So far I know of two people on Miingle2 that live in my whole state! Doesn't stop me from having a great time here with my forum friends. You get back what you give, maybe put less energy into complaining that you didn't find instant love and more energy into posting and getting known. JMO

You are correct, I think I have been to a strip club once in my life! Sad I know, that's why I am so excited about this trip!! Relieved about the money part, thanks for setting me straight! My mom slipped me a $50 when she signed my permission slip, guess that and plasma sales should be enough!

Nice going Krupa! I always knew you were a big softie!! I feel all warm and tingly!

With so many days like this it does get challenging! Play on Mingle off and on...Make soup, make order out of one closet or drawer, call an old friend or a new one...Read a great book, watch an old classic movie, take up a new hobby (buy the supplies the next decent day so you'll have them for the next 'stay at home day'. Turn up your favorite music and dance! Bet your dog will love that too!

You be careful out there! I was taking a walk yesterday and ran out of shoveled sidewalk, kind of tuned to step into the road and missed being side swiped by a van going way to fast by literally a hands width. If I hadn't had very good footing (which was miraculous given our conditions) I would have gotten hit. I will stay on the side streets for my walks until this mess thaws...feels like IF it thaws!

It is getting a little hard to believe we will see spring again here too! Tonight's snow started slowly about an hour ago but is coming down in earnest now.

$7.00!!! Ok but how much for the pregnant strippers trip?? I am still unemployed!!! I wanna go, who's going spring for me??

Why are they always so terrible?? I mean even when I was young and wrinkle free those DMV pics always suck!!

Really isn't protein the 'in' food now? How about a nice turkey roll up and some nuts?

What's in a name if you get free sex!

Me too, both.

They are predicting another 9 inches here overnight. All my doors open out and I don't like the idea of staying up all night keeping one cleared...thank goodness for neighbors who's doors open in! And for neighbors with plow trucks! I seriously could not have moved snow as much as 3 feet deep alone. This is the first time I can remember snow so deep that I can't push through it. My back yard is out of commission till probably June, I have a 7 foot drift across most of my back yard! An even higher plow pile in the front yard, if we get anywhere near what they are calling for, tomorrow after my neighbor plows the pile will obviously be even bigger. I just realized today that access to my fuel tanks if completely blocked by heavy plowed snow! This is some crazy winter everywhere!!

Far from the norm here too. Inland gets this kind of snow, not often the coast. My folks have been here for 12 years and have never seen this kind of accumulation!!

I treated my unemployed self to lunch today during an almost two hour walk. The sun on the snow (mountains of snow) and on the water was just beautiful. Walking was a bit challenging at times but the huge chunks of fallen icicles reminded me that I needed to be looking up as well as down!

More snow due tomorrow but I really think we have enough!

Had to make sure my heater vent wasn't blocked, climbed a 8-9 foot plow bank to get to it. Thought to come back in via my back yard, NO way. The plow bank is pretty packed but the 6 foot drift wanted to eat me alive! Oh just to clarify, the plow bank is on my front yard, not along the road. We have to much snow to just have roads banks, they plow it right onto your yard! Now that is snow!!!

Hi Alex and welcome. Keep posting in the forums and your hope might just become a reality!

I too have come to a place where I am content alone, not everyone needs a partner. I did really enjoy being flirted with by my energy audit guy last week though! Of course I flirted back but he started it!

I am not saying I wouldn't enjoy some male company and bennies now and again, just that it doesn't bother me at all at this point in my life to be alone and uncomplicated.

So if you are not inclined to look for love, that is fine for you at this time...subject to change of course.

As an outsider I think it is impossible to know the inside of another relationship. We can assume things based on what we see/hear and so therefore deduce certain things and are sometimes correct but these deductions are based on our own experiences and may not hold true in the private world of the 'said' couple. My step mother was seen as a nag and worse, with some maturity it came to be that she was EXACTLY what my dad needed.

I am talking more like a young man complaining about his newly wed wife having small breasts and then comparing them to a Kiwi. Why would he say such a thing?? Ok this is just an example that sticks with me about a much larger issue. If you love someone, it seems to me that you do not belittle them to get a cheap laugh.

Having teeth is at the top of my list and yes they can be dentures, just no sitting across the table gumming his food. Also a car that runs and isn't totally filled with trash, a decent job he doesn't hate (cause it gets old hearing the complaints day in and day out), his own place, clean sheets if he wants a sleep over...gosh my wish list is sadly minimal...no one from my area has stepped up so far.

Truly I don't think there are many Mainers here, at least not in the forums.

Among other things it is in a big way "a declaration to the world that we stand together against all comers"


I hate it when I hear one partner making jokes at the others expense, it is not guy talk or girl talk to make belittling comments about your partner. It is derisive. I am not talking a little healthy venting to a trusted friend I am taking crude or nasty or negitive, useless comments. I have heard this done in supposed fun so often and I always want to ask is that really how you feel? If not why say it? Always treat your partner with the respect love deserves, whether they are there to hear it or not.