They sure do, although it's a very close second! I just got back from Portland, OR! Lovely part of the country, indeed!
Me:57 H:52 M:28 Got another lawyer last year and filed. D35,S/D twins28,D22 EA4/04 End? Who knows? "Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you." — Peace Pilgrim
Close but no cigar! Oh that's right, Americans can't smoke Havana cigars, can they. But lets face it, we have that great Canadian icon called Webers (in Ontario at least) and they have...Muriel (although she's got a great ash),'nuff said.
Can only buy them in Iraq! Can't take them out, however.
Hey, the good Lord gave you orfices, so use 'em! Well, Whatis had a close call tonight, I went to our Saturday evening church service with my woman friend and our four kids. Lo and behold one of the women on my "possibilities list" showed up too (Wow, I actually have a possiblities list, isn't life great). Uh oh, that means that I'm there with a woman who could be and probably would be considered my girlfriend. What to do? Before the service this woman waved at me and therefore knew I was not alone. So, at the end of the service I hustled my butt over to her and began by asking if I'd see her tomorrow at Bible study, I then chatted as I walked her to the door and before she left I introduced her to my daughters. At the door the Pastor asked me and my kids, my friend and her kids and Possibility Lady to form a circle and then said a prayer for my daughters (and myself) as the girls are going away with their mom for three weeks, such a nice gesture on my Pastor's part! Ya know, it really just amazes me that I actually had the balls to march over and make my mark tonight. Who the hell is this guy? I'm starting to like him though and Possibility Lady seemed to like the attention. I used to be a pretty shy guy...things are a changin'.
I just wanted to share a bible passage from our service tonight that I think fits in well with Dbing:
"We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed" 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
Um, just to clarify, when I wrote "I'm there with a woman who could be and probably would be considered my girlfriend" I meant that is how others could or would percieve the situation! She's not, just to be clear!!!!!!
Thanks Trip, I want to be clear about such things! The next few weeks will be difficult for me as my girls are going away to China for three weeks. I will be alone, as a separated man, for the first time. My apartment will seem very empty indeed. But, my schedule remains pretty active and I'm thinking of spending some time with people havent' seen for a long while. As I was leaving church last night the Pastor called out to me "Whatis, it's gonna be OK!" It's nice to know she recognizes what it's like for me not to have my girls. She also knows some of the situation I've come through. Earlier in the week my D11 asked "Daddy, are you taking us to the airport on Friday?" and I replied "Well, your mom hasn't asked me to" so D said "Well, I want you to, so I'll talk to her". Two days later D says "I talked to mommy and she says she didn't ask you because you didn't say you wanted to" Yup, I think that little statement pretty much sums up 17 years of our M, two people on two different train tracks! I felt that this was her trip, and was respecting her right to make whatever arrangements she wanted and I didn't want to force what I may have wanted to do onto her. She thinks, as usual, she shouldn't have to ask for things but I should know and volunteer cuz I'm a friggin psychic or something. Oh well, I'll be driving them to the airport at 4:00am! yesterday I took the girls to a bookstore so they could buy some reading material for their flight. I thought it would be a nice gesture to buy something for their mom too. You can't imagine how hard it is to find something she might like but wouldn't take the wrong way! The kids were saying "Oh, don't take this book daddy it talks about joy, she'll think you're saying she's not joyful enough" Yes, they know their mother probably better than I do! I was gonna get "Why Men Marry Bitches" for her but... Well, off to drop the girls and head to bible study and church afterwards, then head downtown for a festival and try to catch the evening church service if I'm back in time. Have a great day fellow DBers.
