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  <pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>My sister-in-law is upset with me now.&amp;nbsp; Here&apos;s what happened:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Weeks ago, she asked me what we were doing for Christmas.&amp;nbsp; My reply was &amp;quot;I&amp;nbsp;don&apos;t know, probably what we did last year, Josh&apos;s mom or dad Christmas Eve, my mom&apos;s Christmas morning, and whichever of his parent&apos;s we didn&apos;t go do Christmas Eve, we&apos;d go there Christmas Day at some point&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She took this to mean solidly:&amp;nbsp;Josh&apos;s dad&apos;s Christmas Eve, his mom&apos;s sometime Christmas Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And made all of her family&apos;s Christmas plans around that conversation.&amp;nbsp; Going so far as to tell Josh&apos;s parents (read:&amp;nbsp;his crazy mother) about when we would be at her house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Josh&apos;s mom called us last night in a rage.&amp;nbsp; She had planned on doing her dinner and stuff Christmas Eve and thought we were trying to undermine her plans and whatnot.&amp;nbsp; She ranted at Josh&apos;s brother, at me, and at Sheila, my sister-in-law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I&amp;nbsp;get Josh&apos;s mom diffused, then Sheila calls me upset because she had made their plans around what I&amp;nbsp;had said IN&amp;nbsp;PASSING, without confirming with anyone, and now because of the &amp;quot;change&amp;quot; in plans, won&apos;t be able to see her parents for Christmas.&amp;nbsp; She&apos;s pissed at me, I spent 2 hours crying last&amp;nbsp; night because I feel like I&apos;ve lost a sister.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sent her a text trying to apologize.&amp;nbsp; We had to attend a Christmas party today, and I tried to make up with her, and she gave me the cold shoulder the whole time we were there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not to mention, she&apos;s pregnant, so all this could possibly be chalked up to her hormones and she&apos;ll get over it eventually.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;love her dearly, so that&apos;s what I&apos;m really hoping for.&amp;nbsp; Blah.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;hate the holidays anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before I met Josh, I&amp;nbsp;went one place:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;My parents&apos; house.&amp;nbsp; There wasn&apos;t all this running around trying to appease the gods of the in-laws.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;hate it. &amp;nbsp;I resent it, but I&amp;nbsp;have to deal with it. &amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:12:08 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ahhh.</title>
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  <description>I&apos;ve got internet back, and I&apos;m thrilled.  I get to go through Oona&apos;s posts, catch up on my LOLcats and generally be connected again.  Life is good.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:05:42 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ugh</title>
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  <description>I am so not happy today.&amp;nbsp; My daughter went to stay with my mom yesterday.&amp;nbsp; Soooo, Josh and I&amp;nbsp;had the house to ourselves.&amp;nbsp; Do you think we did anything fun?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;No...he sat in the living room playing one game while I&amp;nbsp;sat on the computer and played another game.&amp;nbsp; At one point during the evening, walk over to him and I say &amp;quot;man, we really are a geeky couple.&amp;nbsp; Have the house to ourselves and all we can think of to do is play video games&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; Him:&amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;well, that&apos;s just what we enjoy doing&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sit and think on this for a while.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s what he enjoys doing, but I want to do something together.&amp;nbsp; I find a website with some funny pics and I&apos;m looking through it.&amp;nbsp; He comes over and sits with me for a while, and we spend a couple of hours looking at funny pics.&amp;nbsp; Finally we go to bed.&amp;nbsp; We&apos;re having a little bit of a tickle fight, when I once again say&amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;wow, we are so unromantic.&amp;nbsp; You realize we had the house to ourselves all day and didn&apos;t take advantage of it.&amp;nbsp; Would have been nice had we done something together.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; His response:&amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;We do stuff together all week.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This resulted in me rolling over, trying not to cry and trying not to lash out at him horribly.&amp;nbsp; I told him that I&amp;nbsp;want to go out and do stuff, have a romantic dinner, anything.&amp;nbsp; He says:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;I thought we were trying to be frugal.&amp;nbsp; Besides, isn&apos;t gaming what we enjoy?&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I&amp;nbsp;tell him that I&amp;nbsp;enjoy other stuff,&amp;nbsp;that I really want to do romantic stuff.&amp;nbsp; Then&amp;nbsp;I mutter something about &amp;quot;this isn&apos;t working anymore.&amp;nbsp; Our interests are just too different.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; After which he says &amp;quot;WAitaminit, what?&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; I just said &amp;quot;Nevermind&amp;quot;, and shut up, then went to sleep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had the morning to ourselves as well.&amp;nbsp; He did nothing to redeem the situation.&amp;nbsp; He&apos;s at band practice right now and part of me is thinking about leaving a &amp;quot;Dear Josh&amp;quot; letter and finding a new place to live.&amp;nbsp; I can&apos;t deal with this anymore.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:37:42 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Oona will prolly be the only one to get the first one, but they all made me LOL.</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:51:50 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Life, in a word, sucks.&amp;nbsp; We are completely and totally broke.&amp;nbsp; I had to change my hours at work to work around Elizabeth&apos;s school schedule, but I&apos;m not only getting about 5 or 6 hours a day.&amp;nbsp; That is NOT paying the bills.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;ve exhausted every loan source possible to try to make ends meet.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;ve been looking for a 2nd part time job for evenings, but no one around where I live is hiring.&amp;nbsp; I applied to an insurance company as a customer service rep last week and have yet to hear from them.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m getting horrible migraines on a daily basis, my knee hurts so bad the majority of the time&amp;nbsp;I&amp;nbsp;can barely walk, and I hate my job right now because we&apos;re busy which means I&amp;nbsp;have to be out in the warehouse on said bad knee on a daily basis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve been tossing the idea around of moving back in with my mom. &amp;nbsp;I love my husband but he still (after 4 years) doesn&apos;t have his priorities straight.&amp;nbsp; He&apos;s starting to get overtime at work, but instead of wanting to apply it to bills, he wants to put it toward the cd his band is releasing in a couple of months.&amp;nbsp; Our electric is about to be turned off, I&apos;ve had to take out loans from my boss and a cash advance place, and he&apos;s trying to put out a cd.&amp;nbsp; Don&apos;t get me wrong, I&amp;nbsp;love that he has a hobby he enjoys, but the band is never going to be big.&amp;nbsp; They&apos;re never going to be signed and have a national tour.&amp;nbsp; They play local bars once every couple of months.&amp;nbsp; The only people who come ot their shows are our friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He&apos;s not very good with my daughter either. &amp;nbsp;He has no patience with her and doesn&apos;t take the time to do much with her.&amp;nbsp; A couple weeks ago I tried getting the three of us together to play a couple board games. &amp;nbsp;It took time away from his video game playing and he acted like it was a huge chore.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;ve brought up several times that I&apos;m looking for a 2nd job, that I&apos;m tired of borrowing money from people, and all he says is &amp;quot;do what you have to do&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; Not &amp;quot;hey, let ME go look for a 2nd job.&amp;nbsp; Let ME ask my parents for money.&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp; It&apos;s bullshit.&amp;nbsp; We owe my mom a load of money and can&apos;t even afford to pay her back.&amp;nbsp; Because of our issues handling money, she&apos;s going broke.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;feel like shit about it.&amp;nbsp; On nights where I&amp;nbsp;may be at work later, or have something going on like a migraine or my arthritis is bothering me, you think he could cook dinner?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;No, his idea of taking care of dinner is getting something frozen from the store for me to pop in the oven or getting fast food.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve talked and talked to him about it to no avail.&amp;nbsp; We&apos;ve only been married since May, but even then I was debating whether or not I was making the right choice.&amp;nbsp; But Mom had bought my dress, the families were excited for us and I just couldn&apos;t NOT go through with it.&amp;nbsp; Now, part of me seriously regrets my decision.&amp;nbsp; Like I said, I love him, but I don&apos;t think he&apos;s the right mate for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then there&apos;s the subject of children.&amp;nbsp; As far as I&apos;m concerned, my family is complete.&amp;nbsp; I honestly don&apos;t want any more kids.&amp;nbsp; The idea sounds nice at times. &amp;nbsp;I would like to have a pregnancy I can enjoy without being told to get rid of it.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;d like to have happy feelings when&amp;nbsp;I have a baby kicking inside of me...but that&apos;s about it.&amp;nbsp; I don&apos;t want the 2am feedings. &amp;nbsp;I don&apos;t want another person totally dependant on me for their every need.&amp;nbsp; I don&apos;t want to have to share the love I have for my daughter with another child.&amp;nbsp; It sounds selfish, I know.&amp;nbsp; But Josh wants a son at some point, and I&apos;ve mentioned to him light-heartedly that I&apos;m not sure, but he just tells me to see how we feel when the time is right.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s not fair to him if I&amp;nbsp;don&apos;t want one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, I can&apos;t afford the rent on this house by myself.&amp;nbsp; There isn&apos;t any cheaper housing around us except for the ghetto apartments we moved out of.&amp;nbsp; If I moved in with Mom, I wouldn&apos;t even be much help to her because she needs 200 dollars more a month than we pay here.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m tired of living in debt and constantly hearing &amp;quot;we&apos;ll just pay what we can pay when we can pay it&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; A big, huge part of me seiously wishes I&amp;nbsp;hadn&apos;t done it.&amp;nbsp; We don&apos;t do anything together.&amp;nbsp; He isn&apos;t very romantic. &amp;nbsp;I feel like I am taking care of 2 kids a lot of the time.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;mention that I want to cancel my game subscription that we play together, and he tells me not to because it&apos;s the one thing he enjoys us doing together. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes, I just want to not come home to this place after work.&amp;nbsp; Sometimes, I think about picking up my daughter after school and just going to Mom&apos;s and not coming home.&amp;nbsp; Calling him and telling him it&apos;s over, to find a place to go.&amp;nbsp; I know it will hurt him, but in the end, drawing this out when it&apos;s so obviously not working, and I&apos;m not happy, and my daughter isn&apos;t happy, who am I hurting more by continuing this?&amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:46:23 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Blah</title>
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  <description>I&apos;m seriously to the point where I&amp;nbsp;hate my job. &amp;nbsp;I&apos;m not really sure why though.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;think it&apos;s the part where my right knee is totally messed up from arthritis plus years of running on a concrete floor. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It doesn&apos;t matter how hard you work there, they don&apos;t recognize you for it.&amp;nbsp; Everyone gets the same piddly raise every year.&amp;nbsp; Except now, things have changed.&amp;nbsp; The owner&apos;s oldest daughter has taken over the business, so things have gotten more beurocratic.&amp;nbsp; You get written up for just about anything.&amp;nbsp; More people have gotten fired in the past year since she took over than in the whole 15 years I&apos;ve been there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bonuses at Christmas are a joke.&amp;nbsp; You&apos;re lucky if you get $100.00.&amp;nbsp; Last year they messed up and we all got around a grand, but they turned around and took it away from us.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;ve had to change my hours due to Elizabeth starting school, and I catch crap for it because I don&apos;t have a sitter for when she&apos;s sick and whatnot.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m trying to save money not paying for daycare, but get told &amp;quot;we&apos;ve all had to do it&amp;quot;. Yet I&amp;nbsp;know one person who can come in when she feels like it and doesn&apos;t get anything said to her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m 28 years old, but because I&apos;ve been there since I&amp;nbsp;was a teenager, a lot of people still treat me like a kid and I&amp;nbsp;have absolutely no respect.&amp;nbsp; If I take some initiative and try to do something on my own, or offer up an opinion, I&amp;nbsp;get shot down or yelled at.&amp;nbsp; My supervisor has this knack for making me feel about 1 inch tall whenever I&amp;nbsp;make a mistake because she screams at me in front of everyone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, I&apos;ve made a decision.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m going to be posting an ad up on Craigslist and in the local paper.&amp;nbsp; If I&amp;nbsp;can get enough kids, I&apos;m going to quit my job and babysit full time.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m getting CPR certified, calling the IRS to see what I&amp;nbsp;have to do tax-wise and calling Job and Family Services to see what I need to do to be able to work with people who use Title 20.&amp;nbsp; That way my little one has someone to play with on a regular basis, I&apos;m here for her in the summer and I&apos;m my own boss.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;ve been feeling the pull in this direction for quite some time now.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On another, totally unrelated note:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I really do hate it when people stop talking to me for no reason. &amp;nbsp;It&apos;s rather impolite and hurtful to not respond to texts, emails and other forms of communication.&amp;nbsp; If someone is going to stop talking to me, I feel that I&amp;nbsp;am at least owed an explanation as to why this is happening.&amp;nbsp; As far as I know, I&apos;ve done nothing to this person to warrent this type of treatment.&amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:40:10 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ask and you shall recieve</title>
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  <description>I got a nudge, which means my adoring fans miss reading my ramblings!&amp;nbsp;;p j/k&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, a little update on where life is I&amp;nbsp;guess.&amp;nbsp; Finally getting our financial stuff straightened out.&amp;nbsp; I was actually able to pay all the bills this week.&amp;nbsp; That fills me with a huge sense of satisfaction!&amp;nbsp; Things are turning around.&amp;nbsp; We&apos;ve been doing better about or spending for the most part.&amp;nbsp; We splurge on things here and there, but we aren&apos;t going to the extreme of eating fast food all the time like we were. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elizabeth starts 1st grad on Monday.&amp;nbsp; That makes me feel so old!&amp;nbsp; She keeps growing, and I pretty sure that by the time she&apos;s 10, she&apos;ll be taller than me.&amp;nbsp; The kid is 6 and is over 4 feet tall already.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m changing my work hours so that I can take her to school and pick her up.&amp;nbsp; No reason for her to be latchkey or to pay for daycare when I have a job that will let me be there for my family.&amp;nbsp; My parents were always there for me before and after school, I intend to be there for her to help with homework and listen to her about what&apos;s going on in life. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still no more babies.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;know it will come with time, but it&apos;s getting a little frustrating.&amp;nbsp; I want to have one more for Josh.&amp;nbsp; After that I&apos;m done I think.&amp;nbsp; So I pretty much so just want to get it done with.&amp;nbsp; Most of the time I&amp;nbsp;feel like my family is complete the way it is, but he does deserve to have his own progeny, and I&amp;nbsp;have to admit that I&amp;nbsp;am interested in seeing what kind of little person we&apos;d make. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10 days until the 2nd anniversary of Dad&apos;s death.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m handling it fairly well.&amp;nbsp; I found my brother&apos;s kids on Facebook and they ignored me.&amp;nbsp; I just wonder what my brother and his wife told them about my mom and me to make them hate us so much.&amp;nbsp; I used to love those kids.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, time to get ready for work!</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:41:15 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>No cable and other ramblings</title>
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  <description>so we haven`t had cable for about a month. No big deal really, just a testament to how we handle our bills i guess.  We gave up on the baby idea for now. He thinks it`s because we cant afford it, but really i don`t want another. Not sure we can anyway. Bah. Want to do more but this blogging on phone not working too well. Later!</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:11:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Neda...</title>
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  <description>Just for my own curiosity, I watched the video.&amp;nbsp; I shouldn&apos;t have, because it made me sick.&amp;nbsp; Sicker still were some of the comments left below, those who say she died for stupidity.&amp;nbsp; Those who say that these clerics are all knowing and supreme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve never been much into politics.&amp;nbsp; But how can we, whose nation was founded on the blood of revolution, keep our backs turned while these people thirst for change?&amp;nbsp; How can our president continue spouting his rhetoric about how they need to sort this out for themselves?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;It doesn&apos;t make sense at all.&amp;nbsp; The Iranian people are oppressed.&amp;nbsp; They voted in a false election for someone who doesn&apos;t even rule the country.&amp;nbsp; In every publication I&apos;ve read, it says that the Ayatolla is the supreme leader, not the president.&amp;nbsp; Why can&apos;t we take these bastards out?&amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:14:54 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 03:05:26 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>too many questions left unanswered</title>
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  <description>Most people know my dad died about two years ago.&amp;nbsp; A lot of people don&apos;t know he wasn&apos;t my biological father.&amp;nbsp; I found out when I was about 7 years old or so.&amp;nbsp; Mom had been going through a divorce, met a guy, and poof there I was.&amp;nbsp; She&apos;d met my dad, they were going to get married, so mom and Bill (the guy that helped create me) decided it would be better if he weren&apos;t around.&amp;nbsp; So, my dad adopted me, gave me his name and whatnot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Through the years, I&apos;ve toyed with the idea of meeting Bill.&amp;nbsp; I always wondered if I was anything like him or his other children.&amp;nbsp; He had 3 other girls and a son.&amp;nbsp; I called his house once when&amp;nbsp;I was 15, but chickened out and hung up the phone.&amp;nbsp; I was going to call him before the wedding, but was afraid of barging in on his life. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I can&apos;t call him.&amp;nbsp; He died yesterday.&amp;nbsp; There&apos;s way too many questions I&amp;nbsp;had for him that I&apos;ll never get answered. &amp;nbsp;I&apos;ll never have the chance to get to know him now, and it sucks.&amp;nbsp; His showing is on Monday and I&apos;m going. &amp;nbsp;He and mom had kept in contact over the years, and he really did care about me, so&amp;nbsp;I&apos;ll go.&amp;nbsp; See if his other kids ever knew anything about me and whatnot.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 22:30:06 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>A sigh of relief</title>
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  <description>It feels so good now that the wedding is over.&amp;nbsp; I didn&apos;t realize how much I&apos;d actually been stressing over it.&amp;nbsp; I feel like a whole new person now, a lot more calm.&amp;nbsp; We can finally focus on what&apos;s important now that the hoopla is out of the way.&amp;nbsp; Had a pretty good honeymoon too.&amp;nbsp; Josh got us a nice hotel room Downtown close to a lot of things we&apos;d wanted to see.&amp;nbsp; He had a bottle of champagne, roses and the whole nine yards waiting for me.&amp;nbsp; Perfect wedding night!&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We went to the zoo on Sunday, I got a lot of good pics.&amp;nbsp; All the animals were sleeping, but it was cool enough that they were outside sleeping, so I managed to get some adorable pictures I&apos;ll have to get up sometime soon.&amp;nbsp; Monday we came home.&amp;nbsp; We&apos;d planned on going to the art museum, but apparently they&apos;re closed on Mondays, so we&apos;ll try again another time.&amp;nbsp; Tuesday night, his dad got us a cabin the Hocking Hills by Old Man&apos;s Cave.&amp;nbsp; Oh my god it was breathtaking.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m not a horribly religious person, but being out in the middle of the woods under the stars is the perfect religious experience for me.&amp;nbsp; The cabin had an outdoor hot tub, and there wasn&apos;t anyone around to bother us, so after the sun went down, we made a fire and for the first time ever, I got to feel night air on my bare skin.&amp;nbsp; It was so relaxing to lean back in the hot tub and watch the stars through the trees.&amp;nbsp; I don&apos;t think I&apos;ll ever forget it, and we&apos;re going to try to go back at least one night a month if we can. &amp;nbsp;It&apos;s the perfect place to go if you need to hit the &amp;quot;reset&amp;quot; button on life and put everything into perspective.&amp;nbsp; Wednesday, we went to Old Man&apos;s Cave. &amp;nbsp;Look it up.&amp;nbsp; The waterfalls and everything are absolutely breathtaking.&amp;nbsp; I got some pictures of the place, but they don&apos;t do it justice at all.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s a hike, not just a nature walk.&amp;nbsp; I would have liked to have stayed longer, but I messed my knee up the other day pretty bad, and walking and I aren&apos;t getting along too great right now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tonight, we&apos;re having all of our friends over for a honeymoon wrap up party.&amp;nbsp; Just feeding everyone and getting them drunk, thanking them for their help with the wedding and whatnot.&amp;nbsp; The wedding, while beautiful and a great symbol, wasn&apos;t that important.&amp;nbsp; The important thing is from here on out, our actual marriage.&amp;nbsp; For all my bitching about Josh, I can&apos;t see me spending the rest of my life with anyone else.&amp;nbsp; You take the pros, you take the cons, you mix them up.&amp;nbsp; Now, wipe away those cons, flaws, whatever you may call them.&amp;nbsp; Yup, I&apos;d miss them if they were gone.&amp;nbsp; Besides, you can&apos;t have all good times.&amp;nbsp; Doesn&apos;t matter what the relationship is, if it&apos;s all silver clouds and bunny rabbits all the time, it&apos;d get awefully boring!!!&amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 01:34:58 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Holy shit</title>
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  <description>I&apos;m seriously getting married on Saturday. &amp;nbsp;Kindof really hard to believe when I think about it.&amp;nbsp; Honestly, 3 years ago when we met, I never thought he&apos;d be the one I&apos;d marry.&amp;nbsp; Funny how Fate intervenes sometimes, isn&apos;t it.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve tried and tried to cheat fate.&amp;nbsp; Seriously.&amp;nbsp; Hasn&apos;t worked out very well to be honest.&amp;nbsp; I felt my heart going one way, but then things happened and I ended up going another way...and that pertains to pretty much so everything in my life.&amp;nbsp; In love, I always thought I&apos;d wind up with someone else.&amp;nbsp; I could almost envision being with someone else into old age.&amp;nbsp; But, things happened, and that didn&apos;t go as I&apos;d planned.&amp;nbsp; My chosen career was music.&amp;nbsp; Once again, things happened, and now I see myself being a sign language interpreter at some point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Someone asked me a while back if I really was happy.&amp;nbsp; The answer is yes.&amp;nbsp; I am happy.&amp;nbsp; Josh is good to me, fun to be around, and we&apos;ve got real solid plans for our future.&amp;nbsp; Do I&amp;nbsp;sometimes with things were somewhat different?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Yes.&amp;nbsp; A part of me will always and forever be someplace else, dreaming and wishing things weren&apos;t they way they are.&amp;nbsp; I will forever have the &amp;quot;What-ifs&amp;quot; coursing through my soul.&amp;nbsp; But I can&apos;t do anything about them. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dad used to always tell me to expect the worst, but hope for the best.&amp;nbsp; That&apos;s what I do.&amp;nbsp; I expect that I&apos;ll never see someone very dear to me again.&amp;nbsp; I hope that one day I will, that I&amp;nbsp;can hold them and tell them how much I love them.&amp;nbsp; Realistically, it will probably never happen.&amp;nbsp; But that&apos;s what dreams are for, why we have wishes.&amp;nbsp; Occasionally, I see them in a dream.&amp;nbsp; For a moment, I can touch them and hold them.&amp;nbsp; Sometimes it breaks my heart.&amp;nbsp; But, life is what it is.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;ll be Josh&apos;s wife in a matter of hours.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;look forward to the future, but I&apos;ll always have a fond look to the past with hopeful glances toward the future, whatever it may hold.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;ll never burn my bridges, I&apos;ll always be here for those who are dear to me.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 10:06:10 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>8 days down</title>
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  <description>Eight days until the &amp;quot;big day&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; Am I nervous?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;No.&amp;nbsp; We&apos;ve been living together for what, 3 years now?&amp;nbsp; Still learning new things about each other, and things seem to get better with age.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m nervous about the ceremony.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m afraid I&apos;ll mess something up, or trip as I&apos;m walking down the aisle in my high heels, or spill something on my dress at the reception.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m a little sad about changing my name.&amp;nbsp; But it&apos;s a new beginning, and new beginnings are to be hailed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;nbsp;never thought I&apos;d ever actually get married.&amp;nbsp; There&apos;s still a part of me that sometimes doesn&apos;t think it&apos;s real. &amp;nbsp;But it is, and I&apos;m thankful.&amp;nbsp; I love him so much.&amp;nbsp; We have our issues, but you&apos;ll have problems with anyone you&apos;re around constantly.&amp;nbsp; We&apos;ll have ups and downs, but the ups so much outweigh the downs.&amp;nbsp; If you don&apos;t have bad times, how can you appreciate the good times?&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wish&amp;nbsp;I&amp;nbsp;could put into words all the good he&apos;s done for me.&amp;nbsp; He&apos;s the only one who was capable of helping be able to be who I&apos;m supposed to be.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;don&apos;t have to pretend with him.&amp;nbsp; There was a hole in my heart when I&amp;nbsp;met him.&amp;nbsp; It was dark and nasty and growing.&amp;nbsp; But I&amp;nbsp;handed him the duct tape and glue and he fixed it. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes I&amp;nbsp;still look back and wonder if things could have been different for me.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;know they could have, but would they have been good?&amp;nbsp; There&apos;s no way of knowing.&amp;nbsp; I do have regrets about my past, but if it weren&apos;t for the things that happened in the past, I wouldn&apos;t be who I&amp;nbsp;am today.&amp;nbsp; I wouldn&apos;t have those important lessons to live by, and I&apos;d take everything I&amp;nbsp;have for granted. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And...today would have been Mom and Dad&apos;s anniversary.&amp;nbsp; They would have been married for 27 years.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;miss you dad.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;hope you&apos;re watching me next Saturday and that you&apos;re there with me when&amp;nbsp;I say my vows.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;ll try to remember the things you taught me and keep them in my heart.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;ll try to be as good of a person as you thought I&amp;nbsp;could be.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m sorry our family fell apart after you left, I wish things could have been different.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;miss my brother and the good times we had, but he made his decision and I can&apos;t change his mind. &amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:31:14 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Oona or any other cat people, I have a question</title>
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  <description>You guys have seen me talk about my cats, I&apos;m sure.&amp;nbsp; Well, Tubby, the oldest is &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;my&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; boy. &amp;nbsp;He only wants me to hold him, love him and what not.&amp;nbsp; He crawls into bed with me, only purrs for me and is just sweet.&amp;nbsp; So here&apos;s my problem.&amp;nbsp; I know that un-neutered cats can have marking issues.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;understand that, I accept that.&amp;nbsp; We keep the litter box clean, he doesn&apos;t seem to be sick or anything.&amp;nbsp; So why on god&apos;s green earth does he get into &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;my&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; clothes and mine alone and mark them up?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;He doesn&apos;t piss on the bed, on Josh&apos;s things or anywhere else, just on any clothes I&amp;nbsp;happen leave lying around.&amp;nbsp; There&apos;s no pattern to it, I&apos;ll just go to get the dirty clothes to take downstairs, and I&apos;ll get a noseful.&amp;nbsp; Halp!?</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:28:51 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>SWEET ASS!</title>
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  <description>My friend Josh (not MY&amp;nbsp;Josh) got out of jail and he&apos;ll be at the wedding!&amp;nbsp; They just called to surprise me with the news!&amp;nbsp; He&apos;s going to Josh&apos;s concert tonight and I&apos;m the only one who knows! *does a lil dance*</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:17:01 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Bah</title>
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  <description>Foot in mouth disease?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I&amp;nbsp;haz it.&amp;nbsp; I just can&apos;t stand it though when I&amp;nbsp;say something in jest and people take me freaking seriously then stop talking to me and ignore my attempts to smooth things over.&amp;nbsp; Yesterday was just a shit day all around.&amp;nbsp; My car got repossessed in February, it got sold in auction, so now i&apos;m working with the collection agency to repay the money.&amp;nbsp; These people are calling me 3 and 4 times a day, and I&apos;m trying to figure out how to pull about 1200 dollars out of my ass.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That combined with finishing planning this wedding is stressing me out.&amp;nbsp; I ended up with a killer headache yesterday.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Icing on the cake was this:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I wanted to try to see a friend I&amp;nbsp;haven&apos;t seen since last year.&amp;nbsp; Their significant other didn&apos;t want me to visit.&amp;nbsp; Fine. &amp;nbsp;I was disappointed and sent them a text message saying &amp;quot;can&apos;t you tell them pretty please&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; This illicited a responce of something along the lines of bringing up a sore subject and making it worse.&amp;nbsp; I agreed, and just told them I was disappointed.&amp;nbsp; But after that point, friend quit responding to my texts, wouldn&apos;t reply to emails or anything.&amp;nbsp; So now I&apos;m assuming they&apos;re mad at me and are currently not speaking to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not what I&apos;d had in mind.&amp;nbsp; I tried to apologise several times, but now they&apos;re ignoring me.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;d hoped to be able to go over for a visit and maybe just maybe get away from the stress and stuff for a little while, that&apos;s all.&amp;nbsp; Not throw a monkey wrench in relationships or say something to piss them off, so now I&apos;m stuck with a pissed off friend who isn&apos;t talking to me and me feeling like shit about saying something stupid.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;give up.&amp;nbsp; I can&apos;t make everyone around me happy, although I try.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;d wanted to try to make this person feel better about things they had going bad in their life, but just managed to make things worse.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;wasn&apos;t mad about not being able to go over, but now I&apos;m mad because they seem to not be speaking to me.&amp;nbsp; Ok, not mad, hurt.&amp;nbsp; Maybe I&apos;m percieving it all wrong and something happened and I&apos;m just a paranoid person who blows things out of proportion, but I just wish I could apologise and make things right is all.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:02:03 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Best guy evar</title>
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  <description>He came in last night with a pretty red rose and a deadly chocolate cake and a card that made me cry!&amp;nbsp; They both sang Happy Birthday to me and life was good!&amp;nbsp; Not to mention he gave me quite possibly the best birthday lovins ever!&amp;nbsp; All I&amp;nbsp;can say is &amp;quot;Ommfg, I didn&apos;t know you could do that!&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; My co-workers surprised me with a wonderful chocolate cake too, and they&apos;re taking me out to lunch tomorrow.&amp;nbsp; Mom&apos;s taking me out to dinner tomorrow too.&amp;nbsp; I feel like I&apos;m walking on cloud 9 right now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life is going a little too good right now. &amp;nbsp;I&apos;m waiting for the crash and burn as is generally happens when things start going well for me.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;gots lots of love and that makes me happy.&amp;nbsp; Josh&apos;s bachelor party is this weekend, and I&apos;m hoping I&amp;nbsp;can get out and go to another party the same night, providing my mom will babysit.&amp;nbsp; I asked her about it last week and she told me that it&apos;s Josh&apos;s night to have fun, not mine.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m planning on staying over there Saturday, but if I can talk her into babysitting, I&apos;m going out to have a good time and meet some new people. &amp;nbsp;I so need to get over this goddamn agoraphobia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That sucks.&amp;nbsp; Almost every time I&amp;nbsp;make plans with friends, I cancel them because I worry about the people who will be there, whether I know them or not.&amp;nbsp; I wonder how I&apos;ll be percieved, if I&apos;ll have fun, if they&apos;ll like me. &amp;nbsp;Half the time I&amp;nbsp;just don&apos;t want to leave my house.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m working on fixing that.&amp;nbsp; Called an invited myself over to a friend&apos;s house over the weekend.&amp;nbsp; We sat around and watched movies all night, was a great girl&apos;s night. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All in all, I&apos;ve had a great past few days.&amp;nbsp; I &amp;lt;3 life.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:28:31 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;Judge not...&quot;</title>
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  <description>&amp;quot;...lest ye be judged yourself.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perfect words to live by, yet very few people follow this tenet.&amp;nbsp; Too many people poke their noses in where they aren&apos;t wanted, offering up words of advice where none were asked for.&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;If I were you...&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;too often I hear that combination of words and it sickens me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who is society to dictate how I&amp;nbsp;live my life?&amp;nbsp; Who is society to tell me who I&amp;nbsp;may love and who I&amp;nbsp;may not?&amp;nbsp; Who is this &amp;quot;they&amp;quot; I hear about on a constant basis telling me that my decisions are wrong, my feelings are unwarranted and that I&amp;nbsp;must suppress them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The truth is...the truth will never be known until the last day when we are all gone and looking back at what is left behind.&amp;nbsp; We will look at the world we lived in and ask ourselves &amp;quot;was it worth it?&amp;quot;. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tell you this:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;When I&amp;nbsp;am old and laying in my death bed, I will indeed look back on my life and say &amp;quot;Yes, it was worth it&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;lived my life the way I wanted to, not as I was told to.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;will love who I want to love, live how&amp;nbsp;I want to live and do as I see fit to make my happiness a priority.&amp;nbsp; Without happy people, how can we live in a good world?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;If what we do is supposed to be bad, then why doesn&apos;t it feel that way?&amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:49:26 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Happy Easter Everyone!</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:32:49 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>28 days and counting</title>
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  <description>Yeap, 28 days til I get married.&amp;nbsp; I honestly never thought it would happen.&amp;nbsp; Had such a string of bad luck with men, that I never expected to find someone I&apos;d actually want to spend the rest of my life with, or who could tolerate me for the same.&amp;nbsp; It almost didn&apos;t happen. &amp;nbsp;I was so close to leaving at one point.&amp;nbsp; But when someone has faults of flaws, you have to look at them and ask yourself&amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;would I miss those flaws if they were gone?&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; and the answer for me is yes.&amp;nbsp; So he doesn&apos;t do absolutely everything around the house, but that&apos;s why there&apos;s 2 of us in this together.&amp;nbsp; He may not buy me jewelery or expensive gifts, but at least once a week I get to look forward to my favorite candy bar waiting for me after a long stressful day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He called his mom last night, so I guess things are reconciled there.&amp;nbsp; So long as she doesn&apos;t show her ass at the wedding, I&apos;ll be fine.&amp;nbsp; The first time she even looks like she&apos;s going to get an attitude about anything, I&apos;ll have her thrown out.&amp;nbsp; I can&apos;t stand her, but I don&apos;t have a choice, she&apos;s still his mother.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;ll be damned if Elizabeth ever stays the night with her again.&amp;nbsp; She&apos;s too volitile and unpredictable.&amp;nbsp; I have no idea of knowing what she&apos;d do to my daughter if she did something bad.&amp;nbsp; She&apos;s tried to take over too many things in Josh and his brother&apos;s lives, she&apos;s going to learn that I&apos;m the one that rules this roost, not her.&amp;nbsp; Josh is with me on this, so he knows the next time she pulls any shit with me, she&apos;s getting an earful.&amp;nbsp; I honestly think it was wrong for him to call her. &amp;nbsp;I mailed out her invitation for the wedding, I think he should have waited for her to call.&amp;nbsp; She owes us a huge apology for what she did, and I&apos;m loathe to speak to her until I hear one.&amp;nbsp; That&apos;s twice she&apos;s fucked with me, the last time was at one of Josh&apos;s shows and she nearly ran me over in her car because she was drunk and pissed off at her boyfriend.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;didn&apos;t get an apology then either.&amp;nbsp; I deserve respect and I&apos;ll have it damnit.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:59:07 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>argheth</title>
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  <description>Being a girl totally sucks.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m uncomfortable, hurting, bitchy and pissy.&amp;nbsp; Yuk.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news, I made a Twitter account just to see what it&apos;s all about. &amp;nbsp;I don&apos;t get it.&amp;nbsp; Don&apos;t know how to use it.&amp;nbsp; I thought I could find some sort of Melo thing on there, can&apos;t figure out what&apos;s going on there.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;have 1 follower :( hence I&apos;m not that interesting lol.&amp;nbsp; It is kindof interesting to read what some famous ppl like Trent Reznor and Dave Navarro have to say.&amp;nbsp; Especially to each other.&amp;nbsp; But, I&apos;m just not finding it that useful.&amp;nbsp; eh, I&apos;mjust not that connected I guess.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:18:47 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&amp;lt;3 ASL</title>
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  <description>I went to an ASL social last night.&amp;nbsp; there&apos;s a little bar and grill on the other side of town, where the first Friday of every month the Deaf community and local ASL students and teachers get together.&amp;nbsp; It was an awesome experience.&amp;nbsp; Everyone was so welcoming and helpful.&amp;nbsp; I am so stoked to sign!&amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:41:34 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Busy busy!</title>
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  <description>Spring quarter starts tomorrow.&amp;nbsp; I&apos;m taking ASL 1 and pre-algebra.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;have to be at campus from about 1 in the afternoon until 6:30 at night Tuesday and Thursday.&amp;nbsp; So, I took this weekend to try to clean up the house and catch up on a few things.&amp;nbsp; The wedding gets ever closer with bridal showers and bachelor(ette) parties scheduled.&amp;nbsp; We just need to dig up some cash for a few things and it&apos;s all settled.&amp;nbsp; Personally, I would have rather things been a lot smaller, but somehow, we&apos;re managing to pull everything off.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;gotta take mom for her colonoscopy today, yuk.&amp;nbsp; But it has to be done.&amp;nbsp; Anyway, I&apos;d better get going. &amp;nbsp;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:26:18 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Writer&apos;s Block: Things You Don&apos;t Want to Know</title>
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I&apos;m doing this because I&apos;ve never seen anyone actually answer one of these.&amp;nbsp; First time for everything!&amp;nbsp; Yeah I definitely would.&amp;nbsp; It&apos;s morally correct.&amp;nbsp; Besides, I know that if I were to cheat, and they found out about it, any of Josh&apos;s friends would tell him.&amp;nbsp; If he cheated on me, they&apos;d tell me.&amp;nbsp; I wuf my boys.&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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