3. I fell head over heels in love with a man while we both were in Italy at a personal growth retreat in June of 2004. He lived in Boulder, CO and I in Atlanta, GA. In November of 2004, we rendezvous-ed in Seattle to celebrate Thanksgiving together and a baby was conceived. Oopsie. We were together at Christmas while I took the pregnancy test and together we figured out if we were going to say yes to this gift or no thanks. The answer was yes and by May of 2005, we finally determined that living in Ohio made the most sense, but it was a complex decision with many twists and turns along the way. We will be together 20 years in June. 💗
1) Do you know Crit? Yes. I think we ALL have a Crit, it just manifests itself in different ways.
2) Who is your hero and do they lounge all day? if so are they tim heideker? I don't have heroes, I have fabbity-fab role models: my parents. They're not loungers, but I am. I could--and have--lounged all day in bed reading. If I could, instead of having the Corp Hell Job, I'd lounge in bed. Tim's right. It's the most comfortable spot in the house. Unless you have a comfy reading chair. Then THAT would be the most comfortable spot in the house.
3) Have you ever been in a LDR? how’d it go? No. I don't think it'd last, because it'd be like an "out of sight, out of mind" kind of thing? By the time I'd met my now ex-husband, I was in the "If he calls, he calls. If not, I'm okay with it" stage of dating. I was living by myself and enjoying it. We ended up moving in together about 8 months after meeting and I knew we shouldn't have gotten married when he went away for, like, 4 days for his job, and when he got home, I didn't jump up in excitement to greet him.
4) Did your grandma also wait for your grandpa while he was in the war for three years? seems like a p regular thing back in the day. N., it was my Mom who waited for my Dad (now a retired Army Colonel). And even though he was on active duty at the time, he never saw any action. Because, as he found out later, there was lit*er*al*ly a note from his mother in his file. BWAHA. He was her only and firstborn son, which meant he would never see combat.
3. LDR was so easy compared with real life being together every day. Weekends full of lust and fun, then back to work at full concentration, zero distraction. Planning exotic vacations together (like weekend, but moreso). And all those flyer miles!
We did this for 7 years over various international distances. He was, at all times, at university in SW Germany doing the world’s longest engineering PhD. I was in NoCal, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkey, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Lithuania… I think that’s all? anyway, I was busy working.
We opted for neutral ground (Switzerland) when we decided to cast our lots together— but to ease the transition, we took jobs and apartments in two different cities at first. Eventually we consolidated.
That was 25 years ago. A quarter century of discovery, because there is truly no end of annoyances in cohabitation. We are now contemplating our Golden Years, and what life will be like à deux once our son launches.
A few more decades of age-induced eccentricities lie ahead, to be sure. Maybe we will opt for two homes, just in case we need sone LDR simulation to keep things lively.
Cute story but if that’s it, worst rom com ending ever. Sure, you already got the girl, but that was halfway thru Act 2. Act 1 warned Act 2 was coming, but don’t these things always have 3 acts?
I guess I’ll go out to the concession line and get some Mike & Ike’s and wait. I don’t need to pee yet.
Haha nah fuck that The-Thinker-ass-from-the-rear-creepin’-cocked-neck-dessert-interuptin’-faux-interested-flannel-sportin’-wife-interceptin'-attemptin’-perpendicular-’bow-having ass motherfucker. I think you get a karmic free pass in these situations. My gf’s ex boyfriend had an underpopulated scrotum, and I let that one-bolluck son of a bitch have it at every available opportunity
1. Pretty sure everyone knows Crit, the Randy Quaid of mental houseguests.
2. Not sure that I have a hero, but I am reading Arnold Schwarzenegger's book and he lounges everyday in his jacuzzi, so yes.
3. She dumped me after I took a train to meet her family for the first time on Thanksgiving weekend. I had to spend another 2 days there and then got the stomach flu on the way back.
4. Cheezits, probably.
5. Pretty sure they were already married when gramps was in the war, so it would have been awkward if she didn't. Damnit, now I feel the need to take a 23 and Me.
This was so good, Alex!! Again, I want to see this romcom so bad! EGOTs for all y’all!! My Crit-onite is money and I have a FT Artist for a husband so it’s been 15 years of wrangling those critters like whoa. I’m soooo much better than I used to be but I had a Heideker moment myself. Snapped me back. Also… the mainlining nostalgia is so real!! I love reading our old texts, gchats, emails, and YES Match.com messages (whatever!! We’re part of the zeitgeist!!)
Currently in an LDR (Portland to NYC) and I thought I was going to be AMAZING at it -- I keep myself really busy and we have committed to seeing each other every three weeks. But multiple times I’ve thought he was coming only to break up with me 😂 that’s my crit. I’ve been able to shut her up the past couple months though.
Don't know if you know much about the Enneagram, but I am a one. The one is often called the Perfectionist. It sounds good, especially in an interview, but it is not good. The Perfectionist always has this internal critic telling you you're not good enough, you could have done more, done better, the situation might have turned out good but it wasn't great, etc. Since you are not good, according to the critic, how can you be loved, accepted, respected, valued .... The Enneagram advices one's to name this critic because now that you are aware and can perceive him/her you know it is not you.
1. Very familiar with Crit. My boyfriend’s room has been an utter mess since we moved to our new flat four months ago and Crit won’t shut up about it. Still trying to deal with it, albeit unsuccessfully.
3. Started relationship with aforementioned boyfriend 3 months before the world shut down. Carried out an LDR for half a year but it didn’t feel too bad since everyone else was in the same situation. Still, an eight-hour time zone difference was no fun. Somehow it feels like we recapture the magic of the early days whenever each of us goes on a trip alone and we message each other all day.
Crit was always way too toxic. Whenever Crit projected on hubby I knew it was about me.
We were major bed loungers when the kids were little. You’re going to really appreciate bed when you hear this. Famous screenwriter, Dalton Trump, worked in the bath! Ew. Imagine that water by the end of Act II.
1 yeah im familiar pretty much only with myself though, i can rationalize just about anything for anyone but can NOT extend the same to myself :/ working on it tho!
2 good question idk who my hero is but i think they are certainly a lounger
3 not really like sort of, i think it would go okay
4 we really do need to figure potato potato out in text its like weve got all these lame-o scientists on crap like ai and not potato potato in text!?!? what the hell???
5 i dont think so, i think my grandpa did not have to fight in the war for some reason...
Is the owl/night owl line the most underrated perfect joke I have ever seen????? RIP FLACO
3. I fell head over heels in love with a man while we both were in Italy at a personal growth retreat in June of 2004. He lived in Boulder, CO and I in Atlanta, GA. In November of 2004, we rendezvous-ed in Seattle to celebrate Thanksgiving together and a baby was conceived. Oopsie. We were together at Christmas while I took the pregnancy test and together we figured out if we were going to say yes to this gift or no thanks. The answer was yes and by May of 2005, we finally determined that living in Ohio made the most sense, but it was a complex decision with many twists and turns along the way. We will be together 20 years in June. 💗
I don't know crit. But I have an Itty bitty shitty committee, and they suck.
And I agree with Madeline's comment: the owl line is by far the most underrated joke ever.
Thank you for rising from the grave to endorse Alex, Oscar Wilde.
Oscar Wilde Knows What's Up ❤️
1) Do you know Crit? Yes. I think we ALL have a Crit, it just manifests itself in different ways.
2) Who is your hero and do they lounge all day? if so are they tim heideker? I don't have heroes, I have fabbity-fab role models: my parents. They're not loungers, but I am. I could--and have--lounged all day in bed reading. If I could, instead of having the Corp Hell Job, I'd lounge in bed. Tim's right. It's the most comfortable spot in the house. Unless you have a comfy reading chair. Then THAT would be the most comfortable spot in the house.
3) Have you ever been in a LDR? how’d it go? No. I don't think it'd last, because it'd be like an "out of sight, out of mind" kind of thing? By the time I'd met my now ex-husband, I was in the "If he calls, he calls. If not, I'm okay with it" stage of dating. I was living by myself and enjoying it. We ended up moving in together about 8 months after meeting and I knew we shouldn't have gotten married when he went away for, like, 4 days for his job, and when he got home, I didn't jump up in excitement to greet him.
4) Did your grandma also wait for your grandpa while he was in the war for three years? seems like a p regular thing back in the day. N., it was my Mom who waited for my Dad (now a retired Army Colonel). And even though he was on active duty at the time, he never saw any action. Because, as he found out later, there was lit*er*al*ly a note from his mother in his file. BWAHA. He was her only and firstborn son, which meant he would never see combat.
3. LDR was so easy compared with real life being together every day. Weekends full of lust and fun, then back to work at full concentration, zero distraction. Planning exotic vacations together (like weekend, but moreso). And all those flyer miles!
We did this for 7 years over various international distances. He was, at all times, at university in SW Germany doing the world’s longest engineering PhD. I was in NoCal, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkey, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Lithuania… I think that’s all? anyway, I was busy working.
We opted for neutral ground (Switzerland) when we decided to cast our lots together— but to ease the transition, we took jobs and apartments in two different cities at first. Eventually we consolidated.
That was 25 years ago. A quarter century of discovery, because there is truly no end of annoyances in cohabitation. We are now contemplating our Golden Years, and what life will be like à deux once our son launches.
A few more decades of age-induced eccentricities lie ahead, to be sure. Maybe we will opt for two homes, just in case we need sone LDR simulation to keep things lively.
Cute story but if that’s it, worst rom com ending ever. Sure, you already got the girl, but that was halfway thru Act 2. Act 1 warned Act 2 was coming, but don’t these things always have 3 acts?
I guess I’ll go out to the concession line and get some Mike & Ike’s and wait. I don’t need to pee yet.
Haha nah fuck that The-Thinker-ass-from-the-rear-creepin’-cocked-neck-dessert-interuptin’-faux-interested-flannel-sportin’-wife-interceptin'-attemptin’-perpendicular-’bow-having ass motherfucker. I think you get a karmic free pass in these situations. My gf’s ex boyfriend had an underpopulated scrotum, and I let that one-bolluck son of a bitch have it at every available opportunity
1. Pretty sure everyone knows Crit, the Randy Quaid of mental houseguests.
2. Not sure that I have a hero, but I am reading Arnold Schwarzenegger's book and he lounges everyday in his jacuzzi, so yes.
3. She dumped me after I took a train to meet her family for the first time on Thanksgiving weekend. I had to spend another 2 days there and then got the stomach flu on the way back.
4. Cheezits, probably.
5. Pretty sure they were already married when gramps was in the war, so it would have been awkward if she didn't. Damnit, now I feel the need to take a 23 and Me.
This was so good, Alex!! Again, I want to see this romcom so bad! EGOTs for all y’all!! My Crit-onite is money and I have a FT Artist for a husband so it’s been 15 years of wrangling those critters like whoa. I’m soooo much better than I used to be but I had a Heideker moment myself. Snapped me back. Also… the mainlining nostalgia is so real!! I love reading our old texts, gchats, emails, and YES Match.com messages (whatever!! We’re part of the zeitgeist!!)
Currently in an LDR (Portland to NYC) and I thought I was going to be AMAZING at it -- I keep myself really busy and we have committed to seeing each other every three weeks. But multiple times I’ve thought he was coming only to break up with me 😂 that’s my crit. I’ve been able to shut her up the past couple months though.
Don't know if you know much about the Enneagram, but I am a one. The one is often called the Perfectionist. It sounds good, especially in an interview, but it is not good. The Perfectionist always has this internal critic telling you you're not good enough, you could have done more, done better, the situation might have turned out good but it wasn't great, etc. Since you are not good, according to the critic, how can you be loved, accepted, respected, valued .... The Enneagram advices one's to name this critic because now that you are aware and can perceive him/her you know it is not you.
By the way, my internal critic's name is Damian.
1. Very familiar with Crit. My boyfriend’s room has been an utter mess since we moved to our new flat four months ago and Crit won’t shut up about it. Still trying to deal with it, albeit unsuccessfully.
3. Started relationship with aforementioned boyfriend 3 months before the world shut down. Carried out an LDR for half a year but it didn’t feel too bad since everyone else was in the same situation. Still, an eight-hour time zone difference was no fun. Somehow it feels like we recapture the magic of the early days whenever each of us goes on a trip alone and we message each other all day.
So funny. Loved every word. Even, “the.”
Crit was always way too toxic. Whenever Crit projected on hubby I knew it was about me.
We were major bed loungers when the kids were little. You’re going to really appreciate bed when you hear this. Famous screenwriter, Dalton Trump, worked in the bath! Ew. Imagine that water by the end of Act II.
1 yeah im familiar pretty much only with myself though, i can rationalize just about anything for anyone but can NOT extend the same to myself :/ working on it tho!
2 good question idk who my hero is but i think they are certainly a lounger
3 not really like sort of, i think it would go okay
4 we really do need to figure potato potato out in text its like weve got all these lame-o scientists on crap like ai and not potato potato in text!?!? what the hell???
5 i dont think so, i think my grandpa did not have to fight in the war for some reason...