speaking of his blue eyes they kept making a good bit of eye contact with my own blue eyes. Not only that but I swear I saw him looking me over a few times. Not to mention smiling, there was lots of smiling on both our parts. So I dunno, I was actually thinking he may have been gay. Plus he was pretty willing to engage in conversation with me and we both seemed disappointed when he kept having to get back to work. And you know how sometimes if you're interested in someone you have trouble thinking of what to say to them? Well I talk too much so I don't usually have that problem , but anyway I still had lots of things left to say to him that I never got around to saying. But anyway I'd just finished my first drink, a mudslide, and decided it was so good I'd have a 2nd (hey I was walking after all! ). So anyway he was saying, "yeah, it looks so good I want to get one now." so I was like, "Oh, have you tried them?" and he responded, "not from here." So I really wanted to say, "well I'd be happy to buy you one." (or maybe something a little more subtle like, "well they're so good I insist you try one" ) But I figured that was way too forward, plus I was only thinking he was gay, no real "proof", I mean heck it may have just been good customer service . So I just said something like, "yeah they're really awesome, you ought to try one." . I dunno, I'm guessing he probably wouldn't have been allowed to drink on duty anyway. And is it really okay to hit on your waiter? I mean isn't that really rude or something? **Sigh** but it was a fun dinner. So anyway I got home and my lights were back and now I'm doing some laundry. Take care and have an awesome day everyone! Kevin

Hi Randy, Welcome aboard! Wow, that sounds like a really great plot! I hope to check that out sometime. So will you be posting any of your stuff here? The "e-fiction" section is pretty great

WOW, that is something! You know I've heard from several people that if you're out in a very dark area and you come to a red traffic light, you can change it by flashing your brights at it. I've never tried this though and it sounds like an "urban legend" to me.

Hi David I wouldn't mind answers to those questions myself. So have you considered wearing long pants? and maybe a little thicker if you already are. Lots of people are attracted to legs, I guess it's not unreasonable to think that mosquitoes might be too. WOW that is so awesome about you getting your own discussion forum! Yay! I'll have a new place to run my mouth. Good luck on the exam! Take care and have a great day Kevin

Hey Luc I must say if you ever have any doubt as to the quality of your writing, that should dispel it. That was really quite beautiful. and so was that You should never feel like your thoughts and feelings are inconsequential; they aren't. Take care, Kevin

Just out of curiousity are you guys still together?

Personally I didn't even SEE the main page until I'd been here for a couple of months. I followed a link from Nifty to one of the authour pages, then from there joined and posted in the forums etc. So I'm not sure if I'd consider the main page newbie friendly or not, since I wasn't a newbie when I saw it . Personally speaking I'm really happy with the size and level of involvement that we have here. I guess more might be nice, but speaking as someone who feels like he needs to keep up with EVERYTHING that happens on the main forum, and other sub-forums I visit frequently, as well as the blogs; I might start to find it a little overwhelming if it got much bigger. LOL but then that's just my crazy OCD side talking . I'll cope

Hi James well that isn't exactly the doctrine. I believe it's something like there's a problem if you're actively killing, stealing, or sleeping with guys, but once you "repent" it's all good. But yes, I do believe it might be different now that the new Pope is office. I did hear something about the "witch hunt" he's conducting, but formerly I think the position was that you just weren't supposed to keep doing it. I readily admit that religion is responsible for a HUGE amount of the negative attitudes toward homosexuality, as well as screwing with the heads of gay believers. But I think faith is something which ought to be more personal. I pick and choose exactly what I believe and what I don't; I don't need any church leaders to tell me what I believe. I continue to identify with Catholicism because I do hold to quite a few of the major beliefs and because it wouldn't really matter which religion I held affiliation with; I'd just continue to do my own thing anyway. Besides in my region of the country/state gay Catholics have an easier time of it, and less issues, than gay protestants. I'm not trying to dispute your claims, the way the religion is carried often comes across in the manner you described. However, I don't doubt for a minute that if gay-sympathetic people ever came to power they could reorganize it in such a way that would be much more accepting. Anyway I guess you can't even call me a "Catholic" as undoubtedly if I ever had a theological discussion with the Pope (or even the previous Pope) I'd be excommunicated, but my weird, eclectic blend of beliefs does work for me , and I have no religious issues with homosexuality . As for your evaluation of the reality show I'd say it's dead on. It does sound rather disgusting and in poor taste; however, that's pretty much my opinion of all the reality shows I've seen (the number of which I've thankfully managed to keep to a bare minimum). Anyway take care and have an awesome day! Kevin

Aww Nick, you're the best I'm sure the folks at the other forum loved that poem BTW. I know I did All the best, Kevin

Hey Nick I really loved your poems! I'm sorry I didn't comment on the first one, I just didn't feel like I had anything worthwhile to say, but I definitely liked it . My first thought, to be honest, was, "touching and a little scary". But I'm sure that's what you were going for since you described it as a poem about twisted love. I'm not sure which of the other three is my favourite, they're all SO beautiful! I bet your dad and Taylor were really touched when they read them! Anyway thank you for sharing your work with us Have an awesome day and take care! Kevin

Oh Camy, I'm sorry to hear that I hope you're feeling better now. Let us know if you need to talk or anything. Take care, Kevin

Congrats, Val

Hey Adam, I'm really sorry to hear about that . However, look on the bright side, they say you're most likely to tick people off that you're close with (which really SUCKS). So maybe it's just a sign that your friendship is improving and you guys just need to learn how to interact with each other. Anyway I hope it works out, take care. Kevin

Hey Luc! Congrats on the new kittens How are they doing now? I'm glad you'll be able to enjoy your vacation with less to worry about! LOL I guess the once or twice screaming is an improvement. Have to take small steps I suppose Take care and be safe! Kevin

Hey David I'm glad preparations for your move are going along nicely. Moving sucks, and yours is such a BIG move that it's got to be an even worse headache, best of luck to you Mosquitoes really are dreadful. If you can help it try not to scratch or anything. I find that if I get bitten and just ignore it, it doesn't leave a mark. I can't wait to read the next couple of chapters of SOOTB! You and Kitty are definitely doing an excellent job! Also I agree with you about Kitty, she really is a teriffic and amazing person I'm glad she's been able to help you (and all of us). I hope we can repay her kindness someday Have an awesome week, David, and take care Kevin