Questions

How come I can eat the same thing for breakfast every morning and some days go until almost 11 with out getting hungry and other days, I have to eat a snack around 10 AM?


How come when you're talking to someone who lives in a different area, at one point, the conversation usually turns to weather? I do that to my friend Paula and Michelle who live in a different state and country! It's not because we don't have anything to talk about, I think it's because it might be an effort to feel closer to the person. Maybe, knowing what the weather is like there helps to paint a more appropriate picture of their life, thus enabling one to feel closer to the individual...who is thousands of miles away...but who used to only be never more than 20 miles away!

Has someone ever left your life and you felt like a part of your soul was missing? Have you ever felt not completely whole because of the absence of an individual?

Have you ever procrastinated buying something and then have the price sky-rocket on you? Then, stalk the item on the Internet like a military sniper waiting for the price to go down? Ooooh, I know some of you out there have and I know who you are! HA!

Does, "catch it, challenge it, change it," ever leave you feeling perplexed? I've caught stuff, but in challenging it I realize that it's so innately a part of me, there is nothing I can do to change it...even though it causes me stress sometimes!

Have I completely lost you, yet?

I am a hugger. I like to hug. Sometimes, I feel awkward when people hug me; but, still, it's a nice gesture and makes me feel good. I do not, though, like being touched by strangers! My girlfriends and I were in a lounge once, sitting at a table and sipping drinks. Out of the blue, all of a sudden, this drunk, totally wasted, man...man in his FORTIES, came up to our table and started harassing us! Yes, HARASSING! One of our friend's was wearing a lovely head band. This STRANGER, this DRUNK, OLD STRANGER, began belittling my friend about her headband. We promptly began sticking up for said friend, but the sloppy drunk middle aged man wouldn't leave it alone. To my horror, to my utter horror, he began to lift his arm and reach for her headband in an effort to remove it. With out even thinking, I attempted to swat his arm down, at the same time exclaiming to him, "No-no, no-no, you don't touch people you don't know!"

He slowly turned his body, looked at me, and slurred, "I totally agree with you," the slur could barely be comprehended. Stupid, drunk bastard!

Of course, he didn't get the hint and stuck around long enough for my girlfriends to start messing with him, leading him to believe that the two of them were married... to each other, which boggled his small mind. Stupid, small minded, ignorant MAN! When he got up to leave, I thought that he would just walk away and leave us alone. But, to my horror, to my utter and complete HORROR, he tried to HUG ME! This is making me cringe just typing it! He put his sloppy drunk arms around me, said something to me but I was internally cringing so much that I didn't hear one word of his slurring! I couldn't even think what to do, my pathetic instinct took over and this is what transpired:

I cringed, shivered, shook my arms back in forth, motioning "no-no, no-no" and exclaimed in a half whine, "You're not supposed to touch strangers!" I wouldn't, couldn't, hug him back.

Thank God, seriously, thank God, that as soon as I said that he stopped hugging me. But, it didn't end there! He moved to my next friend and hugged her, too! I was horrified! This stupid drunk guy just didn't get it! He slurred something to my friend along the lines of, "You don't cringe like your friend." (It sounds creepier than it was, he was just a stupid, drunk guy.)

And my friend, God bless her, replied with the utmost coolness, "No, but I punch hard!"

With that, he dropped his arms, stepped away and they looked at each other. She then pulled her arm back and made a fist and the drunk man was gone! Forever gone!

There's safety in numbers folks, Girlfriend Power! ;)